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The Adam Black Thrillers Books One to Three

Unleashed, Violation, and Venomous

By: Karl Hill

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The Adam Black Thrillers Books One to Three

Unleashed, Violation, and Venomous

By: Karl Hill

Together in one collection: the first three adventures of an ex-SAS captain turned lawyer who administers his own brand of justice. Unleashed Adam Black, an ex SAS Captain, is randomly attacked while out for his nightly jog in the quiet Scottish village of Eaglesham. But Black does not take the ambush lying down and while defending himself kills two of the three attackers. Although the police decide not to press charges against Black, the men who assaulted him have links to a vicious criminal, Peter Grant. Swearing revenge, Grant begins a campaign of terror against Black, his wife and daughter. Black refuses to be intimidated. But at what cost? Violation When Adam Black learns he is the sole beneficiary of a stranger’s will, he feels compelled to investigate. But to uncover the truth, Black will travel a violent and treacherous path. A path which leads to devastating consequences. To endure this challenge, Black must once again resort to the skill he is an expert in; killing for survival. But will Black make it back in one piece or will it result in his undoing? Venomous Black must infiltrate one of Scotland’s hardest prisons to uncover crucial information from a psychopath nicknamed the Red Serpent. He may know the whereabouts of a recently abducted young woman. Unfortunately, the clock is ticking. When Black is betrayed, he’s forced to escape the prison to find the woman and the identity of her abductor. But can Black rescue the woman and stop a deranged psychopath? And will he make it out of this alive? Black knows one thing for sure: there will be bloodshed. The Adam Black Series is the perfect read for fans of authors like Mark Dawson, James Deegan, and Rob Sinclair.

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1504070577

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The Adam Black Thrillers Books One to Four

Unleashed, Violation, Venomous, and Fury

By: Karl Hill

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The Adam Black Thrillers Books One to Four

Unleashed, Violation, Venomous, and Fury

By: Karl Hill

Four action-packed thrillers featuring the fearless former SAS captain, now in one volume! Unleashed An ex-SAS captain fights back and survives a violent attack in his quiet Scottish village—only to wind up with himself and his family in the crosshairs of a vengeful Glaswegian gangster . . . Violation When Adam Black learns he’s the sole beneficiary of a stranger’s will, he soon discovers that the puzzling legacy is shrouded in mystery. To uncover the truth behind it, Black will travel a violent and treacherous path that leads to devastating consequences—and forces him to resort to his expertise in killing for survival. Venomous The prime minister’s daughter has been abducted, and to gain crucial information from a psychopath nicknamed The Red Serpent, Adam Black must infiltrate one of Scotland’s hardest prisons . . . Fury A stranger who gives Black a book, claiming it holds the key to his wife’s murder. A Hollywood actor shooting in Glasgow who makes a strange request that throw Black’s life into turmoil. And a long-dormant killer gruesomely murdering young woman. All will entangle Black in his most mysterious case yet.

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1504073568

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The Adam Black Thrillers Books One to Five

Unleashed, Violation, Venomous, Fury, and Finale

By: Karl Hill

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The Adam Black Thrillers Books One to Five

Unleashed, Violation, Venomous, Fury, and Finale

By: Karl Hill

Five novels of action and suspense in one volume, featuring the special forces veteran who’s now a lawyer—but still combat-ready. Unleashed An ex-SAS captain fights back and survives a violent attack in his quiet Scottish village—only to wind up with himself and his family in the crosshairs of a vengeful Glaswegian gangster . . . Violation When Adam Black learns he’s the sole beneficiary of a stranger’s will, the puzzling legacy is shrouded in mystery. To find the truth behind it, he will travel a violent and treacherous path that leads to devastating consequences—and forces him to resort to his expertise in killing for survival. Venomous The prime minister’s daughter has been abducted, and to gain crucial information from a psychopath nicknamed the Red Serpent, Black must infiltrate one of Scotland’s toughest prisons. Fury A stranger gives Black a book, claiming it holds the key to his wife’s murder. A Hollywood actor filming in Glasgow makes a strange request that throws Black’s life into turmoil. And a long-dormant killer re-emerges with gruesome results. All will entangle Black in his most mysterious case yet . . . Finale Black investigates an old friend’s murder as a favor to his grieving widow—but as he plunges into a mystery involving money laundering and human trafficking, he may go to his own grave without any answers . . .

