E.M. Scott – författare

Just as an environmental model typically will be composed of a number of linked sub-models, representing physical, chemical or biological processes understood to varying degrees, this volume includes a series of linked chapters exemplifying the fundamental nature of environmental radioactivity models in all compartments of the environment.Why is a book on modelling environmental radioactivity necessary? There are many reasons why such a boook is necessary, perhaps the most important that:- modelling is an often misunderstood and maligned activity and this book can provide, to a broad audience, a greater understanding of modelling power but also some of the limitations.- modellers and experimentalists often do not understand and mistrust each other''s work yet they are mutually dependent, in the sense that good experimental science can direct good modelling work and vice-versa; we hope that this book can dispel mistrust and engender improved understanding.- there is an increasing reliance on model results in environmental management, yet there is also often misuse and misrepresentation of these results. This book can help to bridge the gap between unrealistic expectations of model power and the realisation of what is possible, practicable and feasible in modelling of environmental radioactivity; and finally,- modelling tools, capacity and power have increased many-fold in a relatively short period of time. Much of this is due to the much-heralded computer revolution, but much is also due to better science. It is useful to consider what gap if any still remains between what is possible and what is necessary.

Alec é um dos homens mais ricos e poderosos do mundo. Sua empresa e investimentos são conhecidos mundialmente. Ele é um playboy bilionário que é suave e charmoso, e suas conquistas são lendárias.Ele é um homem com apetites fortes e seu romance no quarto é apenas o segundo depois do seu amor na sala de reuniões. Alec faz uma cruzada de romance e luxúria, satisfazendo todos os seus gostos e caprichos, bem como os das mulheres que encontra no caminho.Mestre em prazer e sedução, poucas mulheres conseguem resistir a ele, e cada conquista aumenta a aposta e supera a última. No entanto, Alec começa a sentir que algo está faltando em sua vida e começa a pensar que ele pode querer mais, embora ele não consiga colocar o dedo nela.Alec pode equilibrar sua vida de amor com sua vida de negócios? Ele pode encontrar o que está faltando e ter tudo?

'A slew of satisfying narrative twists' Barry Forshaw, Crime TimeIt appeared that Helen McAllister – for whatever reason – had simply got out of the car sometime the previous morning, taking her keys and bag and phone with her, and walked away…Ten years later there has been no trace found of the teacher who went missing from a small village on the last day of the school year.Her lover Alice Hauser’s accusations of impropriety on the part of the senior investigating officer, DI Thomas Maitland, led to his early retirement, his life in disrepair.Maitland now lives alone, consumed with grief over the death of his wife two years ago.Then he’s involved in a road accident in which a man is killed. The victim’s twin, John, is convinced that Maitland is to blame for his brother’s death.And when John meets Alice, they are determined that Maitland should pay the price they demand of him…

'A slew of satisfying narrative twists' Barry Forshaw, Crime TimeIt appeared that Helen McAllister – for whatever reason – had simply got out of the car sometime the previous morning, taking her keys and bag and phone with her, and walked away…Ten years later there has been no trace found of the teacher who went missing from a small village on the last day of the school year.Her lover Alice Hauser''s accusations of impropriety on the part of the senior investigating officer, DI Thomas Maitland, led to his early retirement, his life in disrepair.Maitland now lives alone, consumed with grief over the death of his wife two years ago.Then he''s involved in a road accident in which a man is killed. The victim''s twin, John, is convinced that Maitland is to blame for his brother''s death.And when John meets Alice, they are determined that Maitland should pay the price they demand of him…

'A slew of satisfying narrative twists' Barry Forshaw, Crime TimeIt appeared that Helen McAllister – for whatever reason – had simply got out of the car sometime the previous morning, taking her keys and bag and phone with her, and walked away…Ten years later there has been no trace found of the teacher who went missing from a small village on the last day of the school year.Her lover Alice Hauser’s accusations of impropriety on the part of the senior investigating officer, DI Thomas Maitland, led to his early retirement, his life in disrepair.Maitland now lives alone, consumed with grief over the death of his wife two years ago.Then he’s involved in a road accident in which a man is killed. The victim’s twin, John, is convinced that Maitland is to blame for his brother’s death.And when John meets Alice, they are determined that Maitland should pay the price they demand of him…

Retired police detective inspector Thomas Maitland has rented a house in Cornwall; he's going to paint his way to recovery from the experiences of the spring. A local woman with an intriguingly expensive collection of modern art wants to put on a show of his work.But Maitland's next door neighbour, also his landlord, is unsettling, and when he finds his benefactor dead at the bottom of her garden, Thomas Maitland feels death casting its net over him again.