In June 1986 the police in Jersey County, Illinois accepted Paula Sims's story of a masked kidnapper who snatched her baby girl Lorelei from her bassinet. Three years later her second newborn daughter suffered an identical fate and this time the police were unable to stop searching until they had discovered the whole, horrifying truth. This is the ...
Concise, accessible treatment focuses on two main topics: classical light scattering and dynamic light scattering. Indispensable for physicists, chemists, other workers in the field. 1981 edition.
Pretty Karla Brown was a former high school cheerleader, savagely murdered in broad daylight in St. Louis. The case seemed impossibly complicated, but years of work by police and investigators, led by Prosecutor Don W. Weber, resulted in a plan to lure the murderer into revealing himself. Photos.
Not only is "The John Deere Tractor Legacy published under license of Deere & Company, it is edited by the world's most respected and best known John Deere historian and expert--Don Macmillan--so readers know they can rely on its information. This comprehensive history of the man, his company, and his legacy includes a biography of John Deere, ...
It was an ordinary 21-foot canoe. They were an ordinary family--a divorced father and his two teenaged sons. This is the amazing, true story of their incredible 12,181-mile canoe trip from Winnipeg to the mouth of the Amazon River. "Exquisite images . . . courageous, sometimes sensitive, often exciting, and always immediate . . . A model ...
This volume examines scientific models of how the brain becomes conscious and argues that the spiritual dimension of life is compatible with scientific naturalism and with contemporary studies on neuroscience, brain evolution and consciousness. Charles Don Keyes shows us that the belief in the unity of mind and brain does not necessarily undermine ...
From a trusted personal finance authority, a lifetime guide to better mutual-fund investing.. Encyclopedic in its scope yet easy-to-use, this mutual-fund "owner's manual" is a one-stop resource for anyone who wants to go beyond the basics and start planning long-term, profitable fund investments. Breezy, readable, and organized into manageable ...
This is the Iraq war as it really started, amid lies, confusion and profound distrust between the United States and its Iraqi allies. Charles Glass, who first covered the Kurds in 1974 and was in Iraq for their failed rebellion in 1991, depicts the tense epoch that sowed the seeds of America's inevitable failure there. "The Northern Front" is the ...
The only definitive anthology of contemporary British poetry available in the United States, " New British Poetry" presents the exciting work of thirty-five poets from England, Scotland, and Wales. In compiling this landmark anthology, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic followed two ...
Written by one who has grappled with the hard realities of life, this volume contains page-a-day devotions that feature a slice from one of the Psalms, a short reading, and interesting side-facts on early musicianship, instruments, and other historical items.
Discover the fun and fascinating world of cartooning with a PhD! Inside this comprehensive guide, cartoonist Don Jardine demonstrates an easy, step-by-step method for drawing cartoon characters. The book contains a wealth of delightful cartoon characters to inspire and amuse you, and you will learn to create an array of these unique and comical ...
In recent years, popular new forms of Bible translation have emerged -- "The Message, The Book of God, The Living Bible" -- proving many modern biblical seekers are looking for a kind of Scripture-to-English guidebook. This exceptional book offers a similar avenue to pastors wanting to reach their congregations in a fresh way. Rather than ...
He was considered the perfect teacher . . . until his sexual manipulations of his young female students were exposed. This gripping insider's account tells of a popular sixth-grade teacher in Illinois who took advantage of his female students in the darkest case of serial sex abuse ever told. 8 pages of photos.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering, GPCE 2002, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in October 2002. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. Among the topics covered are generative programming, meta ...
Program generation holds the promise of helping to bridge the gap between application-level problem solutions and efficient implementations at the level of today's source programs as written in C or Java. Thus, program generation can substantially contribute to reducing production cost and time-to-market in future software production, while ...
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