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Arming America through the Centuries

War, Business, and Building a National Security State

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling

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Arming America through the Centuries

War, Business, and Building a National Security State

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling

While many associate the concept commonly referred to as the “military-industrial complex” with President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address, the roots of it existed two hundred years earlier. This concept, as Benjamin Franklin Cooling writes, was “part of historical lore” as a burgeoning American nation discovered the inextricable relationship between arms and the State. In Arming America through the Centuries, Cooling examines the origins and development of the military-industrial complex (MIC) over the course of American history. He argues that the evolution of America’s military-industrial-business-political experience is the basis for a contemporary American Sparta. Cooling explores the influence of industry on security, the increasing prevalence of outsourcing, ever-present economic and political influence, and the evolving nature of modern warfare. He connects the budding military-industrial relations of the colonial era and Industrial Revolution to their formal interdependence during the Cold War down to the present-day resurrection of Great Power competition. Across eight chronological chapters, Cooling weaves together threads of industry, finance, privatization, appropriations, and technology to create a rich historical tapestry of US national defense in one comprehensive volume. Integrating information from both recent works as well as canonical, older sources, Cooling’s ambitious single-volume synthesis is a uniquely accessible and illuminating survey not only for scholars and policymakers but for students and general readers as well.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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162190587X

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Adverbials in Use

From Predicative to Discourse Functions

By: Laure Sarda,Shirley Carter-Thomas,Benjamin Fagard,Michel Charolles

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Adverbials in Use

From Predicative to Discourse Functions

By: Laure Sarda,Shirley Carter-Thomas,Benjamin Fagard,Michel Charolles

Contributions in this volume will lead to a better understanding of the complex interplay of competing motivations affecting the use of adverbials in...

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Presses universitaires de Louvain

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2875583069

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Paediatric Orthopaedics

A System of Decision-Making, Second Edition

By: Benjamin Joseph,Selvadurai Nayagam,Randall Loder,Ian Torode

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Paediatric Orthopaedics

A System of Decision-Making, Second Edition

By: Benjamin Joseph,Selvadurai Nayagam,Randall Loder,Ian Torode

Mastering the art and science of paediatric orthopaedics entails the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, the development of surgical dexterity and learning the process of clinical decision-making. Of these three components, clinical decision-making is arguably the most important.Featuring a practical focus, Paediatric Orthopaedics: A System of De

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CRC Press

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0429586442

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Militant Minority

British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

By: Benjamin Isitt

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Militant Minority

British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

By: Benjamin Isitt

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left. In the late 1950s, half of B.C.'s workers belonged to unions, but the promise of postwar collective bargaining spawned disillusionment tied to inflation and automation. A new working class that was educated, white collar, and increasingly rebellious shifted the locus of activism from the Communist Party and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to the newly formed New Democratic Party, which was elected in 1972. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442641940

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Boston Children's Illustrated Tips and Tricks in Pediatric Orthopaedic Reconstructive Surgery

By: Peter M Waters,Benjamin J. Shore,Daniel J. Hedequist

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Boston Children's Illustrated Tips and Tricks in Pediatric Orthopaedic Reconstructive Surgery

By: Peter M Waters,Benjamin J. Shore,Daniel J. Hedequist

Originating from the esteemed Boston Children’s Hospital, this new volume in the Illustrated Tips and Tricks series provides succinct, precise information from a wide range of experts on tackling technical problems in pediatric orthopaedic reconstructive surgery. Edited by Drs. Peter M. Waters, Benjamin J. Shore, and Daniel J. Hedequist, this volume presents practical, hands-on content gained from years of surgical experience, including nuggets of wisdom unique to particular institutions. Drawings, operative photos, and videos are used liberally throughout the book to illustrate surgical techniques and provide a handy visual complement to the text.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975103890

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The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook

Reverse Disease, Treat Pain, and Enhance Your Wellness with Medical Marijuana and CBD

By: Benjamin Caplan

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The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook