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1504076818

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Violation

A Completely Gripping Fast-Paced Action Thriller

By: Karl Hill

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Violation

A Completely Gripping Fast-Paced Action Thriller

By: Karl Hill

A mysterious inheritance draws an ex-SAS captain into danger in this action-packed crime thriller by the author of Unleashed. A mysterious legacy. A man on a mission. A mission that might be his last. When lawyer Adam Black learns he is the sole beneficiary of a stranger’s will, he begins to ask questions. Why would a man Black has never met or heard of leave him everything he owns? And as Black looks deeper, he discovers that the legacy is shrouded in mystery. To uncover the truth, Black will travel a violent and treacherous path that leads to devastating consequences. This is Adam Black’s biggest challenge yet. And, to endure it, he must once again resort to the skill he is an expert in; killing for survival. But will Black make it back in one piece or will it result in his undoing? Violation is the perfect read for fans of authors like Mark Dawson, James Deegan, and Rob Sinclair. It can be read as the second part in the Adam Black Series or as an unmissable stand-alone.

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1504070550

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Randomness And Undecidability In Physics

By: Karl Svozil

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Randomness And Undecidability In Physics

By: Karl Svozil

Recent findings in the computer sciences, discrete mathematics, formal logics and metamathematics have opened up a royal road for the investigation of undecidability and randomness in physics. A translation of these formal concepts yields a fresh look into diverse features of physical modelling such as quantum complementarity and the measurement problem, but also stipulates questions related to the necessity of the assumption of continua.Conversely, any computer may be perceived as a physical system: not only in the immediate sense of the physical properties of its hardware. Computers are a medium to virtual realities. The foreseeable importance of such virtual realities stimulates the investigation of an “inner description”, a “virtual physics” of these universes of computation. Indeed, one may consider our own universe as just one particular realisation of an enormous number of virtual realities, most of them awaiting discovery.One motive of this book is the recognition that what is often referred to as “randomness” in physics might actually be a signature of undecidability for systems whose evolution is computable on a step-by-step basis. To give a flavour of the type of questions envisaged: Consider an arbitrary algorithmic system which is computable on a step-by-step basis. Then it is in general impossible to specify a second algorithmic procedure, including itself, which, by experimental input-output analysis, is capable of finding the deterministic law of the first system. But even if such a law is specified beforehand, it is in general impossible to predict the system behaviour in the “distant future”. In other words: no “speedup” or “computational shortcut” is available. In this approach, classical paradoxes can be formally translated into no-go theorems concerning intrinsic physical perception.It is suggested that complementarity can be modelled by experiments on finite automata, where measurements of one observable of the automaton destroys the possibility to measure another observable of the same automaton and it vice versa.Besides undecidability, a great part of the book is dedicated to a formal definition of randomness and entropy measures based on algorithmic information theory.

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World Scientific

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9814522929

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Games of Life

Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

By: Karl Sigmund

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Games of Life

Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

By: Karl Sigmund

Accessible, informative, and enjoyable treatment discusses the application of the ideas and methods of game theory and mathematical modeling to such areas as evolution, sex, animal behavior, and aggression. "Excellent." — Nature

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486824802

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How Not to Make a Human

Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

By: Karl Steel

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How Not to Make a Human

Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

By: Karl Steel

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human. Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145296002X

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Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel

Suspense, Surprise and Curiosity

By: Karl McDaniel

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Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel

Suspense, Surprise and Curiosity

By: Karl McDaniel

The Gospel of Matthew is both deliberately deceptive and emotionally compelling.Karl McDaniel explores ways in which the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew elicits and develops the emotions ofsuspense, surprise, and curiosity within its readers. While Matthew 1:21 invites readers to expect Jewish salvation, progressive failure of the plot's main characters to meet Jesus' salvation requirements creates increasing suspense for the reader. How will Jesus save 'his people'? The commission to the Gentiles at the Gospel's conclusion provokes reader surprise, and the resulting curiosity calls readers back to the narrative's beginning.Upon rereading with a retrospective view, readers discover that the Gentile mission was actually foreshadowed throughout the narrative, even from its beginning, and they are invited to partake in Jesus' final commission.

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A&C Black

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0567180042

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9780567180049

Stop What You’re Doing and Read...Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto

By: Charles Darwin,Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels

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Stop What You’re Doing and Read...Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto

By: Charles Darwin,Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES & THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE INTRODUCED BY DARWIN'S GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is the basis of modern biology and the concept of biodiversity. It also sparked a fierce scientific, religious and philosophical debate which still continues today. THE COMMUNISTY MANIFESTO INTRODUCED BY DAVID AARONOVITCH The Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever written. Maintaining that the history of all societies is a history of class struggle, the manifesto proclaims that communism is the only route to equality, and is a call to action aimed at the proletariat. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand our modern political landscape.

