Vin: 81 books

The quality of financial sector supervision has emerged as a key issue from the financial crisis. While most countries operated broadly under the same regulatory standards, differences emerged in supervisory approaches. The international response to this crisis has focused on the need for more and...

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command-Line Interface shows how to use Enterprise Manager’s powerful scripting language to automate your database administration work and save time by scripting routine tasks, and then executing those scripts across collections of databases and instances in your environment....

Tales and true stories about hunters, their dogs and the upland game and waterfowl they hunt.

Gober Gonzalves is the leader of a teenage gang known as the 'Kings of the Earth.' This week he is planning to rumble over a girl he no longer cares for. Red Eyes de Jarro is a member of the gang, as is Tea Bag Perrez. Red Eyes writes song lyrics and dreams of a better life. Tea Bag shoots heroin...

There were two Charlie Gibsons One rode the 5:45 to Westport and was met at the station by his charming wife who dressed in impeccable tweeds and mixed a wicked martini. He also had a long-legged, lovely daughter whom he admired. He was second in command of a vast publishing house and, what’s...

Introducing Yeti, a fuzzy and sweet new character whose story is perfect for summer, winter, and all the seasons in between! Everyone knows yetis love winter. They love snowball fights and hot chocolate and sledding and building snow castles. But even yetis get the shivers, and even yetis get...

Discover an extraordinary, true-life adventure that could have appeared straight from the pages of a John le Carré Cold War novel. In February 1962 Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace, was released by his Russian captors in exchange for one...

Somehow he’d ended up with someone else’s coat . . . and that act could end Robert Bowser’s life before it started. His hand trembled as he answered the phone. ''Mr. Bowser?'' ''Yes.'' ''Mr. Bowser, my name is Harvey Plangman.'' ''Yes, Mr. Plangman. I have...

Written in cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for Drupal users to make optimum use of the Panels module. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to things chapter by chapter, or read them in no particular order.If...

Blend the power of Qt with OpenCV to build cross-platform computer vision applications Key Features ● Start creating robust applications with the power of OpenCV and Qt combined ● Learn from scratch how to develop cross-platform computer vision applications ● Accentuate your OpenCV applications...

Explore OpenCV 4 to create visually appealing cross-platform computer vision applications Key Features Understand basic OpenCV 4 concepts and algorithms Grasp advanced OpenCV techniques such as 3D reconstruction, machine learning, and artificial neural networks Work with Tesseract OCR, an open-source...

There was a girl named Leda who was Queen of the campus.  There was a girl called Mitch who desperately wanted to be loved.  Suddenly, they belonged to each other. Not since The Well of Loneliness has there been such an honest, provocative novel on a theme too important to keep from the...

An exhilarating story from the author who mainstreamed lesbian pulp fiction The moment of truth... Mary Drew knelt down on the rug. She leaned forward, her mouth within an inch of Martha's. "l love you," she said. "I've loved you from the very moment we met. But I won't kiss you....

The floating exploration rig, Olympian, is drilling for oil. It has a crew of 80 tough, no-nonsense oilmen capable of handling anything . So they think. But Scott Reef #8 isn't just a jinx - it will prove to be one hole too many.There's something down there apart from sea and mud that seems to think...