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Joining the Dots

An Unauthorised Biography of Pravin Gordhan

By: Jonathan Ancer,Chris Whitfield

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Joining the Dots

An Unauthorised Biography of Pravin Gordhan

By: Jonathan Ancer,Chris Whitfield

PRAVIN GORDHAN has been at the centre of many of the political storms that have torn through South Africa's political landscape. He has been investigated by the Hawks, fired as finance minister, accused of running a 'rogue unit' at SARS and come up against the public protector, to name a few. Seasoned journalists Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield take a magnifying glass to someone at the centre of this tumultuous period to try to understand the man behind the public image. They go back to Durban in 1949, when Gordhan was born, tracing the significant events and influences that shaped his life and prompted him to become involved in politics as a pharmacy student. The authors interview former fellow activists to build a picture of the role Gordhan played in the struggle, including his detention and torture. It was during this time that he worked closely with Jacob Zuma, the man who would become president and Gordhan's nemesis and, on the back of a bogus intelligence report, fire him as finance minister. The book examines why President Cyril Ramaphosa's right-hand man has been dragged into major controversies and made enemies such as public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Julius Malema and many of those associated with corruption. Joining the Dots is an in-depth, insightful, gripping and satisfying read about a man who found the courage to stand up to the dark forces of state capture.

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1776191064

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BULLSH!T

50 Fibs That Made South Africa

By: Jonathan Ancer

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BULLSH!T

50 Fibs That Made South Africa

By: Jonathan Ancer

An outrageous miscellany of serious and light-hearted lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tells the tall tale of South Africa. The fibs come thick and fast, like a burst sewerage pipe: • Why everything we've learnt about Shaka Zulu, 'Africa's Napoleon', is a pack of lies. • Back in the darkest of ages (the 1970s!), citizens were told that there were satanic messages if you played some of The Beatles songs backwards. • National icon Hansie Cronje was a paragon of virtue, and integrity ... until he wasn't. • President Nelson Mandela told us that we, as a nation, were 'special'. Turns out we aren't. Whether a fabulous fib, an artful con, a doctor's spin, or simply a bald-faced lie, there's something for everyone.

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1776193121

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9781776193127

SRE with Java Microservices

By: Jonathan Schneider

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SRE with Java Microservices

By: Jonathan Schneider

In a microservices architecture, the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. But in practice, individual microservices can inadvertently impact others and alter the end user experience. Effective microservices architectures require standardization on an organizational level with the help of a platform engineering team. This practical book provides a series of progressive steps that platform engineers can apply technically and organizationally to achieve highly resilient Java applications. Author Jonathan Schneider covers many effective SRE practices from companies leading the way in microservices adoption. You’ll examine several patterns discovered through much trial and error in recent years, complete with Java code examples. Chapters are organized according to specific patterns, including: Application metrics: Monitoring for availability with Micrometer Debugging with observability: Logging and distributed tracing; failure injection testing Charting and alerting: Building effective charts; KPIs for Java microservices Safe multicloud delivery: Spinnaker, deployment strategies, and automated canary analysis Source code observability: Dependency management, API utilization, and end-to-end asset inventory Traffic management: Concurrency of systems; platform, gateway, and client-side load balancing

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O'Reilly Media

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149207389X

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Wellness Counseling

A Holistic Approach to Prevention and Intervention

By: Jonathan H. Ohrt,Philip B. Clarke,Abigail H. Conley

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Wellness Counseling

A Holistic Approach to Prevention and Intervention

By: Jonathan H. Ohrt,Philip B. Clarke,Abigail H. Conley

This innovative text presents a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical support for a wellness approach to counseling with current techniques for client assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention. The authors provide holistic strategies for wellness promotion with children, adolescents, and young, midlife, and older adults, as well as in counseling with groups, couples, and families. Each chapter includes reflection questions, learning activities, and resources to deepen readers’ understanding of the content and application to practice. Wellness boosters offer quick methods for clients and counselors to increase their domain-specific and overall well-being. In addition, experienced counselors share their personal experiences implementing wellness interventions in "Practitioner Spotlight" vignettes. A chapter on counselor self-care completes the book. Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com. To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA website Reproduction requests for material from boks published by ACA should be directed to publications@counseling.org

