Download or read book The Agora Files Part I written by Adam Oster and published by Adam Oster. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I almost missed my stop. Twice!" - Angelika Rust, author of Ratpaths In a world where kids are used to smuggle goods across the country, Cyrus Rhodes believes himself to be the best. But as his eighteenth birthday nears, he fears for what his future holds when he can no longer do what he is best at. When he is given the chance to run an epic race across the country in less time than he knows is possible, he jumps at the opportunity, risking life and limb for little more than money and prestige. Soon, he learns there's much more to this run than he's accustomed to, finding himself in the middle of a battle for control of the country, while he's struggling against a battle for control of his own life. Now the question isn't whether or not he can complete the job, but whether he can stay alive when faced against the United States military, a revolutionary squad, and the entire United States who now believes him to be a terrorist.

Download or read book The Agora Files Part II written by Adam Oster and published by Adam Oster. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping from prison was the easy part. With the girl he loves in prison, his brother kidnapped by a mysterious leader of the Agora, and a host of SP and rebellion leaders on the hunt for him, Cyrus knows he needs all the help he can get, no matter how uncomfortable he is with it. His new running partner, Bruno, is an escapee from the same prison Cyrus just escaped from and appears to have his own motives in mind. Cyrus has a lot of questions and a lot to do, and there are only six days left until the nation burns. The Agora Files – Part II takes the exciting Agora Files series even deeper into the world of The Agora and brings up one very necessary question for Cyrus as he is tasked with saving the nation: Who can be trusted?

Download or read book The Agora Files Part III written by Adam Oster and published by Adam Oster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of their fatal standoff with the mysterious Miss Nile, Cyrus, Eve, and The Geek still have many questions. Can they trust Alvin when he tells them they are heroes of the nation? Can they trust Cyrus’ parents who seem to appear in the most unexpected and needed of times? Or perhaps they should trust Grant, the man who has attempted to kill them multiple times during their journey, simply because he claims to have a way to get them to safety.In this climactic conclusion to the epic Agora Files trilogy, Cyrus and his friends cross the country yet again on their journey to freedom. But their questions of trust still remain. In a world where everyone wants you dead, is there anywhere you can ever feel safe?

Download or read book The Long Chron written by Adam Oster and published by Adam Oster. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a stolen relic sends them back in time, con artists Chelle and Griff try to return in the same way they arrived: scamming, scheming, and swindling. But following the rules of the Scammer's Bible might not be enough for these two unlikely heroes as they wind up in the midst of a battle for not only a medieval town's freedom, but also the integrity of all history. Griff and Chelle must use their wits to uncover out the secrets of the mysterious Wizard, as well as the history of the puzzling Reprobian Sphere which brought them to the past, all while avoiding the townspeople who are under The Wizard's spell.

Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama written by John E. Thorburn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.

Download or read book Catalogue of Distributed File Operating Systems written by Uwe M. Borghoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In general, distributed systems can be classified into Distributed File Systems (DFS) and Distributed Operating Systems (DOS). The survey which follows distinguishes be tween DFS approaches in Chapters 2-3, and DOS approaches in Chapters 4-5. Within DFS and DOS, I further distinguish "traditional" and object-oriented approaches. A traditional approach is one where processes are the active components in the systems and where the name space is hierarchically organized. In a centralized environment, UNIX would be a good example of a traditional approach. On the other hand, an object-oriented approach deals with objects in which all information is encapsulated. Some systems of importance do not fit into the DFS/DOS classification. I call these systems "closely related" and put them into Chapter 6. Chapter 7 contains a table of comparison. This table gives a lucid overview summarizing the information provided and allowing for quick access. The last chapter is added for the sake of completeness. It contains very brief descriptions of other related systems. These systems are of minor interest or do not provide transparency at all. Sometimes I had to assign a system to this chapter simply for lack of adequate information about it.

