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Meet: Gayle Beck, the matriarch of Hunting Ridge society, who struggles to reconcile her picture-perfect life with a numbing sense of unfulfilment; Love Welsh, adoring mother, who battles with memories of a childhood lived in the shadow of a genius father; Marie Passeti, over-stretched divorce lawyer and mother, who has lost her passion for life and for her husband; and Janie Kirk, yummy mummy, whose quest for acceptance knows no bounds. In a world where happiness comes second to appearances, their domestic discontent spirals into an irreversible course of risk-taking, secrecy and self-destruction. For these four wives perfection is just a fa�ade and behind closed doors infidelity, self-doubt and deceit run rife.

Mystery and adventure collide in this humorous and heartfelt multiverse adventure from beloved, award-winning authors Wendy Mass and Nora Raleigh Baskin. Twelve-year-old Piper’s life has always been unusual: her parents are clockmakers whose inventions are anything but ordinary, and she’s the only kid she knows with a robotic talking dog. But her life takes a turn for the truly bizarre when she discovers her parents are in jeopardy and the key to saving them is a book full of strange equations. When Raisa and Lev travel through the portal to Piper’s world, Raisa can finally prove that her mother’s multiverse project worked. Now, she just needs the book containing her mother’s equations to get back to her world…if only she can find it! As Raisa and Piper adventure to the bounds of the multiverse, they’ll need to discover their place in the world if they ever want to find their way back home.

Results from large-scale evaluation studies form the foundation of evidence-based policy. The randomized experiment is often considered the gold standard among study designs because the causal impact of a treatment or intervention can be assessed without threats of confounding from external variables. Policy-makers have become increasingly interested in the external validity of results, or the extent to which the results from a study generalize to a population of interest. In this paper, the author derives partial identification bounds on the expected treatment effect for the population under three different frameworks: (1) Worst-case framework with no assumptions on the data; (2) Treatment optimization where subjects select the treatment that optimizes the expected outcome and; (3) Monotone treatment response where the response function is assumed to be weakly increasing in the treatment. Under each framework, the author analyzes the impact that additional, but weak, assumptions have on the width of the estimation bounds and discuss important differences between the bounds for the expected treatment effect for the sample and those for the treatment effect for the population. Tables and figures are appended.

The only modern guide to interpreting and writing real property descriptions for surveyors Technical land information is no longer the exclusive domain of professional surveyors. The Internet now houses a multitude of resources that nontechnical professionals such as attorneys and realtors access and implement on a daily basis. However, these professionals are trained in aspects of law and commerce that do not provide the proper education and experience to interpret and evaluate their land boundary information discoveries correctly. As a result, their analysis is often erroneous and the data misapplied ultimately leading to confusion and costly litigation. Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions attempts to bridge the ever-widening gap between the users of land boundary information and the land surveyors who produce it. An expert team of authors integrates the historic and legal background of real property interests with fundamental concepts of the surveying profession in a manner accessible for average readers. These provide the basics for both properly comprehending older descriptions and competently constructing complete and modern real property descriptions that foster better communication. Highlights in this book include: An in-depth exploration of historic descriptions and how to read them Coverage of the widely accepted ALTA/ACSM Land Boundary Survey standards and associated property descriptions A diverse collection of examples and practice scenarios An overview of the latest issues related to the use of GPS and GIS Written in easy-to-understand language, this practical resource assists nontechnical professionals in understanding exactly what a surveyor does and does not do, and serves as a valuable tool for obtaining the most satisfactory, accurate, and complete real property descriptions.

Are you a faith runner? What level of faith are you operating at? Do you find yourself operating outside of faith at times? Will you be able to finish your spiritual race? Faith Runners looks into living the life of faith through the book of Hebrews chapter 11. With deliberate examination of the Scriptures, this book will allow you to do the following: • Discover the purpose and strengths of living a life of faith. • Understand your different levels of faith and the importance of each level. • Be strengthened to maneuver through the vicissitudes of life with various types of faiths. • Examine how the saints of old achieved the impossible working with their faith level. • Identify the pitfalls of operation without faith. • Equip yourself for the marathon race of your spiritual life. Faith Runners examines the faiths of the Old Testament heroes of faith and empowers the reader through understanding and insight concerning the various levels of faith and how they help us achieve God's possible. Doubt and defeat are cast aside with faith, faith that is God tested and approved. Like the strong, fast, long-distance Kenyan runners who train in their surroundings, you too will be able to run the race of faith regardless of the terrains or adversities of this earthly life. Faith Runners will build your spiritual muscles so that you can run the race of life and cross the finish line with bold confidence in the race you have run. May you be heard shouting in victory as you cross your finish line, "I finished my course! I kept the faith!"

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.