Die Verschwörung der Maria Stuart: Die Stunde des Francis by Gunter Pirntke,Miriam Stephanie Reese

By Gunter Pirntke,Miriam Stephanie Reese

Im Jahr 1586 stehen sich die beiden direkt gegenüber: Maria Stuart, schottisch, katholisch – und Elisabeth I., englisch, protestantisch, neun Jahre älter als Maria. Sie können sich nicht mehr aus dem Weg gehen, keine anderen Figuren mehr vorschicken, und sie wissen beide, dass nur eine von ihnen die Partie lebend überstehen wird. Für beide ist kein Platz mehr auf dem politischen Spielbrett der Insel, die sie ihre Heimat nennen, und in dessen Landessprache das aktuelle Modewort »Politick« methods und Machtspiele bedeutet. Und auch sie selbst, die Königinnen, sind bei all ihrer Entscheidungsfreiheit nur Figuren in einem Spiel der internationalen Mächte. Und den Sieg wird am Ende ein König davontragen. Wer wird es sein? Gäbe es dan nicht noch einen Francis Walsingham…

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The Cathar Legacy by Nita Hughes,Douglas Hughes

By Nita Hughes,Douglas Hughes

This novel is ready the Cathars - an enlightened staff of Christians who have been massacred in the course of the Albigensian campaign within the thirteenth century. It tells in their treasure, transcribed within the files of the Inquisition as "... so strong as to rework the realm ..." and why the Vatican went to such lengths to attempt and own it ... then ... and now.

For additional information, please stopover at: www.CatharLegacy.com

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Merlin’s Son by Craig Dean

By Craig Dean

Merlin’s Son is a e-book fabricated utilizing the style of historic fiction. Meteor was once the single son of Merlin, the prestigious alchemist and consultant to King Arthur and mentor to William the Conqueror (French: Guillaume le Conquérant), the 1st Norman King of britain. Meteor used to be born 23, March advert 1066. His namesake was once derived from the incidence of a prodigious capturing superstar noticeable within the sky at the evening of his delivery. it's going to betide that the taking pictures big name that was once saw was once the 18th reappearance of Halley’s Comet in recognized human heritage.

Meteor used to be born with a wide crimson birthmark on his face. The lore on the time was once that the crimson spot on his face was once caused while his mom, during pregnancy, stuck a glimpse of the flagitious pink Dragon as pointed out in Beowulf mythology and Arthurian legends.

As a tender boy, Meteor incurred dreadful burns. Merlin handled those burns with a swiftly ready alchemistic therapy, which healed the burns, yet for purposes arcane to Merlin, became his son’s epidermis cobalt blue and stopped his cells from altering through the years. It used to be as though the ocean of his blood was once frozen within the 12 months advert 1075. From this time on, Meteor might continuously have the physique of a boy, and might by no means find a way bodily to mature right into a guy. He might stop to age!

Meteor was once certainly without end trapped in the physique of a prepubescent early life, but he used to be nonetheless mortal and can event loss of life like each person else from an coincidence or a deadly illness. Meteor, over the years, could incur celebrated knowledge and try to follow his erudite wisdom to learn mankind and particularly young ones with targeted wishes. The saga starts previous to the start of the twenty first Century. Meteor is nearly millennial in age himself and befriends Ryann, a five-year-old woman who has simply misplaced her father to a sad and unforeseen demise. Ryann starts off scripting this memoir 4 years later on the age of 9 as an project for her language arts classification. she's going to later revise it in 8th grade after which back as a senior in highschool. Ryann will fabricate the ultimate edit, that is the amalgamation of 4 eras of her lifestyles, in the course of her thirties.

This novel is created with a kaleidoscope of scenes from antiquity and brings to the twenty-first century reader a wealthy tapestry of historic background in addition to the trendy period. The narrative will circulate to 3 Wonders of the traditional global together with the enchanting urban of Babylon and its mesmerizing striking gardens; the resplendent urban of Alexandria and its incredible forty-story lighthouse and eventually the pyramids in Egypt together with the good Pyramid of Giza, in addition to the older Step Pyramid of Djoser within the Saqqara necropolis close to Memphis, Egypt.

