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    Saint X
    "Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial bonds and community . . . I devoured Saint X in a day." -New York Times, Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of My Sister, The Serial Killer)Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family's vacation. Several days later Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. It's national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire's family there is only the sad return home to broken lives.Years later, riding in a New York City taxicab, Claire recognizes the name on the cabbie's licence, Clive Richardson - her driver is one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. The fateful encounter sets her on an obsessive pursuit of the truth, not only what happened on the night of Alison's death, but the no less elusive question of exactly who was this sister she was barely old enough to know: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will uncover the truth, an unlikely intimacy develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by a tragedy. Alexis Schaitkin's Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that hurtles to a devastating end.
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    Starting Over In Key West
    Where we come from doesn't matter-but it can help us decide where we want to go. Justin Young has never needed anything more beyond what he has now. He certainly never needed to know about his biological parents who abandoned him as a baby. Even when his parents, Lucy and Jake Young, offered to help him find them, Justin wasn't interested. Why bother digging up a painful past when he was content with how his life was now? But soon, the choice not to know more about his past begins to slip out of Justin's control. When the arson case that brings him home to Key West develops into something far more complex, Justin suddenly finds his whole world turned upside down-and things only become more complicated when Robin Kelly resurfaces in his life. With almost every law agency across the country hunting her down, Robin has no choice but to go digging for the truth that might free her. And unfortunately for Justin, her investigation has now crossed paths with his own. Sharing a history filled with more than unspoken feelings and unanswered questions, together, Justin and Robin must stand strong and fight to protect themselves and those they care for. But when the shocking truth of Justin's true identity is discovered, what will this mean for his place with the Youngs? Starting Over in Key West: New Horizons is a heart-warming story about accepting who you are and giving love a second chance. With a painful past and an uncertain future, will Justin and Robin ever find their peace together?
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    Defining Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation (eBook, ePUB)
    This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes. With the increasing focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the Sustainable Development Goal Framework, there is global recognition of transboundary water cooperation as a tool for improved governance and management of transboundary surface and groundwaters. However, there is not an agreed upon definition of transboundary water cooperation in the literature or in practice. This book develops the Four Frames of Transboundary Water Cooperation, which is a neutral modular framework for developing context-specific explanatory definitions of transboundary water cooperation in basins and aquifers. The Four Frames of Cooperation are legal, institutional, relational, and outcome. However, we need to move beyond defining cooperation to understand better measures of the quality and effectiveness of cooperative processes. The Weighted Model of Effective Cooperation presents a first step in qualitatively evaluating the effectiveness of transboundary water cooperation. This model defines effective transboundary water cooperation and operationalizes a method to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative processes over internationally shared waters. Effective cooperation emphasizes the relational and outcome frames of cooperation while working towards equitability and sustainability. Together, the Four Frames of Cooperation and the Weighted Model of Effective Cooperation will improve the understanding of cooperation and encourage a detailed evaluation of the quality, success, and effectiveness of cooperative processes. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, water governance, and environmental politics. It will also appeal to policymakers and professionals working in the fields of water conflict, water diplomacy, and international cooperation.
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    Defining Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation (eBook, PDF)
    This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes. With the increasing focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the Sustainable Development Goal Framework, there is global recognition of transboundary water cooperation as a tool for improved governance and management of transboundary surface and groundwaters. However, there is not an agreed upon definition of transboundary water cooperation in the literature or in practice. This book develops the Four Frames of Transboundary Water Cooperation, which is a neutral modular framework for developing context-specific explanatory definitions of transboundary water cooperation in basins and aquifers. The Four Frames of Cooperation are legal, institutional, relational, and outcome. However, we need to move beyond defining cooperation to understand better measures of the quality and effectiveness of cooperative processes. The Weighted Model of Effective Cooperation presents a first step in qualitatively evaluating the effectiveness of transboundary water cooperation. This model defines effective transboundary water cooperation and operationalizes a method to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative processes over internationally shared waters. Effective cooperation emphasizes the relational and outcome frames of cooperation while working towards equitability and sustainability. Together, the Four Frames of Cooperation and the Weighted Model of Effective Cooperation will improve the understanding of cooperation and encourage a detailed evaluation of the quality, success, and effectiveness of cooperative processes. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, water governance, and environmental politics. It will also appeal to policymakers and professionals working in the fields of water conflict, water diplomacy, and international cooperation.
