From Action Systems to Distributed Systems

From Action Systems to Distributed Systems
By:"Luigia Petre","Emil Sekerinski"
Published on 2016-04-27 by CRC Press

Formal methods traditionally address the question of transforming software engineering into a mature engineering discipline. This essentially refers to trusting that the software-intensive systems that form our society’s infrastructures are behaving according to their specifications. More recently, formal methods are also used to understand properties and evolution laws of existing complex and adaptive systems—man-made such as smart electrical grids or natural ones such as biological networks. A tribute to Professor Kaisa Sere’s contributions to the field of computer science, From Action Systems to Distributed Systems: The Refinement Approach is the first book to address the impact of refinement through a multitude of formal methods ranging from Action Systems to numerous related approaches in computer science research. It presents a state-of-the-art review on the themes of distributed systems and refinement. A fundamental part of Kaisa Sere’s research consisted of developing Action Systems, a formalism for modeling, analysing, and constructing distributed systems. Within the design of distributed systems, Kaisa Sere’s main research focus was on refinement-based approaches to the construction of systems ranging from pure software to hardware and digital circuits. Presenting scientific contributions from renowned researchers around the world, this edited book consists of five sections: Modeling, Analysis, Proof, Refinement, and Applications. Each chapter has been thoroughly reviewed by experts in the field. The book covers both traditional aspects in formal methods research, as well as current and innovative research directions. It describes the transition from the strong theory of refinement to a methodology that can be applied in practice, with tool support. Examining industrial applications of the methods discussed, this book is a suitable resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in using formal methods to develop distributed systems of quality.

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Cupboard Love 2

Cupboard Love 2
By:"Mark Morton"
Published on 2004 by Insomniac Press

Cupboard Love explores the fascinating stories behind familiar and no-so-familiar gastronomic terms. Who knew that the word pomegranate is related to the word grenade? Light-hearted and thoroughly researched, packed with linguistic lore and cultural trivia.

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Super Sad True Love Story

Super Sad True Love Story
By:"Gary Shteyngart"
Published on 2010-09-01 by Granta Books

In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called ‘Post-Human Services’, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century. He TOTALLY loves books (or ‘printed, bound media artifacts’ as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean-American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in ‘Images’ and a minor in ‘Assertiveness’. When riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks and patient Chinese creditors look ready to foreclose on the whole mess, Lenny vows to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, there is still value in being a real human being.

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You Suck

You Suck
By:"Christopher Moore"
Published on 2009-10-13 by Harper Collins

Being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy's erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue. And that really sucks.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Tough Times

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Tough Times
By:"Jack Canfield","Mark Victor Hansen","Amy Newmark"
Published on 2011-03-22 by Simon and Schuster

Teens love reading about these challenges, either to support themselves, or to learn more about what their friends might be experiencing. The stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Tough Times offer support and encouragement to any teen. Being a teenager is difficult even under idyllic circumstances. But when bad things happen, the challenges of being a teenager can be overwhelming, leading to self-destructive behavior, eating disorders, substance abuse, and other challenges. In addition, many teens are faced with illness, car accidents, loss of loved ones, divorces, or other upheavals. These 101 stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul’s library describe the toughest teenage challenges and how to overcome them.

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Daughter of God

Daughter of God
By:"Verlaine Crawford"
Published on 1998-02-01 by High Castle Pub

Ideal for gift giving. - Appealing to people of all ages who are seeking to expand their spiritual understanding of life. - Inspirational messages in the farm of poetic prose on 36 topics, including love, health, gratitude, purpose, friend ship, marriage, home, children, muscle, intuition, time, work, abundance, meditation, prayer, forgiveness, creative expression, death and angels. An angel appeared to the author high on a mountain path overlooking an enchanting hidden valley and announced, We are here to rekindle your awareness that you are spiritual beings in physical form, born to experience a life of creativity, joy and love as sons and daughters of God. ...You are reflections of the image of God, taking part in the ongoing creation of life's grand design. Every person on earth has special and unique gifts to assist in the creation of Heaven on Earth. ...We will bestow words upon you that have the power to transform the hearts and minds of those who seek the path of love and wisdom.

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Institutes of the Christian Religion

Institutes of the Christian Religion
By:"Jean Calvin","Henry Beveridge"
Published on 2008-01 by Hendrickson Publishers

Here in a convenient one-volume edition is John Calvin's magnum opus. Written as an introduction to the Christian life, the Institutes remains the best articulation of Reformation principles and is a marvelous introduction to biblical Christianity.

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Friends

Friends
By:"Running Press","Shoshana Cohen Stopek"
Published on 2012-10-23 by Running Press

A collection of the best quotes, life lessons, and images from ten unforgettable seasons of Friends.

