Some service to the state

Some Service to the State

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The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 - Osman Richard

Anotace: THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN----------`The rightful king of crime` i News`Deeply moving... some of his best writing yet` TelegraphShocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gon...

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Duhigg Charles

Anotace: Who and what are supercommunicators? They`re the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They`re brilliant faciliators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?In this groundbreaking new book, Charles Du...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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The Plague - Camus Albert

Anotace: `A story for our, and all, times` Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus`s world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal d...

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The Grandest Game - Barnes Jennifer Lynn

Anotace: Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games saga.Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Desig...

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The Railway Children - Nesbitová Edith

Anotace: Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Railway Children Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this charming edition of The Railway ChildrenFather is in trouble, and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis have to leave their home in London and go into hidin...

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Politician Goes to War

This collection of some 200 Civil War letters reveals the private thoughts of a Union General, John White Geary, as written to his wife Mary. The lett

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Lockwood & Co: The Hollow Boy - Stroud Jonathan

Anotace: Now a major Netflix series!Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambolic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get results. When an outbreak of ghostly phenomena grows to terrifying levels in Chelsea, Scotland Yard is left baffled.Even more baffling is that Lockw...

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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Gingeras Ryan

Anotace: `A tour de force of accessible scholarship` The Guardian`Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority` New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political...

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For the First Time, Again - Neuvel Sylvain

Anotace: Against the backdrop of authentic historical events, Sylvain Neuvel concludes his acclaimed Take Them to the Stars series with a biting satire on the role of authority in all its guises, bringing us a truly breathtaking science fiction trilogy that spans the ages.When you don´t know The Rules it´s hard to stay safe.After a traumatic incident, Aster finds that he...

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Introduction to Akkadian Literature

A short introduction to the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria, encompassing some two thousand years of literary history

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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Empire: Enter the battlefields of Ancient Greece in the epic new novel from the multi-million copy bestseller - Iggulden Conn

Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE`The master historical storyteller` DAILY EXPRESS`Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is strongest writing battle scenes` THE TIMES on the Golden Age series`The sights, sounds and smells of Athens bring history to life with gripping ...

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce

Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...

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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté

Anotace: We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world?Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live.In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author ...

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That Summer Feeling: The perfect swoon-worthy summer romance - Morrissey Bridget

Anotace: Fall in love with this perfect summer read that will sweep you away . . .`Shimmering with sun-soaked magic` Ashley Herring Blake, author of DELILAH GREEN DOESN`T CARE__________When Garland Moore`s husband gifts her divorce papers on Valentine`s Day, it feels like she`ll never find love again. So when some friends invite her to their camp in the Blue Ridge Mounta...

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He´s A 10: The hot new football romance for fans of Sarah Adams and Amy Lea! - Yale Jessica

Anotace: The swoony and red-hot new football romance for fans of Sarah Adams and Amy Lea! Will Genie, Head of Player Care at Covenly FC, put her job on the line when she falls for their controversial new number 10 Tony Garratt? `Had me glued to the pages . . . everything you want from a sports romance!` Ally Wiegand, author of First Base ---- Genie Edwards, Head of Playe...

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Wintersmith: A Tiffany Aching Novel - Pratchett Terry

Anotace: Enter master story-teller Terry Pratchett`s incredible Discworld in this third book in the Tiffany Aching series . . .Tiffany Aching is starting to realize that some witches are a bit odd . . .When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to young witch Tiffany Aching, he decides he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.But forever is a long time, s...

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Peter Pan - Barrie James Matthew

Anotace: Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this highly anticipated edition of Peter Pan.The Darling children`s lives take an extraordinary turn when Peter Pan loses his shadow in their nursery. . .`Second to the right, and straight on till morning.`Soaring over a sleepy London...

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Be Useful: Seven tools for life - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anotace: The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.The world`s greatest bodybuilder. The world`s highest paid movie star. The leader of the world`s sixth largest economy. That these are the same person so...

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What About Men? - Moranová Caitlin

Anotace: As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is `But what about MEN?` After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn`t quite right...