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    Coccidiosis in fish. Lifecycle of coccidiosis, development, pathogenesis and medications (eBook, PDF)
    Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Agrarian Studies, , course: Aquaculture, language: English, abstract: The present review has summarized the status of fish coccidia and has provided an insight into the life cycle, taxonomy, transmission, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment. Coccidiosis is a disease that is caused by protozoan parasites of the apicomplexan genus Eimeria and is transmitted via ingestion of infective oocysts. It affects many vertebrates and invertebrates causing mortality, poor performance of animals, and reduce productivity. This disease mostly affects the poultry sector, but its different species are also present in fish and cause economic loss. Coccidiosis in fish has been studied extensively, as it is regarded as chronic and its impact is easily overlooked. There are at least 18 genera under 3 families of order Eucoccidiorida that are responsible to cause some form of coccidiosis in different animals including mammals, avians as well as piscine. About 250 species of coccidiosis are known to occur in fish and among them, Eimeria and Goussia spp are the most prevalent ones. Taxonomic classification has been a difficult task and is determined on the basis of morphological features of oocysts. Coccidiosis generally has 3 stages in its lifecycle, with some variation according to species. About 30% of coccidia develops extraintestinal, and most of the fish coccidia are kept under an Eimeria genus. Transmission occurs via direct as well as by indirect method, but direct method id more common and simple. Coccidiosis can cause mild to serve damage and pathogenesis can differ with species. For prevention and control, different anticoccidial drugs are used. However, sanitation is a prime factor to reduce the risk of oocyst's introduction in animals.
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    Modern Special Relativity (eBook, PDF)
    This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors. The search for clarity in the fundamental questions about Relativity, the discussion of historical developments before and after 1905, the strong connection to current research topics, many solved examples and problems, and illustrations of the material in colloquial discussions are the most significant and original assets of this book. Importantly for first-time students, Special Relativity is presented such that nothing needs to be called paradoxical or apparent; everything is explained. The content of this volume develops and builds on the book Relativity Matters (Springer, 2017). However, this presentation of Special Relativity does not require 4-vector tools. The relevant material has been extended and reformulated, with additional examples and clarifications. This introduction of Special Relativity offers conceptual insights reaching well beyond the usual method of teaching relativity. It considers relevant developments after the discovery of General Relativity (which itself is not presented), and advances the reader into contemporary research fields. This presentation of Special Relativity is connected to present day research topics in particle, nuclear, and high intensity pulsed laser physics and is complemented by the current cosmological perspective. The conceptual reach of Special Relativity today extends significantly further compared even to a few decades ago. As the book progresses, the qualitative and historical introduction turns into a textbook-style presentation with many detailed results derived in an explicit manner. The reader reaching the end of this text needs knowledge of classical mechanics, a good command of elementary algebra, basic knowledge of calculus, and introductory know-how of electromagnetism.
