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The first English-language anthropological monograph on any of Central Africa's Mangbetu. Meegye-Mangbetu death compensations as intergroup rites of passage, perpetual alliance thereby possible among structurally-hostile groups. A scholarly-popular dissertation revision with fun asides, over 320 photos. Foreword by Mangbetu scholar Stefano Allovio.

Learn the computer science foundations you need to jump start your career. New second edition with expanded content and new chapters on machine learning, deep learning and AI & LLMs. Thirteen chapters covering all the career-essential topics. Perfect for self-taught developers or anyone who wants to really understand how computers work.

Learn how to analyze big datasets in a distributed environment without being bogged down by theoretical topics. The API is vast and other learning tools make the mistake of trying to cover everything. This book only covers what you need to know, so you can explore other parts of the API on your own!

A small collection of short stories, including a murderous psycho, a weird Déjà vu encounter and others!

What if caring is the stepping stone for true leadership?

People ask me all the time what I think the American dream is, and I will always say being your own boss. Everyone wants to work for themselves. Anyone who has ever worked at a job thinks about how great it would be to be the boss. Being the boss is great but it’s not always fun being a business owner has its challenges. I think when people think of being the boss, they think of all the glory that comes with it, making their own hours, not answering to anyone. I am here to tell you that if that’s what you think being self-employed is like, you are dead wrong. Every customer you deal with is your boss; they are spending their hard-earned money for your product or service you have to make them happy so you get their return business.

A Little Book of Comfort Verses.

Both new and skilled product managers often ask themselves where their role came from, especially because it has certain overlaps with several other organizational functions. Even though there is not a definitive history of product management, it is useful to try to find the roots of the phenomenon and how this position evolved throughout time.

Writing good services in Go can be a challenge - you have to write out your database structures, unit and integration testing with CI to see what breaks, keep them updated with migrations, define your API endpoints and routing, update your documentation - all of these things keep you from building your service. Let's be smart about it.

The Death Valley National Park is famously known for its extremes. But despite the hot and dry environment, one cannot help getting mesmerized by the magnificence and raw natural beauty of the vast landscape.

Modern event-driven architecture has become synonymous with Apache Kafka. This book is a complete, A-Z guide to Kafka. From introductory to advanced concepts, it equips you with the necessary tools and insights, complete with code and worked examples, to navigate its complex ecosystem and exploit Kafka to its full potential.

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The National Park of American Samoa not only gives you the chance to connect with nature, it also gives you insight into one of the oldest cultures. The Samoan culture is said to be the oldest subset of the Polynesian culture.

The Badlands National Park is not only a site to learn; there are various recreational activities that the national park offers. From camping, biking and picnicking to the various day hiking trails, you can spend an entire day – or days – at the national park and still not get bored.

Spread over 1,252 square miles, the Big Bend National Park is one of the largest parks in the USA. The beauty of this park is that its untamed wilderness presently is very similar to its original landscape. The most well-known feature of this park is the Rio Grande River that acts as a boundary between Mexico and the USA.