Reverse Disease, Treat Pain, and Enhance Your Wellness with Medical Marijuana and CBD

By: Benjamin Caplan

Forget everything you think you know about cannabis—and embrace an all-natural therapy for treating both immediate and long-term conditions. This is the science-backed, doctor-approved guide to cannabis for adults who are serious about improving their health. The medical benefits of cannabis have never been clearer. But the explosion of the cannabis marketplace has left behind the people who can benefit most: adults looking for trustworthy care. Now, from Dr. Benjamin Caplan, the authoritative face of cannabis medicine, comes The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook, the ultimate resource for navigating cannabis treatments. Even with an abundance of patients eager for guidance, there is scarce access to reliable cannabis-focused medical care and information. Doctors typically offer little help, despite the wide range of benefits cannabis products can provide—particularly to older patients and those with chronic illnesses. As cannabis often has a ripple effect, addressing multiple issues simultaneously, it can be life-changing for anyone who suffers from multi-system health concerns, enhancing or even replacing many of their current medications. Dr. Caplan is a licensed, board-certified Family Physician who has overseen care of over 250,000 patients with guided cannabis care. In this new book, he explains clearly how cannabis works, which products are best for specific illnesses, typical dosages to use, and more—all in an easy-to-understand format to make the process as straightforward and accessible as possible. The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook covers how safe cannabis use can help individuals manage the symptoms of a variety of common conditions, such as: Cognitive decline Cancer Chronic Pain Depression Diabetes Insomnia Headaches The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook lets readers address their ailments with customized cannabis treatment recommendations. With increasingly safe and legal access to medical marijuana products, there has never been a better time to take advantage of legitimate and effective cannabis medicine—and take control of your health in the process.

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BenBella Books

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1637742681

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Making the Case

Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument

By: Kathryn M. Olson,Michael William Pfau,Benjamin Ponder,Kirt H. Wilson

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Making the Case

Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument

By: Kathryn M. Olson,Michael William Pfau,Benjamin Ponder,Kirt H. Wilson

In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who’s who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the nineteenth century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama.

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MSU Press

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1609173449

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Shaping a Modern Ethics

The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism

By: Benjamin Bennett

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Shaping a Modern Ethics

The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism

By: Benjamin Bennett

Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which presupposes just such a universal ethics. This basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of Jürgen Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical. Must we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method? By way of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can only be approached as a collection of instances of a modern ethical “we”, three key examples of which Bennett explores in this book: - The “we” of irony, whose speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in their actual utterances - The insistent exclusive “we” of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a clear intellectual identity, comparable to the “we” of Jews in the diaspora - The “we” of feminism, a separate “we” from that embracing people who happen to have been born women.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350122866

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Kellogg's Six-hour Day

By: Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

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Kellogg's Six-hour Day

By: Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

On December 1, 1930, W K Kellogg replaced the three daily eight-hour shifts in his cereal plant with four six-hour shifts. By adding on a new shift he created jobs. When World War II ended, Kellogg's managers abandoned the six-hour shift and began to define progress as more work for more people. This book documents the struggle of workers.

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Temple University Press

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1566394481

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Work Without End

Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work

By: Benjamin Hunnicutt

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Work Without End

Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work

By: Benjamin Hunnicutt

Tracing the political, intellectual, and social dialogues that changed the American concept of progress in terms of labor.

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1439906998

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Orthopedic Urgencies and Emergencies, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

By: James H. Calandruccio,Benjamin J. Grear,Benjamin M. Mauck,Jeffrey R. Sawyer,Patrick C. Toy,John C. Weinlein

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Orthopedic Urgencies and Emergencies, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

By: James H. Calandruccio,Benjamin J. Grear,Benjamin M. Mauck,Jeffrey R. Sawyer,Patrick C. Toy,John C. Weinlein

This issue of Orthopedic Clinics will focus on orthopedic urgencies and emergencies. Articles to be included will cover pediatrics, trauma, upper extremity, adult reconstruction, and foot and ankle.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323448704

