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“Action shots and formatted with the brightness and gloss of a magazine, this book will be interesting reading for ice hockey fans.” —Booklist. “This is a fantastic book for teachers and students alike. It is written in an informative and easy-to-read style and is a definite must-have for any library or classroom.” —Resource Links. The Hockey Now! franchise has been thrilling ice hockey fans for over two decades, and this new tenth edition will take them rinkside and delight them like no other ice hockey book. Updated in time for the 2019–20 season, Hockey Now! provides fast-paced and strikingly illustrated profiles of over 65 of the best and brightest of the NHL. Here are just a few of the players featured in Hockey Now!: Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Auston Matthews, Alex Ovechkin, Nikita Kucherov, Nathan McKinnon, Erik Karlsson, Drew Doughty, Frederik Andersen, Marc-Andre Fleury, Victor Hedman. Author Mike Ryan has selected first and second All-Star teams as well as the Black Aces and Milestone Makers for each division (Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific), paying special attention to the league’s youth movement. Hockey Now! is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the stars of today’s fast-paced NHL and the ideal choice for all fans.

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In the nine years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan has rarely been out of the news. Over a thousand coalition military fatalities have been reported, and many times that number of Afghan civilians. The country is in the process of rebuilding, and yet the fighting continues. Following the success of his previous book, Battlefield Afghanistan, Mike Ryan looks at the state of this war-ravaged nation as Barack Obama finally decides to escalate America’s military presence. He considers the current role of coalition troops and the progress being made, or not being made – more than 100 British troops died in Afghanistan in 2009, the highest death toll for any year since the mission began in October 2001 – things are getting worse, not better.The author has unrivalled access not only to commanding officers, but also to the ‘boots on the ground’. With more than 200 colour photographs and analysis of the situation from those actually doing the fighting, Frontline Afghanistan may help the reader to make up his or her mind about the legitimacy of the conflict and the possible way forward.

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With platforms designed for rapid adaptation and failure recovery such as Amazon Web Services, cloud computing is more like programming than traditional system administration. Tools for automatic scaling and instance replacement allow even small DevOps teams to manage massively scalable application infrastructures—if team members drop their old views of development and operations and start mastering automation. This comprehensive guide shows developers and system administrators how to configure and manage AWS services including EC2, CloudFormation, Elastic Load Balancing, S3, and Route 53. Sysadms will learn will learn to automate their favorite tools and processes; developers will pick up enough ops knowledge to build a robust and resilient AWS application infrastructure. Launch instances with EC2 or CloudFormation Securely deploy and manage your applications with AWS tools Learn to automate AWS configuration management with Python and Puppet Deploy applications with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing Explore approaches for deploying application and infrastructure updates Save time on development and operations with reusable components Learn strategies for managing log files in AWS environments Configure a cloud-aware DNS service with Route 53 Use AWS CloudWatch to monitor your infrastructure and applications

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