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Discover the true meaning of fear with these classic horror stories The Essential Tales of HP Lovecraft collects one of the author's most popular novellas At the Mountain of Madness & six of his most famous short stories including The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Out of Time The Dunwich Horror The Colour of Space The Shadow Over Innsmouth & The Whisperer in the Darkness These hair-raising tales have inspired generations of authors & filmmakers including Stephen King Alan Moore Guillermo del Toro & Neil Gaiman This elegantly designed clothbound edition features an elastic closure & a new introduction The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the essential works of classic authors from around the world in stunning editions to be collected & enjoyed ...

Alan Turing pioneer of computing & WWII codebreaker is one of the most important & influential thinkers of the twentieth century In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad non-specialist readership They make fascinating reading both in their own right & for their historic significance contemporary computational theory cognitive science artificial intelligence & artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work which is also rich in philosophical & logical insight An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background & guides the reader through the selection About Alan Turing Alan Turing FRS OBE (1912-1954) studied mathematics at King's College Cambridge He was elected a Fellow of King's in March 1935 at the age of only 22 In the same year he invented the abstract computing machines
- now known simply as Turing machines
- on which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modelled During 1936-1938 Turing continued his studies now at Princeton University He completed a Ph D in mathematical logic analysing the notion of 'intuition' in mathematics & introducing the idea of oracular computation now fundamental in mathematical recursion theory An 'oracle' is an abstract device able to solve mathematical problems too difficult for the universal Turing machine In the summer of 1938 Turing returned to his Fellowship at King's When WWII started in 1939 he joined the wartime headquarters of the Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park Buckinghamshire Building on earlier work by Polish cryptanalysts Turing contributed crucially to the design of electro-mechanical machines ('bombes') used to decipher Enigma the code by means of which the German armed forces sought to protect their radio communications Turing's work on the version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as ' Fish' Based on binary teleprinter code Fish was used during the latter part of the war in preference to morse-based Enigma for the encryption of high-level signals for example messages from Hitler & other members of the German High Command It is estimated that the work of GC&CS shortened the war in Europe by at least two years Turing received the Order of the British Empire for the part he played In 1945 the war over Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London his brief to design & develop an electronic computer
- a concrete form of the universal Turing machine Turing's report setting out his design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first relatively complete

Specification of an electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer Delays beyond Turing's control resulted in NPL's losing the race to build the world's first working electronic stored-program digital computer
- an honour that went to the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University in June 1948 Discouraged by the delays at NPL Turing took up the Deputy Directorship of the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory in that year Turing was a founding father of modern cognitive science & a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine theorising that the cortex at birth is an 'unorganised machine' which through 'training' becomes organised 'into a universal machine or something like it' He also pioneered Artificial Intelligence Turing spent the rest of his short career at Manchester University being appointed to a specially created Readership in the Theory of Computing in May 1953 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in March 1951 (a high honour)





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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Four classic war films In ' The Great Escape' (1963) a collection of hardened Allied prisoners are kept in an 'escape-proof' German camp during World War Two Led by the ' Big X' (Richard Attenborough) the men formulate a plan for a mass breakout digging three tunnels Tom Dick & Harry The team behind the escape

Includes:: a near-blind forger of passports (Donald Pleasence) a claustrophobic tunnel-digger (Charles Bronson) & the independent American ' Cooler King' (Steve Mc Queen) With men like that on their side how can they fail? Guy Hamilton's ' Battle of Britain' (1969) looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940 Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevres the Luftwaffe despite a numerical disadvantage & those few to whom so many owed so much are portrayed by an all-star cast including Michael Caine Kenneth More & Ralph Richardson Despite its pro-British slant the authenticity of the film's impressive flying sequences was guaranteed by the technical advice of Adolf Galland one of the Nazi's most celebrated World War 2 pilots 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) is Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault Dirk Bogarde James Caan Robert Redford & Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds
- foul weather bad luck negligence on the part of intelligence officers
- to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany Gene Hackman Michael Caine & Anthony Hopkins co-star In ' The Bridge at Remagen' (1969) it is March 1945 & the war in Europe is nearly at an end German troops led by Major Kreuger (Robert Vaughn) are ordered to blow up the only bridge left leading into the Rhineland to prevent entry by the allies Meanwhile American US Lieutenant Hartman (George Segal) & his platoon close in on the bridge hoping to put a swift end to the bloody combat Actors Steve Mc Queen James Garner Donald Pleasence David Mc Callum James Coburn Directors Richard Attenborough John Sturges Guy Hamilton John Guillermin Writers James Clavell WR Burnett James Kennaway Wilfred Greatorex William Goldman Producers John Sturges Harry Saltzman Benjamin Fisz Joseph E Levine Richard P Levine Format Box set PALSubtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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'those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means' Mahatma Gandhi was a profound & original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century A religious & social reformer he became a notable leader in the Indian nationalist movement made famous for his advocacy of non-violent civil resistance His many & varied writings are essentially responses to the specific challenges he faced & they show his maturing ideas & political will as well as his spirituality & humanity over several decades This new selection demonstrates how his thinking was truly radical dealing with problems from the roots upwards in the lives of individuals of societies & of political structures It underlines the supreme importance of non-violence & Gandhi's unique & unrealized vision of a new India after the departure of the British ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

The definitive guide to quantifying risk vs return--fully updated to reveal the newest most effective innovations in financial risk management since the 2008 financial crisis Written for risk professionals & non-risk professionals alike this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure It provides the latest methods for Measuring & transferring credit risk Increasing risk-management transparency Implementing an organization-wide Enterprise risk Management (ERM) approach Michel Crouhy is head of research & development at NATIXIS & the founder & president of the NATIXIS Foundation for Quantitative Research Dan Galai is the Abe Gray Professor of Finance & Business Administration at the School of Business Administration the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Robert Mark is the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond Risk which provides corporate governance risk management consulting risk software tools & transaction services ...

Framed in a student-friendly writing style this text presents the essentials of statistics with an applied approach It encourages skill development for statistical literacy emphasizing computational competence & the ability to read social science literature with greater comprehension 480 pages Healey Joseph F ...

Vedic astrology arises out of ancient cosmology & is intimately linked to spiritual practices This comprehensive guide demystifies many of the ancient techniques introducing the deeper spirituality of the tradition to the West ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROverall Book of the Year & Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017 (Nibbies) Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction The Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award London 1893 When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness Along with her son Francis
- a curious obsessive boy
- she leaves town for Essex in the hope that fresh air & open space will provide refuge On arrival rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent once said to roam the marshes claiming lives has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter Cora a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for superstition is enthralled convinced that what the local people think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species As she sets out on its trail she is introduced to William Ransome Aldwinter's vicar who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours but thinks they are a distraction from true faith As he tries to calm his parishioners Will & Cora strike up an intense relationship & although they agree on absolutely nothing they find themselves at once drawn together & torn apart affecting each other in ways that surprise them both The Essex Serpent is a celebration of love & the many different shapes it can take

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THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER' Fantastic timely eye-opening' Armando Iannucci New Statesman Books of the Year' Captures a collective sense of anger & awakening' Matt Haig Observer Books of the Year Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power & reap huge profits in the process In exposing this shadowy & complex system that dominates our lives Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms boardrooms & trading rooms of Fleet Street & the City Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds & the vested interests that bind them together Jones shows how in claiming to work on our behalf the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite In fact they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today
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