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Discover the ultimate companion book to Ubisoft's most highly anticipated game of 2020.Discover the ultimate companion book to Ubisoft's most highly anticipated game of 2020, Watch Dogs Legion (R). In a near-future London on the brink of becoming a complete authoritarian state, the only way to rise up is to recruit everyone in to the resistance. This in-world book gathers the investigative work of an American reporter who has followed DedSec's history, from its emergence in the United States, to its influence around the world, and its sudden disappearance in London. The investigation picks up in the city as new forces emerge to rise up against the surveillance state. Explore the world of Watch Dogs Legion, with research files and information that provide an overview of key aspects of the universe, including images of the transformed city of London, factions, vehicles, weapons, technology, and more. Readers can also examine the roots of London's central conflict by tracking the events that led to this current state of affairs. Packed with immersive text, exclusive artwork, and detailed illustrations, this book is the definitive guide to Watch Dogs lore.

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Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith were the original pioneers of Australian aviation. Together they succeeded in a number of record-breaking flights that made them instant celebrities in Australia and around the world: the first east-to-west crossing of the Pacific, the first trans-Tasman flight, Australia to New Zealand, the first flight from New Zealand to Australia. Business ventures followed for them, as they set up Australian National Airways in late 1928. Smithy was the face of the airline, happier in the cockpit or in front of an audience than in the boardroom. Ulm on the other hand was in his element as managing director. Ulm had the tenacity and organisational skills, yet Smithy had the charisma and the public acclaim. In 1932, Kingsford Smith received a knighthood for his services to flying, Ulm did not.Business setbacks and dramas followed, as Ulm tried to develop the embryonic Australian airline industry. ANA fought hard against the young Qantas, already an establishment favourite, but a catastrophic crash on the airline's regular route from Sydney to Melbourne and the increasing bite of the Great Depression forced ANA's bankruptcy in 1933. Desperate to drum up publicity for a new airline venture, Ulm's final flight was meant to demonstrate the potential for a regular trans-Pacific passenger service. Somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii his plane, Stella Australis, disappeared. No trace of the plane or crew were ever found.In the years since his death, attention has focused more and more on Smithy, leaving Ulm neglected and overshadowed. This biography will attempt to rectify that, showing that Ulm was at least Smithy's equal as a flyer, and in many ways his superior as a visionary, as an organiser and as a businessman. His untimely death robbed Australia of a huge talent.

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This complete guide to all things MySQL will take readers from the absolute basics of creating a table to the complexities of managing an entire database. Learn to build efficient databases through interesting examples, exercises, and three hands-on projects creating databases for weather, voter, and salary data. The book leads readers through all of MySQL's intricacies, without the technical jargon. It's designed to help build confidence in creating simple databases and tables before learning more advanced concepts, including how to update and delete data, work with multiple tables, and avoid common mishaps. By the end of the book, readers will be database management pros, who know how to carry out comprehensive data projects with ease.

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Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud.

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Ecology: The Economy of Nature teaches students the basic concepts in ecology through an evolutionary perspective with an emphasis on data analytic skill building, and new in class activities designed to improve student engagement.

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Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. He gave rock and roll its devil's edge with hit records like 'Great Balls of Fire'. His incendiary shows caused riots and boycotts. He ran a decade-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women, and married his thirteen-year-old second cousin, the third of seven wives. He also nearly met his maker, at least twice. He survived it all to be hailed as one of the greatest music icons. For the very first time, he reveals the truth behind the Last Man Standing of the rock-and-roll era.

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“A thrilling ticktock on the borderland slayings and the effort to solve them.—Texas Monthly The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.Twelve days is all it took.Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Melissa was found dead, the other three women were on edge but assumed they were safe. Twelve days later, they too were dead and police had detained an unlikely suspect—Juan David Ortiz, a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where he carried a badge, a service revolver, and was entrusted t

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150 folding and decorating projects for every occasion, from children's birthdays and picnics to cocktail parties and weddings, how to style them, and a history of napkins.

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The classic guide to bringing out the best in people at their worstfully updated for a world that's meaner, nastier, and more polarized than everToday, new technologies, the increased role of social media, and the ubiquity of remote work have resulted in more polarized workplaces, the breakdown of social mores, and downright rude behavior. These days, it seems like there are more people we can't standnot fewerand, too often, if we aren't yelling at each other, we've just quit talking altogether.The global bestseller Dealing with People You Can't Stand has been helping people make the best of tough situations for nearly three decades, and this new edition has been fully updated to address the needs of our time. You''ll learn how to get along and get things done when you're dealing with people who have the uncanny ability to sabotage, derail, and interfere with your plans, needs, and wants. Brand-new chapters cover: Narcissism Polarizatio

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A variety of oil company-related items from small "give-aways" to hundreds of colorful oil cans, globes, and signs are presented here. The products of major national companies like Gulf and Texaco share space with many smaller and specialized products of marine, automotive, aviation, locomotive and small engine lubrication. The book has sections covering gasoline pumps, maps, badges, buttons, and signs for the refreshment sodas sold at the service stations. Over 500 color photographs present the graphics which make this area of advertising and packaging so entertaining. Current market values of the items are included with the captions.

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'A riot of eloquent bigotry and bluster' THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2022'Unbroken, unbowed and raging against the wokeness of the modern world' MAIL ON SUNDAY BEST NEW FICTIONReleased from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience exacerbated, Dr James Darke self-isolates. But on his return he understands that he is now a displaced person, lost in a new world for which his education and inclinations have not prepared him.Irascible, misanthropic, intensely bookish, fastidious in his tastes and rich enough to indulge them, Darke is a happy shut-in, busily writing oppositional pamphlets and composing a literary hoax. But his daughter and the Bulgarian housekeeper she hired to look after him have other ideas.After Darke is a moving, witty reflection on grief, ageing and love in all its forms, and James Darke is one of the most memorable, exasperating yet loveable characters of contemporary fiction.

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