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The briefest glimpse of this beautiful bird swooping across a field
reassures us that all is well in our beloved countryside-but is
that really the case? With its universal appeal, it is no surprise
that the barn owl is one of the most studied birds in the world. In
this book Jeff Martin has compiled both his own research findings
and those of the world's leading experts to give a detailed insight
into the barn owl's fascinating lifestyle and behaviours. The barn
owl Tyto alba belongs to the worldwide genus of Tyto, which
presently comprises some 12 species of barn owl and 13 other
closely related species. How this family of birds has managed to
spread itself around the world has been a puzzle to ornithologists
for many years, and Jeff is the first one to address this question
formally by presenting some thought-provoking theories. He also
discusses the origins of the name and the history that has brought
the barn owl to the forefront of wildlife conservation. The more we
learn about barn owls the more we need to look at their
environment. How fragile is their future? How dependent is their
existence on our conservation efforts? Jeff explores the issues and
discusses possible longer-term strategies to ensure that barn owls
will continue to thrive in Britain. If we get things right for the
barn owl, our countryside will benefit too.
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Redcoats-ish 2 (Paperback)
Jeff Martin; Niigaanwewidam Sinclair
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R428
R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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Over 50 new and improved recipes to put Visual Studio 2015 to work
in your crucial development projects About This Book * Get to grips
with all the new Visual Studio 2015 features regardless of your
preferred programming language * Apply Visual Studio to all areas
of development: writing, debugging, and application lifecycle
maintenance * Straightforward and hands-on advice for building both
Windows and Android apps Who This Book Is For If you are a
developer excited about the new features introduced in Visual
Studio 2015, then no matter what your programming language of
choice is, Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook is for you. You should have
a good knowledge of working with previous versions of Visual Studio
to benefit from the recipes in this book. What You Will Learn *
Customize the editor's new abilities to fit your development style
* Create apps for Windows * Use Visual Studio to debug parallel and
concurrent programs * Integrate .NET Framework 4.6 effectively *
Put TypeScript to work in your web applications * Develop modern
C++11 with Visual Studio 2015 * Protect and manage your source code
with Team Foundation Server In Detail Visual Studio 2015 is the
premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform.
Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your
productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you
more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed
with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks
you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow
and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to
code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your
options - and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on
board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to
all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put
to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book,
you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to
put it to work for your projects. Style and approach This book is a
practical guide to using Visual Studio 2015 and will help you
become familiar with the improvements made in previous versions.
Each recipe provides a hands-on approach to the new features with
step-by-step instructions on how to increase your productivity.
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Unnecessary (Paperback)
Nick Sudtelgte; Edited by Mike V; Jeff Martin
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R152
Discovery Miles 1 520
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Teddy Welmont Had a hard life, every time he tired to make things
better for him self everything just got worse. One day Teddy lost
everything he ever had, so he went on a trip to find out what he
should do with himself.
This book is a practical guide to using Visual Studio 2013 that
will help you become familiar with the improvements made over
previous versions. Each recipe provides a handson approach to the
new features with step by step instructions on how to increase your
productivity. If you are a developer excited about the new features
introduced in Visual Studio 2013, then no matter what your
programming language of choice is, Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook is
for you. You should have a good knowledge of working with previous
versions of Visual Studio to enjoy the recipes in this book. This
book provides practical examples to help you use Visual Studio 2013
more effectively.
What if Gatson Leroux's characters were created with more recently?
What if the infamous Paris Opera House was a rock-n-roll hall in
New Orleans? Would the romance be so suffocating? Or would the
Phantom be as sinister as Freddy Krueger or Pinhead?
