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One lowly barista. One coffee-drinking dictator. John Hunt’s playful
and damning satire on political power Meet our hero Cappuccino –
barista to the President – who’s never lived anywhere other than in the
big man’s compound. Left in the care of Maria-I’m-not-your-mother when
his real mom died, Cappuccino spent his boyhood in the laundry room
before receiving his true calling.
From behind his impressive chrome coffee machine, Cappuccino is a fly
on a very important wall. And, more importantly, he is in love with the
captivating Naomi, an assistant to the President.
But life is about to serve Cappuccino a bitter cup when he finds the
Minister without Portfolio – and moral compass to The Boss – dead in
the presidential home.
Filled with warm humour, John Hunt’s novel serves up a double shot of
pathos as it moves from playful satire to true tragedy whilst examining
the inner workings of power.
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between
the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the
1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social
sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of
those important works which have since gone out of print, or are
difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total
are being brought together under the name The International
Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the
Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was
originally published in 1970 and is available individually. The
collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of
between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Religion is an essential part of our humanity. We all follow some
form of religion, in the original meaning of the word. But
organized religion establishes definitions, boundaries and
hierarchies which the founders would be amazed by. This is perhaps
more true of Christianity than most other religions, due to the
short life of Jesus, his sudden death, the lack of any contemporary
records. His teaching about the kingdom of God is great; it could
see us through our time on earth. But his followers watered it down
and soon lost it altogether. It became a kingdom in heaven for the
few, rather than one here and now for everyone. The Church, or
Churches, that resulted became increasingly irrelevant, even a
hindrance, to seeing it realized. Many will always find security
and truth in the traditions that developed, and good for them. But
for those who can't, for those who have given up on religion or
never thought it worth considering, the original teachings are
worth another look. If we could recover them and live by them, we
could change ourselves and the world for the better. We could bring
God up to date.
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between
the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the
1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social
sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of
those important works which have since gone out of print, or are
difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total
are being brought together under the name The International
Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the
Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was
originally published in 1970 and is available individually. The
collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of
between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Religion is an essential part of our humanity. We all follow some
form of religion, in the original meaning of the word. But
organised religion establishes definitions, boundaries and
hierarchies which the founders would be amazed by. This is perhaps
more true of Christianity than most other religions, due to the
short life of Jesus, his sudden death, the lack of any contemporary
records. His teaching about the kingdom of God is great; it could
see us through our time on earth. But his followers watered it down
and soon lost it altogether. It became a kingdom in heaven for the
few, rather than one here and now for everyone. The Church, or
Churches, that resulted became increasingly irrelevant, even a
hindrance, to seeing it realised. Many will always find security
and truth in the traditions that developed, and good for them. But
for those who can't, for those who have given up on religion or
never thought it worth considering, the original teachings are
worth another look. If we could recover them and live by them, we
could change ourselves and the world for the better. We could bring
God back to earth.
The North British Railway's West Highland Line, stretching from the
banks of the Firth of Clyde to Fort William, opened in 1894, and
was subsequently extended to the fishing port of Mallaig on the
Atlantic coast in 1901. It is this latter part of the `Iron Road to
the Isles' that forms the major part of this book, hailed as one of
the most scenic railway routes in the British Isles. Steam trains
returned to the Mallaig line in 1984, eventually becoming the
celebrated `Jacobite' service. Now an integral and indispensible
part of the Scottish tourist scene, the trains run from Easter to
Christmas and the New Year, twice daily during the peak season. In
this superbly illustrated portrait of the line, 35 of the UK's top
railway photographers have contributed pictures to create a quite
stunning pictorial record. The great variety of photographic
styles, using the route's many glorious vantage points, provides a
mesmerising mix of unforgettable images, not just of the steam
trains themselves but also the majestic Scottish landscape through
which they run.
This textbook is aimed at readers who have little or no knowledge
of computer programming but want to learn to program in Python. It
starts from the very basics including how to install your Python
environment, how to write a very simple program and run it, what a
variable is, what an if statement is, how iteration works using for
and while loops as well as important key concepts such as
functions, classes and modules. Each subject area is prefaced with
an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas
work in Python. The second edition has been completely updated for
the latest versions of Python including Python 3.11 and Python
3.12. New chapters have been added such as those that consider
where and how Python is used, the use of Frozensets, how data can
be sorted, enumerated types in Python, structural pattern matching
and how (and why) Python Virtual Environments are configured. A new
chapter ‘The Python Bites back’ is introduced to present the
fourteen most common / biggest gotchas for someone new to Python.
Other sections have been updated with new features such as
Exception Groups, string operations and dictionary operations. A
Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming
second Edition provides all you need to know about
Python, with numerous examples provided throughout including
several larger worked case studies illustrating the ideas presented
in the previous chapters.
