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Gay Mormon Dad
Chad Anderson grew up gay in a large Mormon family. After years of trying to conform to religious standards, which promised a cure for homosexuality, he married and had children before finally coming out of the closet. Gay Mormon Dad is his story of finally learning to love himself in a complicated world. Chad currently resides with his two sons in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he works as a social worker and a writer.
Mathematics of Big Data
The first book to present the common mathematical foundations of big data analysis across a range of applications and technologies. Today, the volume, velocity, and variety of data are increasing rapidly across a range of fields, including Internet search, healthcare, finance, social media, wireless devices, and cybersecurity. Indeed, these data are growing at a rate beyond our capacity to analyze them. The tools—including spreadsheets, databases, matrices, and graphs—developed to address this challenge all reflect the need to store and operate on data as whole sets rather than as individual elements. This book presents the common mathematical foundations of these data sets that apply ac...
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Pigs, a Trial Lawyer's Story
A morality tale set on the edge of the prairie, where the Smokey Hills of Western Minnesota meet the Great Plains, "Pigs" is the tale of one attorney's introspective journey and the story of his struggle to save himself and his client's farm.
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations). Throughout the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries of European colonization the Haudenosaunees remained the dominant power in their homelands and one of the most important diplomatic players in the struggle for the continent following European settlement of North America by the Dutch, British, French, Spanish, and Russians. Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercul...
The Perfect Valley
Matt Hudson is heading for California after completing a cattle drive from Texas. He is cheated out of his money, horse and guns by the Town marshal and deputies of Danville. Penniless, he walks toward California carrying his stock saddle following a river because he needs the water. Near the source of the river he finds the perfect valley hidden in the foothills to the mountains. The valley has everything he needs to survive including several hundred sheep and there is a nearby herd of mustangs. With the help of a young Mexican boy, he takes some sheep to the county seat where the railroad-Irish pay good prices for mutton. Here he meets the county sheriff and his pretty daughter Molly. Moll...
Pickup Artists
Profiling basketball on the blacktops, at its most basic level, this book chronicles the unusual lives of some of the nation's best players--figures both forgotten and never heard of--in fast-paced words and pictures. 16 photos.
Trusting Love Again
After an abusive marriage and an ugly divorce, Toni needs to rebuild her self-confidence and start a new life. In her Hometown again, she confronts people she'd hurt when she'd left. She'd hung onto the idea of buying a long-abandoned old house and remodeling it to help her recover. But a man from her past has recently purchased it for his business. That's her emotional breaking point and she does something reckless. Now she must pay the legal consequences of her foolish actions...by working for him. Chad's job as a lawyer working to protect the rights of the abused elderly consumes his time and energy. It cost him his marriage. Now he works harder, guards his bruised heart. Then someone he'd held secret feelings for comes back to town. She upsets his world, starting with minor destruction of his business property and causing him minor injury. He shouldn't become involved in helping this troubled woman, yet he can't keep from doing so. Two heart-damaged people have trouble trusting love again.
The Architect
Collin Stevens, a successful architect and widower, has a secret life. He is a member of a highly classified government agency of ‘watchers’ called Sting. Now that his two daughters, Kelsey and Cindy, are grown; he thinks it might be time to start a new phase of his own life. Suddenly his family is pulled into danger from two rival drug cartels and an unknown enemy. Is it due to his secret life or is there more to it? Only his long time friend, Hector, and is new love interest, Jessie, can help him protect all those he loves.
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity. Presenting a global set of case studies that span five continents and 22 cities, the essays in this book advance our understanding of how the dynamic interplay between economic and political context, institutional arrangements, and social networks affect urban cultural policy-making and the ways that these policies impact urban development and influence urban governance. The volume comparatively s...
