The Hog Takes To Precision

Author : Victor Mollo
Publisher : Master Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781897106662
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hog Takes to Precision written by Victor Mollo and published by Master Point Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just about every bridge player in the world has read Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same well-loved characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), but some appeared only in the pages of obscure magazines, while others were never published. Now, for the first time, these lost Menagerie gems are available collected in book form. Victor Mollo is everyone's favorite bridge humorist, and a genuinely new book from him will be greeted as something to be treasured. Victor Mollo The late Victor Mollo (London, UK) is one of the best-loved authors ever to write about bridge. He penned many excellent how-to books on the game (including Card Play Technique, with Nico Gardner) but it is as a humorist, and the author of Bridge in the Menagerie and its sequels, that he is best remembered. Mark Horton Mark Horton (born 1950) is a British author, journalist and expert on bridge, as well as a former lawyer and chess champion. He has been the editor of Bridge Magazine since 1995. The magazine was founded in 1926 and is the world's oldest bridge magazine, and it is now distributed through Chess & Bridge in the UK. He currently lives in Bath with his wife Liz.

Author : Victor Mollo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897106969
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamonds Are the Hog's Best Friend written by Victor Mollo and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the second re-issue of lost 'Menagerie' stories.

Author : Jonathan Aldred
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136552243
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skeptical Economist written by Jonathan Aldred and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics is unavoidably central to any attempt to improve our quality of life, but most people do not know why, or how to question its underlying assumptions. The Skeptical Economist rejects the story told by other popular economics books. Responding to Western malaise about quality of life, and a growing curiosity about economics and its relevance to these concerns, Jonathan Aldred argues that economics is not an agreed body of knowledge or an objective science. In reality economics is built on ethical foundations - distinctive and controversial views about how we ought to live, what we value and why. This revealing and entertaining book exposes these hidden assumptions, and opens up the black box of modern economics to reveal that conventional wisdom is not what it appears to be. The Skeptical Economist will challenge us all to examine the assumptions behind the economics of our current way of life. It rediscovers the ethics at the heart of economics.

Author : Nancy Mauro
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 0307461424
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New World Monkeys written by Nancy Mauro and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to revive their marriage during a summer spent in a crumbling Victorian dwelling in upstate New York, Duncan and Lily face such challenges as a hit-and-run involving a wild boar, the discovery of a human bone in the yard and a peeping tom.

Author : Milo S. Afong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425217511
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HOGs in the Shadows written by Milo S. Afong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws on his own combat experiences to offer an insider's look at the role of a HOG (Hunter of Gunman) sniper in Operation Iraqi Freedom, detailing the work of a Marine Scout/Sniper team and the perils they confronted on the battlefield.

Author : Dimitrios Tzovaras
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030349950
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Vision Systems written by Dimitrios Tzovaras and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2019. The 72 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections; hardware accelerated and real time vision systems; robotic vision; vision systems applications; high-level and learning vision systems; cognitive vision systems; movement analytics and gesture recognition for human-machine collaboration in industry; cognitive and computer vision assisted systems for energy awareness and behavior analysis; and vision-enabled UAV and counter UAV technologies for surveillance and security of critical infrastructures.

Author : Mary-Claire Helldorfer
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670871827
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hog Music written by Mary-Claire Helldorfer and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers along the National Road help make sure the birthday gift Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois. As the box makes its way across the country by the kindness of strangers, each one adds a token of his or her own to Lucy's present.

Author : Ignacio Rojas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319591479
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Computational Intelligence written by Ignacio Rojas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNCS 10305 and LNCS 10306 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2017, held in Cadiz, Spain, in June 2017. The 126 revised full papers presented in this double volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Bio-inspired Computing; E-Health and Computational Biology; Human Computer Interaction; Image and Signal Processing; Mathematics for Neural Networks; Self-organizing Networks; Spiking Neurons; Artificial Neural Networks in Industry ANNI'17; Computational Intelligence Tools and Techniques for Biomedical Applications; Assistive Rehabilitation Technology; Computational Intelligence Methods for Time Series; Machine Learning Applied to Vision and Robotics; Human Activity Recognition for Health and Well-Being Applications; Software Testing and Intelligent Systems; Real World Applications of BCI Systems; Machine Learning in Imbalanced Domains; Surveillance and Rescue Systems and Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; End-User Development for Social Robotics; Artificial Intelligence and Games; and Supervised, Non-Supervised, Reinforcement and Statistical Algorithms.

Author : Mike Daisey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743244648
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21 Dog Years written by Mike Daisey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion. In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major, dilettante -- seemed perfect for the job. His ascension from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler over the course of twenty-one dog years is the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. With lunatic precision, Daisey describes the lightless cube farms in which book orders were scrawled on Post-its while technicians struggled to bring computers back online; the fourteen-hour days fueled by caffeine, fanaticism, and illicit day-trading from office desks made from doors; his strange compulsion to send free books to Norwegians; and the fevered insistence of BizDev higher-ups that the perfect business partner was Pets.com -- the now-extinct company that spent all its assets on a sock puppet. In these pages, you'll meet Warren, the cowboy of customer service, capable of verbally hog-tying even the most abusive customer; Amazon employee #5, a reclusive computer gamer worth a cool $300 million, who spends at least six hours a day locked in his office killing goblins; and Jean-Michele, Mike's girlfriend and sparring partner, who tries to keep him grounded, even as dot-com mania seduces them both. At strategic intervals, the narrative is punctuated by hysterically honest letters to CEO Jeff Bezos -- missives that seem ripped from the collective unconscious of dot-com disciples the world over. 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak, a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity.

Author : William Hedgepeth
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820332739
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hog Book written by William Hedgepeth and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hog Book is one of the most radical works in the annals of classic animal literature. This is the definitive work that touched off the whole recent revolution in our hog awareness leading to the ever-spreading acceptance of pigs as pets, as working partners, organ donors, movie stars, and so many other fresh manifestations of the barely tapped porcine potential. The Hog Book is also a lot of fun.