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Yashavant Kanetkar is an Indian computer science author, known for his books on programming languages. He has authored several books on C , C++ , VC++ , C# , .NET , DirectX and COM programming.
[3] [4] This book won numerous awards, including the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. Africanist René Lemarchand criticizes the book: What is missing from Gourevitch's account is the how and why of the killings.
Written before her only other published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Go Set a Watchman was initially promoted as a sequel by its publishers. It is now accepted that it was a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, with many passages in that book being used again. [2] [3] [4]
Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar (25 November 1872 – 26 August 1948) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, British IndiaIndia.George calls him "a prominent lieutenant of Lokmanya Tilak".
The epigraph of the work is "foederis aequas / dicamus leges" ("Let us set equal terms for the truce") (Virgil, Aeneid XI.321–22). The stated aim of The Social Contract is to determine whether there can be a legitimate political authority, since people's interactions he saw at his time seemed to put them in a state far worse than the good one ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its release, and it has become a classic of modern American literature.
Let Us Continue is a speech that 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson delivered to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. The almost 25-minute speech is considered one of the most important in his political career.
This fungus was unintentionally imported to the US by humans. [34] Kolbert then explains that global trade and travel are creating a virtual "Pangaea", in which species of all kinds are being redistributed beyond historical geographic barriers. This furthers the first chapter's idea that invasive species are a mechanism of extinction.