Best Selling Books by Michael Allen

This anthology was created to celebrate the career of the distinguished critic Michael Allen of Queen''s University Belfast. It includes brand new poems by some of Allen''s past students-Heaney, Muldoon, McGuckian, Carson, and Longley-a reminiscence

Flipping is used to obtain the triangulation of the points inserted so far, and the history of the flips is used to locate the position of the next point. We develop a data structure which stores both the current triangulation and the history of flips. This data structure is amodification of the edge-facet data structure. We also describe an extension to a technique for simulating general position, called Simulation of Simplicity, which allows points at infinity to be handled easily. Finally, we give statistics on the performance of the two algorithms."

Designed for undergraduate/graduate-level parallel programming courses. This nontheoretical text - which is linked to real parallel programming software - covers the techniques of parallel programming in a practical manner that enables students to write and evaluate their parallel programs

Special Committees: Law and Practice provides attorneys with a sound working knowledge of the use, advantages, and equally important, the disadvantages of using a special committee to resolve business conflicts.

Harry is a divorced man who has not been able to see his disabled daughter Lisa since she was five years old. But Harry still loves Lisa more than anyone else in the world. When he is offered the chance to win a million pounds for her, by taking part in a reality TV show, he immediately accepts.

Two unlikely partners join forces to solve a murder disguised as suicide and catch a killer ready to strike again. Gold Coast psychiatrist Jack Caleb is wealthy, cultured, and gay. When one of his clients is found dead in a locked apartment--apparently from a self-inflicted wound-- burned-out Chicago detective John Thinnes doesn''t believe it was suicide. And Caleb is inclined to agree. But Thinnes regards a shrink who makes house calls suspicious and starts his murder investigation with the doctor himself. An attack on Caleb that''s made to look like an accidental drug overdose starts to change the detective''s mind. Soon, the two men find themselves a whirlwind of theft, scandal, and blackmail. Forced into an unlikely partnership, they''ll have to confront not only a killer, but hard truths within themselves that will change them forever.

Months of surveillance-related leaks from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate over privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. This book explores current issues torn from the headlines with a uniquely Canadian perspective.

A novel filled with personnel observations from a lifetime of experience in how our thoughts begin to develop the artistic creativity we store in our head. All great creative sculptors, canvas painters, architects, engineers and scien-tists begin their work with a single thought, or a dream until it passes that phase of mental creativity then manifests from a thought we have lying dormant in a memory into some form of a working model to a physical design. Every human has control of their destiny in a way that propels them to do great things. Although the ability to act on the process that completes the journey is another aspect that separates greatness from mediocracy or failure. This book provides insights into that process. The story is a weave of fabric with many aspects for consideration. The reader becomes captivated in learning the intricate way the mind controls our journey through life. My perspective with a fictional story related to the achievements of a fic-tional character. He finds love in a peculiar place, travels to destinations as his part-ner deals with his tragic loss. While the intricacies of the mind a narrated in between the stories charac-ters. This begins the writing of the widow''s journey within her mind. Constantly questioning and deliberating, the thoughts that control the human interactions to exist in the world. Ending with the discovery of a new partner who has deceived her inherited insurance company out of fifty million dollars. The story is told through the mind''s thoughts. It is a fictional story which intrigues your mind.

“Ink and paper became my friends as the thoughts of my heart began to unfold. As God inspired me to write and motivated me to recite.” Michael Allen is an activist in the struggle to eradicate oppression and poverty in the inner cities. Spreading awareness through the written word and sharing his love affair with poetry he hopes to motivate others to use art to educate

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential election, Congress and the president remade the postûWorld War II national security infrastructure in less than five months, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Blinking Red illuminates the complicated history of the bureaucratic efforts to reform AmericaÆs national security after the intelligence failures of 9/11 and IraqÆs missing weapons of mass destruction, explaining how the NSC and Congress shaped the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks. Michael Allen asserts that the process of creating the DNI position and the NCTC is a case study in power politics and institutional reform. By bringing to light the legislative transactions and political wrangling during the reform of the intelligence community, Allen helps us understand why the effectiveness of these institutional changes is still in question.

From alligator wrestling to armed robbery and beyond... This author''s number one love is Jesus Christ. He is passionate about sharing his faith with others. His dream is to be with as many of his family members and friends in heaven. The best piece of advice he can give anyone is to take care of the body God blessed you with, and choose Jesus as your Savior today!

Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the mid-1990s. In this controversial book, the author provides a close look at what actually happened to the American economy during the years of the "Reagan Revolution" and reveals that the huge deficits had no negative effect on the economy. It was the other policies of the Reagan years--high interest rates to fight inflation, supply-side tax cuts, reductions in regulation, increased advantages for investors and the wealthy, the unraveling of the safety net for the poor--that were unsuccessful in generating more rapid growth and other economic improvements. Meeropol provides compelling evidence of the failure of the U.S. economy between 1990 and 1994 to generate rising incomes for most of the population or improvements in productivity. This caused, first, the electoral repudiation of President Bush in 1992, followed by a repudiation of President Clinton in the 1994 Congressional elections. The Clinton administration made a half-hearted attempt to reverse the Reagan Revolution in economic policy, but ultimately surrendered to the Republican Congressional majority in 1996 when Clinton promised to balance the budget by 2000 and signed the welfare reform bill. The rapid growth of the economy in 1997 caused surprisingly high government revenues, a dramatic fall in the federal budget deficit, and a brief euphoria evident in an almost uncontrollable stock market boom. Finally, Meeropol argues powerfully that the next recession, certain to come before the end of 1999, will turn the predicted path to budget balance and millennial prosperity into a painful joke on the hubris of public policymakers. Accessibly written as a work of recent history and public policy as much as economics, this book is intended for all Americans interested in issues of economic policy, especially the budget deficit and the Clinton versus Congress debates. No specialized training in economics is needed.

How one simple man with the unfortunate case of mistaken identity shook an entire town...and the Good Ol'' Boy network waging war against him! It''s a laugh riot as Michael Allen explores the notions of power, privilege and intoxication. After a brush with the law, Dawg''s life takes a sudden turn as he becomes a hostage of the "system." Fighting against the madness every step of the way, Dawg''s behind the scenes discoveries are hilarious, sobering and often shocking exposures of a transparent Gaggle blatantly making their own rules and disregarding them themselves. They soon find Dawg isn''t who they thought he was and all their tactics, normally quite effective are actually what help him find his way out of their clutches so that he could live to fight another day.