Introduction to Python and Spice for Electrical and Computer Engineers introduces freshman and sophomore engineering students to programming in Python and Spice through engaged, problem-based learning and dedicated Electrical and Computer Engineering content. This book draws its problems and examples specifically from Electrical and Computer Engineering, covering such topics as matrix algebra, complex exponentials and plotting using examples drawn from circuit analysis, signal processing, ...

This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow for understandings of how those migrations impacted personal and community identities. Each of...

The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as settings of breathtaking beauty, as venues of scientific inquiry, as destinations for much-needed...

An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons. Another major ISIS attack was ...

The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire gathers Anthony Trollope's six interlinked novels—beginning with The Warden and culminating in The Last Chronicle of Barset—into one of Victorian fiction's most capacious social panoramas. Set in the imagined cathedral county of Barsetshire, the sequence anatomizes clerical ambition, ecclesiastical reform, courtship, inheritance, and provincial politics with humane irony and lucid realism. Trollope's style is conversational yet architecturally control...

OMMIE Award for Best Metaphysical BookBest Holistic Life Award for Inspirational Book of the Year 2023Named a Gold Winner in the Reincarnation, Death & Grieving Books category of the 2022 COVR Visionary AwardsIn this fascinating book, the Psychic Lawyer takes you on a quest for answers — and finds them! World-renowned psychic medium and Oxford-educated attorney Mark Anthony b...

The prophesied hero Kelvin of Rud must traverse dimensions to save his father in this fantasy adventure sequel to Dragon's Gold.Being the second tale of Kelvin Knight, in which a Roundear's work is never done.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Fifteen Steps is a coming-of-age crime drama set in a small coastal town in Western Australia during the 1970s.Sam and Charlie have grown up with salt in their hair, surfboards under their arms and the ocean stretching endlessly before them.Then, one afternoon, they make a discovery that changes everything.Hidden beneath an old bridge is a crashed car, a dead man—and a bag containing money.They know someo...

The Barsetshire Chronicles gathers Trollope's six linked novels—The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset—into a panoramic study of clerical, political, and domestic life in a fictional English county. Written with lucid realism, humane irony, and a patient attention to social motive, the sequence stands at the center of Victorian fiction, balancing comic manners with moral seriousness and institutional c...

This story follows the journey of three men, Aiden, Bael, and Corin, as they compete to become the next king of their kingdom. Along the way, they face many challenges and obstacles, including a desert full of dangers and temptations, a forest full of hallucinations and nightmares, and a river full of seductive creatures and objects. Each man struggles with a different weakness related to one of the seven deadly sins: Aiden with pride, Bael with greed, and Corin with sloth. With the help o...

The title of this book plays upon the central place a theology of the cross holds in Lutheran theologies, especially lucid in Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (1518). The 500th anniversary of this document coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations wherein the preamble points to a global aspiration of a common good shaped by freedom, justice and peace. This book is located at the intersection of these two themes, asserting that the cross has...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When prize camellias are murdered, so is their owner's rival...The prestigious Hamsley Flower Festival should be a genteel affair of prize blooms and polite rivalry. But when Holmes and Garden are recruited as judges for the mysterious "Mystery Bloom" category, they discover that beneath the village's charming exterior, secrets grow as thick as English ivy.Lady Philomena Whitethorne's award-winning camel...