Learn all that's needed to build a fully functional web application from scratch.Key FeaturesDelve deep into the principle behind RESTful APILearn how to build a scalable web application with the RESTful API architecture and Flask frameworkKnow what are the exact tools and methodology to test your applications and how to use themBook DescriptionPython is a flexible language that can be used for much more than just script deve...

Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book addresses topics ...

On behalf of the staff, the contributors, and myself, I’d like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. (You may all burst into traditional Thanksgiving carols, should you wish.)Here’s our holiday lineup:Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:“The Restavek,” by Neil S. Plakcy [Michael Bracken Presents short story]“The Case of the Tipsy Turkey,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]“he Final Course,” by Stacy Woodson [Barb Goffman Presents...

Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast is guaranteed to make readers laugh, imagine, write, and dream.**“A quick-witted delight.”—**Kirkus Reviews (starred review)**“Perfectly in pitch.”—**Publishers Weekly (starred review)**“A well-written, must-have collection of poems.”—**School Library Journal (starred review)A collection from the celebrated inaugural Young People’s Poet Laureate and bestselling poet J...

Since the 2010s, all levels of governments in Canada have gradually initiated social procurement as a policy tool to further their social values and political agendas. Social enterprises of various shapes and sizes across the country have served as partners in the execution of those agendas. Selling Social examines the experiences of these enterprises in social procurement and social purchasing.Selling Social presents the findings of a three-year Canadian research...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. The best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's first year. Mysterious languages, unusual dogs, solitude, alien communications, and magic. Stories from Joshua Phillip Johnson, Elise Forier Edie, Vanessa Fogg, Gerald Warfield, Meryl Stenhouse, Jeremy Packert Burke, Molly Etta, Jack Noble, Aatif Rashid, L. Chan, Kato Thompson, Jarod K. Anderson, and Octavia Cade. Contents:

Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce who lives on the margins of society.Using a variety of research methods, the contributors examine the work of social purpose enterprises in a range of businesses including food services, child care, f...

The fourteen stories in this publication comprise a spectrum of characters and events that have helped forge an image of an island its people and its culture that is unique and compelling. Heroic deeds great achievements hardships and deprivation disasters superstitions and customs as well as the Beothuk saga and the indomitable character of our ancestors have all contributed to the making of the modern-day Newfoundland and Labrador. Many of these stories are based on actual events that ha...

“An insightful guide to the forces shaping our economy” that explores the far-ranging implications of the shift to crowd-based capitalism—with case studies on Uber, Airbnb, and others (Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google)Sharing isn’t new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the “sharing economy,” is that you are not helping a fr...

The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.Far from her village when the conflicts start, Bi...

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulat...

A “playful, witty, and entertaining” book (The New York Times Book Review) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven—from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompass...