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Product Description: Five years ago I had to make a difficult decision. Should I go on accepting a religion I knew in my heart was not true, or should I study the religion and find out why it had been a prevailing religion for two thousand years, with a billion adherents? This necessitated my investigating the religion, hoping my findings would strengthen my belief in Catholicism, but what I discovered was an almighty church that, since its creation in the fourth century, has been a shameful, dishonorable, self-serving, covert institution...read more

Product Description: From conception to birth is traditionally nine months. The first emails regarding the volume you now hold in your hands―or the bits you have downloaded onto your screen―are dated 11 June 2005. From conception to birth has taken over four years...read more

An introduction to the elements comprising an introductory physics course. The emphasis in this text is on the physicist's approach to understanding nature and the importance of model building to set up the correct analysis of the problems. This edition includes material based on latest research.

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2012, held in Beijing, China, in June 2012. The 27 revised full papers presented together with two keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions...read more

Product Description: This book surveys state-of-the-art techniques for dealing with aliasing in object-oriented programming, presenting 22 papers on the Geneva convention, ownership, concurrency, alias analysis, controlling effects, verification, programming languages and visions.