Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; .44 or 9mm; revolver and automatic – the history of pistols and revolvers is a fascinating journey through the development of hand-held firearms technology. From early hand cannon of the late 14th century to the latest automatics and machine pistols, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers traces the development of these small arms as they evolved over the centuries. From a Thirty Years’ War wheel lock to today’s Beretta 92, from the Luger to the Colt to the latest Ruger, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Throughout the book there are technical specifications for featured firearms. Illustrated with more than 250 colour and black-and-white artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

Get More from your Network with Automation tools to increase its effectiveness. About This Book Get started with network automation (and different automation tasks) with relevant use cases Apply software design principles such as Continuous Integration and DevOps to your network toolkit Guides you through some best practices in automation Who This Book Is For If you are a network engineer looking for an extensive guide to help you automate and manage your network efficiently, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Get the detailed analysis of Network automation Trigger automations through available data factors Improve data center robustness and security through specific access and data digging Get an Access to APIs from Excel for dynamic reporting Set up a communication with SSH-based devices using netmiko Make full use of practical use cases and best practices to get accustomed with the various aspects of network automation In Detail Network automation is the use of IT controls to supervise and carry out every-day network management functions. It plays a key role in network virtualization technologies and network functions. The book starts by providing an introduction to network automation, SDN, and its applications, which include integrating DevOps tools to automate the network efficiently. It then guides you through different network automation tasks and covers various data digging and reporting methodologies such as IPv6 migration, DC relocations, and interface parsing, all the while retaining security and improving data center robustness. The book then moves on to the use of Python and the management of SSH keys for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, all followed by practical use cases. The book also covers the importance of Ansible for network automation including best practices in automation, ways to test automated networks using different tools, and other important techniques. By the end of the book, you will be well acquainted with the various aspects of network automation. Style and approach A clear, concise, and straightforward book that will enable you to automate networks and improve performance.

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Alexei Ivanovich Velchaninov is a land owner who stays in Saint Petersburg for a trial about a piece of land. He receives a visit from Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, an old acquaintance who recently became a widower. Velchaninov had an affair with Trusotsky's wife Natalia, and he realizes that he is the biological father of Liza, Trusotsky's eight year old daughter. Velchaninov, who doesn't want Liza to be raised by an alcoholic, brings Liza to a foster family. The novel ranks among his best works because of its style and structure. Alfred Bem described it as one of the most complete works by Dostoyevsky in regards to its composition and development.

A librarian in a small town is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume. He remains in character, much to the surprise of the other actors.

A historical play by William Shakespeare describing the life and death of Richard III. The play begins with Richard describing the accession to the throne of his brother, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York. Richard plots to have his brother Clarence, who stands before him in the line of succession, conducted to the Tower of London over a prophecy he bribed a soothsayer to finagle the suspicious King with.

Such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one's eyes slide above the paper's edge to the poor woman’s face—insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of—what? That life's like that, it seems. Five faces opposite—five mature faces—and the knowledge in each face. Strange, though, how people want to conceal it! Marks of reticence are on all those faces: lips shut, eyes shaded, each one of the five doing something to hide or stultify his knowledge. One smokes; another reads; a third checks entries in a pocket book; a fourth stares at the map of the line framed opposite; and the fifth—the terrible thing about the fifth is that she does nothing at all.

The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics to their full spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether in trade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families and individuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristine strength and freedom. The New Freedom is only the old revived and clothed in the unconquerable strength of modern America. I have not written a book since the campaign. I did not write this book at all. It is the result of the editorial literary skill of Mr. William Bayard Hale, who has put together here in their right sequences the more suggestive portions of my campaign speeches.And yet it is not a book of campaign speeches. It is a discussion of a number of very vital subjects in the free form of extemporaneously spoken words. I have left the sentences in the form in which they were stenographically reported. I have not tried to alter the easy-going and often colloquial phraseology in which they were uttered from the platform, in the hope that they would seem the more fresh and spontaneous because of their very lack of pruning and recasting. They have been suffered to run their unpremeditated course even at the cost of such repetition and redundancy as the ex-temporaneous speaker apparently inevitably falls into. WOODROW WILSON. ABOUT WOLSON: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, known as Woodrow Wil-son (1856 –1924), was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson earned a PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and served as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being chosen as President of Princeton University, a position he held from 1902 to 1910. In the election of 1910, he was the gubernatorial candidate of New Jersey's Democratic Party, and was elected the 34th Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1911 to 1913. Running for president in 1912, Wilson benefited from a split in the Republican Party, which enabled his plurality of just over forty percent to win him a large electoral college margin. He was the first Southerner elected as president since 1848, and Wilson was a lea-ding force in theProgressive Movement, bolstered by his Democratic Party's winning control of both the White House and Congress in 1912. In office, Wilson reintroduced the spoken State of the Union, which had been out of use since 1801. Leading the Congress, now in Democratic hands, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. Included among these were the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. Having taken office one month after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in theRevenue Act of 1913, reintroducing an income tax and lowering tariffs. Through passage of the Adamson Act, imposing an 8-hour workday for railroads, he averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis. Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality, while pursuing a more aggressive policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war. ***

