Seraphina 02. Shadow Scale

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PaperbackLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0553533819ISBN-13: 978-0553533811 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #1,291,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Rachel Hartman’s Seraphina was a subtle, exquisitely quiet novel, nuanced and filled with sharply realized characters. I absolutely fell in love with it, placing it on my list of top reads that year, so it kills me to report that the eagerly-awaited sequel, Shadow Scale, not only failed to meet my (admittedly high) expectations, but really disappointed across the board.

Shadow Scale picks up shortly after the events of Seraphina, with dragons involved in an all-out civil war and their ousted leader Comonot allied with the human land of Goredd. While Princess Glisselda and Prince Kiggs prepare for war, Seraphina travels to find other ityasaari (half-dragons) such as herself, prompted by a discovery by Orma (her full dragon uncle) that the half-dragons might be able to provide a magical defense against dragon attacks. Her antagonist in this endeavor is Jannoula, the ityasaari who nearly possessed her mind in the prior novel and who uses that talent to take over other nearly all the half-dragons in this one

I had several issues with Shadow Scale. One is the pacing felt way off. The novel comes in at about 600 pages, which felt over-long by several hundred pages. The story started off slowly, then plodded along from place to place, much as Seraphina herself did, with little variation — no sense of urgency even when the storyline seemed to call for it, no slowing down for quieter moments. That isn’t to say there were no quiet moments, but it all felt apace; those moments didn’t stand out at all. The whole thing just dragged for me, and it never really felt like the author was fully in control or cognizant of the pacing.
"The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone."

The kingdom of Goredd has had an uneasy peace with the dragons found in the neighboring Tanamoot for the past forty years–a time in which the arts have flourished while Goredd’s dragon-fighting tools have languished.

When mounting tensions between humans and dragons threatens to draw Goredd into the middle of another treacherous war, Seraphina reluctantly finds herself as the center of the conflict. Goredd has few tools left to fight dragons save for rumors of a magical weapon used during the Age of Saints. A weapon Seraphina might be able to recreate with help from other half-dragons like herself.

After spending years hiding her true self, Seraphina sets out across kingdoms to seek out the other half-dragons–beings she’s only ever previously encountered in her own mind–before war breaks out.

As Seraphina gathers her motley band of allies, she soon realizes that war is not the only threat to the half-dragons, her kingdom, or even herself. With so many trying to stop her, Seraphina will have to embrace her true identity, and the ramifications it will have for herself and the other half-dragons, if she has any hope of stopping this senseless war in Shadow Scale (2015) by Rachel Hartman.

Shadow Scale is the highly anticipated sequel to Hartman’s debut novel Seraphina. While this book does an excellent job of explaining key events from book one, it’s still crucial to read these in order.

Every aspect of Shadow Scale is handled brilliantly and often surpasses the achievements and charms of Seraphina, which is no small feat. This book is intricate, clever and often unexpected as many given facts from Seraphina are challenged or turned upside down.
Book two started with a prologue written by a future scholar who was looking back on past events, recalling the very events that made up book two. Right away I got this gut feeling that a certain plotline was going to turn out in a way I wasn’t particularly fond of. So I started reading this book with a hesitant mindset.
This book was all about preparing for war and assembling the pieces to the puzzle of the human-dragon hybrids that we started to uncover back in book one. Shadow Scale takes place a few months after book one ends, but you do not really feel like much time has passed between the two books.
I hated the romance in this book. While I never got the feeling the romance was going to be the main plot after reading book one, I wanted something more -anything- to happen in this one. Neither Prince Kiggs nor Seraphina wanted to overstep that line that would end our suffering from watching their longing. He was promised to marry his cousin, whom both he and Seraphina were fond of, and neither felt it was the right time to hurt her by sharing their newfound feelings with each other. So we waited. We sent covert glances to each other. We ignored the other. We waited. We did our duty.
It was like we have this fiery explosion at the end of book one, and then reality sat back in and it was over. I wanted them to get together. I wanted them to make it work. But as the story continued, we lost that focus and it became all about the half-dragons and the saints of old.
Which isn’t to say it took a bad turn, because I loved meeting the rest from her garden. Even if there were parts in her journey that felt redundant because of the sheer number of characters.
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FE Mechanical Review Manual New Edition Edition

FE Mechanical Review Manual New Edition Edition
Author: Michael R. Lindeburg PE ID: 1591264413

About the Author

 

Michael R. Lindeburg, PE, is one of the best-known authors of engineering textbooks and references. His books and courses have influenced millions of engineers around the world. Since 1975, he has authored dozens of engineering reference and exam preparation books. He has spent thousands of hours teaching engineering to students and practicing engineers. He holds bachelor of science and master of science degrees in industrial engineering from Stanford University.

