Best Selling Books by David Lopez

Alexia desperately wants to become one of the greatest super heroes of all time, just like her father, the much revered IRONHEAD. Upon his sudden death, however, Alexia''s destiny takes an unexpected turn. IRONHEAD''s empire n

Are you ready to journey around the planet to find Dad, a journalist who has been kidnapped? Help Zak and Leah solve the puzzles and save him Battle your way through ten scenes and solve the puzzles, from brain-busting maths conundrums to spot-the-difference. Prepare to take a tour through a Machu Picchu maze, go hunting with the Inuits, discover the tallest skyscrapers in the world, dig into a gold mine and explore the Great Wall of China. You''ll discover lots about the way people live, work, and play around the world. There are search and find challenges on every page.

Quelque part entre la banlieue et la campagne, là où leurs parents ont eux-mêmes grandi, Jonas et ses amis tuent le temps. Ils fument, ils jouent aux cartes, ils font pousser de l''herbe dans le jardin, et quand ils sortent, c''est pour constater ce qui les éloigne des autres. Dans cet univers à cheval entre deux mondes, où tout semble voué à la répétition du même, leur fief, c''est le langage, son usage et son accès, qu''il soit porté par Lahuiss quand il interprète le Candide de Voltaire et explique aux autres comment parler aux filles pour les séduire, par Poto quand il rappe ou invective ses amis, par Ixe et ses sublimes fautes d''orthographe. Ce qui est en jeu, c''est la montée progressive d''une poésie de l''existence dans un monde sans horizon. Au fil de ce roman écrit au cordeau, une gravité se dégage, une beauté qu''on extirpe du tragique ordinaire, à travers une voix neuve, celle de l''auteur de Fief. David Lopez a trente ans. Fief est son premier roman.

The purpose of this critical multi-case qualitative study was to explore reciprocal connections between participants and other stakeholders established through the community-school partnerships (CSPs) at three Latina/o majority secondary schools in an economically disadvantaged region of Southwest Texas. To achieve its purpose the study examined the ways in which various campus and district level leaders demonstrated ownership of the CSPs, especially focusing on how the connections with parents and the community were established and maintained. Additionally, the study investigated the connection between the program perceptions of participating parents and other community members in relation to the school and district based perceptions of the programs’ outcomes. This type of research could lend key insights to educational leaders and practitioners working with large Latina/o student populations at the secondary school level. Additionally, this research is occurring at a crucial time in our nation’s history, when the number of Latina/o students underperforming on college readiness measures portends impactful and lasting consequences to the future of the nation.

We document that the past three ?jobless? recoveries also featured asymmetries in labor force participation and labor compensation, with each falling to new lows during each cycle. We model these asymmetries as resulting from a strategic complementarity in firms'' wage setting and workers'' job search strategies. Strategic complementarity results in a continuum of possible equilibria with higher-wage equilibria welfare dominating lower-wage equilibria. Assuming that no economic agent deviates from an existing strategy unless deviation is a unilateral best response, the model exhibits (1) periods of endogenous rigidity in wages and participation, (2) persistent changes in wages, participation, and output in response to transitory movements in labor productivity, (3) sluggish recoveries including both a ?jobless " phase, in which productivity recovers while unemployment remains elevated, and a ?wageless " phase, in which employment recovers but wages remain depressed Calibrating the model suggests that the U.S. unemployment rate may need to fall to around 3 percent before labor compensation recovers to pre-Financial Crisis levels.

Brian Wood''s X-Men continues! When Storm''s field agents are kidnapped and a weapon of the X-Men''s making goes missing, the X-Men must make a choice...the destruction of a life, or the survival of a weapon. Then, Storm''s leadership is called into question in the aftermath of the "Mutant Scare." Will there be a new team member? And what side are they really on? the Storm-Cyclops divide widens as the team starts to unravel, and Collossus has his own agenda. Will he leave the team to pursue it? Plus: Domino has always been lucky...or maybe the people around her are just unlucky. It''s Domino vs. the X-Men!

"Super cops is based on actual events that occurred from the mid 1970s to early 1980s in what was considered one of the most dangerous cities in America at the time, El Paso, Texas." -- from cover.

THE GREATEST WRITING PROMPT JOURNAL EVER!The Greatest Journal Ever is the greatest daily journal with writing prompts, ever. We all know how important mindset and planification are to improve your skills.OVER 200 PAGES!Our notebook uses a SIMPLE system that makes getting results EASY. Each journal has six unique sections to record in: Highlights, What you learned, How you can improve and finally What is your Final thoughts. The First 10-pages reflection section allows you to reflect on what you''ve learned and how you can challenge yourself by working on new situations, while 90 pages manage positive daily habits, including 9 strong strategies to adopt as follows:1. Be open to find a mentor.3. Think of failure as a learning opportunity.3. Keep a folder of your proudest moments.4. Surround yourself with top talent.Environment . 5. Find time to disconnect fromstressors. 6. Develop a simple morning routine.7. Set timebound and achievable personal goals methodes.8. Listen to your instincts.and finally. Avoid stagnation as well.