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Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 7 - Self-Improving Systems

By: Benjamin Goldberg

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Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 7 - Self-Improving Systems

By: Benjamin Goldberg

This book on self-improving systems is the seventh in a planned series of books that examine key topics (e.g., learner modeling, instructional strategies, authoring, domain modeling, assessment, impact on learning, team tutoring, self-improving systems, data visualization) in intelligent tutoring system (ITS) design. This book focuses on self-improving systems. The discussion chapters in this book examine topics through the lens of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT). GIFT is a modular, service-oriented architecture created to reduce the cost and skill required to author ITSs, distribute ITSs, manage instruction within ITSs, and evaluate the effect of ITS technologies on learning, performance, retention, transfer of skills, and other instructional outcomes.

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U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Soldier Center

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099772577X

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9780997725773

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

By: Benjamin W. Eidem,Frank Cetta,Patrick W. O'Leary

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Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

By: Benjamin W. Eidem,Frank Cetta,Patrick W. O'Leary

Written by expert pediatric cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic and other leading institutions, this book provides a comprehensive review of echocardiographic evaluation and diagnosis of congenital heart disease in pediatric and adult patients. Coverage includes advanced techniques such as tissue Doppler, three-dimensional echocardiography, intracardiac and intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Chapters provide complete information on the full range of abnormalities and on evaluation of valve prostheses and the transplanted heart. More than 1,300 illustrations, including over 900 in full color, complement the text. Purchase includes online access to AVI clips developed at the Mayo Clinic of the congenital-specific lesions illustrated in the book.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451148380

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By Water Beneath the Walls

The Rise of the Navy SEALs

By: Benjamin H. Milligan

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By Water Beneath the Walls

The Rise of the Navy SEALs

By: Benjamin H. Milligan

A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to elite, go-anywhere commandos—as told by one of their own. “Deeply researched, well organized, and incredibly engaging . . . This is our legacy with all the warts, the challenges, and the heroics in one concise volume.”—Admiral William H. McRaven, #1 New York Times bestselling author and former commander, United States Special Operations Command How did the US Navy—the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans—ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa? Behind the SEALs’ improbable rise lies the most remarkable underdog story in American military history—and in these pages, former Navy SEAL Benjamin H. Milligan captures it as never before. Told through the eyes of remarkable leaders and racing from one longshot, hair-curling raid to the next, By Water Beneath the Walls is the tale of the unit’s heroic naval predecessors, and the evolution of the SEALs themselves. But it’s also the story of the forging of American special operations as a whole—and how the SEALs emerged from the fires as America’s first permanent commando force when again and again some other unit seemed predestined to seize that role. Here Milligan thrillingly captures the outsize feats of the SEALs’ frogmen forefathers in World War II, the Korean War, and elsewhere, even as he plunges us into the second front of interservice rivalries and personal ambition that shaped the SEALs’ evolution. In equally vivid, masterful detail, he chronicles key early missions undertaken by units like the Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and Green Berets, showing us how these fateful, bloody moments helped create the modern American commando—even as they opened up pivotal opportunities for the Navy. Finally, he takes us alongside as the SEALs at last seize the mantle of commando raiding, and discover the missions of capture/kill and counterterrorism that would define them for decades to come. Now required reading throughout the US special operations community, By Water Beneath the Walls is an essential history of the SEAL teams, a crackling account of desperate last stands and unforgettable characters accomplishing the impossible—and a riveting epic of the dawn of American special operations.

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Random House

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0553392212

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Downsizing Democracy

How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public

By: Matthew A. Crenson,Benjamin Ginsberg

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Downsizing Democracy

How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public

By: Matthew A. Crenson,Benjamin Ginsberg

Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest groups dominating state and federal decision-making. At a time when an American's investment in the democratic process has largely been reduced to an annual contribution to a political party or organization, Downsizing Democracy offers a critical reassessment of American democracy.

