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  I Saw a Bird with Rain on Its Wing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min

  This is a love story.It is a semi-fictional story derived from actual circumstance and real events, mostly observed from a male perspective, but strongly driven by females. These events occurred during the feminist revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, which brutally took down many confused men and many unwary women as gender wars wrecked lives along the way.Admittedly, there were genuinely repressed women who were liberated as a result of that revolution, but it cannot be denied that there was a lot of collateral damage in the process. The fact is that war easily spills over onto non-combatants, leaving the dead, dying, and dismembered behind and forgotten. Innocents always suffer in cadence with the war cries and drum beats of zealots, don’t they?People, places, and situations are obfuscated here for the protection of all, but nonetheless they were real. War is hell - especially for innocents, but love conquers all. Love in all its myriad forms conquers all.This work is simultaneously a fictional autobiography, an apology, and a seething threat to those who harm children. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shannon Nicole Hamilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197921/bk_acx0_197921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Operation Valuable Fiend: The CIA's First Paramilitary Strike against the Iron Curtain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min

  In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment popular rebellion and detach Albania, the weakest of the Soviet satellites in Europe, from Moscow’s orbit. The operation resulted in dismal failure and was shut down by 1954. In Operation Valuable Fiend, Albert Lulushi gives the first full accounting of this CIA action, based on hundreds of declassified documents, memoirs, and recollections of key participants, including Albanian exiles recruited for missions and their Communist opponents. Up till now, the story of the operation has been obfuscated and even distorted. Some blamed the Soviet mole Kim Philby for sabotaging it; the communists credited the prowess of their secret police; and CIA memoirs were heavily sanitized. Lulushi documents a range of factors that led to the failure, from inexperienced CIA case officers outsmarted in spy-vs-spy games by their ruthless Stalinist opponents; to rivalries between branches of the CIA and between the agency and friendly intelligence services; and conflicts among anti-Communist factions that included Albania’s colorful exiled leader, King Zog. The book also shows how this operation served as the proving ground for techniques used in later CIA Cold War paramilitary actions - involving some of the same agency operatives - including the coup d’états in Iran and Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Conlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017808/bk_adbl_017808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Computer Science & Perl Programming (eBook, ePUB)

  In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine gave birth to both the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry contest, and remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development.Computer Science and Perl Programming is the first volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its 5 years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes. This volume has 70 articles devoted to hard-core computer science, advanced programming techniques, and the underlying mechanics of Perl.Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:Jeffrey Friedl on Understanding RegexesMark Jason Dominus on optimizing your Perl programs with MemoizationDamian Conway on ParsingTim Meadowcroft on integrating Perl with Microsoft OfficeLarry Wall on the culture of PerlWritten by 41 of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl.Other books tell you how to use Perl, but this book goes far beyond that: it shows you not only how to use Perl, but what you could use Perl for. This is more than just The Best of the Perl Journal -- in many ways, this is the best of Perl.

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