Michael Wall: 15 books
Out There
A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from Space.com leads readers on a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier, investigating what's really "out there."
We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look...
Poems By Michael Wall
A Family`s Guide to Life.
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book has a LOT in it that can help Parents and Children, and Teenagers out if they read it together: And if parents read it on their own: Parents can learn about what their children and grown up kids may be going through in life: But, there is also beautiful poetry in...
by Michael Wall
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
It tells the story of my upbringing and future life. I hope that any young person in similar situation reads the book and realizes that no matter how difficult life seems to be, there is no need to turn to drugs or crime to make a living. Just take a deep breath, have faith in yourself, and jump into...
Accumulo
Application Development, Table Design, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Get up to speed on Apache Accumulo, the flexible, high-performance key/value store created by the National Security Agency (NSA) and based on Google’s BigTable data storage system. Written by former NSA team members, this comprehensive tutorial and reference covers Accumulo architecture, application...
by Michael Wall
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
There are many fleeting moments when either Colin or Tony want to smother the laughs of their wives. The two couples fight for every inch of their lives, from the garden of a house in Ealing to the grounds of a mental asylum.
Women Laughing has been performed at the Royal Exchange Manchester,...
by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when his old enemies seize his wife, Fursey resolves to embrace evil and return to Ireland to reclaim her. Along the...
by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Byzantium Endures
The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous antihero of Michael Moorcock's most controversial work. Published in 1981 to great critical acclaim-then condemned to the shadows and unavailable in...
The Everything Christianity Book
A Complete and Easy-To-Follow Guide to Protestant Origins, Beliefs, Practices and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
A complete and easy-to-follow guide to Protestant origins, beliefs, practices, and traditions
Christians make up about one third of the world’s population. Among those two billion followers, over 185 million are of the Protestant faith. What are the differences between Protestant and Catholic?...
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
Intellectual Creativity in First-Year Composition Classes
Building a Case for the Multigenre Research Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Today’s first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today’s college and university students. Burns and MacBride were determined to make...
Quantum Many-Body Physics of Ultracold Molecules in Optical Lattices
Models and Simulation Methods
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This thesis investigates ultracold molecules as a resource for novel quantum many-body physics, in particular by utilizing their rich internal structure and strong, long-range dipole-dipole interactions. In addition, numerical methods based on matrix product states are analyzed in detail, and general...
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