Journey through the fascinating story of Lisp: How it came about and why it was designed the way it was. Meet the geniuses involved in its creation, including Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and the father of Lisp and artificial intelligence, John McCarthy. Lisp has informed the design of most programming languages in use today, and to learn how Lisp was constructed is to learn what programming is all about.Explore the mathematical foundations of the language and dive deeply into its e...

Sometimes ordinary people are called on to achieve extraordinary things.Sometimes it starts out simply with a thought or a vision. For Wil Groot,it literally started with a dream.‘I was walking on an unpaved dusty road and ran into some children playing.I asked them where their parents were. ‘We do not have parents,’ they repliedand continued playing. Later I saw a dilapidated farm and thought I’ll make ahouse for you from that.I woke...

The sons of Joseph run a successful carpentry business in Nazareth. At least, it was successful until the oldest brother, Jesus, left home to tell the world he will forgive their sins and save their souls. Now everyone is hearing outlandish reports of healings and exorcisms. Business is suffering: not many people want a stool made by the family of the local crazy man.When one of his brothers starts listening to Jesus' troubling speeches and fanatical Zealots descend on Nazareth to ...

You're the one, Nathaniel had said. You go and tell her, "No stones."Rivkah knows her own sin all too well. She knows the prophets' judgments against women like her—and still believes that prostitution doesn't even compare to the most secret and shameful incident of her past. Not even her best friend knows what she did. Only God knows.Determined to make her way to Caesarea Maritima to confront the mother of her beloved Nathaniel, Jorah has no time to consi...

If there is a way into madness, logic says there is a way out. Logic says. Tallis, a philosopher's servant, is sent to a Greek academy in Palestine only to discover that it has silently, ominously, disappeared. No one will tell him what happened, but he learns what has become of four of its scholars. One was murdered. One committed suicide. One worships in the temple of Dionysus. And one . . . one is a madman.From Christy Award–winning author Tracy Groot comes a tale of mystery, ho...

Ina Groot shares her poignant life story. At a young age, she faced severe abuse and violence by her father, which broke her internally and physically. Her mother stayed in the background and did not intervene. But despite the traumatic events, Ina continued to fight for a better life and eventually found strength in faith. Through her relationship with God, she found the courage to forgive her father and let go of what had haunted her for years.In "Broken Daughter," Ina shows how ...

2015 Christy Award winner!ECPA 2015 Christian Book Award Finalist!Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.Sentry Dance Pickett has watched, helpl...

Learn how to use the Power Query M formula language and its functions effectively for better data modeling and impactful business intelligence reports. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesGet comprehensive coverage of fundamental and advanced Power Query conceptsGain hands-on experience with practical examples based on real-world problemsDelve into the intricacies of Power Query M language ...

This collection combines three of Tracy Groot's historical fiction novels into one e-book for a great value!The Brother's KeeperThe sons of Joseph run a successful carpentry business in Nazareth. At least, it was successful until the oldest brother, Jesus, left home to tell the world he will forgive their sins and save their souls. Now everyone is hearing outlandish reports of healings and exorcisms. Business is suffering: not many people wa...

2016 Christian Book Award finalist (Fiction category)England, 1940. Clare Childs knew life would change when she unexpectedly inherited the Maggie Bright—a noble fifty-two-foot yacht. In fact, she's counting on it. But the boat harbors secrets. When a stranger arrives, searching for documents hidden onboard, Clare is pulled into a Scotland Yard investigation that could shed light on Hitler's darkest schemes and prompt America to action.Acro...

We live in a world spiraling through time to an appointed meeting with the One who set everything in motion. The family is being challenged on nearly every front-by the media, politically, educationally, by crumbling morals, and by those who have lost the ability to discern truth or see God. Many search for answers, often wandering in the darkness, not knowing where to find peace and safety, and the blind are leading the blind into a ditch.There are eternal truths we can find if we...

In "The Religion of The Chinese", scholarly book published in 1910, Jan Jakob Maria de Groot details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism, polydemonism, specters, ancestral worship, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. He thought that one spiritual essence could be detected beneath a great variety of religious, philosophical, and even political expressions in China, and his lifework was the discovery and exposition of that essence....