Paperback: 704 pagesPublisher: Professional Publications, Inc.; New Edition edition (May 1, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1591264413ISBN-13: 978-1591264415 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.4 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #15,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #61 in Books > Education & Teaching > Schools & Teaching > Certification & Development #75 in Books > Education & Teaching > Studying & Workbooks > Study Guides #153 in Books > Textbooks > Reference
There have been exam changes on the FE and there’s no better way than using an up-to-date manual to practice on. At this point in time there are 110 multiple-choice questions and you’ll have six hours to complete them. If you do the math it’s easy to see you’ll only have a few minutes to answer each question. The areas covered in the exam include:

► Mathematics
► Probability and Statistics
► Engineering Economics
► Statics
► Dynamics, Kinematics, and Vibrations
► Mechanics of Materials
► Fluid Mechanics
► Thermodynamics
► Heat Transfer

All of these are very thoroughly covered in the FE Mechanical Review Manual. Just checking around the net shows me that a prep course can cost up to a whopping $900. Add the FE Mechanical Practice Problems manual and you’re looking at a bargain. It doesn’t seem like one until you do some comparative shopping.

Are you going to pass? If you are conscientious about studying and really work through the prep book and the practice problem one (I highly recommend getting it), it is guaranteed you’ll pass. If by chance you don’t, there are instructions on the inside for a total refund. You probably won’t need it, but you won’t need an expensive course either.

The topics do cover everything on the exam plus some. You’ve taken the courses, but each chapter has a comprehensive summation of what you’ve learned with a sufficient amount of example material to job your memory. For example, when you’re looking at the chapter on combustion, you’ll review heats of reaction and combustion.
I can see the great need for this FE Mechanical Review Manual. I like the method used by Michael R. Lindeburg. He has written a true refresher course that he calls a "Review Manual" and it definitely does offer his "Pass The Exam – Guaranteed" on the front cover. That’s a huge promise with the price at over $200. However it does make the reader feel that this is the best. After reviewing "The Most Comprehensive Book for the Computer-Based FE Mechanical Exam" I see why he placed this guarantee on the front cover. It goes into detail of actual problems and solutions to 15 main topics with over 60 sub topics in order to fully review, refresh, study and practice one’s skills in Computer Based Testing to Prep for the FE Mechanical Examination/ Test.

As you review for the exam you are offered advise in Test Taking Skills in several methods. The actual exam gives only an average of three minutes to fully read, understand, calculate and solve each question or problem. One doesn’t have the luxury of being nonchalant about preparedness because one’s career is on the line with how weak or strong each individual exam taker has prepared. Also it’s impossible to check your answer with someone in close proximity because of the Computer Based Testing has made cheating or checking impossible via its randomness in the layout of each person’s individual test. The person besides you will have a different test, guaranteed! Today’s institutions are providing the skills and knowledge needed to pass the test but if you’re not a recent graduate, this seemingly common skill sense of on the job knowledge, combined with a 3 minute time frame for each problem will be difficult to make the score you need.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Paperback – April 29, 2008
Author: Visit ‘s Barbara Kingsolver Page ID: 0060852569

