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This book examines how the 'Manneken Pis' statue has come to symbolize the Brussels city and focuses on the multiplicity of interpretations to which the statue has been subjected. It explores that celebratory uses of the statue and ones which articulate the conflicts in society are related.

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In Beverly Hills, fame and wealth can buy everything—except class, grace, and sophistication. In Beverly Hills Manners, Lisa Gaché offers a behind-the-scenes look at the unique social dilemmas of the residents of the hills of Beverly through the eyes of an etiquette expert tasked with transforming her awkward, boorish, and sometimes challenging clients into social virtuosos.From Saudi princesses to Oscar winners, talent agents to intelligence operatives, child actresses, butlers, and football players, Lisa has amassed an astounding roster. She’s taught Oscar nominees how to successfully navigate the red carpet, sorority girls to use forks and knives, and NFL coaches to shake hands. In this book, she reflects on those experiences to teach you how to present yourself as a respectable professional in real-world situations.Beverly Hills Manners covers more than just table manners. It includes advice on what Lisa calls “Child Wrangling”—laying down the law as parents when it comes to cliques, bullying, and cattiness—and netiquette, a vital new discipline in tune with every type of social media. You’ll also learn how to gracefully conduct yourself during life’s most trying moments, such as comforting a friend on the loss of a loved one or agreeing to help a family member who may be down on his luck.

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Today, young men need etiquette guidance more than ever! And men’s magazines such as Maxim and Esquire don’t cover the array of potentially awkward moments. This little guide offers the last word on walking, talking, dressing, as well as:• shaking hands• tipping• tying a bow tie• small talk• fashion do’s and don’ts

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Docker's simple idea, wrapping an application and its dependencies into a single deployable package, has continued to drive a revolution in software delivery. Docker in Practice, Second Edition presents nearly 120 practical techniques, hand-picked to help users get the most out of Docker. This book is an essential resource that readers will want to have open on their desk! Key features · Hands-on guide · Step-by-step instructions · Full of practical tips Written for developers and engineers using Docker in production. About the technology Docker is a platform that allows users to “build, ship, and run any app, anywhere.” It has come a long way in an incredibly short time and is now considered a standard way of solving one of the costliest aspects of software: deployment. Author biography Ian Miell is the Lead OpenShift Architect at Barclays. Aidan Hobson Sayers is a developer at Hadean. Previously, they used Docker to transform DevOps at OpenBet.

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HIGHLIGHT Hibernate Search in Action presents the concepts and techniques a Java developer needs to add full-featured search to enterprise applications. Author Emmanuel Bernard is the lead developer of the Hibernate Search project at RedHat/JBoss. DESCRIPTION Enterprise and web applications require full-featured, “Google-quality” search capabilities, but such features are notoriously difficult to implement and maintain. Hibernate Search builds on the Lucene feature set and offers an easyto- implement interface that integrates seamlessly with Hibernate—the leading data persistence solution for Java applications. Hibernate Search in Action introduces both the principles of enterprise search and the implementation details a Java developer will need to use Hibernate Search effectively. This book blends the insights of the Hibernate Search lead developer with the practical techniques required to index and manipulate data, assemble and execute search queries, and create smart filters for better search results. Along the way, the reader masters performance-boosting concepts like using Hibernate Search in a clustered environment and integrating with the features already in your applications. This book assumes you’re a competent Java developer with some experience using Hibernate and Lucene. KEY POINTS • Hibernate Search is a mature (version 3) technology with the full support and backing of JBoss/RedHat. • Authors Bernard and Griffin are well-known as the experts in this area. • Writing is concise and to-the-point, staying focused on practical concerns. MARKET INFORMATION Enterprise applications require high-quality search to give users access to and control over the massive amounts of information stored in databases and other structures. Lucene, the ultra-powerful foundation for many search implementations, is difficult to use directly. Hibernate Search makes the power of Lucene directly available to the millions of Java developers working with Hibernatebased applications.

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HTTP/2 introduces request multiplexing and request prioritization, which allows the web to handle the ever-increasing traffic that makes up modern websites. HTTP/2 in Action is a complete guide to HTTP/2, one of the core protocols of the web. Concentrating practical matters, this interesting book presents key HTTP/2 concepts such as frames, streams, and multiplexing and explores how they affect the performance and behaviour of your web sites. Key Features · Upgrading to HTTP/2 · Frames, streams, and multiplexing · Implementing server push Audience Written for developers or website administrators with a basic understanding of web development. Some chapters use JavaScriptbased examples but the techniques should apply to any HTTP/2 implementation. Author Bio Barry Pollard is a professional software developer with nearly two decades of industry experience developing and supporting software and infrastructure. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical usage of technology.

