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Painted Lady

A James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery

By: Peter E. Abresch

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Painted Lady

A James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery

By: Peter E. Abresch

While taking an Elderhostel trip, Jim Dandy sees an Indian woman--a shaman--fall from a rooftop, and as he tries to discover if she was murdered, her ghost begins appearing in the paintings of his traveling companion, Dodee Fisher.

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Big Earth Publishing

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1890768472

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If They Ask for a Hand, Only Give Them a Finger

By: Peter E. Abresch

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If They Ask for a Hand, Only Give Them a Finger

By: Peter E. Abresch

When Chance Dugan found himself locked out of a public garage, with his car inside, and his wallet in the car, he accepted the invitation of a lovely policewomen, Natti Moon, to spend the night in her Georgetown apartment. What's not to like? Except it wasn't Natti Moon's apartment. And she wasn't a cop. And when he was forced to hide under a bed to keep from getting shot, he found he had a corpse for a companion. Just great. When he finally got back to the garage the next day, the body-under-the-bed had become the body-in-the-trunk-of-his-car. And the police were on their way. To save himself, he tracks down the lovely Natti Moon, really an agent with a super secret agency. Except she wasn't. And now they were both on the lam from competing government agencies who were out to do them in. And when in the confusion, one of the agencies asks him to give them a hand, he only offers them a finger.

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Peter Abresch

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1438264003

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Capitol Coven

By: Peter E. Abresch

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Capitol Coven

By: Peter E. Abresch

Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail by a handful of votes. This means a small dedicated group of Congressmen, from both parties, in both Houses, joined in a secret society, could, by their patronage, influence, committee decisions, or floor votes, control the flow of America's monies. And by parceling the votes among its members, leave no footprint behind. When Alexander Judd stumbles upon the possibility of such a society, and sets out to investigate it, he quickly finds himself staring into the barrel of a gun locked in the hands of a naked woman. The trash-talking Elfy Cane. Who is wanted for murder. Cut the guy's heart out. Then Elfy kidnaps him. And linked to her by association, Alex now finds the police are after him. What more could a slightly out-of-shape widower ask? Well, falling in love with the lady certainly wasn't one of them. Nor was having Elfy end up in the clutches of a shadowy Church of the Dark Light, a secret coven meeting in the bowels of that great building atop Jenkins Heights. Better known today... as Capitol Hill.

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Peter Abresch

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1440423385

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Name Games

By: Peter E. Abresch

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Name Games

By: Peter E. Abresch

....James P. Dandy and Dodee Swisher are reunited again on a hiking and whitewater rafting Elderhostel(r) in North Carolina. Jim's not too crazy about either the hiking in the woods or the whitewater rafting, but Dodee is really up for it, and he is really up for Dodee in their continuing love affair. ....Plus there's an added bonus. ....Considering Dodee's proclivity for turning up bodies and getting in into hassles with the coppers, he welcomes the idea as a respite from past troubles. ....After all, how many killers lurk about in the woods for passersby to bump off? And who ever heard of a drive-by shooting from a rubber raft? ....But think again, Jim Dandy, and tighten your personal floatation device, for you're in for a wild ride. ....Elderhostels(r) are learning adventures for those mellowing into fine wine. Like to learn more, or read a few chapters, go to: http: //www.elderhostelmysteries.com

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Peter Abresch

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1438262868

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Riemannian Geometry

By: Peter Petersen

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Riemannian Geometry

By: Peter Petersen

Intended for a one year course, this text serves as a single source, introducing readers to the important techniques and theorems, while also containing enough background on advanced topics to appeal to those students wishing to specialize in Riemannian geometry. This is one of the few Works to combine both the geometric parts of Riemannian geometry and the analytic aspects of the theory. The book will appeal to a readership that have a basic knowledge of standard manifold theory, including tensors, forms, and Lie groups. Important revisions to the third edition include: a substantial addition of unique and enriching exercises scattered throughout the text; inclusion of an increased number of coordinate calculations of connection and curvature; addition of general formulas for curvature on Lie Groups and submersions; integration of variational calculus into the text allowing for an early treatment of the Sphere theorem using a proof by Berger; incorporation of several recent results about manifolds with positive curvature; presentation of a new simplifying approach to the Bochner technique for tensors with application to bound topological quantities with general lower curvature bounds. From reviews of the first edition: "The book can be highly recommended to all mathematicians who want to get a more profound idea about the most interesting achievements in Riemannian geometry. It is one of the few comprehensive sources of this type." ―Bernd Wegner, ZbMATH

