“…The great escape…”

“…The great escape…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Benjamin's emergence as an American lawyer and politician -- Slavery, succession and Benjamin's Confederate years -- Benjamin's exile and professional rebirth -- The rise and rise of Benjamin the barrister -- Concluding reflections -- Appendix 1: The great escape : Benjamin's flight into exile…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Concluding Reflections -- Appendix 1 – The Great Escape: Benjamin’s Flight into Exile -- Select Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Chinese Romanizations -- [1] Introduction -- [2] Fieldwork in Taiwan: Becoming a Little Chinese -- [3] An Island of Immigrants -- [4] The Changing Political Economy under the Nationalists -- [5] Working for a Living -- [6] Home and Family -- [7] Women and Men, Old and Young -- [8] Folk Religions, Old and New -- [9] Education, the Great Escape -- [10] Conclusions -- Source Materials on Taiwan -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Start and End of the LineCharacter Classes; Matching any one of several characters; Negated character classes; Matching Any Character with Dot; Alternation; Matching any one of several subexpressions; Ignoring Differences in Capitalization; Word Boundaries; In a Nutshell; Optional Items; Other Quantifiers: Repetition; Defined range of matches: intervals; Parentheses and Backreferences; The Great Escape; Expanding the Foundation; Linguistic Diversification; The Goal of a Regular Expression; A Few More Examples; Variable names; A string within double quotes; Dollar amount (with optional cents)…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; All the world's a stage; A winter wonderland; The great escape; Interlude: Finding images for free; 9 Art & design; Soft textured portrait; Perceptions of a distant sun; Hollywood glamour; Creating a wax seal; The Graphic Novel filter; Notebook sketching; Wanted: preferably alive; Rapid stained glass; Type-based art; Blueprint for design; Neon signs with layer styles; You spin me round; Saving files for the Internet; Making things move; Glossary; Downloadable content; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii About the Author xv CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 The Airplane Ticket Trade 1 The Bull Cycle 2 The Renegades 3 Claws of the Bear 3 Zugzwang 4 The Sceptics 5 A Sad Truth 5 Common Mistakes 6 Imprecise but Effective 7 Hedging Against Implausible Scenarios 8 A Black Swan in Correlation 8 Taking Profits 8 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9 The Great Escape 9 Having a Plan 10 Trend Following as a Defensive Strategy 11 Taking the Offensive 12 The Pre-Conditions for Market Crises 12 Banks: The Great Multiplier 13 A Change in Risk Regime 13 CHAPTER 2 "Safe" Havens and the Second Leg Down 14 The Matterhorn 15 Mrs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Choosing Go -- Concurrency and goroutines -- Concurrency -- Goroutines -- CSP-inspired model -- Share by communication -- Interacting with the OS -- Tooling -- go build -- go test -- go run -- go vet -- go fmt -- Cross-platform development with Go -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Refreshing Concurrency and Parallelism -- Technical requirements -- Understanding goroutines -- WaitGroup -- Changing shared state -- Managing data races -- Atomic operations -- Mutexes -- Making sense of channels -- How to use channels -- An unbuffered channel -- Buffered channels -- The guarantee of delivery -- Latency -- State and signaling -- State -- Signaling -- Choosing your synchronization mechanism -- Summary -- Part 2: Interation with the OS -- Chapter 3: Understanding System Calls -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to system calls -- The catalog of services and identification -- Information exchange -- The syscall package -- A closer look at the os and x/sys packages -- x/sys package - low-level system calls -- Operating system functionality -- Portability -- Everyday system calls -- Tracing system calls -- Tracing specific system calls -- Developing and testing a CLI program -- Standard streams -- File descriptors -- Creating a CLI application -- Redirections and standard streams -- Making it testable -- Summary -- Chapter 4: File and Directory Operations -- Technical requirements -- Identifying unsafe file and directory permissions -- Files and permissions -- Scanning directories in Go -- Understanding file paths -- Using the path/filepath package -- Traversing directories -- Symbolic links and unlinking files -- Symbolic links - the shortcut of the file world -- Unlinking files - the great escape act…”