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Keep Calm: A Thriller
by Mike Binder"Starts with a bang and never slows down--a very superior high-stakes thriller." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee ChildWhen a bombing at 10 Downing Street wounds the Prime Minister and tests Great Britain's resolve, American ex-cop Adam Tatum must confront a conspiracy in the highest halls of powerFormer Michigan detective Adam Tatum receives an unexpected offer, a golden opportunity that seems almost too good to be true. He travels to 10 Downing Street to participate in a high-stakes conference. Immediately after his visit, a bomb detonates, wounding the prime minister and placing Adam Tatum squarely in the crosshairs of suspicion.Sensing a setup, Tatum flees with his family, desperately fighting for survival in an unfamiliar country. The lives of his children, the future of his marriage, and the fate of a nation depend on Tatum exposing the conspirators who pegged him for a fall. Georgia Turnbull, the chancellor of the exchequer, and Davina Steel, the lead investigator, both stand to gain from the successful manhunt of Adam Tatum. But, as motives emerge and desires ignite, each must decide what they're really after.Layered plots, crackling dialogue, and propulsive action mark Keep Calm, the riveting debut thriller from award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter Mike Binder.
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
by Anahid Nersessian“When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over—like this world, and some of the people in it.” In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them—“Ode to a Nightingale,” “To Autumn”—are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. Her Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern life—of capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planet—as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem. The book emerges from Nersessian’s lifelong attachment to Keats’s poetry; but more, it “is a love story: between me and Keats, and not just Keats.” Drawing on experiences from her own life, Nersessian celebrates Keats even as she grieves him and counts her own losses—and Nersessian, like Keats, has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering, but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world, at least, could still be saved. Intimate and speculative, this brilliant mix of the poetic and the personal will find its home among the numerous fans of Keats’s enduring work.
The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship
by null Diana T. KudaibergenHow can a de-institutionalised protest movement disrupt a solidified, repressive and extremely resilient authoritarian regime? Using the context of the Kazakh Spring protests (2019–ongoing), Diana T. Kudaibergen focuses on how the interplay between a repressive regime and democratisation struggles define and shape each other. Combining original interview data, digital ethnography and contentious politics studies, she argues that the new generation of activists, including Instagram political influencers and renowned public intellectuals, have been able to de-legitimise and counter one of the most resilient authoritarian regimes and inspire mass protests that none of the formalised opposition ever imagined possible in Kazakhstan. 'The Kazakh Spring' is the first book to detail the emergence of this political field of opportunities that allowed the possibility to rethink the political limits in Kazakhstan, essentially toppling the long-term dictator in unprecedented mass protests of the Bloody January 2022.
Katie Ledecky: Swimming Legend (Sports Illustrated Kids Stars Of Sports Ser.)
by Ryan G. Van CleaveAt just 15 years old, Katie Ledecky won her first gold Olympic medal. Since then, she has added nine more Olympic medals and 21 world championships. She has also broken 16 world records and has the most individual world swimming titles of all time—more than any man or woman in swimming history. Dive into this inspiring sports biography and learn all about Katie Ledecky and her legacy.
Katherine the Great
by Seeta AngusFrom the moment she arrives, Alfred’s baby sister Katherine is destined for greatness! She knows it deep down, and she’s determined to make sure the whole family knows it too! But Alfred has a clever trick up his sleeve! Could it have something to do with Great Granny’s secret recipe for irresistible chocolate mice treats?
Kartellrecht im Rahmen von M&A-Transaktionen (essentials)
by Clemens Engelhardt Immo SchulerIn diesem essential wird der typische Ablauf einer M&A-Transaktion unter besondere Berücksichtigung des Kartellrechts dargestellt. Neben den Fragen, inwieweit kartellrechtlich zulässig Information zwischen den beteiligten Unternehmen ausgetauscht werden dürfen und an welchen Stellen des M&A-Kaufvertrags Kartellrecht eine Rolle spielt, wird auch das kartellrechtliche Vollzugsverbot und das daraus resultierende fusionskontrollrechtliche Anmeldeerfordernis dargestellt.
