One Thousand & One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night & kill her in the morning To survive his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales each night leaving the King in suspense when morning comes prolonging her life for another day Gathered from India Persia & across the great Arab empire these mesmerising stories tell of the real & the supernatural love & marriage power & punishment wealth & poverty & the endless trials & uncertainties of fate Retold by Hanan al-Shaykh One Thousand & One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice ...

This book is a revised updated & greatly expanded version of the authors' " Probability & Random Processes Problems & Solutions" first published in 1992 The 1000 exercises contained within are not merely drill problems but have been chosen to illustrate the concepts illuminate the subject & both inform & entertain the student Topics cover a broad range of subjects including elementary aspects of probability & random variables; sampling; Markov chains; convergence; stationary processes; renewals; queues; Martingales; diffusion; mathematical finance & the Black-Scholes model This text is intended for general use & to serve students as a companion text for elementary intermediate & advanced courses in probability & random processes Useful for anyone needing a large source of problems in these areas & at all levels This book also acts as a companion volume to the new edition of Probability & Random Processes 3e (OUP
- 2001) providing the solutions for the problems & exercises
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Just like you Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences How Ann wondered do we find joy in the midst of deadlines debt drama & daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty long-and sometimes even dark? How is God even here? In One Thousand Gifts Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings & embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts It's only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have we discover the life we've always wanted a life we can take give thanks for & break for others We come to feel & know the impossible right down in our bones we are wildly loved
- by God Let Ann's beautiful heart-aching stories of the everyday give you a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace a way of being present to God that makes you deeply happy & a way of living that is finally fully alive Come live the best dare of all!
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What do one thousand things really look like? Let Little Mouse show you in this stunning collection of first words to see & ...

Make me proud These were the last words Livie's father ever spoke to her In the seven years since her parents' tragic death Livie has done her best to keep this promise through her every choice word & action while looking after her sister with strength & maturity But with college right around the corner unexpected challenges will test her resilience-and her heart Livie walks into Princeton with a solid plan & she's dead set on delivering on it Rock her classes set herself up for medical school & meet a good respectable guy to marry someday What isn't part of her plan are Jell-O shots; a lovable party animal roommate she can't say "no" to; & Ashton the arrogant-and extremely attractive-captain of the men's rowing team who makes Livie's usually non-existent temper flare Worse he's best friends & roommates with Connor who fits Livie's criteria perfectly So why does she keep thinking about Ashton? As Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle & feelings for Ashton that she shouldn't have she's forced to let go of her last promise to her father & with it the only identity that she knows ...

A wonderful & unique look at counting & friendship This very simple picture book is about two friends Sue & Nick who like very different things but are still best friends They introduce us to all their favourite things from one boy called Nick & one girl called Sue to ten cakes for tea & then all the way back down to one yellow moon shining in the night sky The artwork is stunning with each artist contributing alternate pages in their own inimitable style The deceptively simple text is perfect for children learning to read ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One Tree Hill has never been shy about reinventing itself & season five takes place four years after the main characters graduated from high school at the end of season four Lucas Scott is working on his second novel after the success of his first work " An Unkindness of Ravens" assisted by his editor Lindsey Along with his old friend Skills Lucas also coaches his former high school basketball team & hopes to take them to another championship Peyton is torn between her growing career in the Los Angeles music field & her continuing feelings for Lucas back in Tree Hill Brooke has found some success as a fashion designer but at a cost to her personal life Nathan & Haley struggle with the roller coaster that is Nathan&s career as they raise their young son James Mouth meanwhile finds it hard going in the cut-throat world of television broadcasting Information Aspect Ratio 1851 Run time Approx. 728 mins Languages English Subtitle English Finnish Norwegian Swedish Danish Dutch ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) & Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) are two half-brothers whose lives are brought together on the basketball court when they both end up playing for the same team in high school The previously estranged twosome struggle to prove who is the better player on the court & also face personal turmoil most notably in the shape of Nathan&s girlfriend Peyton Sawyer (Hilarie Burton) whom they both lust after The parental struggle that split the boy&s upbringings also plays a major part in ONE TREE HILL with Nathan&s father Dan (Paul Johansson) & Lucas& mother Karen (Moira Kelly) bringing many unneeded complications into Lucas & Nathan&s lives The first season is included here in its entirety Special Features Audio commentaries on 3 episodes from members of the cast & crew Unaired scenes with introductions (48 mins) An exclusive unaired music performance from Gavin De Graw with introduction by the show&s creators& Creating One Tree Hill
- A Winning Team& a behind the scenes retrospective with the cast & crew& One Tree Hill Diaries& a home movie look at daily production on location in Wilmington North Carolina Actors Barry Corbin Bethany Joy Lenz Chad Michael Murray Craig Sheffer Hilarie Burton James Lafferty Moira Kelly Paul Johansson Sophia Bush Bryan Greenberg Barbara Alyn Woods Sam Horrigan Emmanuelle Vaugier & Thomas Ian Griffith Director Bryan Gordon Certificate 12 years & over Year 2003-2004 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English ; Dutch ; Swedish ; Arabic ; Hebrew ; Norwegian Duration 16 hours & 10 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It&s the final season of One Tree Hill Goodbye Tree Hill High Graduation nears & with its approach comes the realisation that for students & parents alike life is changing forever There are new loves to nurture old scores still to settle The longtime triangle of Lucas Peyton & Brooke finally comes down to two The memory of Keith
- or is it his spirit?
- inspires Lucas & Nathan & haunts Dan Peyton is terrorised by a stalker Two expectant mothers are about to raise Tree Hill&s population stats Lucas begins to wonder what really happened the terrifying day Keith died & the Ravens
- led by Coach Whitey Durham
- have one last chance for hoops glory & the state championship Live for now Make way for what&s to come Hello future Information Aspect Ratio 1851 Run time Approx. 764 mins Languages English Subtitles English Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish



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