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Till Death Us Do Part

A True Murder Mystery

By: Vincent Bugliosi,Ken Hurwitz

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Till Death Us Do Part

A True Murder Mystery

By: Vincent Bugliosi,Ken Hurwitz

In the Palliko-Stockton trial, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offered a brilliant summation that synthesized for the jury the many inferences and shades of meaning in the testimony, fitting all the pieces together in a mosaic of guilt. But will the jury be persuaded?

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039332544X

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9780393325447

Shadow of Cain: A Novel

By: Vincent Bugliosi,Ken Hurwitz

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Shadow of Cain: A Novel

By: Vincent Bugliosi,Ken Hurwitz

Raymond Lomak is a mass murderer, and he's due to be released from San Quentin. Has he been rehabilitated?

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324000996

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9781324000990

Hard Feelings

Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City

By: Ken Auletta

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Hard Feelings

Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City

By: Ken Auletta

One of America’s leading reporters collects his most important, entertaining, and enlightening articles, explaining how and why he wrote them. Hard Feelings represents more than five years of Ken Auletta’s work for The Village Voice, New York magazine, the Daily News, Esquire, and The New Yorker. During that period he won a loyal following and established a reputation as the rare journalist who covers both politicians and the government. He covered the news and made the news with his famous and controversial New Yorker profile of Mayor Ed Koch and his startling exposé of lawyer Roy Cohn in Esquire. These pieces also display his versatility—hard, investigative reporting as well as precise, thoughtful essays—with subjects ranging from the ambitions of Ted Kennedy to the tribulations of Jimmy Carter, the maneuvers of a local politician to the struggles of an embattled high school principal. One of Auletta’s chief concerns is the press itself: how the former publisher of the New York Post managed the news; how media expert David Garth manipulates it; how Tom Brokaw became a victim of it; and how passion for scandal and easy cynicism threaten it. The postscripts he has written for this volume address many of the central issues of journalism. A case in point is Auletta’s own use of controversial taps revealing Mayor Ed Koch’s private feelings about relations between blacks and Jews; another is his examination of the questionable coverage of Nelson Rockefeller’s death. Does a public figure have a right to privacy? Is there such a thing as too much press access? To whom does the reporter owe allegiance? What are the ethics of journalism? In his stories and his second thoughts on them, Ken Auletta offers a provocative analysis of how a reporter works, views his profession, and evaluates his achievements with intelligence and feeling—hard feelings.

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Random House

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0307799646

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9780307799647

Travels in Translation

Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction

By: Ken Frieden

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Travels in Translation

Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction

By: Ken Frieden

For centuries before its “rebirth” as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient Hebrew ship was torpid because the language of the Bible was inadequate to represent modern life in Europe. Early modern speakers of Yiddish and German gave Hebrew the breath of life when they translated dialogues, descriptions, and thought processes from their vernaculars into Hebrew. By narrating tales of pilgrimage and adventure, Jews pulled the ship out of the bottle and sent modern Hebrew into the world. In Travels in Translation, Frieden analyzes this emergence of modern Hebrew literature after 1780, a time when Jews were moving beyond their conventional Torah- and Zion-centered worldview. Enlightened authors diverged from pilgrimage narrative traditions and appropriated travel narratives to America, the Pacific, and the Arctic. The effort to translate sea travel stories from European languages—with their nautical terms, wide horizons, and exotic occurrences—made particular demands on Hebrew writers. They had to overcome their tendency to introduce biblical phrases at every turn in order to develop a new, vivid, descriptive language. As Frieden explains through deft linguistic analysis, by 1818, a radically new travel literature in Hebrew had arisen. Authors such as Moses Mendelsohn-Frankfurt and Mendel Lefin published books that charted a new literary path through the world and in European history. Taking a fresh look at the origins of modern Jewish literature, Frieden launches a new approach to literary studies, one that lies at the intersection of translation studies and travel writing.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653646

