In A Tour of C++, Third Edition, Bjarne Stroustrup provides an overview of ISO C++, C++20, that aims to give experienced programmers a clear understanding of what constitutes modern C++. Featuring carefully crafted examples and practical help in getting started, this revised and updated edition concisely covers most major language features and the major standard-library components needed for effective use. Stroustrup presents C++ features in the context of the programming styles they support,...

In today's sophisticated world of financial management, regulation, and nonprofits, the competent fundraiser who carries a deep understanding of the science, law, and psychology of raising money is in the highest demand across the industry. Fundraising Principles and Practice is the first and only guidebook to conveniently package a complete course for mastering the critical knowledge and skillset to fundraise for nonprofits.

Under the direction of two thought leaders from the Hartsook Centr...

This rhetorically-driven, genre-based handbook prepares university writers to write in different ways for different courses, professional contexts, and civic and everyday scenarios. It helps them to be every kind of writer - one who slips in and out of a range of roles, writing situations, and conversations. It gives novice writers the versatility and confidence to succeed. It helps them to enter coversations, plan documents, cite sources, check facts, and understand (even question) language ...

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION'Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace' Time'A marvel of beauty and imagination' Ann PatchettA tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall - but for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy.

Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages in ...

The private notebooks of Roman Emperor and Philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, published here with an introduction by John Sellars.

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving.

Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.

This annotated edition brings together six of O’Neill’s most famous works: Bound East for Cardiff, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night. It contains an introduction by Herman Daniel Farrell III, President of the Eugene O’Neill International Society (US).

The engrossing and uplifting story of a small boy born with the odds stacked against him, and the decision that alters the course of his life forever

Si déjà, au cours de ce livre, l’acte d’écrire, plus encore de publier toute espèce de livre est mis au rang des vanités, que penser de la complaisance de son auteur à vouloir, tant d’années après, l’améliorer un tant soit peu dans sa forme ! Il convient toutefois de faire la part, en bien ou mal venu dans celui-ci, de ce qui se réfère au clavier affectif et s’en remet tout à lui – c’est, bien entendu, l’essentiel et de ce qui est relation au jour le jour, aussi im...