"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years." (From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett)First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.As relevant today as when they first a...

Java in a Nutshell doesn't just help experienced Java programmers get the most out of versions through Java 25. It also provides a learning path for new developers. Chock-full of examples that demonstrate how to take complete advantage of modern Java APIs and development best practices, this thoroughly revised guide includes new material on recent enhancements to Java.The first section provides a fast-paced, no-fluff introduction to the Java programming language and the ch...

What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long been part of the debate over the ethics of warfare. They all took on new meaning after terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners on September 11, 2001.War after September 11 considers the just aims and legitimate limits of the United States' response to the terrorist attacks. Si...

Lewis Deathstalker and his beloved Jesamine Flowers are fugitives from the Empire, and fate has assembled a bizarre company of companions for them. Brett Random, a scoundrel claiming to be descended from Owen Deathstalker's comrades Jack Random and Ruby Journey, Rose Constantine, a psychopathic female gladiator from the Arenas, and Saturday, an eight-foot tall reptilian alien, have attached themselves to the reluctant rebels, who have determined to carry out their own quest to find the lon...

In the royal inner circle, the immovable wills of Lewis Deathstalker, the King's Champion, and Jesamine Flowers, the King's betrothed, labor in vain against the most irresistible force they've ever known. Or so they think. In fulfillment of Owen Deathstalker's warning of 200 years earlier, a nightmarish alien entity has intruded into Human space, a creature that devours planets and suns, and shrugs off any defense humanity hurls against it. King Douglas and Parliament grapple over what can...

Two hundred years after the events chronicled in Deathstalker Destiny, it is a Golden Age for the Human Empire. Lewis Deathstalker is a remote descendant of the legendary Owen and foremost among the Paragons, an elite force of noble warriors in service to a benevolent constitutional monarchy. The new monarch Douglas Campbell, grandson of Robert and Constance, and his reluctant Champion Lewis Deathstalker find themselves in deep and treacherous waters on Campbell's first day in Parliament. ...

Finn Durandal's traitorous scheme is all coming together, as Parliament becomes the bloody scene of Finn's carefully orchestrated civil unrest. But King Douglas begins to see betrayal much closer at hand, and the pain of it may leave him a shattered man. Lewis Deathstalker's struggle to hold honor above his own needs is put aside momentarily, as the riot on Parliament's doorstep puts him in a battle to the death with Finn's brutal assassin Rose Constantine, undefeated gladiator of the Aren...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...

The Adventures of the Blueberry Princess is a fun children's adventure about talking fruits living together on a four-acre farm. The Blueberry Princess and her fruity friends enter a friendly competition to discover which fruit deserves to be at the top. Along the way, they face exciting challenges and learn that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning.Their adventure takes an unexpected turn when a series of wild s...

Sixth-grader Henry Haddock's personal war with School Board Chairman "Scooter" McDuff starts innocently. Over breakfast one day, Henry complains that his favorite teacher has been laid off in a sudden, sneaky burst of budget cuts.Henry goes to ask the School Board to ask why. Scooter tells Henry to shut up. A week later, Scooter does it again. After that, it's a war of wills!Henry's protest eventually triggers a brawl in the high-school library, a recall petition, a battere...

While taking a walk, two teen boys wander off into a Research Center in the middle of a remote village in Nandiland.Intrigued by the workers of this institute, their fear gets the best of them, and they decide to run away and not get caught while spying. They end up in an alternative world that has given them superpowers.Caught in the two realities, can they trust their judgement to figure out what is real?

A timekeeper uncovers a temporal breach that threatens reality, leading to a race against time to alter destiny and secure a new future before calculations run out.