Conrad and Kirowan

Robert E. Howard

Professor John Kirowan is a fictional character from Robert E. Howards contributions to H.P. Lovecrafts story cycle the Cthulhu Mythos. Kirowan is often partnered with the character John Conrad, to the extent that these stories are often referred to under the group title Conrad & Kirowan. Professor Kirowan is a younger son of a titled Irish family and a scholar of the Mythos who travelled widely in search of forbidden knowledge. His ancestor, Sir Michael Kirowan was a medieval knight famous for killing a particularly fierce and notorious villain, whose ghost Kirowan will meet and escape from.

Constance Dunlap

Arthur B. Reeve

A charming thief rescues the not-so-innocent in this delightful crime novel from the creator of the Craig Kennedy detective series. Constance Dunlap is a young woman who turns amateur criminal in order to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesnt work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More antiheroine than heroine, she uses her photographic memory and her sharp wit to help amateur criminals get back on the right track. From one escapade to the next, Dunlap eludes Drummond, a crooked private detective who preys on the weak and unfortunate. Even he cant help but admire the pluck and intelligence of this irresistible scofflaw.

Constitutional Law

Anna Gajda, Anna Rytel-Warzocha, Piotr Uziębło

The leading constitutional principles discussed here fulfill a special function as a source of interpretative directives in relation to other legał norms; they often also constitute autonomous normative contents. They express fundamental values, long known, that constitute the basis of the constitutional structure of the Polish state, making up the characteristic qualities of that structure. In the view of the authors of this book, the analyses offered in this study should make it easier for its readers, above all those from abroad, to understand the constitutional and structural foundations of the functioning of the Polish Republic. They also aim to demonstrate what on one hand, is common to all contemporary democratic states, and what, on the other hand, constitutes the essential achievements of the doctrine of Polish constitutional law.

Construct 2 Game Development by Example. Learn how to make games for multiple platforms with Construct 2

John Bura

Construct Game Development Beginners Guide. A guide to escalate beginners to intermediate game creators through teaching practical game creation using Scirra construct with this book and

Daven Bigelow, Daven Eric Bigelow

Construct Classic is a free, DirectX 9 game creator for Windows, designed for 2D games. Construct Classic uses an event-based system for defining how the game behaves, in a visual, human-readable way - you don't need to program or script anything at all. It's intuitive for beginners, but powerful enough for advanced users to work without hindrance. You never know when you'll need a helping hand exploring its inner workings, or harnessing its raw power to do your bidding.Construct Game Development Beginner's Guide is the book for you if you have ever felt the urge to make a game of your own. Reading this book will not only teach you to make some popular games using Construct, but you'll also learn the skills necessary to continue on and bring your game ideas to life.Starting as a beginner to Construct Classic, you'll be learning to make platform, puzzle, and shooter games, each styled after popular games of their genre.This guide covers everything from creating animated sprites, to using the built-in physics and shadow engines of Construct Classic. You will learn the skills necessary to make advanced games of your own.Construct Game Development Beginner's Guide will lead you on your journey of making games.

Consuelo. Tome 13

George Sand

George Sand le pseudonyme de lécrivain français Aurora Dupin-Dyudevan. Dans ses nombreuses uvres, les idées de libération de la personnalité se combinent une recréation psychologique de talent de personnages idéalement sublimes, de conflits damour complexes. Le roman Consuelo est une histoire fascinante de la vie dun jeune chanteur qui doit surmonter des épreuves difficiles en donnant son art aux gens. Il sagit dun livre sur le destin dun véritable artiste, sur le lourd fardeau du talent accordé par le destin, sur le choix difficile et parfois mme tragique entre la gloire et le bonheur personnel.

Containerization with LXC. Build, manage, and configure Linux containers

Konstantin Ivanov

In recent years, containers have gained wide adoption by businesses running a variety of application loads. This became possible largely due to the advent of kernel namespaces and better resource management with control groups (cgroups). Linux containers (LXC) are a direct implementation of those kernel features that provide operating system level virtualization without the overhead of a hypervisor layer. This book starts by introducing the foundational concepts behind the implementation of LXC, then moves into the practical aspects of installing and configuring LXC containers. Moving on, you will explore container networking, security, and backups. You will also learn how to deploy LXC with technologies like Open Stack and Vagrant. By the end of the book, you will have a solid grasp of how LXC is implemented and how to run production applications in a highly available and scalable way.

