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The Chameleon's Shadow
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In this electrifying new novel from the bestselling author of The Devils Feather, British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, but his serious head injuries are only the outward...
The Sun Over Breda
Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders....
Social History of England
Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects...
The Aesthetics of Computing
'A brand name in computer science' (New York Times), David Gelertner has revolutionised computing with his work in the field of parallel processing. In this provocative new book, he urges...
The Macgregor Brides
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Daniel MacGregor is the clan patriarch. He's powerful, rich - and determined to see his three career-minded granddaughters married. So he carefully chooses three unsuspecting men, men he considers worthy,...
Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of
What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a...
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describes some...
A New Era in Computation
The transition from serial to parallel computing in which many operations are performed simultaneously and at tremendous speed, marks a new era in computation. These original essays explore the emerging...
The Age of Intelligent Machines
In "The Age of Intelligent Machines", inventor and computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots to tantalizing...
Thinking Things Through: Introduction to Philosophical Issues and
"Thinking things through" provides a broad, historical introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and to its contemporary significance. The presentation is centred around three issues in Western thought: What...
Artificial Minds
Recent decades have produced much research in artificial systems that exhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does it change the way...
Matter and Consciousness: Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy
In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new...
Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel
Does every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly, decentralized models are being chosen for the organizations and technologies...
Privacy on the Line: Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as a Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many still take their privacy for granted, even as we become...
The Hitchcock Hotel
A distinctive and chilling new thriller from the author of Richard & Judy pick and Sunday Times bestseller THE RECOVERY OF ROSE GOLD Why did he invite them? Why did...
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg
The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His...
Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan: A revolutionary guide to pregnancy,
An honest and empowering guide to every aspect of pregnancy and childbirth Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power...
How to Fish
Sitting on a riverbank, with rod and line, must count as one of the most relaxing and enjoyable - yet occasionally frustrating - experiences known to man. Chris Yates discovered...
The Bloody Meadow
Captain Alexei Korolev returns...Following his investigations in "The Holy Thief", which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself decorated and hailed...
A Prisoner of Birth
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take...
The Bumper Book of Nature
When is the last time you climbed a tree? Went pond-dipping? Picked blackberries? Held a snail race? Or tracked down a badger set? If the answer is 'can't remember', or...
Succeeding with Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management
Intended for use by technical projects managers, as well as members of their team, this guide provides information of the decisions and issues which must be considered when approaching and...
The Ultimate Book of Knowledge: Everything You Need to Know
A fully illustrated, authoritative encyclopedia for children to learn about themselves, their world and beyond. Stimulating, popular topics, such as sport, animals and space, are organised into sensible, easy-to-use sections.
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes
This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age...
Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour
Life is often a matter of gambles, pay-offs, and trade-offs, just like a game. This book takes us on a tour through the games and computer simulations that are helping...
Computers Ltd
Advance praise for Computers Ltd. 'An enlightening and entertaining explanation, written by a profound computer scientist and master expositor. A must read for inquisitive minds.' Michael Rabin, Professor of Computer...
The Meme Machine
First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), memes are ideas, behaviours, or skills that are transferred from one person to another by imitation. With a foreword by...
Yangtze River
Awash with superstition and folklore, the Yangtze river has been an inspiration for more than a thousand years to those who have lived beside it or sailed along it. This...
Golf Anecdotes
Golf is a sport with a long history (reputedly starting in Scotland in the 13th century), outstanding figures, colourful characters, and many inspiring and humorous incidents. This serves both as...
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler
Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.From 1933, these...
The Prince
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's...
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
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With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man-the 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction-this collection completes Paul Monette s autobiographical writing. Brimming with outrage yet tender, this is a remarkable...
Fools of Fortune
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Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor-"Ireland's answer to Chekhov" ( The Boston Globe ) and "one of the best writers of our era" ( The Washington Post )-to...
We the Living
Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a revolution on three people who demand the right to live...
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in
An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power...
Cyrano de Bergerac
First time in Penguin Classics for Rostand's popular comedy about the love-sick swain with an ear for a fine phrase and an extravagantly large nose. Poet and soldier, brawler and...
An Assumption of Death
This is the latest in the Arnold Landon series in which Northumberland based archaeologist Landon finds himself mixed up in a drugs related murder and the seemingly innocent activities of...
Elevator Magic
"Kids, young and old, fall in love with math when they see how real-life and effortless it becomes thanks to these books." --Kimberly D. Mueller, Ed.D., First Grade Teacher, Ashbrook...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s reflections on love and its transformative power-a stellar addition to Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. "I have also decided...
Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World
Secure Relating offers a refreshing and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today's increasingly polarized world. Drawing on over thirty years of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley,...
Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz,...