Beyond The Ledger

Author : David Kilcullen,Greg Mills
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787387546

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The Ledger by David Kilcullen,Greg Mills Pdf

'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by the Taliban and bin Laden. The Ledger assesses the West's similarly failed approach to Afghanistan after 9/11-in military, diplomatic, political and developmental terms. Dr David Kilcullen and Dr Greg Mills are uniquely placed to reflect backwards and forwards on the Afghan conflict: they worked with the international mission both as advisers and within the Arg, and they have considerable experience of counterinsurgency and stabilization operations elsewhere in the world. Here these two experts show that there is plenty of blame to go around when explaining the failure to bring peace to Afghanistan after 9/11. The signs of collapse were conveniently ignored, in favor of political narratives of progress and success. Yet for Afghans, the war and its geopolitical effects are not over because NATO is gone-Afghanistan remains globally connected through digital communications and networks. This vital book explains why and where failings in Afghanistan happened, warning against exceptionalist approaches to future peacebuilding missions around the globe.

Author : Al Sweigart
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781593279677

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Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart Pdf

BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN NOVICE AND PROFESSIONAL You've completed a basic Python programming tutorial or finished Al Sweigart's bestseller, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. What's the next step toward becoming a capable, confident software developer? Welcome to Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python. More than a mere collection of advanced syntax and masterful tips for writing clean code, you'll learn how to advance your Python programming skills by using the command line and other professional tools like code formatters, type checkers, linters, and version control. Sweigart takes you through best practices for setting up your development environment, naming variables, and improving readability, then tackles documentation, organization and performance measurement, as well as object-oriented design and the Big-O algorithm analysis commonly used in coding interviews. The skills you learn will boost your ability to program--not just in Python but in any language. You'll learn: Coding style, and how to use Python's Black auto-formatting tool for cleaner code Common sources of bugs, and how to detect them with static analyzers How to structure the files in your code projects with the Cookiecutter template tool Functional programming techniques like lambda and higher-order functions How to profile the speed of your code with Python's built-in timeit and cProfile modules The computer science behind Big-O algorithm analysis How to make your comments and docstrings informative, and how often to write them How to create classes in object-oriented programming, and why they're used to organize code Toward the end of the book you'll read a detailed source-code breakdown of two classic command-line games, the Tower of Hanoi (a logic puzzle) and Four-in-a-Row (a two-player tile-dropping game), and a breakdown of how their code follows the book's best practices. You'll test your skills by implementing the program yourself. Of course, no single book can make you a professional software developer. But Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python will get you further down that path and make you a better programmer, as you learn to write readable code that's easy to debug and perfectly Pythonic Requirements: Covers Python 3.6 and higher

Author : John Ramsay McCulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Commerce
ISBN : HARVARD:32044082079922

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A Dictionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigation by John Ramsay McCulloch Pdf

Author : Bob Carlin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476644240

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What Earl Scruggs Heard by Bob Carlin Pdf

When the story of banjo superstar Earl Scruggs is told, the rich musical environment that produced him is often ignored. During his lifetime Scruggs spun a creation myth around his playing, convincing many that he was the sole originator of a three-finger, up-picking, banjo style. For the first time, this book tells the full story of the music and musicians of the western Carolinas that influenced Earl Scruggs. Based on more than 15 years of in-depth research, this book includes the story of country music recording pioneers Parker and Woolbright, Fisher Hendley and Martin Melody Boys; rare images of area music makers; and the history and development of fiddlers' conventions and radio barn dances. Together, these stories are woven into the biographies of Earl's mentors to reveal the musical atmosphere in which they developed the "three-finger picking" style that so enchanted a young Earl Scruggs.

Author : Avi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545392471

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Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea #1) by Avi Pdf

Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face nothing but obstacles along the way--from stolen money to con men to hunger and fatigue. It seems that none of them will get out of the port city of Liverpool until fate brings them together. Avi's masterful plot-spinning skills create an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns.

Author : Alfred Blatter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415974394

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Revisiting Music Theory by Alfred Blatter Pdf

Teaches the basics of music theory plus the vocabulary to use in harmonic and formal analysis. This book includes the basic materials of music from J S Bach to John Cage. It is aimed at a one or two year introductory course in music theory, can serve for individual study, or as a review for graduate students returning to school.

