A Generation Lost
Author : Zi-ping Luo
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1991
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Zi-ping Luo
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1991
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Eric S. Raymond
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 059655396X
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel.The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.
Author : Riley Noel Fitch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393302318
Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott
Author : Linda Patterson Miller
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813025360
"Excellent. This is a fine, and unusual, collection of literary Americana."--Atlantic "Fine comic moments of truth."--New York Times Book Review "An invaluable source of literary history."--Publishers Weekly This is the story of one of the most famous literary "sets" of the twentieth century. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of a group including Ernest Hemingway and his wives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Phillip Barry, and many others. They personified the jazz age and the lost generation. The Murphys have been viewed primarily as cult/pop figures. In this book Miller shows, through a sequential interweaving of letters from several correspondents, that they actually were the nucleus without which the group as we know it would not have stayed together. Miller allows the individual correspondents to tell their own stories, providing new insights into their lives and this era. It is the best sort of eavesdropping. Gerald and Sara Murphy married on December 30, 1915. Both families were moneyed and cosmopolitan. Their attraction to each other was in part based on their desire to escape the routine and predictable social rounds in which their families were immersed. Against their families' wishes, they and their three children left for Europe in 1921. They remained in France for over a decade, and quite naturally socialized with the expatriate set. They were, in part, models for Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender Is the Night. MacLeish wrote poems about them, their friends paid tribute to them and relied on them day to day and in correspondence, and their own letters are worth reading for their liveliness and because they so well preserve a record of the twenties and thirties. Miller provides nearly every extant letter between the Murphys and their friends during those decades. Most of them have not been published previously, and of course, they have never been presented collectively. Together, they constitute an epistolary "novel" of peculiar power and authenticity about a remarkable era. Linda Patterson Miller is associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University at Ogontz.
Author : Suzanne Rodriguez
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2022-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780991533107
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0349007713
Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur', is the 'leader' & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward, ' Immaculate of the Trenches', was orderly & controlled, down even to his attire. Geoffrey, the 'non-militarist at heart' had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotism's sake. Victor on the other hand, possessed a very sweet character and was known as 'Father Confessor'. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism, disillusionment and personal tragedy.
Author : Reginald Pound
Publisher : London : Constable [1964]
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1964
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Judd Winick
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9780857688293
Mind-controlling mastermind Maxwell Lord is targeting the old members of the now defunct Justice League International. Now, surviving members Booster Gold, Captain Atom, Fire and Ice must stop him from destroying the entire super hero community.
Author : David Tremayne
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781844258390
The 1970s was a great decade for British racing drivers, but it was also the era in which the nation lost a generation of brilliant young drivers – Roger Williamson, Tony Brise and Tom Pryce – in tragic accidents. All had the potential to be World Champions. With access to their families, friends and race colleagues, David Tremayne tells their full stories in this superb book, now available in paperback. It makes for poignant but uplifting reading.
Author : Judd Winick
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Fire has been keeping a dangerous secret from the team, and her past literally comes back to haunt her when she's forced to confront the darkest of demons! Guest-starring Batman!