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119535344

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9781119535348

Distributed Tracing in Practice

Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices

By: Austin Parker,Daniel Spoonhower,Jonathan Mace,Ben Sigelman,Rebecca Isaacs

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Distributed Tracing in Practice

Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices

By: Austin Parker,Daniel Spoonhower,Jonathan Mace,Ben Sigelman,Rebecca Isaacs

Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications—particularly those that use microservice architectures. There’s just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be. With this guide, you’ll learn what distributed tracing is and how to use it to understand the performance and operation of your software. Key players at LightStep and other organizations walk you through instrumenting your code for tracing, collecting the data that your instrumentation produces, and turning it into useful operational insights. If you want to implement distributed tracing, this book tells you what you need to know. You’ll learn: The pieces of a distributed tracing deployment: instrumentation, data collection, and analysis Best practices for instrumentation: methods for generating trace data from your services How to deal with (or avoid) overhead using sampling and other techniques How to use distributed tracing to improve baseline performance and to mitigate regressions quickly Where distributed tracing is headed in the future

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O'Reilly Media

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149205660X

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Poetic Injustice

A True Story of Forbidden Love

By: Jonathan Sure

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Poetic Injustice

A True Story of Forbidden Love

By: Jonathan Sure

A true story with names and details altered, Poetic Injustice is a tale of romance between a therapist and his patient resulting in profound insights that challenge almost all objectives of modern day therapy. Jonathan Sure a seasoned therapist intuitively aware of projected feelings in transference and counter-transference, is nonetheless lured into an intimate relationship with his patient, Kulai and finds himself drowning in an abyss of confusion, submission, and obsession. Feeling he is on the verge of healing a very complex case he goes beyond the boundaries of his profession in an attempt to penetrate and heal the soul of Kulai. But Mr. Sure realizes he is missing something, something he intuitively knows may be very important to this case. Does Kulai, a seemingly innocence patient, have a dark history that he is unaware of? Or has Mr. Sure lost touch with his own alter ego? There is an unexpected ending to this drama, and Mr. Sure comes to realize the true nature behind all human behavior as well as the key to healing. Mr. Sure explains his new found knowledge and teaches very simple techniques to the reader, which he believes hold the keys to healing and which he also believes have evaded almost all therapists in the field.

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Balboa Press

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Clinical Investigations at a Glance

By: Jonathan Gleadle,Jordan Li,Tuck Yong

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Clinical Investigations at a Glance

By: Jonathan Gleadle,Jordan Li,Tuck Yong

Clinical Investigations at a Glance The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners, for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations. Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond. Everything you need to know about Clinical Investigations... at a Glance! Clinical Investigations at a Glance provides an up-to-date, evidence-based overview of diagnostic investigations, looking at their choice, importance and interpretation for commonly presenting symptoms and conditions. Designed to help develop the evidence-based use of investigations and interpret results properly, the book provides a unique perspective on many critical issues in medical testing, with the aim of improving diagnostic accuracy and reducing unnecessary tests or harm. Clinical Investigations at a Glance is structured in three parts: an overview of tests; common presentations (such as chest pain, nausea and vomiting, weight loss and anaemia); and conditions organized by body system, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and nephrology. Key features include: How to interpret investigations, using high quality illustrations to compare ‘normal’ and ‘diseased’ results Evidence-based, including references How to select the most appropriate investigation, the accuracy of tests and how to manage incidental findings For more information on the complete range of Wiley medical student and junior doctor publishing, please visit: www.wileymedicaleducation.com To receive automatic updates on Wiley books and journals, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email All content reviewed by students for students Wiley Medical Education books are designed exactly for their intended audience. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind. If you would like to be one of our student reviewers, go to www.reviewmedicalbooks.com to find out more. This title is also available as an e-book. For more details, please see www.wiIey.com/buy/9781118759325

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John Wiley & Sons

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111875932X

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9781118759325

Essential Developmental Biology

By: Jonathan M. W. Slack

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Essential Developmental Biology

