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In the next decade China’s actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. 258 Pages · 2017 · 7.16 MB · English
‘A brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel‘ Guardian ‘Dazzling… by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali ‘Profound and beautiful’ Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting
‘A vital, haunting, devastating read’ Sarah Waters.
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In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother’s copies of Fu Pei-mei’s Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T.
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Marcus Holt is Subject B, a Vietnam veteran forced to take part in Professor Abel Worthe’s sadistic experiment. Worthe keeps his human lab rats in a village haunted by murderous ghosts, and forces them to one terrifying ordeal after another. This time, the prisoners find themselves hunted by another vicious spirit.
In this action-packed story from a New York Times bestselling author, a ruthless killer is seeking to overturn the world order—and our only hope is vigilante justice.
Since Lamont Cranston—known to a select few as the Shadow—defeated Shiwan Khan and ended his reign of terror over New York one year ago, the city has started to regenerate.
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As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child who replaced her reflection. Ten years later, she’s built herself a new life, but all that is threatened when Mirror Boy returns, warning of danger. A hunter has come for both of them, and unless Lynette can figure out what’s going on, they will both perish.
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“This story left me thinking about the ways we overcome setbacks and redefine what truly matters.” – Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club December ’24 Pick) A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.
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A stunning collection of the very best French recipes from the foremost authority on home-cooking in France Celebrated food writer Ginette Mathiot, author of Je sais cuisiner (the best-selling home-cooking book in France for over 90 years), taught three generations of French families how to cook. 151 Pages · 2016 · 5.48 MB · English
The clean architecture is the opposite of spaghetti code, where everything is interlaced and there are no single elements that can be easily detached from the rest and replaced without the whole system collapsing. The main point of the clean architecture is to make clear “what is where and why”, and this should be your first concern while you design and implement a software system, whatever architecture or development methodology you want to follow.
The clean architecture is the opposite of spaghetti code, where everything is interlaced and there are no single elements that can be easily detached from the rest and replaced without the whole system collapsing. The main point of the clean architecture is to make clear “what is where and why”, and this should be your first concern while you design and implement a software system, whatever architecture or development methodology you want to follow.
One of the most comprehensive no-fluff guides for Python software developers to help them write clean code every day. The book is packed with principles and patterns that help developers, from novices and juniors to seniors and experts, to write cleaner code.There is currently a small bug in EPUB files not containing titles (module names) for some code blocks. I have informed Leanpub about the problem, so hopefully there will a fix available soon. In the meantime, you can download the PDF version.
In this gripping literary horror, Case’s best friend Drea goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murderous world—perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic.
There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases.
Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third (“tertiary”) category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. 800 Pages · 2015 · 47.52 MB · English
Climate change is a global health crisis already impacting millions of people around the world. Here’s what you need to know. 800 Pages · 2015 · 47.52 MB · English
From Scotland’s #1 Bestselling crime thriller novelist comes the latest in his series featuring Aberdeen’s Detective Inspector Logan McRae. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tire around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker?
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance, and empowerment, drawing on the expertise of top psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, and thought leaders.
