New Releases by Matthew Myers

"Two siblings attempt to live in the wilds of their backyard before coming home to sleep comfortably in their beds"--‡cProvided by publisher.

"Julia et la mer sont comme deux amies. Julia chantonne. Les vagues vont et viennent. Les gens se promènent, ils posent des questions. / "Qu''est-ce que tu fabriques?" - "J''sais pas", dit Julia. - "Que veux-tu faire?" - "J''sais pas", dit Julia. - "Ça sera joli?" - "J"sais pas", dit Julia" (p. [2]-[11]). Quelque peu revêche et visiblement agacée par ces passants, la fillette se concentre sur son oeuvre, créant des pâtés de sable et des petits personnages rigolos avec des coquillages, algues, bouts de bois, pinces de crabe et autres objets découverts sur la plage. La mer, qui raconte des histoires sans poser de questions, est de compagnie beaucoup plus agréable à la fillette que ces adultes envahissants aux questions embêtantes. Puis, une artiste peintre installe son chevalet près de la fillette et, sans prononcer le moindre mot, entame à son tour une oeuvre sans idée préconçue. Une connivence s''installe... [SDM]

Matteo and Fizzle are two ferrets that recently escaped a Petsmart in Phoenix, Arizona, and are ready to explore everything the city has to offer. On their adventures, they will come across a wide variety of strange and unusual animals. You will laugh, you will cry, you will question everything you understood to be true in life while reading about Matteo and Fizzle.

Brain-computer interface (BCI)-based rehabilitation techniques have recently shown promisefor restoring motor function in stroke survivors. BCIs detect the intent to move in brain signalsby identifying a pattern of neural activity called event-related desynchronization (ERD), andthen triggering the intended movement by some external modality, such as robotics. BCI-basedtherapy may be improved by enhancing the ability to detect ERD. This study examined theeffect of prompting various motor tasks with action observation (AO) as a paradigm for en-hancement of ERD. The magnitude, duration, and latency of ERD as well as the ability of aBCI to detect ERD were compared across several tasks with and without AO-prompting. Itwas found that AO-prompting reliably produced ERD in motor regions of the brain, but AO-prompted tasks were shorter in duration and smaller in magnitude than alternatively-promptedtasks used for comparison.

Is there a human right to democracy? This question has generated significant discussion in contemporary social and political philosophy. In this paper, I offer a response to Thomas Christiano''s thought-provoking arguments in favor of a human right to democracy. I argue that Christiano''s Egalitarian Argument depends on his Instrumental Argument in order to succeed. I further argue that the Egalitarian Argument is unsuccessful because of flaws in the scope and logic of the argument as well as the failure of the Instrumental Argument, which the Egalitarian Argument relies on. I conclude by surveying several other types of arguments in favor of democracy, specifically those that do not argue for a human right to democracy.

This study provides cost data for different heating appliances, covering: gas boilers, oil boilers, biomass boilers (pellet), air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, air-air heat pumps (air conditioners), direct acting electric heaters (panel heaters), storage heaters (high heat retention storage heaters, dynamic/fan-assisted storage heaters, and standard/slimline storage heaters). The cost of each technology is broken down into key constituent components (including materials, labour, ancillary costs), and high and low estimates are also provided where available.

Prism by Matthew L. Myers

Since 2002, the website LakeNormanMonster.com has collected sightings of "something" in North Carolina''s largest lake. This book is a compilation of 10 years of sightings of "Normie" the Lake Norman Monster. Read the sightings and judge for yourself. Does something lurk in the depths of Lake Norman?

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