When Rebbeca’ sister Diana returns home after being away for a while things seem odd. Diana’s desperately trying to hide secrets from her sister. Rebbeca takes the detective approach to work out what’s going on only to find Diana Is in serious trouble. Before Rebecca could get the truth from her sister, Diana commits suicide. Being convinced her death was more than just suicide, Rebecca searches deeper for answers in effect putting her life at risk.
Paul left the police force after mistakenly killing his partner. Now he is a driver for rich guy who’s daughter is kidnapped. He will use his skills to save the girl but he will also uncover secrets the family was hiding for years.
American students are backpacking through Brazil. They meet up with similar companions: wild and crazy British mates, together with an Australian traveler, on a cross country bus. They barely survive after it crashes off a cliff. Searching for any sympathetic police, they meet familiar face Kiko, who offers to lead them to sanctuary that being a house deep in the jungle. But upon finally reaching this supposed safe haven, and it is only then that they discover (way too late) that their “saviors” offering them shelter are operators of a black market specializing in running human organs, who are seeking unwilling foreign donors to benefit their unfortunate countrymen. In their captors’ eyes, foreigners have come into Brazil, raping their precious lands of its rubber, sugar, gold–even using its people as throwaway sexual playthings.
WARNING: CONTAIN GRAPHIC SCENES OF HUMAN BODY MUTILATION AND NUDITY. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
John ‘Concrete’ Hong has one night to fight his way across a violent city and rescue the one he loves. After eviction from their apartment, John and Bethany Hong are forced to live on the streets of Union, a violent city where street gangs control the lower blocks. When John journeys to the bottom of the city to find work, the WCC gang corners him. After fighting his way out, he becomes the target of the corrupt Police Chief and his hired assassin, Finger.
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
This indispensable guide will equip the reader with a thorough understanding of the field of foaming chemistry. Assuming only basic theoretical background knowledge, the book provides a straightforward introduction to the principles and properties of foams and foaming surfactants. It discusses the key ideas that underpin why foaming occurs, how it can be avoided and how different degrees of antifoaming can be achieved, and covers the latest test methods, including laboratory and industrial developed techniques. Detailing a variety of different kinds of foams, from wet detergents and food foams, to polymeric, material and metal foams, it connects theory to real-world applications and recent developments in foam research. Combining academic and industrial viewpoints, this book is the definitive stand-alone resource for researchers, students and industrialists working on foam technology, colloidal systems in the field of chemical engineering, fluid mechanics, physical chemistry, and applied physics.
How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire
The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes―including one asserting that “he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city.” In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.
