Suspicious Coincidences

Suspicious Coincidences
Author: T. E. Killian
Publisher: Christ Centered Ministries
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A SUSPENSE AND ACTION-PACKED POLICE MYSTERY WITH A TOUCH OF ROMANCE. Can a female police detective sergeant and a new pastor in town come together to solve two murders and protect their daughters too? Julie Cantrell finally made detective sergeant, and everything seems to be falling down on her head both professionally and personally. Gary Bradshaw is the new pastor of First Baptist Church, and everything seems to be falling down on his head both professionally and personally. Julie doesn’t trust pastors and Gary can’t get past her hard-as-nails demeanor. Julie has to deal with those in the police department who didn’t want her to get the promotion, especially the detective that everyone thought would be promoted. Her first week starts out with chaos. A council women’s house is burglarized. Julie’s ex-husband is filing for custody of their ten-year-old daughter. The church, the one place that Julie promised never to go again, is also burglarized. Assault and murder become part of the overall mix of problems. Gary encounters problems from the time he arrived at the church. He has to deal with six argumentative deacons, a custodian who won’t talk to him and a secretary that seems to know everything about everyone. Gary has to worry about the church burglary. His ten-year-old daughter, who is confined to a wheelchair, is very unhappy about the move and is making it known to him. All of these circumstances force Julie and Gary together. But what can they do about it? Can they help each other both professionally and personally? First, they must see each other differently than they did at their first meeting. Can they?

Matters of Intelligence

Matters of Intelligence
Author: L.M. Vaina
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9400938330

This volume is not an attempt to give a comprehensive treatment of the many facets of intelligence. Rather, the intention is to present multiple approaches to interesting and novel ways of looking at old problems. The focus is on the visual and some of the conceptual intelligences. Vision is man's primary cognitive contact with the world around him, and we are vividly reminded of this by Roman Jakobson's autobiographical note, "The Evasive Initial" with which this volume begins. That we see the world as well as we do is something of a miracle. Looking out through our eyes, our brains give us reliable knowledge about the world around us in all it beauty of form, color and movement. The chapters in the first section look at how this may come about from various perspectives. How from the intensity array which the world casts on the eye's retina does the brain achieve recognition? What may be some of the processes involved in seeing? We see shapes, textures and colors, and subsequently, at the more cognitive levels, recognize them as objects which we can manipulate: we inspect them to discover what to use them for. The objects are tools or food; they are things, beautiful, lovable or frightening. They are things to remember and to talk about to our friends, or to ask someone for. We can ask for many or just a few. They are important to us or trivial.

Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary

Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary
Author: Erin Mercer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2023-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 100093019X

Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and amends Freud. Such an approach positions King’s texts not simply as objects of interpretation that might yield latent meaning, but as producers of meaning. King can certainly be read through the lens of the uncanny, but this book also aims to consider the uncanny through the lens of King. Organised around specific elements of the uncanny that can be found in King’s fiction, this book explores the themes of death and the return of the dead, monstrosity, telepathy, inanimate objects becoming menacingly animate, and spooky children. Popular texts are considered, such as IT, The Shining, and Pet Sematary, as well as less discussed work, including The Institute, The Regulators and Desperation. The book’s central argument is that King’s uncanny motifs offer insightful commentary on what is repressed in contemporary culture and insist on the failure of scientific rationalism to explain the world. King’s uncanny imaginary rejects dualistic notions of an experiencing self in an inert physical world and insists that psychic experience is bound up with the environmental. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary and popular literature, gothic and horror studies, and cultural studies.

Message to the Nations

Message to the Nations
Author: CHARLES CASSEY
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1490746269

There is no secret to Gods love, for us. Within the pages of this short to the point manual, is the recipe to Gods expectations for humanity. These simple rules are short, precise, and to the point, without confusion. After you have read all the pages of this book, I insist that you the reader, ask God about the content subjects of this text. Only talk with God, he can and will confirm him.

Computer Vision – ECCV 2020

Computer Vision – ECCV 2020
Author: Andrea Vedaldi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030586219

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1360 revised papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5025 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Society for Psychical Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1894
Genre:
ISBN: