Things had settled down after the incident with the brothers and time folding. Years had passed and there wasn’t a word from the Alphas or Miguel and Diego. James personally supervised the refitting of both Antarctica stations. Their emphasis would now be solely focused on time anomalies. He didn’t want to be caught off guard again. Adriana had developed a company of highly skilled agents, and he could not be prouder of her performance. She would one day inherit the job, and he was confident she would be wonderful at it. Things were running smoothly, too smoothly. The fact of the matter was that the Archivist was bored. Then an alert came in from his stationmaster Moriarty. Someone was knocking at the door and it was a butler. The world was about to change. It has been seven years since James Aranas became the Archivist. He has not spoken with the McGonegals or anyone else outside of the agency who was involved in defeating the monster Atun. All of that was about to change because all of his friends were also visited by the butler. Angular Frequency is the conclusion of the McGonegal Chronicles series and as with anything involving the McGonegals, it is complicated and deadly. All his friends have settled back into their lives, but now retirement is over. Now the world once again requires their services and that includes the Alphas. The threat is even graver than before. The question is are they still up to the challenge? Time waits for no one, and she is a cruel taskmaster. The threat is at their doorsteps, and it is announced by a figure in a morning suit.

Angular Frequency is the conclusion of the McGonegal Chronicles series and anything involving the McGonegals is complicated and deadly. All his friends have settled back into their lives, but now retirement is over and adventure waits.

I Wrote Poetry for You is a collection is a collection of poems inspired by the authors life that all readers can relate to their own experiences. Life is a journey to find ourselves and to understand the things and people we truly love. The author explores every emotion and experience that we all go through in our journey to find love, happiness and live an authentic life. You will find that despite life's ups and downs, you are not alone.

Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.

New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access. The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed. The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis. Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.

Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world in which the everyday is infused with folklore and a deep belief in the supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions. Boats on Land quietly captures our fragile and awkward place in the world.

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.

Fifteen-year-old Ramsey Wilder discovers that she's an elf, and is whisked away to a magical realm and tasked with finding her long-lost sister.