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JHU Press

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142143735X

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An Introduction to Gravity Modification

A Guide to Using Laithwaite's and Podkletnov's Experiments and the Physics of Forces for Empirical Results

By: Benjamin T. Solomon

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An Introduction to Gravity Modification

A Guide to Using Laithwaite's and Podkletnov's Experiments and the Physics of Forces for Empirical Results

By: Benjamin T. Solomon

An Introduction to Gravity Modification, Second Edition is the result of a 12-year (1999-2011) study into the theoretical and technological feasibility of gravity modification, that presents the new physics of forces by replacing relativistic, quantum and string theories with process models. Gravity, electromagnetism and mechanical forces are unified by Ni fields, and obey a common equation g = (tau)c DEGREES2. Gravity modification is defined as the modification of the strength and direction of the gravitational acceleration without the use of mass as the primary source of this modification, in local space time. It consists of field modulation and field vectoring. Field modulation is the ability to attenuate or amplify a force field. Field vectoring is the ability to change the direction of this force field . This book reaches out to a wider audience, and not just to the theoretical physicist; to engineers and technologist who have the funding to experiment; just as Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson experimented with the Holmdel Horn Antenna and discovered the microwave background radiation. The mathematics is easier than that taught in theoretical physics and therefore accessible to a wider audience such as these engineers and technolog

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Universal-Publishers

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1612330894

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Developing the Naval Mind

By: Benjamin F Armstrong

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Developing the Naval Mind

By: Benjamin F Armstrong

Throughout the history of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, leading officers and strategists have advocated for formal colleges and schools for naval officers but have also made the case that true naval professionalism requires a career-long dedication to learning and to self-improvement. This was the impetus behind the very founding of the U.S. Naval Institute by officers who believed that the Navy's lack of support for their education meant they needed to create their own organization for self-study and cooperative learning. Naval luminaries like admirals William Sims and Ernest King continued to campaign for self-study and the personal pursuit of professional knowledge during the twentieth century, distributing lists of suggested books for officers to read and promoting their ideas widely through speeches and published works. While recommending that officers read broadly in pursuit of individual knowledge is an important part of creating a truly educated and professional Fleet and Fleet Marine Force, it is also important for leaders in the sea services to offer mentorship and create opportunities for discourse that encourages group learning. Developing the Naval Mind serves as a how-to manual and syllabus for leaders to create and lead wardroom, ready room, and work center discussion groups across the fleet to create a more educated and professionally engaged Navy and Marine Corps.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682477355

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The Well-Grounded Java Developer

Vital techniques of Java 7 and polyglot programming

By: Benjamin Evans,Martijn Verburg

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The Well-Grounded Java Developer

Vital techniques of Java 7 and polyglot programming

By: Benjamin Evans,Martijn Verburg

Summary The Well-Grounded Java Developer offers a fresh and practical look at new Java 7 features, new JVM languages, and the array of supporting technologies you need for the next generation of Java-based software. About the Book The Well-Grounded Java Developer starts with thorough coverage of Java 7 features like try-with-resources and NIO.2. You'll then explore a cross-section of emerging JVM-based languages, including Groovy, Scala, and Clojure. You will find clear examples that are practical and that help you dig into dozens of valuable development techniques showcasing modern approaches to the dev process, concurrency, performance, and much more. Written for readers familiar with Java. No experience with Java 7 or new JVM languages required. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside New Java 7 features Tutorials on Groovy, Scala, and Clojure Discovering multicore processing and concurrency Functional programming with new JVM languages Modern approaches to testing, build, and CI Table of Contents PART 1 DEVELOPING WITH JAVA 7 Introducing Java 7 New I/O PART 2 VITAL TECHNIQUES Dependency Injection Modern concurrency Class files and bytecode Understanding performance tuning PART 3 POLYGLOT PROGRAMMING ON THE JVM Alternative JVM languages Groovy: Java's dynamic friend Scala: powerful and concise Clojure: safer programming PART 4 CRAFTING THE POLYGLOT PROJECT Test-driven development Build and continuous integration Rapid web development Staying well-grounded

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