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 ...

Design deploy & maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (Iaa S) using the open source Open Stack platform In this practical guide experienced developers & Open Stack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures as well as how to perform daily administration tasks Designed for horizontal scalability Open Stack lets you build a cloud by integrating several technologies This approach provides flexibility but knowing which options to use can be bewildering Once you complete this book you Oll know the right questions to ask while you organize compute storage & networking resources If you already know how to manage multiple Ubuntu machines & maintain My SQL you Ore ready to Set up automated deployment & configuration Design a single-node cloud controller Use metrics to improve scalability Explore compute nodes network design & storage Install Open Stack packages Use an example architecture to help simplify decision-making Build a working environment to explore an Iaa S cloud Manage users projects "as Tackle maintenance debugging & network troubleshooting Monitor log backup & restore ...

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) ...

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 ...

From Tolkien&s Battle of Helm&s Deep to George RR Martin&s Blackwater to Elizabeth Moon&s Civil War of Fintha it is in the battles of epic fantasy sword & sorcery & contemporary fantasy where heroism comes alive magic is unleashed & legends are made & unmade Here are stories on the military side of both high fantasy contemporary fantasy & urban fantasy These tales feature beautifully crafted worlds of a past & present filled with magic & mayhem
- all served up by a range of top authors including Jonathan Maberry Tobias Buckell Elizabeth Moon Tanya Huff Glen Cook Simon R Green Seanan Mc Guire & Linda Nagata
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare This series features captured German & Russian film footage much of which has never been seen before For decades the Cold War prevented us from looking closely at what really happened between the Russians & the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II More than a struggle between nations it pitted maniacal tyrant against maniacal tyrant evil ideology against evil ideology The lives of tens of millions of human beings were consumed by its raging hatreds & appalling indignities One in every ten Russians died One in every four Poles died Whole divisions of Italians Romanians Hungarians disappeared with barely a trace An average of 17800 people died on every single day & this the war on the Russian German Front lasted for 1400 days The series is narrated with chilling precision by actor Douglas Rain The script by producer Jerry Lawton is dark & powerful The music by composer Rick Hyslop captures every nuance of tragedy with discordant clarity The series features captured German & Russian film footage much of which has never been seen in the United States ...