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Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code
In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David
Farley helps software professionals think about their work more
effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the
quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their
colleagues. Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads
at all levels of experience, Farley illuminates durable principles
at the heart of effective software development. He distills the
discipline into two core exercises: learning and exploration and
managing complexity. For each, he defines principles that can help
you improve everything from your mindset to the quality of your
code, and describes approaches proven to promote success. Farley's
ideas and techniques cohere into a unified, scientific, and
foundational approach to solving practical software development
problems within realistic economic constraints. This general,
durable, and pervasive approach to software engineering can help
you solve problems you haven't encountered yet, using today's
technologies and tomorrow's. It offers you deeper insight into what
you do every day, helping you create better software, faster, with
more pleasure and personal fulfillment. Clarify what you're trying
to accomplish Choose your tools based on sensible criteria Organize
work and systems to facilitate continuing incremental progress
Evaluate your progress toward thriving systems, not just more
"legacy code" Gain more value from experimentation and empiricism
Stay in control as systems grow more complex Achieve rigor without
too much rigidity Learn from history and experience Distinguish
"good" new software development ideas from "bad" ones Register your
book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or
corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
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Dark Sunshine
Terri Farley
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R255
R204
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'Daly's contributions to the still emergent field of ecological
economics are constant references for our peers throughout the
developing world as well as in the North. His courageous tilting at
the windmills of mainstream economic nonsense inspire us to
continue questioning: in whose interests do we continue on a
perpetual search for unlimited material satisfaction? Daly's
conception is not only of a world restricted by biophysical limits,
but also one in which poverty and deprivation are commonplace, and
where Sisyphean efforts to maintain accelerated economic growth
only exacerbate inequitable distribution. His vision of sustainable
economic welfare shed light on other aspects of our existence which
make it worth living. Thanks to Farley, Rees, El Serafy, Goodland
and other fellow travelers, we are bestowed with an excellent
collection synthesizing Daly's contributions to our work, which
will inspire our youth and their children long after we too
depart.' - Peter H. May, President, Brazilian Society for
Ecological Economics (ECOECO) 'Contributed by several eminent
thinkers, the chapters in this book herald the paradigm shift that
is needed to save the scientific framework of economics. In spite
of the conceptual inconsistencies, GDP continues to be accepted by
the nation states as the singular parameter to comprehensively
describe the health of their economy. What gets easily hidden
behind 'Market Failures ' is actually the success of cost-shifting
on the heads of the ignorant and marginalized people as 'price for
economic growth'. The chapters eloquently establish the need for
moving beyond the religious faith on a paradigm that is facing
fundamental conceptual challenges but has not addressed them with
due seriousness. What is a greater contribution of this collection
is the identification of the gaps in knowledge of economics that
need to be filled-up to arrive at some basic articulations of the
new paradigm that can throw some light on what is ecologically and
socially 'Sustainable Development'.' - Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Past
President, The Indian Society for Ecological Economics 'The title
Beyond Uneconomic Growth captures both the core of Herman Daly's
key message and the linguistic mastery that makes his texts so
enjoyable to read. The book forms a great tribute to the work of
Herman Daly by gathering a distinguished set of contributors,
covering a a wide variety of the topics that Daly has dealt with,
and pointing in new directions.' - Inge Ropke, Aalborg University,
Denmark This engaging book brings together leading ecological
economists to collectively present a definitive case for looking
beyond economic growth as the sole panacea for the world's
ecological predicament. Grounded in physics, ecology, and the
science of human behavior, contributors show how economic growth
itself has become ''uneconomic'' and adds to a ravaging of both
social and ecological cohesion. Guided by a clear moral vision that
prioritizes sustainability and justice over profit, the authors
provide a blueprint for an economy that replaces quantitative
growth with qualitative improvement to enhance human welfare while
restoring degraded ecosystems. They present solutions for many of
today's challenges, ranging from global climate change and
biodiversity loss to natural resource depletion. This
interdisciplinary work not only relates ecological economics theory
to the most urgent predicaments of the contemporary world, but also
pays tribute to the work of Herman Daly, a leading pioneer of
modern ecological economics. Researchers and faculty studying and
teaching ecological economics and environmental studies will find
value in this unprecedented book. It will also be of interest to
practitioners working to solve a variety of global environmental
issues.
Life is sweet for Katherine Langley. A freshman at the University
of Virginia, she is free from the drama of her parents'
dysfunctional marriage and ready to focus on studying to become a
nurse. Her brother, Ben, belongs to the hottest fraternity on
campus, and her new roommate, Emma, is beautiful and charming, a
party girl whose answer for a hangover is happy hour. She is also a
psychopath. When Katherine's obsessive-compulsive overprotective
brother succumbs to Emma's charms and falls dangerously off-track,
Katherine must save Ben from himself. Lives are threatened and
someone disappears on New Year's Day. The only evidence left: a
single set of footprints in the snow. From the university campus to
a cozy cottage on Carter's Creek, Virginia, Saving Ben is a
haunting tale of love and loyalty, anger management, substance
abuse, and betrayal.
