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TRUTH BOMB: Being a girl freakin' rocks! But that doesn't mean it's always easy. Sometimes you need inspiration, support, and advice to help you find your voice and believe in yourself. Girlish is a fun, feisty, information-packed handbook--part discovery course, part interactive journal--filled with quotes, tips, truth bombs, and profiles of amazing women from all walks of life, from Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Amy Poehler to Malala Yousafzai and Simone Biles. Embracing all the beauty, chaos, hope, and frustration of being a girl in the twenty-first century, Girlish explores life topics that include gender equality, body positivity, self-esteem, relationships, friendship, and even dealing with the mixed bag of the internet and social media. Thought-provoking questions dare you to define your values, set goals, dream BIG, and celebrate everything that makes you you. Ready to create, inspire, invent, strive, lead, love--and have some laughs along the way? Read on . . . ...

Server Sprawl and escalating IT costs have managers and system administrators scrambling to find ways to cut costs and reduce Total Cost of Ownership of their physical infrastructure. Combining software applications onto a single server, even if those applications are from the same software vendor, can be dangerous and problems hard to troubleshoot. Virtualization allows you to consolidate many servers onto a single physical server reducing hardware, electrical, cooling, and administrative costs. These virtual servers run completely independent of each other so if one crashes the other are not affected. Planning and implementing a server consolidation is a complex process. This book details the requirements for such a project, includes sample forms and templates, and delivers several physical to virtual migration strategies which will save both time and costs. Readers of this book will easily be able to plan and deploy VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Xen. ...

Plant Pathogens: Detection and Management for Sustainable Agriculture addresses the most critical issues in the management of emerging diseases throughout the world. Experts in plant pathology from internationally renowned institutes share their research and examine key literature on vital issues in pathogen disease diagnosis and management. They look at both traditional pathology as well as new and advanced biotechnological and molecular diagnosis approaches. This book is divided into four parts, covering viral and fungal disease detection and management, nematode diseases and management, bio-control, and biotechnological approaches and impact of climate change. The authors look at the challenges of crop protection against diseases caused by plant pathogens for the most economically important crops, including fruits, vegetables, and cereals. The establishment and management of plant diseases using conventional and eco-friendly methods are discussed with an emphasis on the use of benef...

Every day the President of the United States receives threats against his life. Every day his security tell him they're crackpots, nothing to worry about. Today is different. Today he doesn't believe them. Because he's been dreaming of his own violent death, over and over. It feels so real. Like someone is inside his head. The President's medical advisor, Josh Cain, a military psychologist with his own complications, is summoned to a church tower near the White House to talk down yet another suicidal ex-Marine. Today is different. Today the veteran asked for him by name, tells him of a plot against the President - seconds before a sniper's bullet takes him out. Battles used to be fought man to man, then machine to machine, then in cyberspace. The Grid is a thrilling mix of Homeland and Inception which takes us to the edge of a new kind of battlefield: the human brain... Product details ...

Jazyk lásky shrnuje celou studnici zkušeností a znalostí do jednoduché, ale zásadní knihy pravidel. Nenabízí nic menšího než jasného průvodce gramatikou orálního sexu. Pokud se chcete dozvědět, jak můžete jazykem při každém milování přivést ženu k extatickým orgasmům, při nichž bude ztrácet vědomí a její tělo se celé rozechvěje, pak je tato knížka určena právě vám. Předpoklad této knihy je prostý: pokud jde o potěšení ženy a konverzaci v jazyce lásky, měl by být cunnilingus – stimulace genitálií jazykem a ústy – rodným jazykem každého partnera. Nicméně stejně jako u každého jazyka platí, že chceme-li se vyjadřovat plynule, chceme-li, aby se náš protějšek rozezpíval a vznášel, musíme se dobře obeznámit s jeho gramatickými pravidly a stylem. Product details Format Paperback | 25...

Get to know Po in this adorable shaped board book based on the Teletubbies! Eh-oh! It's Po! Po loves riding on her scooter and eating Tubby Toast! Meet Po in this delightful adventure, perfect for toddlers. TELETUBBIES and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of DHX Worldwide Limited. (c) 2017 DHX Worldwide Limited. All Rights Reserved. Product details Format Board book | 14 pages Dimensions 157 x 175 x 8mm | 177g ...

