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The Range Boss

Charles Alden Seltzer

In this 1916 western by American writer Charles Alden Seltzer, Ruth Harkness inherits a western ranch from her uncle. Rex Randerson plays the central role as her range boss and rescuer. Randerson meets her on her arrival, rescues her from a mired buckboard and is devotedly in love with her from that moment. Ruth however is engaged to Willard Masten who comes west as a member of her party. Masten who is a double dyed villain finds companions of his own caliber in Chavis and Pickett two typical bad men and there is much gun play before the story comes to an end with Ruth and her range boss happy in their mutual love and understanding. Seltzers Western novels are jam-packed with action, adventure, and romance.

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The Range Dwellers

B.M. Bower

Rich west coast spoiled brat meets rich east coast girl. Both are spending the summer in cattle country and neither expected the outcome of their adventures. Of course there is a feud involved here, a pretty young woman, some cowboy hijinks, and some amazing coincidences to bring all the characters together. This short but engaging novel contains all of the elements that made B. M. Bowers books a mainstay of the genre of classic Westerns. B. M. Bower was one of the most prolific and popular writers in the early days of the Western genre, and stories like The Range Dwellers explain the authors abiding popularity.

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The Rangeland Avenger

Max Brand

If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, youll like "The Rangeland Avenger" by Max Brand. When Riley Sinclair heads into the town of Sour Creek to seek vengeance for the death of his brother, he doesnt expect any trouble given his reputation and his skills with a gun. He is not prepared for Cold Feet, however, a man locally known for his abject lack of courage and his non existent fighting skills. A soft spoken but ruthless gunman cuts a path of deadly payback across the Wild West in this exciting adventure. Classic old time Western. Revenge, treatise on what a friend is, gun-play, loyalty, what makes a man a man, twists and turns.

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The Ransomware Threat Landscape. Prepare for, recognise and survive ransomware attacks

IT Governance Publishing, Alan Calder

The Ransomware Threat Landscape offers an in-depth examination of ransomware, explaining how it works, its modes of access, and the consequences of attacks. The book begins by detailing the mechanisms of ransomware, how cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities, and the damage it causes to organizations. It further explores the types of ransomware, their infection methods, and how attackers use ransomware for financial gain.The guide provides practical, actionable advice on basic and advanced cybersecurity measures to protect against ransomware. Topics like cybersecurity hygiene, staff awareness, and the importance of creating an anti-ransomware program are covered. The book emphasizes the role of a well-structured risk management framework and its application in preventing attacks and mitigating fallout from infections.For organizations of all sizes, the book offers tailored controls to strengthen defenses. It also explains the steps needed for a comprehensive recovery plan. Advanced prevention strategies for larger enterprises are discussed, making this guide suitable for IT professionals, security experts, and organizational leaders aiming to protect their systems from ransomware threats.

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The Rape of Lucrece

William Shakespeare

This is a beautiful and touching poem. Shakespeare uses language and metaphor clearly and very accessible. This is a very sad poem, and he embodies the tragedy of events. Values, loyalty, virtue, shame and revenge are carefully studied. Lucretias rhetorical mastery, combined with an incredible ecphratic passage depicting Troy, creates a truly amazing poem.

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The Raw Youth

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents. He was sent to a special institution for rich children, where he was always humiliated and called, a footman. And after graduating from school he receives a letter from his father, in which he calls Arkady to St. Petersburg, where the main events of the novel take place with him.

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The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a beautiful woman stops his car to ask for directions to Scotland. Odd time to be traveling so far and in such a hurry, but Allerdykes mind is elsewhere. When he finally arrives in Hull, he finds his cousin dead in his hotel room and a valuable consignment of jewels missing. Allerdykes only clue rests with that woman hurrying off to Scotland. Written in beautifully period English, this mystery has many threads to solve. The main characters work wonderfully with each other to solve the mystery, with the assistance of the British police. There are enough twists and turns and revelations to keep you busy right to the end.

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The React Workshop. Get started with building web applications using practical tips and examples from React use cases

Brandon Richey, Ryan Yu, Endre Vegh, Theofanis...

Are you interested in how React takes command of the view layer for web and mobile apps and changes the data of large web applications without needing to reload the page? This workshop will help you learn how and show you how to develop and enhance web apps using the features of the React framework with interesting examples and exercises.The workshop starts by demonstrating how to create your first React project. You’ll tap into React’s popular feature JSX to develop templates and use DOM events to make your project interactive. Next, you’ll focus on the lifecycle of the React component and understand how components are created, mounted, unmounted, and destroyed. Later, you’ll create and customize components to understand the data flow in React and how props and state communicate between components. You’ll also use Formik to create forms in React to explore the concept of controlled and uncontrolled components and even play with React Router to navigate between React components. The chapters that follow will help you build an interesting image-search app to fetch data from the outside world and populate the data to the React app. Finally, you’ll understand what ref API is and how it is used to manipulate DOM in an imperative way.By the end of this React book, you’ll have the skills you need to set up and create web apps using React.