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Down by the harbour the quayside cat, Jim, comes to talk with Old Tregarn about his days long ago at sea. Inspired by Old Tregarn's tales, Jim longs for his own sea adventure. Before long the two cats have jumped aboard a ship, and so begins Jim's daring adventure at sea . . .

Richard Adams' cult classic, a gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance, for fans of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones

Esteemed essayist Pico Iyer explores why it is that the more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug

It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently. When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday.Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful new poem takes us to the frozen landscape of the Lake District, where a merry celebration is about to begin in the Wordsworths' cottage.

Reissues of these humorous looks at male pastimes from a much-loved illustrator whose unique style is instantly recognisable. Gift format with printed end papers, head and tail bands and a silk ribbon marker.

Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger's notoriously difficult oeuvre. Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger's works, Thomas Sheehan's latest book argues for the unity of Heidegger's thought on the basis of three theses: that his work was phenomenological from beginning to the end, that 'being' refers to the meaningful presence of things in the world of human concerns, and that what ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2014, held in Haifa, Israel, in November 2014. The 17 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the sub-fields of testing and verification applicable to software, hardware, and complex hybrid systems.

In seiner neuen Anthologie erzählt Ulrich Rakoún kleine Geschichten von Glück und Sehnsucht, von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Die Erzählungen laden zum Zurücklehnen und Träumen ein und vielleicht findet sich ja der eine oder andere Leser selbst in Die Sprache der Fische wieder.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2014, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2014. The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers feature a wide range of topics covering both theory, methods and tools as well as their diverse applications in numerous domains.

The epic story of the world's longest and greatest railway, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.

In The Death Penalty: What's Keeping it Alive an award-winning criminal defense attorney turns a critical eye towards the death penalty in America. Filled with gripping case studies, the book analyzes why the death penalty remains active in most states in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system.

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Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned, centres that serve the interests of tourists but fail to nourish the c...

The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. During his voyage aboard the Beagle, Darwin acquired a copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's account of the land and people of Mexico.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis, FOPARA 2013, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in August 2013. The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. They deal with traditional approaches to complexity analysis, differential privacy, and probabilistic analysis of programs.

The three volume set LNCS 8834, LNCS 8835, and LNCS 8836 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in November 2014. The 231 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 submissions. The selected papers cover major topics of theoretical research, empirical study, and applications of neural information processing research. The...

The three volume set LNCS 8834, LNCS 8835, and LNCS 8836 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in November 2014.The 231 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 submissions. The selected papers cover major topics of theoretical research, empirical study, and applications of neural information processing research. The ...

Dit praktijkgerichte boek besteedt uitgebreid aandacht aan de diagnostiek en behandeling van veel voorkomende blessures van de schouder. De blessures worden beschreven aan de hand van concrete patientencasuistiek. Nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten met betrekking tot de therapie worden vertaald naar concrete oefenprogramma's.

Der IT-Anteil an den Gesamtkosten nimmt ebenso wie der Anteil am Investitionsbudget kontinuierlich zu. Diese Entwicklung bewirkt einen erhöhten Bedarf an betriebswirtschaftlich fundierten Methoden zur Planung, Kontrolle und Steuerung des IT-Bereichs, mit deren Hilfe ein Unternehmen den IT-spezifischen Wertbeitrag identifizieren und bewerten kann. Aktuell leiden viele Unternehmen unter defizitärem IT-Controlling, welches die Ressource IT in öko...