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Sekta diabła. Powieść niesamowita
Stanisław Antoni Wotowski
Sekta diabła: Wstrząsająca historia o morderstwach, tajemnicach i zakazanej miłości. Przedwojenną Warszawą wstrząsa fala tajemniczych samobójstw młodych, bogatych kobiet. Obok ciał ofiar znajdują się dziwne notatki i kartki z narysowanym znakiem czarnego trójkąta. Inżynier Jan Grodecki, dowiadując się o tych makabrycznych zgonach z gazety, nie spodziewa się, że wkrótce sam stanie się częścią mrocznej układanki. Pewnego popołudnia Jan odwiedza swoją narzeczoną, piękną Murę. Relacja między nimi jest skomplikowana, a ślub odkładany w nieskończoność. Podczas wizyty Jan znajduje w pokoju Mury kartkę z czarnym trójkątem, tym samym symbolem, który widział w gazecie. Wstrząśnięty zadaje pannie szereg pytań, ale Mura zbywa go i wyraźnie chce zakończyć spotkanie. Intryga gęstnieje, gdy Jan odkrywa kolejne sekrety Mury i jej rodziny. Okazuje się, że dziewczyna jest powiązana z sektą czcicieli diabła, a tajemnicze samobójstwa to tylko część mrocznego planu. Zdeterminowany, by odkryć prawdę i uratować Murę, Jan rozpoczyna niebezpieczną grę z siłami zła. "Sekta diabła" to trzymająca w napięciu powieść niesamowita, która miesza elementy kryminału, horroru i romansu. Autor, Stanisław Antoni Wotowski, mistrzowsko buduje atmosferę grozy i tajemnicy, prowadząc czytelnika przez mroczne zakamarki przedwojennej Warszawy. Wotowski, znany pisarz i prywatny detektyw, czerpał inspirację ze swojego bogatego doświadczenia. W swoich powieściach łączył elementy kryminału, romansu i okultyzmu, tworząc niepowtarzalny klimat. "Sekta diabła" to książka dla wszystkich miłośników wciągających historii, gdzie prawda skrywa się za fasadą pozorów, a zło czyha tuż za rogiem. Zamów już dziś i zanurz się w świecie mrocznych tajemnic i zakazanej miłości!
Sektor kolejowy w polityce transportowej Unii Europejskiej
Juliusz Engelhard
Celem podstawowym książki jest prezentacja ewolucji modelu funkcjonowania unijnego sektora kolejowego od 1991 r. oraz ukazanie głównych cech i zasad tego modelu według stanu na koniec roku 2016. Książka jest skierowana do bardzo szerokiego spektrum odbiorców. Mogą nimi być pracownicy sektora kolejowego – zarządcy infrastruktury kolejowej, przewoźnicy kolejowi, spedytorzy, a w szczególności kadra menedżerska tych przedsiębiorstw. Odrębną grupę stanowią pracownicy instytucji rządowych i samorządowych, kreujący i realizujący politykę transportową, a także pracownicy naukowi zajmujący się zagadnieniami polityki społeczno-gospodarczej, w tym transportowej. Trzecią, nie mniej ważną grupą czytelników są studenci wyższych uczelni, zwłaszcza kierunków transportowych i logistycznych.
Sektor turystyczny w Polsce. Ocena -uwarunkowania - perspektywy
Agnieszka Stanimir, Elżbieta Roszko-Wójtowicz
Prezentowana monografia ma na celu szczegółową ocenę dynamiki rozwoju sektora turystycznego w Polsce, osadzoną w kontekście globalnym i europejskim. Kluczowe obszary badawcze obejmują aspekty ekonomiczne, społeczne i kulturowe, z uwzględnieniem wpływu globalnych kryzysów, takich jak pandemia COVID-19. W książce podejmowany jest również problem sezonowości oraz umiędzynarodowienia sektora turystycznego, ze wskazaniem na konieczność dostosowania oferty do zmieniających się oczekiwań turystów i wprowadzania innowacyjnych rozwiązań technologicznych. Podkreślono istotność turystyki w realizacji celów zrównoważonego rozwoju, szczególnie w obliczu współczesnych wyzwań, takich jak zmiany klimatyczne i starzenie się społeczeństwa. W pracy zastosowano kompleksowe podejście badawcze, wykorzystując dane z instytucji międzynarodowych, takich jak UNWTO, WTTC, OECD oraz Eurostat. Analiza prowadzona była z wykorzystaniem wskaźników rozwoju funkcji turystycznej, m.in.: Baretje'a-Deferta, Charvata i Schneidera. Z metod wielowymiarowej analizy statystycznej wykorzystano klasyfikację hierarchiczną, analizę koszykową, a także metodę TOPSIS, której wyniki umożliwiły wyznaczenie taksonomicznego miernika rozwoju. Wyniki pracy dostarczają rekomendacji dla decydentów i praktyków sektora turystycznego, obejmujących rozwój zrównoważonej turystyki, wspieranie regionalnych inicjatyw turystycznych oraz adaptację do globalnych wyzwań.
