A publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Dec
03
Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.
Dec
03
Decorator Emily Barnes gets the gig of a lifetime decorating the Belmarian Embassy for the festive season. New ambassador Magnus Anderson has no time for the holidays. Emily shows Magnus how magical Christmas can be and sparks soon fly.
Evolutionary Computing is the collective name for a range of problem-solving techniques based on principles of biological evolution, such as natural selection and genetic inheritance. These techniques are being increasingly widely applied to a variety of problems, ranging from practical applications in industry and commerce to leading-edge scientific research. This book presents the first complete overview of this exciting field aimed directly at lecturers and graduate and undergraduate students. It is also meant for those who wish to apply evolutionary computing to a particular problem or within a given application area. To this group the book is valuable because it presents EC as something to be used rather than just studied.
In this new book, Khenchen Thrangu provides an exhaustive commentary on the longest and most comprehensive of the three classic treatises on Mahamudra composed by the sixteenth-century scholar Wangchuk Dorje, the Ninth Karmapa. Khenchen Thrangu’s teachings encompass the entire path of Mahamudra, including the preliminaries, the main practice, removing obstacles, and attaining the result of buddhahood—with detailed instruction in tranquility and insight meditation. This is the only available volume that presents Khenchen Thrangu’s detailed commentary on this entire text.
Intrepid elf Candy Smalls will do anything to be named as the first female Santa – even if she has to fight like a man to get it.
Dec
02
A long forgotten prophecy is unearthed in the basement of city hall and when the things that were predicted to happen start to come true the people of Middleton begin to fear that this might be the year of a horrible curse that could change their lives forever. As Halloween night approaches, Cassie comes to realize that she and Sam might be the key to ending the curse and saving their town.