The saga should be introduced with the ‘lightness of being’ as may possibly merely be perceived from the 1st flush of an adventurous baby. The content material and type of those early chapters will parallel the simplicity of language, yet surreal mind's eye of this nascent section of existence. Later, the kid will mature into a teen, and the discussion will phosphoresce to this transitional excessive power country of being; the written dialogues will metamorphosize therefore. on the finish of youth, feelings can be exalted with a scintillating narrative that champions the main numinous love tales of Western Civilization. in any case, the kid has now advanced into an grownup and has the chance to understand the complete cornucopia of a lifestyles good lived, with its splendiferous moments of ecstasy, but additionally with the liniments of actual instants of the suffering of destiny. the writer was once so much touched as a early life via the Scottish author J.M. Barrie’s, Peter Pan and the French novelist Jules Verne’s, Vingt Mille Lieues sous Les Mers (20,000 Leagues below the Sea), and offers us Merlin’s Son in a similar style, yet with an further textile woven with gossamers of heritage, plant drugs, previous testomony Script

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Shards of Empire by Susan Shwartz

By Susan Shwartz

In the 10th century, the heart of the realm isn't Rome, yet Byzantium--a wonderful empire, upon which the sunlight by no means units. Constantinople, the guts of this potent dynasty, is beginning to get to the bottom of. the nice kings and princes, the holy urban, the affluence of the empire may be scattered to the winds. Attacked via the Turks on each side, Byzantium seems to its emperor for deliverance. Leo Ducas, inheritor to the Byzantine crown, needs to struggle for his inheritance, yet he doesn’t really understand who his enemies are. kept away from via the electorate of Constantinople, Leo flees the town and nice works are published to him. He learns of a realm that falls outdoors his Christian education, a realm of magic and wisdom...

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El líder de los ojos con cielo después de un camino llamado by MANUEL ANTONIO MEJÍA.

By MANUEL ANTONIO MEJÍA.

EL LÍDER DE LOS OJOS CON CIELO DESPUÉS DE UN CAMINO LLAMADO AMÉRICA, es una novela histórico-biográfica publicada el 28 de junio del año 2014 en Madrid por MANUEL ANTONIO MEJÍA sobre l. a. vida y obra del Presidente Profesor Juan Bosch. Es, hasta ahora, los angeles única novela publicada en honor del gran humanista, moralista, literato. político e intelectual latinoamericano con dote de gicante y referente mundial. El autor, tomando como referencia el contexto en que vivió Bosch: los albores de los angeles Guerra Fría y el despertar del mundo de las dos Grandes Guerras Mundiales, parte de un hilo conector somero y tranquilo en el que va envolviendo al lector al conocimiento de unos acontecimientos stories como los angeles disputa de las dos grandes superpotencias: l. a. Unión Soviética y EEUU por el keep an eye on del Caribre, con Cuba y los angeles República Dominicana en juego, naciones por las cuales el planeta estuvo a punto de estremecerse en una Tercera Guerra Mundial.

Publicada en Madrid, España.

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Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence: 1 (The by David Wright,Serge Gutwirth,Michael Friedewald,Elena

By David Wright,Serge Gutwirth,Michael Friedewald,Elena Vildjiounaite,Yves Punie

Copy the subsequent hyperlink at no cost entry to the 1st bankruptcy of this title: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j23468h304310755/fulltext.pdf


This publication is a caution. It goals to warn policy-makers, undefined, academia, civil society organizations, the media and the general public concerning the threats and vulnerabilities dealing with our privateness, id, belief, safety and inclusion within the quickly imminent global of ambient intelligence (AmI).


In the close to destiny, each synthetic product – our outfits, funds, home equipment, the paint on our partitions, the carpets on our flooring, our autos, every little thing – might be embedded with intelligence, networks of tiny sensors and actuators, which a few have termed “smart dust”. The AmI international isn't far flung. We have already got surveillance structures, biometrics, own communicators, computing device studying and extra. AmI will supply personalized providers – and comprehend extra approximately us – on a scale dwarfing whatever hitherto available.


In the AmI imaginative and prescient, ubiquitous computing, communications and interfaces converge and adapt to the person. AmI delivers larger user-friendliness in an atmosphere in a position to recognising and responding to the presence of other members in a continuing, unobtrusive and infrequently invisible method. whereas such a lot stakeholders paint the promise of AmI in sunny colors, there's a darkish aspect to AmI.


This e-book goals to demonstrate the threats and vulnerabilities through 4 “dark scenarios”. The authors set out a established technique for analysing the 4 situations, after which determine safeguards to counter the foreseen threats and vulnerabilities. They make innovations to policy-makers and different stakeholders approximately what they could do to maximize the advantages from ambient intelligence and minimise the unfavorable consequences.

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Assemble the Social Web with zembly by Gail Anderson,Paul Anderson,Todd Fast,Chris Webster

By Gail Anderson,Paul Anderson,Todd Fast,Chris Webster

Use zembly to Create Social internet functions for: fb, Flickr, iPhone, and More!