Get to know Po in this adorable shaped board book based on the Teletubbies! Eh-oh! It's Po! Po loves riding on her scooter and eating Tubby Toast! Meet Po in this delightful adventure, perfect for toddlers. TELETUBBIES and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of DHX Worldwide Limited. (c) 2017 DHX Worldwide Limited. All Rights Reserved. Product details Format Board book | 14 pages Dimensions 157 x 175 x 8mm | 177g ...

Get to know Po in this adorable shaped board book based on the Teletubbies! Eh-oh! It's Po! Po loves riding on her scooter and eating Tubby Toast! Meet Po in this delightful adventure, perfect for toddlers. TELETUBBIES and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of DHX Worldwide Limited. (c) 2017 DHX Worldwide Limited. All Rights Reserved. Product details Format Board book | 14 pages Dimensions 157 x 175 x 8mm | 177g ...

Get to know Po in this adorable shaped board book based on the Teletubbies! Eh-oh! It's Po! Po loves riding on her scooter and eating Tubby Toast! Meet Po in this delightful adventure, perfect for toddlers. TELETUBBIES and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of DHX Worldwide Limited. (c) 2017 DHX Worldwide Limited. All Rights Reserved. Product details Format Board book | 14 pages Dimensions 157 x 175 x 8mm | 177g ...

Get to know Po in this adorable shaped board book based on the Teletubbies! Eh-oh! It's Po! Po loves riding on her scooter and eating Tubby Toast! Meet Po in this delightful adventure, perfect for toddlers. TELETUBBIES and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of DHX Worldwide Limited. (c) 2017 DHX Worldwide Limited. All Rights Reserved. Product details Format Board book | 14 pages Dimensions 157 x 175 x 8mm | 177g ...

The book gives a practical introduction to the concepts, structure, politics, law, hazards, threats, and practices of homeland security everywhere, focusing on US "homeland security," Canadian "public safety," and European "domestic security." It is a conceptual and practical textbook, not a theoretical work. Product details Format Paperback | 320 pages Dimensions 177.8 x 254mm Publication date 15 F...

Could US Navy officers be better prepared to become flag officers? This study examines the kinds of expertise required for successful performance in Navy flag billets, and whether pools of officers possess this experience. Product details Format Paperback | 176 pages Dimensions 154 x 230 x 11mm | 290g Publication date 30 M...

Why do the combat capabilities of individual soldiers vary so much? This book seeks to provide an answer to this and other questions about variability in combat performance. Some soldiers flee quickly from the battlefield, while others endure all hardships until the bitter end. Some combat units can perform numerous types of missions, while others cannot keep themselves organized during peacetime. Some militaries armed with obsolete weapons have out fought enemies with the latest weapons, just as some massively outnumbered armies have beaten back much larger opponents. In this first social scientific study of the effectiveness of combat troops, Newsome evaluates competing explanations for the varying combat capabilities and performances. There are four main explanations, each emphasizing the influence of a single factor. The first focuses on material endowments. How well funded are the troops? Do they have the latest protective gear and the most advanced weaponry? Second, some analysts...

At the famously luxurious Serenity Spa & Resort on the Californian coast, guests arrive ready to celebrate what is set to be the wedding of the year. Ginger is an overworked, under-pampered mother of three who's barely holding the family together when she learns a secret about her daughter that could ruin everything. Lulu is a wealthy retiree with four ex-husbands, and a fifth on the way. Emily harbours a dark secret, which she's become expert at forgetting with the help of a bottle of wine. Kate is a powerhouse lawyer with her life in order - except for one little problem that won't go away. Only twenty-four hours later a man is found murdered. All Detective Ramone knows for certain is that these four women sit calmly across from him, offering four very different confessions, each insisting they acted alone. Why would they confess to the same crime? Only they know the answer - and they're not telling. A sharp, twisty and utterly addictive suspense novel that is ...

One murder. Four confessions. Every. Word. A. Lie. 'Smart, twisty and heartbreaking' TM LOGAN, author of The Holiday 'Up there with Big little Lies and Desperate Housewives' CLAIRE ALLEN, author of Her Name Was Rose ________________ You are cordially invited to the wedding of the year . . . At the luxurious Serenity Resort on the Californian coast, guests arrive ready to celebrate the Banks wedding. But things are about to go horribly wrong . . . Ginger is an overworked mother of three who's barely holding it together. Lulu is filthy rich with four ex-husbands, and a fifth one on the way. Emily harbours a dark secret, which she's become expert at forgetting with a bottle of wine. Kate is a lawyer with her life in order - except for one little problem that even she can't fix. Only 24 hours after they arrive a man is found murdered. Each of these women confess to the crime, insisting they acted alone. Why did they do this? Only they know the answer - a...

Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight... A childhood chant turns near deadly for Lily Locke when she's swept into The Faction's latest triumph-the overthrowing of the hidden, magical city of Wishery. When Ainsley and her team at MAGIC, Inc. beg Lily for her help, she agrees, taking on a load of problems that pile up faster than she can say Abracadabra. A new revolution in black magic stumps the island's burgeoning Mixologist, while a haunted house, a surprise birthday party, and rising familial troubles back on The Isle compete for her already-limited time and attention. Lily's barely hanging on by a thread, juggling life, love, and the pursuit of magic, when islanders start disappearing-one at a time. When a man warns her the next disappearance is imminent, Lily must crack the curse...before she's next. I wish I may, I wish I might...have the wish I wish tonight. Product details ...

Lacey, Clay and Meg are back-this time headed to...a wedding? Assignment Numero Dos for Lacey comes straight from the Godfather himself. When one of the Luzzi Family's low-ranking associates turns up dead, Carlos believes it may be the doing of the rival Russian mob, and he orders Lacey to find the killer. But every detail about the assignment is a little too neat, a little too tidy, and a little too good to be true. Could this really be an open and shut case, complete with a confession from the murderer? When Lacey's pumpkin-colored, body-building cousin Joey starts making trouble at his ex-fiance's wedding-the case starts unraveling from the inside out. Lacey's not sure what is worse: going face to face with a vicious murderer, ditching Auntie Nora's attempts to fill in the "plus one" on her invite, or finding herself locked in the same hotel as the hot, unavailable, but increasingly drool-worthy Anthony. Though most family gatherings are challenging...

When Detective Dani DeMarco is attacked in the middle of the night, she's more than a little disgruntled. However, she soon discovers that things aren't as simple as they seem, and that everyone she loves is in great danger. The battle for The Hex Files has officially begun, and Wicked is under attack. Two werewolves are dead. A rogue vampire is on the loose. The love of Dani's life is teetering on the edge of death. As the hunt for the files turns into a race against time, Dani and her friends will come face to face with fate... the good, the bad, and the deadly. Product details Format Paperback | 286 pages Dimensions ...

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. He is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade's End, which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. This volume marks the centenary of The Good Soldier, with eighteen essays by established experts and new scholars. It includes groundbreaking work on the novel's narrative technique, chronology, and genre; plus pioneering work considering the treatment of bodies and minds; eugenics; poison; and surveillance. Innovative comparative studies discuss Ford's novel in relation to Henry James, Violet Hunt, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Jean Rhys, David Jones, and Lawrence Durrell. Product details Format ...

'Fragmenting modernism' is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the 'English Review', and author of 'The Good Soldier', he shaped the development of literary modernism. But as the grandson of Ford Madox Brown, and son of a German music critic, he also manifested formative links with mainland European culture and the visual arts. In Ford there is the chance to explore continuity in artistic life at the turn of the century, as well as the more commonly identified pattern of crisis in the time. The argument throughout is that modernism possesses more than one face. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters discuss the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing. Ford's literary techniq...

The third volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to modernism and to the globalisation of English in the twentieth century. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus for study and discussion and introducing readers to an important theoretical concept in literary studies. This text offers a unique approach to modernism and the globalisation of English in the 20th century. It introduces modernism through depictions of the city from James Joyce, Fritz Lang's Metropolis and various New York writers. Section two looks at migration and memory in Sam Selvon, Elizabeth Bishop, Brian Friel and W. G. Sebald. The theoretical concept for this part of the series is 'literatures'. Product details Format ...

AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER ROEMISCHEN WELT (ANRW) is a work of international cooperation in the field of historical scholarship. Its aim is to present all important aspects of the ancient Roman world, as well as its legacy and continued influence in medieval and modern times. Subjects are dealt with in individual articles written in the light of present day research. The work is divided into three parts: I. From the Origins of Rome to the End of the Republic II. The Principate III. Late Antiquity Each part consists of six systematic sections, which occasionally overlap: 1. Political History, 2. Law, 3. Religion, 4. Language and Literature, 5. Philosophy and the Sciences, 6. The Arts. ANRW is organized as a handbook. It is a survey of Roman Studies in the broadest sense, and includes the history of the reception and influence of Roman Culture up to the present time. The individual contributions are, depending on the nature of the subject, either concise presentations with bibliogra...

