Learn the history of the smallest country in the world and the people and events that shaped it.Stretching from the martyrdom of Saint Peter in 64 to Leo XIV becoming the first American pope in 2025, the Vatican has a long and fascinating history. Entwined with religious history, the volume traces the evolution of Roman Catholicism and its impact on the political, social, and religious scenes not only within the Vatican but in the world beyond. Key events, includin...

Are you ready to transform your approach to relationships? Do you want to improve your dating life and finally find your soulmate?Then look no further… EMPATH & PSYCHIC ABILITIES – SUCCESSFUL DATING SECRETS is the book for you!You have the power to only allow people into your life who deserve you. By knowing yourself, you will be open to a healthy relationship of mutual respect and understanding. Your soulmate is out there wait...

On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's thoroughly researched, chronological history of the modern relationship of doping to the Olympics. U...

The first release in the Insignia Drabbles Series, this anthology features 79 drabbles (100-word stories) inspired by Japanese folklore and yokai tales, as well as original fantasy and science fiction pieces.CONTRIBUTORS:Amy Clare Fontaine – A.S. Charly – Bayveen O'Connell – Beth W. PattersonCarmen Indalecio – Charles Reis – Charles Venable – Christine Richmond – D.J. TyrerEisuke Aikawa – Emma K. Leadley – Heather Ewings – Jacek Wilkos...

Highly regarded in the field of medical education, A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers provides accessible, highly readable, and practical information for those involved in basic science and clinical medicine teaching. The fully updated 6th Edition offers valuable insights into today's medical education.　 Input from global contributors who offer an international perspective and multi-professional approach to topics of interest to all healthcare teachers. With an emphasis on the importan...

This time, we have a smashing lineup, with original mysteries from such notables as John M. Floyd (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Steve Hockensmith (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), and Sharon Hunt. Plus we have an original solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles. And our mystery novel is The Bishop Murder Case, featuring Philo Vance in his fourth outing.On the fantasy and science fiction end, we have originals by David Jarvis and Jared Stonefield, a dark ...

North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promot...

This textbook on Python 3 explains concepts such as variables and what they represent, how data is held in memory, how a for loop works and what a string is. It also introduces key concepts such as functions, modules and packages as well as object orientation and functional programming. Each section is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas work in Python.Topics such as generators and coroutines are often misunderstood and these are explained ...

The year is 2020 and President Trump has just announced that the world is bracing itself for the effects of a huge solar storm. 17 year old Jim Richards is a gawky, unimpressive teenager in Anchorage, Alaska. As chaos descends and society breaks down into anarchy and violence, his family team up with others to leave the city and take their chances in the Alaskan wilderness. They can no longer flick a switch to get what they want, no mobile or internet, in fact no communication at all with ...

Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming delves deeply into a host of subjects that you need to understand if you are to develop sophisticated real-world programs. Each topic is preceded by an introduction followed by more advanced topics, along with numerous examples, that take you to an advanced level.There are nine different sections within the book covering Computer Graphics(including GUIs), Games, Testing, File Input and Output, Databases Access, Logging, Concurrency and ...

Scala is a new and exciting programming language that is a hybrid between object oriented languages such as Java and functional languages such as Haskell. As such it has its own programming idioms and development styles.Scala Design Patterns looks at how code reuse can be successfully achieved in Scala. A major aspect of this is the reinterpretation of the original Gang of Four design patterns in terms of Scala and its language structures (that is the use of Traits, Classe...

Scala is now an established programming language developed by Martin Oderskey and his team at the EPFL. The name Scala is derived from Sca(lable) La(nguage). Scala is a multi-paradigm language, incorporating object oriented approaches with functional programming.Although some familiarity with standard computing concepts is assumed (such as the idea of compiling a program and executing this compiled from etc.) and with basic procedural language concepts (such as variables and alloca...