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A Cruel Twist of Fate - Askwith H. F.

Anotace: And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller.When eighteen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the ...

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Bliss - Mansfield Katherine

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Nabokov´s Dozen - Nabokov Vladimir

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...

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A Girl Can Dream - Barrová Emily

Anotace: Love story and un-love story intertwine in the brand-new thriller-romance from the globally bestseller author of The One Memory of Flora Banks, Emily Barr.Venice, 2024Hazel is on a spontaneous holiday with her stepbrother, Enzo, and best friend, Phoebe. They have just helped Hazel escape her increasingly destructive relationship with her older boyfriend, and hav...

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Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck John

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz

Anotace: An essential new translation of the author`s complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century`s most influential writers`The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world` - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka`s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, incl...

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Looking For Smoke - Cobell K. A.

Anotace: A literary-thriller murder mystery, set within a Native American community for fans of Firekeeper`s Daughter, Sadie and the One of Us Is Lying series by a debut own voices authorSince moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So, when a local girl in...

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Someone Else´s Shoes - Moyesová Jojo

Anotace: THE NEW NOVEL FROM JOJO MOYES, AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ME BEFORE YOU `Giddily joyful. Moyes writes . . . with warmth and a wonderfully wicked sense of humour` THE TIMES `BOOK OF THE MONTH` `Delightful. Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does - recognizably real and complex and funny and flawed` JODI PICOULT `So much fun. Beaut...

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What About Men? - Moranová Caitlin

Anotace: `A must-read eye-opener that makes you laugh, cry, get angry and get happy on every page. It`s magnificent` Bob Mortimer`I fall passionately in love with absolutely every single thing Caitlin Moran writes - and I`ve fallen very hard for this book... Eye-opener, page-turner, women-translator, guy-empowerer - put like that, I hope you`ll agree it`s incredibly reas...

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On Freedom (EXP) - Snyder Timothy

Anotace: Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it´s been misunderstood, and why it´s our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.Timothy Snyder has been called `the leading interpreter of our dark times´. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mas...

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My Friend Anne Frank - Pick-Goslar Hannah

Anotace: The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds.When Hannah Pick-Goslar`s family fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbour; precocious, outspoken and fun-loving Anne Frank. Hannah instantly warmed to happy-go-lucky Anne and for seven blissful years, the i...

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If I Stay - Formanová Gayle

Anotace: SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ Just listen,` Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen.`Stay,` he says.Everybody has to make choices.Some might break you.For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem ...

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White Nights - Dostojevskij Fjodor Michajlovič

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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A Clockwork Orange : Restored Edition - Burgess Anthony

Anotace: `It is a horrorshow story ...`Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exube...

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Demon Copperhead: Longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2023 - Kingsolver Barbara

Anotace: A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZETHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKWITH OVER 18,000 5* REVIEWS`Extraordinary.` OPRAH`She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.` ...

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Thea and Denise - Bond Caroline

Anotace: `Oh, you`re not crazy, Denise. I think this is probably the sanest you`ve ever been...`Two women. An open road. The trip of a lifetime.Thea is confident, sorted, determined to have fun, but there are sorrows beneath the surface of her life.Denise is struggling under the weight of her many commitments and in desperate need of some excitement.When these polar oppo...

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Brooklyn Crime Novel - Lethem Jonathan

Anotace: 1978 and two14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who`s just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift an adult magazine from a Puerto Rican hole-in-the-wa...

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Philosopher's Story

A tale of the author's journey from the Lower East Side of New York to some of the greatest centres of higher learning. Morton, a philosopher and hist

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Other Veterans of World War II

Compiling the stories of noncombat veterans, Rona Simmons follows them as they report for service, complete their training, and ship out to stations t

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Oči Státní bezpečnosti / Eyes of the State Security - Petr Blažek

<p>Hlavními tématy česko-anglické publikace jsou sledovací útvary Statní bezpečnosti a fotografie historických osobnosti, významných událostí a míst, které v období komunistického režimu pořídili jejich pracovnici. Přiblíženy jsou například sledovací akce tajné policie proti Václavu Havlovi, Pavlu Kohoutovi, Janu Patočkovi, Františku kardinálu Tomáškovi, Františku K...