Cu o precizie remarcabil?, George Friedman a prognozat tendin?e viitoare ?n politica, tehnologia, cultura ?i demografia global?. ?n Puncte de presiune, Friedman se concentreaz? asupra Europei – centrul cultural ?i de putere al lumii ?n ultimele cinci secole... p?n? acum. Analiz?nd cele mai instabile, imprevizibile ?i fascinante linii de grani?? ale Europei ?i Rusiei – ?i liniile de falie care au existat vreme de secole ?i care au fost motivul a numeroase r?zboaie catastrofale – Friedman scoate ?n eviden??, ?ntr-o modalitate inedit?, punctele de presiune care au ?nceput din nou s? cedeze. Uniunea European? de ast?zi a fost construit? ?n mare parte pentru a reduce la minimum tensiunile geopolitice care au sf??iat continentul de-a lungul istoriei. Dup? cum demonstreaz? Friedman, folosindu-se de o bogat? analiz? istoric? ?i cultural?, acest model a ?nceput s? ??i arate limitele. Puncte de presiune relateaz? istoria vie a Europei ?i explic?, cu mult? claritate, care sunt cele mai volatile regiuni ale acesteia: teritoriul agitat ?i mereu ?n schimbare dintre Occident ?i Rusia (o zon? mare care include, ?n prezent, Ucraina, Belarus ?i Lituania); vechea linie de grani?? dintre Germania ?i Fran?a ?i zona Mediteranei, care este leag?nul iudaismului ?i al cre?tinismului ?i care a devenit un centru al vie?ii islamice. Din paginile scrise de Friedman se desprinde o imagine clar? a regiunilor ?i ??rilor, iar istoria ?ncepe s? se contureze precis. Puncte de presiune este o analiz? cuprinz?toare a Europei moderne, a trecutului s?u remarcabil ?i a faliilor care s-au trezit la via?? ?i care vor fi fundamentale ?n viitorul apropiat. Aceasta este cea mai oportun? ?i, p?n? la urm?, cea mai fascinant? carte a lui Friedman. ?... ?n preajma lui George Friedman, exist? mereu tenta?ia de a-l confunda cu un glob de cristal, capabil s? ??i arate viitorul.“ — The New York Times Magazine ?Friedman descrie ?n culori vii o regiune unde amintirile sunt vechi, vulnerabilit??ile omniprezente ?i amenin??rile apar rapid ?i pe nea?teptate...“ — Publishers Weekly ?Kronika“ este colec?ia ?n care umanitatea este reconstruit? prin c?r?i care ne ajut? s? p?trundem ?n culisele celor mai interesante evenimente politice, sociale sau financiare de ieri ?i de ast?zi.

Ця книга — про економ?ку як просту науку, яку здатен збагнути кожен. Автор — корейський економ?ст Ха-Юн Чан? — показу? нам ?закритий? св?т економ?ки, що прихову?ться в?д загалу за купою чисел, заплутаних формул та незрозум?лих терм?н?в. У книз? стверджу?ться: знатися на економ?ц? може ? повинен кожен.??Серед усього ?ншого автор розм?ркову? над причинами св?тово? кризи 2008 року, над тим, чи справд? люди б?дн?, бо л?нив?, а ус? багат? — працьовит?, а також чи може кра?на досягти економ?чних усп?х?в, перестрибнувши через етап ?ндустр?ал?зац??. ? все це — доступною, подекуди жарт?вливою, мовою.??

强化干部思想淬炼、政治历练、实践锻炼、专业训练，对深化共产党执政规律、社会主义建设规律、人类社会发展规律的认识和探究具有重要意义。 本选题从历史的维度、时代的需要和个人的需求手，对加强干部思想淬炼、政治历练、实践锻炼、专业训练行理论探究和实践总结，全面系统深阐释习近平总书记关于加强干部思想淬炼、政治历练、实践锻炼、专业训练的重要论述。 《实践锻炼/高素质专业化干部队伍建设》包含“干部实践锻炼的渊源与重要意义”“中国共产党加强干部实践锻炼的历史程及启示”“新时代加强干部实践锻炼的基本任务”等内容。

