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After decades of relative obscurity, functional programming is finally coming into its own. With concise, easy-to-read code that supports asynchronous, concurrent processing, aspects of functional programming have begun to appear in several traditionally object-oriented languages such as C# and Java. This practical book shows C# programmers how to use functional programming features without having to navigate an entirely new language.Because of the shared runtime environment common...

As the world you know falls apart - nothing will ever be the same. Life for some is far from over but nothing will ever be the same again. As the new family begins to grow and expand the search for answers and reason is as difficult as the struggle to survive

love and revenge twist together as Doctor Jay Cull is drawn into his new loves past and they attempt to put right the wrongs done to them and rebalance the scales of justice but where will it take them and how far will they go

The children accidently discover a portal to another world. There they must work together to defeat the evil dragon and find their way home

New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental contexts. This work span the Early Archaic (9000 B...

From bestselling author Greig Beck, with new book Extinction Plague: A Matt Kearns Novel 4 out soon.When a massive sinkhole opens up and swallows a retired couple from Iowa it seems like a freak occurrence. But it's not the only one. Similar sinkholes are opening all over the world, even on the sea floor. And they're getting bigger.People living near the pits are reporting strange phenomena-vibrations, sulfurous odors, and odd sounds in the stygian...

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system — even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wil...

Martin Fowler’s guide to reworking bad code into well-structured codeRefactoring improves the design of existing code and enhances software maintainability, as well as making existing code easier to understand. Original Agile Manifesto signer and software development thought leader, Martin Fowler, provides a catalog of refactorings that explains why you should refactor; how to recognize code that needs refactoring; and how to actually do it successfully, no matter ...

BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN NOVICE AND PROFESSIONALYou've completed a basic Python programming tutorial or finished Al Sweigart's bestseller, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. What's the next step toward becoming a capable, confident software developer?Welcome to Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python. More than a mere collection of advanced syntax and masterful tips for writing clean code, you'll learn how to advance your Python programming s...

When Stryker answers an ad to work at a local clinic, it seems like the perfect job for him. It has all the elements of an easy job – a few hours a week, a salary that any man twice his age would envy, and best of all, sex. The physician in charge seems nice enough, but there does seem to be something a bit “off” about him. Stryker is too busy exploring the enjoyable aspects of his new job to pay much attention to the doctor, at first anyway.Excerpt:“Stryker...

Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the...

Jay was a maharaja's heir and billionaire businessman, and he'd hired Keira as his interior designer.But why did she turn from hot to cold and then back again? Was she a manipulating gold digger who was using the red-hot chemistry between them to try to increase her financial reward?In the sun-baked city of Ralapur, their fierce professional partnership quickly sparked into raw, uncontrollable desire. Had the innocent-looking English designer set out to sna...