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9780815653646

The Web of Modularity: Arithmetic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and $q$-series

Arithmetic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and Q-series

By: Ken Ono

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The Web of Modularity: Arithmetic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and $q$-series

Arithmetic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and Q-series

By: Ken Ono

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821833685

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9780821833681

Harmonic Maass Forms and Mock Modular Forms: Theory and Applications

By: Kathrin Bringmann,Amanda Folsom,Ken Ono,Larry Rolen

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Harmonic Maass Forms and Mock Modular Forms: Theory and Applications

By: Kathrin Bringmann,Amanda Folsom,Ken Ono,Larry Rolen

Modular forms and Jacobi forms play a central role in many areas of mathematics. Over the last 10–15 years, this theory has been extended to certain non-holomorphic functions, the so-called “harmonic Maass forms”. The first glimpses of this theory appeared in Ramanujan's enigmatic last letter to G. H. Hardy written from his deathbed. Ramanujan discovered functions he called “mock theta functions” which over eighty years later were recognized as pieces of harmonic Maass forms. This book contains the essential features of the theory of harmonic Maass forms and mock modular forms, together with a wide variety of applications to algebraic number theory, combinatorics, elliptic curves, mathematical physics, quantum modular forms, and representation theory.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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1470419440

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9781470419448

Isaiah

By: Ken Penner

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Isaiah

By: Ken Penner

In Isaiah, Penner provides an introduction, transcription, translation, and commentary to the Greek translation of Isaiah in the Codex Sinaiticus.

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BRILL

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9004427236

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9789004427235

American Song

The Complete Musical Theatre Companion

By: Ken Bloom

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American Song

The Complete Musical Theatre Companion

By: Ken Bloom

American song contains data on over 4,800 American musicals spread over two volumes. All Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions are included, together with all resident theatre productions of shows by major artists, shows that closed out of town prior to Broadway, shows that toured, selected nightclub shows, straight plays with original songs, vaudeville and burlesque shows.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0028645723

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9780028645728

Command-Line Rust

By: Ken Youens-Clark

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Command-Line Rust

By: Ken Youens-Clark

For several consecutive years, Rust has been voted "most loved programming language" in Stack Overflow's annual developer survey. This open source systems programming language is now used for everything from game engines and operating systems to browser components and virtual reality simulation engines. But Rust is also an incredibly complex language with a notoriously difficult learning curve. Rather than focusing on the language as a whole, this guide teaches Rust using a single small, complete, focused program in each chapter. Author Ken Youens-Clark shows you how to start, write, and test each of these programs to create a finished product. You'll learn how to handle errors in Rust, read and write files, and use regular expressions, Rust types, structs, and more. Discover how to: Use Rust's standard libraries and data types such as numbers, strings, vectors, structs, Options, and Results to create command-line programs Write and test Rust programs and functions Read and write files, including stdin, stdout, and stderr Document and validate command-line arguments Write programs that fail gracefully Parse raw and delimited text manually, using regular expressions and Rust crates Use and control randomness

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1098109406

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9781098109400

Planet Funny

How Comedy Ruined Everything

By: Ken Jennings

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Planet Funny

How Comedy Ruined Everything

By: Ken Jennings

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes. Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the trails, it is being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. Thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day—and many of them even get popular enough online to go pro and take over TV. In his “smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny” (Booklist, starred review) Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important” (A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically), Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor.

