Tourism

James, Elliott

Routledge

Sharp, sarcastic, and efficiently lethal, John Charming would feel right at home having drinks with Dean Winchester and Harry Dresden. If you're looking for a new urban fantasy series to pick up, CHARMING is a guaranteed page-turner. John Charming isn't your average Prince... He comes from a line of Charmings -- an illustrious family of dragon slayers, witch-finders and killers dating back to before the fall of Rome. Trained by a modern day version of the Knights Templar, monster hunters who have updated their methods from chain mail and crossbows to Kevlar and shotguns, John Charming was one of the best--until a curse made him one of the abominations the Knights were sworn to hunt. That was a lifetime ago. Now, John tends bar under an assumed name in rural Virginia and leads a peaceful, quiet life. That is, until a vampire and a blonde walked into his bar... CHARMING is the first novel in a new urban fantasy series which gives a new twist to the Prince Charming tale. Pax Arcana CharmingDaringFearlessIn Shining ArmorLegend Has It Short Fiction in the Pax Arcana world:Charmed I'm SureDon't Go Chasing WaterfallsPushing LuckSurreal EstateDog-GoneBulls Rush InTalking Dirty

Charming (Pax Arcana, 1)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Orbit

Sharp, sarcastic, and efficiently lethal, John Charming would feel right at home having drinks with Dean Winchester and Harry Dresden. DARING, the second book in the Pax Arcana series, is just as addicting as the first. Something is rotten in the state of Wisconsin. Werewolf packs are being united and absorbed into an army of super soldiers by a mysterious figure who speaks like an angel and fights like a demon. And every Knight Templar -- keepers of the magical peace between mankind and magickind -- who tries to get close to this big bad wolf winds up dead. No knight can infiltrate a group whose members can smell a human from a mile away...no knight except one. John Charming. Ex knight. Current werewolf. Hunted by the men who trained him, he now might be their only salvation. But animal instincts are rising up to claim John more powerfully than ever before, and he must decide if this new leader of wolves is a madman...or a messiah. Pax Arcana CharmingDaringFearlessIn Shining ArmorLegend Has It Short Fiction in the Pax Arcana world:Charmed I'm SureDon't Go Chasing WaterfallsPushing LuckSurreal EstateDog-GoneBulls Rush InTalking Dirty

Daring (Pax Arcana, 2)

Prince Charming rescues a student in a small college town in this fast-paced urban fantasy with rich world building and a strong female lead. Someone, somewhere, has declared war on Kevin Kichida, and that someone has a long list of magical predators on their rolodex. The good news is that Kevin lives in a town where Ted Cahill is the new sheriff and old ally of John Charming. The attacks on Kevin seem to be a pattern, and the more John and his new team follow that thread, the deeper they find themselves in a maze of supernatural threats, family secrets, and age-old betrayals. The more John learns, the more convinced he becomes that Kevin Kichida isn't just a victim, he's a sacrifice waiting to happen. And that thread John's following? It's really a fuse . . . Fearless is the third novel in an urban fantasy series which gives a new twist to the Prince Charming tale. Pax ArcanaCharmingDaringFearlessIn Shining ArmorLegend Has It Short Fiction in the Pax Arcana world:Charmed I'm SureDon't Go Chasing WaterfallsPushing LuckSurreal EstateDog-GoneBulls Rush InTalking Dirty

Fearless (Pax Arcana, 3)

Literary

This fairy godmother's got claws. When someone kidnaps the last surviving descendant of the Grandmaster of the Knights Templar, it's bad news. When the baby is the key to the tenuous alliance between a large werewolf pack and the knights, it's even worse news. They're at each other's throats before they've even begun to look for baby Constance. But whoever kidnapped Constance didn't count on one thing: she's also the goddaughter of John Charming. Modern-day descendant of a long line of famous dragon slayers, witch finders, and wrong righters. John may not have any experience being a parent, but someone is about to find out that he can be one mean mother... IN SHINING ARMOR is the fourth novel in a series which gives a new twist to the Prince Charming tale. Pax Arcana CharmingDaringFearlessIn Shining ArmorLegend Has It Short Fiction in the Pax Arcana world:Charmed I'm SureDon't Go Chasing WaterfallsPushing LuckSurreal EstateDog-GoneBulls Rush InTalking Dirty

In Shining Armor (Pax Arcana, 4)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

LEGEND HAS IT is the fifth novel in a series which gives a new twist to the Prince Charming tale. The first four novels are Charming, Daring, Fearless &amp; In Shining Armor.

