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John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare case soon after, Fountain was on the verge of giving up all hope. One thing saved him--his faith, his own true vine.

True Vine is John Fountain's remarkable story--of his childhood in a neighborhood heading south; of his strong-willed grandparents, who founded a church (called True Vine) that sought to bring the word of God to their...

Retired Detective A.C. LaFleur is back in Oswego, New York, from a well-deserved winter in Florida. But as soon as he returns, his friend, nurse Maggie Malone, calls from the Syracuse burn ICU, with a request: a young girl has been severely burned in an apartment fire, and local authorities are slow to investigate. LaFleur's efforts to get at the truth lead him in unexpected directions, and he becomes a target of the arsonist.

A newspaper article from 1964 appears mysteriously one day in an Oswego, New York hospital operating room. It's an obituary describing the bizarre suicide of a young nurse, found dead in a hospital lounge, hooked up to an anesthesia machine. Retired police detective A.C. LaFleur is asked to find out why the article has appeared again, after all these years--and what really happened that day? Based on a true story.

This volume presents the core of invited expository lectures given at the 1993 NATO ASI held at the University of York. The subject matter of the ASI was the interplay between automata, semigroups, formal languages and groups. The invited talks were of an introductory nature but at a high level and many reached the cutting edge of research in the area. The lectures were given to a mixed group of students and specialists and were designed to be accessible to a broad audience. The papers were written in a similar spirit in the hope that their readership will be as wide as possible. With one...