Kirjahaku
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872 tulosta hakusanalla Ls Murthy
Completely updated, this graduate text describes the current state of boiling heat transfer and two-phase flow, in terms through which students can attain a consistent understanding. Prediction of real or potential boiling heat transfer behaviour, both in steady and transient states, is covered to aid engineering design of reliable and effective systems.
So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places—a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be. Instead of focusing on the economics and geopolitics of the debate over climate change, this book brings large-scale disaster to a human scale, emphasizing the role of the individual. We humans do have the capacity to deal with disasters. When we face threatening changes, we don’t just stand there pretending it isn’t so, we do something. But because we’re human, our responses aren’t always the right ones the first time—yet we can learn to do better. This book is essential reading for all who want to know how we can draw on our strengths to survive the climate catastrophe and forge a new relationship with nature.
A groundbreaking and detailed presentation of the rich system of meditation traditions that have come to us through the Pali tradition of Buddhism. Meditations of the Pali Tradition, from consummate scholar of Pali Buddhism L. S. Cousins, explores the history of meditation practice in early or Pali Buddhism, which was established in various parts of South and Central Asia from the time of the Buddha and developed until at least the fourteenth century CE. Ranging in discussion of jhana (absorption) meditation in ancient India to the Buddhist practice centers of the Silk Road to the vipassana (insight) practices of our modern world, this rigorous and insightful work of scholarship sheds new light on our understanding of the practices that are today associated with the Theravada school of Buddhism and the insight meditation movement. Cousins demonstrates that there is much more to Buddhist meditation than mindfulness alone--concentration and joy, for example, are equally important.
She woke with a start. Everything was pitch-black. So begins the incredible journey of Lynx, an unforgettable woman who wears the mantle of warrior, fighter, heroine, comrade.Along with a bawdy and colorful band of brothers, she finds herself in a dangerous world where myth tangles with nature and faith is challenged at every step of a routine mission gone hopelessly awry. From the eerie shadows of a cellar where she is held captive to the comfort of a room where she is coaxed back to health to an assignation at the base of Devil's Tower, Lynx grapples with an unknown and unrelenting enemy that stalks her at every step of a treacherous climb. Accompanying her are her loyal friends and unit: the witty and charming Will, the smoldering Sebastian, the steady Braxton, and the stealthy Wolf.But all are not what they seem, and betrayal befalls her in a series of jarring events. As the scrappy team confronts a series of terrors including a threatening spirit bear, strange marksmen, and hostile terrain, two doctors who tend the unit look on remotely from the safety of their home base. Helpless before the unfolding scene, they watch Lynx wrestle with an ever-present danger.Who is after her? Why is she a target? What is her fate? Lynx...The Beginning is an unforgettable saga of a woman who valiantly faces an ever-changing world in which nightmares and fears are transformed into confusing realities. And that is only The Beginning. Patti Ross
She woke with a start. Everything was pitch-black. So begins the incredible journey of Lynx, an unforgettable woman who wears the mantle of warrior, fighter, heroine, comrade.Along with a bawdy and colorful band of brothers, she finds herself in a dangerous world where myth tangles with nature and faith is challenged at every step of a routine mission gone hopelessly awry. From the eerie shadows of a cellar where she is held captive to the comfort of a room where she is coaxed back to health to an assignation at the base of Devil's Tower, Lynx grapples with an unknown and unrelenting enemy that stalks her at every step of a treacherous climb. Accompanying her are her loyal friends and unit: the witty and charming Will, the smoldering Sebastian, the steady Braxton, and the stealthy Wolf.But all are not what they seem, and betrayal befalls her in a series of jarring events. As the scrappy team confronts a series of terrors including a threatening spirit bear, strange marksmen, and hostile terrain, two doctors who tend the unit look on remotely from the safety of their home base. Helpless before the unfolding scene, they watch Lynx wrestle with an ever-present danger.Who is after her? Why is she a target? What is her fate? Lynx...The Beginning is an unforgettable saga of a woman who valiantly faces an ever-changing world in which nightmares and fears are transformed into confusing realities. And that is only The Beginning. Patti Ross
The demons and psionics, humans with telepathy and other mental abilities, have the initial advantage during the First Terran War. The traditional humans can barely maintain their ranks. The tide starts to change when humans possessing elemental magic, sorcery, and advanced fighting techniques join the fray. The humans acquire and solidify their advantage when several scores of psionics turn against their brethren and demon allies. The demons retreat before their species confront extinction. Their psionic cohorts have been exiled to the island west of Pangaea. The victorious humans offer the psionic defectors sanctuary on Pangaea. The adept mentalists refuse and sail south, pledging to live their lives isolated from humans, demons, and psionics alike. The Psionians, as the western island's inhabitants have designated themselves, forged a new society from the ashes of their defeat. They created a new psionic power source using ley-line energies not frequently siphoned by sorcerers and other mystics. The Psionians developed subdesignations so that each citizen of their new island home, Psionia, could broaden their individual identities and contribute to the greater community. Seventy-five years later, as the Psionians thrive in their new existence independent of nonpsionic humans; Ultimus discovers his father and Psi-Lord, Maximilius, in a coma. As Cratius, the Master Panacean, tends to Maximilius's cerebral wounds, Ultimus ventures outside the Psi-Citadel in search of answers. The next day, Ultrina announces to the Psionians that Ultimus had been attacked hours earlier. She added that the body could not be found and the remaining evidence allows for only one conclusion. Sorcerers had assaulted their Psi-Lord and perhaps terminated her brother's existence. The Psionians, out of grief, rage and anger, agree that Ultrina should lead their people and that a retaliatory strike against Pangaea should be her first act. What does she have in store for Pangaea's sorcerers? Will the humans not adept in magic, sorcery, or other mystic arts share in the sorcerers' suffering? What about the descendants of the psionics who betrayed the Psionians decades ago? Once the incursion commences, will they side with their psionic brethren or, like their ancestors, fight alongside the nonpsionic humans? The answers do not matter. Ultrina made one promise after the sorcerers' assaults upon Maximilius and Ultimus. She would have her revenge.
Scott Smithfield knew he was in for one hell of a summer since purchasing his new RV that he teasingly christened "The Titanic." Unbeknownst to him, that doomed name foretold events Scott couldn't imagine in his darkest nightmares.The annual camping party started off good when leaving the city but deteriorated upon entering the mountains. Not to be deterred, the group pushes on. Upon discovering that their usual campground is closed, they go in search of another site and become hopelessly lost on the winding and treacherous roads of the Rocky Mountains.From the first night, things go awry as their campfire stories seem to take on a life of their own. The blood curdling screeches that echo in the night come closer and closer, encircling them.A dark family secret is revealed, and the group realizes they are being systematically hunted - hunted by something strong enough to punch through the temporal plane.Their fear turns to stark terror as the closer they get to discovering the truth, the closer they get to becoming victims of the legend unleashed.
Scott Smithfield knew he was in for one hell of a summer since purchasing his new RV that he teasingly christened "The Titanic." Unbeknownst to him, that doomed name foretold events Scott couldn't imagine in his darkest nightmares.The annual camping party started off good when leaving the city but deteriorated upon entering the mountains. Not to be deterred, the group pushes on. Upon discovering that their usual campground is closed, they go in search of another site and become hopelessly lost on the winding and treacherous roads of the Rocky Mountains.From the first night, things go awry as their campfire stories seem to take on a life of their own. The blood curdling screeches that echo in the night come closer and closer, encircling them.A dark family secret is revealed, and the group realizes they are being systematically hunted - hunted by something strong enough to punch through the temporal plane.Their fear turns to stark terror as the closer they get to discovering the truth, the closer they get to becoming victims of the legend unleashed.