For the first time, all five of John Napier’s works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making them more accessible than ever before. His four mathematical works were originally published in Latin: two in his lifetime (1550–1617), one shortly after he died, and one over 200 years later.
Contemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as “meme stocks”, the Gamestop short squeeze, and “You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading”. These are movements led by small-scale retail investors banding together to participate forcefully in financial markets through decentralized but coordinated actions.
This book presents novel and advanced topics in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision in order to solidify knowledge in the related fields and define their key stakeholders.
This edited book contains several state-of-the-art papers devoted to econometrics of risk. Some papers provide theoretical analysis of the corresponding mathematical, statistical, computational, and economical models.
She’s the daughter of O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian, the stepdaughter of Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner and the bestfriend of Paris Hilton; he’s a best selling hip hop artist who has been linked with Lil’ Kim and most recently Whitney Houston – and when you see what he’s packing, you’ll know why. Now its Kim Kardashian and Ray J in the hottest celebrity DVD ever made… Kim Kardashian, Superstar…she makes Paris look like Mayberry!
Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.
Inside an abandoned gold mine lurks a mysterious supernatural being conjured by a Native-American shaman ages ago to defend their tribe. This legendary phantom can appear in the flesh and pose as anyone. Luke’s old west ancestors trapped it in the mine, but it has haunted their descendants ever since, causing them to go insane. Now Luke’s niece, Poni, has come down with “the family curse.” He believes that with the proper psychiatric treatment she can live a normal life but he needs to urgently make money for the costly medication. With the help of a couple friends, Luke ventures out to the deserted western mine to try his luck. As he discovers the ghost stories are true, he realizes that he must confront the evil spirit before it takes over his mind.
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it’s on to the next victim.
Set in ’70s Kingston and ’80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he’s not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow “the righteous path”, he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution – a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil and Philippines. It is also observed in the Dutch town of Leiden and the Australian territory of Norfolk Island.
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple, on whom he is spying, will be murdered.
After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target, a young man must survive the night as the online witch-hunt arrives at his front door.
