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  • We Write on Water
    David Ackley
    No one had bought his poetry - his words were all swept away into the sea of self-publishing obscurity.Ron couldn’t count the number of rejection letters he’d received in seeking a publisher. His anger and frustration at being ignored was growing to the point that his blog had devolved into rants against the publishing industry. So, he’d decided that he was going to quit his wr...
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    11,66 €

  • The Obituary Page
    David Ackley
    A stagnant case suddenly comes back to life when Robert Armlin’s cell phone shows up on the body of a Portland vagrant. Armlin, the missing Oregon Sentinel opinion page editor who was presumed to have met a bad end, becomes once again one of detective Galen Young’s primary assignments. The appearance of a ransom note only serves to increase the Portland Police Bureau’s suspicio...
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    10,63 €

  • The Opinion Page
    David Ackley
    The Portland Police Bureau is already busy searching for four-year-old Melissa Davidson who was abducted from a local shopping mall, when one of Portland’s well-known newspaper editors goes missing as well.  Detective Galen Young is tasked with locating Robert Armlin, the Opinion Page editor of the Oregon Sentinel, in addition to joining the search for the missing girl. After i...
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    10,63 €

  • Prospero’s Staff
    David Ackley
    Whatever became of Prospero’s enchanted staff after he snapped it in two and buried it ‘certain fathoms in the earth’ in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest?It was only a prop in a play, after all, so why was the staff now appearing to Martin Ropers? Martin had returned to a Greek island, trying to rekindle the spark that led to his highly successful first novel written in the ‘70s,...
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    11,33 €

  • The Language of Equals
    David Ackley
    Just as rice is unable to grow in the British Isles, Srinivasa Ramanujan struggled to survive in Cambridge; the mathematical genius may have eventually gained the recognition he desired but, removed from his Hindu religion, tradition, and culture, he suffered in his personal life. A devout Brahmin from rural Tamil Nadu, India, Ramanujan traveled to the cold, industrial, Christi...
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    11,20 €

  • The Patent Clerk’s Violin
    David Ackley
    When Carl collected the violin for repairs, he could never have imagined the momentous future awaiting its owner.A luthier repairs a Patent Office clerk’s violin in Bern, Switzerland, and thus begins the friendship of Carl and Albert, two very different people – the one involved with his physical craft on a daily basis, and the other spending much of his time contemplating the ...
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    11,30 €

  • A Connectionist Machine for Genetic Hillclimbing
    David Ackley
    In the 'black box function optimization' problem, a search strategy is required to find an extremal point of a function without knowing the structure of the function or the range of possible function values. Solving such problems efficiently requires two abilities. On the one hand, a strategy must be capable of learning while searching: It must gather...
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    133,97 €