Can you be a virtuous in a world without values?Should you abstain from pre-marital sex?What is God's purpose for women and your body?Does God agree with the secular feminists?This book is packed with information that will answer your pressing questions about sex, marriage, divorce, abortions, feminism, and other important life issues. It's the perfect guide to use when teaching your sons and daughters about sex, how to grow up as ladies and gentlemen. God's tru...

Who needs this information? Every woman who does not want to become another rape victim. In this book, you will find some excellent advice on how to avoid rape. The most important chapter in this material is about “Rape.” After all; spy technology can be used for that purpose as well as spying. Be certain that rape will never stop happening, but there is a lot that can be done to lessen the likelihood of it happening to you. After you have had your identity stolen or been raped, it is too ...

This practical book demonstrates why C++ is still one of the dominant production-quality languages for financial applications and systems. Many programmers believe that C++ is too difficult to learn. Author Daniel Hanson demonstrates that this is no longer the case, thanks to modern features added to the C++ Standard beginning in 2011.Financial programmers will discover how to leverage C++ abstractions that enable safe implementation of financial models. You’ll also explore how pop...

After you have become a victim, it is too late to start getting educated. Get your education here! Each threat is presented, analyzed, and tips are provided for thwarting the threat. It's a 'must have' book for anyone concerned about personal safety and information security in today's high-tech world.You will find some excellent advice on how to avoid sexual assault. No other book discusses the technology that can be used against you and how it can lead to sexual assault. Be certain...

Caring is a nitty-gritty process. Cultivating Common Ground teaches us how to care at work with real life experiences, rather than through conceptual thinking alone. Caring relationships to our work and each other give meaning to our work and provide a powerful source of energy for our organizations. Therefore, we must release relationships from their hiding place in the informal structure of the organization. The way to do that is to work together, to cultivate common ground, in order to ...

Kenkey for Ewes & Other Very Short Stories' is a collection of 50 stories that are considered to be some of the best published works on the Flash Fiction Ghana Blog (flashfictionghana.com).'Kenkey for Ewes' is based around themes of modern African identity, love and respect for the dead, cruelty and greed and the enigmatic influence of fate and fortune.From worlds inhabited by ghosts and talking twigmen, forlorn immigrants and greedy fetish priests -to the perennial, humoro...

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may realize too late that his success will permanently alter his future.

Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential for building high-performance applications. Java SE 5 and 6 are a huge step forward for the development of concurrent applications, with improvements to the Java Virtual Machine to support high-performance, highly scalable concurrent classes and a rich set of new concurrency building blocks. In Java Concurrency in Practice, ...

Not everything you see on your favorite crime show is accurate. In fact, a lot of it is flat out wrong. Police Procedure & Investigation helps you get your facts straight about the inner workings of law enforcement.With a career in law enforcement that spanned nearly two decades, author Lee Lofland is a nationally acclaimed expert on police procedures and crime scene investigations who consults regularly with best-selling authors and television producers. Now you can benef...

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals.Youâ??ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Sparkâ??s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building ...

In 1994, Design Patterns changed the landscape of object-oriented development by introducing classic solutions to recurring design problems. In 1999, Refactoring revolutionized design by introducing an effective process for improving code. With the highly anticipated Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky has changed our approach to design by forever uniting patterns with the evolutionary process of refactoring.This book introduces the...

This insider's account of the NYC medical examiner's office takes readers from an average day in the autopsy room to the tragic aftermath of 9/11.For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Ribowsky led the investigations of more than eight thousand individual deaths, becoming a key figure in some of New York's most bizarre d...