Bitter and lonely, Jack Frost wishes for a special holiday - one filled with family and friends, but it was impossible. His usual solitary travels leave him wandering from window to window, watching happy folks celebrate the holiday season, which only hardens his resolve, until he spots a car slide off the road into a ditch...

This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s. It concludes with the Internet’s explosive growth since 1995. Across these four periods, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe the steady trend toward miniaturization and explain its consequences for the bundles of interacting components that make up a computer system. With...

Il volume chiude la trilogia dedicata alla prima pubblicazione italiana del teatro di Seumas O'Kelly.Tornano anche in questi tre atti unici la moderna sensibilità e i temi cari al teatro del drammaturgo irlandese: la lotta per la terra coltivabile, accentrata nelle mani degli occupanti inglesi e dei loro sostenitori locali; la tensione tra conservazione del ricordo e della tradizione e ricerca di nuove opportunità, che logora i rapporti familiari; e ancora la forza delle protagonist...

This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s. It concludes with the Internet’s explosive growth since 1995. Across these four periods, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe the steady trend toward miniaturization and explain its consequences for the bundles of interacting components that make up a computer system. With...

Seumas O'Kelly è perfettamente a proprio agio con la scrittura per il teatro, dove sembra trovare specialmente negli atti unici, peraltro i più apprezzati dal suo pubblico, la propria misura più specifica. Fonte della sua scrittura teatrale è l’osservazione diretta. Pochi sono i riferimenti libreschi e letterari; modelli costanti sono la gente, le parole e i fatti reali della contea di Galway della sua infanzia e prima giovinezza; proprio nel periodo in cui la lotta dei braccianti irlandes...

Nessun personaggio di Seumas O’Kelly è mai bianco o nero, non c’è distinzione netta tra buoni e cattivi; tutti sono allo stesso tempo in qualche modo colpevoli e vittime, possono avere biechi egoismi e slanci di buon cuore.Per la prima volta in italiano il teatro di uno dei drammaturghi più divertenti e sensibili nella letteratura irlandese di inizio '900, la cui voce troppo presto è stata azzittita dall’insensata brutalità dell’occupazione britannica.Traduzione e nota introd...

Deliver maximum value to customers and clients with this blueprint to customer successIn The Customer Education Playbook: How Leading Companies Engage, Convert, and Retain Customers, customer learning experts Barry Kelly and Daniel Quick explain how teaching customers to best engage with your products and services is the key to converting them from prospects to loyal advocates of your brand.In this book, you'll examine how to define success for you...

Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making different—more structure-facing—decisions. In Somebody Should Do Something, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly...

In the captivating pages of "Sun Shadows," Ella Wheeler Wilcox weaves a tapestry of love, loss, and the enduring power of the human spirit. Follow the journey of a young woman named Ruth as she navigates the complexities of marriage, motherhood, and the search for fulfillment. Through her trials and triumphs, Ruth discovers the resilience of her own heart and the transformative nature of love. With its poignant prose and timeless themes, "Sun Shadows" is a literary masterpiece that will re...

A year ago, she begged me to stay. A year later, it’s my turn to beg her not to go.My obsession. My downfall.I tried to resist, to keep her at a distance. I tried to save myself.But no one will be saved here, not even a selfish bastard like me.My life has always been about sport and family, including my stupid brothers. Until that night, the night I made the worst decision of my life. And I’m still paying the price for it.We both are.But the ...

Explore a harrowing real-life account of the Black Death from the survivors who lived to tell the tale.Offering a gritty and eye-opening exploration of what it was like to live during London in 1665 – the year the bubonic plague struck the city and left a trail of death and destruction in its wake – this incredible book lets readers peer into the past and uncover a unique glimpse into the life and struggles of Londoners over four hundred years ago.Seen th...

Examine the New Testament from within the living tradition of the Catholic ChurchIn this addition to the successful Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, two respected scholars and Bible teachers interpret James and First, Second, and Third John from within the living tradition of the Church.The CCSS relates Scripture to Christian life today, is faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to help pastoral ministers, lay readers, and stu...