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...

Since 1991, the edited book series Studies in Perception and Action has appeared in conjunction with the biennial International Conference of Perception and Action (ICPA), a conference that provides an opportunity for individuals who share interests in ecological psychology to come together to present current research, exchange ideas, and engage in conversation on theoretical and methodological concerns. The Studies in Perception and Action series is a way to preserve the dialogues between...

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...

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 ...

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 'Charles Dickens - The Man Behind the Classics', readers delve into the life and works of the renowned Victorian author. This book not only explores Dickens' most famous novels like 'Great Expectations' and 'A Tale of Two Cities', but also sheds light on his lesser-known works and the social issues he addressed in his writing. The author showcases Dickens' unique blend of social commentary, humor, and compelling storytelling that have solidified his reputation as one of the greatest Eng...

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...

Many people find themselves going through one life changing event after the other, and sometimes those events can happen all at the same time. Ramblings of the Third Eye helps you to acquaint with your happiness, grief, and/or sorrow, while at the same time, helping you to recognize the emotions that keep you from moving forward. Expressed through the eyes of many women and men, Ramblings of the Third Eye captures the emotions of life; happiness, sadness, separation, loss, and divorce. Div...

DICKENS'S LONDON presents an expansive, illustrated panorama of the metropolis as imagined by Charles Dickens, gathering eleven novels and more than eighty shorter tales. Across its crowded streets, courts, prisons, workhouses, drawing rooms, and railway districts, London becomes both setting and moral protagonist: a city of exhilarating energy, profound inequality, comic eccentricity, and hidden suffering. Dickens's characteristic fusion of melodrama, satire, sentiment, social criticism, ...

This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works.For easier navigation, there are tables of contents for each section and one for the whole volume. At the end of each text there are links bringing you back to the respective contents tables. I have also added an alphabetical index for the poems and a...

Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Childhood - Boyhood - Youth - Family Happiness - The Cossacks - War and Peace - Anna Karenina - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - The Kreutzer Sonata - Resurrection - The Forged Coupon - Hadji Murad

A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did ...