The year is 2020 and President Trump has just announced that the
world is bracing itself for the effects of a huge solar storm. 17
year old Jim Richards is a gawky, unimpressive teenager in
Anchorage, Alaska. As chaos descends and society breaks down into
anarchy and violence, his family team up with others to leave the
city and take their chances in the Alaskan wilderness. They can no
longer flick a switch to get what they want, no mobile or internet,
in fact no communication at all with the wider world, how will it
play out? Jim must step up, and in doing so, find his true self,
his first love, and his destiny. How will the human race survive in
this new world? The Provider is the first of the Alaskan
Chronicles.
'This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed
with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and
came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be
the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of one
day, nor even of those few anxious, unforgettable weeks in which we
prepared and climbed this summer. It is, in fact, a tale of
sustained and tenacious endeavour by many, over a long period of
time... We of the 1953 Everest Expedition are proud to share the
glory with our predecessors.' Sir John Hunt
The railway from Grosmont to Rillington Junction, serving a largely
remote rural area of the North York Moors, closed in 1965, one of
the many victims of the infamous Beeching Report, leaving the line
from Middlesbrough as Whitby's only rail link. The closure led to
widespread concerns in the area, and thoughts turned to the
possibility of reopening the line under private ownership. A
meeting in 1967 led to the setting up of the North Yorkshire Moors
Railway Preservation Society (NYMRPS); the following year
volunteers were allowed access to what remained of the line, and
the first motive power and rolling stock arrived.In 1972 the NYMRPS
evolved into the North Yorkshire Moors Historical Railway Trust,
and a Light Railway Order was obtained, allowing the establishment
of public services. The line was formally reopened by the Duchess
of Kent on 1 May 1973, and eventually trains were running once more
throughout from Grosmont to Pickering. In 2007 it at last became
possible to run steam trains into Whitby, and the second platform
for NYMR use was rebuilt in 2014.It is now 50 years since the line
closed, and the enormous achievements by the railway's staff and
volunteers, from those first small steps right up to the present
day, can be clearly seen by anyone who enjoys a ride along this
wonderfully scenic 24-mile route from Whitby to Pickering. Could
those early preservationists back in 1967 have possibly imagined
that their project would evolve into a GBP5 million business
carrying more than 350,000 passengers a year?Taking a pictorial
journey along the entire original route from Whitby through to
Malton, this book allows the reader to compare the railway of old
and the desolation of the early closure period with today's vibrant
heritage line. In so doing, it also serves as a tribute to half a
century of progress and to the many hundreds of people who made it
all possible.
Following the success of John Hunt's previous volumes on the North
Yorkshire Moors Railway and the healthy on going demand for these
volumes, the desire for more is seemingly unabated!Considerable
further rare and interesting past images have come to light since
the publication of the third Past & Present volume in the
series and John has been persuaded to venture forth to capture the
present day scene. Many new locations have been visited and once
again responding to popular demand the line from Whitby to
Middlesborough and branches has been included in this brand new
offering.Such has been the popularity of the hardback Limited
Editions of previous Past & Present volumes with 32 extra
pages, signed by the author and including Subscribers names* we are
once again offering this Limited Edition of this new volume subject
to sufficient demand.
A graphic novel adventure from the world of Erin Hunter's #1
nationally bestselling Warriors series! In the third book of the
SkyClan and the Stranger manga arc, set after the events of
Warriors Super Edition: SkyClan's Destiny, SkyClan faces new
dangers-and welcomes a new Clanmate. Leafstar is struggling to keep
SkyClan united in the wake of the flood that destroyed their camp,
but her Clanmates are scared of what might happen next. Meanwhile,
Sol continues to demand that Leafstar make him a warrior, but
Leafstar isn't sure that Sol will ever be ready to embrace the
warrior code. As SkyClan faces another devastating challenge,
Leafstar must figure out what is best for her Clan-once and for
all.
'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value,
for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This
happened on Haramosh.' The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending
true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the
Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four
young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to
enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche
which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down
the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the
fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue
their friends, only to become stranded alongside them. The group's
efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by
injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the
odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and
head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time
to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But
another cruel twist of fate awaits them. An acclaimed
mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching
the Void, Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of
friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.
This textbook assumes very little knowledge of programming so
whether you have dabbled with a little JavaScript, played with a
bit of Python, written Java or have virtually no programming
experience at all you will find that it is for you. The first part
of the book introduces Kotlin program structures as well as
conditional flow of control features such as if and when
expressions as well as iteration loops such as for, while and
do-while. Subsequent chapters explain how functions are implemented
in Kotlin and introduce concepts from functional programming such
as higher order functions and curried functions. The second part
focusses on object oriented programming techniques, these include
classes, inheritance, abstraction and interfaces. The third part
presents container data types such as Arrays, and collections
including Lists, Sets and Maps and the fourth part considers
concurrency and parallelism using Kotlin coroutines. The book
concludes with an introduction to Android mobile application
development using Kotlin. Clear steps are provided explaining how
to set up your environment and get started writing your own Kotlin
programs. An important aspect of the book is teaching by example
and there are many examples presented throughout the chapters.
These examples are supported by a public GitHub repository that
provides complete working code as well as sample solutions to the
chapter exercises. This helps illustrate how to write well
structured, clear, idiomatic Kotlin to build real applications.
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