Karnataka Samskrutika Parampare: ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಪರಂಪರೆ
by Chaitra B. Nಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಪರಂಪರೆ DSC 4 ನೂತನ ಪಠ್ಯಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುಗುಣವಾಗಿ ರಚಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ, ಈ ಪುಸ್ತಕವು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆ, ಕಲೆ, ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ, ಸಂಗೀತ, ನೃತ್ಯ, ಹಬ್ಬಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಆಚರಣೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
The Karma Club
by Jessica BrodyMadison Kasparkova always thought she understood how Karma works. Do good things and you'll be rewarded, do something bad and Karma will make sure you get what you deserve. But when Maddy's boyfriend cheats on her, nothing bad comes his way. That's why Maddy starts the Karma Club, to clean up the messes that the universe has left behind. Sometimes, though, it isn't wise to meddle with the universe. It turns out Karma often has plans of its own.
Karl Marx on Society and Social Change (The Heritage of Sociology)
by Karl MarxThis volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels. The first section, "The Structure of Society," contains Marx's writings on the material basis of classes, the basis of the state, and the basis of the family. Among the writings included in this section are Marx's well-known summary from the Preface of A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy and his equally famous observations on the functional significance of religion in relation to politics. The second section is titled "The Sweep of Historical Change." The first selection here contains Marx's first statement of the main precapitalist forms of production. The second selection focuses on capitalism, its contradictions, and its impending destruction. Two brief final selections treat the nature of communism, particularly its freedom from the kinds of contradictions that have plagued all earlier forms of societies. The last section, "The Mechanisms of Change," reproduces several parts of Marx's analysis of the mechanisms by which contradictions develop in capitalism and generate group conflicts. Included is an analysis of competition and its effects on the various classes, a discussion of economic crises and their effects on workers, and Marx's presentation of the historical specifics of the class struggle. In his comprehensive Introduction to the selections, Professor Smelser provides a biography of Marx, indentifies the various intellectual traditions which formed the background for Marx's writings, and discusses the selections which follow. The editor describes Marx's conception of society as a social system, the differences between functionalism and Marx's theories, and the dynamics of economic and political change as analyzed by Marx.
Karate Prom
by Kyle StarksDon “TheDragonWilson” Jones is the finest fighter Benjamin Harrison High School has ever produced. But when he enters the ring against Lincoln High’s Sam Steadman, it’s love at first knockout.Unfortunately, Sam has a jerky ex-boyfriend…and Don has a seriously terrifying ex-girlfriend. Like, “global crime cartel” terrifying. From prom to the after-party to graduation, Don and Sam—and an increasingly eclectic cast of supporting oddballs—will have to fight their way through a gauntlet of opponents, all in the name of love (and punching). Did we mention the punching?
Kanzleimanagement in der Praxis: Führung und Management für Kanzleien und Wirtschaftsprüfer
by Claudia SchieblonVon Praktikern für Praktiker: Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die aktuell wichtigen Themen des Kanzleimanagements. Die Autoren sind erfahrene Managing Partner, COOs und Leiter der Business Service-Einheiten von national wie international agierenden Wirtschaftskanzleien. Das Buch richtet sich an Anwälte, Wirtschaftsprüfer und Steuerberater aus kleinen wie großen Kanzleien sowie an Fachleute aus dem Kanzleimanagement und solche, die es werden wollen. Es soll ihnen eine Hilfestellung bei den besonderen Fragestellungen von Kanzleien bieten.Für die 5. Auflage wurde das Buch vollständig überarbeitet und um zahlreiche Themen ergänzt.
Kant & Phenomenology
by Tom RockmorePhenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century—and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important later thinkers, such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who eventually turned phenomenology away from questions of knowledge. But here Tom Rockmore argues for a return to phenomenology’s origins in epistemology, and he does so by locating its roots in the work of Immanuel Kant.Kant and Phenomenology traces the formulation of Kant’s phenomenological approach back to the second edition of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In response to various criticisms of the first edition, Kant more forcefully put forth a constructivist theory of knowledge. This shift in Kant’s thinking challenged the representational approach to epistemology, and it is this turn, Rockmore contends, that makes Kant the first great phenomenologist. He then follows this phenomenological line through the work of Kant’s idealist successors, Fichte and Hegel. Steeped in the sources and literature it examines, Kant and Phenomenology persuasively reshapes our conception of both of its main subjects.