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As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband’s sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet and making peace with the fact that he’d never have a family at all. Twenty years later, Jerry is living with his long-term boyfriend, Drew, and they’re ready to take the plunge into parenthood. But how? Adoption? Foster parenting? Kidnapping? What they want most of all is a great story to tell their future kid about where he or she came from. Their search leads them to gestational surrogacy, a road less traveled where they’ll be borrowing a stranger’s ladyparts for nine months. Thus begins Jerry and Drew’s hilarious and unexpected journey to daddyhood. From then on, they’re in uncharted waters. They’re forced to face down homophobic baby store clerks, a hospital that doesn’t know what to do with them, even members of their own family who think what they’re doing is a little nutty. One thing’s for sure. If this all works out, they’re going to have an incredible birth story to tell their kid. With honesty, emotion, and laugh-out-loud humor, Jerry Mahoney ponders what it means to become a Mommy Man . . . and discovers that the answer is as varied and beautiful as the concept of family itself.

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Table Manners is an entertaining and practical guide to manners for everyone and every occasion. Whether you are a guest at a potluck or the host of a dinner party, a patron of your local bar or an invitee at a state dinner, this book tells you exactly how to behave: what to talk about, what to wear, how to eat. Jeremiah Tower has advice on everything: food allergies, RSVPs, iPhones, running late, thank-yous, restaurant etiquette, even what to do when you are served something disgusting. With whimsical line drawings throughout, this is "Strunk and White" for the table.

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Finn cautiously observes his family doing all kinds of daily activities and wonders if he is big enough to do them, too. Join the young boy as he goes from cautious to confident and learns when and how to use good manners. Preschool-age children will delight in placing their hand on the clever handprint to see if they, like Finn, are big enough to do things like use their quiet voice at the library, share a cookie, and shake hands with grown-ups.

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Stepping Stones to the Stars is the story of manned spaceflight from its inception to the era of the Space Shuttle. It begins with a short history of the evolution of the rocket, before describing the first manned rocket flights by both the Americans and the Russians. There is also the little-known story of what is thought to be the earliest manned rocket flight, said to have taken place in 1933 on the island of Rügen in the Baltic under the control of the German War Ministry. The story continues through Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space and Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’ to the first space stations, Skylab, Salyut and Mir. With the development of the Shuttle, the USA moved ahead in the ‘space race,’ but the Americans and Russians soon realised that it was easier to co-operate than compete, and the two nations began to work together for the first time. Terry C. Treadwell’s book is a non-technical history of human spaceflight, that tells the exciting and dramatic story of how we took our early steps towards the stars.

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As a software engineer, you’ll encounter countless programming challenges that initially seem confusing, difficult, or even impossible. Don’t despair! Many of these “new” problems already have well-established solutions. Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures teaches you powerful approaches to a wide range of tricky coding challenges that you can adapt and apply to your own applications. Providing a balanced blend of classic, advanced, and new algorithms, this practical guide upgrades your programming toolbox with new perspectives and hands-on techniques. about the technology Data structures and algorithms are the foundations for how programs store and process information. Choosing the optimal algorithms ensures that your programs are fast, efficient, and reliable. about the book Algorithms and Data Structures in Action expands on the basic algorithms you already know to give you a better selection of solutions to different programming problems. In it, you’ll discover techniques for improving priority queues, efficient caching, clustering data, and more. Each example is fully illustrated with graphics, language agnostic pseudo-code, and code samples in various languages. When you’re done, you will be able to implement advanced and little-known algorithms to deliver better performance from your code. what's inside Improving on basic data structures Efficient caching Nearest neighbour search, including k-d trees and S-trees Full ‘pseudo-code’ and samples in multiple languages about the readerFor programmers with basic or intermediate skills. Written in a language-agnostic manner, no specific language knowledge is required. about the author Marcello La Rocca is a research scientist and a full-stack engineer focused on optimization algorithms, genetic algorithms, machine learning and quantum computing. He has contributed to large-scale web applications at companies like Twitter and Microsoft, has undertaken applied research in both academia and industry, and authored the Neatsort adaptive sorting algorithm.

