Al: 2273 books

Rubber Al, as his name implies, has been a rubber fetishist all his adult life. The material, it's look, smell and feel has been a continued fascination to him. There's rarely a time when a rubber scenario is not front and foremost in his mind. Max yearns to visit his old Public school and takes his...

It’s 2206 and the president of the Free States of America is scheming to declare herself a dictator after the 2208 election. When Eric Stewart, inventor of the Stewart Faster-than-Light drive and owner of the giant Stewart Industries conglomerate, discovers her plot, he launches a desperate...

An exciting episode in the Holy Christian Empire space opera series that started with Last Train from Earth. It's 2608 (Earth Calendar) and Victoria Chandler, a direct descendant of "Rock" Chandler, struggles to balance her five lives: ·-She's the presumptive heir to an earldom that...

Bridging the gap between modern image processing practices by the scientific community at large and the world of geology and reflection seismology This book covers the basics of seismic exploration, with a focus on image processing techniques as applied to seismic data. Discussions of theories,...

Se vi sono piaciuti I Soprano e Quei Bravi Ragazzi, adorerete Contratto Sospeso. Un thriller mafioso teso che vi prenderà alla gola e non vi lascerà fino all'ultima pagina! Un giovane mafioso si ritrova a fuggire per salvarsi la vita quando il suo compagno ruba i soldi del boss. Frankie...

Essential Treatments in Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine includes information on the basic medical sciences of blood lipids, clinical significance, diagnosis, and treatment methods. It also covers TCM differentiations, diagnosis, treatment principles, and methods. In recent years, TCM practitioners...

This issue of Nursing Clinics of North America is Guest Edited by Al Rundio, RN, at Drexel University and will focus on Addictions. Article topics will include Office-Based Opioid Treatment, Addictions and Pregnancy, Peer Assistance, Relapse Prevention for Addictions, Adolescents and Addiction, Use...

The book explains Sadrā’s theory of the nature of afterlife. It presents Sadrā’s philosophical premises concerning the nature of human beings and their physical and psychological developments through which Sadrā shows how the afterlife is intimately connected to the nature of the human being...

Private detective Eric Beckman can read minds. Although he reads only the conscious thoughts of the people he interviews, it usually gives him enough of an edge to overcome his inexperience as a PI. But mind reading is hell on relationships. Trusting comes hard when you know what people are...

It seems to me that with the development of the critical spirit we shall be able to realize, not merely our own selves, but the collective life of the race, and so to make ourselves absolutely modern, in the true meaning of the word modernity. For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present...

Sulla base dell'osservazione diretta del patrimonio storico-architettonico aquilano e degli effetti che su di esso ha provocato lo sciame sismico del 2008-2009, con episodi di una certa entità che si registrano ancora fino ad oggi, questo contributo vuole individuare e descrivere alcune caratteristiche...

In this aptly titled collection of short stories, the author offers his personal observations on the human condition as well as the "nuggets" of precious wisdom the reader might extract from them. The settings of these stories are varied and range from a cabin in the freezing northlands...

Jakob Schrenk hat sechs Kuratoren ziemlich verfängliche Fragen gestellt. Etwa, was ein Kurator macht, und was die Kunst, und wie es sich mit Museen verhält - und manche von ihnen schauen sogar aus dem Fenster. Herausgekommen sind sechs spannende Interviews mit Chris Dercon, Max Hollein, Juan A. Gaitàn, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, Hans Ulrich Obrist und WHW.

Once relatos, once ritmos, una sola melodía: la de la mejor literatura negro-criminal. «Sabido es que los escritores suelen ser muy afectos a la música. Nietzsche dijo que sin la música la vida sería un error. Victor Hugo sostenía que la música expresa lo que no puede decirse con palabras y...