Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his ...
Règles de pratique ; Court rules ; Film/Fiche is presented as orginally captured.
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On cover: Special winter number of the Studio, 1906-7
Cottages ; Architecture, Domestic
Bioinformatics has, out of necessity, become a key aspect of drug discovery in the genomic revolution, contributing to both target discovery and target validation. The author describes the role that bioinformatics has played and will continue to play in response to the waves of genome-wide data sources that have become available to the industry, including expressed sequence tags, microbial genome sequences, model organism sequences, polymorphisms, gene expression data an...
According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to 'key in' text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically. As of 30 November 2005, the Oxford English Dictionary contained approximately 301,100 main entries. Supplementing the entry headwords, there are 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives; 169,000 itali...
: Reforming environment & energy regulation in Ontario
Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Environmental protection
The inspiring story of a dyslexic girl's journey of self-discovery, in which she overcomes her disability and finds her true worth with the help of some special people. http://www.behappyinlife.com
Short-shorts and short stories.
Excerpt: This animal has a large head, a very short neck, and prodigious long legs. He is the largest animal of the deer kind. In summer the flies bite him, and make him very uncomfortable.
Excerpt: Chapter one sunset boulevard was a blur of lights and noise, too many radios and car stereos, too many people talking and shouting and laughing. Kayla jammed her hands in the pockets of her denim jacket and wished all of it would just go away.
The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle.
Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes a...
For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion. -McNally Robinson Rai Aren and Tavius E. have crafted a fast-paced, excitin...
Excerpt: THE tales which were collected by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm in the beginning of this century do not require an introduction. There is no book that from the day on which it was published to the present has so steadily retained its hold on childhood. The reason is not far to seek: the tales themselves go back to the childhood of mankind; they are no literary product, but have been unconsciously developed by countless generations. Now it seems to me that it is this v...