Moving Targets

Author : Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545773201

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Moving Target by Christina Diaz Gonzalez Pdf

In this exciting and action-packed adventure by an award-winning author, a young girl discovers her secret ancient bloodline. The fate of her family, and the world, may rest in her hands . . . Cassie Arroyo, an American studying in Rome, has her world ripped apart when someone tries to kill her father, an art history professor at an Italian university. Is she their next target?Cassie sets out to uncover what is happening, only to learn that she is a member of an ancient bloodline that enables her to use the Spear of Destiny--a legendary object that can alter the future. Now running from a secret organization intent on killing those from her bloodline, Cassie must--with the help of some friends--decipher the clues that will lead her to the Spear.Christina Diaz Gonzalez has created a fast-paced thrill-ride of a book, rich with riddles and myth, that young readers will not want to put down.

Author : Helen Birch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520085744

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Moving Targets by Helen Birch Pdf

The rampaging female has become a new clich in Hollywood cinema, a sexy beauty stabbing and shooting her way to box-office success. Fatal Attraction, Thelma and Louise, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Single White Female are a few of the recent mainstream films that have attracted huge audiences. Meanwhile, true accounts of a teenager shooting her lover's wife and a battered woman bludgeoning her husband to death get prime news media coverage-and are quickly made into TV movies. This pioneering collection of essays looks at our enduring fascination with women who murder. The authors explore how both fictional and real women are represented, as well as the way society responds to these women. The result is an often shocking picture of female violence that covers a vast territory: the Australian outback, a Florida highway, an Austrian hospital, a French village, and Hollywood. The women are as diverse as their settings: middle-class housewives, prostitutes, house maids, nurses, high-powered professionals. There is much here to provoke controversy. Society's uncertainty over the role of premenstrual syndrome, the fear of lesbianism, female violence as self-defense against patriarchy, and "appropriate" female behavior are issues that push buttons on several levels. Moving Targets is must-reading for anyone concerned with violence and representations of women in our culture.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : 0887847358

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Moving Targets by Margaret Atwood Pdf

The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood's fertile and curious mind in action over the years.Atwood's controversial political pieces, Napoleon's Two Biggest Mistakes and Letter to America -- both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq -- also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin.This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is the companion volume to Second Words.

Author : Scott Douglas Sagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0691023263

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Moving Targets by Scott Douglas Sagan Pdf

Shows how targeting decisions have reflected the judgments of various American administrations on what will and won't deter a nuclear attack.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307773180

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The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald Pdf

The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before. Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

Author : Lawrence D. Stone,Johannes O. Royset,Alan R. Washburn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319268996

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Optimal Search for Moving Targets by Lawrence D. Stone,Johannes O. Royset,Alan R. Washburn Pdf

This book begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationary target. It then develops the theory of optimal search for a moving target, providing algorithms for computing optimal plans and examples of their use. Next it develops methods for computing optimal search plans involving multiple targets and multiple searchers with realistic operational constraints on search movement. These results assume that the target does not react to the search. In the final chapter there is a brief overview of mostly military problems where the target tries to avoid being found as well as rescue or rendezvous problems where the target and the searcher cooperate. Larry Stone wrote his definitive book Theory of Optimal Search in 1975, dealing almost exclusively with the stationary target search problem. Since then the theory has advanced to encompass search for targets that move even as the search proceeds, and computers have developed sufficient capability to employ the improved theory. In this book, Stone joins Royset and Washburn to document and explain this expanded theory of search. The problem of how to search for moving targets arises every day in military, rescue, law enforcement, and border patrol operations.

Author : Ziyi Wang,Wencheng Zou,Sheng Li
Publisher : OAE Publishing Inc.
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cooperative search for moving targets with the ability to perceive and evade using multiple UAVs by Ziyi Wang,Wencheng Zou,Sheng Li Pdf

This paper focuses on the problem of regional cooperative search using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for targets that have the ability to perceive and evade. When UAVs search for moving targets in a mission area, the targets can perceive the positions and flight direction of UAVs within certain limits and take corresponding evasive actions, which makes the search more challenging than traditional search problems. To address this problem, we first define a detailed motion model for such targets and design various search information maps and their update methods to describe the environmental information based on the prediction of moving targets and the search results of UAVs. We then establish a multi-UAV search path planning optimization model based on the model predictive control, which includes various newly designed objective functions of search benefits and costs. We propose a priority-encoded improved genetic algorithm with a fine-adjustment mechanism to solve this model. The simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the cooperative search efficiency, and more targets can be found at a much faster rate compared to traditional search methods.

