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A new marriage. A perfect home. A machine that says it's all a lie.Rowena Snyder has the life she's always wanted. So why is everything falling apart?Moving to the suburbs was supposed to be easy. Instead, Rowena struggles with panic attacks, a husband who wants her on medication, and the isolation of new motherhood. Then a suspicious house fire at her baby's birthday party threatens to send her over the edge.When Rowena's husband brings home a product in beta testing at his Silicon Valley tech firm, it's a godsend. She uses it for everything. A digital assistant, a mental health supporter, even a friend.But "Maxine" is more than a digital assistant. Its algorithm collects data to predict future events. And soon Maxine delivers a bone-chilling warning that threatens to shatter Rowena's new suburban life to pieces:"Your husband is going to try to kill you."Who can she trust? Herself? Her man? Or her eerily accurate new friend, Maxine?Formerly published as Amen Maxine

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Aims to teach parents and educators how to enhance a child's educational achievement using the Behavioural Assessment Rating Inventory (BARI) and the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children. Both instruments possess diagnostic and prescriptive teaching qualities.

Today's fast-paced and constantly changing health-care environment demands that you find the answers you need quickly and easily. This brand-new approach to billing and coding teaches you the who, what, why, when, and how of proper diagnostic and procedural coding, claim form completion, and medical recordkeeping.

This book explores domestic opposition to formal US military bases in Latin America, and provides evidence of a growing network of informal and secretive base-like arrangements that supports US military operations in the Latin American Region.

The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener showcases Martin Gardner as the consummate philosopher, thinker, and great mathematician that he is. Exploring issues that range from faith to prayer to evil to immortality, and far beyond, Garnder challenges the discerning reader with fundamental questions of classical philosophy and life's greater meanings.Recalling such philosophers was Wittgenstein and Arendt, The Whys of Philosophical Scrivener embodies Martin Garner's unceasing interest and joy in the impenetrable mysteries of life.

The subject matter of agricultural economics has both broadened and deepened and the chapters of this handbook present innovative work in the field. This volume contains sections on "agriculture, natural resources and the environment" and "agriculture in the macroeconomy".

This volume deals with the economics of agricultural products after they leave the farm. It includes developments in application of dual approaches in household economies, the industrial organization of food marketing, marketing margins between farm and retail prices, and spatial price analysis.

Part of the "Handbook of Agricultural Economics", volume 1a treats issues in agricultural production, representing the consequences of decades of work deepening and widening the original focus of agricultural economics on farm management.