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Two rival queens. An infamous playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth''s throne, and no clear successor with her modern vision of a civilization that thrives in peace and diversity, England is in a supremely perilous moment. Elizabeth''s foes understand the power of a poet''s voice to shape popular opinion, and force esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a script detailing the history of Queen Elizabeth and the catholic Mary Queen of Scots that will tumble the nation into civil war. Faced with a terrible dilemma, Will must navigate a dangerous path through the corridors of the wealthy, the refuse-filled warrens of London and the byzantine world of Elizabethan politics as he tries to save both his family and his own legacy.

What will it take to make your law practice the best it can be? Justin L. Scott, who built a seven-digit law practice by the age of 30, offers his unique experience and advice in They Can Make You or Break You. The founder of Awesome Paralegal, Scott has turned his attention to helping law practices around the country serve their clients better and deliver top notch results. They Can Make You or Break You calls attention to an area you may not be focusing on: How your office staff and paralegals can provide the key component that will make your practice shine. From the way your staff greets new clients to innovative techniques in how the office can stay organized, Scott offers direct, practical tools to help you serve your clients. Make more money by providing better service from the initial intake to the closing letter. Many of the common problems you may be facing right now are explained, along with tips on how to handle each one. It''s all designed to help you focus on what really matters: Delivering the best your firm has to offer to your clients. Demand awesome. awesomeparalegal.com

Ricky, your average gas station clerk goes about his everyday life until one day he meets a customer of the likes he never had met before, a Time Traveler with one goal in mind...to purchase the year 2026. Ricky is thrown into a vicious auction where Time Travelers and their Assets fight ferociously so that audiences of the future watch for their entertainment. How will Ricky survive a business model literally centuries in the making? Find out in Time/Travelers today!

"FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS is a contemporary thriller set in the Mississippi River Delta. Thirty-nine days of torrential rain have swollen the river to the brink. Clementine Price-a young US Army Corps of Engineers officer born on a farm in the flood-plain of the Arkansas Delta-is battling to protect the people and homeland she loves from a catastrophic flood when she discovers that a richly funded domestic terrorist- hiding in plain sight in a beloved megachurch-has weaponized the natural disaster to inundate America''s heartland. His plan to cleave the United States in half and found his own all-white nation is already in motion. Clementine has only hours to mobilize a make-shift army, engineer a strategy to turn nature''s overwhelming force back onto the enemy, stop civil war, and save millions from drowning"--

Warning: This novel contains graphic scenes and content that some may consider traumatizing. Please be advised, and read at your own discretion. A retired meta-human spy has his whole life flipped upside down when a stranger disintegrates him with a magic gun! But before he can blink, he is reborn in world full magic, heroes, mighty pharaoh gods, and ancient titans.In the lowest realm of the Divine Universe, a young adult named Jodye Trill from modern Earth is reborn in a world full of magic he never imagined!In his first life, he was born into poverty in a rich society!In this life, he was born into luxury in a cruel and vicious land!It''s an unknown yet wonderful land of spiritual cultivation and martial arts! However, this land is plagued by dark plots and evil arts. Women are victimized, and used as tools!Once the cruel nature of the land extends to his own family, Jodye is unable to stand for this."Strength! Without strength I watched my lover suffer. Without strength, I stood helpless as that same lover died!! Without strength there is no respect, there is no love, there can be no peace! I must be stronger. I will carve out my own legend of strength in order to bring my world peace!!"

Early planting soybean (Glycine max L.) strategies across the mid-southern United States has complicated weed management in the form of post-harvest weed control. Research has investigated the use of cover crops to aid in management of weed populations during winter months, but conventional cover crops provides minimal weed management benefit immediately following cash crop harvest. Inter-seeding cover crop into crop canopies has potential to promote earlier cover crop establishment, thus creating higher potential for post-harvest weed management. However, factors such as inter-seeding timing, herbicide residue, as well as harvest aid applications must be considered. Therefore, studies were conducted in Mississippi in 2017, 2018, and 2019 to determine if cover crops inter-seeded through soybean could improve weed control used in conjunction with common management strategies in Mississippi production systems. Conclusions drawn from these studies indicate inter-seeded cover crops can be utilized in soybean production systems to improve weed management after harvest.

