She faces an impossible choice: Become a snitch or go back to prison.  Shea Stevens thought she'd shut the door on the chaos and violence of her past. She just wants to build custom motorcycles and spend time with her girlfriend and orphaned niece. But when people start dying from a club drug laced with strychnine, a deal she made with the cops comes back to haunt her. She must either infiltrate the Athena Sisterhood, a women's biker club suspected of dealing the drug, or she'll be sent back to prison. As if becoming a rat isn't bad enough ...

The Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams And Fond Adventures Of An Habitual Novel Reader Among Some Great Books And Their People is a book written by Young Ewing Allison and published in 1907. The book is a collection of essays and stories that revolve around the author's love for reading novels and the people he encounters through them. Allison shares his personal experiences of reading some of the greatest books of all time and the impact they had on his life. He also delves into the lives of the authors and their inspirations behind their works. The book is a fascinating ...

Eco-resorts can be defined as the establishments which perform environmental and cultural preservation while giving benefits for local communities and collaboration with local population as well as with visitors. Practicing the Eco-tourism in Sri Lankan hotel sector inspires close associations with the nature, culture and the economy of the country. Hoteliers should practice Eco-tourism concepts in order to satisfy the needs and wants of the tourists. If the hoteliers are unable to do it appropriately, they will not be able to accomplish customer satisfaction. ...

Everybody loves bad guys, and these are some of the baddest of them all. Forget the rules. There aren't any heroes. No one is going to save you from the wickedness in the darkness. Monster hunters can easily become the hunted. Twisted perverts can find themselves on the receiving end of their own deviant desires. No matter how big and bad someone or something may be, there is always something bigger and badder just waiting. Even the classics like a dragon, werewolf, or supernatural being can fall victim to something even more evil. Take a peek, if ...

This book is a spontaneous flow of emotions, passion and quest for the truth in life. Versatile in character, it attempts at soul searching through various avenues of human mind and lead themselves toward the eternal truth- a culmination of 'as many emotions, so many relections'. Its visual imagery transcends the reader to a plane of consciousness where he/she identifies the himself/herself in a similar situation and finds solace and peace within the self.In the words of the author,"Happiness or Peace is a state of the mind. It is a truly achievable option ...

Sleeplessness has long been a blessing and a curse for many a writer. Detrimental to health and concentration yet frequently a fantastic source of creativity, sleeplessness has been both topic and motivation for innumerable written works. This collection brings together notable poems, stories and essays connected to sleeplessness written by some of the most influential poets and writers to have ever existed, including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, H.G. Wells, Dickens, and others. Highly recommended for poetry lovers and night owls alike. Contents include: "Nightwalks ...

El bajo peso al nacer se presenta en todo el mundo, trae consigo consecuencias negativas en diversos ámbitos como la educación y la productividad, constituye uno de los principales mecanismos de transmisión intergeneracional de la pobreza y la desigualdad y suele estar asociado con situaciones que interfieren en la circulación placentaria por alteración del intercambio madre-placenta-feto y como consecuencia de una malnutrición intrauterina. En el presente texto se profundiza en los factores que causan bajo peso al ...

The safety monitoring system, developed in this thesis, is conceived to provide an integrated framework for safety by bringing together the three components: a Safety Expert System (SES), a Safety Mode Controller (SMC) and a Human Awareness Interface (HAI). The protocols of the SES are key elements for achieving effective performance of the safety system. A new danger index has been proposed to facilitate the collaboration at different interaction levels. Consisting of two components, this index enables to maintain a safe distance from the robot ...

The Tin Can House and Other Stories  is a remarkable short story collection by renowned Virginia author Susan Pepper Robbins. Featuring some of her best short stories, the collection delivers powerful, gritty characters full of heart and spirit. Ranging from longer stories to one-page hitters, Robbins masters the pen and sprays ink economically. 

Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides (CROWs) is a new way of integrating coupled cavities onto a single chip. To numerically study the optical coupling by evanescent whispering gallery modes (WGMs) between two microspheres, we introduce a high- order time-domain discontinuous spectral element method to the 3D Maxwell's equations, and propose a mesh generation method for optical coupled spherical resonators with well conditioned mass matrices. A Legendre ...