New Releases by Jason Edwards

In this third volume in the CHRONICLES OF THE MONSTER DETECTIVE AGENCY, there is only one horror that could be a more dreadful challenge for fledgling Monster Detective Will Allen than battling a roomful of monsters - MIDDLE SCHOOL! But if that''s not enough, Will’s new case is sure to make his head spin: he has to defend a BULLY! But can Will rise to the occasion and rescue his brutish client when his special monster-fighting flashlight, the RevealeR, has suddenly turned more dangerous than the monsters themselves?

Brendan was happy with his life. He had a well paying job, an apartment of his own, a temperamental car and a best friend who liked nothing more than crashing out in his spare room after a night out. All in all, he had little to complain about. Then he met Julie.Julie was happy with her life. She had a job she loved, lived with her two best friends and, as her parents had always told her, had a bright future ahead of herself. Then she met Brendan.A chance, alcohol fuelled one night stand has unanticipated consequences and now Brendan and Julie find themselves having to deal with the prospect of an unexpected pregnancy.Assisted by Brendan''s friend John, and Julie''s housemates, Orla and Anne, the new parents-to-be negotiate the unfamiliar waters of antenatal classes, midwives and epidurals as they work together to understand the implications their unborn child has for their lives.Unexpected is the humorous story of the not always entirely pleasant side of conception, birth and everything that happens in between.

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This thesis describes the mathematical modeling and closed-loop voltage control of a MEMS electrostatic actuator. The control goal is to extend the travel range of the actuator beyond the open-loop pull-in limit of one third of the initial gap. Three controller designs are presented to reach the control goal. The first controller design utilizes a regular fourth order Active Disturbance Rejection Controller (ADRC) and is able to achieve 97% of the maximum travel range. The second design also uses a fourth order ADRC, while additional modeling information is included in an Extended State Observer (ESO), which is part of the ADRC, to improve control performance. This controller achieved 99% of the travel range. The third design is a multi-loop controller with a second order ADRC in an inner loop and a Proportional-Integral (PI) controller in an outer loop. This design achieved 100% of the travel range. Transfer function representations of the three controller designs are developed. The controllers are successfully applied and simulated in a parallel-plate electrostatic actuator model. The simulation results and frequency domain analyses verified the effectiveness of the controllers in extending the travel range of the actuator and in noise attenuation.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards: introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer taxonomies, performativities and cusps considers Sedgwick’s poetry and textile art alongside her theoretical texts encourages a personal as well as an academic response to Sedgwick’s work, suggesting how life-changing it can be offers detailed suggestions for further reading Written in an accessible and direct style, Edwards indicates the impact that Sedgwick’s work continues to have on writers, readers, and literary and cultural theory today.

Fifth-grade Will Allen enlists the help of Bigelow Hawkins, the great monster detective, when he finds a monster under his bed, but it is Will who must conquer the monsters himself.

The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of an attitude towards modernity that can be best described as radical. It emerges in discourses of politics and the state from the Sixteenth century onwards and can be discerned in many of the central texts of modern political theory, even those that are usually understood to be conservative in character. Accordingly, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present.

"The essays collected here derive from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, entitled ''Boxing Clever: A Centennial Re-Evaluation of Joseph Cornell'', which was held at the AHRC Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and Its Legacies at the University of Essex between 17 and 19 September, 2003"--P. [9].

Set during the conflict in Bosnia, this novel will have special appeal to women from nineteen to ninety. A fast-paced historical adventure of terror, romance and dangerous intrigue, with spiritual and metaphysical events. A page-turning thriller!

Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two

Practical maths activity book which combines appropriate pages from the original student activity books for ''Stage Go'' and ''Stage 1'' plus text adjustments. Covers all the early maths concepts appropriate for Year 1 in WA primary schools. Emphasis on problem solving and maths in the real world. Suggested to be used in conjunction with ''Stage Go'' and ''Stage 1 Maths Storybook''s. Also ''Stage 1 Teacher''s Ideas'' book, ''Stage 1 Blackline Masters''.

Control of access to archaeological sites is discussed from the scientific, Aboriginal and authors own viewpoints; recommends control of access should be with Aboriginal people.