Download or read book One Point Two Billion written by Mahesh Rao (Fiction writer) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Document written by Alice V Todd and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say that everybody has a book in them. When I embarked on my retirement journey, I decided to discover mine, resulting in this, my debut novel. Amidst the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on the dawn of the new millennium’s first summer solstice, Christopher’s day takes an unexpected turn. A stray piece of paper, carried by the morning breeze, finds its way to him. But it’s not just the paper that captures his attention—it’s the captivating stranger who appears just as mysteriously. Together, they unravel the cryptic foreign writings on the paper, diving deep into a puzzle that leads them on a quest for understanding. Is the document they’ve stumbled upon a profound revelation or just an elaborate ruse? Join Christopher and his newfound companion as they journey to decode The Document, and in the process, discover more than they ever anticipated.
Download or read book Words A User s Guide written by Graham Pointon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words: A User's Guide is an accessible and invaluable reference that is ideal for students, business people and advanced learners of English. The book is structured in groups of words that may be confused because they sound alike, look alike or seem to have similar meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive and easy to use than a dictionary. Contrasting over 5000 words (such as habitable and inhabitable, precipitation and rainfall, reigns and reins), Words: a User’s Guide provides examples of usage adapted from large national databases of contemporary English, and illustrates each headword in typical contexts and phrases. This book gives you straightforward answers, and helps with pronunciation, spelling, style and levels of formality. For those working internationally it presents international standards and compares usage in Britain and the USA. Words: A User’s Guide is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to communicate well in written and spoken English. "At last! A book about the use of words that clarifies and de-mystifies in an eminently usable way. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to write well. It is a book to keep." Sandy Gilkes, Head of the Centre for Academic Practice, University of Northampton "Rigorous, fresh, intriguing and downright useful, it deserves a place on every properly stocked reference shelf." Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism, Kingston University "From the pedantic to the permissive, everyone who’s interested in the English language and the way we speak and write it will want a copy of this practical, entertaining book." Wynford Hicks (author of Quite Literally and The Basics of English Usage)
Download or read book A Prayer for the City written by Buzz Bissinger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-12-29 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, the heart-wrenching and hilarious true story of an American city on its knees and a man who will do anything to save it. A Prayer for the City is acclaimed journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader willing to go to any length for the sake of his city: take unions head on, personally lobby President Clinton to save 10,000 defense jobs, or wrestle Smiley the Pig on Hot Dog Day—all the while bearing in mind the eternal fickleness of constituents whose favor may hinge on a missed garbage pick-up or an overzealous meter maid. It is also the story of citizens in crisis: a woman fighting ceaselessly to give her great-grandchildren a better life, a father of six who may lose his job at the Navy Shipyard, and a policy analyst whose experiences as a crime victim tempt her to abandon her job and ideals. "Fascinating, humane" (The New Yorker) and alive with detail and insight, A Prayer for the City describes the rare combination of political courage and optimism that may be the only hope for America's urban centers.
Download or read book Star Trek The Original Series The Rings of Time written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Shaun Christopher, commanding the first manned mission to Saturn in 2020, and Captain Kirk, sent to stop a planet's rings from falling apart, try to cope with their new situations after they switch places.
Download or read book In Gwan Dai s Name written by Steven Griffiths and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong in the mid 90s... A commando-style raid on Shatin Racecourse nets HK $270,000,000 and causes the violent deaths of several police guards. A special detective team discovers this was perpetrated by ex-military from mainland China, and funded by local triads. But what significance has the headless corpse of a Westerner dumped among the garbage of a Kowloon alley? With the handover to China only a few years off, nothing must threaten Hong Kong's stability. Though the police task-force works day and night, not even a total security alert can prevent disaster. In a chilling time-race, cops and their shadowy opponents clash in a sequence of explosive engagements throughout Hong Kong, Macao, the Chinese mainland, and even Tokyo.
