A disappearance, a priest fed up with confessions, Halloween night, All Saints and All Souls set in a small college town with a penchant for bird watching, astronomy, and tracking, laced with the notes of elusive music whispering through the prairies grass and ghosts who dance and send out recipes. The threads of a past and a present intertwine through violins, a play, a bomber jacket, dance prints and card decks.

Stories about murders, train wrecks, plane crashes, disappearances, peculiar events, and mysterious happenings in a once rural county near Washington, D.C.

A short book of poetry to give you the inspiration to live your most powerful day. It is a reminder that beauty and change are a constant part of making a happy life. It is through our shadowed moments that we grow and become strong. It is then that we will find out who we are and our true purpose in life. It is at these moments of disappointment and challenge that we overcome life's obstacles. This is when we find our " power wings " and take a flight to a new life of our design. One we m...

Your one-stop guide to building an efficient data science pipeline using JupyterKey Features\[\*\]Get the most out of your Jupyter notebook to complete the trickiest of tasks in Data Science\[\*\]Learn all the tasks in the data science pipeline—from data acquisition to visualization—and implement them using Jupyter\[\*\]Get ahead of the curve by mastering all the applications of Jupyter for data science with this unique and intuitive guide...

The Manhattan Project at Hanford Site describes the top-secret effort undertaken during World War II to develop a weapon never imagined at "Site W" or "Hanford Engineer Works," one of three sites selected in the United States (plus Los Alamos and Oak Ridge) to research and produce weapons that were ultimately used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and end World War II. It was a research and engineering feat of unimaginable proportion, and the total project cost for all three sites was $2.1 bi...

Leverage the power of the popular Jupyter notebooks to simplify your data science tasks without any hassle Key FeaturesCreate and share interactive documents with live code, text and visualizationsIntegrate popular programming languages such as Python, R, Julia, Scala with JupyterDevelop your widgets and interactive dashboards with these innovative recipesBook DescriptionJupyter has garnered a strong interest in the data scie...

Jim Toomey was already a successful drummer when he became a part of a new group, The Tourists, in the late seventies. He formed the group with Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, Peet Coombes and Eddie Chin.From their early beginnings in London, finding their sound and their voice, through their success, their recordings, TV appearances, and their tours across the world, this is the story of The Tourists, told by the man sitting behind the drums.In a series of anecdotes and tales of...

Create and share livecode, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text, in both a single document and a web browser with JupyterKey FeaturesLearn how to use Jupyter 5.x features such as cell tagging and attractive table stylesLeverage big data tools and datasets with different Python packagesExplore multiple-user Jupyter Notebook serversBook DescriptionThe Jupyter Notebook allows you to create and share documents that con...

Where social climbing is a home industry and membership in exclusive clubs often unobtainable, "Murder in the Hamptons" offers a unique motive for homicide: exclusion from a coveted world of social position in the exclusive Hamptons of Long Island, New York. Though fictional, the familiar scenes and characters in this novella bring to life a portrait of a beloved seashore town where in the words of bishop Reginal Herber, "every prospect pleases, and only man is vile."

When Vic meets Lali, they stumble into a dysfunctional ten-year relationship that leaves him in ruins and raising a child on his own. As Vic strives to protect their daughter from the cruel truths of his relationship with her mother, he finds himself hopelessly submerged in Lali's seemingly inexplicable contradictions, and their implications concerning his own inability to move on. Huddleston Road is an honest, often brutal examination of the loneliness that results from our inabi...

Sam and Dex find a tic-tac ufo partially buried in the woods and must battle the government and alien entitites to save their lives and possibly the existence of mankind.

Will you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, friends, and the general public? Do you want your research to matter to society and not simply be confined to arcane discussion in academic circles? Social science communicator Anne Helen Toomey argues that science today faces a public-relations crisis due to its historic emphasis on “t...