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Summers' Love, A Cute and Funny Cinderella Love Story

Summers' Love, A Cute and Funny Cinderella Love Story
By:"Stu Summers"
Published on 2016-03-04 by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas

Gift a print copy to a friend or family member. Following the collapse of her interior design business, Kate Winston moves to Georgetown with hopes of making it as a sales rep for Tasmania, a company selling personal protection devices for women. With rapes, robberies, and domestic violence on the rise, the nation's capital is a ripe market. But Kate's stun gun party implodes when her guests demand she sweeten the deal by providing autographed copies of In Heat, the latest best-selling novel by Stu Summers. With creditors breathing down her neck, Kate drives to Page Me Bookstore, where adoring fans clamor for a picture with the New York Times sexy and single romance writer. Stu expects the flirty smiles and women fawning praise, but when his editor phones to inform Stu that his latest manuscript failed to impress the publishing board, his carefully crafted career begins to unravel. Stu has one week to deliver a complete rewrite that meets his readers' demanding standards. And he would if only he could write. But he can't. Not a lick. For years Stu has paid a church secretary to ghostwrite his novels. Only now Hattie May Hall feels God calling her to write paranormal prairie Amish thrillers with an evangelical, Western twist. With Stu's career on the line and Kate's big sale in jeopardy, an unlikely pair of hearts collide, providing a shocking climax at the world's biggest stun gun ball.

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The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned
By:"F. Scott Fitzgerald"
Published on 2012-10-08 by Courier Corporation

One of the great American writers whose works enjoy popular appeal as well as critical acclaim, F. Scott Lyric, highly readable novel traces the meteoric rise and fall of glittering young socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch. Building their marriage on the shaky foundation of an expected inheritance, they devote their youth and happiness on hedonistic pursuits that plunge them into moral and financial bankruptcy. Transparently based on the lives of Fitzgerald and his beautiful wife, Zelda, the novel eerily foreshadows the real-life's couple's rapid descent into ruin.

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The naked girl

The naked girl
By:"Jel D. Lewis","Jel D. Lewis Jones"
Published on 1992-03-01 by Writers Pub Service

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Love Thyself

Love Thyself
By:"Robert Levan Reese"
Published on 2008-12-01 by

Well that's it, the book Doll's Kitchen (La Cocina De Dolly) is complete, now I can give my brain a break and get some (R and R) rest and relaxation, but before I leave I want to give thanks to a friend whose help in typing and with the illustrations helped make this book possible, Mr. Gilbert Rivera (Thanks Gil), and especially to Ms. Dolores (Dolly) Batista for her love, support, and wonderful appetite for good food and fine restaurants in New York. One of my goals in the near future is to travel the United States with Dolores and stop in as many restaurants as possible and sample its fine cuisine. But knowing Dolores as soon as we finish with the United States she will want to take on the world (and why not). We are number #1 in the world of culinary arts and I'm very proud to be a small part of it. I also have plans for a T.V. show on Caribbean cooking which is in the works, and a new book on spices and pirates which is presently in its research stage. I want to inspire the future chefs of America and throughout the world, because the task of becoming a good chef is long and at times difficult but worth its weight in gold, (so hang in there). And as far as I'm concerned, theirs is no better praise than to hear the \

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First 50 Movie Songs You Should Play on the Piano

First 50 Movie Songs You Should Play on the Piano
By:"Hal Leonard Corp."
Published on 2015-10-01 by Hal Leonard Corporation

(Easy Piano Songbook). 50 memorable movie classics for beginning pianists, including: Danger Zone * Don't You (Forget About Me) * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You * Eye of the Tiger * Flashdance...What a Feeling * Footloose * Ghostbusters * Happy * I Will Always Love You * Let It Go * Moon River * My Heart Will Go on (Love Theme from 'Titanic') * Over the Rainbow * Singin' in the Rain * Stayin' Alive * The Wind Beneath My Wings * and more.

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Unquenchable Love

Unquenchable Love
By:"Shalone R. Anderson"
Published on 2012-04-29 by Booktango

Jewel, Pastor Daniels, Prince Emmanuel, Pastor Tommy, Sister Patricia and Susan; each have two things in common. The longing for love and skeletons. Jewel loves Pastor Daniels, but he has a fiancé. Pastor Daniels loves Jewel but his demons keep coming back to taunt him. Sister Patricia is chasing Pastor Daniels. Pastor Tommy is chasing Sister Patricia. Patricia despises Pastor Tommy and makes it abundantly clear that he will never have her. Prince Emmanuel wants nothing more than to marry Jewel. Someone finds a new love, but it will take strong faith and persistence to maintain that love. Holding on isn't always as easy as it seems. As the drama unfolds skeletons come to life. The weight of these skeletons may cause \

