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    Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us, specifically extinct North American birds. How, he wondered, could we preserve so beautifully on film what we've failed to preserve in life? And so begins his yearlong journey to find out, one that leads him from bogs to art museums, from archives to Christmas Counts, until he at last comes as close to extinct birds as he ever will during a behind-the-scenes visit at the Chicago Field Museum. Heartbroken by the birds we've lost, Hollars takes refuge in those that remain. Armed with binoculars, a field guide, and knowledgeable friends, he begins his transition from budding birder to environmentally conscious citizen, a first step on a longer journey toward understanding the true tragedy of a bird's song silenced forever. Told with charm and wit, Flock Together is a remarkable memoir that shows how knowing the natural world - even just a small part - illuminates what it means to be a global citizen and how only by embracing our ecological responsibilities do we ever become fully human. A moving elegy to birds we've lost, Hollars' exploration of what we can learn from extinct species will resonate in the minds of listeners long beyond the final minute. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerry Burke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091029/bk_acx0_091029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    So This Is Ever After (eBook, ePUB)
    Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive. Arek hadn't thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. So now that he's finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs don't come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do next. As a temporary safeguard, Arek's best friend and mage, Matt, convinces him to assume the throne until the true heir can be rescued from her tower. Except that she's dead. Now Arek is stuck as king, a role that comes with a magical catch: choose a spouse by your eighteenth birthday, or wither away into nothing. With his eighteenth birthday only three months away, and only Matt in on the secret, Arek embarks on a desperate bid to find a spouse to save his lifestarting with his quest companions. But his attempts at wooing his friends go painfully and hilariously wrong…until he discovers that love might have been in front of him all along.
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    Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket, Hörbuch, Digital, 118min
    Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy’s classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in the New York Times, called his "genius for close observation."In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island’s history from the glory days of the whaling boom to the present, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between the working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the balance. But most fascinating of all, he tells his own story - of playing jazz piano in the island’s bars; of raising a barn in the early '60s with the help of a bunch of hippie carpenters; of leasing an old, failed bar with two island pals and turning it into the Roadhouse, a club "that was to be ours, the year-rounders, and to hell with the summer people." There’s a marvelous story of his first golf game, played on an ancient nine-hole course with two friends, a part-time sommelier and a builder from the South who invented the one-handed pepper mill.This is a book that revels in friendship, music, history, and the gorgeous landscape of a unique American place, and is a wonderful work by one of our greatest contemporary writers.PLEASE NOTE: This is the abridged edition. An unabridged version is also available. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Conroy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000395/bk_rand_000395_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jake Istenhegyi: The Accidental Detective, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
    Desperate to get out of his debt to the Odyssey Shop, Jake Istenhegyi answers a quirky classified ad: TREASURE HUNTERS WANTED. He signs on with a crew that is looking for the Cross of Trismegitus, a relic stolen by Pierre Rameau, the Pirate King of Honey Island and lost during the Battle of New Orleans. According to legend, the Cross of Trismegitus holds a sliver of crystal called "Salt Vitam Aeternam"; The Salt of Eternal Life. This makes it more than just a pretty bauble to Istenhegyi. If it is a twin of the crystal that granted the Lombardi sisters immortality, he could use it to avoid their fate: turning to stone in a hundred years. If it there is only a slim possibility that the Salt exists, he has to take that chance. Unfortunately, Jake doesn't know that waiting for him deep in the dark bayou is his oldest enemy. But first, Jake Istenhegyi has to cope with a surprise visit from home, clear his name for the murder of an Irish boxer, and continue the façade of Gunn Investigations, keeping the death of Bear Gunn a secret from Mama Effie and the mysterious owners of the Odyssey Shop. Who knew what trouble could come from answering a simple classified ad? Find out in Jake Istenhegyi, The Accidental Detective, featuring the new digest novel Boo Daddies, Bogs and a Dead Man's Booty as well as the first two Accidental Detective stories - A Chick, a Dick, and a Witch Walk into a Barn and Golems, Goons, and Cold Stone Bitches. From Author Nikki Nelson-Hicks and Pro Se Productions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Welch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051176/bk_acx0_051176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 134min
    Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This audiobook, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy's classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in The New York Times, called his "genius for close observation." In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island's history from the glory days of the whaling boom to the present, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between the working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the balance. But most fascinating of all, he tells his own story - of playing jazz piano in the island's bars; of raising a barn in the early '60s with the help of a bunch of hippie carpenters; of leasing an old, failed bar with two island pals and turning it into the Roadhouse, a club "that was to be ours, the year-rounders, and to hell with the summer people." There's a marvelous story of his first golf game, played on an ancient nine-hole course with two friends, a part-time sommelier and a builder from the South who invented the one-handed pepper mill.This is a book that revels in friendship, music, history, and the gorgeous landscape of a unique American place, and is a wonderful work by one of our greatest contemporary writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000195/bk_bkot_000195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Viking Age
    The Viking Age ab 39.9 € als Taschenbuch: The Early History Manners and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations; illustrated from the Antiquities Discovered in Mounds Cairns and Bogs as well as from the Ancient Sagas and Eddas in Two Volumes - Vol. 1. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,
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    The Viking Age
    The Viking Age ab 36.9 € als Taschenbuch: The Early History Manners and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations; illustrated from the Antiquities Discovered in Mounds Cairns and Bogs as well as from the Ancient Sagas and Eddas in Two Volumes - Vol. 2. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,
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    Chaos Weaving: The Freeborn Chaos Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min
    Chaos Weaving is an anthology collection of individual short stories. These 50 futuristic flash fiction tales tell technologically-based original stories, while weaving interesting concepts about our universe through the experiences of people in these possible tomorrows. While performing futuristic jobs, saving the planet, exploring gravity wells in deep space, peering through lenses to the future, or jumping time portals into the past, these quick tales put you right in the path of the observer in the short story situation. Chaos is the realm of the future possibilities unfolding, while the weaving is that which has just been done, the present is woven into a historical fabric of the past, layer by layer, weaving the string theory of time into what becomes all of our lives, individually, and collectively. Since the idea behind flash fiction is brevity, these stories use tactile wording and screenplay-like use of describing a scene vividly to convey the setting. Following are some of the great story titles that all envelop a similar futuristic state, but are self-contained individual stories within themselves:"Where Robots Go to Die""I am not a clone." "Remember Washing Machines?" "Bright Lights, Neon Nights" "Space Garbage Man" "The Mutated Creature Just Wants the Apple Pie" "Bogs of Mars" "The Man Who Flipped the Switch That No One Heard That Saved the World!" "A Radio Transmission from FOZAR-12" "Admirable Admiral Adams" "This Bleeding Heart Bleeds Oil"...and many more! In closing, the future is forged at the pace of the present, and the twists and turns that form tomorrow are perpetually altering course by the second. The winding road of chaos weaves our history on a loom holding the fabric of reality up as an image of the collective experience. You control the immediate form your fabric will become b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Karalian. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129324/bk_acx0_129324_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Operation Silver Fox: The History of Nazi Germany's Arctic Invasion of the Soviet Union During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
    In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, three million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans. Ahead of them in the darkness lay the Soviet Union, its border guarded by millions of Red Army troops echeloned deep throughout the huge spaces of Russia. This massive gathering of Wehrmacht soldiers from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and his allied states - notably Hungary and Romania - stood poised to carry out Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise attack against the country of his putative ally, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Today, everyone remembers the most famous consequences of Hitler's choice, particularly the fighting at Leningrad and Stalingrad, but the invasion was so comprehensive that it also involved fighting in the barren lands near the Arctic Circle, bringing fierce combat to the taiga and tundra. In fact, Arctic combat occurred in both the Pacific and European theaters of the war, and in both cases the operations were related in some measure to external lines of supply to the USSR. In the Pacific Theater, the Americans and Japanese met in the little-known but savagely contested Aleutian Islands campaign. During this campaign IJA troops invaded North American territory for the only time in the war, setting off a months-long struggle on the remote island chain and in the frigid seas around it, culminating in a desperate tundra banzai charge in the harsh subarctic landscape of the distant north. Meanwhile, the Wehrmacht and the Red Army also met in the boreal pine forests, bogs, and tundra of Lapland and far northern Russia during the Barbarossa campaign of 1941. Fighting separately from the other Army Groups of the Third Reich, elite German Gebirgs (mountain) division soldiers and tough, resourceful Finns clashed with determined and experienced Red Army soldiers in the forbidding terrain east of Finland's border. This campaign bore the elegant operati ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069454/bk_acx0_069454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Clean Coder