Selected Problems of Face Recognition and Decision-Making Theory
Paweł Kaczmarek
Rozpoznawanie twarzy jest jednym z najtrudniejszych problemów badawczych. Głównymi powodami są jego szerokie zastosowania, takie jak osoby zaginione lub identyfikacja karna, kontrola dostępu, prawo jazdy, dowód osobisty, weryfikacja karty lub paszportu i wiele innych. Inne przyczyny wzrostu zainteresowania technikami rozpoznawania twarzy to ogromna moc obliczeniowa.
Zane Grey
Ambers Mirage (1929, For thirty years old, Jim has spent the search for the mythical Ambers Mirage without finding him. Tsu is a sad story about how his young teammate left the house, loved a woman and went to look for a bright rock over a source that is full of gold. But perhaps this is a mirage...)Bernardos Revenge (An exciting story of love and the interaction of man with nature in the jungle, namely tigers.) (1912)California Red (1926, For years Ben Ide had chased and tried to capture the great stallion, California Red, probably the noblest of all the fifteen thousand horses who roamed the northern California plains. But he had always been unsuccessful. Now his chance had come--and he had to make the devils bargain with a band of cattle rustlers in order to realize his greatest ambition.)The Camp Robber (1928, An interesting cowboy story about the mysterious robber of the camp who kidnaps strange things.)Death Valley (1920, Of the five hundred and fifty-seven thousand square miles of desert land in the Southwest, Death Valley is the lowest below sea level, the most arid and desolate. It derives its felicitous name from the earliest days of the gold strike in California, when a caravan of Mormons, numbering about seventy, struck out from Salt Lake, to cross the Mojave Desert and make a short cut to the gold fields. All but two of these prospectors perished in the deep, iron-walled, ghastly sinkholes, which from that time became known as Death Valley.)Don: The Story of a Lion Dog (1925, This essay tells about the love of animals to Zane Gray and his understanding of how much a person can know the animal and how an animal can get closer to a person. Zane Gray met Don when she first went to the Grand Canyon. He met many people on this trip, which turned into the heroes of his novels.)The Great Slave (1920, Siena young leader of the disappearing tribe. White invaders take them into slavery, but give a gun, thanks to this miracle of the fiery stick Sienna becomes famous among the tribes and, according to the prophecy, must become a great leader.)Lightning (1910, Lee and Cuth Stewart were tall, lean Mormons, as bronzed as desert Navajos, cool, silent, gray-eyed, still-faced. Both wore crude homespun garments much the worse for wear; boots that long before had given the best in them; laced leather wristbands thin and shiny from contact with lassoes; and old gray slouch hats that would have disgraced cowboys.)Lure of the River (1923, Iquitos was a magnet for wanderers and a safe hiding place for men who must turn their faces from civilization. Rubber drew adventurers and criminals to this Peruvian frontier town as gold lured them to the Klondike. Monty Prices Nightingale (1924, Monty Price had its secret. Several times each year he scored a nicotyled salary and disappeared for several months. Then, when returning, nobody knew where he was all this time and what he was doing. But when the forest fire happened, he discovered courage in his soul and this event changed his life forever.)Nonnezoshe, the Rainbow Bridge (1915, The book describes the journey to Nonnezoshe, the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world. This is the only such special place Ive ever visited, but Im not sure if I could find it myself without a guide again.)The Ranger (1929, In this book, the narrative is from the first person of the American Marshal Marshal, who helps the legendary Texas Ranger Texas Hold Wall to release Fairfield from the criminals.)
