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This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years,...

In this thrilling new adventure, Tessa Miyata and her best friend Jin must battle the gods... and win. With magic abound and stakes higher than ever, this is a perfect...

"I love people. Who do I love, you ask? No, no! I love everyone--all of humanity! What do I love about them? Don't ask such rude questions! I love everything...

Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world...

When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend--Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the...

As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400-year-old journal and is...

In "To Try Men's Souls", Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation,...

Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is...

It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression...

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist invites you to look at the landscape of your own life, consider how it might feel to leave...

Today everyone-whether they know it or not-is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders,...

Every month, over 200,000 listeners download Criminalia to hear stories of history's wildest and most devious criminals they never knew existed. But this isn't just any true-crime podcast-more than an...

What was it like, making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up...

One of the most essential tools of graphic design, typography influences the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind...

These recipes strike a fine balance between old-fashioned goodness and modern trends. Traditional ideas have been adapted to today's techniques and equipment, to contemporary needs and eating habits, and there...

The Maths Gene explains how the human mind came to - and continues to - perform mathematical reasoning. Where does this ability come from? Our prehistoric ancestors' brains were essentially...

In this guided tour down the centuries, Rich ard Morris shows how each new encounter with infinity has fu rthered the advancement of physics and mathematics. This is a mathematical...

A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.In The Second Self,...

Philosophy of language is one of the hardest areas for the beginning student; it is full of difficult questions technical arguments, and jargon. Written in a straightforward and explanatory way...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is a paradigm for reasoning and learning in artificial intelligence, with research efforts and applications extending the frontiers of the field. This book provides an introduction for...

In "Digital Mantras", Steven Holtzman synthesizes ideas from a number of different disciplines to arrive at a new philosophy of creativity for the digital age. Blending ideas from music, computing,...

"Machines who think-how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence-it's here and about to surpass our own," crow techno-visionaries, proclaiming dominion. It's so simple and obvious,...

How scientists are using nature as model and metaphor to reinvent computing- a survey of an emerging field.As computers and the tasks they perform become increasingly complex, researchers are looking...

"Computers and Thought" contains the work of the scientists who not only defined the field of Artificial Intelligence, but who are responsible for having developed it into what it is...

This second edition of John Forester's handbook for transportation policy makers and bicycling advocates has been rewritten to reflect changes of the last decade. It includes new chapters on European...

For anyone interested in the issues arising from computer malfunctions and, more perniciously, from misuse, this new edition of "Computer Ethics" is right on the mark. Widely acclaimed for its...

Philosophers have found that the concepts and technology of artificial intelligence provide useful ways to test theories of knowledge and reason. Conversely, researchers in artificial intelligence, noting that the production...

The book review column in "Artificial Intelligence" has evolved from simple reviews to a forum where reviewers and authors debate current, often competing, theories of human and artificial intelligence. "Contemplating...

For centuries, people have been fascinated by the possibility of building an artificial system that behaves intelligently. Now there is a new entry in this arena - neural networks. "Naturally...

This is a collection of essays which continues the investigations into implementing networked online systems described in Barrett's first book, "Text, Context, and Hypertext", with a more focused emphasis on...

This text provides a general survey of and introduction to the range of work in lexical linguistics and corpora - the study of such on-line resources as dictionaries and other...

Scientific findings have indicated that emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more - that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking. Not only...

Technologies have a life cycle, says Donald Norman, and companies and their products must change as they pass from youth to maturity. However, the computer industry thinks it is still...

Artificial life , a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and...

Philosophical modelling is as old as philosophy itself; examples range from Plato's "Cave and the Divided Line" to Rawls's original position. What is new are the computational resources now available...

"Algebraic Semantics of Imperative Programmes" presents a self-contained and novel "executable" introduction to formal reasoning about imperative programmes. The authors' primary goal is to improve programming ability by improving intuition...

Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the 'Seasonal' cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted Autumn Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so...

The daring and electrifying book that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made 'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence' In this nightmare vision of youth in...

The powerful and magical sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller BEASTS OF PREY, perfect for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED...

A pocket guide filled with practical information that gives you step-by-step help towards bonsai perfection Everything you need to know about bonsai care, maintenance, design, and arrangement. With clear explanations...

Containing exclusive interviews with the sta ff at the grounds, this is an exclusive insight into exactly what it means to be a part of the exciting and lucrative or...

A deliciously dark new offering from the award-winning author-illustrator of the Ottoline books Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm...

This book provides in-depth insights into the practices that lead to success in global sourcing. Written by internationally acclaimed academics, it covers best practices on IT outsourcing, offshoring, business process...

I have struggled, harder and more explicitly than for anything else in my life as a writer, to develop a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific...

A little Vietnamese girl tries to come to terms with her grief over the loss of her family and her new life with an Australian family. The swallows are here...