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"Photographs is a story of British artist Jack Davison's experiments with image making from 2007 to present"--Label on shrink wrapping.
Early in 1978, a young Melbourne cop is seconded to Special Branch to be part of a covert joint task force. He is to infiltrate a religious sect blamed for the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing. It is there Jack Davidson receives his personal call sign--a recognition of his birthdate, Scorpion. This story follows Jack's adventure from uniform work to plainclothes work and into the Criminal Investigation Branch. Eventually, disillusioned and aggravated by the level of police corruption, he gives up police work to become a soldier. He enjoys army life, until they decide his police background is too valuable to leave him in the infantry. He is sent to Army Intelligence. In time, he leaves the army and gets on with civilian life. Until one day he is contacted by an ASIO agent he knows from his police days. Following the September 11 attacks in the United States, the Australian government secretly decides to create a new covert security service dedicated to anti-terrorism matters. and they want to recruit Jack. He accepts the position and soon finds himself immersed in the dark and murky world of spying. A world where life is cheap, and truth means nothing.
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This best selling text covers the fundamentals of programming and software development using C++. C++ Program Design has been developed for a CS1 course and benefits from the authors' 10 + years classroom experience. C++ Program Design adopts an objects early approach to teaching C++ and integrates the use of a graphical API, called EzWindows. Robust web site support is offered for instructors and students.
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The main character, Jack Davidson is like many boys up and down the country, he comes from a humble background but dreams of making it big in the world of football, follow Jack as he goes through a roller coaster of pride, guilt, fear, pain but above all hope as he comes to the end of his schooling, he is handed the opportunity to fulfill his dreams. A gritty but humourous tale that most readers of the genre will enjoy.
"Large military posts have been examined in detail in numerous books written about the Texas frontier, but the importance of smaller outposts and picket stations has been generally overlooked. In Standing in the Gap, Loyd M. Uglow examines these smaller outposts in relation to the larger forts that controlled them and explores their significance in military strategy and the pacification of the frontier. The army's role in the settlement of West Texas has been, until now, explained through biographies of prominent officers and histories of both Indian campaigns and the larger forts. With only passing mention of outposts such as Grierson's Spring, Van Horn's Wells, and Pecos Station in these texts, the stories of minor posts have gone, for the most part, untold.".
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Today’s embedded devices and sensor networks are becoming more and more sophisticated, requiring more efficient and highly flexible compilers. Engineers are discovering that many of the compilers in use today are ill-suited to meet the demands of more advanced computer architectures. Updated to include the latest techniques, The Compiler Design Handbook, Second Edition offers a unique opportunity for designers and researchers to update their knowledge, refine their skills, and prepare for emerging innovations. The completely revised handbook includes 14 new chapters addressing topics such as worst case execution time estimation, garbage collection, and energy aware compilation. The editors...
"An epic novel... You won't want to put it down."—Night Owl Romance, Review Top Pick! Passionate, headstrong Lady Rowena Dangerfield and dark, dangerous outlaw Lucas Cord... two destinies intertwined under the blazing New Mexico sun... Lady Rowena Dangerfield travels from the exotic palaces of India to the splendor of the Royal Court of London to the savage New Mexico frontier to lay claim to her inheritance and live freely as only she would dare. In the violent, untamed American Southwest, she finally meets a man as strong as she is: Lucas Cord, a dark, dangerously handsome, half-Apache outlaw. Fighting scandal, treachery, and murder, Luke is determined to have Rowena for his own, and as ...