Daniel C Price (34 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Mount Olive, NC: Cryptic Publications. Fine. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Single Issue magazine. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.25" x 8.25"], saddle-stapled, 56 pages collecting 4 stories, illustrated, ethergrams [letter column]. Fine copy.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages whb3.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed on page facing the title page, "For S___ & K____, from their friend, J.C.". Presumably, this is J.C. Martin, who co-edited the book. Very Good. Some foxing to top edge of textblock and more faintly, to the front endpages. Unmarked but for author (editor's) inscription. 149 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 294 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.74 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback with dust jacket. No marks and no writings.

Condition: New.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Excellent Paperback Condition. No creases, marks, scuffs. Do you dare unearth the secrets of cosmic horror? Within these pages lie the horrifying resolutions to mysteries that have long haunted the devotees of H.P. Lovecraft. The infamous Lovecraft did his best to warn his readers of the unspeakable abominations lurking at the edges of our cosmos, awaiting the opportunity to slaughter mankind. Although Lovecraft died unexpectedly before he could tell all, another voice has taken up the crusade where Lovecraft left off, daring to provide answers vital to humanity's survival. Lovecraft fans will be thrilled by a beautifully illustrated novella, short stories and even essays contained therein, all of them expounding on the work of the Master of Supernatural Horror. Herein resides the terrible secrets of the unholy "crawling chaos", an intergalactic monstrosity that declared war on 10th Dynasty Egypt, intent on destroying mankind and its Gods as well. Learn the truth about the alien horror that stalked the hills of Dunwich and who really was responsible for that interdimensional assault. Uncover the sinister fate of the half-human traveler who was so naive that it never occurred to him that his fellow Deep Ones might view him as a traitor around Innsmouth. And find out how the infamous "Outsider" came to be such a hideous outcast. The key to all this and more lies in yuor hands for the very first time. Introduction: "Howard and Frank and Stephen and Stan - Think of the Possibilities" by Richard Lupoff. Author's preface and acknowledgements. Story notes by Robert M. Price. STORIES: "Their Love of Craft", "All Things Come". "Live Bait", "The Insider", "The Black Brat of Dunwich", "An End To Worry", "The Starston Text", "Nyarlatophis, A Fable of Ancient Egypt", "Double Screecher". POEMS: "Old Man Cthulhu", "Dining With Ghouls or Skeleton Gelatin", "Perpetuation", "Friends in the Ends", "Necro Feel Ya", "Tentaclaws Is Coming (Undrowned)". "In The Mountains of Madness", "Night Gaunts", "Wilbur's Helpless Brother". NON-FICTION ARTICLES: "Lovecraft & 'The Evil Dead'", "Howard Phillips Wahteley, An Observation". Hutchinson, Dale L.; Koszowski, Allen; Ross, Daniel Alan; Sargent, Stanley C.; Thomas, Jeffrey; Worthy, Peter (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 94pp. Fine. Fiction, essay, poems and reviews by K.C. Frederick, Ron Pullins, Reynolds Price, M.L. Rosenthal, Daniel Abse, Madeline DeFrees, Frederick Feirstein, Alexander Kuo, James Lewisohn, Richard Schramm, David Jeddie Smith, and Frank MacShane. "Poem Doctrinal and Exemplary to a Nation: A Reading of *Samson Agonistes*" by Reynolds Price.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Hutchinson, Dale L.; Koszowski, Allen; Ross, Daniel Alan; Sargent, Stanley C.; Thomas, Jeffrey; Worthy, Peter (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Picture this scenario: You have built a successful application. It runs perfectly on your laptop. It runs perfectly on a single staging server. But then, success hits. You scale up to five servers to handle the load.Suddenly, everything breaks.Users are getting charged twice because two servers processed the same job. Your background workers are crashing because they can't handle the flood of data. You try to deploy a fix, but you drop thousands of active connections in the process. You are waking up at 3:00 AM because of "Split-Brain" scenarios where your database thinks it has two masters.The network is not reliable. Latency is not zero. Servers disappear without warning.In this environment, standard coding practices fail. You don't need just another tutorial; you need a survival guide. This book walks you through the dark corners of distributed computing. We strip away the complexity of "Microservices" and show you how to build a Clustered Monolith that is easier to deploy, cheaper to run, and impossible to kill. We turn the terrifying concept of a "Network Partition" into just another Tuesday at the office.What's insideThis book is packed with production-ready code, architectural diagrams, and hard-earned lessons from the field. Here is a glimpse of what you will master: The Architecture of Isolation: Understand how the BEAM's "Share Nothing" model provides the foundation for fault tolerance.Location Transparency: Learn how to send messages to a process on the other side of the world as easily as sending them to a process on the same RAM stick.Automated Discovery: Stop hardcoding IP addresses. Use libcluster and DNS polling to automatically wire together nodes in Kubernetes and AWS.The "Citadel" Pattern: Deploy the same codebase everywhere but use runtime configuration to specialize nodes into Web, Worker, or Streamer roles.Resilient Job Processing: Build GenStage pipelines that exert backpressure, preventing your system from crashing under load, and implement Oban for persistent, partitioned background jobs.Distributed Data: Move beyond the single database. Master Mnesia for transactional storage, Nebulex for