Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die, once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the per
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She argues with her mother. She occasionally skips class. And she alternately crushes on two totally different boys. But Chloe King is by no means your typical teenager. The girl can scale buildings
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Politically and economically, the future of the United States is at stake. In "Restore the Future," author Donald H. Young seeks to galvanize the American people to guarantee a traditional future for
Politically and economically, the future of the United States is at stake. In "Restore the Future," author Donald H. Young seeks to galvanize the American people to guarantee a traditional future for
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2010, held as part of the 21st World Computer Congress, WCC 2010, in Brisban
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2012, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2012. The 15 pa
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This book covers performance analysis of computer networks, and begins by providing the necessary background in probability theory, random variables, and stochastic processes. Queuing theory and sim
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing, PARA 2012, held in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2012. The 35 revised f
Feminist cultural historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum caps her previous work with "The Future has an Ancient Heart," a scholarly study of the transformative legacy of African origins and values of carin
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A simultaneously deep and practical perspective-based on twenty-nine years' experience-of how applying faith at work can deepen purpose, build character, and propel performance. "The Next Level" conta
We write the future for you in this book. We fill in many of the gaps that are left with us from the Holy Scriptures of the Holy Bible. God Gives us the Missing Future.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2010, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2010. The 24 full papers and one note presented were
This volume of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2010 held in the beautiful and historic city of Guimaraes, Portugal, June 2010. This volume present
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2005, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in September 2005.The 38 revised full pape
A survey of what the future will bring to the health profession explores such medical trends as artificial organs, neuropharmacology, and separation of sex and reproduction through genetic engineering
The book "Effects and Implications of Pragmatic Competence for Enhancing EFL University Students' Written Performance" highlights the effects and implications of the Kurd EFL students' lack of pragmat
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This is story about predetermination, and if we had the ability to see into our future, whether it is human nature to avoid a bad future or take advantage of a good future. John Cardomen a New York a
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Creating scientific workflow applications is a very challenging task due to the complexity of the distributed computing environments involved, the complex control and data flow requirements of scienti
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The Future of Democracy in America and the World: A Few Possibilities makes the vast fields of modern American political philosophy and politics more accessible to both those engaged and those not eng
The Future of Democracy in America and the World: A Few Possibilities makes the vast fields of modern American political philosophy and politics more accessible to both those engaged and those not eng
How to Avoid a Future Life / Somewhere in the Crowd is a fictitious story based on true-life events of my punk rock band in the 1980s. Somewhere in the Crowd is a fictitious thriller about a rock-'n'-
