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Ground Zero collects a range of classic black-and-white comic strip tales featuring four different Doctors, all digitally remastered! All stories have been taken from the official Doctor Who Magazine, now in its 40th year of publication!

When the Tomorrow People celebrate Adam''s birthday on their Pacific island, none of them suspect that the toxic roots of his family tree are about to be unearthed. Can Adam, Megabyte and Ami stop one dotty old lady unravelling everything they have achieved? And how will this bring other Tomorrow People, ones they didn''t even know existed (like John, Andrew and Hsui Tai), into a battle for Ami''s mind, Megabyte''s heart and Adam''s very soul? This Tomorrow People novella from Chinbeard and Oak Tree Books is the final book of series one, with series two already having been announced.

Novelizations of all the stories of the first season and the first story of the second season of the television program Blakes 7, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1978 and 1979.

Novelizations of all the stories of the first season and the first story of the second season of the television program Blakes 7, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1978 and 1979.

This dissertation has as its premise a critical re-evaluation and rehabilitation of sixteenth-century Italian tragedy, which has been largely ignored in both Anglophone and Italian scholarship. The starting point of my re-evaluation is the reception and innovation of the theoretical framework of tragedy itself found in two vital sources: Aristotle''s Poetics and Horace''s Ars Poetica. My argument is that the compositional process itself plays as important a role on the theorization of the tragic and the rebirth of the genre as does the ideological message contained within each tragedy. The problematics of genre definition render it difficult to satisfactorily and unitarily codify tragedy and its role in society. Trissino, Giraldi Cinzio, Speroni, and Tasso all conclude quite differently the role of the poet and the genre itself; and this project analyzes those differences to arrive at a fuller understanding of the historical icastity and poetic lyricism in the Cinquecento. Chapter one discusses Trissino''s Sofonisba, the first neoclassical tragedy, and his theorization of a new tragic style rooted in the Aristotelian theoretical framework. Trissino''s tragedy, taking a historical subject as its matter, is predicated upon representing a peaceful utopia between the political forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope. In Chapter two, I discuss Giraldi Cinzio''s Orbecche which takes one of Giraldi Cinzio''s own novella as his source material. I trace how Giraldi Cinzio diverges from Trissino''s theoretical framework by embracing Horace''s Ars Poetica. The Orbecche represents a major turning point from the few tragedies which follow Trissino''s because it seeks to locate the ideological message in the horrific shock of its representation. Chapter three examines Speroni''s Canace and the lyric innovations that he adds to the development of tragic composition. Speroni is less engaged theoretically with Aristotle or Horace, and he attempts to situate the tragic sentiment in its melic representation. The final chapter examines the culmination of the tragic form in the sixteenth-century, Tasso''s Re Torrismondo. Tasso composes the Re Torrismondo as a psychologized reflection of the inner turmoil of the soul as he delimits the function of utility and privileges that of pleasure.

Recent advances in data gathering through checkout scanners have produced vast amounts of data on the actual behavior of consumers in the marketplace, creating new opportunities for managers and researchers to under stand competition and consumers'' response to the marketing mix. Previous analyses of this data in the literature have focused either at the household (micro) or store (macro) level. The authors propose a method of enriching the analysis of competitive behavior by combining the in-depth consumer in formation obtained from a micro-level household scanner panel with the comprehensive market data supplied by a macro-level retail-tracking panel. The approach offers the manager detailed information about consumers (e.g., identification of consumer segments in terms of brand preferences and socioeconomic characteristics) along with strategic diagnostics of the product market (e.g., the sensitivity of the market to price promotions, impact of a brand''s strategy on competitors, vulnerability of the brand to competitive actions).

Product recommendation models are key tools in customer relationship management (CRM). This study develops a product recommendation model based upon the principle that customer preference similarity stemming from prior response behavior is a key element in predicting current product purchase. The proposed recommendation model is dependent upon two complementary methodologies: joint space mapping (placing customers and products on the same psychological map) and spatial choice modeling (allowing observed choices to be correlated across customers). Using a joint space map based upon past purchase behavior, a predictive model is calibrated in which the probability of product purchase depends upon the customer''s relative distance to other customers on the map. An empirical study demonstrates that the proposed approach provides excellent forecasts relative to benchmark models for a customer database provided by an insurance firm.