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The taming of the shrew… Tallulah Silver is tough. She has to be—because she’s the Choctaw nation’s only female shadow hunter, and because she doesn’t know how else to survive the loss that almost destroyed her. Payton Rodgers has devoted his life to protecting his pack. But when mauled bodies start to pile up in the bayou, Payton begins to wonder if Tallulah might be right about werewolves deserving the blame. As darkness gathers around them, Tallulah will have to decide if she can risk opening herself up to love again. And Payton will have to determine where his true loyalties lie.

Apples and oranges, dogs and cats, everybody knows witches and immortals don’t mix. A young witch, Callie, returns home from exile after a traumatic Ouija board incident six years earlier. She falls for classmate James MacLauren and struggles to keep her magical abilities a secret from him. Then there’s the even trickier problem that her rogue warlock father and his coven will kill anyone who prevents Callie from joining them in dark magic. Someone like James . . . But James has a secret of his own. He’s part of a hidden race of immortals living in the Appalachian hollows and the last...

It’s said that filling the observable universe with an infinite number of monkeys on infinite typewriters and letting them type for an infinite amount of time would eventually produce Shakespeare’s works. However, what would happen if we applied the infinite monkey theorem to computer programs capable of learning and evolution? Would a thousand such smart machines thrown together and allowed to evolve undisturbed produce a human mind or something much greater? Well, scientists decided to give it a go and see what happened.

Something new is brewing in the 17th century! Fans of the 1632 series have often asked “What's going on in North America?” Herbert Sakalauks has set out to let you know in his short novel The Danish Scheme. Christian IV, King of Denmark, Sir Thomas Roe, the English Ambassador to Christian's court, various elements of the extended Nasi/Abrabanel family have arranged an unusually well-funded and well led expedition to North America.

Paul Atreides is the man who overthrew a corrupt empire and then launched a terrible jihad across the galaxy, shedding the blood of trillions. The now-hated tyrant, the blind Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, has walked off into the endless desert of the planet Arrakis, known as Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his mother, Jessica, with her daughter, Alia, the brave troubadour-warrior Gurney Halleck, the resurrected Duncan Idaho, the Fremen leader Stilgar, as well as Paul's wife-in-name and biographer, Princess Irulan, to try to hold an empire together.

Si usted está en la etapa de principiante y busca obtener nuevos conocimientos sobre el aprendizaje automático, entonces siga leyendo.... No escuche este audiolibro si usted está buscando un libro de texto aburrido que contenga mucha jerga de matemáticas y programación. Todos los días, alguien está renunciando a aprender sobre el aprendizaje automático. Muchas personas se pierden de continuar su carrera, y tal vez incluso el progreso de nuestra especie sin ni siquiera darse cuenta.

"Chelovek-nevidimka" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu fantasticheskomu romanu Gerberta Uellsa. Ispolniteli: N.Podgornyy, YU.Puzyrev, S.TSeyts, A.Kazanskaya, E.Fedorov, A.YUr'ev, V.Murav'ev, E.Hanaeva i dr.

Hinter vielen typischen Familienschwierigkeiten stecken keine Erziehungsfehler. Vielmehr passt das evolutionäre Gepäck, mit dem Kinder auf die Welt kommen, nicht mehr zu den veränderten Lebensbedingungen unserer modernen Welt. Mit einem neuen Verständnis für kindliche Entwicklung können wir Wege finden, um den Bedürfnissen von Eltern UND Kindern gerecht zu werden. In der Erziehung blicken Eltern in die Zukunft. Sie wollen ihren Kindern ja einen Weg weisen. Dabei vergessen sie leicht die Vergangenheit.

Nella Rocca del pianeta Gammu, il dodicesimo ghola di Duncan Idaho è osservato attentamente dalle Reverende Madri Schwangyu e Lucilla. Il Bene Gesserit ha dei progetti per lui, e ha richiamato in servizio il Maestro d'Armi Miles Teg per il suo addestramento. Tuttavia, i piani del Bene Gesserit rischiano di essere sconvolti da una nuova minaccia: le Matres Onorate, in contrasto con le Reverende Madri, sono tornate dalla Dispersione e, grazie ai loro poteri straordinari, stanno soggiogando i popoli al proprio volere.

Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath Herbert Spencer. In it, he uses the term "fitness" in applying his ideas of Lamarckian evolution to society, saying for example that "It is clear that any being whose constitution is to be moulded into fitness for new conditions of existence must be placed under those conditions. Or, putting the proposition specifically — it is clear that man can become adapted to the social state, only by being retained in the social state. This granted, it follows that...

Half light. The shadow of his past was always with him. But he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next.Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles onto a dangerous organisation and, suddenly, more than just his life is at stake. It's his past, his future, his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the The Jonah. And learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others.

Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's North. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal.

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States, and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes at a great cost. The United States is ruled by a fascist green police state, and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them is an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma.

If the Chinese people were to file one by one past a given point, the interesting procession would never come to an end. Before the last man of those living to-day had gone by, another and a new generation would have grown up, and so on for ever and ever. The importance, as a factor in the sum of human affairs, of this vast nation, - of its language, of its literature, of its religions, of its history, of its manners and customs, - goes therefore without saying. Yet a serious attention to China and her affairs is of very recent growth.

In it's heydey, Grossinger's Bakery was the one-stop shop for Upper West Siders seeking baked goods and traditional European treats. Breaking Eggs tells the story of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants during the depression in NYC and the business that grew into a legendary bakery. To this day, customers and grandchildren of those original customers still pine for the famous praline ice cream cake created by the author's father. This book takes you on a journey from immigration to the final days of the bakery's physical presence on the ever-changing Upper West Side.

Herbert Rosendorfer widmet sich diesmal auf seine unnachahmliche Weise dem Jahrhundert nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Eine spannende, ironisch-bissige und aufschlussreiche Geschichtsstunde. Gelesen von Gert Heidenreich

¿Le gustaría aprender sobre minería de datos pero no desea escuchar un libro aburrido? El presente audiolibro de minería de datos podría ser la respuesta que está buscando.... ¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado cómo las empresas pueden proporcionarle datos personalizados que se adapten a sus necesidades o cómo Facebook muestra las noticias e historias relacionadas con su historial de búsqueda? En este caso, la minería de datos es la respuesta a estas dos preguntas.

“The Bottoms” succeeded to “Hell Row.” Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brook-side on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away. The brook ran under the alder-trees, scarcely soiled by these small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin.

Die neue Zeit drängt herein. Die Reformation schlägt ein Loch in die scheinbare Raum-Zeit-Konstante der bisherigen Geschichte, und Europa erfährt nicht gekannte Veränderungen. Herbert Rosendorfer schlägt ein neues, bewegendes Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte auf. Immer hat er dabei die Menschen im Blick, ihre Lebensbedingungen und die Beweggründe hinter den Ereignissen...

Este libro es una jaula sin barrotes donde merodean algunas de esas criaturas: la marchita eternidad de Acapulco y la vocación de Mazatlán como food court del alma; una temporada de rockstar en el desierto y un recuerdo del Mundial de Alemania 2006 robado por el autor a un examante de su novia; un hotel en Shanghái donde toca la banda de jazz más antigua del mundo y la visita de la reina de Inglaterra al puerto de La Paz, Baja California Sur.