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Five years ago Joah was culled -- kidnapped by the government to be trained as a soldier. In the process, they erased his memory, destroying his past, his dreams, everything but his name. Armed with that alone, Joah escapes from the facility in search of someone to help him recall the man he used to be.That person is Tobin, Joah's husband, who never gave up hope of finding him again. He refuses to believe that the strength of his love alone won't be enough to bring back Joah's memo...

Sixteen-year-old Erin Misrahe just wants to be like everyone else in her new school. But Erin has more to worry about than passing AP Chemistry or making friends. In times of stress, she has always been overcome by her alter ego, Shevaun, whose violent behavior wreaks havoc on those around her. Erin can never remember anything about these episodes, and she’s grateful to have been spared them for a while.But when a protective friend comes back into Erin’s life, he insists that Sheva...

Time travel was not among the accomplishments Charlie Lowe had anticipated — nor was persuading any sensible woman to marry a lecherous French count with aspirations in indoor plumbing.Charlie Lowe has two obsessions: saving the Stoneford Village Green from unscrupulous developers and researching her ancestor, Louis Augustus Duran, whose mysterious origins elude her.When a freak lightning strike and a rogue computer virus send her back to 1825, Charlie disc...

Digital DNA: The Architecture of Persistence is not a book about artificial intelligence as technology, but about identity as an architectural problem.As intelligent systems evolve, adapt, and learn, a deeper question emerges:What allows a synthetic being to remain itself over time?This book introduces Digital DNA (DDNA), a structural framework for designing persistent artificial identities—identities capable of continuity, restraint, and ethical co...

This early work Otto Jespersen was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Growth and Structure of the English Language' is a scholarly linguistic study. Otto Jespersen was born in Randers, Denmark on 16th July 1869. He worked as an academic at Copenhagen University and rose to the position of professor of English, a post he held from 1893 to 1925. Jespersen made a considerable contribution to the study of linguistics and some o...

Join Daniel Reisberg, Patricia & Clifford Lunneborg Professor of Psychology at Reed College, in an exploration of the slippery and surprising nature of memory.You rely on your memory in virtually every aspect of your life. In this engrossing audio series, cognitive psychology professor Daniel Reisberg shares modern scientific research on the function and failures of memory. You’ll cover theoretical points, delving into the biology of memory and memory disorders, as...

This is an off-the-wall application of one person’s growth in the Christian faith that offers the reader an insight into their own faith as it relates to life, themselves, and others. The book offers a quite candid interpretation of various selected art forms such as paintings, musicals, and popular songs and offers a guide for others to consider or look at art around us from a faith (Christian) point of view, which does not exclude other faiths like Jewish, Muslim, and others.“Bil...

Book One in the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the expanded universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation!A BRAZEN HEISTCaptain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data’s android brother B-4—and for what sinister purpose.A BROKEN PROMISEOne desperate father risks all for the son he abandoned forty years ago—but is he ready to pay the price for redemption?A DARING MI...

Tony's life is ordinary by design. Same route to work. Same happy hour drinks. Same daily routines. A small, sufficient world.But there's a break-in while he's at work. The apartment is untouched, save for the deleted, unheard voicemail. And then the dread sets in - quiet, sourceless, and total.As Tony begins to unravel, the world around him shifts in ways he can't quite name. Details he's certain of turn uncertain. Memories he trusts begin to betray him. And two people who...

The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that Protestantism was a religion without memory. This volume shows how religious memory was sometimes attacked and extinguished, while at other times rehabilitated in a modified guise. It investigates how new modes of memorialisation were embodied...

Saving an art-created world changed little for Bartholomew Borax III. His germaphobe mother still makes him bathe six times a day. He can’t tell anyone about the mystical Artania. And he still must sculpt in secret. But when Bartholomew, alongside skater girl Gwen and fellow artist Alex, are yanked back to the magical world of Artania, they discover that much has changed.Artanians are being infected with amnesia and no one can find a cure. With epic battles, surreal creatures and a...

This is a collection of chapters by some of the most influential memory researchers. Chapters focus on a wide range of key areas of research. The main emphasis throughout the book is on theoretical issues and how they relate to existing empirical work. The contributions reveal that memory continues to be an important research area and they provide a state-of- the-art perspective on this central aspect of cognitive psychology.