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Scribner

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1501100602

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9781501100604

Mastering Python for Bioinformatics

By: Ken Youens-Clark

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Mastering Python for Bioinformatics

By: Ken Youens-Clark

Life scientists today urgently need training in bioinformatics skills. Too many bioinformatics programs are poorly written and barely maintained--usually by students and researchers who've never learned basic programming skills. This practical guide shows postdoc bioinformatics professionals and students how to exploit the best parts of Python to solve problems in biology while creating documented, tested, reproducible software. Ken Youens-Clark, author of Tiny Python Projects (Manning), demonstrates not only how to write effective Python code but also how to use tests to write and refactor scientific programs. You'll learn the latest Python features and toolsâ??including linters, formatters, type checkers, and testsâ??to create documented and tested programs. You'll also tackle 14 challenges in Rosalind, a problem-solving platform for learning bioinformatics and programming. Create command-line Python programs to document and validate parameters Write tests to verify refactor programs and confirm they're correct Address bioinformatics ideas using Python data structures and modules such as Biopython Create reproducible shortcuts and workflows using makefiles Parse essential bioinformatics file formats such as FASTA and FASTQ Find patterns of text using regular expressions Use higher-order functions in Python like filter(), map(), and reduce()

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1098100859

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9781098100858

Witness in Our Time, Second Edition

Working Lives of Documentary Photographers

By: Ken Light

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Witness in Our Time, Second Edition

Working Lives of Documentary Photographers

By: Ken Light

Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. The second edition includes a new section of interviews on documentary photography in the field and an exploration of the role of photojournalism in 21st-century media. Witness in Our Time provides an insider's view of a profession that continues to confront questions of art and truth while extending the definitions of both.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588343065

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9781588343062

Rock and a Heart Place

A Rock 'n' Roller-coaster Ride from Rebellion to Sweet Salvation

By: Ken Mansfield,Marshall Terrill

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Rock and a Heart Place

A Rock 'n' Roller-coaster Ride from Rebellion to Sweet Salvation

By: Ken Mansfield,Marshall Terrill

Rock and a Heart Place traces the rise, fall, and redemption of famous entertainers who were brought to their knees a great place to meet God. Join award-winning producer and music executive Ken Mansfield and biographer Marshall Terrill on a spiritual journey down the secluded halls of the music industry. Rock and a Heart Place is your backstage pass to never before-heard secrets, stories, and testimonies from some of rock music's greatest legends including members of Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Collective Soul, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Grand Funk Railroad, Kansas, Korn, Ozzy Osbourne, Pointer Sisters, Prince, The Ronettes, and The Turtles. ARTISTS FEATURED (hardcover edition) MARK VOLMAN was cofounder of The Turtles, a 1960s pop-rock band that has sold more than forty million records. He was also a core member of Frank Zappa’s The Mothers of Invention and the dynamic duo Flo & Eddie. RUTH POINTER is one of the legendary Pointer Sisters who scored dozens of hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and sold close to forty million records, making them one of the most successful female groups of all time. BRIAN "HEAD" WELCH is the lead guitarist for the nu metal band Korn. In addition to chart-topping, million-selling records and two GRAMMY awards, their shows fill up arenas and stadiums worldwide. CHRIS HILLMAN helped define the country rock genre by his groundbreaking work with The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, and the Desert Rose Band. JOHN ELEFANTE was the lead singer of the multiplatinum-selling Kansas from 1981 to 1985 and wrote two of their highest charting singles. After leaving Kansas, he became one of the most successful Christian producers of all time. RUDY SARZO has been a professional recording artist for more than thirty years and a member of Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Blue Oyster Cult, Yngwie Malmsteen, and DIO. England Dan & JOHN FORD COLEY waved the soft-rock banner loudly in the 1970s, releasing several platinum and gold records in their decade-long partnership and Top 10 hits that are staples of classic rock radio today. With DEZ DICKERSON at his side from 1978 to 1983, Prince became a household name, selling more than one hundred million albums, earning seven Grammys, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. SHANE EVANS of Collective Soul dominated 1990s rock and alternative radio, charting an astounding seven number-one hits, nineteen Top 40 singles, and ten million in worldwide sales. NEDRA ROSS and The Ronettes were the first bad girls of rock and roll, racially indefinable, and one of the most exciting acts of their era, ruling the airwaves in the early ’60s with a string of girl-group classics and mini rock operas. RICHIE FURAY of Buffalo Springfield was a major catalyst for the 1960s country folk rock sound. Richie's repeat performance as cofounder of Poco carried on this tradition of great music. MARK FARNER of Grand Funk Railroad earned eleven consecutive RIAA Gold/Platinum Record Awards from 1969 to 1975. They surpassed The Beatles in record sales in 1970. Artists featured exclusively in the e-book are: JERRY NAYLOR is a sixty-year veteran of the music scene and the former lead singer of The Crickets. Naylor witnessed the birth of rock and roll with fellow innovators Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Waylon Jennings—all changing the face of popular music. RICK CUA of The Outlaws helped create the Southern rock sound of the ’70s. In its heyday the band played major stadiums and arenas, reveling in the rock and roll lifestyle that included limos, charted planes, and the crazy fan scene. CHUCK GIRARD was a valuable pioneer in the California sound of the early 1960s and contemporary Christian music of the 1970s. In his teens, Girard formed The Castells, which had two Top 20 hits. A decade later he formed Love Song, the first mainstream Christian rock band. KEN HENSLEY of Uriah Heep is regarded as one of the seminal hard-rock acts of the early 1970s. Extremely popular in Europe, the Heep are considered by music historians as one of “The Big Four” of hard rock with sales of more than forty million albums worldwide.

