An unspeakable event is about to take place in Fischer, Indiana. A group of innocent fourth graders go on a field trip, but something has gone terribly wrong. The bus driver is found dead on the side of the road and the school bus is nowhere to be found. Every parents nightmare comes true and the town of Fischer is about to tear itself apart trying to find the whereabouts of the missing children. One father, Maurice Hoffman, had just recently lost his wife to cancer and is determined not to lose his daughter Melanie as well. During his investigation, he finds out that the children of Fischer aren't the only ones who have gone missing. He is determined to do something about it, even if it means marching himself into certain death. But Maurice isn't the only one trying to bring the children home safe and sound. He is the first man to make his way out of Everland, Jengo Wood. May your children be safe...

Half the man, twice the lawyer. In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk - and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than he expected. Because he knows so much - maybe too much - he is suddenly dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won't stop until justice is served. ******************* What readers are saying about THEODORE BOONE 'I thoroughly enjoyed the story' - 5 stars 'Brilliant' - 5 stars 'A great read' - 5 stars 'I loved it' - 5 stars 'Fantastic series' - 5 stars

This book presents work on bridging inferences in discourse interpretation. It develops a formalization that permits integrating indirect anaphora in the construction of a structured discourse representation. From a broader perspective, it provides a suitable dynamic-logic framework which can account for underspecifications in cohesion and coherence of discourses by either inferentially resolving or contextually constraining them. Special attention is given to the resolution of bridging anaphora by means of integrating encyclopedic knowledge encoded in FrameNet into a formal theory of discourse structure as provided by Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. A second focus lies on the discourse effects of Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish. In addition, the book provides a synopsis of the problems, methods, approaches, and desiderata of research on text, context, and discourse interpretation from formal, computational, cognitive, and psychological points of view. Central topics include pragmatic inferences and defeasible reasoning, the Common Ground, cohesion and anaphora resolution, coherence and discourse structure, and discourse interpretation. The volume may thus also serve as a reference book on text meaning and context.

The Phelps' wear masks' of an inviting, very charming couple with all of the right intentions, but getting too close and comfortable could cost you your life. Kidnapping a Baptiste' daughter is more than the evil couple bargained for. Their twisted obsession with death and money may come with a price of exposure. The Baptiste' are not going to lie down without a fight. A quest to find their daughter, though dangerous, has become their soul motivation. As the police do nothing, a new twist fuels Lacey's family to take matters into their own hands, sending the Phelps' into a frenzy of desperate moves as they feel the walls closing in on them. More bloodshed, family lies and the realization that blood money is not as sweet as it seems is only the beginning of this world wind of craziness. Have the tables been turned on the Phelps'? Or will they reign victorious in the end? Abducted 2 is full of drama, suspense and jaw dropping moments that will leave you feeling satisfied.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the 4th volume of the FoLLI LNAI subline; containing the refereed proceedings of the 16h International Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, WoLLIC 2009, held in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2009. The 25 revised full papers presented together with six tutorials and invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers cover some of the most active areas of research on the frontiers between computation, logic, and linguistics, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2015, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in September 2015. The 18 papers in this book were selected from the invited submissions of full, revised versions of the 37 short papers presented at the conference, and one invited talk. Each paper has passed through a rigorous peer-review process before being accepted for publication. The biennial conference series and the proceedings are representative of the aims of the organizing institutes: to promote the integrated study of logic, information and language. The scientific program consisted of tutorials, invited lectures, contributed talks, and two workshops.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July/August 2002. The 29 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions and 13 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. All current aspects of logic programming and computational logic are addressed.

With a focus on the 1980 Hague Convention, this cutting-edge Research Handbook provides a holistic overview of the law on international child abduction from prevention, through voluntary agreements and Convention proceedings, to post-return and aftercare issues.

These are the proceedings of the First International Conference on Compu- tional Logic (CL 2000) which was held at Imperial College in London from 24th to 28th July, 2000. The theme of the conference covered all aspects of the theory, implementation, and application of computational logic, where computational logic is to be understood broadly as the use of logic in computer science. The conference was collocated with the following events: { 6th International Conference on Rules and Objects in Databases (DOOD 2000) { 10th International Workshop on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Tra- formation (LOPSTR 2000) { 10th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2000). CL 2000 consisted of seven streams: { Program Development (LOPSTR 2000) { Logic Programming: Theory and Extensions { Constraints { Automated Deduction: Putting Theory into Practice { Knowledge Representation and Non-monotonic Reasoning { Database Systems (DOOD 2000) { Logic Programming: Implementations and Applications. The LOPSTR 2000 workshop constituted the program development stream and the DOOD 2000 conference constituted the database systems stream. Each stream had its own chair and program committee, which autonomously selected the papers in the area of the stream. Overall, 176 papers were submitted, of which 86 were selected to be presented at the conference and appear in these proceedings. The acceptance rate was uniform across the streams. In addition, LOPSTR 2000 accepted about 15 extended abstracts to be presented at the conference in the program development stream.