This guide for developers and architects presents a technical overview of wireless Internet technology, applications, and content issues. The text begins with a discussion of basic wireless concepts and technological trends. Next, the construction of messaging, browsing, and interactive and conversational voice portal applications is described. The final section is devoted to the architecture of the wireless Internet. Coverage extends to a discussion of mCommerce servers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
“I wish I had known” is commonly heard after major economic disruptions. Make Your Move shows you how to spot future changes well in advance so you have plenty of time to take advantage of them. It’s packed with practical strategies and proven solutions that businesses of all sizes can immediately use to boost their bottom lines and strengthen their futures. For over 27 years, authors Alan and Brian Beaulieu have specialized in forecasting future economic changes for businesses. Their accuracy rate of 96% has helped their clients increase their profits and build for the future — even in the most severe economic downturns.
A wine country odyssey. In 1976, the picturesque, agrarian Napa Valley was all but unknown to those who didn't live there. That changed dramatically when Steven Spurrier and Patricia Gallagher decided to host a blind tasting of American and French wines in Paris. When wines from California defeated those of France, the world was shocked, an industry reawakened, and Napa Valley exploded in a frenzy of growth and development. Families who had farmed for generations battled to hang onto their land, and many paid a steep price as the area transformed into one of the world's premier wine-growing regions. Join author Mark Gudgel as he explores the trials and tribulations of Napa's meteoric rise to prominence.
The Voyage West delivers storyteller Mark Beaulieu's third volume recreating Eleanor of Aquitaine's rich medieval world. Stepping into her role as a spirited crusader, this young French queen and mother must fight for all she believes in. Her inept husband King Louis continues putting souls in jeopardy. Survival is her only way to leave Outremer and sail the intriguing voyage home. Coming ashore in Antioch after horrific losses where only one in twenty survive, Eleanor must overcome despair. Her court shows her an exotic desert culture in her uncle King Raymond's principality. At first it seems Eleanor is involved with the sophisticated King. She and Louis explode in dramatic confrontation not realizing actions far deeper are taking place by the forces that have called the crusade. This begins a layered world as complex as Eleanor, where political armed struggle, divisive religion, medieval concepts, and passions compound. Her court of chevaliers and women, a troubadour prince, and a gifted acrobat encounter the people of the desert. Eleanor meets the sister-queens who operate the holy lands. Ultimately, she understands the forces that have called and drive the Second Crusade. Eleanor learns what it takes to be a Queen and to use her court to full advantage. At sea, on what first appears to be a middling voyage home, the women of the Crusade find intrigue on their own ship. They encounter the masters of the Mediterranean from captains to kings. There is mystery, there is killing; there is love. Friends will test the limits of their code; nature and man will challenge their courage. It is an amazing voyage and a thrilling adventure of the greatest Queen you never knew. ----- In development for twelve years and based on the latest scholarly research, these stories significantly update earlier fictions about the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Each character comes across challenges that many a young person faces and resolves them in exciting, unusual ways - leading to the creation of the Eleanor Code. ----- Born Alienor d'Aquitaine in 1124 - dying in 1204, she twice becomes a queen, once for France with King Louis 7th, then for England with King Henri 2nd. This edition updated May, 2015
With The Generation comes the fourth volume in Mark Richard Beaulieu's extraordinary cycle of novels that bring Eleanor of Aquitaine to life in a rich and complex 12th century world. Behind the walls of Paris, Eleanor is the queen mother of little value to the French, aspiring to fulfill her life. Outside the walls she is a crusade legend, bringer of trade, sagacious, and wealthy woman of beauty - especially to aspiring princes.Deliberating the end to her marriage to King Louis, Eleanor plans to return to rule her Aquitaine home at age 27. Without pretext, 18 year old Henri of Anjou and she suddenly meet. In a flash, their intense relationship begins. He offers to make her Queen of England and have a noble family. There is one problem. King Stephen sits on the English throne. Eleanor's young man has lost every battle to the monarch. Making matters worse, her husband Louis has joined forces with Stephen to crush Henri's nearby army. Intelligent Eleanor knows how to inspire men - and end war.We enter a layered medieval world as multifaceted as Eleanor, compounded with advancing political and religious ambitions, the civil reclamation of England, and personal relationships that bridge sexuality, faith, and destiny. On the River Loire she escapes from abductors with her bodyguard. On the River Thames, she ferries adventure with her children. On The Strand she rehearses an fantastic parade to enter Paris. A rich cast of householders, a troubadour who blurts his true feelings, and a Justicer of England, as well Eleanor, Henri, and their dear friend Thomas Becket distinguish this landmark series, redefining historical fiction as a web of unforgettable characters who build on their lifetime of experiences. Ultimately, she comes to know the forces of love and family, embarking on a many thousand mile journey across medieval England and France to create an empire. There is mystery in the dimensions of love, and young adventure for one of the greatest queens you never knew.