Most Popular Books by Mark Richards

An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory reveals modern technology''s evolution through the world''s most renowned computer collection, the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley. Vivid photos capture these historically important machines including the Eniac, Crays 1 3, Apple I and II while authoritative text profiles each, telling the stories of their innovations and peculiarities

Lakeland Fellranger guidebook by Mark Richards covering 23 summits in the Southern Fells of the Lake District. Includes a variety of the best walking routes, old and new, between Wrynose and Hardknott passes and Black Combe in the south of the Lake District and Muncaster in the west.

For those who do not wish to follow the complete Wall walk, this volume contains 29 day walks incorporating small parts of the Wall walk into reasonable length circular routes. They range from starting points like Cherryburn in the east, to Bowness-on-Solway in the west.

Offa''s Dyke Path is the 177 mile National Trail following the course of the man made dyke that gives it its name. This volume, now fully updated, features the southern section of the Path, following Natural England''s acorn waymarks from Chepstow to Knighton, a distance of 80 miles. This is the complete, official guide for the long distance walker or the weekend stroller. All you need is this one book. National Trail Guides are the official guidebooks to the fifteen National Trails in England and Wales and are published in association with Natural England, the official body charged with developing and maintaining the Trails.

A guidebook to fifty memorable walks on the high fells of the English Lake District. Graded circular routes equally suitable for the moderately adventurous walker looking for undiscovered areas and for the less experienced walker starting out on the fells.

Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards covering 34 summits in the Western Fells of the Lake District, with a wide range of ascents, old and new, between the rivers Irt (Ennerdale) to the west and Cocker (Crummockwater / Buttermere) to the east. With clear Harvey map extracts and the author''s original topos and panoramas.

This guide presents the opportunity to take a grand eight-mile circular walk, starting from Stow-on-the-Wold and visiting all the nearby villages. The overall distance may be divided into several shorter excursions. Another title from the Cotswold publisher, Reardon.

OTAKAWHE AND OTHER SCENES. Grey stone beach at the end of a rough road, curve of a blue-green bay calm in fine May weather: it must be the stillness of stones, the peace of pohutukawas reclining on hip and elbow watching the tide.They balance the bustle, chatter of choices, thump of feet, voices in scales and chords, discords and harmony. A constant turbulence in and about the lodge, held in a cupped hand of hills and trees which hardly find a breath of breeze to move a leaf. And here we are to say much the same things to the same people, sing just the same songs to the same moon on another stage.Here, stones, sea and pohutukawa paint a new backdrop, make a new set to change familiar movements - even, once in a gin-and-tonic, provide new dialogue.

From Bowness-on-Solway to Newcastle, taking in the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Beauty and the Northumberland National Park, this book contains a full description of the 84 mile route along Hadrian''s Wall through this historic region.

Who doesn''t love a Ghost Story? Everyone Except Michael Brady... "Brilliant. Michael Brady is fast becoming the Yorkshire Rebus." It''s ten days before Christmas. Brady''s first Christmas in his new house. Ash. Siobhan. Family and friends. It''s going to be perfect... But Whitby''s been wreathed in fog since November. "We couldn''t even see across the harbour..." And everyone''s got a ghost story to tell. But Detective Chief Inspector Michael Brady doesn''t believe in ghosts. He believes in evidence. Cold, hard facts... Until a body is found at Bagdale Hall. The Bagdale Hall that''s haunted by Browne Bushell, a pirate from the Civil War. Suddenly old cases which weren''t investigated properly start to make sense. Ghosts from Whitby''s past have a new significance... But the case gets more complex - and Brady sees Christmas slipping away. Michael Brady has a week. A week to catch a killer. Or he''ll pay the price. And spend Christmas Day on his own... "Mark Richards has created such a likeable character in Mike Brady that you want to be his friend. Go for a drink with him or give him a hug when he so obviously needs one. I''ve read all the Brady books in a week. I can''t wait for the next one..."