Talbot Mundy
The Soul Of A Regiment(Adventure, February 1912) SO long as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a regiment can never die; they can recruit it again around that one man, and the regiment will continue on its road to future glory with the same old traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave men of its forbears. So although the colors are not exactly the soul of a regiment, they are the concrete embodiment of it, and are even more sacred than the person of a reigning sovereign.The Pillar Of Light(Everbodys Magazine, Dec 1912)No birds twittered. There was nothing, either animal or human, amid the awful desolation of the Twelve Apostles, that seemed glad to greet the dawn. Aloes were the only thing that grew there, unless you count the sickly-looking patch of vegetables, some twenty feet by twenty, that succeeding reliefs of sergeants had coaxed on to the bald, hot hideous rock to make them homesick.Sam Bagg Of The Gabriel Group(The Saturday Evening Post, Mar 11, 1916)He was an even-tempered man, but it was not considered wise to approach him when he stood in that place, in just that attitude; and Luther, the imported half-breed missionary, hid himself among the plantains that formed the outer fringe of Baggs little garden, round the thatched bungalow.The Real Red Root(The Crescent, Jun 1919)BY birth and speech Dan Ivan is United States American, descended probably from Russian exiles, although he denies it and weaves theories to prove another derivation of his name. I met him first six thousand feet above sea level, where the lions were hungry on account of frosty nights and water was scarce; and hearing his voice before he came in view I thought at first it was a womans, for it was suggestive of a song about ideals.The Bell On Hell Shoal(The Passing Show, Jul 15, 1933)JOE MOLYNEUX told this story. We were sprawling on my rug on a Florida beach, staring at Hell Shoal, where the big new bell-buoy swam. The gulls and terns were waiting for the tide, half asleep on the abandoned hulk of Sharpes million-dollar yacht.The Avenger(This Week, May 16, 1937)"THERES only one thing worse than corruption when it comes to enforcing the law, and thats sentiment, said Quinn. He glanced through my library window at the distant row of eucalyptus. If I wasnt your friend, Id have raided that queer group at the end of your garden long before this. Theyre all tramps. Now I have a warrant for the one they call Sirdarhis right name is Duleep Singh. What makes you think hell be here tonight? Companions In Arms(Adventure, Nov 1937)John Lawrence Burnham joined the regiment in Flanders, nineteen, green from an English public school and Woolwich, rushed through special courses for the war. He had been born in Rajputana. The first words he had ever learned to speak were Rajasthani. His father, who had commanded the regiment, was killed near Dargai, and the only son, aged seven, went to England with his mother, to be schooled and, if he pleased, to forget and to be forgotten. He remembered. He used Rajasthani in his dreams, that were all of turbaned, bearded horsemen, the smell of harness, and the thunder of lance-shod squadrons knee-to-knee.Making 10,000(McClures Magazine, April 1913)"Said hed no time for hereditary boneheadsdashed if I know what a bonehead is, exactly, but Ill bet its something rudeand that he wouldnt let his daughter marry one on any terms! Said there were boneheads enough in the States, without coming across the water to find one! He added a lot of tommy-nonsense about the idea of an aristocracy being all wrong anyhow. So I asked him whether hed have liked me any better if Id been a brick-layer! The Lady And The Lord(The All-Story Magazine, Jun 1911)An actress who is not exactly in the first flight is bound to be more or less of a nomad; so there was nothing particularly astonishing in not hearing from Mrs. Crothers for several months. True, she might have written; but if she were ever to become famous, her autograph would be valuable for its very rarity, for she seldom wrote to anyone.Kitty Burns Her Fingers (The All-Story Magazine, Jul 1911)KITTY CROTHERS perennially hard up working at her profession for a few months, doing one-night stands all over the country, and returning to spend her hard-earned savings along Broadway we all of us knew and understood; but Kitty Crothers with money was something to make the gods on Olympus sit up and take notice.The Hermit And The Tiger(American Cavalcade, Nov 1937)It was many months before I saw a tiger, in full moonlight, in the graveyard at Mount Abu in Rajputana, where the legends on more than half the tombstones read from wounds inflicted by a tiger. He was insolent, arrogant, splendid, and I think he knew I watched him. At intervals he stood snarling and muttering as if he sneered at the names on the tombs of the men who had died of wounds from his ancestors fangs. It was a weird experience. I had no rifle. I could only watch.Mystic India Speaks(True Mystic Science, Dec 1938)MANY years ago, in Rajputana, the writer climbed several thousand feet above sea level for a moonlight view of an historic landscape. He was, in those days, an opinionated young Englishman, rather recently from public school, educated in the traditional white mans burden theory of empire and in the Church of England attitude toward religion. After months of wandering in India, it was only just beginning to dawn on his not very observant, nor particularly critical, but rather idly curious mind, that virtue is neither racial, national, nor even international, but universal; and that possibly lots of Western theories are wrong.