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers “putting food by,” as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don’t raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This field—local food and sustainable agriculture—is crowded with books in increIDgly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist (“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won’t find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers’ markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what’s risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver’s clue to help greenhorns remember what’s in season is the best I’ve seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national “eating disorder” and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local food—in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the telling—demands teamwork. (May)Nina Planck is the author of Real Food: What to Eat and Why (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).
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Adult/High School–This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores–those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one’s own produce but also of harvesting one’s own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatise–the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormous–it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers’ markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation (Houghton, 2001).–Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA
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Paperback: 400 pagesPublisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 29, 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0060852569ISBN-13: 978-0060852566 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.9 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #12,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Rural Life #10 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Landscape Design > By Technique > Organic #19 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Culinary
Three hundred and sixty-eight pages, no pretty pictures, and it’s about food? Yes it is, and it’s fascinating. Written by best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver, her scientist hubby and teenage daughter, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" chronicles the true story of the family’s adventures as they move to a farm in rural Virginia and vow to eat locally for one year. They grow their own vegetables, raise their own poultry and buy the rest of their food directly from farmers markets and other local sources. There are touching human stories here (the family’s 9-year-old learns a secret to raising chickens for food: don’t name them!) but the book’s purpose is serious food for thought: it argues the economic, social and health benefits of putting local foods at the center of a family diet. As Kingsolver details the family’s experience month-by-month, husband Steven adds sidebars on the problems of industrial agriculture and daughter Camille tosses in some first-person essays ("Growing Up in the Kitchen") and recipes ("Holiday Corn Pudding a Nine-Year-Old Can Make").

And it is all so well written! Kingsolver can veer way off topic — wandering off into subjects like rural politics, even turkey sex — and still, somehow, stay right on point. Her husband can say more in two pages than some professors I know can say in 200, and the daughter’s writings… well I often couldn’t tell who was writing what without checking for the byline.

The book looks and feels great, too. The dust jacket has been pressed into the nubby texture of burlap. The pages have ragged edges, which makes them soft on your fingers.
I work in large-scale, corporate agriculture. Over the years I have worked for chemical companies, seed companies, grower-shippers and allied industries. I have recommended Kingsolver’s novel "The Poisonwood Bible" to many of my colleagues. I have also endorsed Pollan’s "Ominovore’s Dilemma", having bought several copies and distributed them around. I very much enjoyed Kingsolver’s "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life". It contained all the wit and humor I would expect from one of this nation’s finest novelists. I think this book as well as Pollan’s are a bit weak in the plant science area and I think both lack some of the insights into the machinations that really drive some of the food production industries. Then, again their intended audience is not the readers of TAG: Theoretical and the Applied Genetics, it is the populace at large. I very much agree with the sentiment of eating local, of shopping local, and of the slow food movement. It puts money back into the local community, it fosters a sense of community and it improves the quality of our diets. What is local though? Many of the fruits and vegetables eaten during Kingsolver’s year of eating locally do not have Virginia as their center of origin. Some purists might cry foul. But, I think the focus needs to be on breaking the transport chain. People need to rediscover what a fresh peach or tomato is supposed to taste like, and their proper season. The bulk of the ‘civilized’ world buy their food at a chain grocery store dominated by one of the multinational grocery conglomerates. You think you have a choice when you walk into the store? You do not.

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Acute Pain, 1e 10th Edition Pdf Download

Acute Pain, 1e 10th Edition
Author: Raymond S. Sinatra MD PhD ID: 0801646774

Hardcover: 656 pagesPublisher: Mosby; 10th edition (July 15, 1992)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0801646774ISBN-13: 978-0801646775 Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 8.8 x 11.2 inches Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #1,768,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #334 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Pain Medicine #552 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Anesthesiology #625 in Books > Medical Books > Pharmacology > Pain Medicine

This is bottomline an excellent book with editors and contributors that are prominent in their fields. The subjects covered were relevant in my work and there were excellent references for further study. I have passed my examinations and impressed my senior specialist peers after reading and understanding concepts vividly elucidated in this tome.Time and again this book has been the basis for my lectures to paramedics and medical student.The text is too small though. If you want a serious and indepth reference on acute pain, this is it.

Yes thats it boys, a book on pain. Come and get it. I took the course because the textbook was neat I dropped it because the idea was gross. Maybe I’ll go into dentistry…..

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Ender’s Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition Audible – Unabridged

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Author: Orson Scott Card ID: B00006JMD2

