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Preston

By: Al Mathison

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Nestled in a lush valley along the banks of the Root River, Preston, Minnesota, is ideally located at the geographic center of Fillmore County. The earliest settlers found the area rich with everything they needed to build a community: timber, building stone, water power, and fertile soils. By 1860, Preston was a bustling business and government center in the heart of the most populous county in Minnesota. With rare and vintage photographs culled from the collection of the Fillmore County History Center, as well as from the albums and scrapbooks of many local residents, this book brings together nearly 200 images of Preston and its environs.

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Arcadia Publishing

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143963131X

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9781439631317

Cracking Codes with Python

An Introduction to Building and Breaking Ciphers

By: Al Sweigart

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Cracking Codes with Python

An Introduction to Building and Breaking Ciphers

By: Al Sweigart

Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers—algorithms used to create and send secret messages! After a crash course in Python programming basics, you’ll learn to make, test, and hack programs that encrypt text with classical ciphers like the transposition cipher and Vigenère cipher. You’ll begin with simple programs for the reverse and Caesar ciphers and then work your way up to public key cryptography, the type of encryption used to secure today’s online transactions, including digital signatures, email, and Bitcoin. Each program includes the full code and a line-by-line explanation of how things work. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to code in Python and you’ll have the clever programs to prove it! You’ll also learn how to: - Combine loops, variables, and flow control statements into real working programs - Use dictionary files to instantly detect whether decrypted messages are valid English or gibberish - Create test programs to make sure that your code encrypts and decrypts correctly - Code (and hack!) a working example of the affine cipher, which uses modular arithmetic to encrypt a message - Break ciphers with techniques such as brute-force and frequency analysis There’s no better way to learn to code than to play with real programs. Cracking Codes with Python makes the learning fun!

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No Starch Press

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1593278225

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9781593278229

The Irregular Ordination of Preacher Jim

By: Al Latimer

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The Irregular Ordination of Preacher Jim

By: Al Latimer

On a moonlit night in the summer of 1917 in a rural southwest Georgia town, a twelve-year-old Negro boy hears the senator’s wife cry for help. He fights her attacker and saves her life. From that point forward he enjoys limitless favors from the couple. Soon he is a harmonica-playing, juke-jointing, moonshining gambler, whose hot temper gets him into one fight after another. According to one prominent person in his life, he is on an unalterable course to the grave. He tunes out all the unsolicited advice he receives about dropping his bad habits. That is until the cold winds of trying circumstances and perplexing events force him to make some difficult decisions. At the crossroads of his introspection, he meets a young lady who helps him change the course of his life. He finally responds to the calling he has long ignored. When his brother is murdered by the Klan, the community holds its breath in anticipation of his seeking revenge. His restraint shocks everyone. His own visit from the night riders comes a short time later. The story of how he survived is truly remarkable.

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Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency

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1681810832

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9781681810836

Power System Fault Diagnosis

A Wide Area Measurement Based Intelligent Approach

By: Md Shafiullah,M. A. Abido,A. H. Al-Mohammed

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Power System Fault Diagnosis

A Wide Area Measurement Based Intelligent Approach

By: Md Shafiullah,M. A. Abido,A. H. Al-Mohammed

Power System Fault Diagnosis: A Wide Area Measurement Based Intelligent Approach is a comprehensive overview of the growing interests in efficient diagnosis of power system faults to reduce outage duration and revenue losses by expediting the restoration process.This book illustrates intelligent fault diagnosis schemes for power system networks, at both transmission and distribution levels, using data acquired from phasor measurement units. It presents the power grid modeling, fault modeling, feature extraction processes, and various fault diagnosis techniques, including artificial intelligence techniques, in steps. The book also incorporates uncertainty associated with line parameters, fault information (resistance and inception angle), load demand, renewable energy generation, and measurement noises. - Provides step-by-step modeling of power system networks (distribution and transmission) and faults in MATLAB/SIMULINK and real-time digital simulator (RTDS) platforms - Presents feature extraction processes using advanced signal processing techniques (discrete wavelet and Stockwell transforms) and an easy-to-understand optimal feature selection method - Illustrates comprehensive results in the graphical and tabular formats that can be easily reproduced by beginners - Highlights various utility practices for fault location in transmission networks, distribution systems, and underground cables.

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Elsevier

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032388430X

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9780323884303

The Hump

The 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, in the First Major Battle of the Vietnam War

By: Al Conetto

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The Hump

The 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, in the First Major Battle of the Vietnam War

By: Al Conetto

Operation Hump, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, took place November 5-9, 1965, in South Vietnam's War Zone D. Known as "The Hump," it would change the nature of the war, escalating it from a hit-and-run guerrilla conflict to a bloody contest between Communist main force units and American commands of battalion size or larger. This memoir of an Operation Hump survivor begins with the sequence of events leading up to the battle, from the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Drawing on official Army documents and the recollections of fellow combatants, the author not only describes the battle in detail but explains the war's basis in fabrications at the highest levels of the U.S. government. His experiences with PTSD after the war and his eventual return to Vietnam in the 1990s are included.

