Open A Toolkit for How Magic & Messed Up Life Can Be is full of honest advice about the big bad & beautiful things that growing up is all about from mental health to families to first love & everything in between Gemma Cairney is an important advocate for young people & between her life experiences & her personal insight from her time as Radio 1's resident agony aunt on The Surgery she is perfectly placed to offer hope & a huge comforting cuddle to young people questioning what life's all about or dealing with hard times Along with practical help & advice from a range of experts & gorgeous illustrations this bright & colourful book also has a ribbon marker & plenty of space for readers to personalize & make it their own making Open a treasured resource to return to whenever advice is needed ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play about a woman in denial at the onset of her autumn years When Myrtle witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan it leads to a crisis of confidence in both her professional & her personal life which threatens to undermine the whole production Featuring a startling & compelling performance by Gena Rowlands which won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress in 1978 Opening Night is arguably one of John Cassavetes& most self-reflexive works & offers an insightful & intriguing evocation of the theatrical experience from both sides of the proscenium ...

A century can be understood in many ways
- in terms of its inventions its crimes or its art In Opening Skinner's Box Lauren Slater
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Ideal for outsiders volunteers & others helping out with prisoners Opening the Doors contains wise advice based on years of experience It places imprisonment in a Christian context & captures the essence of why some people end up in prison 156 pages 160 colour photos & illustrations Gill Paul ...

Keen to build web applications for the cloud? Get a quick hands-on introduction to Open Shift the open source Platform as a Service (Paa S) offering from Red Hat With this practical guide you'll learn the steps necessary to build deploy & host a complete real-world application on Open Shift without having to slog through long detailed explanations of the technologies involved Open Shift enables you to use Docker application containers & the Kubernetes cluster manager to automate the way you create ship & run applications Through the course of the book you'll learn how to use Open Shift & the Wildfly application server to build & then immediately deploy a Java application online Learn about Open Shift's core technology including Docker-based containers & Kubernetes Use a virtual machine with Open Shift installed & configured on your local environment Create & deploy your first application on the Open Shift platform Add language runtime dependencies & connect to a database Trigger an automatic rebuild & redeployment when you push changes to the repository Get a working environment up in minutes with application templates Use commands to check & debug your application Create & build Docker-based images for your application ...

Opera is traditionally regarded as an elitist art form far removed from reality by its fantastical plots & melodramatic divas This book shows that beneath the opulent sets & sumptuous costumes opera is very much a product of its time Like all the great narrative arts it draws on essential human experiences to create a form that can be endlessly reinvented to reflect a changing society Focusing on seven opera premieres in seven distinct cultural landscapes with additional essays by contemporary practitioners including Placido Domingo Antonio Pappano & Simone Young the book culminates in the international explosion of opera in the twentieth & twenty-first centuries The seven operas & premieres are Venice (Monteverdi's L' Incoranazione di Poppea 1642); London (Handel's Rinaldo 1711); Vienna (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro 1786); Milan (Verdi's Nabucco 1842); Paris (Wagner's Tannhauser 1861); Dresden (Strauss' Salome 1905) & St Petersburg (Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District 1934) ...

The ninth edition of Operating System Concepts continues to evolve to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems 880 pages Silberschatz Abraham ...

From the studio that made Demon Gaze comes Operation Abyss New Tokyo Legacy PS Vita a sci-fi dungeon crawler RPG set in a near future Tokyo With the city under the constant threat of Variants-genetically engineered monsters-and the emergence of portals leading to a mysterious dimension called the Abyss the government has established the Code Physics Agency to investigate these mysterious phenomena The Xth Squad-a unique group of teens modified by the CPA&s Code technology-must evade traps face down powerful monsters & investigate the mystery behind the Abyss Key Features An Accessible Yet Deep Dungeon Crawler A Unique Sci-Fi Story ...

From the mind of Paolo Parente comes the world of Dust Another Earth A different 1947 The Second World War has raged for nearly a decade & its grip has spread to every continent on the planet War has advanced swiftly & strangely in the Dust universe through the application of Alien VK technology — a limitless source of energy in its simplest form & an unthinkable weapon in the wrong hands Tanks have evolved into powerful combat walkers & rocket troops take to the skies The latest laser cannons phasers & Tesla weapons rule the battlefield ...

High fantasy contemporary & urban fantasy fantasy action & adventure all setin a military vein by top authors including Jonathan Maberry Tobias Buckell Elizabeth Moon Tanya Huff Glen Cook Simon R Green Seanan Mc Guire & Linda Nagata In the realms of fantasy the battlefield is where heroism comes alive magic is unleashed & legends are made & unmade From the War of the Ring Tolkien s epic battle of good versus evil to The Battle of the Blackwater George RR Martin s grim portrait of the horror & futility of war these fantastical conflicts reflect our highest hopes & darkest fears bringing us mesmerizing visions of silver spears shining in the sun & vast hordes of savage beasts who threaten to destroy all that we hold dear Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams is sounding the battle cry & sixteen of today s top authors are reporting for duty spinning never-before-published spellbinding tales of military fantasy including a Black Company story from Glen Cook a Paksenarrion story from Elizabeth Moon & a Shadow Ops story by Myke Cole Within these pages you ll also find World War I trenches cloaked in poison gas & sorcery modern day elite special forces battling hosts of the damned & steampunk soldiers fighting for their lives in a world torn apart by powers that defy imagination Featuring both grizzled veterans & fresh young recruits alike including Tanya Huff Simon R Green Carrie Vaughn Jonathan Maberry & Seanan Mc Guire Operation Arcana is a must for any military buff or fantasy fan You ll never look at war the same way again ...