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Archipelago Anthology (Paperback): Alice Oswald, Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Sinead Morrisey, Andrew McNeillie, Seamus... Archipelago Anthology (Paperback)
Alice Oswald, Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Sinead Morrisey, Andrew McNeillie, …
R728 R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Save R61 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by scholar-poet Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine the relationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought together established and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the study of islands, coasts and waterways. It journeys from the Shetlands to Cornwall, from the Aran Islands to the coast of Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through some of the best in contemporary writing about place and people. This collection gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the Irish and British archipelago, with contributions from an array of significant artists. With fifty contributors, Archipelago: A Reader includes: Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with seven published collections, the most recent being Collected Poems (2021). Deirdre Ni Chonghaile is a graduate of the University of Oxford and University College Cork. She is associated with NUI, Galway, and the University of Notre Dame, and is known for her work in music studies. Tim Dee is a naturalist, BBC radio producer and author of The Running Sky (2018). Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was born in Northern Ireland. His career included teaching at Harvard and Oxford. He received many awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995. Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish writer whose work has appeared internationally. She has taught poetry at the University of Stirling since 2010. Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet, and winner of the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the PEN Pinter Prize in 2017. Robert Macfarlane is a Writing Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has won the EM Forster Award for Literature. Derek Mahon (1941-2020) was a Northern Irish poet. He won the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Poetry Now Award. Andrew McNeillie is a Welsh poet and current Literature Editor at Oxford University Press. His memoir An Aran Keening was published by The Lilliput Press, and he is founder of the Clutag Press and publisher of the Archipelago series. Sinead Morrisey is a Northern Irish winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize. She has taught in Belfast and Newcastle. 'Archipelago met and extended my own strong sense that there was a need to turn the compass-rose of some storytelling and art in Britain and Ireland away from the south and east and towards the north and west; away from the metropolis and towards the margins.' -Robert Macfarlane

Reliable Machine Learning - Applying SRE Principles to ML in Production (Paperback): Cathy Chen, Niall Richard Murphy, Kranti... Reliable Machine Learning - Applying SRE Principles to ML in Production (Paperback)
Cathy Chen, Niall Richard Murphy, Kranti Parisa, D Sculley, Todd Underwood
R1,538 R1,348 Discovery Miles 13 480 Save R190 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whether you're part of a small startup or a planet-spanning megacorp, this practical book shows data scientists, SREs, and business owners how to run ML reliably, effectively, and accountably within your organization. You'll gain insight into everything from how to do model monitoring in production to how to run a well-tuned model development team in a product organization. By applying an SRE mindset to machine learning, authors and engineering professionals Cathy Chen, Kranti Parisa, Niall Richard Murphy, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood, and featured guests show you how to run an efficient ML system. Whether you want to increase revenue, optimize decision-making, solve problems, or understand and influence customer behavior, you'll learn how to perform day-to-day ML tasks while keeping the bigger picture in mind. You'll examine: What ML is: how it functions and what it relies on Conceptual frameworks for understanding how ML "loops" work Effective "productionization," and how it can be made easily monitorable, deployable, and operable Why ML systems make production troubleshooting more difficult, and how to get around them How ML, product, and production teams can communicate effectively

Of Its Time and of Its Place : The Work of Richard Murphy Architects (Hardcover): Richard Murphy Of Its Time and of Its Place : The Work of Richard Murphy Architects (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Formed in 1991, Richard Murphy Architects' early reputation was built on highly crafted and innovative domestic work in Edinburgh, Scotland. The practice has grown both in size and range of commissions, working across the UK and Ireland, in Europe and Sri Lanka and, more than two decades on, has amassed an extensive portfolio, designing buildings and spaces for the arts, education, housing, health, public and community use, as well as masterplanning. Richard Murphy Architects makes careful responses to complex contexts--whether insertion, extension or new-build, the practice's projects develop a dialogue between existing and new, intimacy and scale. large or small scale, public or private, each scheme harnesses plan, form, materials and detailing to produce a subtle, sensitively-considered result. Covering projects from Edinburgh's fruitmarket gallery to the British high commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from schemes for large housing association clients to the intimate scale of the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Edinburgh, this survey of Richard Murphy Architects' work presents a series of fascinating projects, and charts the development of a key contemporary architectural practice from the late twentieth century into the twenty-first.