By: Jonathan M. W. Slack

Essential Developmental Biology is a comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to all aspects of developmental biology. Written in a clear and accessible style, the third edition of this popular textbook has been expanded and updated In addition, an accompanying website provides instructional materials for both student and lecturer use, including animated developmental processes, a photo gallery of selected model organisms, and all artwork in downloadable format. With an emphasis throughout on the evidence underpinning the main conclusions, this book is an essential text for both introductory and more advanced courses in developmental biology. Shortlisted for the Society of Biology Book Awards 2013 in the Undergraduate Textbook category. Reviews of the Second Edition: "The second edition is a must have for anyone interested in development biology. New findings in hot fields such as stem cells, regeneration, and aging should make it attractive to a wide readership. Overall, the book is concise, well structured, and illustrated. I can highly recommend it." —Peter Gruss, Max Planck Society "I have always found Jonathan Slack's writing thoughtful, provocative, and engaging, and simply fun to read. This effort is no exception. Every student of developmental biology should experience his holistic yet analytical view of the subject." —Margaret Saha, College of William & Mary

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118387600

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9781118387603

Betrayal

The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies

By: Jonathan Ancer

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Betrayal

The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies

By: Jonathan Ancer

What does it take to deceive those closest to you? How do you lead a double life and not lose yourself? Is there ever a point of return? These are the themes - and more - that Jonathan Ancer explores as he tells the tales of some of South Africa's most unusual and successful spies: from the navy superspy on the Russian payroll to the party girl who fell in love with Cuba, from the accidental mole in the heart of Pretoria's war on the frontline states to the idealistic students used and abused in apartheid's intelligence war. Their journeys into the shadow world of espionage raise questions abo.

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0624083896

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9780624083894

Annual Review of Public Health

By: Jonathan E. Fielding

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Annual Review of Public Health

By: Jonathan E. Fielding

Presents 24 articles discussing a variety of issues in public health related to epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, public health practice, behavior, and health services. Some of the topics discusses include the politics and policies related to youth access to tobacco; environmental risk factors in female breast cancer; chemoprevention of lung cancer; evaluating the cost-effectiveness of clinical and public health measures; preventing youth violence; prevention of bicycle-related injuries; mental health and managed care; organizational diversification in American hospitals; strategies to reduce driving under the influence of alcohol; and public health in Central and Eastern Europe and the role of environmental pollution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0824327195

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Hope for Families of Children with Cancer

By: Lynda T. Young,Jonathan Ward

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Hope for Families of Children with Cancer

By: Lynda T. Young,Jonathan Ward

I m sorry to tell you this your child has cancer. Each year in America those devastating words thrust parents of more than 12,000 children and adolescents into a frightening, dark tunnel dramatically changing the dynamics of each family. Because childhood cancer attacks quickly and unexpectedly, parents reel, bombarded with information regarding treatments, tests and decisions as parents echo, I ve never felt so alone. I feel like I m in a fog. From the initial diagnosis and throughout the daunting journey the twelve chapters and resources in Hope for Families of Children with Cancer weave advice, support and hope from fellow travelers and professionals who come alongside through encouraging short stories, refreshing helpful hints and inspiring scriptures and prayers. Many weary parents pull apart as communication breaks down sometimes far apart. An added study, You-niquely Made helps family members appreciate different personalities and methods of coping. Overwhelmed families find comfort and courage as writers deal with the struggles parents face balancing needs of their child; family ( the set-aside spouses and the invisible ones siblings); and self the caregiver the new normal of childhood cancer.

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0979780012

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Joining the Dots

An Unauthorised Biography of Pravin Gordhan

By: Jonathan Ancer,Chris Whitfield

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Joining the Dots

An Unauthorised Biography of Pravin Gordhan

By: Jonathan Ancer,Chris Whitfield

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Joining the Dots

Joining the Dots

BULLSH!T

BULLSH!T

SRE with Java Microservices

SRE with Java Microservices

Wellness Counseling

Wellness Counseling

Distributed Tracing in Practice

Distributed Tracing in Practice

Poetic Injustice

Poetic Injustice

Clinical Investigations at a Glance

Clinical Investigations at a Glance

Essential Developmental Biology

Essential Developmental Biology

Betrayal

Betrayal

Annual Review of Public Health

Annual Review of Public Health

Hope for Families of Children with Cancer

Hope for Families of Children with Cancer

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