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　　《你是这样的人——精神谱系的故事》一书从中国共产党成立至今的时间轴上，选择中国共产党人精神谱系中具有代表性的14个精神坐标，梳理每一种精神产生的时代背景和具体内涵，结合丰富鲜活的故事，让读者“亲历”中国共产党一路走来的历史，读懂中国共产党。

本书是一本关于战争起源的历史与理论相结合的著作。本书提出的问题是：为什么面临大规模常规战争前景的国家，有的选择攻，有的则反对攻？米尔斯海默研究了许多导致重大常规战争的危机，以解释威慑失败的原因。本书采用了历史案例的比较分析方法。作者在考察盟军和德国在1939-1940年间的决策时，分析了为什么盟军在宣战后没有首先攻德国，反过来，为什么德国人却攻了盟军。作者还关注诸如精确制导武器对常规威慑的影响，以及机动战与消耗战之类相对技术性的问题。

本书汇聚全市干部教育培训者和管理者的智慧，从理论纵横、实践创新、案例探究三个维度，对精准化展干部教育培训从理论探讨、培训方式方法、培训效果评估与成果运用及培训的保障机制行研究。

本研究是以恩格斯1842-1845年文献为对象所作的断代史研究。本研究所把握到的中心线索是：为何批判私有制——批判私有制的具体图景——如何消灭私有制。支配现实世界的原则并非自由理性的原则，而是利益原则。正是看到物质利益的强大力量以及它反自由平等的本质，恩格斯批判私有制，揭露其“美杜莎的怪脸”。在私有制的土壤上，社会的各个方面——政治制度、经济生活、科技发明、人的价值观以及人与人的关系都处于异化的状态。在此基础上，恩格斯把批判的锋芒聚焦于工人阶级状况。在揭露私有制的种种弊端之后，恩格斯为“真正的自由与真正的平等”寻求出路，他也把这一事业称为“寻求斯芬克斯谜语的谜底”。从主体力量、精神因素、根本动力和现实途径四个方面揭示了这一谜语的谜底。本研究在文本解读和思想阐释的基础上，详尽展现恩格斯早期文献的思想面貌、深邃意蕴、思想史意义和现实价值。

《诉即办的北京经验》一书以2019年以来北京市推行的“诉即办”改革实践作为研究对象，试图从“技艺—人工品”的哲学范式出发，建构一套理解其事实本质、观念认知、价值根基、内部运行、设计原理、驱动机制、外部影响和治理意蕴的本体论框架，探索基于首都实践的治理话语和学术体系的发展，推动首都治理体系和治理能力现代化。著作提出“诉即办”的本体可以划分为物理事实、分类事实和制度事实，其核心是以人民为中心，关键是发现问题、解决问题和主动治理，重是考评机制、评机制和“赛马机制”，特色是全治理主体参与、全过程闭环管理、全方位制度创新、全面城市体检，根本是党的领导、持续注意力分配和法治保障。

   《三十六计》是中国古代三十六个兵法策略，其名始于南北朝，成书于明清之际，编撰者不详。它是根据中国古代军事思想和丰富的斗争经验总结而成的兵书，是中华民族悠久非物质文化遗产之一。《三十六计》虽源于战争，但政界、商界亦可化而用之，适用性和实用性都很强，读之启迪心智。本书还增加了附录部分，由《百战奇略》《曾胡治兵语录》组成，二者在中国军事理论领域亦有相当高的地位，希冀汲取古人智慧，为当下所用。

《资本主义民主的批判与反思》一书以马克思和恩格斯对资本主义民主制的批判性反思为中心，收录了新世纪以来尤尔根?哈贝马斯、萨米尔?阿明等享誉世界的西方马克思主义研究者的成果。本书由马克思主义与民主、资本主义与民主、民主与价值、民主的未来四个部分构成。一是论述马克思和恩格斯的民主思想，包括从《莱茵报》时期到《资本论》时期等各个时期民主思想的要旨及连续性，对英、法、美等国19世纪的民主实践的评论，对资本主义议会民主之有限性和虚伪性的批判和对未来社会主义民主模式的构想，等等。二是国外学者对资本主义民主的批判性反思，包括运用马克思主义的分析框架，结合资本主义的新特和新变化，批判当代资本主义选举民主的本质及发展极限，分析资本主义、民主和选举三者之间的关系，等等。三是讨论民主的价值维度，即马克思主义本身的规范性维度和民主实践的内在关系，平等、正义、包容等如何成为扩展和深化民主实践的主要理念，其实际价值与融民主的模式。四是讨论民主的前景及可行性，在回溯近200年来的西方民主经验时，如何确定未来政治制度的变革方向，等等。

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