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"Would you, should you, ever sell your well-appointed, five-storey house near Buckingham Palace to uplift an impoverished area in rural East Africa? Kenneth King thought he should, so he did. This is The Endeavourist. Fast-paced and deeply moving, this adventure memoir of an inspirational Irishman begins with educating orphans and creating an innovative scheme for families to escape poverty, and ends with a police escort out of Kenya. This is a personal tale of how Kenneth followed his dream until it became a nightmare ... or was it the best thing he ever did?"--
A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering Species Covering the almost three million acres of southernmost Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley, this user-friendly guide is an essential reference for nature enthusiasts, farmers and ranchers, professional botanists, and anyone interested in the plant life of Texas. Alfred Richardson and Ken King offer abundant photographs and short descriptions of more than eight hundred species of ferns, algae, and woody and herbaceous plants—two-thirds of the species that occur in this region. Plants of Deep South Texas opens with a brief introduction to the region and an illustrated guide to leaf shapes and flower parts. The book's individual species accounts cover: Leaves Flowers Fruit Blooming period Distribution Habits Common and scientific names In addition, the authors' comments include indispensible information that cannot be seen in a photograph, such as the etymology of the scientific name, the plant's use by caterpillars and its value from the human perspective. The authors also provide a glossary of terms, as well as an appendix of butterfly and moth species mentioned in the text.
Gregory Rainer could not believe his luck. He has a beautiful wife, great job in Colorado, until a call from his employer, Quentin Locke, the billionaire CEO of the Bazaar superstore chain, personally selected him as manager of a new store in Florida with a bonus and raise. Things that are too good to be true usually are. But his newfound fortunes soon become a curse. His family's new house has a dark history of supernatural, unspeakable bloodshed. An evil awakens after being dormant for so long and has its sights set on the ultimate corruption of the new family. It will not be denied.
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This volume coherently present 24 thoroughly revised full papers accepted for the ECAI-94 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. There is currently considerable interest, from both the AI and the mainstream CS communities, in conceptualizing and building complex computer systems as collections of intelligent agents. This book is devoted to theoretical and practical aspects of architectural and language-related design and implementation issues of software agents. Particularly interesting is the comprehensive survey by the volume editors, which outlines the key issues and indicates, via a comprehensive bibliography, topics for further reading. In addition, a glossary of key terms in this emerging field and a comprehensive subject index is included.
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