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Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? Like nothing
is real and it doesn't matter? What if you found out you were
right? Dog Villain, burdened by this ultimate knowledge, has built
a machine. A machine with a single purpose: To destroy the
simulation and free Dog Villain from where he feels trapped inside
the never ending farce. But there's something Dog Villain doesn't
know. At the end of the simulation there will be no freedom. Will
Dog Villain be able to give up control long enough to find the
truth and learn the things that really matter? Based on the
mythology created by Dance Gavin Dance The Tale of The Robot is a
mind bending story for both fans and new comers
Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians
who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the
second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of
the next, during which he released an extraordinary 63 albums, 38
that made it on to Billboard's Country Top Ten, 13 that went to #1,
and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample songbook, unique singing
voice and brilliant phrasing that illuminated his uncompromising
commitment to individual freedom, cut with the monkey of personal
despair on his back and a chip the size of Monument Valley on his
shoulder, Merle's music and his extraordinary charisma helped
change the look, the sound, and the fury of American music. The Hag
tells, without compromise, the extraordinary life of Merle Haggard,
augmented by deep secondary research, sharp detail and ample
anecdotal material that biographer Marc Eliot is known for, and
enriched and deepened by over 100 new and far-ranging interviews.
It explores the uniquely American life of an angry rebellious boy
from the wrong side of the tracks bound for a life of crime and a
permanent home in a penitentiary, who found redemption through the
music of "the common man." Merle Haggard's story is a great
American saga of a man who lifted himself out of poverty,
oppression, loss and wanderlust, to catapult himself into the
pantheon of American artists admired around the world. Eliot has
interviewed more than 100 people who knew Haggard, worked with him,
were influenced by him, loved him or hated him. The book celebrates
the accomplishments and explore the singer's infamous dark side:
the self-created turmoil that expressed itself through drugs,
women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag offers a richly anecdotal
narrative that will elevate the life and work of Merle Haggard to
where both properly belong, in the pantheon of American music and
letters. The Hag is the definitive account of this unique American
original, and will speak to readers of country music and rock
biographies alike.
'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries
and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg, bestselling author
of The Power of Habit The definitive inside story of WeWork, its
audacious founder, and the company's epic unravelling from the
journalists who first broke the story wide open. In 2001, Adam
Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the
Israeli navy. Just over fifteen years later, he had transformed
himself into the charismatic CEO of a company worth $47 billion.
With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the six-foot-five Neumann
looked the part of a messianic Silicon Valley entrepreneur. The
vision he offered was mesmerizing: a radical reimagining of work
space for a new generation. He called it WeWork. As billions of
funding dollars poured in, Neumann's ambitions grew limitless.
WeWork wasn't just an office space provider; it would build
schools, create cities, even colonize Mars. In pursuit of its
founder's vision, the company spent money faster than it could
bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana
smoke, the CEO scoured the globe for more capital but in late 2019,
just weeks before WeWork's highly publicized IPO, everything fell
apart. Neumann was ousted from his company, but still was poised to
walk away a billionaire. Calling to mind the recent demise of
Theranos and the hubris of the dotcom era bust, WeWork's
extraordinary rise and staggering implosion were fueled by
disparate characters in a financial system blind to its risks. Why
did some of the biggest names in banking and venture capital buy
the hype? And what does the future hold for Silicon Valley
'unicorns'? Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen
Farrell explore these questions in this definitive, rollicking
account of WeWork's boom and bust.
The naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your
holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I
tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. So begins one of
the best-known poetry collections of all time. The practical cats
need no introduction, but this stunning new full-colour version,
illustrated by Júlia Sardà , is the perfect companion to Old
Toffer's Dogs. Whether you are a cat or a dog person, you will be
enchanted by Júlia's highly original interpretation.
Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Pegasus Award for Poetry
Criticism, Poetry Foundation, Chicago Richard J. Finneran Award,
Society for Textual Scholarship Best Scholarly Edition Award,
Modernist Studies Association The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the
authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously
edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the
first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully
restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that
have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so
frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many
poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later,
as well as others that saw only private circulation in his
lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. To
accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have
provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that
came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence
and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the
poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his
revisions. The first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening
with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued
it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. There follow in this
first volume the uncollected poems from his youth that he had
chosen to publish, along with such other poems as could be
considered suitable for publication. The second volume opens with
the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, Old Possum's
Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse's Anabase,
moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper
or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its
respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition,
there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both
manuscript and published. The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of
enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who
read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with
pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled
insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets.
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My Little Lamb
Hannah Eliot; Illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell
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Subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, George Eliot's novel
Middlemarch is a chronicle of the titular nineteenth-century
Midlands town in the midst of political and social change. Eliot
explores the upheaval and transformation brought about by these
changes through their impact on the lives of a richly varied cast
of characters that includes the pious young Dorothea Brooke, her
suitor the Reverend Edward Casaubon, the ambitious doctor Tertius
Lydgate, and the mysterious schemer John Raffles.
Universally acclaimed as the book on garbage collection. A complete
and up-to-date revision of the 2012 Garbage Collection Handbook.
Thorough coverage of parallel, concurrent and real-time garbage
collection algortithms including C4, Garbage First, LXR,
Shenandoah, Transactional Sapphire and ZGC, and garbage collection
on the GPU. Clear explanation of the trickier aspects of garbage
collection, including the interface to the run-time system,
handling of finalisation and weak references, and support for
dynamic languages. New chapters on energy aware garbage collection,
and persistence and garbage collection. The e-book includes more
than 40,000 hyperlinks to algorithms, figures, glossary entries,
indexed items, original research papers and much more. Backed by a
comprehensive online database of over 3,400 garbage
collection-related publications
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Fearsome Journeys (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Kate Eliot, Trudi Canavan, Daniel Abraham, Saladin Ahmed, …
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How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within
fantasy's scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to
spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying.