Site Reliability Engineering (Paperback): Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Petoff, Chris Jones, Niall Richard Murphy Site Reliability Engineering (Paperback)
Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Petoff, Chris Jones, Niall Richard Murphy
R1,556 R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Save R497 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You'll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient-lessons directly applicable to your organization. This book is divided into four sections: Introduction-Learn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practices Principles-Examine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE) Practices-Understand the theory and practice of an SRE's day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systems Management-Explore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use

Mental Health Law in Nursing (Paperback, New): Richard Murphy, Philip Wales Mental Health Law in Nursing (Paperback, New)
Richard Murphy, Philip Wales
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mental health nursing students need to understand their legal duties towards all clients, including specific laws for care of detained patients. Yet these laws can be comples, confusing, and difficult to relate to the reality of nursing care. This book is a clear guide to the Mental Health Act and Code of Practice which explains the specific duties, responsibilities and powers of mental health nurses and the care of detained patients in particular. It explains the most frequently encountered parts of the Act and Code and clarifies common misunderstandings. It outlines dilemmas faced by nurses which may arise from possible conflicting responsibilities. It also gives an introduction to other major legal considerations that mental health nursing students need.

Key features: Specific guide to the law for mental health nursing students, written by experienced practitioners involved in MHA regulation in England Case studies and examples help the reader relate the law to their clinical practice Multiple choice questions and acticvities help students to develop confidence and become critical and independent learners Linked to relevant NMC Standards and ESCs for degree-level education.

The Site Reliability Workbook - Practical ways to implement SRE (Paperback): Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David Rensin,... The Site Reliability Workbook - Practical ways to implement SRE (Paperback)
Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David Rensin, Kent Kawahara, Stephen Thorne
R1,269 R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Save R223 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 2016, Google's Site Reliability Engineering book ignited an industry discussion on what it means to run production services today-and why reliability considerations are fundamental to service design. Now, Google engineers who worked on that bestseller introduce The Site Reliability Workbook, a hands-on companion that uses concrete examples to show you how to put SRE principles and practices to work in your environment. This new workbook not only combines practical examples from Google's experiences, but also provides case studies from Google's Cloud Platform customers who underwent this journey. Evernote, The Home Depot, The New York Times, and other companies outline hard-won experiences of what worked for them and what didn't. Dive into this workbook and learn how to flesh out your own SRE practice, no matter what size your company is. You'll learn: How to run reliable services in environments you don't completely control-like cloud Practical applications of how to create, monitor, and run your services via Service Level Objectives How to convert existing ops teams to SRE-including how to dig out of operational overload Methods for starting SRE from either greenfield or brownfield

Theorizing the Avant-Garde - Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Hardcover): Richard Murphy Theorizing the Avant-Garde - Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R2,511 Discovery Miles 25 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation of the avant-garde in Lukacs and Bloch, especially their discussion of aesthetic autonomy, and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, it draws on a rich array of critical theories, such as those of Bakhtin, Todorov, MacCabe, Belsey and Raymond Williams. This interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in modernist and avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century, and provides a critical rethinking of the present-day controversy regarding postmodernity.

Theorizing the Avant-Garde - Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Paperback): Richard Murphy Theorizing the Avant-Garde - Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R973 R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Save R77 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.

Honouring the Word - Poetry and Prose. Celebrating Maurice Harmon on His 80th Birthday (Paperback): Richard Murphy, Thomas... Honouring the Word - Poetry and Prose. Celebrating Maurice Harmon on His 80th Birthday (Paperback)
Richard Murphy, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague; Edited by Barbara Brown
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Honouring the Word is a tribute book compiled to mark the 80th birthday of poet Maurice Harmon. In addition to being a poet, Maurice Harmon is the leading scholar-critic of his generation in the field of Anglo-Irish Literature. He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works, from bibliographical guides to headline studies of Sean O Faolain, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, and others.

