The Moving Target

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : J.A. Jance
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476745022

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Moving Target by J.A. Jance Pdf

Includes novella "A last goodbye" and excerpt from "Cold betrayal".

Author : Cecil Castellucci,Jason Fry
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Sushil Jajodia,Anup K. Ghosh,Vipin Swarup,Cliff Wang,X. Sean Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461409779

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Moving Target Defense by Sushil Jajodia,Anup K. Ghosh,Vipin Swarup,Cliff Wang,X. Sean Wang Pdf

Moving Target Defense: Creating Asymmetric Uncertainty for Cyber Threats was developed by a group of leading researchers. It describes the fundamental challenges facing the research community and identifies new promising solution paths. Moving Target Defense which is motivated by the asymmetric costs borne by cyber defenders takes an advantage afforded to attackers and reverses it to advantage defenders. Moving Target Defense is enabled by technical trends in recent years, including virtualization and workload migration on commodity systems, widespread and redundant network connectivity, instruction set and address space layout randomization, just-in-time compilers, among other techniques. However, many challenging research problems remain to be solved, such as the security of virtualization infrastructures, secure and resilient techniques to move systems within a virtualized environment, automatic diversification techniques, automated ways to dynamically change and manage the configurations of systems and networks, quantification of security improvement, potential degradation and more. Moving Target Defense: Creating Asymmetric Uncertainty for Cyber Threats is designed for advanced -level students and researchers focused on computer science, and as a secondary text book or reference. Professionals working in this field will also find this book valuable.

Author : Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Carole-Ann Upton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317641445

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Moving Target by Carole-Ann Upton Pdf

Moving Target offers a rigorous exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. The twelve essays in the volume span a range of work from Eastern and Western Europe, Canada and the United States. For the first time, this book draws together existing translation theory with contemporary practice to shed light on a hitherto neglected aspect of the production process. How does the theatre translator mediate between source text, performance text and target audience? What happens when theatre is transposed from one culture to another? What are the obstacles to theatre translation, and what are the opportunities? Central to the debate throughout is the role of the translator in creating not only a linguistic text but also a performance text, as the contributors repeatedly demonstrate an illuminating sensibility to the demands and potential of theatre production. Impacting upon areas of (inter)cultural theory as well as theatre studies and translation studies, the result is a startling revelation of the joys, as well as the frustrations of the dramatic art of the translator for performance.

Author : Brunella Antomarini
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739176238

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Thinking through Error by Brunella Antomarini Pdf

The aim of Thinking through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge is to describe knowledge as it works in our everyday attitude and behavior. Often in life, when making decisions and choices, we do not need to test the truth of our beliefs, so there must be another way to guide ourselves. With this in mind, Antomarini presents ‘thinking through error’ instead of ‘excluding error’. That is, we act through a slow process of guess-work, followed by quick gestures. By using our own uncertainty and our exploratory abilities, we face unpredictable situations and at the same time we acknowledge the constant presence of error in our thinking. Every decision we make continuously determines and replaces an entire universe within which that decision is plausible. Our everyday knowledge is a balance between a feeling of the truth and its negation.

Author : Lynette Eason
Publisher : Revell
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441236791

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Moving Target (Elite Guardians Book #3) by Lynette Eason Pdf

When Maddy McKay and Quinn Holcombe don't show up for Quinn's surprise birthday party, his friends know that something is very wrong. Their search turns up little beyond evidence that Quinn and Maddy just decided to take off for a long overdue vacation. But it soon becomes apparent that they did not leave of their own accord. Maddy awakens in a cement room with no idea where she is. But it's not long before she realizes she's in the clutches of a madman exacting revenge by hunting. His prey of choice? Humans. Now Maddy and Quinn must run for their lives, hoping to find their killer before the next game begins. Because if they don't win this game, they die. Fast, furious, and flirty, Lynette Eason's relentless suspense barely gives her readers time to catch their breath in this third thrilling installment of the Elite Guardians series.

Author : Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:810607469

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The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald Pdf

Author : Colleen O'Manique,Pieter Fourie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781317195573

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Global Health and Security by Colleen O'Manique,Pieter Fourie Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies, while broadening the scope of what we understand as global health security. It looks at how feminist perspectives on health and security can lead to different questions about health and in/security, problematizing some of the ‘common sense’ assumptions that underlie much of the discourse in this area. It considers the norms, ideologies, and vested interests that frame specific ‘threats’ to health and policy responses, while exposing how the current governance of the global economy shapes new threats to health. Some chapters focus on conflict, war and complex emergencies, while others move from a ‘high political’ focus to the domain of subtler and often insidious structural violence, illuminating the impacts of hegemonic masculinities and the neoliberal governance of the global economy on health and life chances. Highlighting the critical intersections across health, gender and security, this book is an important contribution to scholarship on health and security, global health, public health and gender studies.

Author : Brenda Knight,Nita Sweeney
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781642502565

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You Should Be Writing by Brenda Knight,Nita Sweeney Pdf

Write Like an Expert “This journal is a must-have for writers everywhere. With quotes from a diverse group of historical and modern authors to use as creative prompts on every page, you’ll be able to bring your writing inspiration with you wherever you go.” —Sassy Townhouse Living #1 New Release in Quotation References From famous all-time-great poets like T.S. Eliot to modern creatives like Roxane Gay, the selected writing quotes in this journal aim to instruct and inspire you to become a better writer. Writing Inspiration from Incredible Authors. Gathered by Brenda Knight and writing coach Nita Sweeney, author of Depression Hates a Moving Target, You Should Be Writing provides you with writing wisdom from a variety of accomplished authors. Creative Writing Practice for Every Genre. This writing journal with prompts helps you practice a wide variety of writing skills. The excerpts and prompts include: General advice: “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.” - Zadie Smith Helpful instructions: “If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your reader will surely feel that you care nothing about them.” - Kurt Vonnegut Genre-specific writing ideas and tips for particular areas of writing, such as poetry or storytelling: “For those whose bucket-list entails seeing their name on the spine of a book, it boils down to the power of persistence.” - Marlene Wagman-Geller If you were inspired by the creative writing prompts and advice in 642 Things to Write About, Complete the Story Journal, or Piccadilly 300 Writing Prompts, you’ll love Brenda's and Nita's You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307759672

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The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald Pdf

Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family. Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.

Author : Sushil Jajodia,Anup K. Ghosh,V.S. Subrahmanian,Vipin Swarup,Cliff Wang,X. Sean Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461454168

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Moving Target Defense II by Sushil Jajodia,Anup K. Ghosh,V.S. Subrahmanian,Vipin Swarup,Cliff Wang,X. Sean Wang Pdf

Our cyber defenses are static and are governed by lengthy processes, e.g., for testing and security patch deployment. Adversaries could plan their attacks carefully over time and launch attacks at cyber speeds at any given moment. We need a new class of defensive strategies that would force adversaries to continually engage in reconnaissance and re-planning of their cyber operations. One such strategy is to present adversaries with a moving target where the attack surface of a system keeps changing. Moving Target Defense II: Application of Game Theory and Adversarial Modeling includes contributions from world experts in the cyber security field. In the first volume of MTD, we presented MTD approaches based on software transformations, and MTD approaches based on network and software stack configurations. In this second volume of MTD, a group of leading researchers describe game theoretic, cyber maneuver, and software transformation approaches for constructing and analyzing MTD systems. Designed as a professional book for practitioners and researchers working in the cyber security field, advanced -level students and researchers focused on computer science will also find this book valuable as a secondary text book or reference.