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Following on from "In Spite of Everything ..." Book 2 of the Trilogy takes you through this part of Pat Coppard's life detailing his army experiences leading to his entry into one of the world's tough
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In the beat of a heart, the world has changed. Seemingly random disappearances transport a portion of the world's population to an unknown place, and catastrophic events follow. As twenty-five-year-ol
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The book is designed to help children learn and understand the concepts of a computer. It gives them step by step instructions and leads them through the process on how to do something. The book also
This book is written for both linguists and computer scientists working in the field of artificial intelligence as well as to anyone interested in intelligent text processing. Lexical function is a co
The world is in turmoil. Reeling after a devastating alien invasion that decimates the world's population, humanity survives in small communities, fighting for their lives. Countless millions died dur
A spy and an innocent find themselves on the run from the world's most deadly assassin in this action packed espionage thriller.After witnessing the brutal death of an informant, a young woman is swep
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Sid, a young computer scientist who is passionate about his profession, yearns to also serve his country. Helped by his professor, Sid accepts a job at the CIA where he can do both. But the forces of
How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching is about the struggles an educator faced and how she overcame those struggles in her early days of teaching. The journey begins with the challenges she
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Is there no sympathy for the Devil? Misunderstood and vilified by the world's major religions, Satan has decided to strike back at his accusers. In his own words, Satan makes the case that he is only
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The day begins as normal, but by late afternoon, he had been airlifted to one of the world's leading neurology hospitals with traumatic injuries. Standing outside the critical care unit, I was approac
In this witty, scholarly book edited by his two sons, Professor Rudolph Altrocchi introduces some of the world's most skillful and humorous authors whose purpose was to enrich our lives through smiles
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Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by d
Most sales publications cover selling exclusively from the world's point-of-view. They cover a topic or two that may peak the interest of the reader, but they leave out two elements that are critical
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
Explanation of the basic concepts and methods of statistics requires a reasonably good mathematical background, at least at a first-year-level knowledge of calculus. Most of the statistical software e
A titan of modern media, Viacom Chair-man Sumner Redstone reveals how he battled his way to become the head of one of the world's great media empires, and the richest man in entertainment. In one of
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Filling a significant gap in the literature, A Mathematical Introduction to Compressive Sensing is the first work entirely devoted to the thriving field of compressive sensing. The book clearly and co
In Cataclysm, author Nick Gass takes geology out of the oil patch to authenticate the first twenty-five verses of the Bible. He presents a multidisciplinary exploration, implementing scientific reason
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In 1961, Frances Metcalfe, the founder of the Golden Candlestick Company, left her mountain home in California for an extended missionary trip to Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and other nations.For the first
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