The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work.This piece of writing by famed samurai Musashi (1584-1645) is the single-most influential work on samurai swordsmanship, offering insights into samurai history, the Zen Buddhist state of ""no-mind"" that enables warriors to triumph and the philosophical meaning of Bushido—""the...

Slice of Lonely is a collection of delicate 60 second short stories. Each story is narrated by a different actor creating a thoughtful and immersive tapestry of storytelling.

"They say revenge is a dish best served cold.But Jason Trapp is losing his taste for it. For six months, his personal crusade has taken him around the world, mopping up the last of the Bloody Monday conspirators. There's only one left, and after the crooked financier Emmanuel Alstyne meets his maker, Trapp's debt will be paid in full. He vows he's done with the business of death.Unfortunately, it isn't done with him.After a simple kill mission goes sideways in Macau...

Afghanistan, 2022.You can check out any time you want.But you can never leave.Two decades ago, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to fumigate a rat's nest of international terrorists. And then it left.Now the Taliban are teetering on the edge of a fresh civil war, and a new breed of militants is growing out of the fertile ground of chaos. One group makes the Taliban regime look like kindergarten teachers by comparison. It's known as Isl...

Currently, random numbers used in computer programs to play poker, are pseudo - random. That means they are generated in a predictable way. In this book the computer programs used to play all the differenty game of poker,are truly random. Nothing is predictable. Through the ages, many have tried to successfully construct systems to play the games automatically without en- cumbrance. None has ever succeeded. This book shows the first computer programs that will allow the automatic playing o...