Product Description: Joseph Klein was a brilliant boy, talented—and dangerous. When he dies, at age 32, under uncertain circumstances, a group of his former friends gather for his funeral and see each other for the first time in some years. How did Joseph change them and what does he mean to them? What do they mean to each other, and why have their lives come to be what they are? The Quarry And The Lot is a novel about love and its limits, memory and history...read more

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Product Description: Constraint logic programming lies at the intersection of logic programming, optimisation and artificial intelligence. It has proved a successful tool in many areas including production planning, transportation scheduling, numerical analysis and bioinformatics...read more

Product Description: Successful fire service leaders know that a fire department that isnÂ’t moving forward is dying or, at least, in danger of dying. In this second edition, author Mark Wallace succinctly points out that if you donÂ’t know where youÂ’re going, any road will take you there...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2004, held in Toronto, Canada, in September 2004. The 46 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with extended abstracts of 4 invited talks and 31 abstracts of contributions to the doctoral students program were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions...read more

Product Description: Fiction. In this novel, by poet and essayist Mark Wallace, a scientist creates gilled human monstrosities that are also avatars of the possibility of imaginative transcendence. Experimentation in language and in the laboratory produce equally vertiginous results...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. "Marvelous! A book that thinks! and that speaks out plainly and politically. In this collection of short essays, poems, and various hybrid genres, Mark Wallace takes poetry seriously--and often in the most tongue-in-cheek way, but below the quick wit is a belief in and love of language and the art that it can make...read more

Product Description: A Temporary Worker Rides the Subway presents two long poem -sequences that explore and question contemporary language surrounding money and work. Using a widely varied set of poetic forms, Wallace highlights the inconsistencies and absurdities in contemporary notions about the degree to which money and work provide the value of people’s lives...read more

Product Description: Designed for beginners or those who want to build on their experience, this book explains ways in which a home PC can be used to help produce outstanding school work. All the effects demonstrated in this book can be achieved with the software provided as standard with Windows 95 and 98...read more

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Product Description: As we enter the digital age in which computer technology will play an increasingly important part in everyone's lives, this dictionary provides a source of reference to all the essential terms, concepts and acronyms of computer jargon, from analogue to zero-fill...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This computer dictionary guides readers through the technological maze with practical tips and straight forward information while defining over 1500 words and phrases in everyday language. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Poetry. "If Mark Wallace did the comedy circuit, all that big hair and those sweet drinks would riot in the streets. NOTHING HAPPENED AND BESIDES I WASN'T THERE is a series of one to six line stanzas all revamping the idea of the one-liner...read more

Whether you want to play chess against a master in Tokyo, go shopping in New York, or watch a volcano erupting in Hawaii, this book has facinating projects you can try on your computer. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA Workshop on Constraint Databases and Applications, held in Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 1995. The 10 full revised papers selected for inclusion in this volume are written by and for practitioners, researchers, and application users of core constraint database technology; they can be classified in three sections on expressiveness of the various constraint database models; implementation and optimization issues in areas like spatial databases, geographic information systems, scheduling and routing...read more