Kant and the Spirit of Critique (The Collected Writings of John Sallis)
by John SallisThis volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant's three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. Sallis displays here, as he does in all his lecture courses, an uncanny ability to open up dense philosophical texts. The matters Kant deals with—in theoretical, practical, and aesthetic philosophy—are difficult in themselves, and Kant's writings might at times seem so convoluted as to magnify the difficulty. Sallis patiently and successfully lays out the issues and the critical approach to them, such that the reader is led step by step into the very core of Kant's spirit of critique. This volume makes Kant accessible to students, while the most advanced scholars will also profit from it.
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Studies in Continental Thought)
by Martin HeideggerSince its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger's provocative book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger's own development after Being and Time. This fifth, enlarged edition includes marginal notations made by Heidegger in his personal copy of the book and four new appendices—Heidegger's postpublication notes on the book, his review of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Heidegger's response to reviews by rudolf Odebrecht and Cassirer, and an essay "On the History of the Philosophical Chair since 1866." The work is significant not only for its illuminating assessment of Kant's thought but also for its elaboration of themes first broached in Being and Time, especially the problem of how Heidegger proposed to enact his destruction of the metaphysical tradition and the role that his reading of Kant would play therein.
Kalman-Filter: Einführung in die Zustandsschätzung und ihre Anwendung für eingebettete Systeme
by Reiner Marchthaler Sebastian DinglerDieses Lehrbuch befasst sich leicht verständlich mit der Theorie der Kalman-Filterung. Die Autoren geben damit eine Einführung in Kalman-Filter und deren Anwendung für eingebettete Systeme. Zusätzlich wird anhand konkreter Praxisbeispiele der Kalman-Filterentwurf demonstriert – Teilschritte werden im Buch ausführlich erläutert.Kalman-Filter sind die erste Wahl, um Störsignale auf den Sensorsignalen zu eliminieren. Dies ist von besonderer Bedeutung, da viele technische Systeme ihre prozessrelevanten Informationen über Sensoren gewinnen. Jeder Messwert eines Sensors weißt jedoch aufgrund verschiedener Ursachen einen Messfehler auf. Würde ein System nur auf Basis dieser ungenauen Sensorinformationen arbeiten, so wären viele Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel ein Navigationssystem oder autonome arbeitende Systeme, nicht möglich.Das Buch ist geeignet für interessierte Bachelor- und Master-Studierende der Fachrichtungen Informatik, Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik undMechatronik. Ebenso ist das Buch eine Hilfe für Ingenieure und Wissenschaftler, die ein Kalman-Filter z. B. für die Datenfusion oder die Schätzung unbekannter Größen in Echtzeitanwendungen einsetzen möchten.
Kala Kannada- 2 Kannada Patya Pustaka: ಕಲಾ ಕನ್ನಡ - 2 ಕನ್ನಡ ಪಠ್ಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕ
by Dr Muniyappaಕಲಾ ಕನ್ನಡ - 2 ಕನ್ನಡ ಪಠ್ಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕ (ನೂತನ ಪಠ್ಯ ಕ್ರಮ ಬಿ.ಎ. ಪದವಿ ಎರಡನೇ ಸೆಮಿಸ್ಟರ್ ಯಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರೂಪಿತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಪಠ್ಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕವು ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ವಿವಿಧ ರೂಪಗಳನ್ನು, ಹಳೆಯ ಮತ್ತು ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖಕರ ಕೃತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ.
Kahoot! Quiz Time Earth: Test Yourself Challenge Your Friends (Kahoot! Quiz Time)
by DKMore than 250 trivia questions for curious minds!What is the highest mountain in the world? What is the Earth’s core made of? Find out in this quiz book, packed with questions and facts about Planet Earth. Challenge yourself, your family, and friends with awesome questions based on the award-winning online Kahoot! games. Answer the questions, keep score, and declare the winner. Scan the QR codes throughout the book to find more cool quizzes on the same topics within Kahoot! and test your knowledge further. Go for gold and make learning awesome!Kahoot! and the K! logo are trademarks of Kahoot! AS.