Download or read book Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference written by Sarika Jain and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will constitute the proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC 2022). This volume focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning approach with their automated intelligent cognitive knowledge as an assisting tool to the existing healthcare tools. The topics covered in this volume are data mining, patient electronic health records, healthcare portals, telemedicine, automatic identification and data collector systems, RFID and localization techniques, usability and ubiquity in e-Health, artificial intelligence for healthcare decision-making, etc. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.
Download or read book Hostile Takeover written by Stan Yocum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you came up with an incredibly brilliant idea? And then you developed your idea into a one-of-kind product and founded a very successful company around it. But then a high-powered individual comes along and says he wants to buy your company and you had better sell, or else! Meet Jason Chappell, a young engineer who has designed a revolutionary electric car that could save America from financial chaos caused from the inflation of crude oil prices beyond levels ever experienced. However, Ethan Gantry, the infamous King of Takeovers and a billionaire many times over, wants Jasons company, in addition to owning the next President of the United States, all in an attempt to inflate his substantial wealth. And Gantry is willing to do whatever it takes to attain both a president and Jasons company. The presidential hopeful is more than willing to go along with Gantrys strategies to attain the oval office. Jason, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with Gantry and fights the mega mogul to save his company - and his life.
Download or read book Star Charmer written by WC Brown and published by WC Brown. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2216 the world is run by bureaucratic artificial intelligences. Humanity wants for nothing. Life is good - no disease, no aging. Everyone is young and beautiful. Machines provide gourmet food, palatial housing, and AI-generated, extremely high-quality entertainment. No one works. Who would? Space exploration is nearly forgotten. Marion Michelle Morrison, ‘M’ seems to be the only person able to push aside this new opiate of the masses and leave Earth. If she wants to get outside the solar system, she just needs to learn the secret physics of the Charm Drive - and convince her ship to help her. When unknown forces throw her back to 1985, she must find a way to return and save the planet from an extinction-level event. Brad is a struggling young farmer in 1985. As if taking care of his ailing mother, his bedridden sister, and their failing farm are not enough, a metal sphere larger than his house has crashed into one of his corn fields.
Download or read book The Cotton Malone Series 8 Book Bundle written by Steve Berry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 2502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the signature character of New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry, the Cotton Malone novels fuse page-turning suspense and fascinating historical insight into one heart-stopping thriller after another. “In Malone, Berry has created a classic, complex hero.”—USA Today A former Justice Department operative who can’t seem to stay out of trouble, Cotton Malone has crisscrossed the globe on electrifying quests. With the smart and sexy Cassiopeia Vitt by his side, Malone faces down the world’s deadliest terrorists, assassins, and con men—and unravels some of history’s most legendary and iconic mysteries along the way. Now in one exclusive eBook bundle are the first eight novels of Steve Berry’s extraordinary series: THE TEMPLAR LEGACY THE ALEXANDRIA LINK THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT THE PARIS VENDETTA THE EMPEROR’S TOMB THE JEFFERSON KEY THE KING’S DECEPTION Also includes the eBook novella The Tudor Plot as well as an excerpt from Steve Berry’s ninth Cotton Malone novel, The Lincoln Myth! Praise for Steve Berry and his Cotton Malone novels “Steve Berry gets better and better with each new book.”—The Huffington Post “Berry has become the king of intrigue. You don’t just read a Steve Berry novel. You live it.”—James Rollins “Berry raises this genre’s stakes.”—The New York Times “I love this guy.”—#1 internationally bestselling author Lee Child “Malone, a hero with a personal stake in the proceedings, is a welcome respite from the cold, calculating superspies who litter the genre.”—Entertainment Weekly “Richly detailed and fantastically suspenseful, this thriller grips the reader for a wild literary ride that continues until the very last page.”