Author : Ranjit Mishra
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9789390441723

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Ranjit Mishra Pdf

When Salman Curtis set foot on the steamer bound from London to Calcutta, he had no inkling of the adventures that awaited him as an Anglo-Indian police officer. His postings take him from sleepy villages to bustling towns, from panchayats to court rooms, from investigating petty crimes to heart-wrenching murders and dacoity. This book describes some of the most horrifying crimes he becomes a witness to, charting in detail the investigative techniques that led them to find the culprit. Unfolding the life and times of late 19th century India, Beyond Reasonable Doubt is a well-researched compendium of investigations undertaken under the British Raj, that laid the foundation for many crime-solving techniques used till date.

Author : Guy Wanjialin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595310180

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by Guy Wanjialin Pdf

A world without accounting means confusion and chaos. Accounting is not only used in the business world, but rather it is used by everyone in all types of situations. Tax touches every aspect of our lives. People are talking about tax on the TV, the radio, newspaper, and the Internet. Life has grown, as a whole, toward higher levels of complexity. The language of accounting and taxation is also expanding: More and more new words are created, and new meanings are added to the old words. Do you know the meaning of these words: ad hoc, accounting bath, below-water, blackout, capex, carve-out, e-tax, postil, Sarbanes-Oxley, strata...? Each term has its unique meaning you may not be able to find a definition in an ordinary dictionary. "An International Dictionary of Accounting & Taxation" is a book with more than 12,000 entries drawn from accounting, auditing and taxation. Each entry has a clear one-sentence definition right to the point. Whether you are an accountant, CPA, tax professional or amateur, you will find this dictionary of immeasurable help.

Author : Jane Hirshfield
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524711719

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Ledger by Jane Hirshfield Pdf

A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate—"Some of the most important poetry in the world today" (Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine). Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw"), Hirshfield's poems inscribe a registry, both personal and communal, of our present-day predicaments. They call us to deepened dimensions of thought, feeling, and action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering, acutely and tenderly, the crises of refugees, justice, and climate. They consider "the minimum mass for a whale, for a language, an ice cap," recognize the intimacies of connection, and meditate upon doubt and contentment, a library book with previously dog-eared corners, the hunger for surprise, and the debt we owe this world's continuing beauty. Hirshfield's signature alloy of fact and imagination, clarity and mystery, inquiry, observation, and embodied emotion has created a book of indispensable poems by a "modern master" (The Washington Post).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
ISBN : UOM:39015073181862

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Chemist and Druggist by Anonim Pdf

Author : George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023671280

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The Mysteries of London. First and Second Series[-Third Series by T. Miller-fourth Series by E. L. Blanchard]. by George William MacArthur Reynolds Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LLMC:NYAFW7I7FA07

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Supreme Court-Appellate Division, First Department by Anonim Pdf

Author : Takahiro Yamamoto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811663918

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Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond by Takahiro Yamamoto Pdf

This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground practices of documentary identification in the Japanese empire and the places visited by its subjects. The contributing authors, covering such regions as Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, Siberia, Australia, and the United States, place the question of individual identity in the eyes of the respective governments in dialogue with the global developments of the identification and mobility control practices. The chapters suggest the importance of focusing more than previously on the narrative of individual identification, not as a tool for creating nation states but as a tool for generating, strengthening, and maintaining asymmetrical relationships between people of different socioeconomic backgrounds who moved in and out of empires. This book joins the effort in the recent scholarship in migration history to highlight experiences of migrants beyond the transatlantic world, and that in East Asian history to investigate the space and connections beyond the boundaries of the nation states. By bringing together the analyses on the trans-Pacific mobility and Japan’s imperial expansion and its aftermath in East Asia, it shows a complex interplay between state power and moving individuals, two forces whose relationships went far beyond simple competition.

Author : Rita Gerlach
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426714160

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Beyond the Valley by Rita Gerlach Pdf

Will running to a new life in a new world bring happiness--or more trouble?

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Law
ISBN : LLMC:NYAI7QY89504

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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. by New York (State). Court of Appeals. Pdf

Volume contains: 193 NY 551 (Brooklyn D. Co. v. Standard D. & D. Co.) 193 NY 682 (Buffalo L. T. & S. D. Co. v. Mingle) 194 NY 517 (Bracklin v. Miller) 194 NY 525 (Brown v. Cooper Paper Box Co.) 194 NY 527 (Coffey v. Walsh Co.)