A Study Guide for William Trevor's "The Distant Past," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach in finance--an approach that, as editor Richard Thaler put it, "entertains the possibility that some of the agents in the economy behave less than fully rationally some of the time." Much has changed since then. Not least, the bursting of the Internet bubble and the subsequent market decline further demonstrated that financial markets often fail to behave as they ...

En los confines más oscuros y silenciosos del mundo, donde la presencia de la muerte se siente como un manto helado que cubre la tierra, se escucha un susurro inquietante que hiela la sangre y estremece el alma. Es el Susurro de la Muerte, una voz que susurra en los oídos de los moribundos y los agonizantes, llevándolos hacia el más allá con su llamado seductor. El Susurro de la Muerte es una presencia ominosa que acecha en los momentos finales de la vida, envolviendo a los moribundos en una neblina de oscuridad y desesperación. ...

This book will develop the management skills in the field of Computer Network. That is the optimization resource usage with minimal input. The book contains the mainly on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) as widely considered as one of the most important technologies for the twenty-first century. WSNs employ thousands of small sensors that communicate between themselves in a distributed manner using Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. Energy required for wireless sensor is obtained from non-rechargeable energy sources. Due to their small size, wireless sensors ...

Imagine a box. Imagine putting all the dark aspects of yourself, all the things you would rather no-one knew about you, into that box and imagine closing the lid. Now... you feel better already, don't you? Redman was a top detective on the force before he suffered a psychotic episode. Doctor Georgina Barnes is a respected psychiatric consultant attempting to guide Redman back to mental health. Redman finds his old instincts as a cop invaluable when a fellow inmate falls to his death from the hospital roof. Did the poor guy jump, as everyone assumes, or ...

Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117–138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed Hadrian as a masterful negotiator of power relationships. In this comprehensive investigation into the vibrant urban life that existed under Hadrian's rule, Mary T. Boatwright focuses on the emperor's direct interactions with Rome's cities, exploring the many benefactions for which he was celebrated on coins and in literary works and inscriptions. Although ...

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions... in my case they're deadly. I tried to walk away from my family-from my name and all the carnage that was my birthright. My dream of freedom, unbound by our past, ended up being more lethal than I imagined. I swore hell would freeze over before asking them for anything again. But the snow is falling and I'm out of options... except for one. I'm going to need help from the one man I swore I would never ask for anything-my brother's head of security. Calling him might save me from a fate ...

Marion has had an extra ordinary life. In a short space of time she has experienced events that have fast-tracked her spiritual understanding and personal growth. She has shared these events with you to show how she coped, with the hope that what she learnt will help you as well. Raised on a back-country farm in New Zealand she had a traumatic life that left her with emotional problems, creating an unruly teenager with little or no self-love or respect for herself, and a marriage that only made this worse, leading to dark days and an attempted suicide. ...