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Download or read book The Ihaka Trilogy written by Paul Thomas and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside dope: "The race to find the lost treasure of the Mr Asia syndicate has attracted an impressive field: there's a disgraced ex-cop fresh out of a Bangkok jail, the Auckland underworld's drug kingpin, a rogue DEA man, an alluring CIA assassin, and a bunch of wild card entries including Tito Ihaka."--Publisher.
Download or read book Death on Demand written by Paul Thomas and published by Hodder Moa. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days Maori cop Tito Ihaka is leading a quieter life in the Wairarapa. Five years earlier he?d sought to step into the shoes of his long-time boss Detective Inspector Finbar McGrail after the latter?s promotion to Auckland District Commander. Dogged by the fall-out from his handling of the hit and run death of a prominent businesswoman, Ihaka was overlooked for a younger, more presentable candidate. After a men?s room confrontation with his new boss?s right-hand man, Ihaka was sent into exile. Out of the blue McGrail summons him back to Auckland. Christopher Lilywhite, the businesswoman?s terminally ill husband whom Ihaka suspected was behind his wife?s death, wants to see him. Lilywhite confesses that he had his wife murdered, but he dealt with the hit-man at arm?s length so has no idea who he is. In quick succession Lilywhite and another potential source of information are murdered. Ihaka?s old rival Detective Inspector Tony Charlton takes control of the case but with more corpses turning up and Auckland Central stretched to breaking point, he agrees to let Ihaka investigate the apparently unrelated murder of a young man about town. As the investigations expand uncovering a blackmail operation preying on married women, gang activities controlled from inside Paremeremo prison and possible police corruption, Ihaka realises that the cases are related and he?s hunting a faceless and prolific hit-man. Or is the hit-man hunting him? Finished reading Paul Thomas's 'Death on Demand' on flight to NY. Big, bruising police procedural set in New Zealand. Excellent. — Ian Rankin (@Beathhigh) January 29, 2014 @HachetteNZ Mazey, gripping plot, terrific maverick cop, violent, profane, funny. — Ian Rankin (@Beathhigh) January 30, 2014
Download or read book Inside Dope written by Paul Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane Ricketts had planned to steer clear of drugs once he got out of the Thai jail, but it's tough turning down a dying man's last request - even if he's a hardened criminal with a fatal weakness for transvestites. So now Ricketts is looking for the lost treasure of the notorious Mr Asia syndicate: ten kilos of high-grade cocaine. When he finds a
Download or read book The Ihaka Trilogy written by Paul Thomas and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside dope: "The race to find the lost treasure of the Mr Asia syndicate has attracted an impressive field: there's a disgraced ex-cop fresh out of a Bangkok jail, the Auckland underworld's drug kingpin, a rogue DEA man, an alluring CIA assassin, and a bunch of wild card entries including Tito Ihaka."--Publisher.
Book Synopsis Island Genres, Genre Islands by : Ralph Crane
Download or read book Island Genres, Genre Islands written by Ralph Crane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres—crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction—Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental to both the textual representation of real and imagined islands and to actual knowledges and experiences of islands. The book offers broad, comparative readings of the significance of islandness in each of the four genres as well as detailed case studies of major authors and texts. These include chapters on Agatha’s Christie’s islands, the role of the island in ‘Bondspace,’ the romantic islophilia of Nora Roberts’s Three Sisters Island series, and the archipelagic geography of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea. Crane and Fletcher’s book will appeal to specialists in literary studies and cultural geography, as well as in island studies.
