The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both politically and culturally. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the W...

The Fastest way to learn Docker Programming!Docker Tutorial For Beginners gets right to the point when learning Docker. All the answers you need to start with docker are inside. Cut through the learning curve with the information in this book. Effortlessly program organizations with docker. Docker is a type of computer program that is able to do virtualization at the operating system level. All aspects of docker are explained in this book.

Sermons on various important subjects is a religious discourse collection that presents theological reflections moral instruction and scriptural interpretation aimed at guiding spiritual understanding and ethical conduct. The work explores key biblical teachings through structured sermons that address faith human behaviour and moral responsibility within a religious framework. It emphasizes the importance of personal engagement with scripture encouraging readers to reflect deeply on religi...

Scousers believe they live in a special place, one that has more in common with Salvador da Bahia, New Orleans or Gdansk than anywhere in England, and the city has always punched above its weight. In less than a hundred years, however, Liverpool's image has declined from a major mercantile player known as the Second City of the Empire to what some social commentators have described as a cultural backwater remembered largely as the place where the Beatles were born.In Liverpool:...

Learn a use-case approach for developing Java enterprise applications in a continuously test-driven fashion. With this hands-on guide, authors and JBoss project leaders Andrew Lee Rubinger and Aslak Knutsen show you how to build high-level components, from persistent storage to the user interface, using the Arquillian testing platform and several other JBoss projects and tools.Through the course of the book, you’ll build a production-ready software conference tracker called GeekSee...

This book takes you on a journey through the scriptures, of which are instructions from God. It contains the commandments from God that men are to follow if they desire to attain an eternity in paradise.The author of this book is an ordained minister in the service of Jesus Christ. He has a masters degree and has studied both the old and new testaments. He has studied the Qur'an and numerous other books written on Islam.He believes God wants to warn the people today the sam...

This is a short collection of micropoetry, and prose that resembles the works of modern slam poets.

Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of this bestselling guide. Written by the developers of JBoss EJB 3.1, this book not only brings you up to speed on each component type and container service in this implementation, it also provides a workbook with several hands-on examples to help you gain immediate experience with these components.With version 3.1, EJB's server-side component model for building distributed busines...

Political movements founded by charismatic leaders are often considered ephemeral. Existing literature argues that because they rest on unmediated, emotional attachments between leaders and followers, these movements either fade quickly after their leaders disappear or transform into routinized parties. Yet, charismatic movements around the world have proven surprisingly resilient and have retained their personalistic core. Focusing on Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo, this book ...

A short, easily understandable account of Alzheimer's, by world expert Dr Andrew LeesBritain like the rest of the developed world is in the grip of a silent plague. Its thousands of victims can no longer make sense of the world and are contained for their own safety in fading Victorian piles and nondescript redbrick detention centres around the country. For them the present is a foreign country and the past a lost continent.There are now more people in the ...

The book presents the most common problems seen in neuro-ophthalmology in a case-based learning format that provides rapid access and is easy to read. The user friendly format guides and stimulates the reader to identify the distinctive symptoms in the main complaint and history; to define the differentiating signs on neuro-ophthalmic exam; and to describe the key laboratory or neuroimaging in specific entities. It also challenges the reader to ask additional questions of themselves and ot...

"Every Story Has a Beginning, Middle, and End"This is the end of a chapter—an opportunity to share the core motivation that has guided me: a belief in the presence of good angels during a time of profound uncertainty and evil.When the Russians invaded Ukraine in February 2022, I was diligently working on my autobiography Wintering in Brazil—a tribute to thirty years of photography and a personal journey of expression, both visual and written. This laborious body of work was...