Most Popular Books by Sean Murphy

At birth, Ryan Maguire received a gift - a matching set of gorgeous, mesmerizing blue eyes. At an early age, Momma Maguire gave him another gift - her rules to which he was to adhere. She gave him a code to flourish and live life to the fullest. She expected Ryan to demand dignity, fight for himself, and for others not strong enough to fight for themselves. Despite Momma Maguire''s best efforts, by age 14, Ryan was riding a bullet train toward his own destruction. It would take more than her and her rules to change his life''s path. What and who intervene to save Ryan from certain destruction? What are Momma Maguire''s Rules? What Gifts does Ryan receive to help him along his journey? What Truths does Ryan discover along his path? Will he ever recover from damaged relationships to find true love? God calls each of us. When the Holy Spirit summons, how can we recognize Him? How do we make that connection? Will He protect us when we need Him the most, as we walk through our own personal valley of darkness? Gifts Given and Truths Learned answers all these questions and more in a riveting, twisting tale of life, love, growth, courage, discernment, seeking, healing, and faith. It takes you on a beautiful journey from a young child''s life, into adolescence, and finally to a young adult. The bends and turns in his path will keep you on the edge of your seat.

"One of five volumes offering the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare''s language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics, this volume focuses on keywords in Shakespeare''s plays. Play keywords are derived by conducting a statistical comparison between the words in one play with those in all the others. For characters, the comparison is made between the vocabulary of one character and that of all the others in the same play. These keywords are used to create ''linguistic profiles'' of each play and main character, which show how patterns of words contribute to themes and the characterization of protagonists"--

Conrad sleeps under a bridge because it''s raining and takes pills because bad dreams keep them up at night. Is that young busker, Whalen, a ghost or a real flesh and blood fiddle player? While Whalen plays a lullaby Conrad shares more than a meal and more than intended. Sunny and Winter are young lovers. Love is an other-worldly presence. Winter struggles with trauma disorder. Sunny struggles with Winter. Love conquers all. But what does Neil Diamond and a "top 40 sing-along from the days of bell-bottoms and LSD" have to do with it all? An anthology of seven short plays about belonging, kindness and surviving trauma.

Superstar artist Sean Gordon Murphy, known for his groundbreaking series Batman: White Knight and Massive''s Zorro: Man Of The Dead, delivers an all-new tale of world-hopping adventure. THE PLOT HOLES are a squad of fictional warriors who transport themselves into the pages of other books, using their unique skills to save the plots to stop them from being destroyed. And Cliff is their newest recruit, a comic creator who''s just realized his world isn''t real in fact, it''s a complete fiction that exists inside a novel. The other members are misfits like him, pulled from unpublished books that couldn''t be saved: a manga samurai, a barbarian tiger, a kid from a comic strip, and a vampire assassin. Outclassed by the other members, Cliff sets out to prove his worth to The Plot Holes as they fight to save as many books as possible.

Traditional engineering is built upon a world of knowledge and scientific laws, with components and systems that operate predictably. But what happens when a large number of these devices are interconnected? You get a complex system that''s no longer deterministic, but probabilistic. That''s happening today in many industries, including manufacturing, petroleum, transportation, and energy. In this O''Reilly report, Sean Patrick Murphy, Chief Data Scientist at PingThings, describes how data science is helping electric utilities make sense of a stochastic world filled with increasing uncertainty--including fundamental changes to the energy market and random phenomena such as weather and solar activity. Murphy also reviews several cutting-edge tools for storing and processing big data that he''s used in his work with electric utilities--tools that can help traditional engineers pursue a data-driven approach in many industries. Topics in this report include: Key drivers that have changed the electric grid from a deterministic machine into probabilistic system Fundamental differences that put traditional engineering and data science at odds with one another Why the time is right for engineering organizations to adopt a complete data-driven approach Contemporary tools that traditional engineers can use to store and process big data A PingThings case study for dealing with random geomagnetic disturbances to the energy grid.

This special issue of Developmental Neuroscience features seven original articles dealing exclusively with the regulation and role of the constitutive nitric oxide synthase expressed in neurons. The first paper explains regulation through alternative splicing, yielding isoforms of the enzyme which are expressed differentially in the nervous system. The following papers outline the renewed expression of nitric oxide synthase in sensory and motoneurons following injury to the spinal cord. The final three articles discuss whether there is an interaction between nitric oxide synthase, signals from adjacent cells, and neuronal development. Neuropathologists, neuroanatomists, developmental biologists and graduate students in neuroscience programs will find this publication a valuable contribution to the field.

Pierre-Philippe Bauzin (1933-2005) was a skilled keyboard performer, improviser, and composer. By way of his close personal friendship with renowned saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix, Bauzin began dedicating, composing, and often times performing music for saxophone with Londeix, beginning in 1959. The results of this friendship produced eleven original works for saxophone with diverse instrumentation, ranging from solo compositions to large ensembles. Due to Bauzin''s preference for improvising the piano accompaniments of his music on each performance, however, a majority of his compositions were thought to be incomplete or lost. This study surveys Bauzin''s complete opus for saxophone by way of both his published works, and the author''s rediscovery of the manuscripts to these previously assumed lost compositions for saxophone. The pieces studied are Sonata no. 1 (1959), Poème (1960), Cinq Pièces Breves en Forme de Musique (1960), Esquisses (1967), Divertimento (1968), and Quatuor no. 1 (1962). In addition, chapter 8 provides information regarding other compositions for saxophone by Bauzin that did not survive in their completed form. The survey of each work contains information pertaining to creation, performances of significance in saxophone history, and compositional techniques present within each work that can be used to identify the components of Bauzin''s unique compositional style.