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ZooKeeper

Distributed Process Coordination

by Flavio Junqueira, Benjamin Reed ...

Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out
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Under Story

by Chloe Benjamin ...

Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed ...

Unabridged

17 hours

**The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story—and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamin’s place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers.“We wake up to ... Read more

$29.99 USD

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**The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story—and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamin’s place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers.“We wake up to
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When My Time Comes

Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End

by Diane Rehm ...

Narrated by Diane Rehm, Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner, Jim Frangione, Kevin R. Free, Neil Hellegers, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Maggi-Meg Reed, Suzanne Toren, Benjamin Zide0 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

The renowned radio host and one of the most trusted voices in the nation candidly and compassionately addresses the hotly contested right-to-die movement, of which she is one of our most inspiring champions. The basis for the acclaimed PBS series.Through interviews with terminally ill patients and their relatives, as well as physicians, ethicists, religious leaders, and representatives of both ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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The renowned radio host and one of the most trusted voices in the nation candidly and compassionately addresses the hotly contested right-to-die movement, of which she is one of our most inspiring champions. The basis for the acclaimed PBS series.Through interviews with terminally ill patients and their relatives, as well as physicians, ethicists, religious leaders, and representatives of both
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Field Research in Political Science

Practices and Principles

by Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M. MacLean, Benjamin L. Read ...

Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of
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Roots of the State

Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei

by Benjamin Read ...

Series series Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations of state corporatism. Roots of the State examines neighborhood associations in Beijing and Taipei that occupy a unique ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations of state corporatism. Roots of the State examines neighborhood associations in Beijing and Taipei that occupy a unique
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Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia

Straddling state and society

Edited by Benjamin L. Read, Robert Pekkanen ...

Series series Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia
This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet remain only dimly understood. This book shines a ... Read more

$68.99 USD

This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet remain only dimly understood. This book shines a
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The Midnight Howl (ebook)

by Benjamin Read, Laura Trinder ...

Series Book 2 - The Midnight Hour
The second spellbinding adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.' M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY on book 1'Fans of Nevermoor will love this' THE BOOKSELLER on book 1'I haven't enjoyed this kind of caper so much since<... ... Read more

$7.99 USD

The second spellbinding adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.' M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY on book 1'Fans of Nevermoor will love this' THE BOOKSELLER on book 1'I haven't enjoyed this kind of caper so much since<...
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The Midnight Hunt (ebook)

by Benjamin Read, Laura Trinder ...

Series Book 3 - The Midnight Hour
The third and final adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.' M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY on book 1'Fans of Nevermoor will love this' THE BOOKSELLER on book 1'I haven't enjoyed this kind of caper so much ... ... Read more

$7.99 USD

The third and final adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.' M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY on book 1'Fans of Nevermoor will love this' THE BOOKSELLER on book 1'I haven't enjoyed this kind of caper so much ...
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Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

by Benjamin Britten ...

The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan ( The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier ( ... Read more

$18.99 USD

The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan ( The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (
... Read more
Porcelain: Bone China

by Benjamin Read ...

More than a decade has passed since the events of Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale, and Child has become Lady. Inheritor of all of Uncle’s secrets and wealth, she has continued his work, becoming equally as isolated in her quest to refine the Porcelain and put right past mistakes. With the Porcelain more sought after than ever, Lady comes to the attention of a ruthlessly ambitious General who ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

More than a decade has passed since the events of Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale, and Child has become Lady. Inheritor of all of Uncle’s secrets and wealth, she has continued his work, becoming equally as isolated in her quest to refine the Porcelain and put right past mistakes. With the Porcelain more sought after than ever, Lady comes to the attention of a ruthlessly ambitious General who
... Read more
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The Midnight Hunt

by Benjamin Read, Laura Trinder ...

Narrated by Victoria Fox ...

Series series The Midnight Hour
Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

The third and final adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!Emily and Tarkus are back again in one last adventure to save the Midnight Hour. Their old adversary the Nocturne is determined to destroy their beloved magical world and everyone in it. With the added peril of the villainous Hunt, whose mission it is to Make Britain Dark Again, the barrier between ... Read more

$13.17 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The third and final adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!Emily and Tarkus are back again in one last adventure to save the Midnight Hour. Their old adversary the Nocturne is determined to destroy their beloved magical world and everyone in it. With the added peril of the villainous Hunt, whose mission it is to Make Britain Dark Again, the barrier between
... Read more
The Midnight Hour

by Benjamin Read, Laura Trinder ...

Series Book 1 - The Midnight Hour
The first spellbinding adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.' M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY'Fans of Nevermoor will love this' THE BOOKSELLER'I haven't enjoyed this kind of caper so much since Harry Potter*'* ... ... Read more

$7.99 USD

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The first spellbinding adventure in Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder's magical Midnight Hour series!'A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.' M.G. LEONARD, author of BEETLE BOY'Fans of Nevermoor will love this' THE BOOKSELLER'I haven't enjoyed this kind of caper so much since Harry Potter*'* ...
... Read more

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