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How to Face Life

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How to face life, how to prepare for life, are questions that must be answered by those who believe, as Lecky put it, that the “map of life” must be marked out, that in the words of Emerson there is such a thing as the “conduct of life” which man is free to determine. We are assured incessantly in these days that we must enter upon a great programme of preparedness for war,—back of which urging ... Read more

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How to face life, how to prepare for life, are questions that must be answered by those who believe, as Lecky put it, that the “map of life” must be marked out, that in the words of Emerson there is such a thing as the “conduct of life” which man is free to determine. We are assured incessantly in these days that we must enter upon a great programme of preparedness for war,—back of which urging
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Learn Kotlin Programming

A comprehensive guide to OOP, functions, concurrency, and coroutines in Kotlin 1.3

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Delve into the world of Kotlin and learn to build powerful Android and web applicationsKey FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of Kotlin to write high-quality codeTest and debug your applications with the different unit testing frameworks in KotlinExplore Kotlin's interesting features such as null safety, reflection, and annotationsBook DescriptionKotlin is a general-purpose programming language used ... Read more

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Delve into the world of Kotlin and learn to build powerful Android and web applicationsKey FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of Kotlin to write high-quality codeTest and debug your applications with the different unit testing frameworks in KotlinExplore Kotlin's interesting features such as null safety, reflection, and annotationsBook DescriptionKotlin is a general-purpose programming language used
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Programming Kotlin

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Familiarize yourself with all of Kotlin's features with this in-depth guideKey Features? Introduction to running, setup and tools of Kotlin code ? Writing structured and readable object-oriented code using new features alongside lambdas and higher order functions ? Writing unit tests and integrating Kotlin tests with Java code in a transitioning code base ? Guide through testing, concurrency and ... Read more

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Familiarize yourself with all of Kotlin's features with this in-depth guideKey Features? Introduction to running, setup and tools of Kotlin code ? Writing structured and readable object-oriented code using new features alongside lambdas and higher order functions ? Writing unit tests and integrating Kotlin tests with Java code in a transitioning code base ? Guide through testing, concurrency and
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte

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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributors—historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars—the editors provide a comprehensive view of a community’s experience with desegregation and economic development. Here we see ... Read more

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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributors—historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars—the editors provide a comprehensive view of a community’s experience with desegregation and economic development. Here we see
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Nicolo Paganini

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The Genoese—thrifty and industrious—bore no very good moral character at that time; but they were then perhaps not alone in that respect. Little information is available concerning the family of Paganini. ... Read more

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Charlotte, NC

The Global Evolution of a New South City

by William Graves, Heather A. Smith, Derek H. Alderman, Owen J. Furuseth, José L.S. Gámez, David Goldfield, Tom Hanchett, Isaac Heard Jr., Gerald L. Ingalls0, Ronald V. Kalafsky1, Jonathan Kozar2, Matthew D. Lassiter3, Emily Thomas Livingstone4, Ronald L. Mitchelson5, Tyrel G. Moore6, Stephen Samuel Smith7, David Walters8 ...

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is ... Read more

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The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is
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Traffic Stop

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Imagine being stopped on a cross-country trip by the police for a traffic infraction. Then being held in a farmhouse by those officers far away from civilization in the most depraved conditions. If you can, then you have the premimise for this novel. ... Read more

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Triumph of the City

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

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The Gentleman Mentor

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He calls himself the Gentleman Mentor.Just reading his ad makes me feel more alive than I have in years.He promises to teach me the art of seduction … and show me the most sinfully erotic pleasures. He’s going to help me become the kind of confident, sexy woman men can’t ignore.Six lessons … with the most gorgeous man … who happens to be a Dom.The only problem … now that I’ve experienced his brand
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The New Urban Crisis

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

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In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

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A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications

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Being highly flexible in building dynamic, database-driven web applications makes the PHP programming language one of the most popular web development tools in use today. It also works beautifully with other open source tools, such as the MySQL database and the Apache web server. However, as more web sites are developed in PHP, they become targets for malicious attackers, and developers need to ... Read more

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Being highly flexible in building dynamic, database-driven web applications makes the PHP programming language one of the most popular web development tools in use today. It also works beautifully with other open source tools, such as the MySQL database and the Apache web server. However, as more web sites are developed in PHP, they become targets for malicious attackers, and developers need to
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How to Kill a City

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“An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... Read more

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