The Forestry and Agriculture Sector Optimization Model with Greenhouse Gases (FASOMGHG) has historically relied on regional average costs of land conversion to simulate land use change across cropland, pasture, rangeland, and forestry. This assumption limits the accuracy of the land conversion estimates by not recognizing spatial heterogeneity in land quality and conversion costs. Using data from Nielsen et al. (2014), we obtained the afforestation cost per county, then estimated nonparametric regional marginal cost functions for land converting land to forestry. These afforestation costs were then incorporated into FASOMGHG. Three different assumptions for land moving into the forest sector were run; constant average conversion cost, static rising marginal costs and dynamic rising marginal cost, in order to assess the implications of alternative land conversion cost assumptions on key outcomes, such as projected forest area and cropland use, carbon sequestration, and forest product output.

I''ve seen it happen. When you least expect it. Your family seems perfect - until - a stroke hits. Now your loved one needs assistance. In some cases, they are bedridden, others, no longer capable of what they once were. Why did this happen? What do you do next? How do you pay for the extensive care?If you are looking for answers, this book is for you. Author and attorney Justin L. Scott has written multiple books helping families deal with the various issues associated with aging. He has become the authority in helping readers find honest, easy-to-read answers to the most frequently asked questions. Attorney Scott has helped hundreds of families as an Elder Law Attorney at his New Jersey office, Bratton Scott Attorneys.Strokes are the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Sadly, strokes receive far less coverage and attention compared to Alzheimer''s and cancer. This leaves families with a lack of information and understanding that most care options can be paid for entirely by the government.When a stroke happens to you or a loved one - this will be your how-to guide to navigate you through the swift and crushing impact.

Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in this riveting action-adventure novel from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Clive Cussler. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate—petite young blond women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims—there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.

Chris Taggart is a ruthless, driven, real estate entrepreneur whose buildings have changed the skyline of New York. Young, handsome, irresistible to women, Taggart has won it all with his bare hands and fierce ambition. But his dazzling success can never erase the bitter memory of his father''s death at the hands of the mob—and now Taggart sets out to use his wealth and power to destroy the men whom he holds responsible.It is a secret vendetta—a war, in fact—that Taggart launches single-handedly against the Five Families of New York. It pits him against some of the toughest men in organized crime—as well as his own brother, a crusading assistant U.S. attorney, one of the strikeforce prosecutors.Taggart risks his fortune, his reputation, finally his life, to get revenge; only to find that he has instead become one of them, that his triumph over criminals has turned him into a more dangerous threat than any mob boss in New York.

The Russian Empire, 1916: at war with Germany, racked with dissent. King George V sends Kenneth Ash, a naval officer, on a secret mission into this deadly world of violence and intrigue. Undercover in the frozen wastes of Russia, Ash must kidnap the King''s cousin, Tzar Nicholas II, before the Bolsheviks take control. Soon he''s drawn into a dangerous race across the globe - through London, Berlin and the deadly trenches of the First World War - to protect his country and confront his past.

Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. They like to take the oldest tricks and add dynamite. When a coalition of the Black Hand’s victims hire out the Van Dorn agency to protect their businesses, their reputations, and their families, Detective Isaac Bell forms a crack squad and begins scouring the city for clues. And then he spots a familiar face. The stakes grow ever-higher, with the Black Hand becoming more ambitious, and their targets more political. If Bell can’t determine the role played by the face from his past, the next life lost could be one of the most powerful men in the nation.

This Training Guide is amongst one of the most resourceful and informative out there. Packed full of reliable and tested information - written by a highly experienced Trainer. Easy to read, and in-depth in its nature - you will thoroughly enjoy your journey through it, all while expanding your knowledge. It contains a wealth of interesting facts and reliable information, along with detailed advice for owners. This is one book that is certainly a must-have addition to your collection.

"Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller''s Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn''t stop there. The murders shootings, poisonings, and staged accidents have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary across the U.S., to Russia''s war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation"--

"It is 1921, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell''s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn''t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn''s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. On a trail that leads from the ravages of post WWI Europe to the speakeasies of New York to the lawless streets of Detroit and Florida''s lavish beachside resorts, Isaac tracks the footsteps of a criminal enterprise more ingenious and far-reaching than any he has ever known. He is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs, and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. Packed with daring escapades and incredible heroics"--Provided by publisher

Offenbar grundlos zerstört der »Saboteur« Züge und Schienenwege der Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Sollte er nicht bis zum Winter gefasst werden, bedeutet dies das Aus für die Eisenbahngesellschaft und damit das Ende der Eroberung des Westens der USA. Isaac Bell von der Van-Dorn-Detektivagentur ist der Einzige, der den Verbrecher noch stoppen kann. Kompromisslos heftet er sich an die Fersen des Saboteurs, doch was Bell während der Jagd herausfindet, erschüttert selbst diesen harten Mann.