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Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl, hosted Saturday Night Live, and threw 399 touchdown passes during 14 amazing years as an NFL quarterback. Then he got fired. Indianapolis no longer valued Manning, a four-time winner of the league’s Most Valuable Player award. Get this: The Colts cut the most-liked athlete in America. "And I’m glad they did," Denver Broncos executive John Elway said. The Broncos made the most buzz-worthy signing in the history of NFL free agency during March of 2012. Despite missing a season with a neck injury that threatened to end his brilliant career, Manning was acquired to lead the Broncos back to Super Bowl glory. "We don’t have a Plan B," Elway declared, as he presented Manning with an orange No. 18 jersey. "We’re going [with] Plan A!" Even for a quarterback as decorated as Manning, his task in Denver was daunting. At age 36, Manning had to relearn to throw the football with a right arm that had suffered extensive nerve damage. The new quarterback in town had to convert devout fans of Tim Tebow, who won games in the name of Jesus. A brutal early season schedule left the Broncos with a 2-3 record, as whispers grew the old Pro Bowler had lost his touch. What happened next is one of those great comeback stories that make us fall in love with sports. Manning went from washed up to nearly unbeatable. He led Denver to 11 consecutive victories to close the regular season. More important, Manning lifted the Broncos back to the elite status that had been slip-sliding away since Elway retired as quarterback in 1999. How did Manning do it? On the practice field, he can be a perfectionist who is a pain in the ass. On the team plane, he can be a comedian who has teammates rolling in the aisles. To get inside football’s most beautiful mind, award-winning journalist Mark Kiszla takes readers from raucous locker rooms to quiet film rooms for a behind-the-scenes look at Manning’s remarkable revival. Football is a violent game. Life can be a contact sport. Before moving to Denver, Manning was sacked 231 times by NFL defenders, but never harder than the 232nd, when Colts owner Jim Irsay hit him with a shot that shook the veteran QB to his core. So the toughest question for Manning was the same as the uncertainty facing any proud worker who has been slapped with a termination note: How does a man respond after he gets knocked on his butt? Manning is the master of the no-huddle offense. But, with his physical ability fading and anything less than a championship considered failure, Manning has never had to beat the clock with such urgency. There's no time to waste. No excuses. No looking back. No Plan B.

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Hat die Täter-Betroffenen-Dyade in der Diskriminierungsforschung ausgedient? Die Studie zeichnet anhand einer umfassenden Betrachtung des „Bystander-Experience“ nach, dass nicht nur die Verursachenden und die Betroffenen von Diskriminierung und Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz betrachtet werden sollten, sondern auch die umstehenden Zuschauenden: Auch sie sind von negativen Auswirkungen auf körperliche und geistige Gesundheit, Produktivität und Arbeitsplatzzufriedenheit betroffen, sobald sie Diskriminierung und Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz wahrnehmen oder beobachten. Dieser Effekt äußert sich am gravierendsten in männerdominierten Teams, Abteilungen und Berufsfeldern, ohne jedoch nach Geschlecht der Zuschauenden zu unterscheiden. Worin besteht die Ursache für dieses Phänomen? Die vorliegende Studie nimmt zur Beantwortung dieser Frage besonders die „Bystander“ beider Geschlechter in männerdominierten Berufsfeldern aus einer akteurszentrierten Machttheorie-Perspektive in den Blick und macht damit den prozess- und figurationssoziologischen Zugang nach Norbert Elias fruchtbar zugänglich zur Erforschung von Diskriminierungsprozessen und Interventionsverhalten in männerdominierten Berufsfeldern.

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'Ferociously witty and joyously unrepentant, Infamous wraps a rollicking story of Regency revelry excess around a heart of queer love and the power of self-authorship' Kat Dunn22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practising kissing . . .Now that they're out in society, Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified.When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet and rival to Lord Byron, Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to finish her novel and make a name for herself.But Eddie might discover that trying to keep up with her literary heroes isn't all poems and pleasure . . .

