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Mark Wilson

Are you considering adding a pond to your garden but unsure where to start? Or are you struggling to maintain an existing pond, finding it more work than expected?Let Pond Perfection for Beginners: Create and Enjoy a Thriving Garden Pond show you how rewarding and simple pond ownership can be. This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide walks you through selecting a pond that suits your lifestyle, building or enhancing it with confidence and maintaining it easily.In t...

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Mark Wilson

Build embedded systems that stay reliable in production, using host-first development, replay testing, coordinated dataflow, and operational design patterns for real-world reliability Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesApply host-first development and replay testing to build observable embedded systemsDesign responsive systems using explicit coordination and bounded dataflowManage timing, ...

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Mark Wilson

Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments. It explains the ways to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones, based on item response modeling and construct references.Now in its second edition, this book focuses on the steps taken while constructing an instrument, and breaks down the "building blocks" that make up an instrument—the construct map, t...

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Mark Wilson

What if sleep was no longer a necessity? What if your body, mind, and spirit could survive for 40 years without ever needing a moment of rest?Meet Paul Kern, a Hungarian soldier who, after surviving a bullet wound to the head during World War I, experienced something unimaginable: he never slept again. For four decades, his body remained fully awake, defying every known law of biology and neuroscience. How did he do it? And why was he able to function, live a seemingly normal life,...

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Jim Wilson, Mark Carmody

An important tool of a birdwatcher is a good identification guide. Most cover the birds of Europe and few deal exclusively with Ireland. This first photographic identification guide to the birds of Ireland has over 1,600 photos of more than 260 species, in an easy, quick-reference format. With eight to fifteen images per species, the key identification features of each bird are shown, with concise descriptions and pointers to indicate important features. This guide is produced in associati...

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Mark Wilson

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Scientists in the Field

Are the snowy owls in trouble? Venture into the Alaskan arctic and the summer realm of these predator birds to find out. Discover the diverse species necessary to owl survival, how climate change is affecting the landscape of their nesting site of past millennia, and what it takes to do field research in this action-packed addition to the award-winning Scientists in the Field series.It's July on Alaska's North Slope, and scientist Denver Holt is in Utqiagvik survey...

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John Wilson

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Mark Ashby

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Seven (the Series)

Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question—until he hears his grandfather's will. Suddenly he's off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to a specific address in Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept during the time he fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Steve decides to trace his grandfather's footsteps through Spain...

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John Wilson

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Mark Ashby

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The Seven Sequels

Steve thinks he made the right choice turning down a snowy week with his cousins at a cabin in northern Ontario in favor of a relaxing (and perhaps romantic) time under the Spanish sun with his friend, Laia. But when an email from his brother DJ arrives, implicating their grandfather in some shadowy international plots involving nuclear bombs, Steve and Laia immediately put aside all thoughts of a lazy, sun-drenched vacation. In a desperate attempt to find out if Steve’s grandfather was a ...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Mark Wilson

Sherlock Holmes, the iconic fictional detective, was brought to life by the British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Renowned for his exceptional skills in observation, deduction, forensic science, and nearly supernatural logical reasoning, Holmes refers to himself as a "consulting detective" in the myriad of compelling stories that feature him. He adeptly applies his formidable intellect to solve a wide range of cases for diverse clients, including the esteemed Scotland Yard.The charact...

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Mark Wilson

Are you struggling to turn your love for ponds and water features into a profitable business? Do you dream of transforming your passion into a thriving enterprise but don't know where to start?Pond Passion to Profit: Achieving Prosperity and Fulfilment in the Business of Water Features is your thorough guide to succeeding in the water feature and pond industry. Written by Mark Wilson, globally recognised as The Pond Advisor, this book is filled with practical advice, motiv...

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Honor Raconteur

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Mark McClain Wilson

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Kingslayer

He had known this day would come. No man could escape the entire might of the Sovran forever. He just found it humorous that it was an enemy of the Sovran that had caught him instead.Bound, kneeling before a queen whom he had hounded for a straight year, he should have been anxious. Or at least a little worried. Instead, a strange sense of relief filled him. It was over. His mad escape from Brindisi’s justice was over.“That is a very calm expression on your face, General Da...

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Mark Wilson

J.L. Austin has written of "the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act". By revisiting a classic "small metaphysics" puzzle drawn from physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing, Imitation of Rigor employs recent insights into the architectures of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin's covert "mechanisms" operate in concrete terms. By these means, the book attempts to reconnect analyti...