Fighting Snub Reilly

Edgar Wallace

Fighting Snub Reilly is one of the mystery story from collection which includes eight short mysteries by Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre. There are others: Jimmys Brother, The Christmas Cup, The Man In The Golf Hut, A Romance In Brown, The Perfect Gentleman, Kid-Glove Harry, Nig-Nog. Edgar Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallaces works have been turned into well over 100 films.

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcotts first book, penned at 16. She created the fanciful stories for the amusement of the daughter of a family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Miss Alcott loved and was well acquainted with flowers, insects, birds and animals of the meadows and forest. From these beauties she spun adventures of enchanting natures woodland fairies, telling them to children of friends and others. Each fable has a moral of sorts, a captivating way to inspire children to selfless, gentle, loving behavior. Readers meet a cast of elves, fairies, brownies and sprites with such Shakespearean names as Willy Wisp, Moonbeam and Thistledown, and the children who occasionally dally with them. Thinly disguised morality lessons told in an over-upholstered style, they instruct the audience in the importance of various virtues. This is a nice collection of fairy tales that is sure to please young readers and the adults reading to them alike.

C++ High Performance. Boost and optimize the performance of your C++17 code

Björn Andrist, Viktor Sehr

C++ is a highly portable language and can be used to write both large-scale applications and performance-critical code. It has evolved over the last few years to become a modern and expressive language. This book will guide you through optimizing the performance of your C++ apps by allowing them to run faster and consume fewer resources on the device they're running on without compromising the readability of your code base.The book begins by helping you measure and identify bottlenecks in a C++ code base. It then moves on by teaching you how to use modern C++ constructs and techniques. You'll see how this affects the way you write code. Next, you'll see the importance of data structure optimization and memory management, and how it can be used efficiently with respect to CPU caches. After that, you'll see how STL algorithm and composable Range V3 should be used to both achieve faster execution and more readable code, followed by how to use STL containers and how to write your own specialized iterators.Moving on, you’ll get hands-on experience in making use of modern C++ metaprogramming and reflection to reduce boilerplate code as well as in working with proxy objects to perform optimizations under the hood. After that, you’ll learn concurrent programming and understand lock-free data structures. The book ends with an overview of parallel algorithms using STL execution policies, Boost Compute, and OpenCL to utilize both the CPU and the GPU.

Python Digital Forensics Cookbook. Effective Python recipes for digital investigations

Chapin Bryce, Preston Miller

Technology plays an increasingly large role in our daily lives and shows no sign of stopping. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that an investigator develops programming expertise to deal with increasingly large datasets. By leveraging the Python recipes explored throughout this book, we make the complex simple, quickly extracting relevant information from large datasets. You will explore, develop, and deploy Python code and libraries to provide meaningful results that can be immediately applied to your investigations. Throughout the Python Digital Forensics Cookbook, recipes include topics such as working with forensic evidence containers, parsing mobile and desktop operating system artifacts, extracting embedded metadatafrom documents and executables, and identifying indicators of compromise. Youwill also learn to integrate scripts with Application Program Interfaces (APIs) suchas VirusTotal and PassiveTotal, and tools such as Axiom, Cellebrite, and EnCase. By the end of the book, you will have a sound understanding of Python and how you can use it to process artifacts in your investigations.

Tappans Burro

Zane Grey

You have brought me happiness, said Tappan, to a small gray storm circling around his mother. Your name is Janet. You are Bopo Tappana, I think he will stick to you, from the book, Intelligence was a lonely business for Tappan, but his drum Jenet was a good company. She knew the dots and the water wells better. Thappan, from the burning heat and poisonous atmosphere of the Death Valley to the blind blizzards of the Arizona Mountains. Janet traced with him the faithful, the only friend, and he turned her loyalty to the ultimate, supreme effort of heart, will and spirit.

"Górnośląskie Studia Socjologiczne. Seria Nowa". T. 2

red. Kazimiera Wódz

Drugi tom czasopisma poświęcono problemowi społecznych konsekwencji rozwoju, a obecnie upadku przemysłu na Górnym Śląsku i w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim. Część artykułów oparta jest na badaniach procesów przemian gospodarczych, społecznych i kulturowych starych regionów Europy. Badania te prowadzone były przez zespół socjologów pod kierunkiem Kazimiery Wódz w ramach unijnego projektu „Space, Place and the Historical and contemporary articulations of regional, national and European identities through work and community in areas undergoing economic REstructuring and regeneration” - SPHERE. W pozostałych szkicach przedstawiono ogólne refleksje nad restrukturyzacją przemysłu oraz jej społecznymi konsekwencjami, ukazano także problem przemian w innych regionach kraju.

Umowa o partnerstwie publiczno-prywatnym a umowa administracyjna

Kacper Rożek

Publikacja podejmuje zagadnienia istotne nie tylko dla nauki prawa administracyjnego, ale i dla praktyki prawniczej. Administracja publiczna, zwłaszcza samorządowa, stale nawiązuje stosunki prawne z podmiotami prywatnymi. Z punktu widzenia nauki prawa administracyjnego od dawna stawiane jest pytanie o charakter form działania administracji, które stosowane są w tego rodzaju sytuacjach. Wątpliwości nauki i praktyki wynikają m.in. z przywiązania do tradycyjnego katalogu  konsensualnych form działania administracji, do których zalicza się porozumienia, umowy (cywilnoprawne), czy też umowy administracyjne. Te ostatnie budzą najwięcej kontrowersji, ponieważ istotą umowy ma być zajęcie przez organ administracji publicznej pozycji równorzędnej w ramach stosunku prawnego, jednak „administracyjny” charakter umowy ma wskazywać narachowanie jakichś elementów władztwa po stronie organu administracji, a więc świadczyć o braku równorzędności. Stąd też Autor dostrzega potrzebę rozważenia szczególnego charakteru tzw. umów publicznoprawnych zawieranych w celu przekazywania lub wspólnej realizacji zadań publicznych związanych z przebudową infrastruktury, jak też świadczenia usług powszechnie dostępnych, w szczególności z punktu widzenia możliwości zakwalifikowania takich aktów jako umów administracyjnych. Odpowiedź na tak postawione pytanie stanowi novum badawcze.   Fragment Recenzji dr. hab. Pawła Chmielnickiego, prof. WSIiZ

Vuex Quick Start Guide. Centralized State Management for your Vue.js applications

Andrea Koutifaris

State management preserves the state of controls in a user interface. Vuex is a state management tool for Vue.js that makes the architecture easier to understand, maintain and evolve. This book is the easiest way to get started with Vuex to improve your Vue.js application architecture and overall user experience.Our book begins by explaining the problem that Vuex solves, and how it helps your applications. You will learn about the Vuex core concepts, including the Vuex store, changing application state, carrying out asynchronous operations and persisting state changes, all with an eye to scalability.You will learn how to test Vuex elements and Vue components with the Karma and Jasmine testing frameworks. You will see this in the context of a testing first approach, following the fundamentals of Test Driven Development. TDD will help you to identify which components need testing and how to test them. You will build a full Vuex application by creating the application components and services, and persist the state.Vuex comes with a plugin system that allows programmers to extend Vuex features. You will learn about some of the most powerful plugins, and make use of the built-in logger plugin. You write a custom Google Analytics plugin to send actions to its analytics API, and an Undo/Redo plugin.