With zembly you could create mashups and net functions drawing on content material from almost any site, API name, or facts circulate. What’s extra, zembly makes it as effortless to installation and scale next-generation net functions because it is to construct them. by surprise, the net itself turns into programmable: the browser turns into your improvement setting, and you may leverage construction blocks created by way of millions of builders, around the globe.

With large contributions from zembly’s creators, Assemble the Social internet with zembly is the 1st and simply reliable consultant to zembly. This ebook brings jointly the entire wisdom and code you’ll have to construct functions for today’s major internet 2.0 systems: fb, Flickr, Google Maps, iPhone, and extra.

The authors start with a high-level travel of zembly that essentially explains its ambitions, services, center suggestions, and long term course. You’ll fast stroll via developing your first zembly software; then, study step by step find out how to use zembly with every one of today’s strongest and well known social net structures.

Coverage includes
  • Understanding the recent paradigm of social programming
  • Building Flickr widgets to generate and demonstrate web-based slide indicates
  • Creating widgets that draw upon Zillow’s huge, immense actual property database
  • Developing mashups that include maps and geographical info from Google Maps
  • Integrating with fb: from absolutely the fundamentals via complicated thoughts using the fb info shop version
  • Using Dapper Dapps to create feeds that may seize content material from almost any website
  • Using zembly to simplify and speed up iPhone internet app improvement
Whether you’re a long-time internet expert or an off-the-cuff developer with a really good challenge to resolve, zembly is the instrument you’ve been watching for. One ebook brings jointly every thing you must utilize it: Assemble the Social internet with zembly .

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Unser Dasein (Fischer Klassik Plus 1054) (German Edition) by Alfred Döblin,Thomas Keil

By Alfred Döblin,Thomas Keil

Ein philosophischer Streifzug

›Unser Dasein‹, 1933 erschienen, battle Döblins letztes in Deutschland publiziertes Buch vor dem Exil. Es wurde wie viele andere öffentlich verbrannt. Der leidenschaftliche Essay verbindet Anthropologie mit Naturphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie und stellt die umfassende Frage nach dem menschlichen Leben im Ganzen: »Wie ich lebe, wer ich bin, was once mit mir ist, was once mit dem Leben ist, mit unserm Einzelleben, mit unserm Zusammenleben, mit unserm Zusammenleben mit der Erde und den Gestirnen und dem Weltall«.

Mit einem Nachwort von Thomas Keil

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Mastering jBPM6 by Simone Fiorini,Arun V Gopalakrishnan

By Simone Fiorini,Arun V Gopalakrishnan

Design, construct, and installation enterprise process-centric functions utilizing the state of the art jBPM expertise stack

About This Book

  • Customize and expand the jBPM instruments to combine them into your latest solution/technology architecture
  • Understand the center elements of jBPM, together with issues resembling KIE API, RuntimeManager, KieSession, and KieBase
  • Follow real-world illustrations that can assist you in attaining goals utilizing screenshots and code snippets

Who This ebook Is For

If you're a fashion designer or developer who desires to construct and function enterprise process-centric functions, then this ebook is for you. wisdom of the elemental suggestions of program improvement in Java might be useful in following the innovations lined within the ebook, yet isn't necessary.

What you'll Learn

  • Understand the jBPM device stack and company method administration structures, the factors, styles, and use cases
  • Build your first BPM software utilizing the jBPM instrument stack
  • Monitor and deal with the day-by-day operations of industrial process-centric applications
  • Get an in depth rationalization of all of the BPMN constructs supported by means of jBPM
  • Understand the center structure of jBPM
  • Learn in regards to the extension issues and pluggable mechanisms which might assist you to increase jBPM core
  • Enhance your software with company method administration functionalities by way of integrating jBPM into your latest program portfolio
  • Configure the jBPM-based program to satisfy the non-functional necessities in production
  • Integrate jBPM to the JEE, SOA, and EDA environments to exploit its capabilities

In Detail

This e-book offers a whole realizing of the jBPM expertise stack. It begins with an advent to the area of commercial technique administration structures, the matter area addressed by way of jBPM, explores the most use instances that may be addressed by way of enterprise procedure administration platforms, and illustrates the most layout styles. It takes you thru the main points of the structure and on hand out-of-the-box provisions for customizing, extending, and integrating the beneficial properties of jBPM to satisfy the necessities of your software. additionally, this booklet will empower you with the data to combine jBPM with firm structure, debug in the course of the resource code of jBPM, and make the most of the pliability supplied by means of a seriously modular procedure. eventually, it introduces you to the provisions to be had for a jBPM-based program to place the non-functional features of the procedure, that are of serious significance after we install our software in construction. The e-book is helping you in placing the information at paintings via giving you loads of able to use examples, either simple and complex ones.

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