A group of mutant outcasts including a young woman with enhanced super strength find themselves being hunted down, one by one by a sinister government organization. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances.
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.
12-year-old Candice Phee is a girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world. Set in a small coastal town, ‘H Is for Happiness’ is about an unflinchingly honest girl’s determination to bring her family back from the brink. Candice is an unforgettable heroine whose exploits will inspire and delight anyone who has faced the trials of adolescence and family heartbreak.
After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of the UK’s secret intelligence service, MI6, into a mission which will save millions of lives.
A boy receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder discovers that the house he’s living in isn’t as safe as he thought.
Early system administration required in-depth knowledge of a variety of services on individual systems. Now, the job is increasingly complex and different from one company to the next with an ever-growing list of technologies and third-party services to integrate. How does any one individual stay relevant in systems and services? This practical guide helps anyone in operations—sysadmins, automation engineers, IT professionals, and site reliability engineers—understand the essential concepts of the role today.
This book examines civil society’s peacebuilding role in sub-Saharan Africa in the context
of climate change and the pursuit of environmental peace and justice in the Anthropocene.
Five main research themes emerge from its 20 chapters
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Software intensive systems are systems, which heavily interact with other systems, sensors, actuators, devices, other software systems, and users. More and more domains are involved with software intensive systems, e.g., automotive, telecommunication systems, embedded systems in general, industrial automation systems, and business applications. Moreover, the outcome of web services delivers a new platform for enabling software intensive systems.
System on Chip (SoC) platforms have become the de facto enabling technology for mobile multimedia personal communication and entertainment embedded systems. Among various architecture choices, application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIP) that incorporate sub-word parallelism provide a low-cost high-performance solution particularly suitable for manipulating short word-length multimedia data streams.
A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe’s family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.
Emily Willis, in her jacket, bare legs and heels exits her building and steps into a black town car. She sits in the middle of two handsome men, Danny Mountain and Charles Dera. As they drive, the man in the back asks her if she is ready and if she will give herself over completely. Emily says “yes.” He strips her out, exposing her bare skin. Beautiful and submissive housewife Casey Calvert is getting ready for her husband, Seth Gamble, to get home from work. She admires her darling, obedient pet, Whitney Wright, before leaving the room. It’s almost time for the husband to arrive, and they’re both eager to greet him after his long day at work. Secretary Jill Kassidy is laying on the floor with her ass up, looking sexy in her white blouse, pencil skirt and high heels. Her fingers glide along the keys of the typewriter as she types “YES BOSS” over and over again. In the background, her boss Derrick Pierce watches from his desk, hungrily admiring the view.
