Most Popular 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.

When eight misfits are brought together to help a long tenured (and tuned out) manager try and save one dying video game store from closure, they will learn more about the business (and each other) than they could have possibly bargained for. The only guarantee you will get from this adventure, Zelda doesn''t have sh*t on this Legend.

David Lopez Escobales is a single father of one, Lea Lopez. He has been writing poetry for a hobby since his teenage years. In 2015, he was inspired to write a variety of concept poetry based upon some of his life''s experiences. As a United States Navy veteran, David has traveled to many countries around the world. The cultures and the diversity of people he met on his travels, gave him a different outlook on life. One in which he tries to incorporate into his writing. With the support of family and friends, David''s dream is to leave a legacy that would inspire others, just as he was inspired. His hope is that his readers will be touched by his words. He further hopes to bring encouragement and understanding to some of his life''s deepest topics.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

"The X-Men investigate the appearance of several monsters terrorizing civilians across the globe, and what they find calls into question everything they know about the origin of Homo superior."--P. [4] of cover.

RESPIRATORY VIRUS DETECTIONS USING MULTIPLEX MOLECULAR TESTING IN A TERTIARY-CARE HOSPITAL IN SPAIN: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL DATA IN A YEAR COHORTtBackgroundRespiratory infections are the main cause of hospitalisation in paediatric hospitals. Different viruses lead to similar clinical pictures. This study analyse the epidemiology and clinical data of respiratory infections in the molecular era, using multiplex real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).MethodsDescriptive retrospective cohort study of respiratory-related admissions in