New Releases by Owen Richardson

Starting as a young child, I loved to draw my own comics. Much of my inspiration came from various media at the time, including movies, comic books, and TV. Over time, I lost patience with art, especially when I was no longer the best artist in school between the time I was in Junior High and High School. As an adult, I slowly gained a taste for writing, culminating when I decided to put my ideas and concepts from my comics and transforming them into short stories. For the most part, I have chosen to maintain the integrity of my stories by not changing much of them. We all are busy. It is my hope that you have time to read these entertaining short stories that stemmed from my young imagination. I write to entertain by writing stories that I would like to read.

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Against a backdrop of political and religious turmoil, Penelope Van Prinzen is caught between the solicitations of a wealthy gentleman and a common man of limited means. Both men have much to offer her in terms of devotion and faithfulness. But she is swept from her world in the turbulent currents of war, intolerance, and greed. Her search for freedom and peace leads her through a maze of danger, tragedy, and finally love.

We all are busy. So hopefully you have time to read short, entertaining stories. I have adapted these short stories from comics that I had drawn as a child up through high school. Hopefully you enjoy these stories that stemmed from my young imagination. I must confess that I watched a lot of action movies as a kid. For the most part, I have chosen to maintain the integrity of my stories by not changing much of them.

Pets are acting strange lately and it''s up to Dr. Steve to figure it out. Have fun reading this fun book full of rhyme and rhythm to see what the animals are up to.

Enjoy this terrific tongue twisting tale! A story for every letter in the alphabet. Read about how Cody caught Cassie''s crazy cat chasing Charlie''s chickens or how happy Heidi hopped home holding Holly''s hand. Fun for everyone!

Silly Grace makes many silly faces!! But what''s her favorite?

The shattering sound of the machine gun seemed to tear into Mohamed''s heart. Tears watered his eyes, and he covered his mouth as if to control his urge to vomit. He bowed his head and walked away. He vowed that he would never again play a part in such a ridiculous charade. Mohamed Jama Adam was able to overcome the desolate poverty of his childhood, but will he be able to overcome the oppression of corrupt government leaders? As a lawyer specializing in corporate law, Mohamed became suspicious when he was assigned to an ambiguous government case. He became even more suspicious when he discovered that he had no time to prepare, no time to gather witnesses, and no time to consult with his clients-six former government officials charged with treason against a brutal dictator. With a great desire to improve conditions in the leadership of his country, Mohamed began publishing an anonymous newsletter, fittingly titled Nuovo Orizzonte, or New Horizon. Just as each new day dawns beyond the eastern horizon, Mohamed dreamed of a new beginning for his homeland. For this dream, he was rewarded by being incarcerated in the top secret, maximum security prison in Lanta Bur. By an absolute miracle, after several years of incarceration, Mohamed manages to escape. It is then that he is confronted with a deteriorated homeland and must decide whether or not he has the courage to fight for his country, his love. Based on actual events, Resurrection at Lanta Bur is a powerful story of love and faith, of hate and betrayal.

In this thesis the organisation of colonies of the ant, Temnothorax albipennis, is investigated with a special focus on their spatial and temporal statistics. Individual-based modelling combined with analyses of experimental data are used extensively to infer the mechanisms that govern individual and collective behaviour. The unequal allocation of labour amongst different individuals, as manifested in skewed distributions of activity, is ubiquitous within the social insects. Early non-spatial individual-based models demonstrated that such skewed divisions of labour can self- organise through the interaction of fluctuating levels of stimuli associated with a task, with differentially sensitive agents that perform work upon the stimulus. Here, that modelling framework is extended by explicitly including space. This modification induces a ''percolation'' effect, in which small differences amongst agents in their response thresholds, are related to large differences in their probabilities of performing work. The extension of the original fixed-threshold models of Division of Labour to include space means that they can be treated as a special case of diffusion in disordered media - a well studied branch of statistical mechanics. Staying at home to care for young or leaving to find food is one of the most fundamental divisions of labour. Here the rate of departures from ant nests and the collective activity of the individuals within the nest, are experimentally quantified. Both the rate of nest-leaving, and the inside-nest activity showed a non-linear decline over time. This and other results indicates that fluctuating record signals and repulsive ant-ant interactions play a significant role in colony organisation. A record signal is a new ''high water mark'' in the history of a system. The dynamics of several complex but purely physical systems are also based on record signals but this is the first time they have been experimentally shown in a biological system. Finally, the generation of spatial pattern formation is experimentally investigated In the context of resilience to perturbations. The brood within the ant colony is often sorted into an intricate annular pattern, according to the developmental stage of the various rood types. Even after the pattern is completely destroyed, the workers are able to re-establish the pattern. The dynamics of this process of re-emergence is quantified in detail. Lastly, the possible utility of the pattern as a spatial cue to the workers is discussed.