The fourth edition of this best-selling guide to Prolog & Artificial Intelligence has been updated to include key developments in the field while retaining its lucid approach to these topics. New & extended topics include Constraint Logic Programming abductive reasoning & partial order planning. Divided into two parts the first part of the book introduces the programming language Prolog while the second part teaches Artificial Intelligence using Prolog as a tool for the implementation of AI techniques. This textbook is meant to teach Prolog as a practical programming tool & so it concentrates on the art of using the basic mechanisms of Prolog to solve interesting problems. The fourth edition has been fully revised & extended to provide an even greater range of applications making it a self-contained guide to Prolog AI or AI Programming for students & professional programmers. ...

Stephenie Meyer & Meg Cabot head up this collection of 5 thrilling paranormal stories which take bad prom nights to a whole new level. Imagine discovering youre dancing with the Grim Reaper
- & he isnt there to tell you how hot you look. Worried that your Prom Night is gonna bite? In this thrilling collection bestselling authors Stephenie Meyer & Meg Cabot take bad prom nights to a whole new level
- a paranormally bad level! Clothes disasters & falling over your own two feet are nothing compared with discovering youre dancing with the Grim Reaper
- & he isnt there to tell you how hot you look... From vampire exterminations to angels fighting demons these 5 stories are more entertaining than any really bad DJ spinning his stuff. No corsage or limo necessary
- just good scary sexy fun.



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Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien" " Blade Runner") returns to the genre he helped define creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. Produced with the full co-operation of the filmmakers this lavish book showcasing stunning production design art & behind the scenes photos will be the only tie-in publishing to this eagerly awaited film." ...

A heart-wrenching & powerful story of two young sisters caught up in an underworld of corruption & deceit from popular saga author Benita Brown. When her father a journalist is murdered Marion Brookfield vows to care for her younger sister Annette. The girls believe they have found a refuge when charming businessman Victor Bateman proposes to Marion & they move into his luxurious home. But Marions friend Daniel Brady is conducting his own investigation into Henry Brookfields death. He learns the journalist was closing in on the head of a child prostitution racket when he was killed. & now his precious daughters may not be so safe after all... ...

Lesley Pearse Number 1 bestselling author of Stolen & Belle" returns with the phenomenal novel " The Promise". Heartbreaking enduring & masterfully told " The Promise" will take you on a breathtaking journey into the battlefields of the First World War. War threatens to take all she has loved & lived for... On the outbreak of war Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists & heads for the deadly trenches of northern France. But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help battlefield wounded Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. There a tragic accident brings her face to face with Etienne
- a man from her past she's never quite forgotten. Torn between forbidden passion loyalty & love Belle is caught in an impossible situation. Will she succumb to the dark forces of this most brutal of wars? Or will fate intervene & finally lead her to lasting happiness? " The Promise" vividly describes life behind the front line & the tragic choices that war forces people to make. " Pearse will pull your heartstrings". (" Sun"). " Characters it is impossible not to care about". (" Daily Mail"). " An addictive tear-jerker with characters you'll adore laugh with & cry for". (" Bella"). " Full of love passion & heartbreak". (" Best"). " Glorious heartwarming". (" Woman & Home"). Lesley Pearse's fourteen most recent books including " Belle" " Stolen" " Gypsy" " Faith" " Hope" "A Lesser Evil" " Secrets" " Remember Me" " Till We Meet Again" " Father Unknown" " Trust Me" " Never Look Back" " Charlie & Rosie" are huge bestsellers & available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol & has three daughters & two grandchildren. Find Lesley on Twitter @ Lesley Pearse or find out more on her website."
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They promised never to say goodbye.. . For Michael & Nancy the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end bringing the hardest test of their love for each other. He was the handsome heir to the mighty Hillyard business empire. She was just twenty-one beautiful
- & an orphan from nowhere. One fateful day after graduation they sealed a bond for years to come
- a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy doubt & despair.. .

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San Francisco 1904. Georgia Briscoe a young woman from a good family is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him but when the couple are married it soon transpires that Drews charm is only skin-deep & that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women including Georgias maid Maura & jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia & Maura fall pregnant both women decide to escape to be with the men they love providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew
- & much more besides. London 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed Prudence claims that Chrissies mother Vanessa & her late father Aaran are brother & sister. As the truth unfurls the passion emotion & astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed & three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
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When a handsome man literally falls at her feet while she's walking through a moonlit convent courtyard Helena knows he must be there for a scandalous liaison. Yet she keeps his presence a secret from the questioning nuns
- & for her silence the stranger rewards her with an enticing unforgettable kiss. What Helena doesn't know was that her wild Englishman is Sebastian Cynster Duke of St. Ives. Seven years later Sebastian spies Helena from across a crowded ballroom. This heiress is dazzling London society with her wit & beauty tantalising all the eligible men with the prospect of taking her hand in marriage. But Helena is not looking for just any husb&. She wants an equal a challenge
- someone who can live up to the promise of that delicious never-forgotten kiss.

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The 2am phone call is from a young frightened lost girl who has called the one adult who had promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble: Myron Bolitar. But his help proves not to be enough. He picks her up from a cold street corner &
- against his better judgment
- is persuaded to drop her at an unknown address. This is a mistake that he lives to regret for Aimee Biels final wave from a darkened porch turns out to be the last time anyone will see her... Driven by guilt & the desperation of her family Myron decides to break his vow of six years & get involved in the search. But his past will not be buried so easily...and Myron must decide once & for all what he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of rescuing both Aimee & himself.

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Whenever an august figure departs the world of cricket The Daily Telegraph records a decorous tribute. There will certainly be an obituary
- in days of yore penned by the doyen of cricket writers E.W. Swanton in recent times unafraid to be a lot more whimsical waspish & even extremely funny. There will often be an appreciation by one of the paper's stable of cricket correspondents such as Derek Pringle Michael Henderson or Scyld Berry most likely drawing on their memories of having played against the subject or watched his deeds. & sometimes a hero's demise will prompt a heartfelt tribute from someone whose only qualification as an elegist is their own eloquence as John Major displays on Denis Compton & Michael Parkinson on Keith Miller. & those cricket lives deemed worthy of memorialising need not be illustrious Test careers though all the great names from Bradman to Bedser Cowdrey to D' Oliviera are here. They can also be quixotic county mavericks like ' Bomber' Wells self-effacing professionals like Tom Cartwright & Derek Shackleton or charismatic one-offs like Colin Milburn or the Nawab of Pataudi. They may not even be cricketers but rather much-loved commentators & broadcasters like Brian Johnston & Christopher Martin-Jenkins players-turned-umpires like David Shepherd & Bill Alley or like the Bishop of Liverpool who previously opened for Sussex & England have made their name equally elsewhere. Their achievements are often hymned by their peers
- Mark Nicholas on his Hampshire team-mate Malcolm Marshall Tony Lewis on John Arlott Colin Croft on Alf Valentine & Simon Hughes on facing the fearsome Sylvester Clarke. Here then are more than eighty greats of the game
- Australians & South Africans alongside Somerset yeomen & Yorkshire's finest. For any cricket lover this little book is an endlessly browsable testament to the sheer richness & variety of the cricketing life.


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