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Few moments in parenting are as fraught as preparing your kid for
college. Let a trusted pro show you how it's done. Written for
parents and families of college-bound students, Jon McGee's Dear
Parents is an essential tool you'll need to navigate the complex
and often emotional challenge of getting your daughter or son
prepared for-and through-college. Organized chronologically, the
book takes readers through the stages of childhood leading up to
college, as well as the process of searching for and selecting a
college. From the decisions you make during your child's early
years to the process of setting up their dorm room, this book
provides parents with insights, wisdom, and guidance about college,
college preparation, and choosing a college. Letters written by
college and educational professionals, all with children, frame and
illuminate each chapter. Drawing on their personal and professional
experience, these experts offer practical and sympathetic advice
about preparing for college. The book concludes with insights about
sending children off to college and the appropriate roles for
parents as your children experience these important years.
Undergirded by research but informed by on-the-ground insight, Dear
Parents is designed to both engage and inform while demystifying
the daunting and ever-changing process of entering college. "If
you've picked up this book, my guess is you don't need convincing
that there is a lifelong return from a college education. You want
to understand the process better and you'd like to help your teen
smartly navigate their choices. You picked wisely if that's the
case. . . . Jon McGee is a wonderful guide, shedding light on the
mysterious process of applying to college while bringing much
insight to the inevitable trade-offs."-from the foreword by Chris
Farrell, Marketplace
This fully illustrated guide describes over 60 of the best sites
for viewing both common and rare species. Organised by state,
detailed descriptions of each site cover the type of terrain and
specific spots at which certain species are likely to be
encountered. A fact file for each site details how to get there;
facilities; nearby services and accommodation. Key species for each
site are also listed.
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of
demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers
would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare
as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues
award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge
of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and society. The
old idea of "retirement"--a word that means withdrawal, describing
a time when people gave up productive employment and shrank their
activities--was a short-lived historical anomaly. Humans have
always found meaning and motivation in work and community, Farrell
notes, and the boomer generation, poised to live longer in better
health than any before, is already discovering
unretirement--extending their working lives with new careers,
entrepreneurial ventures, and volunteer service. Their experience,
wisdom--and importantly, their continued earnings--will enrich the
American workplace, treasury, and our whole society in the decades
to come. Unretirement not only explains this seismic change, now in
its early stages, it provides key insights and practical advice for
boomers about to navigate this exciting, but unsettled, new
frontier, drawing on Chris Farrell's decades of covering personal
finance and economics for Bloomsberg Businessweek and Marketplace
Money. This will be an indispensable guide to the landscape of
unretirement from one of America's most trusted experts.
This book starts with an introduction to the core concepts of .NET
memory management and garbage collection, and then quickly layers
on additional details and intricacies. Once you're up to speed, you
can dive into the guided troubleshooting tour, and tips for
engineering your application to maximise performance. And to finish
off, take a look at some more sophisticated considerations, and
even a peek inside the Windows memory model.
There is a huge amount of information available on the how's and
why's of performance testing .NET applications, but it is often
fairly subjective, narrow in scope, or doesn't quite cover
everything you were hoping to learn. The Complete Guide to
Performance Testing and Optimizing .NET Applications (by Paul
Glavich and Chris Farrell) covers everything from why you should
test, through the steps of setting up your test environment, all
the way to how to actually run and record tests, and what you
should be looking for. Once you're up and running, Paul and Chris
cover the fine details of tips and techniques to make the most of
your performance testing, and some good ways to get fast results.
With all this detail, you will have everything you need to make the
most of your .NET code.
This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 reptile species
most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor
alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature
photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions,
which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat.
The user-friendly introduction covers the threats to reptiles,
types of habitat, anatomy of reptiles, and details of orders and
families. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the
reptiles of Australia encompassing, for each species, its common
and scientific name, and its global IUCN status.
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