----In development for twelve years and based on the latest scholarly research, these stories significantly update earlier fictions about the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Each character comes across challenges that many a young person faces and resolves them in exciting, unusual ways – leading to the creation of the Eleanor Code.- July2014 edition
In The Young Life, Mark Beaulieu reveals the rich world of young Eleanor of Aquitaine (Alienor d'Aquitaine 1124-1204), who would twice become a queen - to Louis as Queen of France, and to Henry as Queen of England. This historical fiction weaves the never told story of young Alienor. Adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance fill this first volume of an epic series bound to delight readers everywhere. In a land that is unusually prosperous, the Aquitaine is surrounded by envious lords. Wealth affords what is nonexistent in medieval Europe - children are allowed to play, females receive education, and toleration is shown for faith, art, and science. At the unique Fontevrault Abbey, started by Alienor's family, nuns live in balance with priests. In the abbey school girls alongside boys learn the medieval skills of invention, poetic song, falconing, bird messaging, 'dictonic' speech, and rational thought. Encouraged to have curious minds, her young friends become attracted to what authorities will oppose: Alienor's pursuit of a personal code centered on love - not what everyone commonly understands as love, but her idea and practice of it. She astounds convention. How she comes to terms with love's many forces becomes her code, leading her to become one of the most powerful and enigmatic women of the middle ages. Living in the shadow of a favored brother, Alienor adventures into the backwoods and rivers with new friends, until she makes the terrible discovery that a friend's innocent father is thrown into a dungeon for a secret court of inquisition. It is the beginning of her story, and the Aquitaine - indeed the world - will never be the same. On a larger stage, the outer world is drawn to her wealth. They see her lifestyle of fashion, beauty, art, and personal faith as alien and unholy. Alienor is a story of origins, of a girl coming of age who disregards privilege and brings her values into a brutal world. The origins of modern justice, governance, romance and legal power is told by young knights, troubadours, counselors, priests, slaves, and a girl named Alienor. Through the young eyes of Alienor and her friends, the book develops strong characters, rich humor and deep honesty as they face the irrationality of adult medieval attitudes toward life, knowledge, gender, faith, and love. Beginning with high-spirited mischief in the backroads and rivers of post-Roman Aquitaine France, the young explorers move beyond their adventures. With Alienor's wealth and heart, they realize together they can change the world. And they do - but a medieval world tolerates only so much. In development for twelve years and based on the latest scholarly research, these stories significantly update earlier fictions about the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Each character comes across challenges that many a young person faces and resolves them in exciting, unusual ways - leading to the creation of the Eleanor Code. ---- Note: This is a new edition of the book formerly titled ALIENOR: THE YOUNG LIFE OF ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE. ---- This edition was edited April 2015
Professor Ulysses King and his companions travel the foldspace between alternate realities to thwart nefarious history-twisting plots from his homeworld Olympus. With Amazonian arena-warrior Pandora, out-of-his-depth reporter Jake Gannon, marked-for-death scientist Crystal Lee, and worlds-spanning travel machine NotTA, King faces those who regard humanity as test subjects, cannon fodder, raw material, or mere entertainment. But there are dangers in foldspace of which neither King nor his enemies are yet aware - those who seek absolute control!In the tradition of Doctor Who and Sliders, THE MANY WORLDS OF ULYSSES KING collects the talents of Mark Beaulieu, Mark Bousquet, Sean Taylor, and I.A. Watson to forge a new mythology where high adventure, high science, and high strangeness meet. Ulysees King is on his voyages - and each discovery might be his last! Featuring an out of this world cover by Terry Pavlet and stunning interiors illustrations by Chris Kohler. THE MANY WORLDS OF ULYSSES KING from Pro Se Productions
Cirsova Summer Special #2 / 2020, featuring Mark Pellegrini, Paul Lucas, Schuyler Hernstrom, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Tony Beaulieu, David Skinner, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Jill Hand, Lauren E. Reynolds, J. Manfred Weichsel, and James Hutchings
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