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Harry Bosch volume 16
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In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing...
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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Despite receiving his ashes and a note saying that he has died, two brothers believe their father's death has been faked in this satirical novelIn 1990, two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Ango, receive an unusual package from the USA: a black plastic box containing the ashes of their late father, a professor allowed out of communist Bulgaria to teach in the USA during the 1980s. However, the brothers are left with a nagging sense that something is not...
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eSpec Books
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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The Stars Will Sing Our Songs Long After We Are G who will remain to listen? Who will hear their sagas of conflict and discovery, their hymns of honor in the face of political intrigue, their ballads of tough calls made against the opposition of friends and enemies alike? Open your ears to these unyielding revelations which sing of humanity's place in the cosmos among distant worlds, of beings that exist outside our reality, and of shocking futures....
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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E. Phillips Oppenheim took a foray into the world of science fiction for this 1910 novel 'The Black Box'. With elements of the ridiculous and sublime, we follow extraordinary detective Sanford Quest, who appears to have been loosely modelled on Sherlock Holmes. With his otherworldly skills, Quest finds himself on an international criminal hunt, with plenty of fun along the way.
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Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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A two mile wide Alien Space Ship speeds toward Florida showing bad intentions. Stark terror visits the world of a young hip-hop urban Rapper Lil'Bubba Riley who comes into possession of the 'BlackBox'. Smorsca Gavrilenko Russia's ruthless covert Agent brutally murders Bubba's older brother, mercilessly stalks Lil' Bubba and Peeki Grayson his schoolteacher, determined to get the Black Box from them. After a fierce firestorm of conflagrations, confrontations...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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North Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the "black box" of North Korea and draws critical lessons for the possible reunification of Korea after many decades of division. The Black Box demonstrates...
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WHAT'S IN THE BOX?EVERYONE'S DYING TO KNOW.An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles to stave off the coming conflagration. For help, they turn to an unconventional outsider, Inspector Jenkins of Scotland Yard, who soon finds himself on the trail of a mysterious man with...
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2024
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English
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Master the basics and intricacies of quant and high-frequency trading with the latest edition of this accessible and widely-read guide In the newly revised third edition of Inside the Black Box: A Simple Guide to Systematic Investing, veteran practitioner and investor Rishi K Narang delivers another insightful discussion of how quantitative and algorithmic trading strategies work in non-mathematical terms. As with prior editions, this third edition...
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Helion & Company Ltd
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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As any other modern militaries of the world, Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) is a complex organization relying on human force and other resources provided by society, being strictly founded on both an institutional setting and a framework of values, norms and rituals, and producing security with means and ways available to achieve the strategic objectives of Turkey. This inherent complexity reflecting the structure-culture-action nexus often means that...
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Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Explorers of the Black Box is a scientific adventure story. The "Black Box" is the brain. The "Explorers" are neuroscientists in search of how nerve cells record memories, and they are as ruthless and dauntless as any soldiers of fortune. The book centers around the early, often-controversial research Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel. It takes readers behind the scenes of laboratories at Woods Hole, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton to create an absorbing...
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Wiley Finance volume 501
Publisher:
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Inside the Black Box explains how quantitative and algorithmic trading strategies work in non-mathematical terms supplemented by anecdotes and real-world stories. There is a large chasm in the understanding of what quants do with quants often perpetuating the darkness by cloaking even trivial facts about their strategies and operations in secrecy. Most of their strategies are understandable and with that understanding investment professionals can...