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The Global Village (Paperback)
Courttia Newland, Monique Roffey; Contributions by Olive Senior, Michael Gonzales, Catherine Selby, …
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Ambitious and contemporary, this groundbreaking collection offers
new short fiction by exciting, fresh talents and established
authors from around the world. Covering a myriad of topics--love,
sex, death, war, crime, and the environment--each tale boasts a
unique perspective and voice, with settings that move from India to
New York to Cyberspace. With vibrant characters--including drug
smugglers, call-center workers, and tourists--each of the 26
stories tackles personal and social issues in funny, poignant, and
often dark ways.
Volume 2 of a 2-volume elementary introduction to Abstract Algebra.
This textbook introduces the basic notions of group theory by a
thorough treatment of important examples, including complex
numbers, modular arithmetic, symmetries, and permutations. Also
included are applications to communications, cryptography, and
coding theory.
This textbook introduces the basic notions of group theory by a
thorough treatment of important examples, including complex
numbers, modular arithmetic, symmetries, and permutations.
Practical examples to cryptography and coding theory are also
included.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Justin Hill's Shieldwall . . .
superbly evoked the wordplay of the period's poetry as it unfolds a
compelling story of Earl Godwin's battles against the Norse' The
year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the
great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he
knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and
Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to
bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and
destined to become one of his country's great warriors. When
Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where
his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be
right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. Godwin must traverse the
meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England,
raising armies of monks, ploughmen and shepherds against the Viking
invader. With epic courage and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel
the butchering Danes in three great battles. But an old enemy, the
treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin's footsteps, and as the final
battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to
close.
Attacks on federal facilities in the U.S. have highlighted the need
to identify lessons learned from prior security incidents and apply
that knowledge to security procedures government-wide. Dozens of
federal law enforcement agencies provide physical security services
for domestic non-military federal facilities. The Interagency
Security Committee (ISC) is responsible for developing
government-wide physical security standards and co-ordinating
agencies to improve the protection of federal facilities. This book
examines the practices used to identify and apply lessons learned
and how agencies have used these practices; the actions the ISC has
taken to identify and apply lessons learned from attacks on federal
facilities; and the challenges to developing a government-wide
lessons learned process and the strategies agencies have used to
mitigate those challenges. The Government Accountability Office
(GAO) has reviewed documents and interviewed officials from 35
security and law enforcement agencies with experience protecting
selected tourist sites in cities in Greece, Israel, Italy and the
United States.
A Times Book of the Year 'A literary, intelligent read from a
masterful storyteller' In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is
dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty
years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of
Russia and ultimately to Constantinople and the Holy City of
Jerusalem. Drawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of
Empresses, the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of
power in the Byzantine Empire in his hands, and then give it all up
for a Russian princess and the chance to return home and lead his
own people, where he must fight the demons of his past, his family
and his countrymen in a long and bitter war for revenge and power.
Told in his own voice, this is the astonishing true story of the
most famous warrior in all Christendom: Harald Hardrada, the last
Viking.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, a beautiful girl is born in
a fort along the Great Wall of China, and is set to become the most
famous and celebrated courtesan of her age. Set in the 9th century,
Passing Under Heaven tells the tragic love story of Lily, a Chinese
poet and documents a time when Chinese women enjoyed a window of
unprecedented personal freedom - including the freedom to fall in
love. But when Lily pushes that freedom to its limits disaster
ensues, leaving her child and husband to forever mourn her
loss.;Based on historical fact, Passing Under Heaven is more than
the story of the end of a love affair, this book also chronicles
the passing of the Chinese golden age into civil war and ruin.
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