Best Selling Books by J. DANIELS

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBTQIA Studies. Women''s Studies. Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Equal parts séance, polemic, and love letter, Piper J. Daniels'' LADIES LAZARUS examines evangelical upbringing, sexual trauma, queer identity, and mental illness with a raw intensity that moves between venom and grace. Fueled by wanderlust, Daniels travels the country, unearthing the voices of forgotten women. Girls and ghosts speak freely, murdered women serve as mentors, and those who''ve languished in unmarked graves convert their names to psalms. At every turn, Daniels invites the reader to engage, not in the soothing narrative of healing, but in the literal and metaphorical dynamism of death and resurrection. "Beautifully written collection of 11 lyric essays... [Daniels] emerges as an empowering and noteworthy voice."--Publishers Weekly "Piper J. Daniels is going to rip the essay world apart. LADIES LAZARUS is the best debut I''ve read in a long time. Daniels has resurrected the personal essay and what it is and what it can do."--Jenny Boully "An extremely intelligent, impressively understated, and achingly powerful work."--David Sheilds "A siren song from planet woman, a love letter from the body, a resistance narrative against the dark."--Lidia Yuknavitch

Sex. Lies. Deceit.Author Honey J. Daniels pulled these keywords straight from the headlines and placed them within the pages of her new book, "The Wrong Affair." Take a seemingly perfect marriage. Bring in a scrumptious ex-boyfriend, a jealous best friend, and a sexy secretary, and you''ve got a story that drips with sex, lies and deceit. So journey with Honey to the city of New Castle Beach, where the drama is real, the situations are real, and the results could be deadly.

Soul-searching sermons giving the curse, cause, and cure for our current crisis.

A one-dimensional numerical model has been developed to study diabatic and adiabatic flow boiling in microchannels. This model accounts for developing flow effects and variable property effects. The model uses correlations for void fraction and two-phase multipliers found in the literature. The model has been used to study the performance differences between diabatic flow in single-phase and two-phase flow in fractal-like branching channels. It has also been used to examine the performance differences between diabatic two-phase flow boiling in these same fractal-like branching channels and straight parallel channels with identical wall surface areas. The model also was used to study pressure drop and exit quality differences for adiabatic two-phase flow boiling between fractal-like branching channels, with different geometries than the diabatic cases, and parallel channels again with identical wall surface areas. Results from experiments examining flow boiling in fractal-like branching channels are also reported. These results include channel pressure drop and void fraction for mass flow rates ranging from 100 to 225 g/min and inlet subcooling levels of 0 to 5 °C. The fractal-like branching network studied had four branching levels, a length ratio of 0.7071, a channel width ratio of 0.7071, a channel height of 150 um, a total channel length of 18 mm and a terminal channel width of 100 [mu]m. The channel pressure drops varied from 20 kPa to 90 kPa. These results were also compared to results from the 1-D model, and the model showed good agreement with the pressure drop results. The agreement with the void fraction results was not as good driven primarily by noise in the experimental measurement.

The Department of Defense requires an integrated process to determine how/when to make decisions about transformation, modernization, and recapitalization. Arbitrary timelines are an inadequate approach. Future Force capabilities should be incorporated into the force as they are operationally required, technologically feasible, and fiscally affordable. Such decisions are directly related to the modernization and recapitalization of extant systems. Additionally, these decisions are affected by the budgeting process, force structure changes, and the procurement process. In light of the on-going transformation activities, we review the concerns of a too slow procurement process, an aging equipment set, and a shifting budget. We examine the defense budget cycle, changes to the composition of the defense budget, and decisions regarding budget allocations. We then survey a number of potential enhancements to the modernization, and recapitalization processes and follow with a review of recent improvements in the procurement processes and offer additional recommendations for improvement focusing on acquisition process changes, education, process monitoring, and administration.

This thesis is a bridge to healing. Between my grandmothers who have gone on before me. And me and my daughter. I''ve been told that I have a keen ability to expose and look at both sides of the story. No matter how ugly the truth may look I am likely to name it, voice it and admit it. This thesis looks at both sides of an Aboriginal adoption and reconnecting story. By both sides I do not mean the sides of the government and First Nations people. I will not give the government such pleasure to voice their opinion to my story. I will tell the sides of the stories of women who have been affected by the adoption scoops. The women, connected through genetics and sisterhood, all have similar roots but different stories. Different stories with different truths.

"The objective of this thesis was to create a general mehtod to forecast the availability of hospital beds in the short term, up to 2 days into the future. Specifically, this thesis employed a computer simulation model of the hospital and a time-dependent neural network to learn from the simulated model and forecast the availability of beds"--Abstract.