Download or read book Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse written by Themistoklis Diamantopoulos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph discusses software reuse and how it can be applied at different stages of the software development process, on different types of data and at different levels of granularity. Several challenging hypotheses are analyzed and confronted using novel data-driven methodologies, in order to solve problems in requirements elicitation and specification extraction, software design and implementation, as well as software quality assurance. The book is accompanied by a number of tools, libraries and working prototypes in order to practically illustrate how the phases of the software engineering life cycle can benefit from unlocking the potential of data. Software engineering researchers, experts, and practitioners can benefit from the various methodologies presented and can better understand how knowledge extracted from software data residing in various repositories can be combined and used to enable effective decision making and save considerable time and effort through software reuse. Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse can also prove handy for graduate-level students in software engineering.

Download or read book Intelligent Computer Mathematics written by Johan Jeuring and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation, AISC 2012, 19th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2012, 5th International Workshop on Digital Mathematics Libraries, DML 2012, 11th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management, MKM 2012, Systems and Projects, held in Bremen, Germany as CICM 2012, the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics. The 13 revised full papers out of 19 submissions for MKM 2012, 6 revised full papers out of 9 submissions for Calculemus 2012, 6 revised full papers out of 8 submissions for AISC 2012, 2 revised full papers out of 3 submissions for DML 2012, and 11 revised full papers out of 12 submissions for Systems and Project track presented were carefully reviewed and selected, resulting in 38 papers from a total of 52 submissions.

Download or read book The Documents in the Attic Orators written by Mirko Canevaro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Canevaro studies the 'state' documents preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. Offering a comprehensive account of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, Canevaro summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the documents.

Download or read book The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek Volume 2 Selected Tablets and Endmatter written by John Killen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952 Michael Ventris deciphered the script found on the Linear B tablets from Crete and the Greek mainland, therefore revealing the earliest known form of Greek. In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an account of the decipherment, of the language of the tablets, of the society and economy revealed by the documents and a series of chapters giving texts, translations and commentary of the most important tablets. Though partially updated in 1973, Documents is now very much outdated: there has been a vast accrual of bibliography on the subject since 1973, and discoveries of tablets at new sites. This new survey, written by fourteen of the world's leading experts, will bring the reader fully up-to-date with developments in all aspects of Mycenaean studies, concluding with a new, full glossary of all the most recently discovered words.

Download or read book Intelligent Computer Mathematics written by Jacques Carette and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 20th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2013, 6th International Workshop on Digital Mathematics Libraries, DML 2013, Systems and Projects, held in Bath, UK as part of CICM 2013, the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics. The 7 revised full papers out of 18 submissions for MKM 2013, 5 revised full papers out of 12 submissions for Calculemus 2013, 6 revised full papers out of 8 submissions for DML 2013, and 12 revised full papers out of 16 submissions for Systems and Project track presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected, resulting in 33 papers from a total of 73 submissions.

Download or read book Databases and Information Systems II written by Hele-Mai Haav and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Databases and database systems in particular, are considered as kerneIs of any Information System (IS). The rapid growth of the web on the Internet has dramatically increased the use of semi-structured data and the need to store and retrieve such data in a database. The database community quickly reacted to these new requirements by providing models for semi-structured data and by integrating database research to XML web services and mobile computing. On the other hand, IS community who never than before faces problems of IS development is seeking for new approaches to IS design. Ontology based approaches are gaining popularity, because of a need for shared conceptualisation by different stakeholders of IS development teams. Many web-based IS would fail without domain ontologies to capture meaning of terms in their web interfaces. This volume contains revised versions of 24 best papers presented at the th 5 International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (BalticDB&IS'2002). The conference papers present original research results in the novel fields of IS and databases such as web IS, XML and databases, data mining and knowledge management, mobile agents and databases, and UML based IS development methodologies. The book's intended readers are researchers and practitioners who are interested in advanced topics on databases and IS.