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Springer

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3319266543

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9783319266541

Skeletal Muscle Damage and Repair

By: Peter M. Tiidus

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Skeletal Muscle Damage and Repair

By: Peter M. Tiidus

Attempts to cover a wide range of both basic research and applied clinical topics related to skeletal muscle damage and repair mechanisms and their application. This book examines muscle damage and repair mechanisms and issues in specific populations including older adults and special populations.

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Human Kinetics

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0736058672

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9780736058674

Tip a Canoe

By: Peter Abresch

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Tip a Canoe

By: Peter Abresch

Tip A Canoe by Peter Abresch released on Jan 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.

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Worldwide Library

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0373264127

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9780373264124

Burnt Offerings

By: Peter Abresch

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Burnt Offerings

By: Peter Abresch

Burnt Offerings are poems I started emailing to friends and acquaintances, fans of my fiction books, on December 24, 2007, one a week, on Mondays to cheer the day. The idea was to keep sending them out until I ran out of material, or people said enough. Rather than people opting out, the list has nearly tripled in size, and the Spirit is still feeding me words, now up to number one hundred and forty. Over years people have asked me to put these into a collection, something for them to hold onto and to give as gifts. This book is to satisfy that request. Hopefully these words will give you solace, a laugh or two, and prompt a closer relationship with God. Why Burnt offerings? In the scheme of the universe, our lives are but whiffs of smoke. Even so, if we can get a touch of God's love, and a burst of His laughter, a sense of our relationship with Him, we can snap our fingers at time and space. God's love for us is higher than the stars above the grass of the fields, in time and length and breadth and depth. So dip your bucket in the water of hope and drink so your heart overflows. Ignore the planets and galaxies that show such disdain for us. After all, we do not rule the universe. Ah, but our Father does.

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Peter Abresch

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1456435647

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9781456435646

Killing Thyme

By: Peter Abresch

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Killing Thyme

By: Peter Abresch

RECIPE FOR MURDER Take a few ambitious chefs, a handful of amateur cooks on a weeklong tour of Baltimore's greatest restaurants, season with a bit of competition for a spot on a new TV show, A Dash of Thyme, throw in a ruthless killer, and voila, a perfectly seasoned dish of homicide for amateur sleuths James P. Dandy and his ladylove Dodee Swisher. Before the pair arrives in Baltimore for the cooking class extravaganza, the chef supposed to lead the group dies from eating poisoned mushrooms. When a second chef falls dead while sampling a bit of endive, it's clear that the main course is murder. A third death -- this time a very wealthy member of the cooking tour itself -- leads Jim and Dodee on a culinary caper as delicious as it is deadly, with a clever killer eager to serve them just desserts.

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Worldwide Library

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0373263562

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9780373263561

Spinal Cord Medicine

By: Denise I. Campagnolo,Steven Kirshblum,Mark S. Nash,Robert F. Heary,Peter H. Gorman

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Spinal Cord Medicine

By: Denise I. Campagnolo,Steven Kirshblum,Mark S. Nash,Robert F. Heary,Peter H. Gorman

This comprehensive and practical reference is the perfect resource for the medical specialist treating persons with spinal cord injuries. The book provides detail about all aspects of spinal cord injury and disease. The initial seven chapters present the history, anatomy, imaging, epidemiology, and general acute management of spinal cord injury. The next eleven chapters deal with medical aspects of spinal cord damage, such as pulmonary management and the neurogenic bladder. Chapters on rehabilitation are followed by nine chapters dealing with diseases that cause non-traumatic spinal cord injury. A comprehensive imaging chapter is included with 30 figures which provide the reader with an excellent resource to understand the complex issues of imaging the spine and spinal cord.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451154275

