On a voyage sponsored by Prince Henry of Portugal, Alessandro Cavalli witnesses the miracles and despair of the dark sea and meets a grim fate after his brother's betrayal leaves him chained to an oar as a galley slave. Original.

The Dreamers

Paul King

BANTAM BOOKS

This concise, to the point, and waffle-free reference lays out everything you need to do to build a successful trading business. It includes: How to maintain discipline and accurately run your trading business. How to allocate capital to your trading systems. How you should use simulation in your trading. How to create, develop, and test your trading systems. What good contingency planning looks like. What should be in your business plan. This book is a "must-read" for anyone serious about trading for a living. See pmkingtading.com for more details.

The Complete Guide to Building a Successful Trading Business

Business & Money

Economics

PMKing Trading LLC

Cottage Country

B.Mitchell

Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n Roll: Healing Today's Troubled Youth by King, Paul

Professional Counselor Books

Building Cross-functional Excellence ACHIEVE AND SUSTAIN BUSINESS PROCESS EXCELLENCE Process excellence has been the holy grail of performance improvement methodologies (TQM, BPR, ERP, Six Sigma, Lean, BPM, etc.) for more than two decades. Still few companies have been able to turn process performance into a competitive advantage...and even fewer have been able to sustain performance excellence for an extended period of time. How can your organization do better? Business process management is not a program or technology investment. It is a philosophy that incorporates and integrates proven techniques to deliver sustainable business improvements. No matter where your firm is in its journey, The Process Management Memory Jogger has tools you can use to: - Clarify and focus on what is of value to the customer - Foster cross-functional cooperation - Analyze the full supply chain via System Mapping - Map and explore the logic of how work is done - Generate process improvement solutions - Align processes with IT systems via Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) - Maximize the competitive impact of process performance in conjunction with the Balanced Scorecard This pocket guide can be used to jog your memory about essential process mapping and analysis tools. Or it can be used to craft plans for enterprise process management and to establish process-based competitive strategies. The tools and techniques in The Process Management Memory Jogger will prove valuable to you and your organization for years to come.

The Process Management Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide for Building Cross-functional Excellence

Robert D. Boehringer

Amanda Dietz

Ralph Smith

Management & Leadership

GOAL/QPC, Inc

You Can't Hurt Me

Mardibooks

Groovy, the brand-new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. Groovy in Action is a comprehensive guide to Groovy programming, introducing Java developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides. To bring you Groovy in Action, Manning again went to the source by working with a team of expert authors including both members and the Manager of the Groovy Project team. The result is the true definitive guide to the new Groovy language.
Groovy in Action introduces Groovy by example, presenting lots of reusable code while explaining the underlying concepts. Java developers new to Groovy find a smooth transition into the dynamic programming world. Groovy experts gain a solid reference that challenges them to explore Groovy deeply and creatively.
Because Groovy is so new, most readers will be learning it from scratch. Groovy in Action quickly moves through the Groovy basics, including:
<ul>
<li>Simple and collective Groovy data types</li>
<li>Working with Closures and Groovy Control Structures</li>
<li>Dynamic Object Orientation, Groovy style</li>
</ul>
Readers are presented with rich and detailed examples illustrating Groovy's enhancements to Java, including
<ul>
<li>How to Work with Builders and the GDK</li>
<li>Database programming with Groovy</li>
</ul>
Groovy in Action then demonstrates how to Integrate Groovy with XML, and provides:
<ul>
<li>Tips and Tricks</li>
<li>Unit Testing and Build Support</li>
<li>Groovy on Windows</li>
</ul>
An additional bonus is a chapter dedicated to Grails, the Groovy Web Application Framework.
 Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Groovy in Action

Computers & Technology

Jon Skeet

Guillaume Laforge

Andrew Glover

Dierk Koenig

Web Development & Design

Manning Pubns Co

Summary Groovy in Action, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, comprehensive guide to Groovy programming. It introduces Java developers to the dynamic features that Groovy provides, and shows how to apply Groovy to a range of tasks including building new apps, integration with existing code, and DSL development. Covers Groovy 2.4. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology In the last ten years, Groovy has become an integral part of a Java developer's toolbox. Its comfortable, common-sense design, seamless integration with Java, and rich ecosystem that includes the Grails web framework, the Gradle build system, and Spock testing platform have created a large Groovy community About the Book Groovy in Action, Second Edition is the undisputed definitive reference on the Groovy language. Written by core members of the Groovy language team, this book presents Groovy like no other can—from the inside out. With relevant examples, careful explanations of Groovy's key concepts and features, and insightful coverage of how to use Groovy in-production tasks, including building new applications, integration with existing code, and DSL development, this is the only book you'll need. Updated for Groovy 2.4. Some experience with Java or another programming language is helpful. No Groovy experience is assumed. What's Inside <ul>
<li>Comprehensive coverage of Groovy 2.4 including language features, libraries, and AST transformations</li>
<li>Dynamic, static, and extensible typing</li>
<li>Concurrency: actors, data parallelism, and dataflow</li>
<li>Applying Groovy: Java integration, XML, SQL, testing, and domain-specific language support</li>
<li>Hundreds of reusable examples</li>
</ul>
 About the Authors Authors Dierk König, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, Hamlet D'Arcy, Cédric Champeau, Erik Pragt, and Jon Skeet are intimately involved in the creation and ongoing development of the Groovy language and its ecosystem. Table of Contents <ol>PART 1 THE GROOVY LANGUAGE<li>Your way to Groovy</li>
<li>Overture: Groovy basics</li>
<li>Simple Groovy datatypes</li>
<li>Collective Groovy datatypes</li>
<li>Working with closures</li>
<li>Groovy control structures</li>
<li>Object orientation, Groovy style</li>
<li>Dynamic programming with Groovy</li>
<li>Compile-time metaprogramming and AST transformations</li>
<li>Groovy as a static language</li>PART 2 AROUND THE GROOVY LIBRARY<li>Working with builders</li>
<li>Working with the GDK</li>
<li>Database programming with Groovy</li>
<li>Working with XML and JSON</li>
<li>Interacting with Web Services</li>
<li>Integrating Groovy</li>PART 3 APPLIED GROOVY<li>Unit testing with Groovy</li>
<li>Concurrent Groovy with GPars</li>
<li>Domain-specific languages</li>
<li>The Groovy ecosystem</li>
</ol>

Groovy in Action: Covers Groovy 2.4

Dierk König

Hamlet D'Arcy

Cédric Champeau

Erik Pragt

Manning

Groovy im Einsatz

Hanser Fachbuchverlag

Groovy In Action, 2Edition: Covers Groovy 2.4

Wiley-India

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