Download or read book Advances in Multimedia Information Processing PCM 2004 written by Kiyoharu Aizawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th Paci?c Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004) held in Tokyo Waterfront City, Japan, November 30–December 3, 2004. Following the success of the preceding conferences, PCM 2000 in Sydney, PCM 2001 in Beijing, PCM 2002 in Hsinchu, and PCM 2003 in Singapore, the ?fth PCM brought together the researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators in the ?eld of multimedia. Theoretical breakthroughs and practical systems were presented at this conference, thanks to the support of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Region 10 and IEEE Japan Council, ACM SIGMM, IEICE and ITE. PCM2004featuredacomprehensiveprogramincludingkeynotetalks,regular paperpresentations,posters,demos,andspecialsessions.Wereceived385papers andthenumberofsubmissionswasthelargestamongrecentPCMs.Amongsuch a large number of submissions, we accepted only 94 oral presentations and 176 poster presentations. Seven special sessions were also organized by world-leading researchers. We kindly acknowledge the great support provided in the reviewing of submissions by the program committee members, as well as the additional reviewers who generously gave their time. The many useful comments provided by the reviewing process must have been very valuable for the authors’ work. Thisconferencewouldneverhavehappenedwithoutthehelpofmanypeople. We greatly appreciate the support of our strong organizing committee chairs and advisory chairs. Among the chairs, special thanks go to Dr. Ichiro Ide and Dr. Takeshi Naemura who smoothly handled publication of the proceedings with Springer. Dr. Kazuya Kodama did a fabulous job as our Web master.

Download or read book New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 8 written by Stephen Llewelyn and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series, produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University, keeps New Testament and early church researchers abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that help illumine the context in which the Christian church developed.

Download or read book Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens written by Jessica Paga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did this is still a fundamental question 2,500 years later. The results of the reforms transformed the very nature of what it meant to be Athenian and their far-reaching effects would come to leave their mark on nearly every aspect of society, including the structures at which they prayed and in which they debated legislation. By attending to the built environment broadly, and monumental architecture specifically, this book investigates the built environment of ancient Athens precisely during this time, the late Archaic period (ca. 514/13 - 480/79 B.C.E.). It was these decades, filled with transition and disorder, when the Athenians transformed their political system from a tyranny to a democracy. Concurrent with the socio-political changes, they altered the physical landscape and undertook the monumental articulation of the city and countryside. Interpreting the nature of the fledgling democracy from a material standpoint, this book approaches the questions and problems of the early political system through the lens of buildings. The focus on monumental structures erected during this particular time period demonstrates how the built environment worked to facilitate the functioning of the nascent political regime. While Athenian democracy--its institutions, ideology, and capabilities--has been intensively studied, little attention has been paid to the intersection between built structures and the political system during its earliest phases. This book draws attention to a pivotal period of Athenian political history through the built environment, thereby exposing the richness of the material record and illustrating how it participated in the creation of a new democratic Athenian identity.

Download or read book Daddy of the Dead written by Adam Oster and published by Adam Oster. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story Never Slowed Down." - Ursusa K Raphael, the Vine Voice Bert Hamberg is no hero. But when it comes to being separated from his four year old daughter at the dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse, he will do anything to find her. Driving over 350 miles in a freezing snow storm, he must face some of his worst fears as well as the undead, to ensure his little girl is unharmed. Daddy of the Dead is a novella that explores the question of fatherhood during the initial days of the zombie outbreak.

Download or read book Is Europe Listening to Us written by Raphaël Kies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the European Union engage and connect with the people it aims to represent? What initiatives and schemes have been used to engage EU citizens? To what extent can such procedures be considered a move forward towards a more participative and democratic Europe? This collection of internationally recognised specialists in European integration and innovative democratic practices seek to answer these key questions, explore European citizens’ thoughts and opinions about the EU and evaluate the governing elite’s attempts to engage with the public. It offers critical analysis of EU justifications and strategies for implementing Deliberative Citizens Involvement Projects and focuses on some of the major participative experiences trialled and implemented by EU institutions. By comparing these different attempts to increase and bolster the participation of EU citizens and evaluating their impact the book offers valuable and original material on the civic involvement of EU citizens and the legitimacy of the EU decision making process.