The purpose of this study was to assess changes in physical fitness and performance by rock climbing twice a week over a 7-week time period. Rock climbing is on the rise in popularity as seen in the rise of indoor climbing gyms and the increase in rock climbing competitions. Notably, the International Federation of Sport Climbing has held the Climbing World Championships biennially since the first event in 1991, which emphasizes the importance of this research to apply to training programs. To better understand the sport of rock climbing a variety of tests were used to assess physical fitness and performance. The tests included grip strength, grip endurance, pinch strength, the sum of 7-site skinfold thicknesses, percent body fat, upper body aerobic power and time to complete a graded route on the climbing wall. 16 subjects, 3 females and 13 males, who were enrolled in a 7-week rock climbing course at Western Michigan University participated in the study. Significant improvements were observed in right hand grip endurance, left hand grip endurance , right hand pinch strength, pinch strength average, and timed climb, or time to the top of a graded route. It was concluded that 7-weeks of rock climbing twice a week showed improvements in some physical fitness and performance variables.

Tween best friends Sage Carrington and Isabel Flores are traveling with family across Mexico when they encounter a cryptic math riddle painted inside a portratit by renowned artist Frida Kahlo.

Mary Fulton and her father are trying to save their failing family tugboat business. Captained by Kevin Patrick, The Bowery Queen, their ageing tugboat, is towing a barge to Nova Scotia. There they lose the barge contract, but hear of an abandoned freighter adrift in the high seas. They sail towards the vessel in a desperate hope of salvaging it. But unknown to Kevin, Mary, and her crew, the freighter is not completely deserted--aboard is a psychopathic German fugitive and his deadly cargo. With a setting of turbulent Atlantic tides, this sea-faring odyssey is a thrilling portrayal of man''s fight for survival and supremacy over love and death.

Con Sabotaje, Clive Cussler nos ofrece una nueva aventura cargada de acción y misterio de la mano de la agencia de detectives Van Dorn y del inigualable Isaac Bell. Unos misteriosos saboteadores pretenden destruir el ferrocarril que unirá Estados Unidos, ¿o la nación entera? Una oleada de explosiones, incendios y asesinatos sacude la compañía Southern Pacific y pone en riesgo su ambicioso proyecto, crear una red ferroviaria moderna que llegue con rapidez al Oeste de Estados Unidos. Detrás de estas acciones se encuentra el Saboteador, un peligroso hombre sin escrúpulos que no duda en degollar salvajemente a todo el que se cruza en su camino. Desesperado y al borde de la ruina, el presidente de la compañía contrata los servicios del único detective capaz de enfrentarse a este malhechor, el inigualable Isaac Bell... Reseña: «Clive Cussler es difícil de superar.» Daily Mail

This research explores the various and often conflicting interpretations of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, an event seemingly lost in the public mind of twenty-first century America. The conflict, which pitted United States forces under the command of Major General Andrew Jackson against a militant offshoot of the Creek Confederacy, known as the Redsticks, ranks as the single most staggering loss of life in annals of American Indian warfare. Today, exactly 200 years after the conflict, the legacy of Horseshoe Bend stands as an obscure and often unheard of event. Drawing upon over two centuries of unpublished archival data, newspapers, and political propaganda, this research argues that the dominate narrative of Northern history, the shadowy details of the War of 1812, and the erasure of shameful events from the legacy of westward expansion have all contributed to transform what once was a battle of epic proportions, described by Jackson himself as an "extermination," into a seemingly forgotten affair.

"In his explanation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s concluding “Stargate” sequence, Stanley Kubrick privileges its psychological and affective aspects, stating that “[the concluding sequence’s] meaning has to be found on a sort of psychological level rather than in a specific literal interpretation” (qtd. in Grant 81-82). Expanded beyond this film and into Kubrick’s corpus altogether, his films largely display an emphasis on the psychological impacts they have over spectators. More specifically, Kubrick’s films have been described as cold cinematic texts that resist emotional engagement (Kolker, “Rage for Order” 60; Freer 114). Consider 2001’s Stargate sequence --in which a series of chromatic images appear onscreen at random with no obvious narrative purpose or explanation --as exemplary of the emotional estrangement underlying Kubrick’s films. Conventional narrative cinema provides clear-cut narratives that allow méconnaissance (or misrecognition) to occur in the cinema, during which spectators immerse themselves into the film’s narrative verisimilitude; but Kubrick’s films resist this by thwarting such expectations --as is evident in the convoluted Stargate sequence --to create an alienating aesthetic unique to the Kubrickian corpus. Psychologically, Kubrick’s cinema alienates spectators from identifying with his narratives, which consequently thwarts emotional identification from spectators. In order to theorize this trend from a psychoanalytical perspective, I explore the convergence of two conflicting Lacanian film theories --an earlier version which resists méconnaissance and the latter version which alternatively requests that theorists use misrecognition to observe moments when their immersion is disrupted --occurring throughout Kubrick’s films. There is a marked discordance between conventional narrative structures and Kubrick’s deconstruction of them, one which shall be explored in this thesis to illustrate the various ways in which Kubrick’s alienating aesthetic is manifested, particularly in A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, and 2001: A Space Odyssey"-- from abstract.