Author : Simon Lavington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848829336

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Moving Targets by Simon Lavington Pdf

This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company. It examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took place for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth of the market for Elliott computers for civil applications. Features: charts the establishment of Elliott’s Borehamwood Research Laboratories, and the roles played by John Coales and Leon Bagrit; examines early Elliott digital computers designed for classified military applications and for GCHQ; describes the analogue computers developed by Elliott-Automation; reviews the development of the first commercial Elliot computers and the growth of applications in industrial automation; includes a history of airborne computers by a former director of Elliott Flight Automation; discusses the computer architectures and systems software for Elliott computers; investigates the mergers, takeovers and eventual closure of the Borehamwood laboratories.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781770890107

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Second Words by Margaret Atwood Pdf

The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as critical commentary on such writers as Erica Jong, E. L. Doctorow, Northrop Frye, Roch Carrier, Marie-Claire Blais, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and many more.

Author : Cecil Castellucci,Jason Fry
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484725016

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Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Moving Target by Cecil Castellucci,Jason Fry Pdf

Princess Leia returns for an all-new adventure in this thrilling upper middle grade novel. Set between Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, the story follows the warrior princess as she leads a ragtag group of rebels on a dangerous mission against the evil Galactic Empire. Hidden in the story are also hints and clues about the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, making this a must-read for fans old and new!

Author : Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545773249

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Return Fire (Moving Target, Book 2) by Christina Diaz Gonzalez Pdf

The thrilling sequel to Moving Target! When a young girl can determine the destiny of the world, the wrong choice could lead to disaster... WHO WILL CONTROL DESTINY?Cassie Arroyo has the ability to use the Spear of Destiny. And despite knowing the dangers of such a powerful object, she uses it to shape the future and save her father's life.The consequences of that small choice are larger than Cassie could ever have imagined. It produced a chain reaction - and now, in her visions of the future, Cassie sees chaos and death spreading across Rome.With the help of her friend Asher, Cassie is determined to fix the future she's created . . . but it's not going to be simple. The spear's been stolen by people who want to use it for their own dark purposes.Can Cassie recapture the spear before it's used against her? And will she be able to undo the harm she's caused, or will she only cast the world into greater chaos? Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Return Fire is a nonstop, action-packed adventure, full of mystery and intrigue, that will take you on a wild and wonderful ride across Italy.

Author : Theresa Valko,Brad Sietz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic information resource literacy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131783982

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Moving Targets: Understanding Our Changing Landscapes by Theresa Valko,Brad Sietz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Infantry
ISBN : UVA:X001512388

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Author : Xing Yang,Yihua Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789819941575

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Photoelectric Detection on Derived Attributes of Targets by Xing Yang,Yihua Hu Pdf

This book highlights the novel photoelectric detection technique on derived attributes of targets. Photoelectric detection on derived attributes of targets is a new target detection and monitoring method. It is achieved by acquiring three types of attributes of the target, including those that reflect the essential features of parts of the target, those directly generated from the target, and those synthesized by the target features. The book introduces the classification of derived attributes of targets and describes typical detection methods. Emphases are put on laser detection of aerial moving targets, using derived attributes such as the disturbance of atmospheric wind fields, trailing vortexes, and the disturbance of atmospheric components. The authors also elaborate on visible light imaging detection using derived attributes such as retroreflection and the identification of target carriers. Besides, the synthetic attributes processing of integrated aerospace images is introduced for the detection of targets on the ground and sea surfaces. This book can be used as a good reference for researchers engaged in the fields of photoelectric detection, target detection and image processing, and as a reference book for senior undergraduates and postgraduates in relevant majors.

Author : Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061749841

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Moving Target by Elizabeth Lowell Pdf

The troubling message from Serena Charters's late grandmother appears in a package containing four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript -- a strange inheritance that hides many secrets...and has already cost many lives. Seeking answers, Serena turns to Erik North of Rarities Unlimited, a reclusive manuscript appraiser with a passion for the past. Without warning, they are thrust together into the center of a lethal firestorm that rages between two worlds -- one long dead, yet living on in an ancient text, the other chillingly alive and fraught with peril. In the blink of an eye, Serena and Erik have become targets of an unseen and determined stalker as they get closer to shocking revelations about Serena's legacy, the cold murder of an eccentric old woman in the heat of the Mojave Desert...and just how far a remorseless killer is willing to go. And now their only slim hope of survival is to keep moving.