Author: Ann Smith
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: decay
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2010-02-10
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1449072356
ISBN-13: 9781449072353
In the near future when Immortals have completely usurped control over all mankind, one Immortal family fights to protect all remaining human children. When undead creatures begin mercilessly murdering Immortals, the Ventoni family struggles to figure out where the creatures are coming from, and wonders who will protect them. Loaded with action and filled with unprecedented plot twists, Decay will leave you holding your breath until the very last page.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: lying, decay
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419158821
ISBN-13: 9781419158827
VIVIAN. Please don’t interrupt in the middle of a sentence. "He either falls into careless habits of accuracy, or takes to frequenting the society of the aged and the wellinformed. Both things are equally fatal to his imagination, as indeed they would be fatal to the imagination of anybody, and in a short time he develops a morbid and unhealthy faculty of truthtelling, begins to verify all statements made in his presence.
Author: Sarah Manguso
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: memoir, decay, kinds
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312428448
ISBN-13: 9780312428440
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prol
Author: H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: decay, beta, double, years
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2001-04
List price: $336.00
ISBN-10: 9810237790
ISBN-13: 9789810237790
Describes the history of double beta decay and its potential uses in particle physics. Uncovers previous in-depth research on double beta decay, discussing the level of sensitivity reached by experiments in this area. Features color and halftone illustrations and figures. For physicists and researchers.
Author: Wesley G. Skogan
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: american, neighborhoods, decay, spiral, decline, crime, disorder
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1992-05-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520076931
ISBN-13: 9780520076938
Much has been written about crime and its economic causes, but very little attention has been paid to the social and environmental factors stimulating the appearance and spread of crime. Urban sociologist, Wesley Skogan explores the deterioration of neighbourhoods in American cities, analyzing the connections between physical decay, disorderly public behaviour and concomitant increases in fear and crime. The author comments on a wide range of recent research on policing and community development in addition to offering the results of his own research.
Authors:Chris D. Geddes, Joseph R. Lakowicz,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: decay, engineering, radiative, vol, fluorescence, spectroscopy, topics
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-04-04
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0387226621
ISBN-13: 9780387226620
During recent years our enthusiasm for Radiative Decay Engineering (RDE) has continually increased. Many of the early predictions have been confirmed experimentally. We see numerous applications for RDE in biotechnology, clinical assays and analytical chemistry. While implementation of RDE is relatively simple, understanding the principles of RDE is difficult. The concepts are widely distributed in the optics and chemical physics literature, often described in terms difficult to understand by biophysical scientists. RDE includes chapters from the experts who have studied metal particle optics
Author: Brian Ridout
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: treatment, guides, practitioners, approach, conservation, decay, buildings, timber
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1999-12-29
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0419188207
ISBN-13: 9780419188209
This is the first book to tackle all the issues relating to timber decay. It presents the facts and explores timber decay problems through case studies. These are illustrated with clear self-explanatory photographs for the reader to use as a diagnostic aid. Section 1 discusses timber as a living material, Section 2 deals with decay organisms and their habitat requirements. Section 3 moves on to the building as an environment for timber and discusses the ways in which wood responds to moisture change. Section 4 ends with an approach to timber decay which integrates knowledge on the decay organi