Consumer implementations of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are rapidly becoming possible due to the proliferation and ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, and other portable computers. However, the combination of wireless communication, device mobility, and the self-organizing nature of MANETs presents a challenging environment for developing distributed applications. Networking middleware and libraries for MANET applications typically provide adaptations of traditional distributed computing paradigms designed for wired networks. In this work we quantitatively evaluate existing projects and their fundamental underlying communication paradigms using real applications in realistic MANET environments. We then propose and evaluate a new communication paradigm called "MELON" which has been specifically designed for MANETs.

It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by the indifferent juggernaut. Struggling for his life, Peter Hardin felt the hand of his wife being torn from his grip as the huge white letters on the supertanker''''''''''''''''s stern - Leviathan - steamed away.Thus begins an odyssey of revenge that embraces the distant waters of the world, from the titanic storms of the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf. Now back in print for the first time in twenty-five years, The Shipkiller is the story of one man determined to win at sea the justice he has been denied on land.

The Striker is the sixth novel in Clive Cussler''s Isaac Bell series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident. And it begins to become clear that the trouble doesn''t stop with the men he''s looking for. Much bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big . Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known, men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness . . . who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way. In The Striker we meet Isaac Bell early in his career in an adventure that would show him just how dangerous and exciting his chosen profession would turn out to be. From the master of adventure and action and creator of the Dirk Pitt Adventure series comes The Striker, the sixth exciting installment in the Isaac Bell detective series. Following The Thief and The Race, The Striker is another nail-biting, action-packed historical thriller from Top 10 bestselling author Clive Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler: ''Cussler is hard to beat'' Daily Mail ''The guy I read'' Tom Clancy ''The Adventure King'' Daily Express

When a scientist he recently rescued from kidnappers is murdered, private investigator Isaac Bell discovers that a ruthless agent wants the scientist''s secret new invention in order to exploit it to seize power for Germany. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

Ben Abbott returns to his hometown to save his family''s recession - battered real estate business, never dreaming that things are about to heat up in picturesque Newbury, Connnecticut. Broke and looking for some excitement, Ben takes a job videotaping the adulterous goings - on in a bedroom in Jack and Rita Long''s ''''castle.'''' But he doesn''t bargain on becoming embroiled in the murder of Rita Long''s friend. A second murder closer to home propels Ben to embark on a new career as a neophyte detective and leads him to answers that will put him in mortal danger.

HardScape and StoneDust, the first Ben Abbott novels, established Ben as one of the most engaging and canny investigators to have appeared in a long time. Britain''s Literary Review terms the Abbotts ''''Smooth, sardonic, impeccably argued, immaculately written'''' while author Lawrence Block says: ''''Frostline is the best book in a series that started strong and keeps getting better.'''' When Newbury''s newest resident, ex - diplomat Harry King, the close confidant of Kissinger and reputed to have been heavily involved in the Vietnam War, summons real estate agent Ben Abbott to his new McMansion, Ben dreams of big dollar signs. The commission from selling the Fox Trot estate would be huge. But King doesn''t want Ben''s selling expertise, he wants him to act as a mediator between him and his troublesome neighbour, surly Vietnam vet Ronnie Butler. A strip of Butler''s land cuts straight into King''s estate like a knife, acting as a red flag for two neighbors who are as ornery and quarrelsome as a pair of rival bulls. In fact, the testoserone is flowing heavier than the waters in the stream King is damming up for a picturesque lake. Before Ben can mediate, an explosion rocks a lavish party on the Fox Trot lawn. The blast blows up the dam - and Butler''s ex - con son, Dickie, along with it. Butler, an army - trained sapper, is arrested for setting the dynamite. Ben, whose childhood friend Dickie had tried his patience and loyalty many times before, refuses to accept Butler''s guilt. Besides, too many things don''t add up. Could it be the work of terrorists? Of one of the many groups holding a grudge against King? Or just someone with his own axe to grind? With the Feds on the scene, caught in state and locallaw enforcement jockeying, Ben negotiates an unpopular course through the usual minefield of his various loyalties to friends, family and lovers, of whom there are plenty .