Selected Topics in Contemporary Mathematical Modeling 2021
Andrzej Grzybowski
Every year since 2009 the Institute of Mathematics of the Czestochowa University of Technology in cooperation with the Czestochowa Branch of Polish Mathematical Society has been organizing successive conferences on Mathematical Modeling in Physics and Engineering. The topics of the conferences cover various aspects of mathematical modeling and the usage of computer methods in modern problems emerging in both these great fields of science and technology. Every time the conference participants represented a prominent group of recognized scientists as well as young researchers and Ph.D. students from domestic and foreign universities. Last year due to the extraordinary situation related to the Covid-19 pandemic this series stopped. However, thanks to the mutual contacts between the participants of the previous conference events, the idea of publishing a monograph devoted to present-day advances in mathematical modeling aroused. As a result, several researchers from the Czestochowa University of Technology were asked to prepare a chapter summarizing their recent results and indicating contemporary mathematical modeling trends as seen from their perspective. Throughout the centuries mathematical modeling helps scientists understand the mechanisms and dynamics underlying various physical and engineering phenomena. The range of possible problems within this area is immense as contemporary technology has numerous mathematical challenges. This book on Selected Topics in Contemporary Mathematical Modeling focuses on the improvements of known modeling approaches as well as some novel methods and concepts. It presents both formal-theoretical results and their new applications in various engineering areas. This volume comprises ten chapters that reflect the main thrust of research conducted in the Czestochowa University of Technology in this field and present the current frontiers of several important areas of applied mathematics. I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the authors of the chapters included in this monograph for their very interesting contributions. Thanks to their help and excellent cooperation it was possible to provide an overview of such a broad range of topics in the great art of expressing complex real-world problems in the shape of tractable mathematical formulations, and thus pose the problems simply, precisely, and unambiguously
Jonathan Kellerman
Mroczny thriller autora bestsellerów z listy New York Times! Kim jest i co kieruje postępowaniem seryjnego mordercy, którego ofiarami są bezbronne i doświadczone cierpieniem niepełnosprawne dzieci? Alex Delaware wspólnie z detektywem Milo Sturgisem rozpoczyna prywatne dochodzenie w sprawie tajemniczego morderstwa podczas wycieczki szkolnej. Podobno w rezerwacie przyrody nieopodal Los Angeles ktoś bestialsko odebrał życie upośledzonej 15-latce, córce izraelskiego dyplomaty... Dr Alex szybko dochodzi do wniosku, że śmierć niepełnosprawnej Irin to dopiero początek serii absurdalnych morderstw na tle eugenicznym. Przed tobą wciągająca opowieść o obsesyjnym pragnieniu zabijania w imię pseudonaukowych teorii o ograniczeniu reprodukcji słabych osobników i realizacji programu czystości rasowej. Zdaniem krytyków literackich jest to najbardziej prowokacyjna i niepokojąca powieść Kellermana, określanego mianem ,,króla współczesnych kryminałów". Oto dwunasty tom wstrząsającej serii o zagadkach kryminalnych Alexa Delawarea, można go uznać za oddzielną historię lub czytać bez zachowania kolejności cyklu. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, Copyright 1989 by Jonathan Kellerman