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This book presents a new means of differentiating knowledge from non-knowledge. In other words, it presents a novel analysis of knowledge - list of conditions that, when met, indicate that a person knows something rather than merely believing it. The analysis of knowledge it proposes seems to overcome...

Time out of mind, for hundreds and hundreds of years, the struggle between the Shiites and the Sunnites has divided the Moslem World. Persia and India are the lands of the Shiites; Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the realm of Barbary follow the tenets of the Sunna. Much blood, much money, many anathemas,...

Ghost Face returns like you've never seen or read before. The village of Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY, is rocked by a kidnapping on the Cross Island Ferry that leads to a series of murders that adds to the mystery. Detective Powers and Johnson, led by Detective Lieutenant Cronin, are pressured by...

Shock/Trauma, Shock/Trauma! was the sound blasting out of the over head speaker. Bob Simons awakes shaking his head to clear the fog. Arising from the on-call bed he runs out the door of the room down to the stair well at the end of the hallway. Rushing down the three flights of stairs two at a time...

I was around ten years old, sleeping in the back seat of my moms car, parked during evenings at the Detroit River. I looked out the window at the stars, as I feared morning until by exhaustion I would fall asleep. I often woke up having wet my pants from my very real and imagined fears. By day, my...

Captain Hal Stirling is flown to England from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb renders him battered and broken. Once home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers - a gothic mansion that dominates the landscape near the remote Scottish Borders - for a Christmas of quiet...

Thanks to intense research activity in the field of continuum mechanics, the teaching of subjects such as elasticity theory has attained a high degree of clarity and simplicity. This introductory volume offers upper-level undergraduates a perspective based on modern developments that also takes into...

Amphibians are considered to be the best indicators of environmental health. A decline in amphibian populations indicates ecosystem deterioration that might affect a wider spectrum of the earth's biological diversity. During the last 12 years there has been a great concern, worldwide, about the rapid...

An understanding of the senses - vision, hearing, touch, chemical and other non-human senses - is important not only for many fields of biology but also in applied areas such as human-computer interaction, robotics and computer games. Using information theory as a unifying framework, this is a wide-ranging...

Acoustics and Noise Control provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of acoustics and noise control. Since the last edition was published in 1996 there have been many changes and additions to standards, laws and regulations, codes of practice relating to noise,...

Pray for the nations, world leaders that The Lord's will be done. Philippians 4:18, "But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God."

There are many times we wonder what would happen if we lost all control over our emotions and acted on them, especially the bad ones. Most of us do not act on our hatred because of our laws and morality, but if those laws and morally werent in play, then what? There were many people who have pushed...

I am very impressed with this practical book on the importance and power of prayer. I do hope that this book finds its way into every church in Zion and beyond, and yes, even into our households. Bishop Michael A. Frencher, AME Zion Eastern West Africa Episcopal District I recommend...

In her normal routine as a home health Registered Nurse, Margaret Smith is ambushed by her overly concerned sister and sent on a non-refundable trip to County Cork, Ireland. Her scheduled life is turned upside down when she arrives and can't find her way around town, let alone to the destinations on her itinerary. A handsome tour guide comes to the rescue...But can he be trusted?