Orchids to Murder

Hulbert Footner

Amos Lee Mappin is a great detective. A sad man came to him asking him to find his granddaughter, Mary Stannard. The detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. Mappin found several strands and many clues through which he can find Mary.

No Other Tiger

A.E.W. Mason

Mr. Mason is here at his best. While working out very deftly an extremely intricate and clever plot, he gives us excellent characterization and a remarkably vivid series of glimpses into different settings and phases of life. Beginning in the opulent lands of India, home of enchantment, color and adventure, the novel No Other Tiger becomes a mystery that begins with a tiger hunt across Asia. The story is woven skillfully around the secrets of the East and conjures a glittering history long forgotten. Although it is indeed an oldie, the author achieves all the suspense and bone chilling scenes required of a modern thriller. Give yourselves a treat, and read this short but unforgettable masterpiece.

The Way of the Spirit

H. Rider Haggard

This is another Haggard novel in which the characters lived their lives in anticipation of love after death. A history of pain, supernatural and love that survives death. In the book, the reader meets a young man named Rupert Ullershaw. When we first meet him, he is in a difficult situation, he enters into a love affair with the wife of his elder cousin, Lord Deven. However, this is not the love that he wanted to find and he goes in search of that one.

Natural Language Processing Fundamentals. Build intelligent applications that can interpret the human language to deliver impactful results

Sohom Ghosh, Dwight Gunning

If NLP hasn't been your forte, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals will make sure you set off to a steady start. This comprehensive guide will show you how to effectively use Python libraries and NLP concepts to solve various problems.You'll be introduced to natural language processing and its applications through examples and exercises. This will be followed by an introduction to the initial stages of solving a problem, which includes problem definition, getting text data, and preparing it for modeling. With exposure to concepts like advanced natural language processing algorithms and visualization techniques, you'll learn how to create applications that can extract information from unstructured data and present it as impactful visuals. Although you will continue to learn NLP-based techniques, the focus will gradually shift to developing useful applications. In these sections, you'll understand how to apply NLP techniques to answer questions as can be used in chatbots. By the end of this book, you'll be able to accomplish a varied range of assignments ranging from identifying the most suitable type of NLP task for solving a problem to using a tool like spacy or gensim for performing sentiment analysis. The book will easily equip you with the knowledge you need to build applications that interpret human language.

La Comédie humaine. Volume V. Scenes de la vie de Province. Tome I

Honoré de Balzac

Quest-ce qui pourrait tre pire lorsquun jour, vous réalisez quune personne qui semblait toujours amicale et attentionnée vous déteste vraiment avec toutes les fibres de son âme?! Cest avec cela quau cours de sa vieillesse, il a rencontré une petite bagatelle ordinaire, de bonne humeur et aimante, quil sagisse dun feu dans une cheminée ou dun fauteuil confortable, le vicaire François Biros. Apres la mort de son ami labbé Chaplu, le rve de François se réalise il sinstalle dans la maison de son regretté ami, dans une maison dont la situation lui faisait jadis une envie blanche.

Django 2 by Example. Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

Antonio Melé

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django 2, then this book is for you. You will walk through the creation of four professional Django 2 projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices.You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. The book will teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and set up a production environment for your Django 2 projects. The book walks you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Django 2 and how to build advanced web applications.

CSS3. Nieoficjalny podręcznik. Wydanie III

David Sawyer McFarland

Kaskadowe arkusze stylów (ang. Cascading Style Sheets, CSS) odmieniły świat stron internetowych. Pozwoliły oddzielić treść strony od jej wyglądu. Od tej chwili życie projektantów stało się zdecydowanie prostsze. Praca nad zmianą wyglądu strony przestały przyprawiać o zawrót głowy, a szybkie przygotowanie kilku wersji na konkretne urządzenia stało się realne. Ostatnia wersja CSS3 wprowadza kolejne nowości, które zapewnią optymalne wykorzystanie potencjału stron WWW. Ta książka należy do cenionej serii „Nieoficjalny podręcznik”. W trakcie lektury dowiesz się, jak przygotować poprawny arkusz stylów i dołączyć go do strony. Poznasz najlepsze techniki formatowania konkretnych elementów kodu HTML. Ponadto przekonasz się, że można szybko i wygodnie zaprojektować profesjonalną stronę WWW. Znajdziesz tu również opis nowości HTML-a w wersji 5 oraz nauczysz się korzystać z innych czcionek niż Arial czy Verdana. Dzięki CSS3 wiele operacji, które do tej pory sprawiały kłopoty lub wymagały korzystania z elementów graficznych, uda Ci się wykonać za pomocą zaledwie paru linijek kodu. Zaokrąglone rogi, obracanie elementów, gradienty to tylko niektóre z nich. Książka ta jest obowiązkową lekturą dla każdego projektanta i webmastera chcącego być na bieżąco z nowinkami ze świata stron WWW. Poznaj sekrety CSS3! Formatowanie stron Wykorzystanie niestandardowych czcionek Obracanie elementów Animacje Najlepszy przewodnik po CSS3 dla webmasterów!

KVM Virtualization Cookbook. Learn how to use KVM effectively in production

Konstantin Ivanov

Virtualization technologies such as KVM allow for better control over the available server resources, by deploying multiple virtual instances on the same physical host, or clusters of compute resources. With KVM it is possible to run various workloads in isolation with the hypervisor layer providing better tenant isolation and higher degree of security. This book will provide a deep dive into deploying KVM virtual machines using qemu and libvirt and will demonstrate practical examples on how to run, scale, monitor, migrate and backup such instances. You will also discover real production ready recipes on deploying KVM instances with OpenStack and how to programatically manage the life cycle of KVM virtual machines using Python. You will learn numerous tips and techniques which will help you deploy & plan the KVM infrastructure. Next, you will be introduced to the working of libvirt libraries and the iPython development environment. Finally, you will be able to tune your Linux kernel for high throughput and better performance. By the end of this book, you will gain all the knowledge needed to be an expert in working with the KVM virtualization infrastructure.