Tensions quickly escalate between sisters Charlene and Gwen while Charlene’s son Quincy befriends the neighborhood hustler and becomes immersed in the city’s gritty lifestyle and street dance called Jookin.
A major theme of this book is that, contrary to what many experts believe, being endowed with a plenitude of natural resources is not a curse: rather it provides a potential advantage, if capitalized by the well-endowed economy. Much depends on the institutions that help frame the decision-making process that affects the process of growth and development.
Computer simulation and mathematical modelling are the most important approaches in the quantitative analysis of the diffusive processes fundamental to many physical, chemical, biological, and geological systems.
This comprehensive text/reference addresses the key issues in the Modelling and Simulation of Diffusive Processes from a broad range of different application areas.
This book introduces the field of Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) by clarifying its theoretical foundations and the practical approaches that enable the design and production of responsible medical devices, health and social care interventions, digital tools and solutions based on artificial intelligence. It brings a lasting impact on the ways innovation stakeholders think about and develop solutions to twenty-first century challenges, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Valorization of Dredged Sediments as Sustainable Construction Resources provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research on the reuse of sediments as a raw material for civil engineering fields. Dredging is increasing in scale worldwide, while deep sea disposal is being eliminated and landfill disposal is becoming less sustainable. Yet these sediments offer a potentially useful resource for constructing pavements, soil, bricks, ceramic and clinker, for they provide fine and lightweight aggregates, supplementary cementitious materials and geopolymer binders. This has sparked considerable research on valorization, which is presented here.
Men often think that orgasms are the simple climax of sex. Better orgasms for men shows how orgasms can be improved with techniques for greater control and testing that will make you a better lover. It explores how to increase the intensity of your orgasms, get your partner involved, develop your fantasies, use sex toys together, and enhance the whole quality of your love-life. Topics Include: The sexual urge, orgasms and puberty, achieving greater control, increasing the intensity of your orgasm, how your partner can help with your orgasm, orgasmic control, simultaneous orgasms, instant orgasms, orgasms and fantasy and sex toys, tantric sex.
In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.
A band of soldiers in search of a secret Japanese ammunition store face off against deadly saltwater crocodiles in the swamps of Ramree Island. Inspired by actual events during World War 2.
Infiltrates Britain’s elite through personal and political scandal, where the truth lies between justice and privilege. James and Sophie Whitehouse live in a blissful and rarified world. A Minister in Parliament, a loving family at home, James’ trajectory appears without limits. Until a scandalous secret suddenly comes to light. Barrister Kate Woodcroft has a trajectory of her own, and her prosecution threatens to tear into Westminster, the Whitehouse marriage, and her own personal esteem.
A group of friends reunited to play a game. Each one of them spect to get something about it. The rules of the game are to tell a story of horror for each candle.
When Claire (Erin Cahill) goes home to save her dad’s (Gregory Harrison) annual Fall Fest on her family’s pumpkin farm, sparks fly with an old rival – the opposing lawyer (Trevor Donovan) she now faces in court.
An imagination of the last day of Peg Entwistle’s life. An actress who, in the midst of the Great Depression, and on the verge of her own career breakthrough, leapt off the ‘Hollywoodland’ sign and into infamy.