Book Synopsis Hands-On Data Science with R by : Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta
Download or read book Hands-On Data Science with R written by Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on guide for professionals to perform various data science tasks in R Key FeaturesExplore the popular R packages for data scienceUse R for efficient data mining, text analytics and feature engineeringBecome a thorough data science professional with the help of hands-on examples and use-cases in RBook Description R is the most widely used programming language, and when used in association with data science, this powerful combination will solve the complexities involved with unstructured datasets in the real world. This book covers the entire data science ecosystem for aspiring data scientists, right from zero to a level where you are confident enough to get hands-on with real-world data science problems. The book starts with an introduction to data science and introduces readers to popular R libraries for executing data science routine tasks. This book covers all the important processes in data science such as data gathering, cleaning data, and then uncovering patterns from it. You will explore algorithms such as machine learning algorithms, predictive analytical models, and finally deep learning algorithms. You will learn to run the most powerful visualization packages available in R so as to ensure that you can easily derive insights from your data. Towards the end, you will also learn how to integrate R with Spark and Hadoop and perform large-scale data analytics without much complexity. What you will learnUnderstand the R programming language and its ecosystem of packages for data scienceObtain and clean your data before processingMaster essential exploratory techniques for summarizing dataExamine various machine learning prediction, modelsExplore the H2O analytics platform in R for deep learningApply data mining techniques to available datasetsWork with interactive visualization packages in RIntegrate R with Spark and Hadoop for large-scale data analyticsWho this book is for If you are a budding data scientist keen to learn about the popular pandas library, or a Python developer looking to step into the world of data analysis, this book is the ideal resource you need to get started. Some programming experience in Python will be helpful to get the most out of this course
Book Synopsis John Wright's Indian Summers by : John Wright
Download or read book John Wright's Indian Summers written by John Wright and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2007-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an experiment not expected to work, former New Zealand captain John Wright was named coach of the Indian cricket team in October 2000. In this volume he provides an insight into the vast scale, passion and politics of cricket in a country with a billion fans.
Download or read book Statistics written by Michael J. Crawley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer software is an essential tool for many statistical modelling and data analysis techniques, aiding in the implementation of large data sets in order to obtain useful results. R is one of the most powerful and flexible statistical software packages available, and enables the user to apply a wide variety of statistical methods ranging from simple regression to generalized linear modelling. Statistics: An Introduction using R is a clear and concise introductory textbook to statistical analysis using this powerful and free software, and follows on from the success of the author's previous best-selling title Statistical Computing. * Features step-by-step instructions that assume no mathematics, statistics or programming background, helping the non-statistician to fully understand the methodology. * Uses a series of realistic examples, developing step-wise from the simplest cases, with the emphasis on checking the assumptions (e.g. constancy of variance and normality of errors) and the adequacy of the model chosen to fit the data. * The emphasis throughout is on estimation of effect sizes and confidence intervals, rather than on hypothesis testing. * Covers the full range of statistical techniques likely to be need to analyse the data from research projects, including elementary material like t-tests and chi-squared tests, intermediate methods like regression and analysis of variance, and more advanced techniques like generalized linear modelling. * Includes numerous worked examples and exercises within each chapter. * Accompanied by a website featuring worked examples, data sets, exercises and solutions: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/bio/research/crawley/statistics Statistics: An Introduction using R is the first text to offer such a concise introduction to a broad array of statistical methods, at a level that is elementary enough to appeal to a broad range of disciplines. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate students in medicine, engineering, economics and biology - but will also appeal to postgraduates who have not previously covered this area, or wish to switch to using R.
