Bøger af Donald Thomas

This edition presents the new IEEE 1364-2001 standard of The Verilog Hardware Description Language. It offers updated examples that illustrated the new features of the language as well as a cross- referenced guide to the new and old features.

Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument. To cut or not to cut is a question with a long and fascinating history. First published in 1969, A Long Time Burning is an account of the political, religious, and moral censorship of literature, in the context of English literary history.

SUDDENLY YOU FIND YOURSELF IN ONE OF THESE CIRCUMSTANCES: -RELOCATING TO A NEW COMMUNITY -BEGINNING YOUR JOURNEY AS A NEW BELIEVER -DEPARTING FROM YOUR CURRENT CHURCH WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON? It's time to begin the search for a new church! But not just any old church will do. Finding the right one can be the difference between blessing and spiritual disaster. Where do you begin? Enter How to Find the Right Church. Pastor Don Thomas draws from Scripture and 35 years of ministry to serve as your companion and guide during this time of transition. In these pages you'll discover: -Four good reasons for leaving a church -A hands-on strategy for planning your search -Eight essential marks of a good church -What to do when you find the right church -What to do if you can't find the right church Each short chapter also includes helpful questions to pose to church leaders, along with suggested resources for those who want to dig deeper. These timeless principles will help equip you, and your family, with the tools to find a good church now and in the future. Let the search begin

When the divorce rate of professing Christians mirrors that of an unbelieving world, something is terribly wrong. Often that "something" dates back to the selection process itself. Sadly many singles make the fatal error of looking on the outside rather than the heart. Be Prepared to Discover: -God's role of the father through courtship; -How to apply our Lord's eight beatitudes to discern the presence of a spiritual heartbeat; -Four ways the single life can best advance the kingdom of God; -How to be proactive in finding the right one. -How to have full-assurance that you are the right one. . What's Inside is a must read for every Christian parent and single person seeking God's will for a happy marriage.

SystemVerilog is a Hardware Description Language that enables designers to work at the higher levels of logic design abstractions that match the increased complexity of current day integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) designs. The majority of the book assumes a basic background in logic design and software programming concepts. It is directed at: -students currently in an introductory logic design course that also teaches SystemVerilog, -designers who want to update their skills from Verilog or VHDL, and -students in VLSI design and advanced logic design courses that include verification as well as design topics. The book starts with a tutorial introduction on hardware description languages and simulation. It proceeds to the register-transfer design topics of combinational and finite state machine (FSM) design - these mirror the topics of introductory logic design courses. The book covers the design of FSM-datapath designs and their interfaces, including SystemVerilog interfaces. Then it covers the more advanced topics of writing testbenches including using assertions and functional coverage. A comprehensive index provides easy access to the book's topics.The goal of the book is to introduce the broad spectrum of features in the language in a way that complements introductory and advanced logic design and verification courses, and then provides a basis for further learning.Solutions to problems at the end of chapters, and text copies of the SystemVerilog examples are available from the author as described in the Preface.

"Thomas has excelled himself. An important and riveting study in social history, it also has a very pertinent relevance in the crime-riddled society that is Britain today."-The Sunday Times (London) "A magnificent book. Beautifully written, utterly compelling: almost without fault in every respect."-The Literary Review Venturing into the urban underbelly of postwar Britain, and especially of London, this riveting true-crime chronicle explores the shadowy ganglands where for twenty-five years armed robbery, prostitution, vice, and drugs flourished under racketeer kings.

While the Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, it also made many people rich. The criminal activities of the British underworld that extended from the civilian population right through to the armed forces constitute one of the great untold stories of the war. The Blitz of 1940 may have made a nation of heroes, but in the shadows the shelter gangs and looters prowled. Acclaimed author Donald Thomas draws on extensive archival material for these tales of profiteering. He retells how between 1940 and 1941 a Liverpool ship repairer cheated the government of the modern equivalent of $30 million, while $120 million a month was looted from relief supplies at the port of Trieste. Professional gangs raided British government offices for ration books, and underground presses counterfeited gasoline and clothing coupons by the tens of thousands. Illegal food supplies threatened the nation's health--a consignment of black market sausages in Hackney contained tuberculous meat, while the industrial alcohol, or "hooch," served to pilots in London's West End clubs could produce blindness and brain damage. The Enemy Within also recounts colossal theft within the army. Vehicles would arrive at front line railheads stripped of tools, spare parts, and removable components, and whole consignments of cigarettes and razor blades disappeared. In addition to these stories, The Enemy Within includes revealing photos of known law-breakers, victims, and illegal transactions. The facts Thomas uncovers are often so preposterous that in a novel they would seem unbelievable. These are the extraordinary and often absurd stories of less-than-heroic Britons.

Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Marquis de Sade 1740-1814, remains a man whose name is instantly recognized but whose life is obscure. Born close to royalty in the age of aristocratic decadence, he precipitated sexual scandals in the grand manner. Alleged poisoning and unnatural practices with a group of girls in Marseilles earned him a death sentence. While hunted by the law he contrived a winter of pleasures that led to further accusations of sexual crimes.Imprisoned on six separate occasions, De Sade spent twenty seven years under detention, escaping the guillotine while within sight of it. and spending his last years in the dubious comfort of the asylum of Charenton. For a brief period after the revolution De Sade also became a judge, opposed the death penalty, and saved some of his sworn enemies from prison or execution. He was loved to the end by women who knew the worst of him, and he was fearless in his defiance of injustice.What manner of paradox was this man? Was he a monster or was he a man of his time, driven to excess and persecuted by his contemporaries? De Sade, an aristocrat, lived through the waning days of Louis XVI, the Revolution, the Terror and the early years of Napoleon's reign. His literary. output fills a library shelf, and even now a English-language edition of his complete writings is in the planning stages.In this illuminating and dramatic biography, Donald Thomas puts De Sade in perspective, unraveling his complex life and thought against the turbulent background of revolutionary France and considers his legacy in the context of our own time. What manner of man could have written Juliet, Justine and 120 Days of Sodom? This book offers a key.

'Compelling . . . fresher and more challenging than fiction' Herald

'A wonderful book, the best I have read for ages' Literary Review

'A subject which still has the power to elicit shivers of delighted disgust' Daily Telegraph

'Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

'Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

'Strong on city life and the interplay between policemen and local politics' Independent

'Strong on city life and the interplay between policemen and local politics' Independent

'Strong on city life and the interplay between policemen and local politics' Independent

'Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

'Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

'Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

'Tension and detail spot on' Daily Telegraph

A dark story of murder and betrayal set in Gangland London at the time of the Abdication crisis.

'A bleakly stylish evocation of 1949 London' Kirkus

From this much-loved author of brilliantly accurate historical detective and thriller novels

Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower