The most powerful man in the solar system is going to steal the future.Besides dealing with his teenage assistant, Moth (being enticed by her mafia family to join the business), Quirk's nemesis Beatrix Potter has reappeared. The nonbinary assassin reveals an unprecedented power grab by Joshua Simister. The Old Man, aka TOM, aka Quirk's ex-father-in-law plots to snatch control of all interstellar travel from the UN. The struggle for power puts the lives of Quirk's e...

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family…Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves?When their client dies in mysterious ci...

They say, "Never work with androids or children."Quirk had one job to do, deliver papers to a Milan mafia boss, before leaving Earth for his home in the asteroids. But that was before being tailed, poisoned—oh, yes—and hijacked into raising foulmouthed fourteen-year-old convent girl Angelika Moratti, aka Moth, who'd rather see him asphyxiate in space.Fleeing assassins, Quirk, Moth and her syRen® android S-0778 ride the space elevator to the Moon, where Quir...

The first state-of-the-art review of this dynamic field in a decade, Modeling Microbial Responses in Foods provides the latest information on techniques in mathematical modeling of microbial growth and survival. The comprehensive coverage includes basic approaches such as improvements in the development of primary and secondary models, statistical

In this “Divorce-How-To/How-Not-To,” the reader discovers that as much as they may feel alone, they are experiencing the same indignities as many others. The author’s own metamorphosis from a panicked “ex,” to a person who successfully reinvented herself, provides an uplifting and damn funny flip side to a book also packed with critical advice on how to navigate the legal waters of divorce.

Leverage science-based models for the identification of profitable investment thesesPrinciples of Transition Finance Investing: Finding Alpha in a World Adapting to Climate Change shows how to leverage science-based models used by the largest banks in the world for their climate scenario analysis exercises and turn them into useful tools for the identification of profitable investment theses for venture capital, private equity, and private credit. This boo...

In Liberatory Research Teams, Labs, and Collectives, Phelps-Ward, Brown, and Bankole provide guidance for research team leaders and members who aspire to facilitate research teams from a liberatory, human-centered, equitable perspective.Whether leading a lab in chemistry or engineering, a research team in the humanities or fine arts, or research collectives and collaboratives in the social sciences (e.g., psychology, social work, education), the authors provide rich exampl...

They say, "Never work with androids or children."Quirk had one job to do, deliver papers to a Milan mafia boss, before leaving Earth for his home in the asteroids. But that was before being tailed, poisoned—oh, yes—and hijacked into raising foulmouthed fourteen-year-old convent girl Angelika Moratti, aka Moth, who'd rather see him asphyxiate in space.Fleeing assassins, Quirk, Moth, and her syRen® android S-0778 ride the space elevator to the Moon, where Qui...

In this volume, the editor and contributors describe the use of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for a range of key materials systems that are of interest for both technological and fundamental reasons. Prior books on MBE have provided an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of MBE and emphasize growth and characterization of GaAs-based structures. The aim in this book is somewhat different; it is to demonstrate the versatility of the technique by showing how it can be utilized to...

Get ready for your neonatal intensive care nursing certification exam with the only review developed in collaboration with three leading nursing organizations! From AACN, AWHONN, and NANN, Certification and Core Review for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, 5th Edition prepares you for your examination with hundreds of high-quality study questions and realistic test simulation. Based on the latest test plans of the AACN's CCRN®-Neonatal exam and the NCC's Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNC...

In Cornwall, England, in 1597, a teenage witch named Meg St. John finds her life in danger. Evil witch hunters are after her, and everyone she knows is in danger. The only way to escape is through a portal to another time. Sending an impoverished witch to the future is a challenge…but sending Sir Simon Delaney is much more difficult! The young lord only wants to protect his brother and sister and manage his estate. He has no idea that magic flows through his veins.It will take the ...

The Beliefs I Never ChoseWhat if the voice in your head isn't really yours?For most of us, the beliefs that shape our lives were never consciously chosen. They were handed down through family, culture, faith, and circumstance-and accepted as truth before we had the language to question them.These inherited beliefs become the invisible software running our lives. They shape our identity, fuel our self-talk, and determine what we believe is...