Book Synopsis Striding Both Worlds by : Melissa Kennedy
Download or read book Striding Both Worlds written by Melissa Kennedy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost Māori writer, in order to question the common interpretation of Māori writing as displaying a distinctive Māori world-view and literary style. Far from being discrete endogenous units, all cultures and literatures arise out of constant interaction, engagement, and even friction. Thus, Māori culture since the 1970s has been shaped by a long history of interaction with colonial British, Pakeha, and other postcolonial and indigenous cultures. Māori sovereignty and renaissance movements have harnessed the structures of European modernity, nation-building, and, more recently, Western global capitalism, transculturation, and diaspora – contexts which contest New Zealand bicultural identity, encouraging Māori to express their difference and self-sufficiency. Ihimaera’s fiction has been largely viewed as embodying the specific values of Māori renaissance and biculturalism. However, Ihimaera, in his techniques, modes, and themes, is indebted to a wider range of literary influences than national literary critique accounts for. In taking an international literary perspective, this book draws critical attention to little-known or disregarded aspects such as Ihimaera’s love of opera, the extravagance of his baroque lyricism, his exploration of fantasy, and his increasing interest in taking Māori into the global arena. In revealing a broad range of cultural and aesthetic influences and inter-references commonly seen as irrelevant to contemporary Māori literature, Striding Both Worlds argues for a hitherto frequently overlooked and undervalued depth and complexity to Ihimaera’s imaginary. The present study argues that an emphasis on difference tends to lose sight of fiction’s capacity to appreciate originality and individuality in the polyphony of its very form and function. In effect, literary negotiation of Māori sovereign space takes place in its forms rather than in its content: the uniqueness of Māori literature is found in the way it uses the common tools of literary fiction, including language, imagery, the text’s relationship to reality, and the function of characterization. By interpeting aspects of Ihimaera’s oeuvre for what they share with other literatures in English, Striding Both Worlds aims to present an additional, complementary approach to Māori, New Zealand, and postcolonial literary analysis.
Download or read book The Complaints written by Ian Rankin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unmissable Rankin, as gripping and involving as any Rebus story' CHOICE; 'A brilliant book' GUARDIAN From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'On the evidence of THE COMPLAINTS it looks as if Fox will be just as sure-footed a guide to the city as his grizzled predecessor' DAILY EXPRESS. Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour and unwell. He also has a father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship. In the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. Problem is, no one can prove it. But as Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks. This knowledge will prove dangerous, especially when murder intervenes.
Book Synopsis Ngāti Dread: Footsteps of fire by : Angus Gillies
Download or read book Ngāti Dread: Footsteps of fire written by Angus Gillies and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their minds back twenty years to the Ruatoria Troubles. From 1985 until 1990 the township was terrorised by a cannabis-growing Maori sect calling itself the Rastafarians. Their story is one of the most bizarre chapters in modern New Zealand history. Yet most people have never heard of The Rastas or their reign of terror... until now.
Book Synopsis A Sea of Upturned Faces by : Winifred Ragsdale
Download or read book A Sea of Upturned Faces written by Winifred Ragsdale and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors, librarians, and critics from Pacific Rim countries share national and universal aspects of children's literature in the third of a series.
Download or read book Wednesday to Come written by Renée and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four women of four generations in a working class family try to cope with the hardships caused by the 1929 Depression
Download or read book Peter Bush written by Paul Thomas and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the renowned photographer and personality
Download or read book Old School Tie written by Paul Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange and sinister things are happening in the City of Sails. A private eye with a briefcase full of scandalous photos is clinically assassinated in a basement car park. A businessman who seems to have it all plummets to his death from the Harbour Bridge. And a clue is discovered to the mysterious suicide of a teenage girl at an exclusive school ball. When a magazine decides to investigate, it calls on the services of occasional journalist and failed gigolo Reggie Sparks. Soon Reggie finds himself chasing a story in which blackmail and double dealing are the order of the day and some secrets are dark enough to kill for. Highly original, gripping, deftly plotted and blackly humorous, and featuring a rogue' gallery of weird and wild characters, Old School Tie is the thriller NZ fans of crime fiction have been waiting for......
Download or read book The Empty Bed written by Paul Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nick Kerr's wife comes home from a business dinner a little more receptive than usual, he's suspicious. After she confesses all and asks for a separation, Nick finds that his wife has been getting her hands dirty in all sorts of places. Then she winds up dead, and Nick is the prime suspect.
Download or read book Built to Thrill written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A return to #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler's stunning private collection of rare, classic automobiles, picking back up in 1948 where Built for Adventure left off. In striking full-color photographs and engaging commentary, fans of Clive Cussler’s five bestselling series can explore the personal automotive collection of the literary master of mechanical marvels. Readers will explore the history of each model and the story of how it was found and restored, not to mention notes on where some of these dazzling machines have appeared in his novels. The fins, the fenders, the furious horsepower: Built to Thrill runs straight through the forties, fifties, and sixties, capturing it all.