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McFarland

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0786499257

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9780786499250

With Uplifted Head

Preaching Hope

By: Al Machiela,Dan Lioy

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With Uplifted Head

Preaching Hope

By: Al Machiela,Dan Lioy

With Uplifted Head: Preaching Hope is a book that exalts Christ by giving insight into the biblical teaching about hope. The book also shows interested readers how to preach in a way that will foster hope among members of their congregations. Because the book is designed for both pastors and lay church leaders, it does more than just present a theological understanding of biblical hope. It also has plenty of suggestions for preaching hope directly and indirectly. The authors maintain that only biblical hope, focused on the resurrection and affirmed by the renewing Holy Spirit, can change believers internally and create anticipation for a future in the presence of the living God.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498275915

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9781498275910

Social Workers' Desk Reference

By: Lisa Rapp-McCall,Al Roberts,Kevin Corcoran

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Social Workers' Desk Reference

By: Lisa Rapp-McCall,Al Roberts,Kevin Corcoran

What makes the profession of social work distinctive and exciting? How do social workers differ from sociologists, psychologists, and other counselors, advocates, and helping professionals? Which degrees, licenses, and credentials can social workers obtain? And in what kinds of work, or fields of practice, can social workers specialize? All these questions are worth considering when one feels led to become a professional social worker"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190095547

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Golf's All-Time Firsts, Mosts, Leasts, and a Few Nevers

By: Al Barkow

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Golf's All-Time Firsts, Mosts, Leasts, and a Few Nevers

By: Al Barkow

Hereis the ultimate golf reference book, meant to feed golfers’ insatiable hunger for the statistics and trivia of their game. This book answers such burning questions as who broke the most clubs during a single temper tantrum (Lefty Stackhouse, 14) and the rationale behind 18 holes (it was completely arbitrary). From the sublime to the ridiculous, these fun facts will thoroughly entertain from tee to green.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589796772

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9781589796775

Work-Life Advantage

Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation

By: Al James

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Work-Life Advantage

Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation

By: Al James

Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of ‘family-friendly’ working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms’ capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth. Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and family Addresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow ‘business case’ for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist ‘dual agenda’ Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the “ideal worker” and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitments Based on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118944828

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9781118944820

Utilising Fiction to Promote English Language Acquisition

By: Suhair Al Alami

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Utilising Fiction to Promote English Language Acquisition

By: Suhair Al Alami

The teaching of English in the United Arab Emirates is based upon the communicative approach and aims to enable EFL students to employ language skills for communication purposes, as appropriate. Personal experience and the author’s colleagues’ observations, however, reveal that a number of EFL university students fail to achieve adequate communicative competence, which, in turn, does not qualify them to exploit the foreign language of English as required by their curricula as well as by today’s world. Central to university education in the United Arab Emirates is critical thinking. It seems reasonable, then, to assume that EFL university students are well-equipped to tackle a reading text and to handle a writing task, demonstrating through such activities an adequate repertoire of critical thinking skills. Personal experience and the author’s colleagues’ observations, however, indicate that this does not apply to a number of EFL university students studying in the country. Seeking an effective remedy, the author argues that utilising literature in the EFL classroom would be beneficial in terms of many essential aspects. Based on a three-year research project conducted at a private university in Dubai involving a number of EFL students, the book concludes with some suggestions with regards to what criteria to adopt when utilising literary texts. The current book, as such, is expected to be of use and interest to: applied linguists (as the study proposes an approach to integrating the teaching of language, literature, communication and critical thinking, with the ultimate goal of promoting communicative competence and enhancing critical thinking on the part of EFL learners); curricula designers (since the study introduces a course for the enhancement of communicative competence and critical thinking); and EFL instructors (because the study offers instructional material which can be adopted or adapted when teaching EFL university students).

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443851116

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9781443851114

Public IT Investment

By: Dr. Abdullah Ali Al-Hatmi

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Public IT Investment

By: Dr. Abdullah Ali Al-Hatmi

The frequent failure of IT projects in the public sector suggests that significant underlying problems remain unsolved. IT projects typically involve a substantial commitment of resources and funds; consequently, project failure can result in the loss of not just the funds invested, but also of the benefits that would have been realized by successful implementation. The delivery of IT projects on time and on budget is inadequate to measure value realization. This research analyzes five Strategic Alignment (SA) perspectives that affect organizational performance in an Australian public agency when implementing IT projects: Organization Strategy (S), Knowledge (K), Decision-making (DM), Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Public Value Plan (PVP).This book shows how public IT decision-makers can realize the benefits of IT investment by effectively employing SA perspectives in IT management.

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Partridge Singapore

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148289565X

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Preston

By: Al Mathison

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Preston

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Preston

Preston

Cracking Codes with Python

Cracking Codes with Python

The Irregular Ordination of Preacher Jim

The Irregular Ordination of Preacher Jim

Power System Fault Diagnosis

Power System Fault Diagnosis

The Hump

The Hump

With Uplifted Head

With Uplifted Head

Social Workers' Desk Reference

Social Workers' Desk Reference

Golf's All-Time Firsts, Mosts, Leasts, and a Few Nevers

Golf's All-Time Firsts, Mosts, Leasts, and a Few Nevers

Work-Life Advantage

Work-Life Advantage

Utilising Fiction to Promote English Language Acquisition

Utilising Fiction to Promote English Language Acquisition

Public IT Investment

Public IT Investment

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