In Victorian London, during a prolonged and pernicious fog, fantasy and reality are about to collide-at least in one man's troubled mind. A childhood fever left Arthur Middleton, Viscount Campden, seeing and hearing things no one else does, afraid of the world outside, and unable to function as a true peer of the realm. To protect him from himself-and to protect others from him-he spends his days heavily medicated and locked in his rooms, and his nights in darkness and solitude, tormented by visions, until a stranger appears. ...

Este libro reúne los Fundamentos de control inteligente de la manufactura flexible es una referencia para el Industrial e Ingenieros en formación en Licenciaturas de Ingeniería Mecatrónica, Mecánica e Industrial; ya que contiene aportaciones teóricas soportadas con ejemplos básicos que permiten cambiar las prácticas actuales de los procesos convencionales y mejorar las condiciones de los Sistemas de Manufactura; teniendo como elementos principales: al ser humano y la calidad del producto, en consecuencia ...

Why Can't I Stick to My Diet reveals why most diets are so hard to stick to and shows that all readers really need is focus, determination, and a regular grocery store.

While snooping around in the Old Dutch Flat Hotel, four friends discover that the hotel's dumbwaiter has an interesting secret of its own. As the secret unfolds, the friends are taken on a mysterious voyage through real gold rush history, days of famous stage coach robbers, saloon girls and the Miwok Indians. Lost in the 1850's they will need to find their way back home, but one thing is for sure - their lives have been changed forever. Twisting and turning the many surprises will have you remembering this story, the new secrets and promises made, as well ...

Using observations of children in play and cutting-edge research, this book will empower students and build their confidence so that they are able to challenge perceptions and think creatively about how they can use technology.

What would you do to keep your past a secret? When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fisherman, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her there. Joined on the case by his new permanent boss, DCI Tamara Greave, it remains to be proven if the woman's death was a result of foul play or a tragic accident. The victim carried no means of identification, was poorly dressed for the winter and horribly disfigured when pulled from the water. As the case progresses old ghosts return ...

A WSN consists of spatially distributed autonomous energy-constraints sensor nodes. A no. of routing protocols are designed in this context. Clustering is one of the key techniques in wireless sensor network with less energy consumption. LEACH (Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) [29]has been widely proposed in wireless sensor networks. ESEP (Extended Stable Election Protocol)saves better the energy consumption by making it heterogeneous taking 3-energy level nodes called advance, intermediate and normal. The advance node has more energy than intermediate ...

From the battles of Nuada, king of the Tuatha de Danaan, to the arrival of St. Patrick, Lady Gregory presents the great tales of Ireland, telling them faithfully with the voice of the Irish countryside -- in "the manner of the thatched houses." In the woods of Slieve Bladhma a boy was reared in secrecy, and taught the skills of the woods and the court. In his travels he met many friends, and many enemies -- above all the magical Aillen, chief of the Sidhe of Beinn Boirche . . . whose defeat might gain the young Finn, the Fair, his rightful place, as a ...

The Body. The one we walk around in, the one we see lying in the mud and gore of a murder scene, the one built by those with skills... how many bodies are there in your imagination, how many have been drawn vividly and horrifically by Thirteen authors... This is an anthology with a different theme which produced some very different stories. Enjoy!