In the common course of events, people choose houses. Sometimes, though, it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes houses choose people: They reach out, they whisper, they entice and enfold.
Novelist Emma Roth was convinced that New York City was the only place to live, until the day she encountered the old Victorian mansion overlooking the Long Island Sound. Her husband, Roger, a chaos physicist, was entranced by the ever-changing convergence of land, water, and air; their son, Zack, by a backyard large enough for a real game of soccer. But for Emma, it was the octagonal tower library, whose panoramic view suggested a sort of omniscience no writer could resist.
Yet no sooner do they move into their dream house than the seemingly impossible occurs. Characters in a computer game address cruel personal remarks to Emma. Her manuscript is tampered with, her home invaded, her family threatened. Before long it is obvious that her tormentor not only has access to her home and her computer’s hard drive, but also to her innermost thoughts, secrets, and fears. Hers is an intimate enemy, both vicious and elusive.
Because these things happen only when Emma is alone in the house, she is driven to question her own sanity. Could Roger be right when he hints that it’s all in her head? Local rumor has it that the house is haunted, but Emma, a writer of ghost stories herself, no more believes in real ghosts than professional magicians believe in magic. As the trespasses into her life grow more bizarre and more dangerous, suspicion is cast in ever-widening arcs, until Emma is left to question every relationship she has, including her marriage.
Suspicion is an irresistible and addictively compelling tale about a woman who is both haunted and hunted.
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Author: Barbara Rogan Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781451699982 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2012 352 pages
Emerging Lessons from Post-Conflict and Fragile Situations
This second volume of the Partnership for Democratic Governance Series investigates whether ‘contracting out’ core government functions and services has been conducive to capacity development. Each case study discusses the evidence and emerging lessons of contracting out in fragile and post-conflict situations.
The chapters contained in this publication first appeared as contributions to the Partnership for Democratic Governance's collaborative online platform, PDF Online. Through this platform, users are able to post comments on discussion papers, send messages to the authors and easily find ifnormation relevant to the topics covered in this publication. To join the PDG Online Community, please visit www.pdg-online.org.
Author: Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ISBN: 9789264066212 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2009 173 pages
The first of its kind, this unique text identifies the knowledge needed by current and aspiring school district CEOs to become high performers.
Author: John R. Hoyle; Lars G. (Gordon) Bjork; Virginia Collier; Thomas Eugene Glass Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9781483351919 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2004 280 pages
The narrative deals with the psychology of a man who is the victim of social injustice yet does not take any action to alter his fate. His failure to realize that there are others like him increases his feelings of alienation. An elaboration of the inferiority complex that is suffered by him is given by dwelling on his personality traits.
In the last thirty years, the number of lawyers in the United States and Canada has more than tripled, and today as many women as men are entering legal practice. The sudden, dramatic increase of women in the profession would seem to signify a new era of equality in the legal profession. However, stereotypes about women’s abilities to balance responsibilities at work and home hamper their upward mobility in this male-dominated field. Battling sexual discrimination, women in law grapple with long-held assumptions about parenting, inferring that women eventually abandon their careers in order to take care of home and children. A large percentage of women leave the profession dissatisfied and distressed or seek part-time solutions, and those women who do stay in practice often find there is a ceiling on their status and monetary compensation.Gender in Practice demonstrates and explains how the structure of legal practice has changed in recent decades, often to the disadvantage of women. The issues addressed here, such as conflicts between careers and family, departures from practice, and barriers to women’s promotions and earnings are of great importance to members of the profession. Looking at the careers of both men and women and using information culled from two surveys that include nearly two thousand lawyers, this revealing book traces occupational and personal experiences and analyzes these patterns in terms of work and gender. The findings are linked to practical proposals for change, some of which have already found a place in the profession.A major contribution to discussions of sexual equality in the legal workplace, Gender in Practice offers detailed insights into the current and future status of women in the law. Lawyers, law professors, and anyone concerned with gender inequality and equal rights will find this to be an interesting and informative work.
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Author: John Hagan; Fiona Kay Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195357721 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 1995 248 pages
A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames…
Hitler’s penal regiments advance on Poland. Himmler has given the order: Warsaw must be razed to the ground.
