Sometimes life conspires to keep us from the ones we love. While always painful, it can hurt more at Christmas than any other time of the year. Having recently lost his parents, Peter Taylor is especially grateful he’ll be able to spend one final Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in his childhood home, and then Christmas Day with his girlfriend Christine. When everything goes wrong, he still tries to find a way to make this Christmas his best ever.You’ll Be Home For Christmas...

“I think we’re gonna need a bigger web server.”OpenBSD has a solid reputation for security and stability. It’s well known for the OpenSMTPd mail server, the LibreSSL cryptography library, and the PF packet filter. But nobody ever talks about the load balancer, or the web server.Until now.The httpd web server provides a fast, stable, secure environment for your web applications. The relayd load balancer lets you distribute Internet application load across mu...

This updated edition of Michael W. Lucas' definitive volume on FreeBSD-based systems adds coverage of modern disks, the ZFS filesystem IPv6, redesigned jail and packaging systems, and virtualization, among dozens of new features added in the last 10 years.FreeBSD is the muscle behind companies like Netflix and EMC. Any place where someone does heavy lifting on the Internet, you'll find FreeBSD. This newly revised edition of Absolute FreeBSD brings FreeBSD'...

Essential strategies for school trustees and superintendents.Addressing the urgent challenges of school leadership in our divided, post-pandemic landscape, The Governance Core 2.0 is an essential guide for school trustees and superintendents dedicated to making a meaningful difference in their districts. Davis Campbell, Michael Fullan, and Babs Kavanaugh provide useful tools and techniques to improve local governance culture, emphasizing t...

The irresistible, classic bear from Darkest Peru, who was found on Paddington station, causes havoc while out sight-seeing!The irresistible, classic bear from Peru, who was found on Paddington station, causes havoc while out sight-seeing!When Paddington visits the Tower of London he makes sure he has enough marmalade sandwiches to sustain him – a whole suitcase in fact!Fortunately, it is not only bears who like sandwiches as Paddington is soon to discover when he is...

Spend a day at home with Paddington Bear in this fun new book for babies and toddlers!Rise and shine! Paddington's days are always so busy – where does he find the time to fit in so many snacks?This fun-filled rhyming story with bright illustrations is sure to delight the youngest of Paddington fans!Stories of Paddington Bear have delighted readers around the world for more than sixty-five years.* Perfect Gift for Toddlers – A great first bo...

Celebrate Christmas with everyone’s favourite bear, Paddington – now a major movie star!Everyone in the Brown family is singing about some wonderful Christmas gifts they’ve received. But Paddington can’t even find the partridge in a pear tree! He sets out to solve the mystery and is soon planning a spectacular Christmas Day surprise …Sing along with Paddington Bear in this funny festive story!* More than 47 million Paddington books sold, worldwide!

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, edited an...

Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom recitation and exercises.Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom recitation and exercises. Drills in grammar and vocabulary, combined with innovative directions for practice, facilitate the student's ...

The sixth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Three years after Ashanti spaced for Solar System, Turalon reappears in the Donovanian sky. The Corporation has returned. Donovan’s wealth is a lure for the powerful families who control the Board. Unburdened by morals, they are bringing their battle for supremacy to Port Aut...

A funny picture book about Paddington, the world’s favourite bear – now a major movie star!Paddington is excited to be organising an Easter egg hunt for his neighbours. But, from finding empty supermarket shelves, to buying a box of broken Easter eggs, Paddington wonders if the hunt can ever go ahead. That is, until Mr Gruber’s book on Roman mosaics and some sticky marmalade give him a brilliant idea . . .A deliciously funny Easter story, perfect for Paddington fans!

A complete and easy-to-follow resource covering every critical step of the accounting processLearning to love the language of business is easier than you think! In the newly revised Third Edition of Accounting All-In-One For Dummies with Online Practice, finance expert Michael Taillard walks you through every step of the accounting process, from setting up your accounting system to auditing and detecting financial irregularities.You’ll enjoy a unif...