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A highly-readable popular biography of 'Bloody Mary' - winner of the James Tait Black prize. Mary I is notorious for her persecution of Protestants and has been vilified by generations of partisan historians. H.F.M. Prescott brings a more humane and measured perspective to the life of this...

This book presents a new computational finance approach combining a Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) technique with an optimization kernel based on genetic algorithms (GA). While the SAX representation is used to describe the financial time series, the evolutionary optimization kernel is used...

I was sentenced to death for crimes I didn’t commit. There was no trial, no judge, and no jury. Only a forced confession. And the person who put me in there, might be the real killer. Only four people believed in my innocence. One of them was dead. One of them was a teenager. The other two were...

This continues the story of the Peace Bringer. He wrestles with demons as they try to take over his being. He calls for Death and Death comes for him and takes him to the only One's that can help him. Death comes for only one reason when he's called, except for when it comes to the Peace Bringer. See if indeed he can find himself. See what's in store for our peace, as well as his.

So we find our hero and his family and cohorts in a situation with decisions to make. It seems there is a flux in the Universe…again. But that’s the adventure of it all. Isn’t it? Of course family is here with old friends and some new friends but there is also a new enemy. He’s a little bit...

A villager was struck down in his own home. A lecher bled out on the street, his face ripped to shreds. Young boys vanished from a forsaken temple. And this was just my first week as the Magistrate of Taihe County. Could it really be the acts of an angry god, as the villagers claimed? Or was someone...

Bodies in the river. Headless corpses. Jealousy, revenge, greed. Judge Chen has to deal with these cases every day. There is no fingerprint analysis, DNA, or any kind of modern forensic tools. This is the Song Dynasty, after all. Watch how the judge solves one case after another, with nothing more than his trusted advisor and his own wits.

The last minutes of 10 people’s lives. Did they make the right decision? Or was it the stupidest thing they could have done under the circumstances?

Everybody said my sister killed herself. I refused to believe it. I talked to her three roommates. Within 48 hours, one was dead, another ended up in hospital, and the third disappeared from campus. And I was beat up, stomped on, and tossed out. This only made me more determined: someone had gone...

Judge Chen thought shoring up a dam that was about to burst was his biggest concern. Flood, famine, refugees. Then, a body was found in the river. Then another. And another. And another . . . Someone had been using the river as a watery grave, all in the name of the search for something that existed...

Kids kept disappearing in a small town. All boys. Nobody cared. Until the ex-mayor’s grandson suffered the same fate. But for the police officers whose main job descriptions used to be locating missing dustbins and breaking up drunken brawls, were they up to the task?

The CEO of a multi-million yuan company was found dead in his car. Police investigation turned up more questions than answers: investors, the dead man’s wife, his secretary and maybe something more . . . Everybody was lying. Even the dead man had lied. His name was fake, his identity card expertly...

What makes a good serial killer? Nurture or nature? No one knows for sure. He killed dozens, slaughtered entire families. Retirees, college students, executives. None was exempt. Yet he didn’t think of himself as a serial killer. After all, all the killings was because someone had told him...

Inmate 5137000236 had given himself up at the police station to save his parents. He didn’t mind dying, after having avenged the deaths of the love of his life and his sister. Strapped on a gurney inside a mobile execution van, the inmate watched the executioner walk towards him with a needle filled...