A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant by her father.
A fitness guru offers a 30-day program for losing weight and cleaning up one's act, in a book that includes complete workouts, good advice and 30 recipes.
Revised and updated with improvements conceived in parallel programming courses, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is an authoritative guide to multicore programming. It introduces a higher level set of software development skills than that needed for efficient single-core programming. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new principles, algorithms, and tools necessary for effective multiprocessor programming. Students and professionals alike will benefit from thorough coverage of key multiprocessor programming issues. This revised edition incorporates much-demanded updates throughout the book, based on feedback and corrections reported from classrooms since 2008 Learn the fundamentals of programming multiple threads accessing shared memory Explore mainstream concurrent data structures and the key elements of their design, as well as synchronization techniques from simple locks to transactional memory systems Visit the companion site and download source code, example Java programs, and materials to support and enhance the learning experience
Written by Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman Art by Bruno Redondo and Aaron Minier Cover by Jock Collecting the 6-issue miniseries prequel to the hit movie Push! A secret war is about to begin, fought on battlefields obscured in shadow...and the weapons in this new conflict will be the human mind! Enter agent Ezra Lowe, an operative in Division, trained from an early age in psychic warfare, until one mission goes horribly wrong. Advance-solicited; on sale September 9 - 144 pg, FC, $19.99 US
Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with Ionic, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This revised guide shows you how to use Ionic’s tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Universal. Author Chris Griffith takes you step-by-step through Ionic’s powerful collection of UI components, and then helps you use it to build three cross-platform mobile apps. Whether you’re new to this framework or have been working with Ionic 1, this book is ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced web developers. Understand what a hybrid mobile app is, and what comprises a basic Ionic application Learn how Ionic leverages Apache Cordova, Angular, and TypeScript to create native mobile applications Create a Firebase-enabled to-do application that stores data across multiple clients Build a tab-based National Park explorer app with Google Map integration Develop a weather app with the Darksky weather API and Google’s GeoCode API Debug and test your app to resolve issues that arise during development Walk through steps for deploying your app to native app stores Learn how Ionic can be used to create Progressive Web Apps
Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious's son, Abdul. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push's unforgettable heroine, Precious. A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. Left alone to navigate a world in which love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he can stand behind. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday; from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artist's lofts, The Kid tells of a twenty- first-century young man's fight to find a way toward the future. A testament to the ferocity of the human spirit and the deep nourishing power of love and of art, The Kid chronicles a young man about to take flight. In the intimate, terrifying, and deeply alive story of Abdul's journey, we are witness to an artist's birth by fire.
The Birth Partner, Sixth Revised Edition is an up-to-date, accessible resource for spouses, partners, and others who accompany an expectant mother through labor and birth, and an essential guide for doulas, midwives, and educators.
About the Book: This book is intended for the students who are pursuing courses in B.Tech/B.E. (CSE/IT), M.Tech/M.E. (CSE/IT), MCA and M.Sc (CS/IT). The book covers different crucial theoretical aspects such as of Automata Theory, Formal Language Theory, Computability Theory and Computational Complexity Theory and their applications. This book can be used as a text or reference book for a one-semester course in theory of computation or automata theory. It includes the detailed coverage of Introduction to Theory of Computation Essential Mathematical Concepts Finite State Automata Formal Language & Formal Grammar Regular Expressions & Regular Languages Context-Free Grammar Pushdown Automata Turing Machines Recursively Enumerable & Recursive Languages Complexity Theory Key Features: « Presentation of concepts in clear, compact and comprehensible manner « Chapter-wise supplement of theorems and formal proofs « Display of chapter-wise appendices with case studies, applications and some pre-requisites « Pictorial two-minute drill to summarize the whole concept « Inclusion of more than 200 solved with additional problems « More than 130 numbers of GATE questions with their keys for the aspirants to have the thoroughness, practice and multiplicity « Key terms, Review questions and Problems at chapter-wise termination What is New in the 2nd Edition?? « Introduction to Myhill-Nerode theorem in Chapter-3 « Updated GATE questions and keys starting from the year 2000 to the year 2018 «Practical Implementations through JFLAP Simulator About the Authors: Soumya Ranjan Jena is the Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P., India. Previously he has worked at GITA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, K L Deemed to be University, A.P and AKS University, M.P, India. He has more than 5 years of teaching experience. He has been awarded M.Tech in IT, B.Tech in CSE and CCNA. He is the author of Design and Analysis of Algorithms book published by University Science Press, Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi. Santosh Kumar Swain, Ph.D, is an Professor in School of Computer Engineering at KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He has over 23 years of experience in teaching to graduate and post-graduate students of computer engineering, information technology and computer applications. He has published more than 40 research papers in International Journals and Conferences and one patent on health monitoring system.
