In a city shrouded in secrets, two detectives, Samsom and House, embark on a treacherous journey to solve a high-profile murder. Amidst power play and deceit, they strive to uphold justice, challenging their own ethics. Confronting a spectrum of shadowy figures, from tech-savvy sleuths to dubious allies, they unravel a web of crime and identity, where loyalty and truth are ephemeral. In bars and back alleys, alliances form in silent understandings, and the quest for truth becomes as perilo...

The founding American Presidents before George Washington were the presiding officers of three United American Republics from 1774 to 1789. These unknown Presidents presided over the most important period in American history, which resulted in America defeating Great Britain and becoming an independent nation. The time has come to know of these founding American Presidents, plus much more.

Mr. Richardson has taken his time to delve into his past experiences, not only that, but he allows his readers to see his soul.. Each title of his poems entices the readers to be able to infer reading some profound, thoughtful poems. The author talks about his past, which contributes into his life story, and his yearning for romance and for survival. In addition to this, the author does not forget where he comes from, and all the stages he has gone through in life. His poems are a testimon...

“This account of oft-forgotten aspects of the war that is also a powerful survival story is highly recommended for the casual reader of military history as well as the serious scholar of the Pacific war.” - Journal of America's Military PastIn September 1943, as America began advancing from its foothold on Guadalcanal, a young American airman was lost in heavy weather over the South Pacific on what was expected to be a routine flight. In examining that loss and the...

This LNAI 16045 volume constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2025, held in York, UK, duing August 20–22, 2025.The 32 full papers and 4 short papers, together with 4 invited papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers were categorised into seven groups: Human-Robot Interaction and Teleoperation, Sensing and Perception, Locomotion and Control, Manipulation and D...

From the foreword by Robert Richardson:"Emerson's life was devoted to showing how one may still attain an original, that is to say, an authentic, relation to the universe, and Geldard's book aims to focus and distill the famously dispersed Emerson and put his central teachings into the modern reader's hand. Geldard understands the main thing, which is that Emerson is as alive, as pertinent, as urgent now as he was in his lifetime. We have only to reach out for the gifts which Emers...

Thomas Kline is a struggling comedian when he receives an offer from a mobster who lent him money he most likely cannot repay on time. After he is taken to a strange location by two of the mobster’s thugs, Thomas waits for his next instructions. Dawn Ford, the only child of Senator and Mrs. Daniel Ford, is just ready to walk through the gates of her school when she is abducted, along with two of her friends, and thrown into a windowless van that speeds away. As the terrified girls are left...

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Faith in a Seed contains the hitherto unpublished work The Dispersion of Seeds, one of Henry D. Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, and now his first new book to appear in 125 years.With the remarkable clarity and grace that characterize all of his writings, Thoreau describes the ecological succession of plant species through seed dispersal. The Dispersion of Seeds, which draws on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, refutes the then widely acc...

In September 1943, as America began advancing from its foothold on Guadalcanal, a young American airman was lost in heavy weather over the South Pacific on what was expected to be a routine flight. In examining that loss and the events leading up to a rescue attempt on an island in the South Pacific, and bringing together societies utterly alien to each other, Survival in the South Pacific brings together the big themes of the Pacific War.The American lieutenant and his co...

In his fierce search for a new case, Detective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DNA evidence -- and a political conspiracy that could destroy the Los Angeles Police Department.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.Then...

"Hamilton's turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation . . . propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel." —Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award–winning writerA new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton—arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation's founders.From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his enemy...