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W cudzysłowie. O literaturze polskiej XX i XXI wieku

Iwona Gralewicz-Wolny

Zbiór dwunastu szkiców interpretacyjnych poświęconych twórczości współczesnych polskich poetów (Leśmian, Sebyła, Broniewski, Białoszewski, Kamieńska, Szymborska, Lipska) i prozaików (Kapuściński, Dehnel, Opfer). W bezpośredniej bliskości tekstu prowadzone są lekturowe rozważania na temat wybranych wątków dorobku literackiego wymienionych autorów. Problematyka pamięci, splot prawdy i kłamstwa, opresja językowych klisz, dramat pośmiertnego rozproszenia, zwodnicze piękno ideologicznych manifestów, kontrapunkt światła i mroku, mikroujęcia rzeczywistości,  trudna koegzystencja bytów ludzkich i zwierzęcych – to tylko niektóre kwestie napotkane przez autorkę książki w jej wędrówce po „cudzym słowie”.

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Gandhi - With Audio Level 4 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Akinyemi, Rowena

A level 4 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. Who will speak for the poor? Who will listen to slaves, and those who have no rights? Who will work for a future where everyone is equal? Who will give up his house, job, and money to fight for people who are shut out by everyone else? 'I will,' said Mohandas Gandhi. And he began to fight in a way the world had not seen before - not with weapons, and wild crowds, and words of hate, but with the power of non-violence. This is the story of a man who became the Father of the Nation in his own country of India, and a great leader for the whole world.

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Uwodzenie w dzień

Frywolny

E-book "Uwodzenie w dzień" to bestseller, który zmienił myślenie setek facetów na temat kobiet i tego jak funkcjonuje ich myślenie. Wydawało Ci się, że nie można podejść do dziewczyny na ulicy lub w autobusie i zabrać ją na kawie ? Jak pisze autor: "Byłeś w błędzie". W środku znajdziesz całą masę praktycznych przykładów jak uwodzić kobiety w dzień. Autor tłumaczy na wielu przykładach dlaczego  tak naprawdę kobiety ulegają facetom, którzy są bardzo bezpośredni i brutalnie szczerzy. Według autora podchodzenie do kobiet w dzień to najskuteczniejszy i najlepszy sposób na poznanie pięknej dziewczyny. Już w pierwszych dniach promocji e-book sprzedał się w rekordowym nakładzie ! Wewnątrz e-booka znajdziesz : -jak rozpocząć rozmowę z kobietą na ulicy/autobusie, -w jaki sposób uwodzić kobiety, które przebywają w większej grupie, -co robić gdy kobieta nie jest Tobą zainteresowana a Ty nie wiesz co dalej mówić, -czy seks z nowo poznaną kobietą w dzień jest możliwy, -w jaki sposób doprowadzić do seksu z nowo poznaną kobietą w ciągu dnia, -historia uwodziciela, który miał ponad 3000 kobiet w łóżku, i wiele wiele innych.

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Greenmantle

John Buchan

A classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War, featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps and precursor to Mr. Standfast. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message, Hannay travels through Germany and the Middle East, searching for the elusive religious leader Greenmantle. He is joined by three more of Buchans heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. However, they must begin the task with no clues except three words scribbled on a piece of paper Kasredin, cancer, and v.I. In different disguises the men take separate roads to Constantinople where they will meet and begin their search, if they all arrive safely and its a big if.

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Mastering PostGIS. Modern ways to create, analyze, and implement spatial data

Dominik Mikiewicz, Michal Mackiewicz, Tomasz Nycz

PostGIS is open source extension onf PostgreSQL object-relational database system that allows GIS objects to be stored and allows querying for information and location services. The aim of this book is to help you master the functionalities offered by PostGIS- from data creation, analysis and output, to ETL and live edits.The book begins with an overview of the key concepts related to spatial database systems and how it applies to Spatial RMDS. You will learn to load different formats into your Postgres instance, investigate the spatial nature of your raster data, and finally export it using built-in functionalities or 3th party tools for backup or representational purposes. Through the course of this book, you will be presented with many examples on how to interact with the database using JavaScript and Node.js. Sample web-based applications interacting with backend PostGIS will also be presented throughout the book, so you can get comfortable with the modern ways of consuming and modifying your spatial data.

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An Old Maid

Honoré de Balzac

Immerse yourself in the inner workings of a quaint French village in this charming novel from Honoré de Balzac, an early master of literary realism. The work was dedicated to Balzacs brother in law, an engineer in the corps royal des ponts et chaussées, Eugene Midy de la Greneraye Surville. Brimming with finely observed details and Balzacs trademark insight into human motivations and morality, An Old Maid, the first book in The Jealousies of a Country Town, follows several men who have designs honorable and not-so-honorable on one of the villages wealthiest bachelorettes. Balzac takes time to carefully describe the house of Mademoiselle Cormon, in the city of Alençon, before entering directly into the heart of the matter. The portrait of Mademoiselle Cormon is one of the most successful in The Human Comedy. The author delivers in this novel one of his most nuanced analysis of a provincial towns social, political and financial affairs.

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Tales of Unrest

Joseph Conrad

This collection of short works. Despite the fact that these are short stories, the author never ceases to amaze with his approach to his characters. The scene from Brittany Idiots is perhaps his most significant work. Here, Conrad describes a family cursed by a mental illness in a French village, and how the embryo difficulties affect parents.

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Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure. Build powerful cloud solutions that sustain next-generation products

Abhishek Kumar, Srinivasa Mahendrakar

With more enterprises adapting cloud-based and API-based solutions, application integration has become more relevant and significant than ever before. Parallelly, Serverless Integration has gained popularity, as it helps agile organizations to build integration solutions quickly without having to worry about infrastructure costs. With Microsoft Azure’s serverless offerings, such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Azure Event Grid and Service Bus, organizations can build powerful, secure, and scalable integration solutions with ease.The primary objective of this book is to help you to understand various serverless offerings included within Azure Integration Services, taking you through the basics and industry practices and patterns. This book starts by explaining the concepts of services such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Service Bus with hands-on examples and use cases. After getting to grips with the basics, you will be introduced to API Management and building B2B solutions using Logic Apps Enterprise Integration Pack.This book will help readers to understand building hybrid integration solutions and touches upon Microsoft Cognitive Services and leveraging them in modern integration solutions. Industry practices and patterns are brought to light at appropriate opportunities while explaining various concepts.