Opening in Ireland, this book follows the author's family history from his great-great-grandfather, James Jackson to Queen, his grandmother. James Jackson was sent to the US from Ireland and there his son and a slave, Easter, had a daughter - Queen, Alex Haley's grandmother.
Opening in Ireland, this book follows the story of Alex Haley's Irish great-great grandfather, James Jackson, sent to the United States, where he established the Forks of Cypress plantation in Alabama and raised his family. His son formed a romantic attachment to the beautiful strong willed slave, Easter, and together they had a daughter, Queen, ...
The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths 20 years ago sends Beryl Tavistock on a search for the truth from Paris to Greece. As she enters a world of international espionage, Beryl discovers she needs help and turns to a suave ex-CIA agent. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies and enemies become ...
The Third Edition of this best-seller is a must for anyone working the TCP/IP suite of protocols.The authors provide an in-depth look at individual TCP/IP protocols in light of design alternatives, implementation techniques with actual ANSI C code, and the internals of protocol software. This book uses the widely accepted data-mark interpretation ...
This fictional life of Lawrence of Arabia during the years after his achievements in World War I was written by the screenwriter who wrote BREAKER MORANT, among other films.
An experienced medical missionary takes readers on "rounds" with the Great Physician using his professionally trained eye to observe scriptural snapshots of Jesus the Healer at work, and weaves his dramatic real-life accounts from his own experiences with biblical stories.
The life and ministry of Dr. David Thompson could easily be the stuff of which fiction books are made. David's father, an abused and orphaned child, grew up to be a missionary in Southeast Asia. There, David's parents were murdered by Viet Cong rebels. His father-in-law was kidnapped and marched into the jungle, never to be heard from again, and ...
A multi-generational saga created from an unfinished novel by Alex Haley, author of "Roots". Like "Roots", this is about an African-American family, from the plantation to the late 20th century.
This book provides a practical, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the use of spatial statistics in epidemiology - the study of the incidence and distribution of diseases. Used appropriately, spatial analytical methods in conjunction with GIS and remotely sensed data can provide significant insights into the biological patterns and processes ...
This is the Second Edition of Vol. III BSD Socket Version from one of the most popular TCP/IP Internetworking series ever published. This new edition includes code in ANSI C throughout. This is the only book available who's central theme is software design that teaches designers how to structure clients and servers. The server designs are directly ...
Merlin was the highest rated TV miniseries of 1998, with over 70 million viewers over two nights. From Hallmark Entertainment and NBC, the producers of the hit TV miniseries Gulliver's Travels, The Odyssey , and Moby Dick , comes Merlin , the entirely new two-part, four-hour miniseries featuring an all-star international cast including Sam ...
Aimed at gardeners looking for a down to earth approach, the text includes sections on garden planning and design, choosing plants, gardening in practice, the kitchen garden planner and the gardener's calendar.
This edition provides an in-depth look at the TCP/IP Internet protocols. It presents a complete implementation, showing the internals of the TCP/IP protocol software, with actual code.
Even a small space tucked behind the house can blossom brilliantly. Here' s the key, presented by a leading garden designer blessed with boundless creativity. This unique combination of down-to-earth advice and artistic ideas comes with 18 detailed blueprint drawings to guide you.
This 48 page photo album contains photos from the blockbuster film, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, along with a fold-out poster and background information about the process of creating the creatures.
This volume addresses the question of how applications that use TCP/IP can be designed. Focusing on the client-server paradigm, this book examines algorithms for both the client and server components of a distributed program, shows an implementation that illustrates each design, discusses techniques like application-level gateways and tunnelling, ...
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume III describes the fundamental concepts of client-server computing used to build all distributed computing systems, and presents an in-depth guide to the Posix sockets standard utilized by Linux and other operating systems. Dr. Douglas E. Comer compares leading server designs, and describes the key tools and ...
Part of a stylish new series which started with Furniture and Lighting, Conran Octopus Contemporaries take the mystery out of garden design and water features, making them accessible to everyone. Principles and practice are covered enabling the reader to take elements and simple ideas either to improve an existing garden or to start from scratch. ...
Starring Jack Thompson and Russell Crowe, The Sum of Us won an AFI award for the best screenplay adapted from another source. Jeff is a pretty regular guy. A plumber in Sydney, he shares a house with his widowed dad. Harry likes a few beers and is actively looking for a permanent mate. But in this warm comedy, the extraordinary is contained in the ...
How is each individual's unique personality formed? What is it about personality that can change, and why is change often so slow? Promising approaches to these perennial questions are suggested by the explosion of recent research in neuroscience and brain functioning. This volume presents a coherent, empirically based and clinically useful ...
Wilhelm Hottl was no small time Nazi bureaucrat... He was Adolf Eichmann's confidant and an important member of the Nazi party's SD foreign espionage section.
A straightforward and practical guidebook, Fundamentals of Strategic Planning for Healthcare Organizations explores the basic principles of planning and maps out key routes for expanding companies in need of specific decision-making procedures. This allows readers to generate their own ideas for developing strategic plans tailored to the ...
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