Maffee and the Space Detective


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Maffee's life is perfect. He happily spends his days keeping the office clean for his friends, washing dishes, wiping desks and mopping floors. Chuttle's life is far from perfect. He spends his time delivering packages across the galaxy and working as a nanny, while all the time dreaming of becoming the Universe's number one Space Detective living a life of adventure and action. When the Inter-Earth Government's top scientist is kidnapped in order to steal her designs for the Universe's most advanced weapon, Maffee becomes the number one suspect. On the run from the police troopers, the only person he can turn to for help is the crazy, fast-talking, action-loving Chuttle. Together they must out-run troopers, outwit an evil mastermind, escape from an inescapable planet and save planet Earth. But it's not all smooth going as Maffee finds it difficult to cope with Chuttle’s non-stop talking and ill-thought out plans that always lead them to trouble. Whereas Chuttle, in his enthusiasm to help, can’t see that Maffee does not share his appetite for adventure and is in fact, a natural born coward. Experience the adventures of Maffee and Chuttle and join the other readers already enjoying this fast-paced, exciting and fun novel.




Maffee and the Space Detective


Book Description

Maffee's life is perfect. He happily spends his days keeping the office clean for his friends, washing dishes, wiping desks and mopping floors. Chuttle's life is far from perfect. He spends his time delivering packages across the galaxy and working as a nanny, while all the time dreaming of becoming the Universe's number one Space Detective living a life of adventure and action. When the Inter-Earth Government's top scientist is kidnapped in order to steal her designs for the Universe's most advanced weapon, Maffee becomes the number one suspect. On the run from the police troopers, the only person he can turn to for help is the crazy, fast-talking, action-loving Chuttle. Together they must out-run troopers, outwit an evil mastermind, escape from an inescapable planet and save planet Earth. But it's not all smooth going as Maffee finds it difficult to cope with Chuttle's non-stop talking and ill-thought out plans that always lead them to trouble. Whereas Chuttle, in his enthusiasm to help, can't see that Maffee does not share his appetite for adventure and is in fact, a natural born coward. Experience the adventures of Maffee and Chuttle and join the other readers already enjoying this fast-paced, exciting and fun novel.




Nineteen Minutes


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The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.







Criminalistics: Forensic Science, Crime, and Terrorism


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Criminalistics continues to set the standard for modern forensic methods and investigative techniques in a new, updated fifth edition. Beginning at the crime scene and proceeding to the forensic laboratory, the text walks the reader through the entire forensic investigation. Students learn how to accurately identify, gather, and analyze multiple types of evidence by examining actual crimes that were solved using the techniques presented. The Fifth Edition features new contemporary case studies and updated statistics. Also, the section about terrorism has been updated and expanded to include important terrorism-related topics: agroterrorism, the forensic analysis of internet data, cyberterrorism, explosives, weapons of mass destruction, and the techniques used to identify them. The most comprehensive and accessible text of its kind, Criminalistics: Forensic Science, Crime, and Terrorism, Fifth Edition is a practical, student-friendly introduction to this exciting science.




Fer-de-Lance


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As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart.




The Lost Lamb


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Thirty-eight-year-old Angus Branigan, an abusive husband and father, a compulsive gambler, and a lazy, self-centered brute of a man, reaches his darkest hour when he shoots a policeman during a botched robbery and escapes with three bullets in his back. Some blocks away from the crime scene, he hides in Epiphany Church, an old church in lower Manhattan. Bleeding, alone, and dying, he argues his right to live with the statue of a shepherd with a baby lamb. In the midst of a violent thunderstorm, Branigan swaps his soul with the statue and finds himself outside the church uninjured, wearing an expensive suit with money in its pocket. He is stunned by this happenstance; he has an opportunity to see the life he could have lived had he made different choices. The next morning, the parish priest finds the statue of the shepherd bleeding from three holes in its back. A novel of abuse and love, The Lost Lamb explores the reality of miracles, forgiveness, and the power of second chances.




4DGeoBrowser


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This report describes the 4DGeoBrowser software system. The GeoBrowser is a web-based application developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution by Steven Lemer and Andrew Maffei. It has been designed with the goal of creating, accessing, and analyzing repositories of oceanographic datasets that have been generated by investigators in differing scientific disciplines. Once the information is loaded onto a Geobrowser server the investigator-user is able to login to the website and use a set of data access and analysis tools to search, plot, and display this information. GeoBrowser servers are also capable of processing commands that are submitted remotely via HTTP URLs or email. Scientists are able to use this capability to make calls to the GeoBrowser server and generate click-able maps, tables of URLs, and customized HTML pages. These can then be used to enhance websites associated with scientific projects. Examples of supporting scientific website functionality that includes time series plotting, data delivery by email, geo-spatial plotting of interdisciplinary data, map-based search capabilities and other functionality are presented in this report. The report includes examples of GeoBrowser application websites, a user manual, and a reference guide. In addition, the concept of Electronic Index Cards (EICs) is presented.




Kingdom of Illusions


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Banking


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