This volume consists of refereed research and expository articles by both plenary and other speakers at the International Conference on Algebra and Applications held at Ohio University in June 2008, to honor S.K. Jain on his 70th birthday. The articles are on a wide variety of areas in classical ring theory and module theory, such as rings satisfying polynomial identities, rings of quotients, group rings, homological algebra, injectivity and its generalizations, etc. Included are also applications of ring theory to problems in coding theory and in linear algebra.
A university researcher's experiment in group psychology goes horribly awry when a group of volunteers, instructed to create a fictitious ghost, succeeds all too well and raises a specter that begins to take their lives.
When an evil group tries to take control of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a fierce war breaks out in the owl kingdom.
Soren's beloved mentor, Ezylryb, is finally back at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. But all is not well. There's a war between good and evil in the owl kingdom. On one side is a group led by Soren's fearsome brother, Kludd, who wears a terrifying metal mask to cover his battle-scarred face. On the other side are the owls of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, who must fight to protect their legendary home from Kludd's attacks.
Dexter is Delicious (The fifth book in the Dexter series)
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 13 January 2011
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Dexter is experiencing some major life changes and they're mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires.
Hermione’s Group of Thinkers is a pleasingly gentle satire on the intellectual pretensions of a “High Society” American young woman, and her attempts to find a purpose in her life. In spite of having been written sometime during the First World War, these short tales (written in the first person by Hermione) remain remarkably sharp commentaries about how the world is put together, and the gap between rich and poor, and the mutual incomprehension on the part of the two groups.
