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“Keep singing,” she yelled at her friends as everyone watched aghast. The pop stars obeyed her and continued the song. Holly grabbed Sorrel’s guitar and broke into chorus. The Roberts family led totally normal lives in the most luxurious city in the country until they met Sorrel, one of the most famous pop stars in the city who seems to have gained superpowers. When things start going wrong, it looks like the city is in massive trouble and may fall apart. Numerous kidnappings, thefts, and disasters take place, and Sorrel is in big trouble with the Queen. When the Queen doesn’t take any action against the ongoing happenings, it’s up to Sorrel and the Roberts sisters to stop the disaster and make the city safe once more. Secrets are found and confessions are made… but one secret could ruin everything… that one secret that Sorrel meant to keep safe…
“When three ships head to the south of the land, that’s when thy spirit will be awoken. The royalty, the stalwart and the traitor will come together to rise thy spirits.” Rachel Laxton enters her first year of high school with an awful start. Having teenage issues and massive problems in school seem to be able to change her as a person and get her into trouble easily. When the 14-year-old girl meets a strange man, she takes it upon herself to make her school sit up and take notice of her. However, things go badly wrong when she follows the man’s orders and lands in the trap of her ex-boyfriend and her nemesis. Rachel discovers that her past is not what it seems and there was more to ...
A Dystopian tale of a schizophrenic ‘Fear is what consumes you. It eats you up until you’re so lathered up in trepidation that you build yourself an armour. A guard of some sort.’ Dazed, enamoured, and a biologically engineered weapon used to create mass genocide, Esmerliah Hallows is a young woman suddenly met with memories she cannot remember about a life of monstrous water magic and an evil federation she must fight to rescue the city she once destroyed. Met with both allies and foes, she soon realises that the only thing she can rely on are her mysteriously acquired water powers to escape a life of abuse and war. Will she ever remember it all and fight back? Or will she give in to her childish infatuation and let the federation control her forever? Does any of it even exist? Read Before They Remember to find out….
A Syrian Refugee Story “This was the last glimpse of her beloved country; she was probably never going to see it again.” A girl of courage and kindness, Yara Al Numan was only a child with big dreams when the war crushed them. A country she loved was torn apart by the bombing. The deaths of her dear ones was an important part of her continuous journey, changing her to be a warrior in a never-ending battle. She had a pounding desire to help her country people even if poverty was her only bait. In a life of loss and a struggle for success, will her patriotism help those in need? Or, will she end up in the same murky mix as them? Read Riding Fear to find out…
“In this rigorous and beautifully researched volume, Milanich considers the tension between social and biological definitions of fatherhood, and shows how much we still have to learn about what constitutes a father.” —Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity For most of human history, the notion that paternity was uncertain appeared to be an immutable law of nature. The unknown father provided entertaining plotlines from Shakespeare to the Victorian novelists and lay at the heart of inheritance and child support disputes. But in the 1920s new scientific advances promised to solve the mystery of paternity once and for all. The stakes we...
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Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them. In the writings and programs produced by these physicians and public health officials, Fraser finds a universe of ideas about race, gender, the relationship of medicine to society, and the status of the South in the national political and social economies. Fraser also studies...
Propositional logic has been recognized throughout the centuries as one of the cornerstones of reasoning in philosophy and mathematics. Over time, its formalization into Boolean algebra was accompanied by the recognition that a wide range of combinatorial problems can be expressed as propositional satisfiability (SAT) problems. Because of this dual role, SAT developed into a mature, multi-faceted scientific discipline, and from the earliest days of computing a search was underway to discover how to solve SAT problems in an automated fashion. This book, the Handbook of Satisfiability, is the second, updated and revised edition of the book first published in 2009 under the same name. The handb...
A people-centered approach to global health When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor co...