Graceling
Graceling

Author: Kristin Cashore

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780152063962

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Discover the Graceling Realm in this unforgettable, award-winning novel from bestselling author Kristin Cashore A New York Times bestseller ALA Best Book for Young Adults Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and BCCB Best Book of the Year "Rageful, exhilarating, wistful in turns" (The New York Times Book Review) with "a knee weakening romance" (LA Times). Graceling is a thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure that will resonate deeply with anyone trying to find their way in the world. Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and beautiful and lives in the Seven Kingdoms where selected people are born with a Grace, a special talent that can be anything at all. Katsa's Grace is killing. As the king's niece, she is forced to use her extreme skills as his brutal enforcer. Until the day she meets Prince Po, who is Graced with combat skills, and Katsa's life begins to change. She never expects to become Po's friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. And don't miss the sequel Fire and companion Bitterblue, both award-winning, New York Times bestsellers, and full of Kristin Cashore's elegant, evocative prose and unforgettable characters.

Sex and Nothing
Sex and Nothing

Author: Alejandro Cerda-Rueda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 042990469X

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From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning "to divide or cut." Therefore, regardless of the various studies applied to defining sex as inscribed by discursive acts, i.e. merely a 'performatively enacted signification,' there is something more to sex than just a social construction or an aprioristic substance. Sex is irreducible to meaning or knowledge. This is why psychoanalysis cannot be formulated as an erotology nor a science of sex (scientia sexualis). In this matter, sex escapes the symbolic restraints of language; however, it is through its failure that it manifests itself through the symbolic, e.g. symptoms or dream life. So, what is sex? Sex and Nothing embarks upon a dialogue between colleagues and friends interested in bridging psychoanalysis and philosophy, linking sex and thought, where what emerges is a greater awareness of the irreducucibility of sex to the discourse of knowledge and meaning: in other words, sex and nothing.

Balancing of Linkages and Robot Manipulators
Balancing of Linkages and Robot Manipulators

Author: Vigen Arakelian

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3319124900

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In this book advanced balancing methods for planar and spatial linkages, hand operated and automatic robot manipulators are presented. It is organized into three main parts and eight chapters. The main parts are the introduction to balancing, the balancing of linkages and the balancing of robot manipulators. The review of state-of-the-art literature including more than 500 references discloses particularities of shaking force/moment balancing and gravity compensation methods. Then new methods for balancing of linkages are considered. Methods provided in the second part of the book deal with the partial and complete shaking force/moment balancing of various linkages. A new field for balancing methods applications is the design of mechanical systems for fast manipulation. Special attention is given to the shaking force/moment balancing of robot manipulators. Gravity balancing methods are also discussed. The suggested balancing methods are illustrated by numerous examples.

The Night When No One Had Sex
The Night When No One Had Sex

Author: Kalena Miller

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0807556327

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2022 Minnesota Book Award Winner A sex-positive all-in-one-night romp told from four different perspectives. It's the night of senior prom, and eighteen-year-old Julia has made a pact with her friends. (Yes, that kind of pact.) They have secured a secluded cabin in the woods, one night without parental supervision, and plenty of condoms. But as soon as they leave the dance, the pact begins to unravel. Alex's grandmother is undergoing emergency surgery, and he and his date rush to the hospital. Zoe’s trying to figure out how she feels about getting off the waitlist at Yale—and how to tell her girlfriend. Madison’s chronic illness flares, holding her back once again from being a normal teenager. And Julia’s fantasy-themed role play gets her locked in a closet. Alternating between each character’s perspective and their ridiculous group chat, The Night When No One Had Sex finds a group of friends navigating the tenuous transition into adulthood and embracing the uncertainty of life after high school.

Halcyon Drift
Halcyon Drift

Author: Brian M. Stableford

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2018-03-26

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1434439712

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In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He's also picked up an alien parasite that's determined to share his brain. Under these dire circumstances, can Grainger possibly stay out of trouble? Not a chance!

Nothing But My Body
Nothing But My Body

Author: Tilly Lawless

Publisher:

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781761068799

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A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friendship.

The Mind Has No Sex?
The Mind Has No Sex?

Author: Londa Schiebinger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1991-03

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780674576254

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A reexamination of the origins of modern science; discovers a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.

No Sex No Life
No Sex No Life

Author: Linda Li

Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1922920495

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This is my true life story, from a Chinese policewoman to an Australian prostitute. 2001 I married my Australian husband, when he went overseas working, I began my sex working career. More than 20 years now, I love my profession and become a famous prostitute in Australia.

Molly Top's Teen Guide to Love, Sex, and No Regrets
Molly Top's Teen Guide to Love, Sex, and No Regrets

Author: Elizabeth L. Clark

Publisher: Molly Top

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0983620318

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Nineteen-year-old Top wants everyone to have a great sex life, now and forever, especially teens. She is the combination of teen voices asking for better sex lives than they suspect fellow teens and parents are having. Teens are asking for true wisdom about sex rather than abstinence-only plus have-at-it porn messages they get now.