Kahoot! Quiz Time Dinosaurs: Test Yourself Challenge Your Friends (Kahoot! Quiz Time)
by DKMore than 250 trivia questions for curious minds!When did dinosaurs roam the Earth? Which dinosaur was the biggest? Find out in this quiz book, packed with questions and facts about the age of the dinosaurs. Challenge yourself, your family, and friends with awesome questions based on the award-winning online Kahoot! games. Answer the questions, keep score, and declare the winner. Scan the QR codes throughout the book to find more cool quizzes on the same topics within Kahoot! and test your knowledge further. Go for gold and make learning awesome!Kahoot! and the K! logo are trademarks of Kahoot! AS.
Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition (In Action)
by Bill BejeckEverything you need to implement stream processing on Apache Kafka using Kafka Streams and the kqsIDB event streaming database.Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition guides you through setting up and maintaining your streaming processing with Kafka. Inside, you&’ll find comprehensive coverage of not only Kafka Streams, but the entire toolbox you&’ll need for effective streaming—from the components of the Kafka ecosystem, to Producer and Consumer clients, Connect, and Schema Registry. In Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition you&’ll learn how to: Design streaming applications in Kafka Streams with the KStream and the Processor API Integrate external systems with Kafka Connect Enforce data compatibility with Schema Registry Build applications that respond immediately to events in either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB Craft materialized views over streams with ksqlDB This totally revised new edition of Kafka Streams in Action has been expanded to cover more of the Kafka platform used for building event-based applications. You&’ll also find full coverage of ksqlDB, an event streaming database that makes it a snap to create applications that respond immediately to events, such as real-time push and pull updates. Foreword by Jun Rao. About the technology Enterprise applications need to handle thousands—even millions—of data events every day. With an intuitive API and flawless reliability, the lightweight Kafka Streams library has earned a spot at the center of these systems. Kafka Streams provides exactly the power and simplicity you need to manage real-time event processing or microservices messaging. About the book Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to create event streaming applications on the amazing Apache Kafka platform. This thoroughly revised new edition now covers a wider range of streaming architectures and includes data integration with Kafka Connect. As you go, you&’ll explore real-world examples that introduce components and brokers, schema management, and the other essentials. Along the way, you&’ll pick up practical techniques for blending Kafka with Spring, low-level control of processors and state stores, storing event data with ksqlDB, and testing streaming applications. What's inside Design efficient streaming applications Integrate external systems with Kafka Connect Enforce data compatibility with Schema Registry About the reader For Java developers. No knowledge of Kafka or streaming applications required. About the author Bill Bejeck is a Confluent engineer and a Kafka Streams contributor with over 15 years of software development experience. Bill is also a committer on the Apache Kafka? project. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Welcome to the Kafka event streaming platform 2 Kafka brokers PART 2 3 Schema Registry 4 Kafka clients 5 Kafka ConnectPART 3 6 Developing Kafka Streams 7 Streams and state 8 The KTable API 9 Windowing and timestamps 10 The Processor API 11 ksqlDB 12 Spring kafka 13 Kafka Streams Interactive Queries 14 Testing
Kabila: कबीला
by Kasim Ansariउस व्यक्ति ने जब उस पेंटिंग मे बनी हुई उन बिल्लियों की काउंटिंग की, और इस सोसायटी के लोगो कि तस्वीरों की गिनती की, तो वो और ज़्यादा हैरत मे पढ़ गया उस ने देखा दोनों कि तादाद (गिनती) बिलकुल एक ही थी… उस ने देखा जो लोग झुण्ड कि तरह खडे हुए नीचे ज़मीन को देख रहे थे। उस ज़मीन पर एक सर्कल बना हुआ था जिस पर अजीब सी भाषा मे कुछ लिखा हुआ था और उस ज़मीन पर एक 8 या 9 साल का बच्चा आँखें बंद किये हुए लेटा हुआ था जो बेहोश था उस के गले मे एक लॉकेट था ये बिलकुल वैसा ही लॉकेट था।और उस लॉकेट मे एक प्रकाश निकल रहा था और वो प्रकाश ठीक उन बिल्लियों के चेहरे पर पड़ रहा था और ठीक उस बच्चे के बगल मे एक 7 या 8 फ़ीट कि चमगादड़ नुमा एक शख्स खड़ा हुआ उस बच्चे को खा जाने वाली आँखों से देख रहा था।
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
by Barry A. KrisbergJuvenile Justice and Delinquency brings into focus the causes of delinquency and provides students with a broad, up-to-date review of the latest research, statistical data, theories, and court decisions in the U.S. juvenile justice system. Author Barry Krisberg writes from a research-based approach which offers students pragmatic solutions to problems within the system—focusing on the reformative power of redemptive justice. Students will take away a foundational understanding of the current policies and issues shaping the juvenile justice system and practical strategies for helping juveniles improve and move their lives in a more positive direction.
