Vincent Smith's Asoka: The Buddhist Emperor offers a rich historical account of one of ancient India's most remarkable rulers. After a brutal early reign marked by conquest, Asoka experienced a profound moral transformation following the Kalinga War. Embracing Buddhism, he became a patron of nonviolence, tolerance, and ethical governance. Smith traces Asoka's reforms, inscriptions, and missionary efforts, providing insight into both his political acumen and spiritual depth. The bo...

Learn how some Go-specific language features help to simplify building web scrapers along with common pitfalls and best practices regarding web scraping.Key FeaturesUse Go libraries like Goquery and Colly to scrape the webCommon pitfalls and best practices to effectively scrape and crawlLearn how to scrape using the Go concurrency modelBook DescriptionWeb scraping is the process of extracting information from the web using va...

Mystic River Mermaid is the charming story of a girl and her grandmother who have an encounter with a mermaid. Readers join Veronica and her Grandma on their adventures and also learn about an important environmental preservation activity.

Meet the animals that witnessed and participated in the events of the American Revolution for Independence. Join Paul Revere's horse Brown Beauty, William Dawes' horse Murray, Samuel Prescott's horse Lady, and their animal friends as they tell their tales of the American Patriots' fight for Freedom.

No one can serve two Gods (God and gods) for either he/she will hate the one and love the other, or else he/she will hold on to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. "Remember the creator and the days of your youth before evil and the days that will come when you have no pleasure in them. Remember the days when the watchmen of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow. Remember when you shall be afraid of that which is high and the fears shall be in the way....

This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at ‘China English’ through the academic writing of Chinese students at a British university.The volume seeks to blur the simplistic binary of ‘Chinglish’, a broad term often understood to encompass grammatical or lexical errors or seemingly ‘unnatural’ expressions, and ‘China English’, which the authors articulate here as its own variety, as evidenced in language use marke...

Something as simple as adding some purposeful daily movement into your life can make you feel so much younger it’s about taking the time to invest in yourself so that your body can heal in a natural way.You can think of the right movements as instructions to your body and mind that will allow you to feel re-energized at exactly the right moment. Precisely what you want to hear when you’re looking to change the way you approach your golden years.Insi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Something as simple as adding some purposeful daily movement into your life can make you feel so much younger it’s about taking the time to invest in yourself so that your body can heal in a natural way.You can think of the right movements as instructions to your body and mind that will allow you to feel re-energized at exactly the right moment. Precisely what you want to hear when you’re looking to change the w...

Something as simple as adding some purposeful daily movement into your life can make you feel so much younger it’s about taking the time to invest in yourself so that your body can heal in a natural way.You can think of the right movements as instructions to your body and mind that will allow you to feel re-energized at exactly the right moment. Precisely what you want to hear when you’re looking to change the way you approach your golden years.Insi...

The Emperor Kami Yamato Ihare-biko's personal name was Hiko-hoho-demi. [This is the legendary conquerer known to later ages as Jimmu Tenno.] He was the fourth child of Hiko-nagisa-take-u-gaya-fuki-ahezu no Mikoto. His mother's name was Tama-yori-hime, daughter of the Sea-god. From his birth, this Emperor was of clear intelligence and resolute will. At the age of fifteen he was made heir to the throne. When be grew up, he married Ahira-tsu-hime, of the district of Ata in the province of Hiu...

Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Python is considered easy to learn, but there's no quicker way to mastery of the language than learning from an expert teacher. This edition of Learning Python puts you in the hands of two expert teachers, Mark Lutz and David Ascher, whose friendly, well-structured prose has guided many a programmer to profici...

A “surprising and powerful” (The Millions) book of poetry that’s short enough to read in a single sitting, but full of messages big enough to stay with you—from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time, the subject of the award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light.Just to be clear, I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate heavens for all...