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Firms of Endearment

Firms of Endearment
By:"Rajendra Sisodia","Jagdish N. Sheth","David Wolfe"
Published on 2014-01-17 by Pearson Education

Today’s best companies get it. From retail to finance and industries in between, the organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they’re doing it for all their stakeholders. Not because it’s simply politically correct, because it’s the only path to long-term competitive advantage. These are the firms of endearment. Companies people love doing business with, working for and collaborating with as partners. Since the publication of the First Edition, the concept of corporate social responsibility has become embraced as a valid, important, and profitable business model. It is a trend that has transformed the workplace and corporate world. This Second Edition updates the examples, cases, and applications from the original edition, giving readers insight into how this hallmark of the modern organization is practiced today.

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The Gifts of Imperfection

The Gifts of Imperfection
By:"Brene Brown"
Published on 2010-09-20 by Hazelden Publishing

Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we'd no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please, and perfect, all the while thinking, What if I can't keep all of these balls in the air? Why isn't everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations? What will people think if I fail or give up? When can I stop proving myself? In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, PhD, a leading expert on shame, authenticity and belonging, shares what she's learned from a decade of research on the power of Wholehearted Living--a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness. In her ten guideposts, Brown engages our minds, hearts, and spirits as she explores how we can cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough, and to go to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am sometimes afraid, but I am also brave. And, yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable, but that doesn't change the truth that I am worthy of love and belonging.

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The Love Dare

The Love Dare
By:"Stephen Kendrick","Alex Kendrick","Lawrence Kimbrough"
Published on 2009-01-01 by B&H Publishing Group

The #1 New York Times best seller. More than 1.5 million copies in print. Now available in a heat-burnished, keepsake simulated leather edition. Too many marriages end when someone says \

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Jamaican sayings

Jamaican sayings
By:"G. Llewellyn Watson"
Published on 1991 by Tallahassee : Florida A & M University Press ; Gainsville, Fla. : University Presses of Florida

“A rich and compelling collection that will make a significant contribution to the study of Jamaican/West Indian/black folklore and culture” –Daryl Cumber Dance, Virginia Commonwealth University “A fantastic collection from the rich storehouse of Jamaican traditional oral literature” –Rex Nettleford, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica “A Wealth of Information…. The author carries the presentation of the proverbs/sayings to the level of socio-anthropological significance” –E. Valerie Smith, Florida A&M University In 1992, Jamaicans throughout the world celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Jamaica’s formal independence from Britain this collection of Creole sayings contributes to the lively interest in cultural preservation which exists this year in anticipation of the event. The sayings, an archive of the wit and wisdom of many generations, aim to trigger reflection and thought. They are never fully explained, and, says the author, “in the most extreme situation one might well need an entire week to ponder and think seriously” about their meaning. They exert pressure to conform to community standards, and they influence conduct in much the same way as religion does. Strong in imagery and often poetic, the maxims draw upon a variety of well-known flora, fauna, and real or imaginary creatures the anansi, for example, famous for “playin’ de fool fe ketch wise” (playing foolish in order to catch the wise), is regarded as a favorite hero in folklore. Creole, initially constructed as a coded language, employs a number of West African linguistic traditions. These Creole sayings, a valuable addition to the literature and ethnography of the Caribbean region, link Jamaican culture to its African past. They offer delightful reading to Latin American scholars, to students of comparative sociology and anthropology, and to the general public. G. Llewellyn Watson is professor of sociology at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetowwn, Canada.

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The Four Loves

The Four Loves
By:"Clive Staples Lewis"
Published on 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Examines human love, including affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God, and uses sources ranging from Jane Austen to St. Augustine to argue that none of the types of love can prosper without the love of God.

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Finding True Love

Finding True Love
By:"Josh McDowell","Ed Stewart"
Published on 2000-10-12 by Thomas Nelson Inc

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Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy

Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy
By:"Debra J. Mashek","Arthur Aron"
Published on 2004-04-13 by Psychology Press

This handbook brings together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from some of the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and clinical psychology, communication studies, and related disciplines. Each contributing author defines their understanding of the meaning of closeness and intimacy; summarizes existing research and provides an overview of a theoretical framework; presents new ideas, applications, and previously unstated theoretical connections; and provides cross-references to other chapters to further integrate the material. The Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and students from social, clinical, and developmental psychology; family studies; counseling; and communication.

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I Too Had a Love Story

I Too Had a Love Story
By:"Ravinder Singh"
Published on 2012-11-15 by Penguin UK

Do love stories ever die?. . . How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, and then goes away from you . . . forever? Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi—two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test. Romantic, emotional and sincere, this heartbreaking true life story has already touched a million hearts. This bestselling novel is a must-read for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . .

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