"With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals" -- Publisher.

Año 2059. Se acaban los recursos. La Humanidad pelea por ellos. Las grandes potencias están dispuestas a todo. En ParaGen, el desarrollo y entrenamiento de los soldados Parciales más letales y avanzados es un éxito. La Guerra de Aislamiento está en su apogeo. Parece que el éxito será total. Pero una Parcial se rebela. Y una sola puede cambiar la historia del mundo...

Two decades before the events of Partials, the world was locked in a different battle for survival: a global war for the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. It was for the Isolation War that the American government contracted the ParaGen Corporation to manufacture the Partials-our last hope in reclaiming energy independence from China. And it was on these fields of battle that the seeds of humanity's eventual destruction were sown. Isolation...

This first volume of a highly regarded two-volume text is fully usable on its own. After going over some of the preliminaries, the authors discuss mathematical models that yield first-order partial differential equations; motivations, classifications, and some methods of solution; linear and semilinear equations; chromatographic equations with finite rate expressions; homogeneous and nonhomogeneous quasilinear equations; formation and propagation...