Containers for Developers Handbook. A practical guide to developing and delivering applications using software containers

Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea

Developers are changing their deployment artifacts from application binaries to container images, giving rise to the need to build container-based apps as part of their new development workflow. Managing an app’s life cycle is complex and requires effort—this book will show you how to efficiently develop, share, and execute applications.You’ll learn how to automate the build and delivery process using CI/CD tools with containers as container orchestrators manage the complexity of running cluster-wide applications, creating infrastructure abstraction layers, while your applications run with high availability, resilience, and persistence. As you advance, you’ll develop, test, and debug applications on your desktop and get them ready to run in production with optimal security standards, using deployment patterns and monitoring tools to help identify common issues. You’ll also review deployment patterns that’ll enable you to solve common deployment problems, providing high availability, scalability, and security to your applications. Finally, you’ll explore different solutions to monitor, log, and instrument your applications as per open-source community standards.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to manage your app’s life cycle by implementing CI/CD workflows using containers to automate the building and delivery of its components.

Containers in OpenStack. Leverage OpenStack services to make the most of Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos

Madhuri Kumari, Pradeep Kumar Singh

Containers are one of the most talked about technologies of recent times. They have become increasingly popular as they are changing the way we develop, deploy, and run software applications. OpenStack gets tremendous traction as it is used by many organizations across the globe and as containers gain in popularity and become complex, it’s necessary for OpenStack to provide various infrastructure resources for containers, such as compute, network, and storage.Containers in OpenStack answers the question, how can OpenStack keep ahead of the increasing challenges of container technology? You will start by getting familiar with container and OpenStack basics, so that you understand how the container ecosystem and OpenStack work together. To understand networking, managing application services and deployment tools, the book has dedicated chapters for different OpenStack projects: Magnum, Zun, Kuryr, Murano, and Kolla. Towards the end, you will be introduced to some best practices to secure your containers and COE on OpenStack, with an overview of using each OpenStack projects for different use cases.

Contemporary challenges of spatial planning in tourism destinations

Tomasz Napierała, Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała, Giancarlo Cotella

Theoretical fundamentals of sustainable spatial planning of European tourism destinations     7 The planning system in Italy and how it addresses tourism–related issues  The planning system in Norway with focus on mountain destinations The spatial planning system in Poland. Focus on tourist destinations The planning system in Portugal Spatial planning system in Turkey. Focus on tourism destinations Diverse challenges of tourism spatial planning. Evidence from Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Turkey

Contemporary Challenges towards Management III

red. Joachim Foltys, Ľubica Lesáková, Maria Uramova, Anna Wziątek-Staśko

Monografia Contemporary Challenges towards Management III jest zbiorem interesujących prac naukowych poświęconych współczesnemu zarządzaniu widzianemu w różnych aspektach, przy istniejącym turbulentnym otoczeniu – pogłębionym przez obecny kryzys gospodarczy. Zachodzące w tych warunkach w sposób ciągły zmiany, stanowią coraz to nowe wyzwania dla procesów zarządzania – zarówno w skali gospodarki narodowej, jak i każdej organizacji. Szczególnym atutem monografii jest podjęcie przez autorów prac szerokiej, wieloaspektowej dyskusji na temat różnych problemów współczesnego świata biznesu. Wiodące miejsce w rozważaniach zajęły problemy wielokulturowości, kapitału intelektualnego oraz nowych koncepcji zarządzania, zaprezentowane przez międzynarodowe grono autorów – przedstawicieli zarówno teorii, jak i praktyki zarządzania.

Contemporary Concepts of Administrative Procedure Between Legalism and Pragmatism

Zbigniew Kmieciak

The aim of this volume is to compare various types of administrative procedure and show their similarities and differences in national, European and global dimensions. The Authors' intention is also to capture the regularities governing the development of law on administrative proceedings, including answers to the following questions: 1) is there a genetic relationship between the three generations of procedures, or do they derive from the separate ideas of national legislatives (genetic peculiarities)? 2) to what extent did modern procedures become the subject of national codifications? 3) what are the characteristics of national participatory procedures? 4) what are the national experiences in the field of "coexistence" of the three generations of administrative procedures? 5) where is the boundary between pragmatism and legalism of administrative procedures, for example in the case of urgent or simplified, automated and mass procedures? 6) does the increasing complexity of social life necessitate new solutions to integrate standards of the Rule of Law (traditional procedural values) with requirements of procedural pragmatism and efficiency? 7) are the new solutions in contradiction with the idea of multi-aspect protection of interests in administrative procedure?