    The Much-Anticipated Follow-Up to "Uncle Bob's" Highly Praised Clean Code Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals. In The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, legendary software expert Robert C. Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship. This book is packed with practical advice-about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude. Martin shows how to approach software development with honor, self-respect, and pride; work well and work clean; communicate and estimate faithfully; face difficult decisions with clarity and honesty; and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act. Readers will learn What it means to behave as a true software craftsman How to deal with conflict, tight schedules, and unreasonable managers How to get into the flow of coding, and get past writer's block How to handle unrelenting pressure and avoid burnout How to combine enduring attitudes with new development paradigms How to manage your time, and avoid blind alleys, marshes, bogs, and swamps How to foster environments where programmers and teams can thrive When to say "No"-and how to say it When to say "Yes"-and what yes really means Great software is something to marvel at: powerful, elegant, functional, a pleasure to work with as both a developer and as a user. Great software isn't written by machines. It is written by professionals with an unshakable commitment to craftsmanship. The Clean Coder will help you become one of them-and earn the pride and fulfillment that they alone possess. Product Description Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals. In The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, legendary software expert Robert C. Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship. This book is packed with practical advice-about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude. Martin shows how to approach software development with honor, self-respect, and pride; work well and work clean; communicate and estimate faithfully; face difficult decisions with clarity and honesty; and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act. Readers will learn What it means to behave as a true software craftsman How to deal with conflict, tight schedules, and unreasonable managers How to get into the flow of coding, and get past writer's block How to handle unrelenting pressure and avoid burnout How to combine enduring attitudes with new development paradigms How to manage your time, and avoid blind alleys, marshes, bogs, and swamps How to foster environments where programmers and teams can thrive When to say "No"-and how to say it When to say "Yes"-and what yes really means Great software is something to marvel at: powerful, elegant, functional, a pleasure to work with as both a developer and as a user. Great software isn't written by machines. It is written by professionals with an unshakable commitment to craftsmanship. The Clean Coder will help you become one of them-and earn the pride and fulfillment that they alone possess. Foreword xiii Preface xix Acknowledgments xxiii About the Author xxix On the Cover xxxi Pre-Requisite Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Professionalism 7 Be Careful What You Ask For 8 Taking Responsibility 8 First, Do No Harm 11 Work Ethic 16 Bibliography 22 Chapter 2: Saying No 23 Adversarial Roles 26 High Stakes 29 Being a "Team Player" 30 The Cost of Saying Yes 36 Code Impossible 41 Chapter 3: Saying Yes 45 A Language of Commitment 47 Learning How to Say "Yes" 52 Conclusion 56 Chapter 4: Coding 57 Preparedness 58 The Flow Zone 62 Writer's Block 64 Debugging 66 Pacing Yourself 69 Being Late 71 Help 73 Bibliography 76 Chapter 5: Test Driven Development 77 The Jury Is In 79 The Three Laws of TDD 79 What TDD Is Not 83 Bibliography 84 Chapter 6: Practicing 85 Some Background on Practicing 86 The Coding Dojo 89 Broadening Your Experience 93 Conclusion 94 Bibliography 94 Chapter 7: Acceptance Testing 95 Communicating Requirements 95 Acceptance Tests 100 Conclusion 111 Chapter 8: Testing Strategies 113 QA Should Find Nothing 114 The Test Automation Pyramid 115 Conclusion 119 Bibliography 119 Chapter 9: Time Management 121 Meetings 122 Focus-Manna 127 Time Boxing and Tomatoes 130 Avoidance 131 Blind Alleys 131 Marshes, Bogs, Swamps, and Other Messes 132 Conclusion 133 Chapter 10: Estimation 135 What Is an Estimate? 138 PERT 141 Estimating Tasks 144 The Law of Large Numbers 147 Conclusion 147 Bibliography 148 Chapter 11: Pressure 149 Avoiding Pressure 151 Handling Pressure 153 Conclusion 155 Chapter 12: Collaboration 157 Programmers versus People 159 Cerebellums 164 Conclusion 166 Chapter 13: Teams and Projects 167 Does It Blend? 168 Conclusion 171 Bibliography 171 Chapter 14: Mentoring, Apprenticeship, and Craftsmanship 173 Degrees of Failure 174 Mentoring 174 Apprenticeship 180 Craftsmanship 184 Conclusion 185 Appendix A: Tooling 187 Tools 189 Source Code Control 189 IDE/Editor 194 Issue Tracking 196 Continuous Build 197 Unit Testing Tools 198 Component Testing Tools 199 Integration Testing Tools 200 UML/MDA 201 Conclusion 204 Index 205The Much-Anticipated Follow-Up to "Uncle Bob's" Highly Praised Clean Code Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals.In The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers , legendary software expert Robert C. Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship.This book is packed with practical advice-about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude. Martin shows how to approach software development with honor, self-respect, and pride; work well and work clean; communicate and estimate faithfully; face difficult decisions with clarity and honesty; and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act.Readers will learnWhat it means to behave as a true software craftsman How to deal with conflict, tight schedules, and unreasonable managers How to get into the flow of coding, and get past writer's block How to handle unrelenting pressure and avoid burnout How to combine enduring attitudes with new development paradigms How to manage your time, and avoid blind alleys, marshes, bogs, and swamps How to foster environments where programmers and teams can thrive When to say "No"-and how to say it When to say "Yes"-and what yes really means Great software is something to marvel at: powerful, elegant, functional, a pleasure to work with as both a developer and as a user. Great software isn't written by machines. It is written by professionals with an unshakable commitment to craftsmanship. The Clean Coder will help you become one of them-and earn the pride and fulfillment that they alone possess.
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