Continuous flow non-thermal plasma reactors are being investigated for their ability to efficiently produce high quality nanoparticles. While many nanomaterials can be produced via continuous flow non-thermal plasma reactors, silicon is of particular interest, due to its abundance and relevance in many energy related fields. Significant gaps still exist in the understanding of the kinetics responsible for particle growth, structural evolution, and surface termination of continuous flow non-thermal plasma reactor produced particles. Particle interaction with plasma radicals results in the heating of the particles, which in turn affects the kinetics of particle growth, structural evolution, and surface termination during synthesis and processing. We have investigated the details of plasma-nanoparticle interaction by using in-flight and in-situ characterization techniques. For the first time, we have measured the temperature of a free-standing particle immersed in a non-equilibrium processing plasma.

We are at that moment of network evolution when we have realised that our telecommunication systems should mimic features of human kind, e.g., the ability to understand the medium and take advantage of its changes. Looking towards the future, the mobile industry envisions the use of fully automatised cells able to self-organise all their parameters and procedures. A fully self-organised network is the one that is able to avoid human involvement and react to the fluctuations of network, traffic and channel through the automatic/autonomous nature of its functioning. Nowadays, the mobile community is far from this fully self-organised kind of network, but they are taken the first steps to achieve this target in the near future. This thesis hopes to contribute to the automatisation of cellular networks, providing models and tools to understand the behaviour of these networks, and algorithms and optimisation approaches to enhance their performance. This work focuses on the next generation of cellular networks, in more detail, in the DownLink (DL) of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) based networks. Within this type of cellular system, attention is paid to interference mitigation in self-organising macrocell scenarios and femtocell deployments. Moreover, this thesis investigates the interference issues that arise when these two cell types are jointly deployed, complementing each other in what is currently known as a two-tier network. This thesis also provides new practical approaches to the inter-cell interference problem in both macro cell and femtocell OFDMA systems as well as in two-tier networks by means of the design of a novel framework and the use of mathematical optimisation. Special attention is paid to the formulation of optimisation problems and the development of well-performing solving methods (accurate and fast).

This paper reports the direct and spillover effects of a campaign with a normative based report on residential water use in Colombia. The experimental design introduces an exogenous variation in the percentage of households receiving reports within a water utility, leaving households without reports but affected by the diffusion of information. The randomization is at two levels. First, assigning saturation percentages across water utilities and second, the treatment status across households conditional to that saturation. Findings show that accounting for spillovers leads to a higher impact of social norm campaigns than previous interventions. In addition, shorter periods between reports remind households to act pro-environmentally. Households receiving feedback every 30 days show a significant impact than every 60 in both treatment units. This paper emphasizes using social norm-based as an effective tool in promoting socially desirable pro-environmental behaviors and addressing spillovers to diffuse behavioral changes. In particular, in small urban settings with high social capital levels or during weather shocks that could affect water supply.

This paper outlines opportunities that field experimentation can bring to accommodation managers. It also describes specific types of experiment designs that can help exploit those opportunities and increase the adoption of field experimentation. Field experimentation (often through randomized testing) has been widely adopted as an optimization technique in product design and marketing in several industries. It is also considered as the golden standard for causal inference and thus a critical tool for decision makers. As such, companies have successfully used field experimentation to reduce costs, increase revenues, and maintain an edge in their customer experience in highly competitive environments. However, a number of optimization problems with a rich academic and commercial history have resisted this push. In certain industries, such as hospitality, to the authors'' knowledge, there is little publicly documented work detailing results of field experiments applied to revenue management, and the use of such tools remains the privilege of big corporate brands with a small overall market share. This happens in a $500 billion industry in which vendors and academics alike claim that price optimization can yield uplifts of 10% in revenue. This paper discusses the likely causes of the sparse adoption of field experimentation for revenue management in hospitality. By explicitly addressing the complexities of revenue management, and outlining specific experimental designs aimed at handling those complexities, this paper aims to start a public conversation about experimentation in hospitality that should benefit the industry as a whole.

Volume 2: "Peter David''s creator-owned series gets a second collection with DOWN TO EARTH, reprinting issues #7-12. The mysterious Fallen Angel continues to protect the city of Béte Noire, but her nemesis Black Mariah is back in town, and she''s hunting for the Angel!"--Publisher''s website

This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the effect of heterogeneous ideological preferences over the public provision of goods on both the scope of government spending and the electoral competition among political parties. The proposed model points out that the presence of both ideological politicians who compete for office and electoral uncertainty generate a partisanship effect on economic policy. In particular, pro-market (right-wing) politicians commit to lower public provision of goods and income taxation schedules that implement larger income inequality than pro-government (left-wing) politicians. The model also predicts that the public funding of goods through income taxation confers an electoral advantage to pro-market ideological positions. In fact, pro-market politicians can court moderate pro-leftist voters by promises of higher net income that pro-government politicians are not willing to fund. As a result, a right-wing party exhibits larger chances of winning elections, and its policy proposal determines lower ideological sacrifice than for the left-wing party.