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Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on...

Twenty-year-old Ethan Jones has a secret that even his parents and foraging companions don't know - he's a mutant. And if he's found out, he'll be dragged away by the town's paramilitary Custodians to be dissected like a science project.The dull drudgery of Ethan's life is shattered when he rescues a mysterious Japanese girl from Skel savages while out foraging in the post-apocalyptic ruins of 2122AD Melbourne.When he takes the girl back to Newhome, she breaks the town's ri...

Acting for the Camera: A Teacher’s Guide is designed to help acting teachers create a hands-on course at their institution.The book provides a framework for setting up an engaging course where students can develop on-camera skills by practicing from both sides of the camera. It offers instructors a specific acting-for-the-camera technique to facilitate an experiential course and achieve dynamic on-screen performances with their students. Actors will develop their skills by...

The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial spring-like climate, while the Carthaginians christened them the ‘Purple Isles’ on account of the rich dye material they obtained there.Inhabitants have ranged from the early Berber-descended Guanches, of whom cultural traces still remain, to the rich blend of European an...

A century after a global nuclear war, eighteen-year-old Chelsea Thomas has spent her life living in fear of Newhome's paramilitary Custodians, due to a prohibited rogue ability.In the past week, her twin brother – a forager – has uncharacteristically run away from home and work after the mysterious death of a teammate. Something has also scared her normally unflappable father half to death, and, their family is threatened with eviction.But her brother's disappearance presen...

Stanley Donen’s Charade, released in 1963, is a deft, light, and witty thriller starring Audrey Hepburn at her most glamorous opposite a seasoned and mature Cary Grant.Hepburn plays Regina “Reggie” Lampert, a woman dissatisfied with her wealthy but secretive husband, whom she’s decided to divorce. At a skiing resort in the French Alps, she meets the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant).Both Reggie and Peter fly back to Paris on the same day. Reggie fi...

Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on...

"This meticulously researched account underlines the importance of the capital's docklands . . . from Roman landing to modern financial centre." — Discover BritainThe River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew. Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into the world's leading fina...

From the earliest times, people have used lotteries to make decisions--by drawing straws, tossing coins, picking names out of hats, and so on. We use lotteries to place citizens on juries, draft men into armies, assign students to schools, and even on very rare occasions, select lifeboat survivors to be eaten. Lotteries make a great deal of sense in all of these cases, and yet there is something absurd about them. Largely, this is because lottery-based decisions are not based upon reasons....

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition of EU Private International Law incorporates many developments in legislation and case-law since the publication of the second edition in 2010. Building on the book's reputation for comprehensive coverage and attention to detail, Peter Stone provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the subject.The book provides full analysis of the revised version of the Brussels I Regulation (in the form of Regulation 1215...

Eleven-year-old Brad Millner's got a problem.For starters, he's lost his memory. He can't even remember his own name. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's stranded on a space station. A space station that's going to crash into the earth in less than one hour and kill millions of people.That means Brad's got less than an hour to disable the space station's force field so that it burns up when it enters the earth's atmosphere. The only catch is that a terrible Clockwork Mechani...

Many real-world decision problems have multiple objectives. For example, when choosing a medical treatment plan, we want to maximize the efficacy of the treatment, but also minimize the side effects. These objectives typically conflict, e.g., we can often increase the efficacy of the treatment, but at the cost of more severe side effects. In this book, we outline how to deal with multiple objectives in decision-theoretic planning and reinforcement learning algorithms. To illustrate this, w...