The Kick - A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy (Hardcover): Richard Murphy The Kick - A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Kick is a page-turner, based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) in the relics of a walled demesne near Kilamine, County Mayo, he was shipped out and back twice to the British Crown Colony of Ceylon, where his father was a colonial administrator. Thereafter he was moved every two years or so to a different boarding school for boys, mostly in England, until he won an Oxford scholarship at 17. There he encountered Ken Tynan (a bit older) and C.S. Lewis in extraordinary circumstances. One life story follows another in a continuous, witty, ironical narrative of surprising events.Murphy writes, according to Karl Miller, with candour and dignity, for example about personal issues, such as his ambivalent sexuality at a time of legal intolerance. This once led him into a risk of blackmail or prison in London at the age of 22. But dark events are countered by sea-light in this redeeming book.The fear of death from a German rocket falling on Wellington College in 1944 starts Murphy writing sonnets. He's aware that he's not a born poet and until T.S.Eliot accepts his volume Sailing to an Island for publication by Faber in 1963, he does not presume to call himself a poet. Sheep-farming in the Wicklow Hills and reseeding marginal land with deep-rooting herbs with lovely names, such as chicory, burnet, yarrow and wild white clover, take all his attention during his marriage - to the dismay of his wife. Then after his divorce in 1959, meeting Tony White from London on the quay of Inishbofin, Murphy begins another life as the owner of an old Galway hooker, the Ave Maria, which 'puts Inishbofin on the tourist map', and revives the art of small boat-building in Bofin. Murphy writes with affectionate lack of sentiment about the Protestant gentry from which he comes. The literary milieu in London, Dublin and New York are described with serenely devastating honesty. Here too are disturbing memories of discrimination against Irish Travellers, and of extreme violence in Sri Lanka. The Kick is the record of a lifetime's engagement with the fracturing tensions of personal life and with the more obviously violent legacies of Anglo-Irish history.It demonstrates the qualities that Ted Hughes recognised in Murphy's verse: 'It combines a high music with simplicity, force and directness in dealing with the world of action.' Murphy describes the literary milieus of London, Dublin, and New York and his friendships and encounters with some of the leading postwar writers, including W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, J.R. Ackerley, Laura Riding, Robert Graves, John McGahern, and Conor Cruise O'Brien.Richard Murphy (born 1927) is one of Ireland's most distinguished poets. He is particularly known for poems that draw on the people, the landscape, and the history of the west of Ireland. His Collected Poems (Gallery Press) was published in 2000. Lilliput Press published Murphy's Poems 1952-2012 with a revised text and appendices in 2013 and The Poetry Book Society gave it a Special Commendation. Murphy's awards include the Cheltenham Award and the American-Irish Foundation Award. The Kick: A Memoir was shortlisted for the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

The Pleasure Ground - Poems 1952-2012 (Paperback): Richard Murphy The Pleasure Ground - Poems 1952-2012 (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R395 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Richard Murphy (1927-2018) was one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished' clarity. He emerged in the 1950s with John Montague and Thomas Kinsella as one of the three major poets in the new Irish poetic renaissance. The Pleasure Ground expands the scope of his much acclaimed Collected Poems of 2000 to include a selection of new poems along with an appendix featuring illuminating commentary on the historical and personal background of some of his most notable work, including 'The Cleggan Disaster', 'The God Who Eats Corn', The Battle of Aughrim, and the poems of High Island. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

England On This Day - Cricket History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year (Hardcover): Richard Murphy England On This Day - Cricket History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy 1
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

England On This Day revisits the most magical and memorable moments from the national cricket team's illustrious past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes and legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable England diary - with an entry for every day of the year. From the first ever Test match in 1877 through to the Twenty20 era, England's faithful fans have witnessed world domination and tragicomic failures, grudge matches, controversy and absurdity - all present here. Timeless greats such as Ian Botham, Jack Hobbs and Fred Trueman, Denis Compton, Harold Larwood and Alastair Cook all loom larger than life. Revisit 5 January 1971, when a Melbourne Test became the first ever one-day international, 30 July 1995 when Dominic Cork took England's first hat-trick in 38 years! Or 6 September 1880, when W.G. Grace and his two brothers all made their Test debuts - two successful, one tragic.

