Anomalee


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The further shenanigans of sensitive poet Eugene Baxter, the next installment in the Life of Easter, and the first in the Adventures of the Prodigal Son. The Poet & the Virgin meet and fall in love in the smoky Midwest, just as the former is finally finishing college and the latter is just now looking at colleges. It is war time. And the people want a new president. Eugene is delivering pizzas to them with his faithful dog on his lap, a joint in his hand, and a Springsteen bootleg from The River tour cranking out some crooner about girls and cars from a buzzy stereo. The good dog licks tears from our hero's eyes, missing his young blue-eyed blonde with the bee-stung lips and thick-rimmed glasses, gone rainy Northwest. The tortured writer delivers another pizza. Another car bomb goes off in Iraq. And the one that got away, her name is Anomalee. This is the story of The Virgin & The Poet, in love, in times of war, in their Sunday Best Birthday Suits, through poetry, letters, dreams, and diaries.







The Elgar Companion to Information Economics


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The Elgar Companion to Information Economics dexterously navigates this interdisciplinary field of research which celebrates the crucial contribution of information to decision making, market dynamics, and economic well-being. Offering a wealth of conceptual analysis, this erudite Companion embarks on an intellectual journey exploring the fundamentals of information economics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.




The Knowledge of Good and Evil


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The final masterpiece of the Life of Easter series. Poetry, journals, letters, dreams, adventures, from Milwaukee to the Oregon Coast to Seattle and back.




News from Gardenia


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When Gavin Meckler's light aircraft encounters a mysterious cloud and crashes to earth, he discovers that the eerily quiet landscape in which he has landed is 200 years older than the one from which he took off. In this gentle, peaceful, sustainable new world, it is possible to travel from one side of the globe to the other in a matter of minutes without burning fuel, and everyone is a gardener because that's how they can be sure to eat. Inspired by William Morris's utopian novel News from Nowhere, Robert Llewellyn shows us a future where we don't burn anything to make anything else and which isn't hovering on the brink of disaster; where aliens haven't invaded, meteors haven’t hit and zombies haven’t taken over. In short, a world where humanity eventually gets it right. All the technology described in the novel has seen the light of day in reality. Llewellyn's future isn't perfect and may not be very likely, but it is entirely possible.




Normality


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Most of us think we know what is meant when we hear the term "normal," but Cryle and Stephens upend taken-for-granted attitudes about the term. They offer a history of the intellectual and cultural issues that have been at stake in the use of the term since it appeared around 1820. What is taken at one time or any one culture to be "aberrant" or "deviant" clearly depends on assumed meanings for norm and normality. The authors of this book explore this history--peppered with a fascinating series of case studies--to make sense of variations on the theme of identity (disability, gender, race, sexuality) in fields organized around identity. They locate the concept in the scientific spheres where it originated in its modern sense and they chart its transformations and developments from the 1820s in France (medicine) to the mid-20th century (Alfred Kinsey). They start with comparative anatomy and other branches of medicine before moving on to consider developments in fields as remote as craniometry, statistics, criminal anthropology, sociology, and eugenics. It is not enough to say, with David Halperin, that "queer" is "whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant." Cryle and Stephens move beyond a simple binary opposition between "normal" and "abnormality" to give us the whole picture, from the Continent to the U.S., and in all the contexts that distinguish the normal from other available terms (such as typical, average, respectable, conventional, white and heterosexual, and uniform). "Normality" has had a long struggle to secure its cultural dominance and authority, a story which is told here for the first time.




Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Biological Control


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The editors of this book, who are world renown for their creativity with entomopathogenic nematodes, have assembled the foremost authorities from four continents to contribute on basic and applied concepts. The authors have taken advantage of this opportunity to express their views to a wide scientific audience. They have combined their international experience so that the latest developments in this fascinating and rapidly expanding field are present in comprehensive manner with diverse topics ranging from biological control theory to organismal and molecular biology.




CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide


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This updated study guide by two security experts will help you prepare for the CompTIA CySA+ certification exam. Position yourself for success with coverage of crucial security topics! Where can you find 100% coverage of the revised CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam objectives? It’s all in the CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide Exam CS0-002, Second Edition! This guide provides clear and concise information on crucial security topics. You’ll be able to gain insight from practical, real-world examples, plus chapter reviews and exam highlights. Turn to this comprehensive resource to gain authoritative coverage of a range of security subject areas. Review threat and vulnerability management topics Expand your knowledge of software and systems security Gain greater understanding of security operations and monitoring Study incident response information Get guidance on compliance and assessment The CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide, Second Edition connects you to useful study tools that help you prepare for the exam. Gain confidence by using its interactive online test bank with hundreds of bonus practice questions, electronic flashcards, and a searchable glossary of key cybersecurity terms. You also get access to hands-on labs and have the opportunity to create a cybersecurity toolkit. Leading security experts, Mike Chapple and David Seidl, wrote this valuable guide to help you prepare to be CompTIA Security+ certified. If you’re an IT professional who has earned your CompTIA Security+ certification, success on the CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst) exam stands as an impressive addition to your professional credentials. Preparing and taking the CS0-002exam can also help you plan for advanced certifications, such as the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+).




CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide with Online Labs


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Virtual, hands-on learning labs allow you to apply your technical skills using live hardware and software hosted in the cloud. So Sybex has bundled CompTIA CySA+ labs from Practice Labs, the IT Competency Hub, with our popular CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide, Second Edition. Working in these labs gives you the same experience you need to prepare for the CompTIA CySA+ Exam CS0-002 that you would face in a real-life setting. Used in addition to the book, the labs are a proven way to prepare for the certification and for work in the cybersecurity field. The CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide Exam CS0-002, Second Edition provides clear and concise information on crucial security topics and verified 100% coverage of the revised CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam objectives. You’ll be able to gain insight from practical, real-world examples, plus chapter reviews and exam highlights. Turn to this comprehensive resource to gain authoritative coverage of a range of security subject areas. Review threat and vulnerability management topics Expand your knowledge of software and systems security Gain greater understanding of security operations and monitoring Study incident response information Get guidance on compliance and assessment The CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide, Second Edition connects you to useful study tools that help you prepare for the exam. Gain confidence by using its interactive online test bank with hundreds of bonus practice questions, electronic flashcards, and a searchable glossary of key cybersecurity terms. You also get access to hands-on labs and have the opportunity to create a cybersecurity toolkit. Leading security experts, Mike Chapple and David Seidl, wrote this valuable guide to help you prepare to be CompTIA Security+ certified. If you’re an IT professional who has earned your CompTIA Security+ certification, success on the CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst) exam stands as an impressive addition to your professional credentials. Preparing and taking the CS0-002 exam can also help you plan for advanced certifications, such as the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+). And with this edition you also get Practice Labs virtual labs that run from your browser. The registration code is included with the book and gives you 6 months unlimited access to Practice Labs CompTIA CySA+ Exam CS0-002 Labs with 30 unique lab modules to practice your skills.




Annual Report


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