Legend Has It (Pax Arcana, 5)

Tracking down a Russian defector who is suspected of murder, former CIA agent Mike Culley forms an uneasy alliance with ex-cop-turned-reporter Julie Houser, until a shocking kidnapping puts everything Culley holds dear at stake.

Cold, Cold Heart

Random House Audio |

Swing is a fully-featured user interface development kit for Java applications. Building on the foundations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing enables cross-platform applications to use any of several pluggable look-and-feels. Swing developers can take advantage of its rich, flexible features and modular components, building elegant user interfaces with very little code.This second edition of Java Swing thoroughly covers all the features available in Java 2 SDK 1.3 and 1.4. More than simply a reference, this new edition takes a practical approach. It is a book by developers for developers, with hundreds of useful examples, from beginning level to advanced, covering every component available in Swing.All these features mean that there's a lot to learn. Even setting aside its platform flexibility, Swing compares favorably with any widely available user interface toolkit--it has great depth. Swing makes it easy to do simple things but is powerful enough to create complex, intricate interfaces.Java Swing, 2nd edition includes :
<ul>
<li>A new chapter on Drag and Drop</li>
<li>Accessibility features for creating a user interface meeting the needs of all users</li>
<li>Coverage of the improved key binding infrastructure introduced in SDK 1.3</li>
<li>A new chapter on JFormattedTextField and input validation</li>
<li>Mac OS X coverage and examples</li>
<li>Coverage of the improved focus system introduced in SDK 1.4</li>
<li>Pluggable Look-and-Feel coverage</li>
<li>Coverage of the new layout manager, SpringLayout, from SDK 1.4</li>
<li>Properties tables that summarize important features of each component</li>
<li>Coverage of the 1.4 Spinner component</li>
<li>Details about using HTML in components</li>
<li>A new appendix listing bound actions for each component</li>
<li>A supporting web site with utilities, examples, and supplemental materials</li>
</ul>Whether you're a seasoned Java developer or just trying to find out what Java can do, you'll find Java Swing, 2nd edition an indispensable guide.

Java Swing, Second Edition

Computers & Technology

David Wood

Brian Cole

Robert Eckstein

Marc Loy

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment--you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. It is a thorough guide that will also "grow" with you: as you become more proficient, this book will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. It takes you from basic Emacs usage (simple text editing) to moderately complicated customization and programming.The third edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms.Learning GNU Emacs, third edition, covers:
<ul>
<li>How to edit files with Emacs</li>
<li>Using the operating system shell through Emacs</li>
<li>How to use multiple buffers, windows, and frames</li>
<li>Customizing Emacs interactively and through startup files</li>
<li>Writing macros to circumvent repetitious tasks</li>
<li>Emacs as a programming environment for Java, C++, and Perl, among others</li>
<li>Using Emacs as an integrated development environment (IDE)</li>
<li>Integrating Emacs with CVS, Subversion and other change control systems for projects with multiple developers</li>
<li>Writing HTML, XHTML, and XML with Emacs</li>
<li>The basics of Emacs Lisp</li>
</ul>The book is aimed at new Emacs users, whether or not they are programmers. Also useful for readers switching from other Emacs implementations to GNU Emacs.

Learning GNU Emacs, Third Edition

Eric Raymond

Debra Cameron

Bill Rosenblatt

Operating Systems

Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations. With Hibernate, bridging these two worlds is significantly easier, and with this book, you can get up to speed with Hibernate quickly. Rather than present you with another reference, Harnessing Hibernate lets you explore the system, from download and configuration through a series of projects that demonstrate how to accomplish a variety of practical goals. The new edition of this concise guide walks you through Hibernate's primary features, which include mapping from Java classes to database tables, and from Java data types to Sql data types. You will also learn about Hibernate's data query and retrieval facilities, and much more. By reading and following along with the examples, you can get your own Hibernate environment set up quickly and start using it for real-world tasks right away. Harnessing Hibernate teaches you how to: Perform Object/Relational mapping Work with persistent data from Java code Work with groups and relationships between objects Extend Hibernate's rich type support for your own needs Simplify query creation using criteria and examples Use the Hibernate Query Language (Hql) and understand how it differs from Sql Use Hibernate in conjunction with Spring Use Hibernate in conjunction with other packages, such as the Stripes web framework and the Eclipse Ide Once you're past the first few chapters, you can jump to topics that you find particularly interesting or relevant. All background material and explanations of how Hibernate works and why is in the service of a focused task. Source code can be downloaded from the book's website. If using Sql is an uncomfortable chore, Harnessing Hibernate offers yo

Harnessing Hibernate: Step-by-step Guide to Java Persistence

Timothy M O'Brien

Ryan Fowler

Programming

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