Marcus: 2128 books

Mystery book for Children 10-15 years Karen and Jodie are two 12 year-old girls about to start school holidays. Everything should be neat, yet by the time the last day of school is over a catastrophe has happened. Jodie's mother has vanished.    When Charlie Graves—the...

Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. "You're a BOY!" Mother and Father tell...

The Old Testament is a fascinating book.  It tells the story of the creation of the universe, the beginnings of man, man’s fall into sin, and God’s Plan of salvation.  I originally wrote these stories for personal use with my own grandchildren.  As I read these stories to two of...

There is not much that I can’t relate to in this life. I have been through abuse, divorce, betrayal, financial difficulties, military deployments, being fired, heartbreaks, death, suicidal thoughts, insecurity, anxiety, and temptations I have overcome and those I have failed. God has allowed me...

An undertaker with a past he'd rather forget, Nick Graves has finally found some measure of peace and happiness in the small town of Ocean on the edge of the desert. Others, however, are nowhere near as lucky—particularly rancher Joseph Van Meter, a good man whose whole family is mercilessly slaughtered...

Maria Fortmanns erster Fall. In den frühen Morgenstunden des Stoppelmarktdienstags finden zwei junge Männer den Marktmeister erstochen in einem Maisfeld nahe des Festgeländes. Maria Fortmann von der Kripo Cloppenburg und ihr Kollege Goselüschen übernehmen die Ermittlungen und schnell scheinen...

Im Namen des ... Volkes wird Martin Scharner freigesprochen. Doch im Namen der Rache werden er und zwei weitere Männer von einem Unbekannten zum Tode verurteilt und brutal hingerichtet. Maria Fortmann und ihr Kollege Goselüschen beginnen die Jagd auf den eiskalten Racheengel, doch dieser...

The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold, but were exported all over the world. After WW2, Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes...

From the history of photography and how to shoot wedding portraits to creating stylish albums and working with digital output, everything a wedding photographer needs to know is included in this all encompassing manual. Photographers are provided with a shooting guide that walks them through the wedding...

Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques. No programming skills are required. Foundation concepts and skills orient the new designer and serve as a handy reference to the experienced one. Basics...

Sheet metal is a common and widely used material, which can be easily worked using hand tools or simple machinery. There are lots of opportunities for designing, making and using sheet metal parts to produce elegant, effective and low cost solutions for new items, repairs and modifications to existing...

Build robust, scalable search solutions to fit the way your business works Deliver powerful search tools to your clients—using Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Led by three search experts, you’ll learn how to deliver advanced intranet search capabilities and build custom,...

Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences.  Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of...

This book consists of a series of essays which addresses the essentials of the development processes in user-experience design (UX design) planning, research, analysis, evaluation, training and  implementation, and deals with  the essential components (metaphors, mental models, navigation, and appearance)...