Author : Zanni Louise
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 9781925970807
A Little Good In A Big World.Persistence helps us try new things, get better at hard things, and cope when things get difficult. Persistence helps us see things through to the end. There are many ways to be persistent.
Author : Zanni Louise
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 9781925970791
A Little Good In A Big World.Honesty is talking to yourself and others truthfully. Honesty brings us closer, keeps us safer and helps people trust us. Honesty is not always easy. Sometimes it's the hardest choice. There are many ways to be honest.
Author : Liesel K. Hill
Publisher : Liesel Hill
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2016-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
What if a man with strange eyes asked you to save the future? Maggie Harper’s life is fairly mundane…until a bizarre incident of time loss in Vegas, followed by the creepiest thug she’s ever seen breaking into her home and nearly killing her. Can the two be related? She doesn't recognize the man who saves her. Yet for some reason, Marcus strikes an achingly familiar cord in her chest. He then proceeds to give her an explanation so bizarre, she’s sure he’s insane. That is, until he catapults her forward in time, into the aftermath of a future apocalypse. A dystopian dictator has forced most of the population into collective hives. Individuals have been hunted to the verge of extinction. The few remaining freedom fighters conduct a rebellion while in hiding, fearing assimilation into the collectives, which rob an individual of their uniqueness. Marcus is part of a team of individuals fighting the oppressive collectives. Maggie was part of this group—and Marcus’s heart—once too, but thanks to the collective, her memories of it have been eradicated. Only Maggie holds the key to freeing the humanity from the collective enslavement, but it’s buried somewhere in those vanished memories. If she can't fill in the blanks and help the team bring down the collectives, humanity may become mediocre slaves to a dictator forever. If you enjoy dystopian worlds, epic romance and visceral fights for survival, pick up this award-winning page turner! Winner of the League of Utah Writers’ prestigious Silver Quill Award, 2013. “Helps us see what we might become…” “Simply. Stunning. I couldn’t put it down.”
Author : Janet Landman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Drawing from psychology, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and classic works of literature, Landman provides an insightful anatomy of regret--what it is, how you experience it, and how it changes you. At best regret is a dynamic changing process--one can transcend regret and thus transform the self.
Author : Gary Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1638355223
Summary Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples. In this revised edition, authors Christian Bauer, Gavin King, and Gary Gregory cover Hibernate 5 in detail with the Java Persistence 2.1 standard (JSR 338). All examples have been updated for the latest Hibernate and Java EE specification versions. About the Technology Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. Persistence—the ability of data to outlive an instance of a program—is central to modern applications. Hibernate, the most popular Java persistence tool, offers automatic and transparent object/relational mapping, making it a snap to work with SQL databases in Java applications. About the Book Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples. You'll immediately dig into the rich programming model of Hibernate, working through mappings, queries, fetching strategies, transactions, conversations, caching, and more. Along the way you'll find a well-illustrated discussion of best practices in database design and optimization techniques. In this revised edition, authors Christian Bauer, Gavin King, and Gary Gregory cover Hibernate 5 in detail with the Java Persistence 2.1 standard (JSR 338). All examples have been updated for the latest Hibernate and Java EE specification versions. What's Inside Object/relational mapping concepts Efficient database application design Comprehensive Hibernate and Java Persistence reference Integration of Java Persistence with EJB, CDI, JSF, and JAX-RS * Unmatched breadth and depth About the Reader The book assumes a working knowledge of Java. About the Authors Christian Bauer is a member of the Hibernate developer team and a trainer and consultant. Gavin King is the founder of the Hibernate project and a member of the Java Persistence expert group (JSR 220). Gary Gregory is a principal software engineer working on application servers and legacy integration. Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH ORM Understanding object/relational persistence Starting a project Domain models and metadata PART 2 MAPPING STRATEGIES Mapping persistent classes Mapping value types Mapping inheritance Mapping collections and entity associations Advanced entity association mappings Complex and legacy schemas PART 3 TRANSACTIONAL DATA PROCESSING Managing data Transactions and concurrency Fetch plans, strategies, and profiles Filtering data PART 4 WRITING QUERIES Creating and executing queries The query languages Advanced query options Customizing SQL
Author : Brett Bowden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319524100
This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought. Prominent in Western political thought since the middle of the eighteenth century, the idea of universal history holds that all peoples can be situated in the narrative of history on a continuum between a start and an end point, between the savage state of nature and civilized modernity. Despite various critiques, the underlying teleological principle still prevails in much contemporary thinking and policy planning, including post-conflict peace-building and development theory and practice. Anathema to contemporary ideals of pluralism and multiculturalism, universal history means that not everyone gets to write their own story, only a privileged few. For the rest, history and future are taken out of their hands, subsumed and assimilated into other people’s narrative.
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0691178437
How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Author : Matthew Escobar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004323678
Recent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic understanding of what it means to be human has, despite appearances, remained mostly unchanged. This is so even though our perception of time has been greatly modified by the same technology which both interrupts and allows for the rearrangement of our experience of time at a rate and a level of ease which, until recently, had never been possible. Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative’s effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the “meta-body,” a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts – something which, in today’s world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential. We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with.
Author : Ivan Coyote
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1551524058
Lambda Literary Award finalist American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words "butch" or "femme." Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Thea Hillman (Intersex), S. Bear Bergman (Butch is a Noun), Chandra Mayor (All the Pretty Girls), Amber Dawn (Sub Rosa), Anna Camilleri (Brazen Femme), Debra Anderson (Code White), Anne Fleming (Anomaly), Michael V. Smith (Cumberland), and Zoe Whittall (Bottle Rocket Hearts) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today’s ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come. Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992. Ivan E. Coyote is the author of seven books (including the novel Bow Grip, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book) and a long-time muser on the trappings of the two-party gender system. Zena Sharman is the assistant director of Canada's national Institute of Gender and Health.
Author : Miriam Gebhardt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1509511237
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which continued long after the hostilities had ended. Discussion in recent years of the rape of German women committed at the end of the war has focused almost exclusively on the crimes committed by Soviet soldiers, but Gebhardt shows that this picture is misleading. Crimes were committed as much by the Western Allies – American, French and British – as by the members of the Red Army. Nor was the suffering limited to the immediate aftermath of the war. Gebhardt powerfully recounts how raped women continued to be the victims of doctors, who arbitrarily granted or refused abortions, welfare workers, who put pregnant women in homes, and wider society, which even today prefers to ignore these crimes. Crimes Unspoken is the first historical account to expose the true extent of sexual violence in Germany at the end of the war, offering valuable new insight into a key period of 20th century history.