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The Renegade
Terri Farley
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R510
R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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HEX (Paperback)
Jennie Farley
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R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we
tend to assume its universality. However, the meaning of childhood
is always being negotiated, not only by the imaginations of adults,
but also by nations, markets, history and children themselves. Yet,
as much as the question is considered by the social world, the
contributions in this book remind readers that children are also
active, embodied, and inquiring agents engaged in figuring a
relationship with that the world they inherit. This book’s
unifying theme, "The child in question," emerges from an
assertation that childhood has boundaries far more elastic than can
be held by the familiar notion of the innocent child developing
toward a heteronormative future. The title pays homage to the work
of sociologist, Diana Gittins, who, over twenty years ago, asked
how the shifting meanings of children and childhood impact the
lives of children. The contributions of this book examine
contemporary educational policy and practice, curriculum material,
literary and visual representations, and teacher narratives to
further probe how and why it matters that childhood, as a concept
and experience, remains as multiple and elusive as ever. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal, Curriculum Inquiry.
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The Mizzy (Hardcover)
Paul Farley
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R462
R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English
poets writing today. As usual it is impossible to summarize in
terms of theme, as his interests are too various: there's an air of
'the innocence of childhood' being viewed through the corrective
lens of worldly middle age, though, and also of mid-life, its
creeping self-consciousness and decrepitude, and the distortions of
perception that attend it; confusing encounters with tech,
modernity and its accelerated rate of change; satirical excursions
critiquing the way business and digital communications have debased
language. Farley is also interested as ever in the peripheral and
marginal and no-man's-lands - the lives of others, and their
strange occupations; the birds and unsung-by-the-pocket-guides
fauna and flora you miss. The Mizzy encapsulates one of poetry's
most capacious and eclectic imaginations.
This book provides the most comprehensive history of German
migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has
been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and
statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he
explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants
were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the
health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the
characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and
occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he
details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how
important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from
carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated
immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing
passage to America came to an end.
Climate disruption, overpopulation, biodiversity loss, the threats
of financial collapse, large-scale damage to our natural and social
environments and eroding democracy are all becoming critically
important concerns. The editors of this timely book assert that
these problems are not separate, but all stem from our overreliance
on an out-dated approach to economics that puts growth of
production and consumption above all else. Ecological economics can
help create the future that most people want - a future that is
prosperous, just, equitable and sustainable. This forward-thinking
book lays out an alternative approach that places the sustainable
wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature as the overarching goal.
Each of the book s chapters, written by a diverse collection of
scholars and practitioners, outlines a research and action agenda
for how this future can look and possible actions for its
realization. Sustainable Wellbeing Futures will be of value to
academics and students researching environmental and ecological
economics, as well as individuals interested in gaining a greater
understanding of the concept of a wellbeing future and how we might
act to achieve it. Contributors include: M. Abrams, J. Adams, G.
Alperovitz, J. Ament, D. Baker, L. Barbeiri, D. Barmes, S. Bliss,
R. Boumans, K. Brevik, P. Brown, M. Burke, B.S. Caniglia, C.
Carmichael, J.C. Castilla-Rho, R. Costanza, A. Damiano, T. Dietz,
E.M.B. Doran, B. Dube, M. Egler, J.D. Erickson, S.C. Farber, J.
Farley, L. Fioramonti, M.-J.V. Fox, K. Gallagher, T. Gladkikh, R.K.
Gould, J. Gourevitch, J. Gowdy, C. Guay-Boutet, M. Hensher, R.B.
Howarth, T. Jackson, X. Ji, D.C. Kenny, K. Kish, C. Koliba, J.
Kolodinsky, N. Kosoy, I. Kubiszewski, M.T. Lucas, V. Luzadis, D.
Markowitz, S. Marshall, J. McGlade, M. Moser, S. O'Hara, C. Orr, P.
Perez, K. Pickett, S. Posner, S. Quilley, T.H. Ricketts, A.B.
Schneider, D. Spethmann, R. Svartzman, S. Telle, K. Trebeck, J.
Valcour, M. Venkatesan, P.A. Victor, A. Voinov, S. Wallis, R.
Wilkinson, G. Yahya Haage, Y. Yoshida, E. Zencey, A. Zia
These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the
major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary
responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to
read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of
Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane
Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays
in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion,
and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant
pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order
to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each
volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a
selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry
project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins
of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways,
highlands and beaches. This anthology brings together time-honoured
classics with some of the best new writing collected across the
nation, from great monuments to forgotten byways. Featuring new
writing from Kayo Chingonyi, Gillian Clarke, Zaffar Kunial, Jo Bell
and Jen Hadfield, Places of Poetry is a celebration of the
strangeness and variety of our islands, their rich history and
momentous present.Â
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Angus Folk Tales (Paperback)
Erin Farley; Illustrated by Rowena Smith; Foreword by James Robertson
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R386
R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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Angus is a landscape of dramatic glens and rich farmland, ancient
weaving towns and fishing villages, from the city of Dundee in the
lee of the Sidlaw hills in the south, and the Grampian mountains in
the north. The tales of Angus are as varied as the landscapes they
are tied to, told through the years in castles, bothies, tenements
and Travellers' tents. Here, historical legends tell of Caterans
roaming the glens, Jacobite intrigue in Glenisla and pirates roving
the stormy waters off the Arbroath coast. Kelpies, broonies and
fairies lurk just out of sight on riverbanks and hillsides, waiting
to draw unsuspecting travellers into another world. The land bears
memories of ancient battles, and ghosts continue to walk the old
roads in the gloaming. In this collection, storyteller and local
historian Erin Farley brings you a wealth of legends and folk
tales, both familiar and surprising.
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