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An answered prayer for Beatles fans and collectors, the first volume of a unique work that exhaustively chronicles all known and available Beatles recordings!Have you ever watched a Beatles film clip and wondered:• Where was that filmed?• Is any more of that footage available?Have you ever heard a Beatles interview and asked:• When was that taped?• Where’s the best place to find the complete recording?Way Beyond Compare has the a...

From Revolver to Let It Be, That Magic Feeling: The Beatles Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966—1970, continues the chronicle of the group’s spectacular career from its creative zenith to its irrevocable splitAs the Beatles moved into the mid and late 1960s, their collective and individual musical talent and innovations evolved at an unparalleled pace. Like its companion volume, Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles’ Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957—1965, this unique wor...

Today, machine learning is being applied to a growing variety of problems in a bewildering variety of domains. A fundamental challenge when using machine learning is connecting the abstract mathematics of a machine learning technique to a concrete, real world problem. This book tackles this challenge through model-based machine learning which focuses on understanding the assumptions encoded in a machine learning system and their corresponding impact on the behaviour of the...

A thrilling rescue goes awry and becomes a desperate flight across Nazi-occupied Europe. In this exciting sequel to the award-winning "The Hunt for the Peggy C," Capt. Jake Rogers returns to the North Atlantic as commander of a U.S. Liberty ship with some of his crew from the sunken "Peggy C." But disaster strikes, and they end up shipwrecked in Ireland. There, Rogers learns from Dutch sailors that the Nazis have arrested the father of Miriam Maduro, the love of his life, and are about to ...

On the eve of D-Day, the fate of the world hangs not on the beaches of Normandy, but deep within a secret Nazi facility in occupied France. Here, in a claustrophobic, slave-driven mine codenamed Noball 109, German scientists are racing to perfect a terror weapon that would render the Allied invasion obsolete: atomic-tipped V-2 rockets aimed at the heart of London.Enter Miriam Maduro, a ghost haunted by her past. A brilliant and courageous Dutch-Jewish SOE agent, she has already bee...

John Winn Miller's THE HUNT FOR THE PEGGY C, a semifinalist in the Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition, captures the breathless suspense of early World War II in the North Atlantic. Captain Jake Rogers, experienced in running his tramp steamer through U-boat-infested waters to transport vital supplies and contraband to the highest bidder, takes on his most dangerous cargo yet after witnessing the oppression of Jews in Amsterdam: a Jewish family fleeing Nazi persecution. The normall...

The theology of Karl Barth has been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology. For too long, however, the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. The present volume seeks to contribute to the conversation through a creative reconfiguration of both partners in the conversation, neither of whom can be rightly understood as preservers of Protestant Orthodoxy. Rather, American evangelicalism is identified with the revivalist forms of Protestantism that arose in the ...

It’s the end of the world as Ooo knows it! Can Finn, Jake, Marceline, and their heroic friends pass the ultimate test to save it?! When Magic Man’s attempts to impress his “girlfriend” (*cough* acquaintance *cough*) Betty Grof go south and he accidentally unleashes demonic havoc across all of Ooo, it’s up to Finn, Jake, Marceline, Ice King, and more of your favorite concerned citizens to band together to save their home—but how can they possibly stand up to Magic Man’s particular brand of ...

In this book, established scholars from different religions, regions, and disciplines continue the dialogue that Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen began in his A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World series and respond to his work in light of their diverse expertise and context. Each of the three parts focuses on a key area of Kärkkäinen’s engaging work: 1) highlighting how his method shaped each volume, 2) highlighting his commitment to global perspectives, and 3) highlighting his...

Things on Ooo are looking dire! Between the flood of the Blood Banks, a newly resurrected Golb (live and in the flesh!), and Magic Man being, well, dare we say the worst—how can our heroes possibly pass this ultimate test?! Find out as writer Nick Winn (Silver Sprocket’s Bloody Mary) and artist John P Golden (Over the Garden Wall) flip the world of Adventure Time on its head! Golb is back and better than ever! Well—maybe not better. Or ever. The embodiment of chaos is threatening all of Oo...

Take up the torch and prepare for battle! With disaster at the door, Simon and Betty debate on whether or not they should leave Ooo, save themselves, and start fresh . . . on Mars! At the same time, Marceline takes up the mantle of Vampire Queen to help save the Candy Kingdom—and all of Ooo—from the rampaging floods of the Blood Banks, but even she seems to be powerless against Magic Man’s brand of chaotic magic! What other adventurers could possibly stand a chance? It’s time for Finn to a...

As the saying goes, "Life is like a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow." It can be an amazing journey of ups and downs and can also be very challenging at times.Oftentimes, over the years, folks have told me that I should consider writing a book about my life. I pushed the thought aside for a long time, and finally, after turning eighty years old and with much prompting and encouragement, I decided maybe it was time to try my hand at writing my biography.This book is about...