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A second rollicking collection of tales about colorful characters and memorable events from the author of "Crazy, With the Papers to Prove It." Sportswriter Dan Coughlin has met everyone from gun-toting softball fanatics to millionaire sports team owners. Reading his stories is like dipping into a bowl of bar nuts--easy to start and hard to stop!
Data literacy is one of the key skills that companies are looking for but it’s a specialist skill – currently. This book is your comprehensive guide to becoming data literate: understand data analytics, how to use data insights effectively in your organisation, and how to talk about data with experts and non-experts confidently.
Only the DarknessGill has a safe way of exploring past lives ... but when Concha tries it she experiences an excerpt from the life of the woman who will be her daughter, living in a world of worsening environmental conditions, she tries to change the future by getting her friend Eugene to undertake some genetic engineering for his doctorate. When Concha experiences a glimpse of her great granddaughter Ana's life nothing has changed - why not? What has happened to Eugene's project?The question is whether Concha saw 'the' future or just 'a' future or whether she caused the future she saw. Duplicity and double dealing, greed and lust for wealth and riches at the expense of the world at large may make an exciting story and certainly demand all Gill and Steve's resourcefulness - breaking into the university genetics department and passing information to an environmental organisation.
The Heat Death of the planet from an overdose of global warming isn't funny, nor is the occult, but the story has frequent elements of bizarre black humour as Gill and Steve investigate the interesting invention of Isaac Brainridge, designed to explore the future telepathically.This is the occult with a vengeance as Gill, Steve and Brainridge clash with his powerful but unscrupulous magician niece Athena. Gill's sense of fun and quick wits save her (and Steve) but Brainridge and planet Earth may not be so lucky!
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One of the most important population trends today is the aging of developed countries' populations. In this volume, authors explore this issue along with other perennial population concerns, such as whether or not the growing human population poses a serious ecological threat.
Music insider and progressive activist Danny Goldberg has spent decades tuning into the rhythms and voices that speak straight to the hearts and desires of American youth. In that time, one fact has become increasingly clear: America's venerable political leaders are too often tone deaf. In this startling, provocative book, Goldberg shows how today's professional public servants have managed to achieve nothing less that the indefensible, wholesale alienation of an entire generation. Goldberg authoritatively dissects the disconnect between politics and young voters' - Time Out NY'
The Capitol newspaper.