It's 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, and lifelong friends, are unwilling participants in a horrific event that results in a young man's death.One of the friends harbors a tragic secret that could have prevented the crime. Divulging it would ruin his life, so he stays quiet, fully aware he will carry a stain of guilt for the rest of his li...

On a frigid January day on London's Whitehall in 1843, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel M'Naghten guns down Edward Drummond, believing him to be British Prime Minister Robert Peel. M'Naghten, who sympathizes with the Chartist cause in Great Britain, claims he intended to murder the Prime Minister-a Tory-because he blames Peel for persecution by the Tories in his home city of Glasgow. Queen Victoria, incensed at the most recent attempt on a high government official's life, demands that M'...

Trauma-bonded kindred spirits Wes Valentine and Tyler Gill try to support one another in the face of incessant high school bullying. The principal and administrators won’t intervene because the bullies are star athletes. Counselor Sam Bazewell wants to help but is powerless to make any real changes. Bazewell assures them things will get better, but Wes and Tyler decide they’re tired of waiting.

A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS headquarters in London; subseq...

A DESCRIPTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE CRUCIFIXION, DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.

This issue, we have a pair of original tales—Aeryn Rudel’s “The Past, History” (which served double-duty as both science fiction and a crime story, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Janet Law’s urban fantasy, “The Fountain of Youth.” We also have a pair of stories that fall squarely in the Weird Tales vein, one by fantasy master Seabury Quinn and one by Malcolm Jameson, best known for his military SF tales—this time, he serves up sci-fi horror in South America, com...

Der Bestseller von Gamma und Co. in komplett neuer Übersetzung Das Standardwerk für die objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung Zeitlose und effektive Lösungen für wiederkehrende Aufgaben im Softwaredesign Mit Design Patterns lassen sich wiederkehrende Aufgaben in der objektorientierten Softwareentwicklung effektiv lösen. Die Autoren stellen einen Katalog einfacher und prägnanter Lösungen für häufig auftretende Aufgabenstellungen vor. Mit diesen 23 Patterns können Softwareentwickler flexible...

Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch designers present a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems. Previously undocumented, these 23 patterns allow designers to create more flexible, elegant, and ultimately reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves.The authors begin by describing what patterns are and how they can help you design object-oriented softwar...

A comprehensive field guide to the birds of OmanOman is a truly amazing birding destination. In terms of avifauna it lies at the crossroads between Asian and African species – Arabian desert species to the north, and a host of Afrotropical species occurring in the monsoon-swept south that don't occur anywhere else in the Western Palaearctic, while also being a destination for Palearctic migrants.With much of the Middle East now effectively off-limits to bir...

"Helm for Kubernetes Deployment""Helm for Kubernetes Deployment" is a definitive resource for modern cloud-native engineers seeking mastery in Kubernetes application management through Helm. The book thoughtfully navigates the reader from foundational Kubernetes constructs and the motivations behind package management, to a deep exploration of Helm’s architecture, workflows, and impact within complex deployments. By contextualizing the rise of Helm alongside alternative tools, it p...

WINNER OF THE BIRDWATCH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's cuckoos, couas and anis - it is the ultimate reference to the cuckoos of the world.Famed as brood-parasites of other birds, the cuckoos include a diverse range of species, from the roadrunners of North America to the spectacular malkohas of southern Asia.This book discusses ...

A photographic field guide to the amazing avifauna of the Middle East.The Middle East enjoys a wonderfully diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic and sometimes colourful breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else.The ideal companion for any wildlife-friendly visitor, Birds of the Middle East provides photographic coverage of more than 320 species that regularly occur in the region.Conc...