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BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

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1424550203

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9781424550203

In Celebration of K.C. Hines

By: Bruce H. J. McKellar,Ken Amos

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In Celebration of K.C. Hines

By: Bruce H. J. McKellar,Ken Amos

This book presents a comprehensive review of a diverse range of subjects in physics written by physicists who have all been taught by or are associated with K C Hines. Ken Hines was a great mentor with far-reaching influence on his students who later went on to make outstanding contributions to physics in their careers. The papers provide significant insights into statistical physics, plasma physics from fluorescent lighting to quantum pair plasmas, cosmic ray physics, nuclear reactions, and many other fields. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Concerning Ken Hines... (358 KB). Contents: Resonant X-Ray Scattering and X-Ray Absorption: Closing the Circle? (Z Barnea et al.); The Screened Field of a Test Particle (R L Dewar); Aspects of Plasma Physics (R J Hosking); The Boltzmann Equation in Fluorescent Lamp Theory (G Lister); Pair Modes in Relativistic Quantum Plasmas (D B Melrose & J McOrist); Neutrons from the Galactic Centre (R R Volkas); Quaternions and Octonions in Nature (G C Joshi); Accretion onto the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of Our Galaxy (F Melia); and other papers. Readership: Academics and graduate students interested in physics.

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240

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World Scientific

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9814293660

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9789814293662

Wild Cards

By: Ken Berris

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Wild Cards

By: Ken Berris

A father’s impossible quest to return to his family. A son’s magical journey. A single mother’s heroic efforts to protect her son. And fate’s sleight of hand bringing together baseball’s past legends and today’s major league stars in a game for the ages.

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ACTA Publications

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0879466316

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9780879466312

Unlikely Companions

C.G. Jung on the Spritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola : an Exposition and Critique Based on Jung's Lectures and Writings

By: Ken Becker,Kenneth L. Becker

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Unlikely Companions

C.G. Jung on the Spritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola : an Exposition and Critique Based on Jung's Lectures and Writings

By: Ken Becker,Kenneth L. Becker

If Carl Gustav Jung and Ignatius of Loyola could face each other over a gap of four centuries, what would they have to say to one another? Kenneth Becker demonstrates, in this engaging study, that these two intellectual and spiritual giants bring great insight to each other's work.

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Gracewing Publishing

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0852443676

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9780852443675

The Virtuoso

Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents

By: Ken Carbone

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The Virtuoso

Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents

By: Ken Carbone

This book of uplifting and inspirational new role models for the millennium pairs lively 40 text profiles with stunning, intimate portraits. 90 photos, 50 in color.

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