Short story. A Death tells the story of Jim Trusdale, not the sharpest tool in the shed, who is accused of killing 10-year-old Rebecca Cline on her birthday and stealing her silver dollar. The story is set in 1889 in the Dakotas, before it became...
Build your own 9mm, blowback, selective-fire submachine gun that’s as powerful as an Uzi or HK MP5 but has fewer parts and is more durable. Simply follow the step-by-step instructions and machinist’s drawings in this book. For academic study...
Com incansável imaginação, Stephen King dá continuidade à magistral saga épica A Torre Negra. A Escolha dos Três, segundo volume da série, lança o protagonista Roland de Gilead em pleno...
Unhealed scars of the Great War still torment Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, and he carries with him the presence of the soldier he was forced to execute in the midst of battle. A haunted, damaged shell of a man, he has been sent to the...
We show how to use "complementary priors" to eliminate the explaining-away effects that make inference difficult in densely connected belief nets that have many hidden layers. Using complementary priors, we derive a fast, greedy algorithm that can...
Marusya Tatarovich, a young Russian woman, falls unsuccessfully in love with a Jew, Tsekhnovitser. She gets bored with the dull medical student she does marry, is divorced, and has a common-law marriage and son by the pop singer Razudalov. She...