eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Author: Nigel Packer
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1250071542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the tradition of The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, comes a funny, moving, and heartwarming novel about a retired architect's attempt to reclaim the past
Author: Nigel Packer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1466882689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Retired architect Otto Laird is living a peaceful, if slightly bemused, existence in Switzerland with his second wife, Anika. Once renowned for his radical designs, Otto now spends his days communing with nature and writing eccentric letters to old friends (which he doesn't mail). But Otto's comfortable life is rudely interrupted when he learns that his most significant and revolutionary building, Marlowe House, a 1960s tower block estate in South London is set to be demolished. Otto is outraged. Determined to do everything in his power to save the building, he reluctantly agrees to take part in a television documentary, which will mean returning to London for the first time in twenty-five years to live for a week in Marlowe House. Once Otto becomes reacquainted with the city he called home for most of his life, his memories begin to come alive. And as he mines his past and considers life moving forward -- for himself and his building -- Otto embarks on a remarkable journey that will change everything he ever thought he knew.
Author: Brooke Davis
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0147517737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The #1 international bestselling debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens along the way Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns. United at this fateful moment with two octogenarians seekers, she embarks with them upon a road trip to find Millie's mother. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2007-05-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0440336856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE NEXT BOOK IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED THE SECOND SEASON OF THE HIT STREAMING SERIES REACHER “Electrifying . . . this series [is] utterly addictive.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life. Reacher is the ultimate loner—no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then she tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his team, scrambling to unravel the sudden disappearance of two other comrades. But Reacher won’t give up—because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them.
Author: Claudia Piñeiro
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2013-07-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 190852409X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten. Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) and Thursday Night Widows.
Author: Wolfram Siemann
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 929
ISBN-13: 067474392X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European diplomacy. Known as a conservative and an uncompromising practitioner of realpolitik, in fact Metternich accommodated new ideas of liberalism and nationalism insofar as they served the goal of peace. And he promoted reform at home.
Author: Gillian Philip
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-02-19
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0765333228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The half-feral son of a Sithe nobleman is exiled to the mortal world of sixteenth-century Scotland during a time of religious wars and brutal witch-hunts.
Author: Marco Dorigo
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004-06-04
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780262042192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of the rapidly growing field of ant colony optimization that describes theoretical findings, the major algorithms, and current applications. The complex social behaviors of ants have been much studied by science, and computer scientists are now finding that these behavior patterns can provide models for solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems. The attempt to develop algorithms inspired by one aspect of ant behavior, the ability to find what computer scientists would call shortest paths, has become the field of ant colony optimization (ACO), the most successful and widely recognized algorithmic technique based on ant behavior. This book presents an overview of this rapidly growing field, from its theoretical inception to practical applications, including descriptions of many available ACO algorithms and their uses. The book first describes the translation of observed ant behavior into working optimization algorithms. The ant colony metaheuristic is then introduced and viewed in the general context of combinatorial optimization. This is followed by a detailed description and guide to all major ACO algorithms and a report on current theoretical findings. The book surveys ACO applications now in use, including routing, assignment, scheduling, subset, machine learning, and bioinformatics problems. AntNet, an ACO algorithm designed for the network routing problem, is described in detail. The authors conclude by summarizing the progress in the field and outlining future research directions. Each chapter ends with bibliographic material, bullet points setting out important ideas covered in the chapter, and exercises. Ant Colony Optimization will be of interest to academic and industry researchers, graduate students, and practitioners who wish to learn how to implement ACO algorithms.
Author: James W. Pruett
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrates the career of the scholar who has had a positive impact on the lives of many students and colleagues. A wide range of essays on musical scholarship covers Music in Renaissance Italy, the Transalpine Renaissance, and Stylistic Inquiries in Later Music.