Now a Major Motion Picture. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.Is Ender the general Earth so desperately needs? The only way to find out is to throw him into ever-harsher training at Battle School, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when his training begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. His two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Among the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.This Special 20th Anniversary Edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic is now digitally remastered with a full cast production. It also contains an exclusive bonus: an original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 11 hours and 57 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Macmillan AudioAudible.com Release Date: August 23, 2002Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00006JMD2 Best Sellers Rank: #9 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Science Fiction > Adventure #36 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military #39 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
This was a book recommended to me by a friend who also happened to tell me the ending before I read it. Remind me to give him a nasty stare!
Anyway, this book starts off with a rather long introduction which the author wrote himself about his influences and motivation for writing Ender’s Game. The author has had the idea of a Battle Room since he was sixteen. Only much later did he piece together the story of Ender and his mission to save the earth.
Ender Wiggin is a special boy. He is the youngest (6 yrs old when the story starts) of a family of child geniuses (Peter being the eldest, then Valentine). This story is set in the future where aliens (called Buggers because of their physical and mental traits) have tried to invade the earth twice. Twice the Earth defeated them, but at great cost. The government is scrambling to make sure this never happens again by training the next set of star fleet commanders from childhood.
In this futuristic world, only the government could sanction the birth of a third child (for population control reasons). In a way, Ender was born for a purpose. Peter and Valentine were both tested for giftedness and they both possessed it; however, he was ruthless and evil, and she was too soft and kind. Ender was a perfect balance of decisiveness and innocence, and so chosen from the beginning to go through Battle School. It is in Battle School that Ender learns military strategy and the history of wars between the Earth and the Buggers. It is also in Battle School that Ender makes friends and molds the perfect platoon leaders.
What’s really unique about this story is that Ender is forced to grow up so quickly by the "adults." The teachers of the school and high government officials all have one thought in their minds.
My name is Rachel and I am 16 years old. I am a junior in high school and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card was a reading requirement for my English class. I also love reading outside of school; I do it as much as I can when I have free time. I have read quite a few science-fiction books as well as many other novels from various genres. Although we were required to read Ender’s Game, I enjoyed it thoroughly and found myself reading way ahead of the class and unable to put it down.

Although I liked Ender’s Game overall as a novel, there were a few components I did not particularly care for. The plot was somewhat split in two, one half concentrating on Ender’s story in space, and the other concentrating on the simultaneous happenings on earth and the story of Valentine and Peter Wiggin. The issues on Earth, in my opinion, were not explained clearly enough. It was difficult for me to grasp which parts of the world were plotting to attack which others. Valentine and Peter talk about these issues as if they are "old news" but I seemed to be lost during these conversations. What I did like about the novel was being able to know what was going through Ender’s mind at all times. Reading about Ender’s struggles from home, to those from battle school, to command school and beyond and how he overcame every obstacle put in his way was enjoyable for me. I also found myself very interested in how Ender was given no opportunity to become close with all other students, but he managed to make a few extremely close friends who learned to love Ender despite his uniqueness.

Card’s writing style, in general, was actually one of the main things that made me like this book.
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Glass Audible – Unabridged

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Author: Ellen Hopkins ID: B001E8O12K

Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it’s all the same: a monster. And once it’s got hold of you, this monster will never let you go.A sequel to Crank, this harrowing and disturbing look at addiction finds protagonist Kristina Snow thinking she can use drugs yet control the consequences. Now with a baby to care for, she’s determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong and, before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to keep going, to face the pressures of day-to-day life. She will do anything for it, including giving up the only thing that makes her truly happy.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 7 hours and 21 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksAudible.com Release Date: August 13, 2008Language: EnglishID: B001E8O12K Best Sellers Rank: #2118 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Children’s Books > Fiction
Ellen Hopkins has once again taken readers into the world of meth and the chaos it creates. GLASS is the sequel to her first novel about Kristina called Crank.

Just several months after giving birth to her son, Hunter, Kristina is drawn back to "the monster." She thinks a little snort could help her lose some weight and get her through the late-night feedings and day-to-day drudgery of constant baby needs. Surprised at how easy it is to score and how much the product has improved, it doesn’t take long for Kristina to remember how great the stuff makes her feel.

For awhile the teen mom is able to take care of Hunter, hold down a low paying job, and keep herself cranked just enough to pretend her life isn’t all that bad. Despite what Kristina may think, her mother and stepfather, Scott, are not really fooled into thinking all is well. They give her just enough space to eventually crash and burn. After falling asleep and putting the baby in danger, Kristina’s mother throws her out of the house. She says she’ll take care of Hunter, and Kristina should take care of herself.

Like most addicts, Kristina fools herself into believing she can have it all. She manages to keep her job and find a place to live with the cousin of her latest love interest. Once again her life is filled with drugs, sex, and whatever she has to do to survive. At times there is hope of reconnecting with family, but each time Kristina can’t cope with their expectations and ends up with less and less of their love and support.
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