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Author: Stephen Dedman Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 294
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A REFUGE FROM THE STREETS... In the abandoned factory known as the Crypt, society's castoffs have found a place to call home. Some of its denizens are hiding or on the run; some have nowhere left to go. But the Crypt protects its own, providing care for street kids as well as medical and magical healing for those in need. It also sports an illegal tap into the Matrix, and hosts a coven of some of the most successful shadowrunners around. COMES UNDER ASSAULT BY A MEGACORP... When a disgraced corporate mover takes an interest in the Crypt—and in a valuable secret long hidden in its foundations—he doesn't intend to let the dregs of Seattle keep him from making the score of a lifetime. But he's about to discover that the Crypt's inhabitants aren't going to be buried so easily...
Author: Stephen Dedman Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
A REFUGE FROM THE STREETS... In the abandoned factory known as the Crypt, society's castoffs have found a place to call home. Some of its denizens are hiding or on the run; some have nowhere left to go. But the Crypt protects its own, providing care for street kids as well as medical and magical healing for those in need. It also sports an illegal tap into the Matrix, and hosts a coven of some of the most successful shadowrunners around. COMES UNDER ASSAULT BY A MEGACORP... When a disgraced corporate mover takes an interest in the Crypt—and in a valuable secret long hidden in its foundations—he doesn't intend to let the dregs of Seattle keep him from making the score of a lifetime. But he's about to discover that the Crypt's inhabitants aren't going to be buried so easily...
Author: Vikram Akula Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1422171620 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 201
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Around the globe, poverty has held too many people in its grip for too long. While microfinance - small loans to impoverished individuals - initially attracted attention in the press, it didn't achieve the scale, scope, and profitability necessary to substantially combat poverty. All that changed with Vikram Akula's creation of SKS Microfinance. In this highly personal narrative, A Fistful of Rice, Akula reveals how he pieced together the best of both philanthropy and (to his surprise) capitalism to help millions of India's poor transition from paupers to customers to business owners. As thoughtful as Barack Obama's personal journey in Dreams from My Father, as harrowing as Paul Farmer's battle against infectious disease in Mountains Beyond Mountains, and as gripping as Greg Mortensen's fight for education in Three Cups of Tea, Akula's story shows how traditional business principles can be brought to bear on global problems in new ways. A Fistful of Rice offers not only inspiration but also lessons for anyone seeking to transform tenacity, creativity, and innovation into potent tools for fighting even the most seemingly intractable human burdens.
Author: Stephen Dedman Publisher: Ace Books ISBN: 9780451461162 Category : Magic Languages : en Pages : 0
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The all-new Shadowrun series continues . . . The abandoned factory known as the Crypt is the home to society's cast-offs as well as a coven for some of the most successful shadowrunners in town. But it is also the home to a long-buried secret that has caught the eye of a corporate mover who's willing to wage war against the Crypt to uncover it.
Author: Nina Kiriki Hoffman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101208228 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 372
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Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic. She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all. “One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction
Author: Toby Green Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022664474X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 651
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By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
Author: Jean Shepherd Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0385188439 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere. Jean Shepherd was one of America’s favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor–like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans. A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd—sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent. It is a brilliant comic assessment of American life—all of them delivered in Jean Shepherd’s witty, classy, unforgettable style.
Author: Joe Ciardiello Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1683962273 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 74
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In this gorgeous graphic memoir, Joe Ciardiello gracefully weaves together his Italian family history and the mythology of the American West while paying homage to the classic movie and TV Westerns. Featuring John Ford, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Sophia Loren, and many more, this book is a paean to Hollywood and a love letter to the Western.
Author: Mark Watson Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1430223529 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 372
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While Web 2.0 was about data, Web 3.0 is about knowledge and information. Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information Gathering and Processing offers the reader Ruby scripts for intelligent information management in a Web 3.0 environment—including information extraction from text, using Semantic Web technologies, information gathering (relational database metadata, web scraping, Wikipedia, Freebase), combining information from multiple sources, and strategies for publishing processed information. This book will be a valuable tool for anyone needing to gather, process, and publish web or database information across the modern web environment. Text processing recipes, including speech tagging and automatic summarization Gathering, visualizing, and publishing information from the Semantic Web Information gathering from traditional sources such as relational databases and web sites
Author: Mohamed A. Sharaf Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319195484 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 352
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2015, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in June 2015. The 24 full papers presented together with 5 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The Australasian Database Conference is an annual international forum for sharing the latest research advancements and novel applications of database systems, data driven applications and data analytics between researchers and practitioners from around the globe, particularly Australia and New Zealand. The mission of ADC is to share novel research solutions to problems of today’s information society that fulfill the needs of heterogeneous applications and environments and to identify new issues and directions for future research. ADC seeks papers from academia and industry presenting research on all practical and theoretical aspects of advanced database theory and applications, as well as case studies and implementation experiences.
Author: Stephen Dedman
Author: Stephen Dedman
Author: Vikram Akula
Author: Stephen Dedman
Author: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Author: Toby Green
Author: Jean Shepherd
Author: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Author: Joe Ciardiello
Author: Mark Watson
Author: Mohamed A. Sharaf