This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2006, held in Guilin, China, in August 2006 in conjunction with PRICAI 2006.
The 39 revised full papers and 57 revised short papers present.
Ramakoti Sadananda,Guido Governatori,Aditya Ghose
Joyce Altman
Describes the activities at the bronx zoo and introduces the animals on display..
Bernard I. Raizner
Laura Krauss Melmed
John Saxon
Murray G. Forsyth
Nancy Thayer
In this fast, steamy novel by new york times bestselling author nancy thayer, residents of a seemingly picture perfect new england town struggle to hide their shocking secrets .
Joyce Carol Oates
Kazue Mizumura
Wendi Lee
Ex-marine turned private investigator angela matelli comes from a large family that have moved away from their original east boston home.
Sarah LaBrec Wyman
Diana Wynne Jones
Dapper, debonair, and wise, the great enchanter chrestomanci has nine lives and a strong personality as well as strong magic.
Susan Issacs
Long island's celebrated hamptons are the backdrop for susan isaacs' glorious new novel--a peerless love story about a homicide detective and the suspect he loves.
Cathy Maxwell
Janet Evanovich
Dear reader:in a previous life, before the time of plum, i wrote twelve short romance novels.
Rachel Cartwright
Susan E. Linville
German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books society without the father and the inability to mourn.
Ann Martin Bowler
Paul Johnson
George washington is by far the most important figure in the history of the united states.
Elmore Leonard
“[leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say killshot is his best, but it probably is anyway.
William T. Vollmann
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence.
John Kaltner
Vivian Larue
Art Chansky
"to hell with carolina," --from the duke fight song"go to hell, duke!
Kathryn Smith
Centuries ago, this magnificent chalice sealed my fate as a vampire, and now i am its protector.
Andrew Auseon
Frank Waugh
"systematic pomology, or the branch of pomology dealing with our knowledge of the fruits themselves, is explored in frank waugh's 1903 book, as well as the trees, bushes, or vines on which they grow.
Paulo Coelho
The narrator of the zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Book description:can you imagine writing to father christmas and actually getting a reply?
Gini Cunningham
Charlotte Danielson
Terry Pratchett
The heroine: tiffany aching, incipient witch and cheese maker extraordinaire.
George Weigel
John E. Sarno
Daniel Handler
In an affluent san fransisco high school, flannery culp's group of friends, known as the basic eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique.
Edward Carpenter
Phillip Margolin
Amanda jaffe, the heroine of wild justice and proof positive, is back-in this twisting tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past .
Daphne Grab
Brad Parks
Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: that's the front-page news facing carter ross, investigative reporter with the newark eagle-examiner.
Maria Shriver
When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation.
Oscar Wilde
Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, oscar wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre.
Katy Ridnouer
Christopher N. Koontz
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Andrew Roberts
An epic joint biography, "masters and commanders" explores the degree to which the course of the second world war turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters winston churc.
Pamela Alexander
Combining the best of poetry, nature writing, a biography, pamela alexander in her book-length persona poem brings to life john james audubon and a world not yet aware of nature s limits.
Victoria Alexander
The classic tale of a fervent courtship between an american heiress and a dashing british earl from #1 new york times bestselling author victoria alexanderfeel the pea through this bed and win the heart of the man you'll wed.
Charles London
raised in a nonreligious jewish family, charles london knew his heritage but had no strong desire to experience it personally.
Greg Tobin
In this powerful sequel to conclave, the acclaimed novel of the papacy, you will enter the shadowy corridors of the vatican with the pope himself and go behind the scenes of the debates and intrigues that affect the lives of one billion catholics around t.
Anne George
Though unalike as snowflakes, sisters patricia anne and mary alice share a sympathetic heart for their distraught cousin luke -- known affectionately in his boyhood as pukey lukey, because of his penchant for getting sick in moving vehicles.
Terri Farley
The further adventures in the wildly popular series about samantha and her mustang the phantom.
J. T. Dutton
At a grateful dead concert you need:acid: two windowpanes taped to chest "checked"tape deck for recording shows"checked"wad of cash "checked"pb&j sandwiches for the munchies "miss.
Gay Hendricks
Most of us believe that we will finally feel satisfied and content with our lives when we get the good news we have been waiting for, find a healthy relationship, or achieve one of our personal goals.