The Labyrinth Key

Author : Howard V. Hendrix
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345491025
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Labyrinth Key written by Howard V. Hendrix and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge—knowledge to die for. . . . The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer with infinite capabilities to crack any enemy’s codes, yet keep secure its own secrets. The government that achieves this goal will win a crucial prize. No other computer system will be safe from the reach of this master machine. Dr. Jaron Kwok was working for the U.S. government to build such a computer. But in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese policewoman sifts through the bizarre, ashlike remains of what’s left of the doctor. With the clock ticking, alliances will be forged—and there are those who will stop at nothing to discover what the doctor knew. As the search for answers intensifies, it becomes chillingly clear that the quantum computer both sides so desperately want will be more powerful, more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined. For in the twenty-first century, machines become gods, gods become machines, and the once-impossible now lies within reach. The key to unlimited knowledge will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction—or humanity’s last chance to save itself. . . .

Author : Christopher Cartwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781699076842
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Labyrinth Key written by Christopher Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, 8-year-old Ethan Jones watched a stranger bury something in the mining ruins of the Rhyolite Desert, Nevada. Even at his young age, he knew what he'd just seen was important. In present day, a US Navy SEAL takes refuge in a secret chamber beneath the ancient streets of Syria and discovers an unusual stone artifact, like nothing he'd ever seen before. When news of the discovery reaches Sam Reilly, he is forced to return to his past, where his search for the Master Builders originated - and complete a mission he'd hoped could have stayed unfinished forever.

Author : Howard V. Hendrix
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417708512
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labyrinth Key written by Howard V. Hendrix and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed author of Lightpaths breaks out with a thrilling novel of quantum cryptography and the ultimate arms race.

Author : Sébastien Erpicum
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203804066
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs written by Sébastien Erpicum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labyrinth spillways are almost as old as dam engineering. In spite of the fact that they appear as a very good technical-economical compromise, only 0.1% of large dams are equipped with such weirs. The main reason for this is that traditional labyrinth weirs usually cannot be installed on top of concrete gravity dams as they require a large foundat

Author : Patrice Kindl
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618394029
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Labyrinth written by Patrice Kindl and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half-brother, the Minotaur, at the hands of the Athenian prince, Theseus, who is aided by Icarus, Daedalus, and her sister Ariadne.

Author : Sébastien Erpicum
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315812908
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs II written by Sébastien Erpicum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dam engineering is currently experiencing a strong revival of labyrinth oriented weirs. Labyrinth weirs, with a repetitive constructional character and an increased specific discharge capacity, are a very good technical-economical compromise. The concept of Piano Key Weir (PKW), with alveoli developed in overhangs from a reduced support area, enabl

Author : Penelope Reed Doob
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173847X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages written by Penelope Reed Doob and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.

Author : Sébastien Erpicum
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351687824
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs III written by Sébastien Erpicum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first implementation by Electricité de France on the Goulours dam (France) in 2006, the Piano Key Weir has become a more and more applied solution to increase the discharge capacity of existing spillways. In parallel, several new large dam projects have been built with such a flood control structure, usually in combination with gates. Today, more than 25 Piano Key Weirs are in operation or under construction all over the world. More than 15 years of research and development have enabled detailed investigations of the hydraulic and structural behaviour of the Piano Key Weir complex structure and have provided more and more accurate design equations. Following the proceedings of the first two workshops held in Liege (Belgium – 2011) and Paris (France – 2013), Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs III collects the contributions presented by people with varied background, from researchers to practitioners, at the 3rd International Workshop on Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs - PKW 2017 (22-24 February 2017, Qui Nhon, Vietnam). The papers, reviewed and accepted by an International Scientific Committee, summarize the current state-of-the-art on Piano Key Weirs from a theoretical to a practical point of view, and present most of the main projects in operation or under construction. Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs III is thus a reference for students, practitioners and researchers interested in Dams Engineering.

Author : Sherri Lynne Harmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781653478750
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASDAQ Key written by Sherri Lynne Harmon and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NASDAQ Key - Labyrinth 1: Financial Journal - 500 Pages

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1423131983
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Four: The Battle of the Labyrinth written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2009-05-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical. In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.