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Harry Bosch volume 16
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English
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3.3 stars
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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...
Publisher:
Mint Editions
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Originally published in 1917, The Black Box follows expert criminologist Sanford Quest, as he and his colleagues attempt to bring a suspected killer to justice. The book contains a series of loosely connected stories driven by the captivating hero. Sanford Quest puts his detective skills to the test to solve an intricate murder mystery. He uses science, gadgets, and his superior deduction skills to narrow the list of suspects. This takes him on a...
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eSpec Books
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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The Stars Will Sing Our Songs Long After We Are Gone... ...but 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...
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Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
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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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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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...
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2020
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English
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"For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle."--Publisher's description.