What is this book about? Beginning XML, 3rd Edition, like the first two editions, begins with a broad overview of the technology and then focuses on specific facets of the various specifications for the reader. This book teaches you all you need to know about XML: what it is, how it works, what technologies surround it, and how it can best be used in a variety of situations, from simple data transfer to using XML in your Web pages. It builds on the strengths of the first and second editions, and provides new material to reflect the changes in the XML landscape — notably RSS and SVG.

Beginning XML

Computers & Technology

Chase, Nicholas

Duckett, Jon

Hunter, David

Ayers, Danny

Fawcett, Joe

Patterson, Bill

Watt, Andrew

Rafter, Jeff

Gaven, Tom

Programming Languages

Wrox

Search for true discipleship in church history

Star Bible Publications

Big Bottom Church

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Crossbooks

When Brent Paulson and his wife, Darla, answer God's call to return to their home state of Mississippi to serve Big Bottom Baptist Church, they look forward to being closer to family and to eating good fried catfish again. But it's not long before they encounter Wanda W. Washburn, teacher of the Elite Ladies Bible Class; a power-hungry group of deacon officers who criticize Brent's choice of shirt colors; and a runaway cell phone during one Sunday service.
 Join Brent and Darla as they learn to minister to Big Bottom's colorful characters, from the guest preacher who shows up in a kilt and is still preaching after forty-five minutes, to the kind, elderly Miss Jane Winfield, who dispenses God's love and wisdom along with oatmeal cookies and wonders whether she should accept an invitation for coffee from a widower in his eighties.
 Every church is filled with these folks: the considerate and the crabby, the compassionate and the cantankerous. Come on in and worship with them at Big Bottom Church-but be sure to bring an open heart and your sense of humor!

First contact … Second chances… Nothing comes without a price.Despite NASA budget cuts threating to put a sharp end to his career as an astronaut, British-born space shuttle pilot Jack Kildare knows without a doubt that his life will never be the same. Photographs snapped from the International Space Station reveal an alien spaceship in orbit around Europa, opening a terrifying new chapter opening in human history, and Jack finds himself in the center of a gigantic international effort to respond to the alien threat.
But when he is dismissed from NASA over a trumped-up security gaffe, Jack and his close friend Oliver Meeks combine their skills in an attempt to generate an innovative new development: a spaceship drive based on their observations of the alien craft's technology.
 With the unknown threat driving international competition and the entire planet's spaceflight resources thrown into the fray, the focus of attention turns toward one single goal… a ship capable of traveling to Jupiter to confront the alien menace… the Spirit of Destiny. Amid unknown entities pushing to destroy the project from the inside out, and enemies baying for blood, Jack finds himself submerged in a world of secrets, sabotage attempts and cold-blooded murder.
Can Jack decode the secrets surrounding the arrival of the alien spaceship in our solar system? Or will his dreams of the ultimate space adventure be taken into the ashes with the Spirit of Destiny?
ABOUT FREEFALL: Freefall is the first book of a fast-paced quartet of technothrillers. It contains hard science fiction elements in the mold of The Martian and other science-based thrillers. You won't need a calculator to follow the story, but if you'd like to build a spaceship to the Spirit of Destiny's specifications, it really will take you to Jupiter! ($3 billion budget not included.)
Lifeboat and Shiplord, Book Two and Book Three in the Earth's Last Gambit Quartet, are now available.

Freefall: A First Contact Technothriller

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Savage, Felix R.

Science Fiction

Knights Hill Publishing

An ancient boat dock lantern, pulled from a puddle of salt water high up the cliffs, takes 15-year-old Jason on an adventure through the past where he discovers the fate of his mother he never knew. Along the way, the boy encounters pirates, sirens, and a mermaid, who tells Jason she knew his mother.

The Rusted Lantern

Fantasy

720 Degree Coaching

Infinite Possible FuturesOne Bold New AnthologyWhether tales of crumbling cities, robot insurrections, or forbidden alien romances, even the most outlandish stories of the far-off future can speak to our present-day lives. So get ready to delve into the heart of a dying AI, to fly across a crumbling dystopian hell-scape, and to meet far-off civilizations that prove to be more human than we could ever be. The Future Visions Anthologies will bring you stories like these every three months, and much more.Crack open the pages, the future is waiting...The Rationalizers by Lorenzo CrescentiniEngine Room by Gerhard Gehrke20 Mechanical Catcalls Hitting Meifeng Square in the Face on the Streets of New York City in 2025 by D.A. Xiaolin SpiresTime Travel Among the Tasmanian Tigers of West Virginia by Robert JeschonekSchool Nights by Justin Scott CampbellThe Maze in the Sea of Voices by Deborah L. DavittWorld Enough, and Time by Erica RuppertThe Writing Contest by Yudhanjaya WijeratneBetween the Shadow and the Soul by Davian AwThe Climb by Alison InglebyAlpha Run by Brian J. WaltonFuture Visions  is a quarterly anthology series presented by author and editor Brian J. Walton. For more information, and to sign to our newsletter, visit www.futurevisions.io

Future Visions: Volume 1

Literature & Fiction

Jeschonek, Robert

Wijeratne, Yudhanjaya

Spires, D.A. Xiaolin

Ingleby, Alison

Gehrke, Gerhard

Davitt, Deborah L.

Walton, Brian J.

Crescentini, Lorenzo

Campbell, Justin Scott

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

Megastructures (Mohs 5.5)

Cooper, M. D.

Martelle, Craig

Cawdron, Peter

Pickford, Kate

Frater, Jon

Goldsmith, Abby

Guha, Soham

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