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Along with their children, Tom Gannon, a handsome master carpenter and frontiersman at heart, and his wife, Helen, set out to explore the less populated middle America-Chambers, South Dakota, on the b
In The Last Survivor, journalist Timothy Ryback explores the surprising--and often disturbing--ways the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of us associate with gas chambers and
Dr. Frank Chambers, a geneticist, has just given his resignation at the University of British Columbia. Set to complete project SYNAPSE, a ten-year endeavor that he is certain will mark a significant
Dr. Frank Chambers, a geneticist, has just given his resignation at the University of British Columbia. Set to complete project SYNAPSE, a ten-year endeavor that he is certain will mark a significant
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This multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional collection offers the first ever full-scale analysis of legal fictions. Its focus is on fictions in legal practice, examining and evaluating their roles i
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In many computer vision applications, objects have to be learned and recognized in images or image sequences. This book presents new probabilistic hierarchical models that allow an efficient represent
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2014, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in January 2013
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