The lush epic fantasy that inspired a generation with a single precept: Love As Thou Wilt The first book in the Kushiel's Legacy series is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. A world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, deposed rulers and a besieged Queen, a warrior-priest, the Prince of Travelers, barbarian warlords, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess...all seen through the unflinching eyes of an unforgettable heroine. A nation born of angels, vast and intricate and surrounded by danger... a woman born to servitude, unknowingly given access to the secrets of the realm... Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy...and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice. Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond. Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm's deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dart is a class-based, object-oriented language that simplifies the development of structured modern apps, scales from small scripts to large applications, and can be compiled to JavaScript for use in any modern browser. In this rigorous but readable introductory text, Dart specification lead Gilad Bracha fully explains both the language and the ideas that have shaped it. The Dart Programming Language offers an authoritative description of Dart for programmers, computer science students, and other well-qualified professionals. The text illuminates key programming constructs with significant examples, focusing on principles of the language, such as optional typing and pure object-orientation. Bracha thoroughly explains reflection in Dart, showing how it is evolving into a form that programmers can easily apply without creating excessively large programs. He also shares valuable insights into Dart’s actor-style model for concurrency and asynchronous programming. Throughout, he covers both language semantics and the rationale for key features, helping you understand not just what Dart does, but why it works the way it does. You will learn about Dart’s object model, in which everything is an object, even numbers and Boolean values How Dart programs are organized into modular libraries How Dart functions are structured, stored in variables, passed as parameters, and returned as results Dart’s innovative approach to optional typing How Dart handles expressions and statements How to use Dart’s implementation of reflection to introspect on libraries, classes, functions, and objects Isolates and other Dart features that support concurrency and distribution Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

Make Dart Your Programming Language of Choice There are many programming languages you can start learning today. But not many are as modern, easy to learn, object-oriented and scalable as Dart. Plus, combined with Flutter, Dart allows you to build native iOS, Android, web and desktop applications with a single code base. Dart Apprentice will teach you all the basic concepts you need to master this language. Follow along with the clearly and thoroughly explained concepts and you'll be building Dart applications in a breeze. Who This Book Is For Dart Apprentice is aimed at anyone interested in learning this new and modern programming language. If you're a beginner and want to start programming, this is great place to start. If you're an experienced programmer interested in learning Dart, here you'll find all the concepts you need to know. In either case, following along with this book, you'll be comfortable writing your own Dart programs in less time than you think. Topics covered in Dart Apprentice Expressions, Variables and Constants: The building blocks of the language Types and Operations: Static vs. dynamic typing, inference and strings Control Flow: Booleans, enums, switches, if statements and loops Functions: Named and anonymous functions, parameters and arrow syntax Classes: Objects, constructors, methods and properties Nullability: Null and how to handle it Collections: Lists, sets and maps Advanced classes: Inheritance, abstract classes, interfaces and mixins Asynchronous Programming: Concurrency, futures, streams and isolates One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to build your own applications using Dart. About the Tutorial Team The Tutorial Team is a group of app developers and authors who write tutorials at the popular website raywenderlich.com. We take pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun. If you've enjoyed the tutorials we've written in the past, you're in for a treat. The chapters we've written for this book are some of our best yet - and this book contains detailed technical knowledge explained in a way you simply won't be able to find anywhere else.

Summary Dart in Action introduces Google's Dart language and provides techniques and examples showing how to use it as a viable replacement for Java and JavaScript in browser-based desktop and mobile applications. It begins with a rapid overview of Dart language and tools, including features like interacting with the browser, optional typing, classes, libraries, and concurrency with isolates. After you master the core concepts, you'll move on to running Dart on the server and creating single page HTML5 web applications. About the Technology Dart is a web programming language developed by Google. It has modern OO features, just like Java or C#, while keeping JavaScript's dynamic and functional characteristics. Dart applications are "transpiled" to JavaScript, and they run natively in Dart-enabled browsers. With production-quality libraries and tools, Dart operates on both the client and the server for a consistent development process. About this Book Dart in Action introduces the Dart language and teaches you to use it in browser-based, desktop, and mobile applications. Not just a language tutorial, this book gets quickly into the nitty-gritty of using Dart. Most questions that pop up while you're reading are answered on the spot! OO newbies will appreciate the gentle pace in the early chapters. Later chapters take a test-first approach and encourage you to try Dart hands-on. To benefit from this book you'll need experience with HTML and JavaScript?a Java or C# background is helpful but not required. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Dart from the ground up Numerous code samples and diagrams Creating single-page web apps Transitioning from Java, C#, or JavaScript Running Dart in the browser and on the server About the Author Chris Buckett builds enterprise-scale web applications. He runs Dartwatch.com and is an active contributor to the dartlang list. "Includes numerous examples of core language features as well as more advanced HTML5 features."-;From the Foreword by Seth Ladd, Developer Advocate, Google Table of Contents PART 1 INTRODUCING DART Hello Dart "Hello World" with Dart tools Building and testing your own Dart app PART 2 CORE DART Functional first-class functions and closures Understanding libraries and privacy Constructing classes and interfaces Extending classes and interfaces Collections of richer classes Asynchronous programming with callbacks and futures PART 3 CLIENT-SIDE DART APPS Building a Dart web app Navigating offline data Communicating with other systems and languages PART 4 SERVER-SIDE DART Server interaction with files and HTTP Sending, syncing, and storing data Concurrency with isolates

This short, free ebook from March 2012 describes the Dart language, libraries, and tools that help you develop structured, fast, and maintainable web apps that run in any modern browser.

Your techniques have given me the tools to become the best player I can be. Joe Everett (aka: dart face) New York City Certainly from reading the additional information in George's book (a must for all dart players) I now understand and feel when my stroke is good and bad and also I'm in a position where I am able to correct it if the first dart thrown is poor. Antony Sharrett (aka: Tanman) Harrogate, England I know it's working for me because now what feels like a bad night would have been considered a great night 6 months ago. Mark Kelly (aka: Drac0) Australia I have never felt more controlled and focused with my darts. The drills, the reading material, all of it are a huge help. Greg Kanes (aka: P-man) S. Africa The way George writes makes you wanna read it. Davin Burgess, (aka: davin) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.