"Learn the basics behind messaging, a powerful software paradigm that makes it easier to decouple and integrate enterprise applications. In this learning path, messaging expert and architect Mark Richards takes you through messaging fundamentals with the Java Message Service (JMS) API. You''ll learn how to use the JMS 1.1 and 2.0 API to send and receive messages, how to do request/reply processing, how to use message selectors, and how to use publish and subscribe messaging -- all through live, interactive coding with ActiveMQ and OpenMQ. You''ll also master more advanced JMS features and techniques, including JMS transaction management, message streaming."--Resource description page.

"''The preservation of public order and the protection of life and property'' commonly the central theme in the ''Code of Ethics'' of many Police Departments reflects the purpose for the existence of such organisations within the community. In focusing on meeting these objectives, the health and safety of police personnel from time to time is compromised from exposure to hazardous situations and environments. In order to develop and maintain effective strategies to minimise the frequency and consequence of workplace injuries, methodologies are required to measure and provide understanding as to the extent such injuries have on the organisation and individual officers. Current methods of measurement of workplace injuries fail to provide sufficient or accurate information to facilitate interpretation of the impact costs on the organisation and individuals. This issue and the deminished capacity of individual officers to measure and self assess performance pertaining to organisational objectives of productivity and health & safety owing to conflicting messages communicated by police " -- Abstract.

Reflections Eternal: Healing in a World That Profits From Numbness Reflections Eternal is a raw, lyrical meditation on ego, identity, emotional survival, and the quiet revolution of choosing presence in a disconnected world. Told through poetic essays, spoken-word reflections, and soul-bared storytelling, this book traces the author''s journey through grief, addiction, betrayal, and awakening - peeling back the masks of masculinity, performance, and pain to reveal the quiet clarity beneath. Divided into thematic "chapters" - Parasites of the Mind, Heart, System, and Soul - this work explores how we lose ourselves through ego, how love can be weaponized, how systems fail the unheard, and how silence can become sacred. The later chapters unfold into healing: solitude, sobriety, spiritual boundaries, and the quiet courage of living awake in a world that wants you distracted. Part memoir, part manifesto, part mirror, Reflections Eternal is for anyone who''s ever been called too intense, too sensitive, or too honest - and chose to stay that way anyway.

In this dissertation we consider the valuation of discretely monitored barrier options under the in nite element method. The in nite element method is an extension to the standard nite element method that accepts problems with unbounded spacial domains (such as the Black-Scholes PDE), without resorting to domain truncation. The degeneracy of the Black-Scholes PDE when the underlying asset reaches zero, requires that the method be formulated within the context of weighted Sobolev spaces. We will demonstrate the convergence of the proposed method and provide a rigorous investigation into the underlying weighted Sobolev spaces in which the convergence is to be demonstrated.

This three-part series of half-day online events, hosted by chair Neal Ford, focuses on the hottest topics in software architecture-including microservices, essential architecture principles, and event-driven architecture and domain-driven design-giving you the insights to keep pace with what''s next while still accommodating legacy needs. Both seasoned software architects and those looking to break into the field will learn new skills and the latest information on the tools and technologies they need to succeed. In Part 1, Software Architecture Fundamentals, the sessions give you a solid grasp of the fundamentals, preparing you to implement the strategies that will help your organization increase performance, reduce costs, manage complexity, build in resilience and scalability, and speed time to market. The four sessions from Rebecca Parsons, Nathaniel Schutta, Mark Richards and Sam Newman provide insight, advice, and essential knowledge you need to transition from developer to architect. About the presenters: Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals who think disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He''s an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of Agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal has authored seven books (and counting), a number of magazine articles, and dozens of video presentations and spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide. His topics include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, cutting-edge software innovations, and a business-focused book and video on improving technical presentations. Check out his website, Nealford.com. Rebecca Parsons is CTO at ThoughtWorks. Rebecca has more than 30 years'' experience leading the creation of large-scale distributed, services-based applications and the integration of disparate systems. Previously, she was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida and a director''s postdoctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Rebecca''s interests include parallel and distributed computation, programming languages, domain-specific languages, evolutionary architecture, genetic algorithms, and computational scien...

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