[PDF] Second Law Of Attrition eBook

Author : Bronwyn Leroux
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2022-08-05
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ISBN : 9781953107169

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Chiara knew she was missing something. She never dreamed it was everything. Awakened to the seedy underbelly of her utopia, Chiara thought that was the worst of it. Then Director Cygnus, her benefactor turned worst enemy, stole her beloved brother. A brother he's promised to return when she repairs the cold fusion energy source she created for him. If only he'd keep that promise! Also, if her suspicions are correct and he's using her inventions for evil instead of good, Chiara can never give him the technology. How does she pretend to grant Cygnus's desires to achieve her own objectives, yet defeat him in the process? Her only choice is to ally with Deran, the sole person who seems willing to share what he knows about the world they live in. Still, Chiara can't help but ask herself-is the swoon-worthy mechanic worthy of her trust, or is he another tool wielded by the almighty conglomerate controlling their world? But fortune never favored cowards. For Chiara to save her family, she must take risks. Even trust someone in a world where trust equals death. This is the second book in the Laws of Attrition series. For a better reading experience, please read the books in series order

Author : Edmund W. Gordon
Publisher : Critical Issues in Contemporary American Education Series
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780742516588

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Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to develop such ability by the conditions under which they live. The book includes discussions of intellective competence and intellective character as products of the development of academic ability and reviews of the research evidence for the feasibility and morality of such action.

Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 0197760155

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Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

Author : Bronwyn Leroux
Publisher : Laws of Attrition
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2021-07
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ISBN : 9781953107145

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Best job in the world. A lab to die for. What is she missing? As head of her conglomerate-controlled world's R&D labs, Chiara Baschet has everything a brilliant scientist and inventor extraordinaire could ever want. She's free to explore any idea, indulge every innovative whim. But exhilarating as the work is, Chiara rarely sees her family. Separated from them when she was six years old, the only time she gets with them now is when she completes a project. Successfully. Cygnus, the mysterious director of Cirrian Conglomerate, grants or denies her access to them based on her performance, and only his influence ensures they share Chiara's comfortable and luxurious lifestyle. Then the director assigns an impossible task-creating a cold fusion energy source-and Chiara's world implodes. Because this is a project beyond even her ingenuity. In desperation, Chiara attempts to solve the unsolvable, but her quest to protect the ones she loves leads her to realize nothing in her world is what it seems. First Law of Attrition is a riveting sci-fi dystopian saga full of hope, tragedy, and awakening. Perfect for fans of Red Rising and The Maze Runner.

Author : Monika S. Schmid
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198793596

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This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

Author : Willem Maas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812208188

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Citizenship has come to mean legal and political equality within a sovereign nation-state; in international law, only states may determine who is and who is not a citizen. But such unitary status is the historical exception: before sovereign nation-states became the prevailing form of political organization, citizenship had a range of definitions and applications. Today, nonstate communities and jurisdictions both below and above the state level are once again becoming important sources of rights, allegiance, and status, thereby constituting renewed forms of multilevel citizenship. For example, while the European Union protects the nation-state's right to determine its own members, the project to construct a democratic polity beyond national borders challenges the sovereignty of member governments. Multilevel Citizenship disputes the dominant narrative of citizenship as a homogeneous status that can be bestowed only by nation-states. The contributors examine past and present case studies that complicate the meaning and function of citizenship, including residual allegiance to empires, constitutional rights that are accessible to noncitizens, and the nonstate allegiance of nomadic nations. Their analyses consider the inconsistencies and exceptions of national citizenship as a political concept, such as overlapping jurisdictions and shared governance, as well as the emergent forms of sub- or supranational citizenships. Multilevel Citizenship captures the complexity of citizenship in practice, both at different levels and in different places and times. Contributors: Elizabeth F. Cohen, Elizabeth Dale, Will Hanley, Marc Helbling, Türküler Isiksel, Jenn Kinney, Sheryl Lightfoot, Willem Maas, Catherine Neveu, Luicy Pedroza, Eldar Sarajlić, Rogers M. Smith.

Author : Friedel Weinert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319317083

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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.