"A remarkably assured debut" Sunday Times"This is as much a novel as a reckoning." New York TimesThe characters are alluring and ... engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure as they try to balance duty to family with their love for China and the need to understand their own personalities." Literary Review

What's better than a story about a sexy gay cowboy? How about a whole posse of them? Editor Drew Hunt has rounded up some of the finest authors in the M/M western genre to bring you this collection celebrating gay cowpokes!Meet real men who ride the trail or ride the rodeo, join a wild west show or douse their thirst at the local country western bar. Whether in the bygone Old West or on a modern cattle ranch, these rugged hunks know how to ride 'em hard and put 'em away wet. And th...

Rosalind Song is exactly where she's supposed to be. Halfway through her PhD, about to submit her work to the most prestigious scientific journal in the world - she can't let rumours about international espionage or, more pressingly, the reappearance of the ever-infuriating Peter Sun, distract her from her approaching glory.Peter Sun never expected to see his old rival again. After years of competing against her in science fairs and college conferences, he thought medical school wo...

A collection of crochet patterns for 3 dimensional flowers and foliage which can be used to create beautiful floral bouquets to display at home or gift to friends and family.This practical guide to crochet flowers explains how to make and construct 35 different types of flowers and foliage including all the most popular flowers and plants. These can then be combined in endless combinations to create wonderful bouquets to display at home or to give as gifts....

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector. The book covers various issues in construction management, advancements in construction technologies and materials, sustainable construction practices, managerial issues in the CRIP sector, construction 4.0, project management, real estate and urban ...

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector. The book covers various issues in construction management, advancements in construction technologies and materials, sustainable construction practices, managerial issues in the CRIP sector, construction 4.0, project management, real estate and urban ...

The collection focuses on the advancements of characterization of minerals, metals, and materials and the applications of characterization results on the processing of these materials. Advanced characterization methods, techniques, and new instruments are emphasized. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:Extraction and processing of various types of minerals, process-structure-property relationship of metal alloys, glasses, ceramics, polymers, composites, semicondu...

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector. The book covers various issues in construction management, advancements in construction technologies and materials, sustainable construction practices, managerial issues in the CRIP sector, construction 4.0, project management, real estate and urban ...

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2024) and explores recent trends and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector. Further, the main focus area of the book covers various Challenges in Construction Project Management, Innovations in Construction Technology and Materials, Sustainability in CRIP Sector, Frontiers in Management of CRIP Sector, Pe...

This seven-volume set LNCS 14054-14060 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2023.For the HCCII 2023 proceedings, a total of 1578 papers and 396 posters was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. Additionally, 267 papers and 133 posters are included in the volumes of the proceedings published after the conference, as “Late Breaking Work”.These papers were organized in the fol...

This collection emphasizes the advances of powder and ceramic/glass materials in fundamental research, technology development, and industrial applications. Ceramic materials science covers the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials, and includes design, synthesis, and fabrication of ceramics, glasses, advanced concretes, and ceramic-metal composites. In recent years, the hybrids of ceramic and metallic materials have received plenty of interdiscip...

This comprehensive volume presents a unified framework of continuum theories. It indicates that (i) microcontinuum theories (micromorphic and micropolar theories) are natural extension of classical continuum mechanics, and (ii) classical continuum mechanics is a special case of microcontinuum theories when the deformable material point is idealized as a single mathematical point. The kinematics and basic laws are rigorously derived. Based on axiomatic approach, constitutive theory is syste...