Best Selling Books by David Lopez

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.

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

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.

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Why do politicians redistribute resources through in-kind rather than cash transfers? This paper examines political incentives for in-kind government redistribution. By analyzing the political game between office-motivated politicians and self-interested citizens, I first show that in economies with competitive markets in-kind transfers are not required. Politicians can win elections targeting groups of voters with differential cash transfers. However, in-kind transfers arise in the presence of externalities in consumption. In that case, targeting groups of voters with in-kind rather than cash transfers allows politicians to attract simultaneously voters in additional groups with the same amount of resources. Politicians undertake political redistribution depending on the expected electoral returns obtained from targeting both cash and in-kind transfers into different groups. Furthermore, electoral competition leads the economy to achieve Pareto efficient allocations that markets cannot reach. Politicians internalize the presence of external effects when competing for marginal voters who could swing their vote.

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!

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.

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.

Not My Bike! is more than a story-it''s a call to action for every child, parent, and educator seeking to awaken strength, confidence, and purpose. Based on the real-life journey of martial arts master and youth mentor David "Warrior" López, this book shares the powerful experience of a young boy who stood up for what mattered most to him: his dignity. What began as a childhood struggle against bullying and insecurity led to the discovery of something greater-his inner warrior. This inspiring narrative teaches that true power doesn''t come from fighting others, but from learning self-control, resilience, and emotional strength. Through honest storytelling, David opens the door to vulnerable conversations about fear, self-worth, and the battles young people face in silence. Not My Bike! is not just for kids who train in martial arts-it''s for any young reader who wants to build courage, confidence, and character. It''s also a guide for parents who want to lead with love, presence, and purpose. It emphasizes the importance of physical activity, discipline, and connection between parents and children. With relatable moments, lessons of growth, and empowering messages, this book helps readers of all ages realize that no one has the right to take away your spirit-and that your greatest victories begin when you choose to stand up for yourself and for others. Whether you''re a student, a teacher, a coach, or a parent, this book will inspire you to move, reflect, and lead from within. Because sometimes, the moment you say, "Not my bike!" is the moment your true journey begins.

"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.

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.

Do you believe that the energy and vitality in your body are being drained by modern medications? Do you believe that ordinary medications only have side effects? Continue reading if YES was your response. Nowadays, people become dependent on common pharmaceuticals for a variety of medical conditions, which results in reliance on those drugs and all of their negative side effects-side effects that are frequently worse than the underlying medical condition. Since society supports the use of pharmaceutical medications for nearly any health issue, even minor ones, it is a vicious cycle that is difficult to break. However, if you are here, it is because you want to improve this circumstance and are aware that there is a better, more natural solution. We may produce natural cures at home for any common health issue without the need of any equipment that is not found in everyone''s kitchens thanks to the Native Americans'' expertise. For this reason, devoted author Ashley Ahoka, a specialist in botanical medicine, gathered in this compilation all the knowledge passed down orally from her family, members of the Odawa Native American ethnic group from the Eastern Woodlands. You''ll discover: how to make herbal medications on your apothecary table, produce plants and herbs, and practise wildcrafting. The most significant plants and herbs used by Native Americans are those with medicinal characteristics. the most significant Native American cures for the most frequent ailments. the particular recommendations for your children''s health using traditional Native American recipes the greatest herbal and oil recipes without harmful side effects as alternatives to conventional medications. plus a lot more!