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Ashen Winter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 582

Ashen Winter

More than six months after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, Alex and Darla retrace their steps to Iowa hoping to find Alex's parents and bring them to the tenuous safety of Illinois, but the journey is ever more perilous as the remaining communities fight to the death for food and power.

The Waterborne Symposium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 673

The Waterborne Symposium

This volume contains dozens of original investigations into the materials, chemistry, formulation and applications of waterborne coatings.

The Last Lawyer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

The Last Lawyer

The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fought to overturn a client's final sentence. Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Rose's decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose called this his most frustrating case in twenty-five years, and it was one that received scant attention from judges or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest issues surrounding capital punishment. Inadequate legal counsel, mental retardation, mental illness, and sketchy witness tes...

Gearheads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Gearheads

In the early nineties, a visionary special-effects guru named Marc Thorpe conjured a field of dreams different from any the world had seen before: It would be framed by unbreakable plastic instead of cornstalks; populated not by ghostly ballplayers but by remote-controlled robots, armed to the steely teeth, fighting in a booby-trapped ring. If you built it, they'd come all right.... In Gearheads, Newsweek technology correspondent Brad Stone examines the history of robotic sports, from their cultish early years at universities and sci-fi conventions to today's televised extravaganzas -- and the turmoil that threatened the whole enterprise almost from the beginning. By turns a lively historical narrative, a legal thriller, and an exploration of a cultural and technological phenomenon, Gearheads is a funny and fascinating look at the sport of the future today.

Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 566

Artificial Intelligence in Education

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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

This work reports on research into intelligent systems, models, and architectures for educational computing applications. It covers a wide range of advanced information and communication and computational methods applied to education and training.

Cereal Banks - at Your Service?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

Cereal Banks - at Your Service?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Oxfam

Food security is one of the major concerns of people living in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, cereal banks have become a widespread and popular response to the problem. This book presents, in the form of a story, some of the main questions and issues surrounding the setting up and running of a cereal bank. It includes, in the annexes, case studies of real cereal banks and information about such practical problems as price setting and simple accounting methods. It is intended for development workers who are interested in the contribution that cereal banks can make to village-level food security, and for communities which wish to take control of their own food supply and lessen their dependence on the uncertainties of the market. It has been produced by the Arid ands Information Network (ALIN) in response to requests for information from ALIN members, and it is on their experience that much of it is based.

Hell of a Journey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Hell of a Journey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-08
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  • Publisher: Birlinn

Hell of a Journey describes what is arguably the last great journey to be undertaken in Britain: the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter. On one level it is a vivid and evocative account of a remarkable trek - never attempted before - on another it celebrates the uniqueness of the Highlands, the scenery and ecology of 'the last wilderness in Europe'. The challenge Mike Cawthorne set himself was to climb all 135 of Scotland's 1,000-metre peaks, which stretch in an unbroken chain through the heart of the Highlands, from Sutherland to the Eastern Cairngorms, down to Loch Lomond, and west to Glencoe. His route traversed the most spectacular landscape in Scotland, linking every portion of wilderness, and was completed in the midst of the harshest winter conditions imaginable. Acclaimed on its first publication in 2000, this edition contains an epilogue in which Mike Cawthorne reflects on his trek and wonders what has changed since he carried it out. He warns that 'wild land in Scotland has never been under greater threat'. Hell of a Journey is a reminder of what we could so easily lose forever.

Waterborne: Environmentally Friendly Coating Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 537

Waterborne: Environmentally Friendly Coating Technologies

Polymer and colloidal chemistry, fabrication and testing of waterborne coatings PURs, polyisocyanates, acrylics, vinyls and more Sustainable surfactants, water soluble catalysts, high-throughput rheology, pigments This series volume contains 34 original papers on the chemistry and formulation of waterborne coatings. Chapters cover UV curing, testing and applications in many areas of latex paints, grouting and varnishes. The book discusses advances in curing, adhesion, superhydrophobic coatings and additives, with special attention to sustainable materials and methods.

Land Registration in Mali - No Land Ownership for Farmers?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

Land Registration in Mali - No Land Ownership for Farmers?

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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: IIED

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Landless Women, Hopeless Women?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 58

Landless Women, Hopeless Women?

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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: IIED

This paper is a summary of a regional case study on gender, land and decentralisation. The main study has two parts: three portraits of women showing different examples of access to natural resources and local leadership; and a general report based on the portraits and on interviews carried out in seven study sites in Maradi and Zinder regions in Niger.