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Random House

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144813062X

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Compounds with Noble Gases, H, O, N, F, and Cl

By: Gertrud Hönes,Karl Koeber,Irmingard Kreuzbichler,Beate Schwager,Ulrike Neu-Becker,Gertrude Swoboda

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Compounds with Noble Gases, H, O, N, F, and Cl

By: Gertrud Hönes,Karl Koeber,Irmingard Kreuzbichler,Beate Schwager,Ulrike Neu-Becker,Gertrude Swoboda

The volume covers the interactions and compounds of gold with noble gases, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine, and chlorine. Along with the expanding use of gold in recent years, for example in electronics and in aerospace equipment, there has been an impressive series of advances in the chemistry of gold compounds and of discoveries of unusual oxidation states. Hydrogen forms a nonstoichiometric solid phase, AuHn at high pressures with a maximum value of n=0.43. Hydrides such as AuH exist only in the gaseous state. The predominant oxide is that of gold(III), Au2O3. The lower-valent oxides Au2O and AuO form during anodic oxidation of gold. There still is no evidence for definite gold(I) and gold(II) fluorides, whereas AuF3 is stable below 500oC, while it is immediately decomposed by water. The first pentavalent gold compound, (Xe2F11)AuF6, was synthesized in the early 1970's. Later, a number of new Auv compounds were prepared, among them AuF5. The highest oxidation state of gold ever realized is +7 in the recently synthesized AuF7. The major portion of this volume deals with gold chlorine-compounds. Solid AuCl has a polymeric structure with Au and Cl atoms forming zigzag chains, while the gaseous compound consists of dimeric Au2Cl2 molecules. AuCl2, which was first thought to be a compound of gold(II), actually is a mixed-valence gold(I)-gold(III) compound with the net formula Au4Cl8. The crystal structure of AuCl3 comprises discrete, planar Au2Cl6 molecules. The most important water-soluble gold compounds are the tetrachloroauric acid, HAuCl4, and its sodium and potassium salts, easy to obtain by dissolution of gold in aqua regia. They are used besides AuCl3 to prepare nearly all other gold compounds, mostly in solution via the tetrachloroaurate (III) ion ÄAuCl4Ü-.

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Springer

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3540936556

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9783540936558

Precision and Purpose

Airpower in the Libyan Civil War

By: Karl P. Mueller

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Precision and Purpose

Airpower in the Libyan Civil War

By: Karl P. Mueller

A team of U.S. and international experts assesses the impact of various nations’ airpower efforts during the 2011 conflict in Libya, including NATO allies and non-NATO partners, and how their experiences offer guidance for future conflicts. In addition to the roles played by the United States, Britain and France, it examines the efforts of Italy, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Qatar, the UAE, and the Libyan rebels.

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Rand Corporation

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0833088076

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9780833088079

Starting a Theatre Company

How to Become a Theatre Maker and Create Your Own Work

By: Karl Falconer

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Starting a Theatre Company

How to Become a Theatre Maker and Create Your Own Work

By: Karl Falconer

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre company. Written by an experienced theatre practitioner and featuring on-the-ground advice, this book covers all aspects of starting a theatre company with limited resources, including how to become a company, finding talent, defining a style, roles and responsibilities, building an audience, marketing, the logistics of a production, legalities, funding, and productions at festivals and beyond. The book also includes a chapter on being a sustainable company, and how to create a mindset that will lead to positive artistic creation. Each chapter contains a list of further resources, key terms and helpful tasks designed to support the reader through all of the steps necessary to thrive as a new organisation. An eResource page contains links to a wide range of industry created templates, guidance and interviews, making it even easier for you to get up and running as simply as possible. Starting a Theatre Company targets Theatre and Performance students interested in building their own theatre companies. This book will also be invaluable to independent producers and theatre makers.

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CRC Press

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1000873471

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9781000873474

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Randomness And Undecidability In Physics

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How Not to Make a Human

How Not to Make a Human

Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel

Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel

Stop What You’re Doing and Read...Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto

Stop What You’re Doing and Read...Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto

Compounds with Noble Gases, H, O, N, F, and Cl

Compounds with Noble Gases, H, O, N, F, and Cl

Precision and Purpose

Precision and Purpose

Starting a Theatre Company

Starting a Theatre Company

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