distributed caching, and CRDTs for conflict-free real-time state.Observability: Implement Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and centralized logging to spot bottlenecks before they become outages.Zero-Downtime Upgrades: Learn the "Holy Grail" of the BEAM-hot code reloading-to update your software without dropping a single connection.Who it's meant forThis book is written for Intermediate to Advanced Elixir Developers who are ready to level up.If you know how to spawn a GenServer but don't know what happens when the node it lives on crashes, this book is for you.If you are an Architect or CTO trying to decide between Microservices and a Monolith, this book provides the arguments and patterns for a third, better option.If you are an engineer tired of managing complex external infrastructure and want to lean on the power of the Virtual Machine instead, you will find your answers here.Note: You should be comfortable with basic Elixir syntax and OTP concepts before opening this book.The cloud is chaotic, but your software doesn't have to be.Stop building fragile systems that keep you up at night. It is time to harness the full power of the technology you are already using. It is time to build a system that gets stronger as it grows, not weaker.Grab your copy of "Elixir for Distributed Systems" today and start building your Citadel. This item is printed on Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: Good. 8vo. Stapled Deckled Wraps, [36 pp.] Very Good. Portrait of Dobie on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2022 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1. Psychology and Value in Ancient Greek Philosophy by Margaret Hampson 2. Intellectualism and the Method of Hypothesis in Plato's Early Dialogues by Rachel Barney 3. Comments on Rachel Barney, 'Intellectualism and the Method of Hypothesis in Plato's Early Dialogues' by Terence Irwin 4. Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV by Jessica Moss 5. The Blind Desires of Republic IV by Matthew Evans 6. Comments on Matthew Evans, 'The Blind Desires of Republic IV' and Jessica Moss, 'Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV' by Mary Margaret McCabe 7. Plato on the Object of Thirst: Comments on Jessica Moss, 'Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV' by A. W. Price 8. Courage and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics by Raphael Woolf 9. Comments on Raphael Woolf, 'Courage and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics' by Sarah Broadie 10. Memory, Anticipation, Pleasure by James Warren 11. Modelling the Memory and Anticipation of Pleasure: Comments on James Warren's 'Memory, Anticipation, Pleasure' by Margaret Hampson and Katharine R. O'Reilly 12. Three Mistakes about Stoic Ethics by Daniel C. Russell 13. Comments on Daniel C. Russell, 'Three Mistakes about Stoic Ethics' by David Sedley Index of Passages Cited.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Are you tired of building fragile applications that break under load? Do you spend more time worrying about race conditions and thread safety than you do building features? The applications we need to build today-real-time apps, high-traffic APIs, and services that simply can't go down-are pushing traditional languages to their limits.This book shows you a better way. It's a journey into a different way of thinking, rooted in the Actor Model and the powerful "let it crash" philosophy. Instead of defensively coding against every possible error, I'll show you how to build systems that are designed for failure-systems that heal themselves, that manage state safely, and that scale with an elegance you've never experienced before.What's insideThis book is a hands-on workshop, not a dry manual. I will guide you through: Thinking Functionally: Master the core concepts of immutability, pattern matching, and the elegant pipe operator.Harnessing Concurrency: You won't just learn about Elixir's lightweight processes; you'll use them to handle thousands of simultaneous tasks with ease.Building with OTP: Go from raw processes to the industrial-strength Open Telecom Platform (OTP). You'll master GenServer to manage state and Supervisor to build self-healing applications.Project 1: A Concurrent Key-Value Store: Apply your new OTP skills to build a high-performance, in-memory database from scratch.Going Distributed: Learn to connect multiple Elixir nodes into a single cluster and see the magic of location transparency in action.Capstone Project: A Distributed Chat App: Build a complete, real-time chat application that runs across multiple servers, proving you have what it takes to build truly modern systems.Who it's meant forThis book is written for you, the practicing developer.If you're coming from Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or JavaScript, you already know how to build software. You're just wondering if there's a better way to handle the growing demands of concurrency and reliability. You don't need any prior Elixir or functional programming experience-just a curious mind and a desire to build applications that are fast, scalable, and practically unbreakable.Stop just reading about concurrency and start mastering it. This is your chance to learn the "secret" that powers some of the world's most reliable systems.Get your copy of Elixir Programming: A Hands-On Guide today and start building applications that are truly built for the modern, distributed world. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Two Volume set in brown embossed leather with bright gilt title and decoration. Volume I has the signed bookplate indicating this is number 283 of 500 limited edition sets. 1044 pp, indexed and illustrated, marbled endpapers, sewn satin bookmarks. No ownership or other markings. Tight bindings. Both books appear as New. Also laid in is the original prepublication subscriber offer for the set. Note this set does not have a slipcase. Additional information happily supplied upon request. Ships within 24 hours.…