—Tucson Citizen, on The Templar Legacy “Bigger than life . . . The reader will be engaged from the first page, thrilled by the story, entertained by the characters, and spellbound by the author’s sheer bravado. A must for high-adventure thriller fans.”—Booklist, on The Venetian Betrayal “[An] amazing blend of suspense and history . . . [Readers] cannot go wrong with Cotton Malone.”—Library Journal, on The Paris Vendetta “A superbly paced novel of mystery and adventure . . . [Berry’s] love of history resonates throughout this lively and imaginative tale.”—The Denver Post, on The Jefferson Key “A Dan Brown-ian secular conspiracy about the Virgin Queen driving nonstop international intrigue.”—Kirkus Reviews, on The King’s Deception
Download or read book The Cotton Malone Series 9 Book Bundle written by Steve Berry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 2840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the signature character of New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry, the Cotton Malone novels fuse page-turning suspense and fascinating historical insight into one heart-stopping thriller after another. “In Malone, Berry has created a classic, complex hero.”—USA Today A former Justice Department operative who can’t seem to stay out of trouble, Cotton Malone has crisscrossed the globe on electrifying quests. With the smart and sexy Cassiopeia Vitt by his side, Malone faces down the world’s deadliest terrorists, assassins, and con men—and unravels some of history’s most legendary and iconic mysteries along the way. Now in one exclusive eBook bundle are the first nine novels of Steve Berry’s extraordinary series: THE TEMPLAR LEGACY THE ALEXANDRIA LINK THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT THE PARIS VENDETTA THE EMPEROR’S TOMB THE JEFFERSON KEY THE KING’S DECEPTION THE LINCOLN MYTH Also includes the eBook short stories “The Balkan Escape,” “The Devil’s Gold,” and “The Admiral’s Mark,” as well as the novella The Tudor Plot! Praise for Steve Berry and his Cotton Malone novels “Steve Berry gets better and better with each new book.”—The Huffington Post “Berry has become the king of intrigue. You don’t just read a Steve Berry novel. You live it.”—James Rollins “Berry raises this genre’s stakes.”—The New York Times “I love this guy.”—#1 internationally bestselling author Lee Child “Malone, a hero with a personal stake in the proceedings, is a welcome respite from the cold, calculating superspies who litter the genre.”—Entertainment Weekly “Richly detailed and fantastically suspenseful, this thriller grips the reader for a wild literary ride that continues until the very last page.”—Tucson Citizen, on The Templar Legacy “Bigger than life . . . The reader will be engaged from the first page, thrilled by the story, entertained by the characters, and spellbound by the author’s sheer bravado. A must for high-adventure thriller fans.”—Booklist, on The Venetian Betrayal “[An] amazing blend of suspense and history . . . [Readers] cannot go wrong with Cotton Malone.”—Library Journal, on The Paris Vendetta “A superbly paced novel of mystery and adventure . . . [Berry’s] love of history resonates throughout this lively and imaginative tale.”—The Denver Post, on The Jefferson Key “A Dan Brown-ian secular conspiracy about the Virgin Queen driving nonstop international intrigue.”—Kirkus Reviews, on The King’s Deception
Download or read book Business Communication 3rd Edition written by Madhukar R.K. and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a comprehensive textbook especially designed for the students of commerce, management and other professional courses. It serves both as a learner´s text and a practitioner´s guide. It provides a sharp focus on all relevant concepts and cardinal principles of business communication and adds value to the reader´s understanding of the subject. Following a need-based and sequential approach, the book is highly stimulating and leads students to communicate with élan and prepare for work place challenges.
Download or read book Criminal Intent 9 MM Truth On A Stick written by S.P. Gallatin and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonstop action! Recipient of Author Shout’s Reader Ready silver award. Tom doesn’t have employees, it’s more akin to prisoners. Sam Garrison wants his freedom, but the price is stiff. He stumbled on something which could free him. If he fails, Tom’s retribution could be too horrid to even consider. Death isn’t the least of it. The little drive packs a big punch, but it is enough to buy Sam’s freedom? Set in the biggest city in Alaska, this dark urban fantasy takes Sam on a perilous trip through money laundering, election fixing and betting on the fix. What he doesn’t expect are the relics and a portal to another world. This tale of crime in the north is a non-stop action page turner.
