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Sgt. Marcus Omodei, a weatherman with the U.S. Air Force and an expert marksman, stumbles into the vortex of the coming storm. On the way to a new posting in Thailand, he is puzzled to discover that his security classification has been elevated to top secret. He doesn't know it yet, but this is just the prelude to...

Why are we here?

We have asked ourselves this question since the dawn of language, and today we are no closer to an answer. Many of us have learned to push this question aside and simply indulge in life's pleasures. Others, like Rodolfo Leon, have become poets.

Prayers for a New Millennium is a collection of poems, each of which rises and falls with the ecstasy and heartbreak of being alive. Leon's words carry the reader through the thrill of passion, the pain of unrequited love, the mystery of death-and into the mind of God.

Each line is infused with a sincere...

Il libro e incentrato sul fatto che fino al 1600 la luce era oggetto di studio degli scienziati ed il colore dei filosofi. Questa dicotomia fu superata dall Esperimentum Crucis di Newton che spiego come la luce contenesse il colore.

La genesi di questa visione pre 1600 e spiegata nei primi 6 capitoli, nei quali si analizzano le teorie che furono sviluppate e come queste teorie avessero un fondamento nell empirismo greco, per evolversi successivamente nelle teorie degli scienziati arabi e approdare al medio evo. Dopo di che gli scienziati e gli artisti si occuparono di luce, mentre...

Community and the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to bear a profound critique of a collective process that has historically excluded working class communities and communities of color from any real governance. The argument is that the status of citizenship has been influenced by a society that emphasizes the role of property in defining legitimacy and power and therefore idealizes and institutionalizes citizenship from an individualistic perspective. This system puts the onus on the...

The final quality of a food product is impacted heavily by preservation technologies, such as chilling, freezing, and freeze-drying, as well as the numerous pretreatments that are routinely applied to foods. Adequate design and implementation of each of these treatments are critical to ensuring the integrity of the final food product, the productivity of the equipment, and reduced operation costs. Operations in Food Refrigeration explores the fundamental issues involved in heat and mass transfer in food refrigeration and examines aspects of other operations applied to...