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Do you struggle with your weight? Have you tried to diet and failed or found the pounds piling back on again afterwards? If so, you are not alone. This book is not another diet or exercise book but instead explains exactly what's going on in our minds when we find it impossible to resist eating. It's...

Born in a small railroad city in the far corner of Northern Vermont on a bitter cold January day, Cora and her twin sister were births number twelve and thirteen to an already over populated family that was suffering from poverty, mental, verbal, manipulation and incest abuse. At a very young...

When he lost the girl he loved, Dr. Jackson DeMatteo shut down his heart and became the kind of perfectionist surgeon that alienated him from the residents. Now Jackson has a very coveted promotion dangling before him...but it comes with a price. Working with adorably geeky first-year resident Darla...

A compendium of historical facts and figures about the Emerald Isle, perfect for dipping into Full of details about the country, past and present, this volume covers such themes as wars and rebellions, food and drink, culture, transportation, religion, law and of course its famous—and occasionally...

The focus of this book is on the two major areas of risk theory: aggregate claims distributions and ruin theory. For aggregate claims distributions, detailed descriptions are given of recursive techniques that can be used in the individual and collective risk models. For the collective model, the...

Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Value addition, customer focus, and business perspectives...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

This book is a series of letters to written Senator Paul Ryan from his #1 Groupie, praising his budget proposal for its bold ideas on issues like defense (we need to protect those defense industry profits. Our brave members of the military deserve no less!), taxes (Raising taxes to help pay down the...

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in, presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify –...

This Springer Brief provides a comprehensive overview of the background and recent developments of big data. The value chain of big data is divided into four phases: data generation, data acquisition, data storage and data analysis. For each phase, the book introduces the general background, discusses...

Stream processing is a novel distributed computing paradigm that supports the gathering, processing and analysis of high-volume, heterogeneous, continuous data streams, to extract insights and actionable results in real time. This comprehensive, hands-on guide combining the fundamental building blocks...

Perry and Arvin are back in a zany, new adventure! ​ Perry's moved away from video games and shiny gewgaws. While he'd become friends with his crush, 'The Dragon' is dating again. Perry's not happy about that, and he's not going to budge. Arvin's the still the same witty little...

Each Origins: Urban Legends: Creatures eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Urban Legends: Creatures title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Urban Legends: Creatures eShorts include Sasquatch, Snallygaster, Ogopogo, and Jersey Devil.

Make nice with the President of the Alpha Wolves Motorcycle Club. Yeah right. It was what my job description called for—I just never realized exactly how nice I needed to be. I certainly never expected to find myself twisted up and tangled in the raw, dirty world of an outlaw...