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    The Bulletproof Breakup Guide for Men: How to Get Over a Breakup, Heal a Broken Heart, and Move On , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
    Have you experienced a breakup? Have you been stunned in silence hearing someone say “It’s over”? Have you spent countless nights trying to understand what went wrong? Breakups are very traumatizing experiences, especially for men, who may not be used to this experience. It signifies a weakness, a fault in our personality, in the decisions we have made, in the kind of persons we are. A lot of doubt and insecurity develops in a person who has been dropped like a hot potato.I have been there. I have also spent countless nights in a bar drinking myself to sleep. There were not a few times when I even ended in a fight after drinking to forget. I know that dark place so well because I have stayed there for a long time. And it is not a good place to be in. This audiobook will guide you through your darkest nights and help you to get over anyone.This audiobook will help you:Understand common reasons why couples fight and breakupRecognize the power of emotions in our livesDiscover ways of getting the upper hand in a breakupApply strategies to an effective moving on processGet this audiobook now and let me take you through the perilous and gloomy world of breakups. Let my experiences and the experiences of a lot of people I have counseled and talked with help you get over. It may take another man to help another man and this audiobook is fitted for your healing journey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Hung-Liang. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181773/bk_acx0_181773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
    The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century. Now, many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower?In this book, Michael Beckley argues that the United States has unique advantages over other nations that, if used wisely, will allow it to remain the world's sole superpower throughout this century. We are not living in a transitional, post-Cold War era. Instead, we are in the midst of what he calls the unipolar era - a period as singular and important as any epoch in modern history. This era, Beckley contends, will endure because the US has a much larger economic and military lead over its closest rival, China, than most people think and the best prospects of any nation to amass wealth and power in the decades ahead.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, this book covers hundreds of years of great power politics and develops new methods for measuring power and predicting the rise and fall of nations. By documenting long-term trends in the global balance of power and explaining their implications for world politics, the book provides guidance for policymakers, business people, and scholars alike.The book is published by Cornell Univesity Press."Should be part of any serious debate about where we are headed." (The New York Times)"Smart and sophisticated." (Foreign Affairs)"It will quickly become a classic in international security studies." (Keir Lieber, Georgetown University) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Monteiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158421/bk_acx0_158421_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rogue Faction: Part 1: A Cyrus Cooper Thriller, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
    When a Russian neuroscientist develops a cutting-edge tool to aid in the treatment of Alzheimer’s patients, the breakthrough could be a modern medical miracle. This technology will allow doctors to record and examine the memories of patients. It would offer insight into a disease that was previously only the stuff of science fiction. Unfortunately, as with every "creation", the bad comes hand in hand with the good. The ability to record thoughts and memories directly from a person’s mind becomes an even more valuable process when utilized as a weapon...for espionage. Fledgling agent Cyrus Cooper is ordered to infiltrate the facility developing this powerful new process. His duty: protect the secrets of this dangerous new system and the mastermind behind it until work has been completed. But as Cyrus soon learns, news of the medical breakthrough has leaked. There are now organizations that will stop at nothing to acquire it for themselves. And his own team, the Coalition, just might be among them. Matters are complicated further when Cyrus’s past catches up to him in the middle of the operation. He’s left struggling to do his job while trying to protect secrets from his own background that will jeopardize his very life, should they reach the wrong ears.Through the mayhem, Cyrus never sees the dangerous, faceless stalker who is determined to cause him mortal harm. The action intensifies and the mysteries mount as Cyrus Cooper is put to the ultimate test in Rogue Faction: Part 1. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Delgado. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173749/bk_acx0_173749_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Serious Fun : Baxter Boys, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min
    She doesn’t laugh. He can’t be serious. How will they ever work together?County librarian Harris Winsted can’t believe she lost her leading man. No. What she really can’t believe is that her friends think Harris’ childhood nemesis, Turbo Baxter, might be able to play the part. Even if it is just a small production to raise money for a hospital library, Turbo’s class-clown personality makes him a disastrous choice. However, opening night is three short weeks away. Left with Turbo as her only option, she can only hope he suddenly develops a brain, decorum, and a big boil on his handsome face, because when the guy decides to be charming, he is irresistible. But the attraction stops there. She could never be with a man who professes his hatred of libraries and laughs about never reading a book.Turbo Baxter always knew the harmless pranks he’d pulled over the years might catch up to him, but he never expected his brothers, and their wives, would seek revenge by blackmailing him. But, without another choice, he agrees to their terms: one stuffy librarian’s play in exchange for free repairs to his rig. He’s ready to get back on the road and away from books, libraries, and, most of all, beautiful librarians who are in desperate need of a good laugh. Can two opposites overcome their differences and fall in love?His joking nature masks a dark secret. Will she turn away if he trusts her with the one thing that could make her hate him? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Ricketts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/153375/bk_acx0_153375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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