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Leo Anders

Are you ready to stop being a passive user and start controlling your computer?If you have ever felt frustrated by your operating system doing things you did not ask it to, or if you have hit a wall in your career because you lack specific technical skills, you have found the right guide.Linux Essentials 2025 is not just a manual for memorizing commands. It is a supportive, step-by-step mentorship designed to transform you from a curious beginner i...

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Leo Anders

Narrated by

Digital Voice Maxwell G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are you ready to stop being a passive user and start controlling your computer? If you have ever felt frustrated by your operating system or hit a wall in your career because you lack specific technical skills, this audiobook is your solution.Linux Essentials 2025 is designed to be listened to on your commute, during your workout, or while you sit at your terminal. It moves beyond rote memorization, offering a supportiv...

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Mirja Arnshav, Henrik Arnstad, Niklas Eriksson, AnnaMaria Forssberg, Ida Hughes Tidlund, Hanna Jansson, Fredrik Kämpe, Anders Linderoth

Havet har flera ansikten. Ofta rofyllt och välkomnande, men också våldsamt och dödsbringande. I årtusenden har havet varit en scen för liv, handel och krig och misslyckanden.I Facing the Sea får vi ta del av svenska erfarenheter av havet. Vi får läsa om smugglare från Åland, brittiska kapare som beslagtar svenska skepp och marinofficerare som kämpar för flaggans heder. Vi ser också vad en katastrof till sjöss eller bärgandet av ett skeppsvrak kan berätta om samhället i dåt...

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Michael Booth

**The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasi...

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Else Roesdahl

Translated by

Kirsten Williams, Susan Margeson

Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today'Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandin...

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Mike Dash

From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company’s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set...

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Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli

If you plan to use Amazon Web Services to run applications in the cloud, the end-to-end approach in this book will save you needless trial and error. You'll find practical guidelines for designing and building applications with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and a host of supporting AWS tools, with a focus on critical issues such as load balancing, monitoring, and automation.How do you move an existing application to AWS, or design your application so that it scales effectively...

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Geert Mak

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Philip Blom

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early Amsterdammers, and traces Amsterdam's progress from waterlogged settlement to a major fi...

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Anders Winroth

A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidenc...

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Julian D. Richards

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Very Short Introductions

The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross the Atlantic for the first time in European history. Highlighting the latest archaeological evidence, Julian Richards reveals the whole Viking world: their history, society and culture, and t...

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Neil Kent

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Cambridge Concise Histories

Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth century, while later chapters explore the Swedish Enlightenment, royal absolutism, the commitment to military neutrality and Pan-Scandinavianism. The author brings his account up to date by focusing on more recent developments: the rise of Soci...

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Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar

A beginner\\'s guide to storing, managing, and analyzing data with the updated features of Elastic 7.0Key FeaturesGain access to new features and updates introduced in Elastic Stack 7.0Grasp the fundamentals of Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and KibanaExplore useful tips for using Elastic Cloud and deploying Elastic Stack in production environmentsBook DescriptionThe Elastic Stack is a powerful combination o...