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Index of Verb Forms in Thucydides

By: Peter Stork

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Index of Verb Forms in Thucydides

By: Peter Stork

This index lists all verb forms in Thucydides, with the total number of occurrences of the verbs and crossreferences to the compounds. Two appendices provide lists of verb forms that are attested in the mss. but have been removed by conjecture from the printed text and of all attested variant readings. In providing easy access to the verb system as it is attested in Thucydides, it is an invaluable tool for research into the verb system in Thucydides in particular and in Ancient Greek in general, on matters of lexicography or morphology, and more particularly on various aspects of the semantics of the verb system, such as the use of aspectual forms and that of the moods and voices.

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BRILL

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9047423461

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9789047423461

Population-Based Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds

By: Robert Simon Fong,Peter Tino

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Population-Based Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds

By: Robert Simon Fong,Peter Tino

Manifold optimization is an emerging field of contemporary optimization that constructs efficient and robust algorithms by exploiting the specific geometrical structure of the search space. In our case the search space takes the form of a manifold. Manifold optimization methods mainly focus on adapting existing optimization methods from the usual “easy-to-deal-with” Euclidean search spaces to manifolds whose local geometry can be defined e.g. by a Riemannian structure. In this way the form of the adapted algorithms can stay unchanged. However, to accommodate the adaptation process, assumptions on the search space manifold often have to be made. In addition, the computations and estimations are confined by the local geometry. This book presents a framework for population-based optimization on Riemannian manifolds that overcomes both the constraints of locality and additional assumptions. Multi-modal, black-box manifold optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds can be tackled using zero-order stochastic optimization methods from a geometrical perspective, utilizing both the statistical geometry of the decision space and Riemannian geometry of the search space. This monograph presents in a self-contained manner both theoretical and empirical aspects of stochastic population-based optimization on abstract Riemannian manifolds.

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Springer Nature

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303104293X

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9783031042935

The Inspirationists, 1714-1932 Vol 1

By: Peter Hoehnle

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The Inspirationists, 1714-1932 Vol 1

By: Peter Hoehnle

The Community of True Inspiration, or Inspirationists, was one of the most successful religious communities in the United States. This collection offers a broad variety of Inspirationist texts, almost all of them translated from German and published here for the first time.

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Taylor & Francis

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104025098X

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9781040250983

Spectral Geometry, Riemannian Submersions, and the Gromov-Lawson Conjecture

By: Peter B. Gilkey,John V Leahy,JeongHyeong Park

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Spectral Geometry, Riemannian Submersions, and the Gromov-Lawson Conjecture

By: Peter B. Gilkey,John V Leahy,JeongHyeong Park

This cutting-edge, standard-setting text explores the spectral geometry of Riemannian submersions. Working for the most part with the form valued Laplacian in the class of smooth compact manifolds without boundary, the authors study the relationship-if any-between the spectrum of Dp on Y and Dp on Z, given that Dp is the p form valued Laplacian and pi: Z ® Y is a Riemannian submersion. After providing the necessary background, including basic differential geometry and a discussion of Laplace type operators, the authors address rigidity theorems. They establish conditions that ensure that the pull back of every eigenform on Y is an eigenform on Z so the eigenvalues do not change, then show that if a single eigensection is preserved, the eigenvalues do not change for the scalar or Bochner Laplacians. For the form valued Laplacian, they show that if an eigenform is preserved, then the corresponding eigenvalue can only increase. They generalize these results to the complex setting as well. However, the spinor setting is quite different. For a manifold with non-trivial boundary and imposed Neumann boundary conditions, the result is surprising-the eigenvalues can change. Although this is a relatively rare phenomenon, the authors give examples-a circle bundle or, more generally, a principal bundle with structure group G where the first cohomology group H1(G;R) is non trivial. They show similar results in the complex setting, show that eigenvalues can decrease in the spinor setting, and offer a list of unsolved problems in this area. Moving to some related topics involving questions of positive curvature, for the first time in mathematical literature the authors establish a link between the spectral geometry of Riemannian submersions and the Gromov-Lawson conjecture. Spectral Geometry, Riemannian Submersions, and the Gromov-Lawson Conjecture addresses a hot research area and promises to set a standard for the field. Researchers and applied mathematicians interested in mathematical physics and relativity will find this work both fascinating and important.

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CRC Press

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0849382777

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9780849382772

Target Sites of Herbicide Action

By: Peter Boger,Gerhard Sandmann

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Target Sites of Herbicide Action

By: Peter Boger,Gerhard Sandmann

This publication is based on the plant processes and reaction sites for which reliable knowledge on both their physiology and biochem-istry and the mode of herbicidal action is available. Targets of the agrochemical research, such as enzymes of biosynthetic pathways or herbicide-binding peptides in the photosynthetic membrane, are highlighted. Detailed knowledge about the target sites will allow bio-chemical model systems to evaluate the biological activity of newly synthesized compounds before their conventional screening in the greenhouse. Quantitative structure/activity relationships should be performed more reliably with simple biological species or enzymol-ogy assays, to aid in the rational design of pesticides. This text is highly valuable for plant physiologists, pathologists, and chemists in the agrochemical industry and universities.

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1000141640

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9781000141641

Bloody Bonsai

By: Peter Abresch

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Bloody Bonsai

By: Peter Abresch

Bloody Bonsai by Peter Abresch released on Jul 25, 1999 is available now for purchase.

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Worldwide Library

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037326321X

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9780373263219

Painted Lady

By: Peter Abresch

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Painted Lady

By: Peter Abresch

When retired physical therapist James P. Dandy embarks on another Elderhostel adventure with Dodee Swisher, he finds a murder mystery interrupting their trip along the old Sana Fe Trail before it even gets under way.

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0373264887

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9780373264889

The Faltese Malcom

By: Peter E. Abresch

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The Faltese Malcom

By: Peter E. Abresch

The Faltese Malcom?" The fat man laughed. "I hardly think so, Mr. Spaid. Another one of Miss O'Shaughnessy's little fictions I fear. What we are looking for is the Maltese Falcon." But that was in San Francisco of 1927. In everyday Washington, the Falcon they were trying to hang around Josh's neck was a guided missile stolen from the Patuxent Naval Base. And what mattered in the end, was, indeed, the Faltese Malcom.

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Peter Abresch

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144042232X

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9781440422324

Capitol Coven

By: Peter E. Abresch

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Capitol Coven

By: Peter E. Abresch

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Peter Abresch

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1440423385

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Recycling Jesus

A New Jesus from Old DNA

By: Peter E. Abresch

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Recycling Jesus

A New Jesus from Old DNA

By: Peter E. Abresch

The premise was simple. Steal DNA from the Shroud of Turin, decode it, build a new Jesus. "So what if they got a sample of DNA from the Shroud of Turin. Even if the body was that of Jesus, and even if they do decode the DNA, and even if they are able to put it together, what would they have?" Father O'Byrne asked. "A boy that looks like a close relative. But Jesus was more than man. Fully man, fully God. What they would have is only his earthly body." Retired DEA Agent Duncan Crouther was not so sure. "You're overlooking something. Jesus, God and man may be so intertwined that the DNA of one cannot be separated from the other. And even if that isn't so, you said the image on the Shroud could have been caused by Jesus' resurrection, which would mean that the DNA is of the total Jesus. But forget all of that. It's the perception that's important. If Bagratian can prove the body on the Shroud was Jesus, and manage to sequence the DNA, and make a new Jesus, what's to keep him from replicating a whole bunch? Instead of trying to buy an election, every billionaire could purchase his own flesh and blood Jesus. Or what's to keep Bagratian from starting up his own religion with his own Jesus. If you think we had religious wars in the past, hang onto your testes.

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