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The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out

Dundurn Press, 2019

Winner of the 2020 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award • Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction

A memoir from the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada.

Kate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave an abusive...

Service Life and Durability of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Selected Papers of the 8th International RILEM PhD Workshop held in Marne-la-Vallée, ... September 26-27, 2016 (RILEM Bookseries (17))

Springer, 2018

This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th International PhD Student Workshop on Service Life and Durability of Reinforced Concrete Structures that was held in Marne-la-Vallée, France, on September the 26th and 27th 2016.

Topics discussed in the book are related to durability performance of reinforced...

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South Asia)

University of Chicago Press, 2019

Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his...

Dealing with Child Abuse and Neglect as Public Health Problems: Prevention and the Role of Juvenile Ageism

Springer, 2019

This thought-provoking volume defines child abuse and neglect as a public health crisis, both in terms of injuries and mental health problems and as a link to poverty and other negative social outcomes. The author identifies key factors contributing to this situation?in particular juvenile ageism, the pervasive othering of children...

Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President

Red Lightning Books, 2019

America's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazing places throughout the Midwest in his lifetime. In Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's...

Introduction to Chemical Graph Theory (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

CRC Press, 2018

Introduction to Chemical Graph Theory is a concise introduction to the main topics and techniques in chemical graph theory, specifically the theory of topological indices. These include distance-based, degree-based, and counting-based indices. The book covers some of the most commonly used mathematical...

Diesel Heart: An Autobiography

University of Minnessota, 2019

The doctors gathered around, passing the stethoscope from hand to hand, taking turns listening to my chest. Finally, the lead doctor said, "Now, that's what I call a heartbeat!" I snapped, "Whaddaya mean?"

"It's like hearing a diesel engine inside a Mustang body," he said.

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Astrobiology: From the Origins of Life to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Springer, 2019

This book provides concise and cutting-edge reviews in astrobiology, a young and still emerging multidisciplinary field of science that addresses the fundamental questions of how life originated and diversified on Earth, whether life exists beyond Earth, and what is the future for life on Earth. Readers will find coverage of the latest...

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its stagecraft and...

DNA Traffic in the Environment

Springer, 2019

This book comprehensively discusses our current understanding of the role and biological mechanisms of horizontal transfer of genetic elements in the environment, which has been important in the evolution of prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria).

Horizontal transfer of genetic elements generates variations of prokaryotes...

Uncertainty Management with Fuzzy and Rough Sets: Recent Advances and Applications (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 377)

Springer, 2019

This book offers a timely overview of fuzzy and rough set theories and methods. Based on selected contributions presented at the International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets, ISFUROS 2017, held in Varadero, Cuba, on October 24-26, 2017, the book also covers related approaches, such as hybrid rough-fuzzy sets and hybrid fuzzy-rough...

Pimped: The Shocking True Story of the Girl Sold for Sex by Her Best Friend

John Blake, 2019

By the age of thirteen, vulnerable Sheffield teenager Samantha Owens had fallen through the cracks in the care system. Bounced around numerous foster carers after her home life became too chaotic, Samantha thought she had found a friend in the streetwise Amanda Spencer. The older girl bought her clothes, styled her hair and found her places to...

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