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BETH AND MEGHAN PETERSEN WEREN'T INTERESTED IN CAIN. HUNTING SERIAL KILLERS WAS FOR THE NYPD. BUT HE CAME FOR THEM. AND THEN HE DIED. BUT THE KILLINGS HAD JUST BEGUN New York should have breathed a sigh of relief when the deadly serial killer is found dead on a street. However, a new spate of killings raises questions. Who else is terrorising the city? Who killed Cain? Why did he have Meghan's photograph on him? The search for answers leads the Petersen sisters to a terrifying conspiracy aimed to destroy them and their city. The only way out for them is to fight back. The sisters have fought terrorists in Syria, criminals in Somalia. In all those places they had a team to cover them. In the concrete jungle of New York, they only have each other. Every one else is a potential enemy. Packed with breakneck action at pedal-to-metal pace, Defending Cain is a thriller you can't miss. If you're a fan of Eve Dallas, Livia Lone and Hayley Chill, you'll loveTy Patterson's pedal-to-metal pace and no holding back approach to storytelling
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'God from the machine' (deus ex machina) refers to an ancient dramatic device where a god was mechanically brought onto the stage to save the hero from a difficult situation. But here, William Sims Bainbridge uses the term in a strikingly different way. Instead of looking to a machine to deliver an already known god, he asks what a computing machine and its simulations might teach us about how religion and religious beliefs come to being. Bainbridge posits the virtual town of Cyburg, population 44,100. Then, using rules for individual and social behavior taken from the social sciences, he models a complex community where residents form groups, learn to trust or distrust each other, and develop religious faith. Bainbridge's straightforward arguments point to many more applications of computer simulation in the study of religion. God from the Machine will serve as an important text in any class with a social scientific approach to religion.
A look at the wide-ranging work of the Golden Age genius who made The Ten Commandments and other blockbusters—and helped found the American film industry. Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the director’s screen work that changed the course of film history—and a fascinating look at how movies were actually made in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Drawing extensively on DeMille’s personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of DeMille the filmmaker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille’s legendary persona. In his forty-five-year career DeMille’s box-office record was unsurpassed, and his swagg...
Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no one can lay a bat to; cool heads and confidence in their "stuff" when they get in a jam; and the kind of dexterity that makes difficult plays seem easy. Is elite status revealed through statistics? Though the author of this book considers statistics of both the traditional and sabermetric sort, he argues that the greats are proved not by broad statistical comparison with all other pitchers, but by their record against one another. In a thoughtful discussion of the evidence of head-to-head matchups, he finds the nine pitchers who make up the true elite: Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, Tom Seaver, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux. For each pitcher the book provides biographical information, career highlights, and a list of the feats that put him in the record books.
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