Jacob O’Connell just wants a simple life: a career he can enjoy, a wife, kids, and a home of their own. As he closes in on these modest goals, significant time lapses begin to develop in his memory, forcing him onto a precarious search for answers about the many mysteries behind who he really is, including the wondrous yet frightening truth of his hidden abilities. But nothing is easy, and Jacob and his wife Sara soon become aware of a formidable enemy — a malignancy that has been lurking ...

This authoritative and practical guide provides a thorough account of the law and practice of professional indemnity insurance. Topics examined include the basis of cover, entering the contract, block notification of claims, aggregation, and the exclusion of cover for fraud and dishonesty. The book also considers the standard terms and policy wordings involved in claims policies and the associated issues that can arise in practice. In addition to providing analysis of English case law, the...

For the first time, a textbook that brings together classical predictive control with treatment of up-to-date robust and stochastic techniques.Model Predictive Control describes the development of tractable algorithms for uncertain, stochastic, constrained systems. The starting point is classical predictive control and the appropriate formulation of performance objectives and constraints to provide guarantees of closed-loop stability and performance. Movin...

Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire celebrates the thriving culture of former teams from Pomona, Ontario, Cucamonga, Chino, Claremont, San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Corona, Beaumont, and the Coachella Valley. From the early 20th century through the 1950s, baseball diamonds in the Inland Empire provided unique opportunities for nurturing athletic and educational skills, ethnic identity, and political self-determination for Mexican Americans during an era of segregation. Lege...

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and...

It’s been twelve years since Sara O’Connell’s husband, Jacob, died under mysterious circumstances. Now Sara is moving her two grown children, Mary and Ben, 3,000 miles to the west coast to escape the memories of Jonathan Vargas, the evil man behind Jacob’s death. Although Jacob killed Vargas, who for years stalked and tormented the couple, Sara can still sense the darkness that had possessed their stalker. But moving away from Clarington won’t stop the evil from pursuing Sara and her child...

Three Stories & Ten Poems, Ernest Hemingway's first book, contains two stories that were all that remained of Hemingway's first collection after the suitcase containing the originals was famously lost or stolen in 1922. "Up in Michigan," which was controversial in its time for its explicit sexuality, continues to stir debate and discussion. Gertrude Stein pronounced it "inaccrochable" while Irish novelist Edna O'Brien said, "I would ask his detractors, female or male, just to read...

Individual liberty rarely vanishes overnight. It erodes gradually—quietly, incrementally, and often in the name of good intentions.In The Forbidden Idea, Mark A. Monoscalco challenges the assumptions that have shaped modern political and economic thought, arguing that human flourishing depends on unfettered minds and voluntary cooperation—not coercion, central planning, or wealth redistribution.Through a careful examination of philosophy, economics, and history, Monoscalco ...

A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell Banks; filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Seán Hemingway, A. Scott Berg, and many others in this celebration and conversation between Hemingway and some of his mostperceptive and interesting rea...