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Foundations of Animal Law. Concepts - Principles - Dilemmas

Tomasz Pietrzykowski

Foundations of Animal Law. Concepts-Principles-Dilemmas stanowi anglojęzyczną i skierowaną do audytorium międzynarodowego wersję książki wydanej w 2022 r. pod tytułem Prawo ochrony zwierząt. Pojęcia, zasady, dylematy. Omawia ona filozoficzne, etyczne i dogmatyczno-komparatystyczne aspekty nowopowstającej dziedziny regulacji prawnej – prawa ochrony zwierząt. Identyfikuje kluczowe wartości, pojęcia i instytucje składające się na współczesny model prawnej ochrony zwierząt. Dokonuje tego w oparciu o analizę prawodawstwa polskiego i zagranicznego, w szczególności prawa Unii Europejskiej. Sprawia to, że zawarte w książce ujęcie ma charakter unikalny, a jej wartość dalece wykracza poza dominujące w literaturze przedmiotu argumentacje zmierzające do wykazania istnienia racji etycznych za gruntownymi zmianami prawnej sytuacji zwierząt.

Foundations of Blockchain. The pathway to cryptocurrencies and decentralized blockchain applications

Koshik Raj

Blockchain technology is a combination of three popular concepts: cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, and game theory. This book is for anyone who wants to dive into blockchain from first principles and learn how decentralized applications and cryptocurrencies really work.This book begins with an overview of blockchain technology, including key definitions, its purposes and characteristics, so you can assess the full potential of blockchain. All essential aspects of cryptography are then presented, as the backbone of blockchain. For readers who want to study the underlying algorithms of blockchain, you’ll see Python implementations throughout.You’ll then learn how blockchain architecture can create decentralized applications. You’ll see how blockchain achieves decentralization through peer-to-peer networking, and how a simple blockchain can be built in a P2P network. You’ll learn how these elements can implement a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, and the wider applications of blockchain work through smart contracts. Blockchain optimization techniques, and blockchain security strategies are then presented. To complete this foundation, we consider blockchain applications in the financial and non-financial sectors, and also analyze the future of blockchain. A study of blockchain use cases includes supply chains, payment systems, crowdfunding, and DAOs, which rounds out your foundation in blockchain technology.

Foundations of Legal Negotiations. Studies in the Philosophy of Law vol. 8

Jerzy Stelmach, Bartosz Brożek

A collection of essays from the leading scholars in the field dealing with various dimensions of legal negotiations. The contributions concern the logical structure of legal negotiations, as well as the possible philosophical assumptions behind the process of negotiating. The collection covers also the problem of the economic mechanisms and the psychological underpinnings of negotiationg in the shadow of the law. The essays address both conceptual and practical  issues.

Four Faultless Felons

G.K. Chesterton

A novel series by G.K. Chesterton of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. Are these friends involved in crimes? Are these individuals faultless as the books title suggests? A good book for people who love suspenseful novels that features mind-blowing twists, awesome plots, and events that will keep you engaged page by page.

Four Seasons

Julita Sarnecka

Zaskakujący romans w sercu Nowego Jorku. Pearl Pearce, zdeterminowana by stanąć na nogi po życiowych trudnościach, podejmuje pracę sprzątaczki w najbardziej ekskluzywnym hotelu Nowego Jorku Four Seasons. Jej pierwszy dzień zaczyna się od spektakularnej wpadki: przypadkowo oblewa sokiem samego właściciela hotelu, charyzmatycznego Masona Becketta, co sprawia, że mężczyzna zwraca na nią uwagę. Mason od lat prowadzi międzynarodowe interesy razem z braćmi. Gdy jeden z kluczowych kontraktów przejęcie legendarnego hotelu w Barcelonie staje pod znakiem zapytania z powodu braku tłumaczki, Pearl niespodziewanie staje się ostatnią deską ratunku. Ta nietypowa współpraca szybko przeradza się w grę pozorów i emocji, w której oboje będą musieli zdecydować, czy są gotowi zaryzykować wszystko dla prawdziwego uczucia. Julita Sarnecka autorka powieści pod tytułem Four Seasons opublikowanej po raz pierwszy w 2024 roku.

Four-Square Jane

Edgar Wallace

Four-Square Jane is a daring and successful crook, created by the pen of Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre. Her resourcefulness is boundless and she employs outstanding cunning to get away with a series of risky crimes performed with admirable cleverness, which cannot but evoke admiration. Four-Square Jane is not even a typical love story though there is a marriage in it. Often the women in this era detective novel start out strong but end up falling in love with someone and being controlled by some man. Jane takes life on her own terms and doesnt let anyone push her around.

Fourteen notes

Krzysztof Łanda, Jan Bielecki

The Church has always been intrinsically linked to politics, although it would never admit that. Information is the most valuable commodity of the 21st century, a power which can be used to either create or destroy. It is behind the Vatican walls that strategies, and means that can change the world are being developed. One of them, stored on a memory stick, has exactly that power. Giuseppe, a long-serving employee of archbishop Luca receives a seemingly straightforward task of delivering the information to the Monastery. This information is more valuable than the life of one man and Guiseppe owes a debt of gratitude to the archbishop. A major threat to the Church turns out to be the Church itself. There is an enemy on the inside and hence special precautions are necessary. Expect plot twists worthy of the best action films. Shootings, chases, murders ... A tense, deftly written thriller of goings-on in the highest ecclesiastical echelons. How much of it is fiction and how much a record of actual recent events? The authors depict the Vatican structures and customs with great fluency. The Church is in dire need of reform but at what price?

FPGA Programming for Beginners. Bring your ideas to life by creating hardware designs and electronic circuits with SystemVerilog

Frank Bruno

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have now become a core part of most modern electronic and computer systems. However, to implement your ideas in the real world, you need to get your head around the FPGA architecture, its toolset, and critical design considerations. FPGA Programming for Beginners will help you bring your ideas to life by guiding you through the entire process of programming FPGAs and designing hardware circuits using SystemVerilog.The book will introduce you to the FPGA and Xilinx architectures and show you how to work on your first project, which includes toggling an LED. You’ll then cover SystemVerilog RTL designs and their implementations. Next, you’ll get to grips with using the combinational Boolean logic design and work on several projects, such as creating a calculator and updating it using FPGA resources. Later, the book will take you through the advanced concepts of AXI and show you how to create a keyboard using PS/2. Finally, you’ll be able to consolidate all the projects in the book to create a unified output using a Video Graphics Array (VGA) controller that you’ll design.By the end of this SystemVerilog FPGA book, you’ll have learned how to work with FPGA systems and be able to design hardware circuits and boards using SystemVerilog programming.