"Local or visitor, London courses through your body as if its rainbow-coloured system of underground veins is somehow intrinsically linked to your own." ~ Chris Holmes Often waking before dawn, photographer Chris Holmes captures rare moments of solitude and calm as the city of London yawns, stretches and begins its day. His high-contrast scenes depict the miniature dramas unfolding all around us, obscured by the hectic pace of metropolitan life. Moving to London as an adult, Chris fell in love with the city in tandem with his development as a photographer and shoots his adopted home as both a romantic insider and an impartial admirer. Hidden in Chaos pairs Chris's cinematic images with the words of 18 poets of various backgrounds, adding more layers of texture and meaning to the complex but devoted relationship that London's residents and visitors have with the city's many faces. London's gray and glow, its daily ebb and flow, are celebrated, questioned and contemplated in this visual and poetic tribute. Includes poems by Elena Ashton, Shez Chung Blake, Troy Cabida, Laura Corns, Paul Cree, Caroline Druitt, George Duggan, Sam El-Bahja, Tom Gill, Bizhan Govindji, Imogen Hudson-Clayton, Danny Martin, Louise McStravick, Aaliyah Orridge, Astra Papachristodoulou, Abdul Patel, Ben See, and Janay Stephenson.

Michael Hendricks is not a good man. He doesn't deserve a good life. But he is very good at his job. He's the killing kind. He knows he's a bad person, but he still has a code: he doesn't work for anyone but himself, and he never kills civilians. He only hits hitters. It's not a bad way to make a living, but it's a great way to make enemies. And now the FBI and the mafia have Hendricks in their sights, he's about to learn just how good he really is...

Bayesian nonparametrics works - theoretically, computationally. The theory provides highly flexible models whose complexity grows appropriately with the amount of data. Computational issues, though challenging, are no longer intractable. All that is needed is an entry point: this intelligent book is the perfect guide to what can seem a forbidding landscape. Tutorial chapters by Ghosal, Lijoi and Prunster, Teh and Jordan, and Dunson advance from theory, to basic models and hierarchical modeling, to applications and implementation, particularly in computer science and biostatistics. These are complemented by companion chapters by the editors and Griffin and Quintana, providing additional models, examining computational issues, identifying future growth areas, and giving links to related topics. This coherent text gives ready access both to underlying principles and to state-of-the-art practice. Specific examples are drawn from information retrieval, NLP, machine vision, computational biology, biostatistics, and bioinformatics.

NOMINATED FOR THE 2017 ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL When the good guys can't save you, call a bad guy. A family's holiday video goes viral when it captures the moment of a terrorist attack...In the background, it reveals a witness long thought dead. The organisation the man agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to silence him, but Special Agent Charlie Thompson won't let that happen. Charlie turns to Michael Hendricks. He has history with those threatening the witness's life and getting involved will lead him right to them. All he has to do is enter an active crime scene and find someone with good reason to hide. With his skills, he figures it'll be easy. But nothing about this story is what it seems... Praise for THE KILLING KIND 'Roaring tough guy fun' The Sunday Times 'A one-sitting, extravagant, mind-blowing reading pleasure' David Baldacci 'Pure joy' New York Times Book Review

The 10 Pillars Of Success is a book to help you elevate your life to the next level and have a strong foundation. From the mind, values, execution, and hustle. These are just a few of the pillars you need to be the best version of yourself. The goal is not to motivate you. The goal is to get you to take action for yourself and unlock that potential deep within you. It's time you take control of your life and get the success you deserve!

Overcoming Mountains is a book for everyone. This book will encourage you to face your fears, adversity and most importantly chase your dreams. Every day someone is climbing a mountain. These mountains can be your finances, marriage, children, faith and more. Reading ""Overcoming Mountains"" is the tool to help you succeed. Included in this book is exercises to challenge your mind. Now let's start overcoming mountains!

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels Westlake wrote--Breakout, Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot, and Dirty Money--the University of Chicago Press pulls the ultimate score: for the first time ever, the entire Parker series will be available from a single publisher. With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers--con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops--loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker soon learns that not all prisons have bars. Featuring new forewords by Chris Holm, Duane Swierczynski, and Laura Lippman--celebrated crime writers, all--these masterworks of noir are the capstone to an extraordinary literary run that will leave you craving more. Written over the course of fifty years, the Parker novels are pure artistry, adrenaline, and logic both brutal and brilliant. Join Parker on his jobs and read them all again or for the first time. Just don't talk to the law.

"Steps to Manhood is a book full of poetry of a young man's growth through struggle as he fights to find his purpose in life. There is poetry for all audiences that will truly inspire. Each poem in this book will reach a certain individual, to relate with their own life experiences. Along with deep quotes within the pages to make you think or gain motivation.

The long-awaited second volume of the book which explains how the brain operates Compulsive Habits like smoking, and how hypnotherapy can shut them down. Of Volume I, reviewer Michael O'Sullivan (Hypnotherapy Articles) said: "The author's case is simple: nicotine is not addictive, and he makes a strong case in support of his argument... Numerous asides to various issues undoubtedly made for a more entertaining read... It's not often that parts of a book on a very serious subject have me by turns howling in laughter and clapping in appreciation of the author's attention to detail - this one did both. This has the potential to be a landmark book, and as such deserves a wide audience."

Every once in a while, an artist comes along whose talent is so undeniable that it inspires everyone who encounters it. British singer and songwriter Leona Lewis is such an artist. Her striking beauty, charmingly down-to-earth personality, and huge, soaring voice has taken over the UK, where her debut Spirit entered the album chart at Number One and became Britain’s fastest-selling debut of all time. Spirit’s lead-off single “Bleeding Love” —c o-written and produced by OneRepublic frontman Ryan “Alias” Tedder — claimed the Number One spot for seven weeks, and the album sold over 1 million copies in the UK in just 5 weeks. Ushering in 2008, Leona received four prestigious Brit Award nominations, the UK equivalent of the Grammy Awards.Spirit was written and produced by an array of top-notch hit-makers, the album is a showcase for Lewis’ powerhouse voice — which has evoked comparisons to Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Céline Dion. (Warned Entertainment Weekly: “ Divas, watch out!”) “Those women are the true divas,” Lewis insists. “They’re amazing performers whom I’ve listened to for years. These are the people who’ve inspired me to sing, so it’s flattering that I’m being compared to them. But I have a lot of hard work to do first!”