The Pragmatic Programmers classic is back! Freshly updated for modern software development Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 With JUnit teaches you how to write & run easily maintained unit tests in JUnit with complete confidence You'll learn mnemonics to help you know what tests to write how to remember all the boundary conditions & what the qualities of a good test are You'll see how unit tests can pay off by allowing you to keep your system code clean & you'll learn how to handle the stuff that seems too tough to test Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 With JUnit steps you through all the important unit testing topics If you've never written a unit test you'll see screen shots from Eclipse Intelli J IDEA & Net Beans that will help you get past the hard part--getting set up & started Once past the basics you'll learn why you want to write unit tests & how to effectively use JUnit But the meaty part of the book is its collected unit testing wisdom from people who've been there done that on production systems for at least 15 years veteran author & developer Jeff Langr building on the wisdom of Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas You'll learn How to craft your unit tests to minimize your effort in maintaining them How to use unit tests to help keep your system clean How to test the tough stuff Memorable mnemonics to help you remember what's important when writing unit tests How to help your team reap & sustain the benefits of unit testing You won't just learn about unit testing in theory--you'll work through numerous code examples When it comes to programming hands-on is the only way to learn! ...

Making pragmatics accessible to a wide range of students & instructors without dumbing down the content of the field this text for language professionals raises awareness & increases knowledge & understanding of how human beings use language in real situations to engage in social action fosters the ability to think critically about language data & use helps readers develop the ability to do pragmatics The book features careful explanations of topics & concepts that are often difficult for uninitiated readers a wealth of examples mostly of natural speech from collected data sources & attention to the needs of readers who are non-native speakers of English with non-Western perspectives offered when possible Suggested Readings Tasks Discussion Questions & Data Analysis sections involve readers in extending & applying what they are reading The exercises push readers to recall & synthesize the content elicit relevant personal experiences & other sources of information & engage in changing their own interactional strategies The activities go beyond a predictable framework to invite readers to carry out real life observations & experiment to make doing pragmatics a nonjudgmental everyday practice ...

Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house Bernie accepts reluctantly especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS & SD The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked from the inside If Bernie fails to solve this impossible mystery; not only is his reputation at stake but also that of Reinhard Heydrich a man who cannot bear to lose face ...

From the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka from the devastation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart & Dvorak Prague is steeped in a wealth of history & culture This is a history of this city ...

' The emperor's mistress had been murdered & the world had been taken hold of & turned upon its head' Prague 1599 Christian Stern a young doctor has just arrived in the city On his first evening he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow The dead woman is none other than the emperor's mistress & there's no shortage of suspects Stern is employed by the emperor himself to investigate the murder In the search to find the culprit Stern finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the emperor's court
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' Just as gripping as the original novels As pacy & vivid as one of Wilder's own narratives this surprising biography is immensely revealing both about Wilder & about America's founding myths' Sunday Times' Little House devotees will appreciate the extraordinary care & energy Fraser devotes to uncovering the details of a life that has been expertly veiled by myth' New York Times Book Review Millions of readers of the ' Little House' books believe they know Laura Ingalls Wilder
- the pioneer girl who survived blizzards & near-starvation on the Great Plains as her family chased their American dream But the true story of her life has never been fully told Drawing on unpublished manuscripts letters diaries & public records Caroline Fraser masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography uncovering the grown-up story behind the best-loved childhood epic of pioneer life Set against nearly a century of unimaginable change from the Homestead Act & the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl & the Great Depression Wilder's life was full of drama & adversity Settling on the frontier amid l&-rush speculation her family endured Biblical tribulations of locusts & drought poverty & want before she left at the age of eighteen to marry Almanzo This is where the books end but there is so much more to tell; deep in debt after a series of personal tragedies Laura & Almanzo uprooted themselves once again crisscrossing the country taking menial jobs to support the family In middle age she began writing a farm advice column prodded by her journalist daughter Rose & at the age of sixty fearing the loss of almost everything in the Depression she turned to children's books recasting her extraordinarily difficult childhood as a triumphal vision of homesteading
- achieving fame & fortune in the process Laura Ingalls Wilder's life is one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches stories in American letters Offering fresh insight & new discoveries Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman who defined the American pioneer character & whose artful blend of fact & fiction grips us to this day

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Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls
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Erasmus of Rotterdam (c 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential Praise of Folly written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More is Erasmus's best-known work Its dazzling mixture of fantasy & satire is narrated by a personification of Folly dressed as a jester who celebrates youth pleasure drunkenness & sexual desire & goes on to lambast human pretensions foibles & frailties to mock theologians & monks & to praise the 'folly' of simple Christian piety Erasmus's wit wordplay & wisdom made the book an instant success but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism The Letter to Maarten van Dorp which is a defence of his ideas & methods is also included ...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019A powerful well-researched fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious & the open-minded Mc Fadden Bernice L ...

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