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His Last Bow : Some Reminiscences of She - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. '...He was gripped at the back of his neck by a grasp of iron, and a chloroformed sponge was held in front of his writhing face.' In His Last Bow, Conan Doyle's notorious literary detective reminisces on his life as an investigator with the help of his trusty companion D...

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Legends of People, Myths of State

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argum

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State of Terror - Rodham Clintonová Hillary

Anotace: Take a ringside seat in the high-stakes world of international politics . . .After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in. Secretary of State, Ellen Adams, is determined to do her duty for her country. But she is about to face a horrifying international threat . . .A young foreign service officer has received a baff...

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State of Terror - Clintonová Hillary Rodham

<p>Take a ringside seat in the high-stakes world of international politics . . . After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in. Secretary of State, Ellen Adams, is determined to do her duty for her country. But she is about to face a horrifying international threat . . . A young foreign service officer has received a b...

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State of Terror - Clintonová Hillary Rodham

<p>Take a ringside seat in the high-stakes world of international politics . . . After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in. Secretary of State, Ellen Adams, is determined to do her duty for her country. But she is about to face a horrifying international threat . . . A young foreign service officer has received a b...

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With Christ in Service

This little book tries to encapsulate some of the responses the Jesuits have made through the ages, by focusing on the lives of a few remarkable indiv

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Service Model - Tchaikovsky Adrian

Anotace: Task List Item No.1 - Become self-aware . . .Meet CharlesTM, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master - therefore worthless...

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Social Innovation in the Service of Social and Ecological Transformation

This book explores how the State can play a role as an enabler of citizen-led social innovations, to accelerate the shift to viable sustainable and so

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Unmasked : Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer - Holes Paul

Anotace: From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America`s toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime.For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, and...

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Unmasked : Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer - Paul Holes

<p>From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime. For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, an...

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Reason in the Service of Faith Taylor & Francis Ltd

Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology and philosophical theology. In celebration of Helm’s life’s work, Reason in the Service of Faith ...

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Dahua SSD-C900N512G 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 Solid State Drive

Dahua SSD-C900N512G 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 Solid State Drive SSD-C900N512G NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 Solid State Drive > Supports PCIe3.0x4 and NVMe 1.3 protocol. > Supports LDPC ECC to enhance data reliability. > View information through S.M.A.R.T. > Adopts high-quality 3D NAND wafer level chip and with 4K LDPC technology, the program-erase cycle is effectively improve...

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Big Data and Blockchain for Service Operations Management

This book aims to provide the necessary background to work with big data blockchain by introducing some novel applications in service operations for b

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Big Data and Blockchain for Service Operations Management

This book aims to provide the necessary background to work with big data blockchain by introducing some novel applications in service operations for b

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Oči Státní bezpečnosti / Eyes of the State Security - Blažek Petr, Fojtek Vít, Kalous Jan, Schovánek Radek, Tomek Prokop, Urbánek Miroslav, Zeman Kryštof - 21x30 cm

Hlavními tématy česko-anglické publikace jsou sledovací útvary Statní bezpečnosti a fotografie historických osobnosti, významných událostí a míst, které v období komunistického režimu pořídili jejich pracovnici.. Přiblíženy jsou například sledovací akce tajné policie proti Václavu Havlovi, Pavlu Kohoutovi, Janu Patočkovi, Františku kardinálu Tomáškovi, Františku Krieglov...

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Dahua SSD-C900N512G 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 Solid State Drive (DHI-SSD-C900N512G)

SSD-C900N512G NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 Solid State Drive Supports PCIe3.0x4 and NVMe 1.3 protocol. Supports LDPC ECC to enhance data reliability. View information through S.M.A.R.T. Adopts high-quality 3D NAND wafer level chip and with 4K LDPC technology, the program-erase cycle is effectively improved to extend service time. Supports TRIM to improve read/write performance ...

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