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STEWART LEE'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic' Stewart LeeMin works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters of the heart are making a mockery of life as Min knows it.Min has found herself the object of her lodger's affection. An internationally renowned opera singer she's nicknamed 'The Bloater', Min is disgusted and attracted to him in equal measure. But with a husband so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off on him even when he's still in the room, Min can't quite bring herself to silence The Bloater's overtures. Vain, materialistic, yet surprisingly tender, The Bloater is a sparklingly ironic comedy of manners for all flirtatious gossips who love to hate and hate to love.PRAISE FOR THE BLOATER'A wonderfully unromantic romantic comedy' Daily Telegraph'Uncommonly good' Guardian 'It is the perfect aperitif, makes you feel warm and careless and much, much happier' The Times

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Why do we have so many dialects in England? Why do we not all speak in standard English? How has our history shaped and influenced the language we speak today? In a Manner of Speaking is a fun and fascinating exploration of spoken English that will answer these questions and many more. Following history from the time of the Roman conquest through to the days of the British Empire, chapters explore the beginnings of spoken English, how each invading force brought different sounds to the language, and how the English tongue has evolved over time. This is not a manual on English grammar. It is about how we came to speak our modern English, and why, even in the country of its birth, there are so many variations on the way the language is spoken. Witty, interesting and easy to read, In a Manner of Speaking is also superbly illustrated by renowned cartoonist Barrie Appleby.

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With a growing ecosystem of tools and libraries available, and the flexibility to run on many platforms (web, desktop and mobile), JavaScript is a terrific all-round environment for all data wrangling needs! Data Wrangling with JavaScript teaches readers core data munging techniques in JavaScript, along with many libraries and tools that will make their data tasks even easier. Key Features · How to handle unusual data sets · Cleaning and preparing raw data · Visualizing your results Audience Written for developers with experience using JavaScript. No prior knowledge of data analytics is needed. Author Bio Ashley Davis is a software developer, entrepreneur, writer, and a stock trader. He is the creator of Data-Forge, a data transformation and analysis toolkit for JavaScript inspired by Pandas and Microsoft LINQ.

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Robert Kinerk pokes fun at what can happen when good manners are neglected. From Eleanor Ickity who is served nothing that she likes to eat or Sylvester who can pester and pester and pester, this charming cast of characters will warn the ill mannered about the consequences of their shameful behavior.

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Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature. Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and morality. The amount and variety of criticism on the work is enormous, and ranges from psychoanalytic criticism and readings inspired by Mann's own homosexuality to inquiries into the place of the novella in Mann's oeuvre, its structure and style, and its symbolism and politics. Critics have also drawn connections between the novella and works of Plato, Euripides, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Platen, Wagner, Nietzsche, Gide, and Conrad. Ellis Shookman surveys the reception of Deathin Venice, analyzing several hundred books, articles, and other reactions to the novella, proceeding in a chronological manner that allows a historical perspective. Critics cited include Heinrich Mann, Hermann Broch, D. H. Lawrence, Karl Kraus, Kenneth Burke, Georg Lukàcs, Wolfgang Koeppen, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Thomas Mann himself. Particular attention is paid to Luchino Visconti's film, Benjamin Britten's opera, and to other more recent creative adaptations, both in Germany and throughout the world. Ellis Shookman is associate professor of German at Dartmouth College.

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Description The Redux JavaScript library consolidates state in a single object, radically simplifying one of the largest sources of bugs. With Redux in Action, you'll discover how to integrate Redux into your React application and development environment, write custom middleware, and optimize for performance. Key features · Clear introduction · Hands-on examples · Step-by-step guide Audience Written for web developers comfortable with JavaScript and ES6, as well as experience using React. About the technology Whether users are passing data through several layers of components or sharing and syncing data between unrelated parts of the app, Redux makes state management a breeze. Redux promotes predictability, testability, and the ability to debug dynamic applications, letting users focus on building great apps. Author biography Marc Garreau has architected and executed half a dozen unique client-side applications leveraging Redux for state management. Will Faurot is experienced in equal parts production Redux, and mentoring Redux developers of all skill levels.

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Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an amusing guide for married couples. Poking fun at wives and husbands in an even-handed manner, it is both witty and quaint, giving a glimpse of middle-class life of a bygone era, but also offering up some universal advice which still rings true today. For example, ‘Choose bedside books for their soporific qualities’, or, ‘one whisky-and-soda on retiring... makes the average man forget the dullest dinner and sends him to bed in a glow of good will.’ With sections on hot-water bottles, robes de nuit, breakfast in bed, the best kind of pillow, sneaking home late and night-time readers, this is the perfect, self-improving gift for your favourite bedfellow.

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