Recent years have seen an expansion in speciality uses of activated carbons including medicine, filtration, and the purification of liquids and gaseous media. Much of current research and information surrounding the nature and use of activated carbon is scattered throughout various literature, which has created the need for an up-to-date comprehensive and integrated review reference. In this book, special attention is paid to porosities in all forms of carbon, and to the modern-day materia...

At the edge of a bustling American city, hidden in plain sight, a world teems with life that most people never stop to notice. Union Bay: The Life of a City Marsh invites readers into the secret pulse of a Pacific Northwest wetland nestled against the urban sprawl of Seattle, Washington. Here, amid the cattails and murky shallows, bitterns stalk their prey, muskrats build their winter lodges, and migrating birds descend in breathtaking waves upon waters that seem, on the surface, utterly o...

John Fielding was born into the wreckage of the American promise—a Connecticut mill town where the factories were already dying, his father killed on a shop floor six months before John drew breath, his mother left to raise him on cashier's wages and three jobs that aged her forty years in twenty.Then, at ten, John is pulled out of school and sent to cut metal in Creakle's sheet-metal factory. Twelve-hour shifts. Hands sliced open and stitched without anesthetic. A childhood traded...

The most surveilled city on Earth can track a face in a crowd of two hundred, read a gait from a block away, and name a stranger before he reaches the corner. So how do you hunt an assassin the cameras cannot see?For NSA analyst Elena Carr, the pattern shouldn't exist: a single killer moving through three continents at once, buying phones in Singapore while walking the streets of Washington, slipping through every system built to catch him. Her superiors call it paranoia. Elena cal...

In Dubai, where towers rise from the desert overnight and every surface is built to dazzle, Marcus Webb has everything a man is supposed to want: a penthouse above the Marina, a venture firm courted by the city's richest investors, and a wife so luminous that strangers stop to look. But Yasmin's mind moves like weather no one can forecast, and the marriage Marcus is so determined to manage is the one thing his money, his intellect, and his relentless need for control cannot fix.As ...

Dreamscape First: Enjoy exclusive audiobooks from Dreamscape Media—before they're available in any other format.Perfection comes at a cost…Respected high school teacher Austin Yates is a devoted family man. But when a cruel online attack leaves his teenage daughter traumatized, Austin’s carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Family means everything to him—and he’ll do whatever it takes to protect them. Even if it means removi...

'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN'A fun read' OBSERVER'Deftly plotted and hugely entertaining' JAMES WILSONThis third novel in the Drabble and Harris thrillers is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction.When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him invest...

Selenium, essential in microscopic doses, can be deadly in larger amounts. Death in the Marsh explains how federal irrigation projects have altered selenium's circulation in the environment, allowing it to accumulate in marshes, killing ecosystems and wildlife, and causing deformities in some animals.

In Challenging the One Best System, a team of leading education scholars offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban education governance reforms collectively known as the “portfolio management model.” They investigate the degree to which this model—a system of schools operating under different types of governance and with different degrees of autonomy—challenges the standard structure of district governance famously characterized by David Tyack as “the...

***'***A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN 'Employs a turbulent 1930s India as the canvas for a nefarious assassination plot complete with tiger hunts and shady maharajahs. A rollicking Raj-era mystery' VASEEM KHAN The second in the series of the Drabble and Harris thrillers! Set in the mid-twentieth century, this adventure series is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction.................................

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and the effect of this act of violence on its perpetrators. The high ideals of Brutus are tested to the full by the consequences of Julius Caesar’s murder; as is the self-interest of Cassius, whilst in the chaos that ensues, the opportunism of Mark Antony and Octavius is served rather than the cause of freedom. A classic study of power, Shakespeare shows the devastating ef...

This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from their pottery, which was decorated before firing with beautiful paddle-stamped designs--some of the most intricate and fascinating in the world.Comprehensive in scope, thi...