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
by Barry A. KrisbergJuvenile Justice and Delinquency brings into focus the causes of delinquency and provides students with a broad, up-to-date review of the latest research, statistical data, theories, and court decisions in the U.S. juvenile justice system. Author Barry Krisberg writes from a research-based approach which offers students pragmatic solutions to problems within the system—focusing on the reformative power of redemptive justice. Students will take away a foundational understanding of the current policies and issues shaping the juvenile justice system and practical strategies for helping juveniles improve and move their lives in a more positive direction.
Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways and Prevention
by Christopher A. Mallett Miyuki Fukushima Tedor"This textbook is an excellent tool that explores issues impacting juvenile delinquency, theories, system response, community interventions, and effective programs to help reduce delinquency." —Robbin Day Brooks, MSW, CPP, Arizona State University’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways and Prevention explores the pivotal roles that family, trauma, mental health, and schools have on juvenile delinquency, while exploring opportunities for prevention and intervention. Authors Christopher A. Mallett and Miyuki Fukushima Tedor draw from years of experience working with juvenile offenders to shed light on the nature of delinquency and the diverse pathways to juvenile delinquency, while offering evidence-based techniques for preventing and rehabilitating youthful offenders. Clear explanations of the concepts and thought-provoking case studies move students beyond memorization—encouraging them to think critically about juvenile delinquency and make recommendations for better practices and policies. Give your students the SAGE edge! SAGE edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of free tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning.
Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways and Prevention
by Christopher A. Mallett Miyuki Fukushima Tedor"This textbook is an excellent tool that explores issues impacting juvenile delinquency, theories, system response, community interventions, and effective programs to help reduce delinquency." —Robbin Day Brooks, MSW, CPP, Arizona State University’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways and Prevention explores the pivotal roles that family, trauma, mental health, and schools have on juvenile delinquency, while exploring opportunities for prevention and intervention. Authors Christopher A. Mallett and Miyuki Fukushima Tedor draw from years of experience working with juvenile offenders to shed light on the nature of delinquency and the diverse pathways to juvenile delinquency, while offering evidence-based techniques for preventing and rehabilitating youthful offenders. Clear explanations of the concepts and thought-provoking case studies move students beyond memorization—encouraging them to think critically about juvenile delinquency and make recommendations for better practices and policies. Give your students the SAGE edge! SAGE edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of free tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning.
Justifying Next Stage Capitalism: Exploring a Hopeful Future (Ethical Economy #68)
by Michel Dion Moses L. PavaThis book explores emerging justifications of capitalism based on the views of academics from around the world in business. The traditional justification for capitalism has been that it is the one system that produces the most wealth with the least cost for the most people. While this justification no longer has the taken-for-granted status it once enjoyed, it remains the dominant and mainstream argument in favor of capitalism, especially in the United States. Despite capitalism’s production of human wealth, it is implicated by trends such as income and wealth inequalities, climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels and racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. This volume asserts that in this age of complexity, inequality, and ecological instability, capitalism’s future depends on our ability to broaden the justifications for it to include a much more elaborate list of values beyond wealth and efficiency. It does so without claiming tologically or empirically prove that capitalism is the best of all possible economic systems, but rather to explore a new and hopeful future for the system; Next stage capitalism. Written by an international group of scholars from various disciplines, this book is of great interest to those who work in philosophy, sociology, political science, history and theology and religious studies.