The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison's
phonograph has been reincarnated as the iPod. Celluloid went
digital. But books, for the most part, have remained the
same--until now. And while music and movies have undergone an
almost Darwinian evolution, the literary world now faces a
revolution, a sudden change in the way we buy, produce, and read
books. Scholars, journalists, and publishers have turned their
brains inside out in the effort to predict what lies ahead, but who
better to comment on the future of the book than those who are
driven to write them? In The Late American Novel, Jeff Martin and
C. Max Magee gather some of today's finest writers to consider the
sea change that is upon them. Lauren Groff imagines an array of
fantastical futures for writers, from poets with groupies to
novelists as vending machines. Rivka Galchen writes about the
figurative and literal death of paper. Joe Meno expounds upon the
idea of a book as a place set permanently aside for the
imagination, regardless of format. These and other original essays
by Reif Larsen, Benjamin Kunkel, Victoria Patterson, and many more
provide a timely and much-needed commentary on this compelling
cultural crossroad.
Jeff Martin was born in 1980. Jeff Martin made millions on the
stock market. Jeff Martin lost millions on the stock market. Jeff
Martin stopped a Chinese tank at Tiananmen Square. Jeff Martin
managed Michael Dukakis's 1988 presidential campaign. Jeff Martin
co-wrote Aliens 2: More Aliens with James Cameron. Jeff Martin had
a torrid and brief creative relationship with Disney's animation
department. Jeff Martin disguised himself as a midget, joined NASA,
and became the first-ever child in space, all in tribute to the
Challenger space shuttle tragedy. Such is only a sample of the
amazing life of Jeff Martin, a modern-day renaissance man/child,
adept at everything, and uniquely attuned to the goings-on of our
evolving planet. He is equal parts Doogie Howser and Forest Gump --
as likely to break an age barrier as to coincidentally find himself
in the trenches of history. Get ready for a groundbreaking memoir
overflowing with action, history, social commentary, and unchecked
facts. Along the way, there will be love, loss, cool drawings from
Truth Serum cartoonist Jon Adams, and some more unchecked facts.
And as a free promotion, we're offering a money-back guarantee that
this book will not disgrace Oprah.
From mom-and-pop general stores to big-box, strip-mall chains, it
is impossible to consider the American experience without thinking
about the buying-and-selling retail culture: the sales and the
stockrooms, the shift managers, and the clock punchers. If you've
ever worked in retail--and most likely you have--you probably have
a funny, frantic, moving, mortifying, outrageous, or ridiculous
story to tell. The Customer Is Always Wrong is a tragicomic and
all-too-revealing collection of essays by writers from all corners
of the literary world--writers who have done their time behind the
counter and lived to tell their tales. Jim DeRogatis, author of Let
It Blurt, for example, describes hanging out with Al himself at Al
Rocky's Music Store, while Colson Whitehead explains how three
summers at a Long Island ice cream store gave him a lifelong
aversion to all things dessert-like. This book not only shines a
light on the absurdities of retail culture but finds the delight in
it as well. If it weren't for the customer, after all, our economy
would not function--nor would we slaves-to-the-paycheck get our
turn to shop until we drop. And for every abusive customer or
moronic employee, there are those people who come into our
stores--and our lives--and change them forever... one price tag at
a time.
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The Torque (Paperback)
Jeff Martin
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R361
R303
Discovery Miles 3 030
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In the brutal, dark world of ancient Europe, a vast hidden treasure
could determine the fate of the Roman Empire. Voterix, a Celtic
warlord, seeks the lost gold to fund a massive army to overthrow
the Roman occupation of Gaul. The stage is set for a bloody Celtic
uprising until Jules, a beautiful Galatian slave girl, arrives in
Genava. Mysterious Druids and the legions of Rome are on a
collision course with Voterix as they desperately race to find the
elusive treasure of Cimbrionis. Centuries later, two college
roommates receive a mysterious package that sets in motion a deadly
hunt for the ancient treasure. They are tracked by shadowy
assassins until they stumble on to the greatest archaeological
discovery of all time. The startling find sends shockwaves
throughout the religious world, and provides a key to the birth of
Christianity.
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