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This book is the ultimate guide to Python programming for intermediates. It will enable you to learn Python in as little as seven days. In this second edition of the tutorial, we will cover a range of topics that will help you understand and perform complex Python programming projects.

Using dozens of vivid examples to show how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the sickness caused by competition overdose and provide remedies that will promote sustainable growth and progress for everyone, not just wealthy shareholders and those at the top.

As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive.

An amazing product from Maurice Jayson, An Insider’s Guide to Ace System Design Interviews is a systematic guide on how to answer difficult questions from system design interviewers. Maurice has headed several panels of interviewers looking to recruit system and user interface designers and has compiled a list of recurrent questions and hidden intricacies that all system designers should know when job hunting.

The world's greatest gentleman thief is back, and this time he must summon all his brilliance and prowess to escape the clutches of his most worthy adversary: the master English Detective Sherlock Holmes! Assisted by his trusty companion Dr. Wilson, Holmes is called to Paris to investigate crimes believed to involve the legendary debonair rogue Lupin.

Lupin to bohater wyjatkowy. Pomyslowosc, spryt, bezczelnosc, dobry humor, to tylko niektóre z cech, decydujacych o sukcesie jego zlodziejskich akcji. Okrada zlych i bogatych, by rozdawac biednym. Naturalny wdziek i czar sprawiaja, ze rozkochuje w sobie wszystkie kobiety. Czyz potrzeba wiekszej zachety do poznania króla zlodziei?

Francia, siglo XIV. La maldición que el gran maestre de los templarios lanzara a la cara del rey Felipe el Hermnoso parece haberse hecho realidad. Intrigas palaciegas, batallas entre dinastías y guerras desastrosas se suceden y llevan a la corte, a los prelados, a los jueces, a los banqueros y hasta al propio rey a una situación desesperada.

Maurice Saatchi is dead. He is standing in front of the Gates of Heaven. Arrival halls worse than Heathrow. Queues. Overcrowding. A tidal wave of Paradise seekers. ID scans. Voice and facial recognition. X-ray examinations. Background checks. It all seems like a bad dream. His tests expose abnormalities. He is charged with multiple breaches of immigration law and detained pending a full jury trial. The verdict will reveal the biggest secret of all time: why some people go to Heaven and others to Hell.

A story of romance, humor, and true detective fiction, this novel begins with Arsène Lupin, a gentleman thief known for his strict moral code, forcing the French authorities to find an investigator who can put a stop to his dealings. In order to find a competitor keen enough, they must traverse the English Channel, where they find Herlock Sholmes and his assistant, Wilson - two of the most inquisitive and successful detectives in the world. Does Lupin stand a chance?

Kolejny tom przygód Arsene Lupina. Detektyw trafia do willi zmarlego alchemika - amatora, by chronic jego dwie wnuczki i rozwiazac zagadke tajemniczego morderstwa. Dalszy ciag perypetii detektywa ma cechy doskonale znane z poprzednich tomów: znakomicie uknuta intryge, niespodziewane zwroty akcji i mnóstwo zabawnych sytuacji. Wszystko to oczywiscie okraszone niebywalym wdziekiem i blyskotliwoscia glównego bohatera.

"En voilà un qui aura tout pour être heureux, s'il sait s'en servir'', dit en se redressant Noël Schoudler. En homme qui connaissait le prix des choses, le géant calculait tout ce que l'enfant réunissait sur lui, ou réunirait un jour, tout ce qui se trouvait déjà dans le berceau : la banque, les sucreries, un grand journal quotidien, un titre du Saint Empire, la notoriété mondiale du poète et ses droits d'auteur, le château et les terres du vieil Urbain."

Maurice Riordan's keenly anticipated new collection continues his agile exploration of time, both in its depredations and rewards, while also bringing a sceptical, enquiring intelligence to bear on the anxieties and vanities of our age. Here we have disquieting songs of a mutable self; a projected online deathbed confession; the soul haranguing the body; while encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Old English. These poems pulse with mischief and macabre humour, making for a pungent and haunting listen.

Ésa es la terrible maldición que el jefe de los templarios, desde las llamas de la hoguera, lanza a la cara de Felipe el Hermoso, rey de Francia. Corre el año 1314 y la profecía parece haberse hecho realidad: durante más de medio siglo, los reyes se suceden en el trono de Francia, pero nunca duran mucho tiempo. De las intrigas palaciegas a las muertes súbitas e inexplicables, de las batallas entre las dinastías a las guerras desastrosas, todo parece fatalmente regido por el sino de los Reyes Malditos.

Comprising 10 short stories, The Confessions of Arsène Lupin first appeared in 1913. Each story features the eponymous gentleman-burglar, who deploys his remarkable wit and skill to plot a path through aristocratic society, outwitting both police and criminals along the way. This collection contains tales of romance and mystery, with Lupin himself never above performing the occasional good deed, while pocketing his own rewards, in the course of his adventures.

Joseph is the most hidden of the saints a simple, retiring, and humble man of Nazareth. His exterior life reveals nothing extraordinary or striking. Drawing not on private revelations or pious legends, this beautiful and edifying work unearths many truths about St. Joseph hidden in the Gospel, to bring them to light and make use of them in Joseph's honor.

Witness as Arsène Lupin boldly makes a name for himself as a gentleman-thief in “Madame Imbert’s Safe” and “The Queen’s Necklace”. In “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin”, passengers onboard a transatlantic steamer fear for their valuables when the captain announces that Arsène Lupin has snuck onto the ship...and he could be disguised as anyone. Just when it seems like there is no match for him, Lupin goes head-to-head with the famous English detectives Sherlock Holmes and Herlock Sholmes.

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside. Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars in gold, jewelry, gems, and cash. Here is the breathtakingly compelling story of Spaggiari, his “sewer gang,” and the most daring, outrageous theft of the 20th century.

Fifteen grippling short stories of Arsène Lupin: one of the most famous and intriguing figures of French detective literature. He was created by Maurice Leblanc, a brilliant journalist, writer and storyteller, and is the hero of a total of 24 books, novels and short stories alike. The fictional gentleman thief is a master of disguise, a criminal genius and a moral figure well-set in righting a few wrongs himself when Justice can't be bothered.

This audiobook is the advanced edition that you have been building up to as you went through the exercises in the last two audiobooks. This third issue of the book is even more comprehensive than the previous editions but equally educative and illuminating.

Al igual que La vida de las abejas, de la cual todas las afirmaciones que se han hecho han sido reconocidas como exactas por los especialistas, La vida de las termitas no es una biografía novelesca, tan de moda en estos momentos. He permanecido fiel al principio que me ha guiado en la obra precedente, que ha consistido en no ceder jamás a la tentación de añadir a lo maravilloso real un maravilloso imaginado. Al ser menos joven, me es más fácil resistir a esta tentación, porque los años enseñan poco a poco a todo hombre que sólo la verdad es maravillosa.