In 1970, Kenneth Gibson was elected as Newark, New Jersey's first African-American mayor, a position he held for an impressive sixteen years. Yet even as Gibson served as a trailblazer for black politicians, he presided over a troubled time in the city's history, as Newark's industries declined and its crime and unemployment rates soared. This book offers a balanced assessment of Gibson's leadership and his legacy, from the perspectives of the people most deeply immersed in 1970s and 1980s Newark politics: city employees, politicians, activists, journalists, educators, and even fellow big-city mayors like David Dinkins. The contributors include many of Gibson's harshest critics, as well as some of his closest supporters, friends, and family members-culminating in an exclusive interview with Gibson himself, reflecting on his time in office. Together, these accounts provide readers with a compelling inside look at a city in crisis, a city that had been rocked by r...

Trio: PHP, MySQL i JavaScript jest znane jako najwygodniejszy zestaw narzędzi do tworzenia dynamicznych stron internetowych, które do działania wymagają bazy danych. Mimo upływu lat i dynamicznego rozwoju konkurencyjnych technologii twórcy aplikacji WWW wciąż cenią PHP, MySQL i JavaScript za otwarte źródła, brak opłat za korzystanie, elastyczność i łatwość w nauce. Każdy ambitny programista posługujący się systemem Unix czy Linux z ser-werem Apache powinien zapoznać się z tymi narzędziami. W połączeniu z takimi technologiami jak jQuery, CSS i HTML5 pozwalają budować serwisy porównywalne z gigantami w rodzaju Facebooka, Twittera czy Gmaila. Ta książka jest kolejnym, uzupełnionym i zaktualizowanym wydaniem znakomitego wprowadzenia do projektowania dynamicznych stron internetowych. Oprócz przystępnego omówienia technik tworzenia responsywnych stron WWW znalazły się tu solidne podstawy PHP, MySQL, JavaScriptu, CSS i HTML5; opisano też możliwości bibliotek jQuery i jQuery Mobile. Pokazano, ...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. 100 JavaScript power solutions in one handy guideThis practical resource contains 100 ready-to-run JavaScript plug-ins you can use to create dynamic Web content. The book begins by explaining JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM). Then, each chapter in Plug-In JavaScript offers complete, working examples for specific end results you can achieve right away. Using these plug-ins, you'll be able to build JavaScript projects quicker and easier than ever, as many complex tasks are reduced to a single function call. Get ready-made JavaScript plug-ins for: Resizing and repositioning objects Fading between objects Movement and animation Chaining and interaction Menus and navigation Text effects Audio and visual effects Cookies, Ajax, and security Form...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. 100 CSS power solutions in one handy guideThis practical resource contains 100 ready-to-run CSS plug-ins you can use to create dynamic Web content. All of the plug-ins include HTML examples and screen shots showing specific end results you can achieve right away. Methods for using CSS with JavaScript and HTML5 to make Web pages even more interactive and dynamic are also included. Using these plug-ins, you'll be able to build CSS projects more quickly and easily than ever, as many complex tasks are reduced to a single class. Get ready-made CSS plug-ins for: Manipulating objects Text and typography Menus and navigation Page layout Visual effects Dynamic objects Dynamic text and typography Dynamic interaction Incorporating JavaScript Clickable and RSS buttons Borders Rollover effects...

This author's works have been praised by numerous celebrities, the most notable being Nelson Mandela who described two of his African stories as 'wonderful', the late Princess Diana who used to read two of his books to Princes William and Harry when they were aged 9 and 7 years, and a former Chief Inspector of Schools for the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (OFSTED), who described the author's writing to the press as being of 'high quality literature'. When countries wage war on each other, there are no winners. The price of all war is paid for with the blood of people, soldiers and civilians, adult, child and creatures alike. In times of struggle, a war-torn country, which is being heavily bombed by a more powerful invader often finds itself bonded in greater unity of purpose and with a greater instinct for survival than one might imagine. England experienced such during the Second World War years of 1939 - 1945. This...