Contemporary Family - Comparative Perspective

red. Katarzyna Juszczyk-Frelkiewicz, Grzegorz Libor

Głównym celem książki jest przedstawienie przemian, jakie zachodzą w różnych formach rodziny w perspektywie porównawczej. Zainteresowanie rodziną jest obecnie niezwykle żywe i powszechne. W dobie intensywnych przemian rodzina jako podstawowa cząstka społeczna podlega różnym zmianom od preferowanych i zaimplementowanych modeli życia rodzinnego do relacji w rodzinie. Dlatego redaktorzy książki postanowili zaprosić naukowców z różnych części Europy, aby mogli przedstawić wyniki swoich badań. Od ogólnych tendencji po analizę poszczególnych przypadków książka jest odpowiedzią na potrzebę szerszego spojrzenia na zmiany zachodzące w życiu rodzinnym.

Content marketing. Od strategii do efektów

Justyna Bakalarska-Stankiewicz

Złów złotą rybkę w oceanie internetu! Wiek XXI to epoka informacji. A może raczej: nadmiaru informacji. Internet w coraz mniejszym stopniu jest źródłem cennej wiedzy, przypomina raczej śmietnik przepełniony fake newsami i milionami bodźców oddziałujących na odbiorców w każdej sekundzie. Do tego stanu rzeczy przyczyniają się także marketerzy, którzy w obliczu ślepoty bannerowej czy też programów do blokowania reklam szukają coraz skuteczniejszych metod przykucia uwagi odbiorcy. Nie jest to łatwe. Według niektórych źródeł średni czas koncentracji internautów w ostatnich latach spadł do 8 sekund - to podobno tyle, ile trwa utrzymanie uwagi przez złotą rybkę. Dlatego sposobem na zwiększenie zainteresowania internetowych "złotych rybek" miał być content marketing, czyli marketing treści. Jednak ten modny trend, realizowany w niewłaściwy sposób, wcale nie prowadzi do osiągnięcia zadowalających efektów. Zamiast tego powoduje jeszcze większy chaos komunikacyjny. Jak temu zaradzić? Tu z pomocą przychodzi Justyna Bakalarska-Stankiewicz, autorka książki, z której dowiesz się między innymi: Czego content manager może się nauczyć z oper mydlanych? Dlaczego o swoim odbiorcy powinieneś myśleć jak o przyjacielu? Czy content marketing sprzedaje? Czemu panda, pingwin i koliber powinny mieć wpływ na Twoją strategię? Jak być SMART przy określaniu celów w marketingu treści? W czym marketer powinien upodobnić się do Jezusa? Czy Twoja firma to Mędrzec czy Błazen? Jak pisać do odbiorców, którzy nie czytają? A także wielu innych rzeczy, dzięki którym stworzysz naprawdę skuteczną strategię contentmarketingową dla swojej firmy i marki osobistej.

Contes Ninon

Émile Zola

Ceci est une collection de nouvelles, contes de fées, cherts. Ils sont adressés a Ninon, la femme bien-aimée du narrateur. Les ouvres sont consacrées a lamour entre un homme et une femme, cette derniere parle de lamour pour son prochain, de sa capacité a sympathiser. Les héros de tous les romans sont romantiques: un prince tombé amoureux dun nénuphar, une fille qui pense confusément a sa bien-aimée.

Continuing Financial Modelling. Advanced Techniques and Insights for Modern Financial Modelling

MrExcel's Holy Macro! Books, Liam Bastick

This book provides a thorough exploration of advanced financial modeling techniques, designed to elevate the skills of finance professionals. Starting with a recap of essential concepts, it progresses into dynamic 'What-If?' analysis, advanced forecasting methods, and inventory modeling. The focus is on practical applications, ensuring readers can implement the techniques immediately.Topics such as capital expenditure, debt calculations, and valuation are covered in detail, including DCF and MIRR analysis. The book emphasizes accuracy and efficiency in financial models, offering insights into refining forecasts and linking complex models. With a focus on sensitivity analysis and scenario planning, readers gain tools to handle real-world financial challenges.The final chapters delve into advanced Excel functions like XLOOKUP, dynamic arrays, and scenario-building tools. Best practices for maintaining model accuracy, reducing file sizes, and creating professional models are thoroughly discussed. This guide equips readers with the expertise to manage complex financial modeling tasks confidently.