The Demon Equilibrium

Grace Carter, a "source" of magic, has spent the last nine months searching for Maggie Mulvaney, her "catalyst." The joy of reuniting with her partner—and her lover—is thwarted by her worst fear: Maggie remembers neither Grace nor their life together in the Order of Saint Teresa, the centuries-old organization that trained them to be the strongest demon-hunting duo in generations. When Maggie and Grace unexpectedly come face-to-face with the demon Horde, they are forced to team up once again. As they begin to piece their lives back together, they discover that their memories have been masked by someone within the Order. Should the Horde succeed in their plan, those who have committed their lives to slay worldly demons will be relegated to little more than minions as humans are completely enslaved. Now, Grace and Maggie must sacrifice everything, possibly even their love, and their lives, in an all-out battle to save humanity.

The Demon Effect is a story about a Latino girl named Maria who lives anything but a normal life. For one, she fights demons with her trusty sword, the Sword of Sorrows, and two, she's really good at what she does. She lives in a catholic orphanage with her best friend, a Japanese girl named Kyoto whose English isn't always on par. The nun who looks after the unit she is in, is Sister Ann who also has a secret or two. Maria struggles to send Demons back to the underworld, while maintaining her secret from everyone. Along the way she finds out about her true self . The Demon Effect is the story that will breath excitement into your life! From All of Us at TeamDarkness, Enjoy!

There is a war out there, right now as you read this. A battle between destiny and insanity. The synchronicity of life's inconsistency laying waste to all reason and logic-- Launch yourself into the twisted madness, which entered this world when Donald was born. Is it an inner voice, or an inner demon which has chosen to guide him through life's' trials and conquests. Journey through a time and place where trusting Yourself may mean abandoning all of the doubts and fears of your past. A chaotic past brings memories of a war that forever changed and shaped the dynamic personalities portrayed in this epic saga. Good and evil makes way for a far greater nemesis, the real vs. the surreal. We find that some of the darkest, most forbidden and haunting evil exists in the minds and souls of everyday human. Though of flesh and blood, and the path and calling of this warrior is far from this earth in origin and it's justice takes on many shapes, some of which you will 'beg to never experience. Insanity tears away and corrodes perception, but don't we all just perceive to know what is real? Enter the world of a man driven to limits so beyond his own understanding that the path he has begun may very well be the beginning of the end for all of humanity. Welcome to Equilibrium--

The concept of tiny machines capable of selectively transporting particles between two compartments by Brownian motion dates back to the 19th century when James Clerk Maxwell pondered the significance of a hypothetical 'sorting demon' being able to perform such a task adiabatically. This thesis report the design, synthesis and operation of a compartmentalized molecular machine in which the distribution of a Brownian particle, the macrocycle in a rotaxane, is controlled by using the lightinduced transmission of information to lower a kinetic barrier according to the location of the particle. For an ensemble of such machines the particle distribution is driven further and further away from equilibrium, providing a non-adiabatic realization of Maxwell's pressure demon in molecular form. The nanomachine does not break the Second Law of Thermodynamics because the energy cost of the information transfer is met by externally supplied photons. As the molecular structure can be understood in chemical terms, it is possible in this experimental system to pin-point precisely how information is traded for energy. Intriguingly, the chemical mechanism can also be understood in terms of game theory. This is the first example of a synthetic molecular machine designed to operate via an information ratchet mechanism, where knowledge of the object's position is used to control its transport away from equilibrium.

"A new adventure filled with vampires, demons, gods, and tongue-in-cheek humour, as the immortal Demon Hunters return to battle the forces of evil that threaten their existence within the mysterious circles of stone!"--Provided by publisher.

"As if Deadpool had slipped into the body of the Witcher Geralt." —The New York Times In the pitch dark, witty fantasy novella Prosper's Demon, K. J. Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and worse men. In a botched demonic extraction, they say the demon feels it ten times worse than the man. But they don’t die, and we do. Equilibrium. The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren’t delicate but they’re undeniably effective: he’ll get the demon out—he just doesn’t particularly care what happens to the person. Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world’s first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he’s demonically possessed. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Their memories removed, the Demon Hunters had been given two years to familiarise themselves with modern culture before being called upon by the Goddess Medusera to invoke the demon, Baal. Only then could they return to their homes in the Stone Circles.Summoned to witness the bonding of the Goddess Curremy and the helpful vampire Westy, disturbing news of a powerful leader of evil was revealed to them. Much stronger than before and with new methods of travel, the Demon Hunters were formidable challengers to their adversaries.But their centuries-old blood hid a terrible secret from the past, linked to the mysterious circles of stone; a secret that could send them all to Hell ? and beyond.

'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. And yet, huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mystery. So can life be explained by known physics and chemistry, or do we need something fundamentally new? In this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where computing, chemistry, quantum physics and nanotechnology intersect. At the heart of these diverse fields, Davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and even to illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe. From life's murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, The Demon in the Machine is a breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics, biology, logic and computing. Weaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, Davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window on the secret of life itself.

Darci is a popular sixteen-year-old girl who plays basketball and lives in an ordinary country town. But her life is changed forever when she is accidentally transported to the land of Nahaba by a young apprentice wizard called Taslessian. Within hours of her unexpected arrival, both teens are thrust into a dangerous journey to the cave of Grisham the Great in the hope that he would be able to send her home. Upon reaching the cave, however, Darci quickly discovers that there is no such thing as accidents, and that their journey is only just beginning.

The volume that you have before you is the result of a growing realization that fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems playa much more important role than was 1 first believed. It has become clear that in nonequilibrium systems noise plays an active, one might even say a creative, role in processes involving self-organization, pattern formation, and coherence, as well as in biological information processing, energy transduction, and functionality. Now is not the time for a comprehensive summary of these new ideas, and I am certainly not the person to attempt such a thing. Rather, this short introductory essay (and the book as a whole) is an attempt to describe where we are at present and how the viewpoint that has evolved in the last decade or so differs from those of past decades. Fluctuations arise either because of the coupling of a particular system to an ex ternal unknown or "unknowable" system or because the particular description we are using is only a coarse-grained description which on some level is an approxima tion. We describe the unpredictable and random deviations from our deterministic equations of motion as noise or fluctuations. A nonequilibrium system is one in which there is a net flow of energy. There are, as I see it, four basic levels of sophistication, or paradigms, con cerning fluctuations in nature. At the lowest level of sophistication, there is an implicit assumption that noise is negligible: the deterministic paradigm.