Explore the world of .NET design patterns and bring the benefits that the right patterns can offer to your toolkit todayKey Features\[\] Dive into the powerful fundamentals of .NET framework for software development\[\] The code is explained piece by piece and the application of the pattern is also showcased.\[\] This fast-paced guide shows you how to implement the patterns into your existing applicationsBook DescriptionKnowi...

5 STORIES is a journey by language across the Indian subcontinent. Its vehicle, the long short-story written by masters of the form, of perfect length and depth, brimming with pleasure and insight. Brought together expertly by editor-translators, each collection is an immersion in the local that features a range of diverse voices.Stories by:Pundalik NaikDamodar MauzoMahabaleshwar SailJayanti NaikPrakash P...

"Tramuta sweeps away the tired clichés of the Parisian woman with her vivid profiles of the dynamic and creative 'femmes' now powering the French capital." —Eleanor Beardsley, NPR Paris correspondentThe New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as the...

Welcome to Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese Civil War is now long over, but its shadow still haunts the city’s lost souls.A masterwork of Chinese short fiction - now published in the UK for the very first time - Taipei People follows the lives and losses of those who fled to Taipei after the 1949 Communist takeover of China.Threaded through with yearning and nostaglia, brimming with lost loves and half-forgotten faces, with dark pasts and darker present...

A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by sensuous and essences of raw materials, echoing the extemporal features of the culture where buildings are placed, discovering the prettiness of scarcity of resources. IROJE's buil...

In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. As an African migrant, he was little mourned. But though they’ve been deliberately forgotten, neither the events of Ousmane’s life nor his tragic death are uncommon.Across Italy today, African workers toil in the fields that make it one of Europe’s largest exporters of fruit and vegetables. Having fled home countries devastated by colonialism and global ...

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression"– Haim GinottParenting has always been challenging. However, today it has become complex with materialism, permissiveness, and immediate gratification in play. The wires are so tangled for parents to address the fact that it is okay to seek help when necessary. Parents raise their children with good intentions as far as their understanding goes. While physical needs are met abundantly in many families, ...

To Medicate or Not? That is the Question! helps readers to start their journey to H.A.R.M.O.N.Y™. in their health and life.Pharmacist, Certified Diabetes Educator, Wellness Professional, and Certified Personal Trainer, Dr. Asha Bohannon describes her 7 Steps to H.A.R.M.O.N.Y.™ in To Medicate, or Not? That Is the Question!. These steps show those struggling with their health the missing link to their “off” blood work results and what information ou...

Learn how to implement the reactive programming paradigm with C++ and build asynchronous and concurrent applicationsKey FeaturesEfficiently exploit concurrency and parallelism in your programsUse the Functional Reactive programming model to structure programsUnderstand reactive GUI programming to make your own applications using QtBook DescriptionReactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications...

Adapted into the Channel 4 documentary 'Sex: My British Job' by Nick Broomfield. Ming and Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties and both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China and Beata from Poland. Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel. In this chilling expose, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper i...

Dr. A.K. Saxena was introduced to acupressure by an allopathic physician Dr. Attar Singh about 25 years ago. He started healing his family and friends with the help of this therapy. The results were very encouraging. Forums such as Rotary Club of India, India International Centre, UNDP (UNWA), etc., provided a platform to Dr. Saxena to take the message to the masses about the healing power of the human body. He has been associated with many hospitals of repute. So far he has successfully t...

Why Do We Live? A Simple Answer to a Complex Question is an analytical book that prompts readers to think about the realities of life. It was written to make us understand the complexities around us and to see through the complex behavior of different groups of people.----Author B. P. Pai researched many different faiths, only to discover different answers to the same basic questions. “The existence of thousands of concepts of Gods and rituals made me to go into the basic question as to wh...