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Download or read book The Geneva Connection written by Martin Bodenham and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant investor John Kent is living his dream. The success of his private equity firm has propelled him into the ranks of the world’s super-rich, allowing him to give his family the security and advantages he didn’t have in his own childhood. But John’s dream is shattered with the discovery that his largest investor is bankrolled by the most vicious drug cartel in Mexico. Then one of his partners is murdered to guarantee his silence, and John realizes he cannot cooperate with the authorities. When the ambitious head of the DEA threatens John with incarceration, his nightmare is complete. If he resists the DEA, what will happen to his family while he’s imprisoned? But the alternative is worse. For if John chooses to betray the cartel, he and his family will pay the ultimate price. Praise for THE GENEVA CONNECTION: “The Geneva Connection has a menacing opening with a hook and a barb to make the hook stick. Thriller readers are hooked, barbed and immediately reeled in. The narrative mesmerizes from the outset. The pace is swift and the action enough to make any reader’s toes curl in frightening expectation.” —Art Cockerill, Writer and Journalist “I couldn’t put The Geneva Connection down once I started it. The intricate plot, laced with just enough background information to make it realistic and understandable, takes twist after turn until you reach the final destination, white-knuckling it all the way. An intense thrill ride through the world of investment banking, drug cartels, and money laundering.” —Long and Short Reviews “Novelist Martin Bodenham has penned The Geneva Connection, a thriller straddling the City, the English countryside, Mexican back roads and the US Drug Enforcement Administration. With this page-turner, Bodenham aspires to do for fund managers what John Grisham has done for lawyers.” —Corporate Financier Magazine “Bodenham, a dealmaker who made his name in the cut and thrust world of turnarounds, is a fine writer of thriller fiction.” —Real Deals Magazine
Download or read book Flood Tide written by Clive Cussler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirk Pitt fights a Chinese smuggler who is an expert at getting illegal immigrants into the United States. Thrown into the mix is the lost treasure of Chiang Kai-shek.
Download or read book Damage Control written by Michael Bowen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bowen writes with knowledge and wit, tongue in cheek or rudely protruding. His cat-and-mouse corporate thriller zips merrily to a high-speed conclusion."—Publishers Weekly When shadowy gray market hustler and aspiring crony capitalist Jerzy Schroeder is murdered while Josie Kendall is hitting him up for a million dollars to help cash in on alternative energy funding, the police suspect her of adultery and her husband, Rafe, of homicide. Josie, who works for Majority Values Coalition, an "activist fundraising organization," is a new but passionate D.C. player. Suave Rafe, long a Washington insider, also a long widower, is passionate about Josie. He's on a new track as a literary agent and supporting Josie's how-Washington-works learning curve. For Josie and Rafe, this isn't a murder investigation but a political damage control problem. They attack the issue with an array of finely tuned skills: strategic leaks, manipulation of the media, judicious use of inside information, and a flexible attitude toward the truth—plus the assistance of Josie's Uncle Darius, a veteran spin doctor with surprising connections, who—luckily—is out on parole. They'll need a full arsenal, since, as one capital insider points out, "A damage control strategy that hasn't succeeded within thirty days has failed." Along the way, Josie, juggling plot lines, will have to decide whether there are ethical lines that even she won't cross. A proposal from Schroeder's ex-wife, Ann DeHoin, known as "The Gray Lady," thanks to her wardrobe, shows Josie that she was (and probably still is) being gamed. To what end? The priority here is to figure out what the game is before the body count rises, while staying on mission at MVC, which gets money from people committed to a cause, spends part of it promoting that cause through channels like running ads, and keeps the rest. In this contemporary House of Cards scenario, determining who actually murdered Schroeder is a low-priority problem but Josie manages to do that as well. It's all in a day's (well, thirty days') work.