Tax Havens - How Globalization Really Works (Paperback): Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux Tax Havens - How Globalization Really Works (Paperback)
Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping to remedy economic crisis by diverting capital from hidden channels back into taxable view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax havens into compliance.

In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax havens in the global financial system their history, inner workings, impact, extent, and enforcement. They make clear that while, individually, tax havens may appear insignificant, together they have a major impact on the global economy. Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth the equivalent of the annual U.S. Gross National Product and serving as the legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax havens also skew the distribution of globalization's costs and benefits to the detriment of developing economies.

The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book challenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually belong to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing the monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and countries. They have become among the most powerful instruments of globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial instability, and one of the large political issues of our times."

Space for Sustainability - Using Data from Earth Observation to Support Sustainable Development Indicators (Hardcover): Stephen... Space for Sustainability - Using Data from Earth Observation to Support Sustainable Development Indicators (Hardcover)
Stephen Morse, Richard Murphy, Ana Andries
R1,998 R1,628 Discovery Miles 16 280 Save R370 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ultimate Coffe Recipes Cookbook in Less Than 5 Minutes (Paperback): Richard Murphy The Ultimate Coffe Recipes Cookbook in Less Than 5 Minutes (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R1,125 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R237 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder in the G Basketball League (Paperback): Richard Murphy Murder in the G Basketball League (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder in the G Basketball League (Hardcover): Richard Murphy Murder in the G Basketball League (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Galway Hooker. -- (Hardcover): Richard Murphy The Last Galway Hooker. -- (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Galway Hooker. -- (Paperback): Richard Murphy The Last Galway Hooker. -- (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Is Divorce Worse Than Murder? - American Dream of Boston Immigrant Irish Undercut by Kinky Sex Murder. (Hardcover): Richard... Is Divorce Worse Than Murder? - American Dream of Boston Immigrant Irish Undercut by Kinky Sex Murder. (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Is Divorce Worse Than Murder? - American Dream of Boston Immigrant Irish Undercut by Kinky Sex Murder. (Paperback): Richard... Is Divorce Worse Than Murder? - American Dream of Boston Immigrant Irish Undercut by Kinky Sex Murder. (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
IPv6 Network Administration (Paperback): Niall Richard Murphy, David Malone IPv6 Network Administration (Paperback)
Niall Richard Murphy, David Malone
R1,214 R870 Discovery Miles 8 700 Save R344 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage has effectively put the Internet community--and some of its most brilliant engineers--on alert for the last decade.

Their solution was to create IPv6, a new Internet standard which will ultimately replace the current and antiquated IPv4. As the new backbone of the Internet, this new protocol would fix the most difficult problems that the Internet faces today--scalability and management. And even though IPv6's implementation has met with some resistance over the past few years, all signs are now pointing to its gradual worldwide adoption in the very near future. Sooner or later, all network administrators will need to understand IPv6, and now is a good time to get started.

"IPv6 Network Administration" offers administrators the complete inside info on IPv6. This book reveals the many benefits as well as the potential downsides of this next-generation protocol. It also shows readers exactly how to set up and administer an IPv6 network.

A must-have for network administrators everywhere, "IPv6 Network Administration" delivers an even-handed approach to what will be the most fundamental change to the Internet since its inception. Some of the other IPv6 assets that are covered include:

routing

integrated auto-configuration

quality-of-services (QoS)

enhanced mobility

end-to-end security

"IPv6 Network Administration" explains what works, what doesn't, and most of all, what's practical when considering upgradingnetworks from the current protocol to IPv6.

Betrayal of the Judge's Wife - A Case That Escalated to Unanticipated Consequences (Paperback): Richard Murphy Betrayal of the Judge's Wife - A Case That Escalated to Unanticipated Consequences (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List - A Murder Case with Many Twists and Turns (Paperback): Richard Murphy No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List - A Murder Case with Many Twists and Turns (Paperback)
Richard Murphy
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List - A Murder Case with Many Twists and Turns (Hardcover): Richard Murphy No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List - A Murder Case with Many Twists and Turns (Hardcover)
Richard Murphy
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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