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Petula has avoided friendship & happiness ever since tragedy struck her family & took her beloved younger sister Maxine Worse Petula blames herself If only she'd kept an eye on her sister if only she'd sewn the button Maxine choked on better if only Now her anxiety is getting out of control she is forced to attend the world's most hopeless art therapy class But one day in walks the Bionic Man a charming amazingly tall newcomer called Jacob who is also an amputee Petula's ready to freeze him out just like she did with her former best friend but when she's paired with Jacob for a class project there's no denying they have brilliant ideas together
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Emphasizing practical understanding over the technicalities of specific algorithms this elegant textbook is an accessible introduction to the field of optimization focusing on powerful & reliable convex optimization techniques Students & practitioners will learn how to recognize simplify model & solve optimization problems
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With this practical book intermediate to advanced Java technologists working with complex technology stacks will learn how to tune Java applications for performance using a quantitative verifiable approach 600 pages Evans Benjamin J ...

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