In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out
on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting
twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting
names in epic fantasy from around the world. With original fiction
from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate
Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook,
Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham,
Fearsome Journeys explores the whole range of the fantastic.
A practical guide to clinical education research with top tips,
common pitfalls and ethical issues. Starting Research in Clinical
Education is written by a global team of experienced and emerging
clinical education researchers who have a wealth of knowledge
designing rigorous research projects and expertise in contemporary
methods. Covering a broad spectrum of methods used by clinical
education researchers, the book is split into five parts: research
design, evidence synthesis and mixed methods research, qualitative
research, quantitative research and succeeding in clinical
education research. These sections are also accompanied by a
companion website which provides further resources. The methods
discussed are illustrated with real life examples and case studies
to support the reader in designing their own project. The new
edition includes information on: Getting started in clinical
education research, constructing a research question, clarifying
research paradigms and design, using educational theory, involving
stakeholders, sampling and recruiting participants and conducting
ethical research Evidence synthesis, realist research, mixed
methods research, action research and emerging possibilities in
online data collection Interviews and focus groups, visual
elicitation, ethnography, narrative research, thematic analysis and
struggles new researchers often face in qualitative research Survey
research, experimental methods, statistical analysis and big data
Maximising opportunities, project management, writing
dissertations, writing for publication, research dissemination and
career development This edition is designed to support those new to
clinical education research, including those undertaking
intercalated or postgraduate degrees in clinical, medical, dental
or general health education. Starting Research in Clinical
Education is an ideal resource for those embarking on their first
research projects or using methods they are unfamiliar with.
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Mermaid for Each Other
Hannah Eliot; Illustrated by Denise Holmes
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Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem
of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization
between the two World Wars.
A stunning new gift edition of this much-loved classic, with the
celebrated black-and-white illustrations by Edward Gorey. Cats!
Some are sane, and some are mad. Some are good, and some are bad .
. . The whimsical 1982 Old Possum's illustrations have been
lovingly restored and are showcased in this beautiful new poetry
edition, perfect for children and Eliot aficionados alike. These
lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren
and continue to delight children and grown-ups. The collection
inspired the musical Cats!, and features Macavity, Mr Mistofelees
and Growltiger!
One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the
likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but
Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings
together some of her most important essays and seeks to celebrate
her non-fiction writing. In 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' Eliot
states a desire - some few years before her best-known works - to
turn her hand to novel-writing, and decries the trivial nature of
contemporary writers, setting out a manifesto for good writing. In
'Woman in France' she considers the history of women's writing, and
the complications women face in order to write - something Eliot
knew much about herself, adopting a male name to publish the work
she did not publish anonymously. Taken together, this collection
gives a rare and valuable insight into the author's writing, and
shines a light on her pioneering subtle form of feminism.
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'90s Baby
Hannah Eliot; Illustrated by Alyssa Nassner
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When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its
Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste
Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century
literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been
believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's
friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the
discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even
more so, because the published version of The Waste Land was
considerably shorter than the original. How it was reduced and
edited is clearly revealed on the manuscript through the
handwritten notes of Ezra Pound, of Eliot's first wife, Vivien, and
of Eliot himself. In order that this material might be widely
available for study, the poet's widow Mrs Valerie Eliot prepared
the present edition, in 1971, in which each page of the original
manuscript was reproduced in facsimile, with a clear transcript
facing pages. Mrs Eliot also included an illuminating introduction,
explanatory notes and cross-references, together with the text of
the first published version of The Waste Land, thus completing the
evolution of the most influential poem in modern literature. To
mark the centenary of the original poem, and celebrate fifty years
of the facsimile, Eliot's original pages are published here in the
startling vivacity of full colour for the first time. The present
edition reissues, with corrections, of the text of the 1980
reprint, and includes an appendix of original materials not
previously made available.
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is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat
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_____________ How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths
end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat,
the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think
about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder -
a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how
they created a whole new category of information-gathering,
galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war
crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers.
From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the
sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification
of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some
of Bellingcat's most successful investigations. It explores the
most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality
software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene,
to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was
taken. In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world
needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the
people.
Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a
milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has
grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look
at the latest state-of-the-art developments. The Garbage Collection
Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management brings together a
wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management
researchers and developers over the past fifty years. The authors
compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art
techniques in a single, accessible framework. The book addresses
new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in
hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these
changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage
collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book
covers parallel, incremental, concurrent, and real-time garbage
collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with
pseudocode and illustrations. The nearly universal adoption of
garbage collection by modern programming languages makes a thorough
understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This
authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different
collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing
garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge, programmers can
confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage
collectors. Web ResourceThe book's online bibliographic database at
www.gchandbook.org includes over 2,500 garbage collection-related
publications. Continually updated, it contains abstracts for some
entries and URLs or DOIs for most of the electronically available
ones. The database can be searched online or downloaded as BibTeX,
PostScript, or PDF. E-bookThis edition enhances the print version
with copious clickable links to algorithms, figures, original
papers and definitions of technical terms. In addition, each index
entry links back to where it was mentioned in the text, and each
entry in the bibliography includes links back to where it was
cited.
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College,
University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of
idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love.
This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town
during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832
is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate
and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the
condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry
James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while
Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one
of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New
York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant,
The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important
country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical
career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and
into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an
extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country
Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample
songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that
illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom,
cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the
size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his
extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the
fury of American music.The Hag tells, without compromise, the
extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary
research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer
Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new
and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life
of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound
for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who
found redemption through the music of "the common man."Merle
Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted
himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to
catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired
around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who
knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or
hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the
singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that
expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag
offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and
work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the
pantheon of American music and letters.The Hag is the definitive
account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers
of country music and rock biographies alike.
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