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  • The Great Abdication

    Why Britain's Decline is the Fault of the Middle Class

    by Alexander Deane ...
    Series Book 41 - Societas
    The middle class provides British society with its stability and strength. According to Deane’s contentious thesis, our middle class has abstained from its responsibility to uphold societal values, and the enormously damaging collapse of our society’s norms and standards is largely a result of that abdication. The institutions of political and social governance provide a husk of functionality and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Event Streams in Action

    Real-time event systems with Kafka and Kinesis

    by Valentin Crettaz, Alexander Dean ...
    SummaryEvent Streams in Action is a foundational book introducing the ULP paradigm and presenting techniques to use it effectively in data-rich environments.About the TechnologyMany high-profile applications, like LinkedIn and Netflix, deliver nimble, responsive performance by reacting to user and system events as they occur. In large-scale systems, this requires efficiently monitoring, managing, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Bulldog Carney

    Enriched edition. A Victorian Tale of Mystery, Intrigue, and Romance in Old London

    by William Alexander Fraser, Dean Dawson ...
    In "Bulldog Carney," William Alexander Fraser crafts a gripping narrative set against the gritty backdrop of early 20th-century American life, exploring themes of resilience, identity, and the human spirit. Through the eyes of the titular character, Carney, Fraser weaves a tale filled with rich, evocative language and a keen sense of realism that mirrors the socio-economic struggles of the time. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Off With Their Wigs!

    Judicial Revolution in Modern Britain

    by Charles Banner, Alexander Deane ...
    Series Book 39 - Societas
    On Thursday June 12th 2003, a press release concerning a Cabinet reshuffle declared as a footnote that the office of Lord Chancellor was to be abolished and that a new Supreme Court would replace the House of Lords as the highest court in the United Kingdom. In response to intense criticism of the Government for announcing these judicial reforms without holding any prior debate or consultation, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Star Wars 2016 Del Rey Sampler

    Excerpts from Upcoming and Current Titles

    by Alan Dean Foster, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Chuck Wendig ...
    Series series Star Wars
    Come home to Star Wars with this ebook sampler of excerpts from Del Rey’s latest novels—including the official adaptation of The Force Awakens—set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . .In this year’s sampler, you’ll also find selections from the Battlefront videogame tie-in novel and from a pair of gripping titles that fill the gaps between Episodes VI and VII.Plus, don’t miss four Star ... Read more

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  • The Islamic State

    Combating The Caliphate Without Borders

    by Yonah Alexander, Dean Alexander ...
    The so-called "Islamic State" (IS) that has swept into power in parts of Syria and Iraq presents an imminent danger to the global community with its capacity as an effective, ideologically motivated, and bloodthirsty fighting force, coupled with its expanding territorial reach, on the ground and online. The IS has taken on a quasi-state form that mixes modernity with ancient rites, and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Monitoring with Ganglia

    Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale

    by Matt Massie, Bernard Li, Brad Nicholes, Vladimir Vuksan, Robert Alexander, Jeff Buchbinder, Frederiko Costa, Alex Dean, Dave Josephsen, Peter Phaal, Daniel Pocock ...
    Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Twenty Years After (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Musketeers reunited amid the Fronde and the English Civil War—duels, disguises, and a bid to save Charles I as loyalty and age test bonds.

    by Alexandre Dumas, Larkin Dean, Larkin Dean ...
    Twenty Years After resumes the saga of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—older, wryer, and divided by allegiance—as France convulses in the Fronde and England nears the execution of Charles I. Dumas blends court intrigue and street tumult, moving from Mazarin's chambers to Puritan camps, while Milady's son, Mordaunt, hunts revenge. The brisk feuilleton pace—cliffhangers, duels, disguises—now ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD

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    A Higher Call

    An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

    by Adam Makos, Larry Alexander ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a major motion pictureFour days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Count of Monte Cristo (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Wrongful imprisonment, a daring Château d'If escape, secret treasure, and Paris high society intrigue in Bourbon Restoration France

    by Alexandre Dumas, Larkin Dean, Larkin Dean ...
    Set amid post-Napoleonic France, The Count of Monte Cristo traces Edmond Dantès from wrongful imprisonment in the Château d'If to his reemergence—armed with the Abbé Faria's learning and hidden treasure—as the enigmatic Count. Serialized in 1844–46, it fuses Romantic melodrama with proto-Realist social critique, deploying disguises, cliffhangers, and contrapuntal plotting to test justice, ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD

  • Crossing Paths

    Queer moments that changed everything

    by Russell Alexander-Orozco, Dean Backus ...
    Every day, people all around the world meet by chance. These small moments sometimes change lives. These meetings can happen anywhere-on a bus, at work, or while shopping. Once in a while, these encounters feel special, as if fate brought them together. As queer people, we will explore these magical, life-changing encounters and follow these paths of love, mentorship, and friendship.Whether you ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Grow and Gather

    A Gardener’s Guide to a Year of Cut Flowers

    by Grace Alexander ...
    You don't need a flower field in the countryside to grow cut flowers, arrange beautiful floral displays or connect with nature.A simple patch of earth is plenty. In Grow and Gather, you'll follow the annual cycle of growing cut flowers, from sowing in spring to seed-collecting in autumn.Simple projects show you how to plant and nurture various flowers, as well as demonstrating the importance of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD