Tooth and Claw - Short Stories Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Saki

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal has sharp, white teeth, and it loves fresh blood. Every night, Conradin prays to this animal and asks it to do one thing for him, just one thing. This collection of short stories is clever, funny, and shows us 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'. In other words, it is Saki at his very best.

The Malefactor

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This 1907 novel was one of the early popular novels of society by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story revolves around the conflict between a gentlemans obligation to defend the honor of a lady, and his responsibility to his own feelings, family, and freedom. Sir Wingrave, imprisoned wrongfully for killing a man, finishes his sentence and plans his vengeance against those who would not tell the truth to help him during his trial. He becomes misanthropic, seeking only revenge. He wishes to be a malefactor, doing only evil. His class, upbringing, and social ties all mitigate his evil. A young journalist, enamored with the thought of spending time with a man with such a history, offers himself as a secretary. Does Sir Wingrave succeed in taking his vengeance? Does his secretary betray him or help him?

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

The hero of the novel, Phileas Fogg, made a bet that he would be able to circumnavigate the globe from west to east in no more than 80 days, given the technical capabilities of 19th century transport. Foggs journey begins in England, and then he goes to France, Italy, Egypt, India, China, Japan and America. In India, Fogg and his servant, Jean Passepartout, save the beautiful Audu, who is about to be burned alive with the body of her late husband. Subsequently, she becomes Foggs wife. Detective Fix fixes the journey: the police are convinced that it was Fogg who stole a large sum from the Bank of England, and betting is an opportunity to evade punishment.

Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger. Building decentralized applications with Hyperledger Fabric and Composer

Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, ...

Blockchain and Hyperledger technologies are hot topics today. Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer are open source projects that help organizations create private, permissioned blockchain networks. These find application in finance, banking, supply chain, and IoT among several other sectors. This book will be an easy reference to explore and build blockchain networks using Hyperledger technologies.The book starts by outlining the evolution of blockchain, including an overview of relevant blockchain technologies. You will learn how to configure Hyperledger Fabric and become familiar with its architectural components. Using these components, you will learn to build private blockchain networks, along with the applications that connect to them. Starting from principles first, you’ll learn to design and launch a network, implement smart contracts in chaincode and much more. By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications, handling the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle.

The House of the Dead. Or, Prison Life in Siberia

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labor for murdering his wife. Published in 1861, House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical work based upon Dostoevskys exile to Siberia where he was punished with hard labor after he was initially convicted to be punished by death by firing-squad for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts. Dostoyevsky skillfully portrays the inmates of the prison with sympathy for their plight, and admiration for their energy, ingenuity and talent. The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organized by theme rather than as a continuous story.

Szatan i Judasz (Tom 9). Szatan i Judasz. Jasna Skała

Karol May

Szatan i Judasz. Jasna Skała to dziewiąta część z 11-tomowego cyklu przygodowego autorstwa Karola Maya. Grupa dzielnych bohaterów odbywa wspólnie szalone podróże, aby mierzyć się z wszelkiej maści niegodziwcami, walczyć o sprawiedliwość i odnajdywać zaginione skarby. Dzięki pracy zespołowej, zaufaniu i wzajemnej pomocy udaje im się wyjść obronną ręką z najgorszych opresji.

Autodesk Inventor 2022 PL / 2022+ / Fusion 360. Podstawy metodyki projektowania

Andrzej Jaskulski

Poznaj podstawy systemów Autodesk Inventor i Fusion 360! Naucz się wydajnie projektować Twórz profesjonalną dokumentację Zaliczaj kolokwia w pierwszych terminach Autodesk Inventor Professional to jeden z dwóch najpopularniejszych systemów CAD w swojej klasie. Uzupełnia go rozwiązanie PLM typu cloud computing - Fusion 360. Jeśli chcesz szybko rozpocząć samodzielne projektowanie za pomocą tych systemów w polskiej lub angielskiej wersji językowej albo bez problemów zaliczyć kolokwium z Inventora, sięgnij po tę książkę! Podstawy metodyki projektowania to więcej niż wprowadzenie do zagadnienia. Książka zawiera metodycznie poprawne i zweryfikowane podczas tysięcy godzin zajęć efektywne ćwiczenia i absolutne minimum wiedzy teoretycznej. Taki układ treści pozwala na samodzielne zrealizowanie wszystkich etapów modelowania 3D i redagowania dokumentacji 2D i 3D, a także stworzenie poprawnego projektu - poprawnego, czyli łatwego do modyfikacji, będącej istotą procesu projektowania. To prosta droga do wykształcenia nawyków, które sprawią, że praca projektowa stanie się naprawdę wydajna. Autor książki, profesor Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego, dzieli się swoją ogromną wiedzą i bogatym doświadczeniem wynikającym z pracy na kierowniczych stanowiskach technicznych w przemyśle, jak również z wielu lat kształcenia studentów i uczestników kursów CAD. W tej publikacji podpowiada, jak skutecznie uczyć poprawnej metodyki parametrycznego projektowania 3D i redagowania dokumentacji 2D i 3D, jeśli ma się do dyspozycji niewielką liczbę godzin zajęć. Dzięki odpowiedniemu przygotowaniu dydaktycznemu autora książka sprawdzi się doskonale zarówno w przypadku samodzielnej nauki, jak i zajęć uniwersyteckich. Wiedzę i umiejętności profesora Andrzeja Jaskulskiego od lat docenia firma Autodesk. Interfejs użytkownika Konfiguracja środowiska i szablony użytkownika Podstawy parametrycznego hierarchicznego (FBM) modelowania części i zespołów Redagowanie dokumentacji 2D i 3D (prezentacje) Ćwiczenia przejściowe idealne do przygotowania się do kolokwium Zadania kontrolne Zaprzyjaźnij się z systemami Autodesk Inventor i Fusion 360 i osiągaj szybciej swoje cele!

Mastering SFML Game Development. Inject new life and light into your old SFML projects by advancing to the next level

Raimondas Pupius

SFML is a cross-platform software development library written in C++ with bindings available for many programming languages. It provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. This book will help you become an expert of SFML by using all of its features to its full potential. It begins by going over some of the foundational code necessary in order to make our RPG project run. By the end of chapter 3, we will have successfully picked up and deployed a fast and efficient particle system that makes the game look much more ‘alive’. Throughout the next couple of chapters, you will be successfully editing the game maps with ease, all thanks to the custom tools we’re going to be building. From this point on, it’s all about making the game look good. After being introduced to the use of shaders and raw OpenGL, you will be guided through implementing dynamic scene lighting, the use of normal and specular maps, and dynamic soft shadows. However, no project is complete without being optimized first. The very last chapter will wrap up our project by making it lightning fast and efficient.