When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back to what he terms the 'mystical stance' - the aspect of human psychology that...

A richly illustrated publication about one of the best operational associations of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. At the turn of July and August, the division landed in Normandy as part of the 2nd Corps of the 1st Canadian Army. It fought at Falaise (August 8-21), liberated Axel and other Belgian and then Dutch towns: Baarle-Nassau, Alphen, Gilze. It fought to cross the Mark and...

Leverage the lethal combination of Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployment and management of Java applicationsKey Features:Master using Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and manage Java applications in a jiffLearn how to create your own Docker image and customize your own cluster using KubernetesEmpower the journey from development to production using this practical guide.Book...

Herman Pontzer's ground-breaking research has revealed how, contrary to received wisdom, exercise does not increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. In this book, he draws on twenty years of cutting-edge science to take a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume. Burn...

Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality. Overview Learn to leverage the power of Selenium WebDriver with simple examples that illustrate real world problems and their...

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched...

The world's leading programming author updates his internationally bestselling guide to Java, covering all the new features in Java SE 8. In Java: The Complete Reference, Ninth Edition, Herb Schildt uses the clear, concise, uncompromising style that has made the previous eight editions so successfu

With Smart Card Programming the reader will have the expert guidance he need to work with smart cards. The book offers a comprehensive guide, to the technological aspects related to smart cards, providing an high level overview of the technological panorama and giving an in-depth technical coverage about the related architectures, programming paradigms and APIs. The first part of the book...

Almost thirty years after the world was stunned by the shocking death of Pope John Paul I, journalist Sarah Monteiro finds an envelope stuffed in her mailbox. The contents hold the key to uncovering the truth about that mysterious death. Drawn into a vortex in which deadly mercenaries, crooked politicians, and princes of the Church itself have formed an alliance of deception, Sarah must...

Functiones et Approximatio, Commentarii Mathematici is a mathematical journal edited by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University since 1974. The journal publishes original papers in mathematics, with special attention to analysis (in a broad sense) and number theory.

A comprehensive guide for programming enthusiasts who wish to gain a firm command of the fundamentals and advanced Swift conceptsKey featuresSixth edition of this bestselling book, improved and updated to cover the latest version of the Swift 5.3 programming languageGet to grips with popular and modern design techniques to write easy-to-manage Swift codeUse core Swift features such as...

Con este manual práctico mantendremos la salud y la juventud del cuerpo gracias a los muchos ejercicios paso a paso para aprender a estirarnos con la técnica del Stretching, que mantendrá nuestra musculatura ágil y flexible.

Drugie wydanie tłumaczenia polskich ustaw podatkowych na język niemiecki. Książka zawiera tłumaczenia następujących aktów prawnych: Ustawa o podatku od spadków i darowizn; Ustawa o podatku od czynności cywilnoprawnych; Ustawy o podatkach i opłatach lokalnych; Ustawa o podatku akcyzowym. Tłumaczenie uwzględnia najnowsze zmiany do powyższych ustaw obowiązujące od 1 marca 2017...

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He...

Cette sœur acceptera-t-elle le marché risqué qu'on lui propose pour faire évader son frère de prison ? De quoi ce père sera-t-il capable pour sauver sa famille des quatre prédateurs qui se sont installés dans sa maison ? Comment cinq criminels – un pédophile, un assassin, un ancien légionnaire serbe, un kidnappeur et un braqueur – se retrouvent-ils dans une même histoire et pourquoi Coste...

Booker T. Washington was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, best known for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University. In My Larger Education, Washington writes on how he came by his positions on race relations describing the people who influenced him. Washington was constantly criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and...

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Що означає бути дівчиною-підлітком? Це не лише безтурботно й весело жити, а щодня шукати відповіді на важливі питання, розбиратися в емоціях і почуттях, налагоджувати стосунки з людьми, вчитися любити себе та інших, переживати всі падіння та злети дорослішання й робити помилки, які перетворяться на життєвий досвід. Саме тому Крістіна де Вітте створила «Посібник з виживання для...

Modern statistics deals with large and complex data sets, and consequently with models containing a large number of parameters. This book presents a detailed account of recently developed approaches, including the Lasso and versions of it for various models, boosting methods, undirected graphical modeling, and procedures controlling false positive selections. A special characteristic...