But the Polish Home Army are not willing to give in to the German troops so easily.
As the city erupts into an inferno of flames and gunfire, Sven and his comrades find themselves caught between the sadism of the SS and the guerrilla warfare of the Polish Resistance…
REIGN OF HELL is a gripping insight into the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and the bloodshed that ensued as the Polish tried desperately to liberate themselves from the German occupation.
Author: Sven Hassel Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9780297865780 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2010 272 pages
Physicist Stephen M. Barr’s lucid Student’s Guide to Natural Science aims to give students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr begins with the contributions of the ancient Greeks, in particular the two great ideas that reality can be understood by the systematic use of reason and that phenomena have natural explanations. He goes on to discuss, among other things, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role played by religion in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major breakthroughs of modern physics, including how many newer “revolutionary” theories are in fact related to much older ones. Throughout this thoughtful guide, Barr draws his readers’ attention to the larger themes and trends of scientific history, including the increasing unification and “mathematization” of our view of the physical world that has resulted in the laws of nature appearing more and more as forming a single harmonious mathematical edifice.
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Author: Stephen M Barr Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute ISBN: 9781497645097 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2014 90 pages
Lehrbuch der Statistik, das sich an einen Leser- und Nutzerkreis aus dem Bereich der Sozialpädagogik oder Sozialarbeit wendet. Die Autoren haben sich bemüht, das “statistische Denken” in einfacher und verständlicher Form darzulegen. Für das Verständnis beim Durcharbeiten des Buches wird kein hohes mathematisches Vorwissen vorausgesetzt. Jedes Kapitel wird von einem Aufgabenblock abgeschlossen. Die Lösungen dazu sind im Anhang zu finden.
Author: Rüdiger Ostermann; Karin Wolf-Ostermann Publisher: De Gruyter ISBN: 9783486599473 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2005 328 pages
Nong Nor is a prehistoric coastal site located in the Chonburi Province, Southeast Asia. It was excavated between 1991 and 1993 and shows two phases of occupation: the first, c.2500 BC, a brief stay by a community of hunter-gatherers living on shellfish, dolphins and sharks; the second, an extensive cemetery of 170 graves dating to 1100-700 BC, some with grave goods and a small group of unusually wealthy ones. The authors, in their conclusion, suggest that the first inhabitants of Nong Nor may have been ancestral to the later inhabitants of nearby Khok Phanom Di.
Author: C.F.W. Higham; R. Thosarat Publisher: Fine Arts Department of Thailand ISBN: 9781782978671 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2014 595 pages
This book is the first of its kind to discuss error estimation with a model-based approach. From the basics of classifiers and error estimators to distributional and Bayesian theory, it covers important topics and essential issues pertaining to the scientific validity of pattern classification.
Error Estimation for Pattern Recognition focuses on error estimation, which is a broad and poorly understood topic that reaches all research areas using pattern classification. It includes model-based approaches and discussions of newer error estimators such as bolstered and Bayesian estimators. This book was motivated by the application of pattern recognition to high-throughput data with limited replicates, which is a basic problem now appearing in many areas. The first two chapters cover basic issues in classification error estimation, such as definitions, test-set error estimation, and training-set error estimation. The remaining chapters in this book cover results on the performance and representation of training-set error estimators for various pattern classifiers.
Additional features of the book include:
• The latest results on the accuracy of error estimation
• Performance analysis of re-substitution, cross-validation, and bootstrap error estimators using analytical and simulation approaches
• Highly interactive computer-based exercises and end-of-chapter problems
This is the first book exclusively about error estimation for pattern recognition.
Ulisses M. Braga Neto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Braga Neto received an NSF CAREER Award for his work on error estimation for pattern recognition with applications in genomic signal processing. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
Edward R. Dougherty is a Distinguished Professor, Robert F. Kennedy ’26 Chair, and Scientific Director at the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He is a fellow of both the IEEE and SPIE, and he has received the SPIE Presidents Award. Dr. Dougherty has authored several books including Epistemology of the Cell: A Systems Perspective on Biological Knowledge and Random Processes for Image and Signal Processing (Wiley-IEEE Press).
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Author: Ulisses M. Braga Neto; Edward R. Dougherty Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781119079378 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2015 336 pages
