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Five Lines of Code teaches refactoring that's focused on concrete rules and getting any method down to five lines or less! There’s no jargon or tricky automated-testing skills required, just easy guidelines and patterns illustrated by detailed code samples. In Five Lines of Code you will learn: The signs of bad code Improving code safely, even when you don’t understand it Balancing optimization and code generality Proper compiler practices The Extract method, Introducing Strategy pattern, and many other refactoring patterns Writing stable code that enables change-by-addition Writing code that needs no comments Real-world practices for great refactoring Improving existing code—refactori...
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 58 contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.
This bold, new look at the apostle Paul will challenge longtime thinking about the “apostle to the gentiles.” Unfortunately, common misperceptions and outdated characterizations continue to prevail in mainstream teaching and preaching about Paul. Meet Paul Again for the First Time introduces readers to a brand-new Paul which, as it turns out, was the original Paul all along. With clarity and purpose, Clausen rejects unfounded preconceptions about the apostle. For example, he did not teach a “law-free gospel,” he did not reject Judaism or the law, and he did not see himself as a miserable sinner who found forgiveness only in Christ. Based on a reappraisal of first-century Judaism, rec...
In order to explore the effects that NATO enlargement will have on U.S. policy and the future evolution of European security, a roundtable was conducted by the Strategic Studies Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This monograph illuminates problems relating to those states which either cannot or do not want to join NATO at this time as well as the impact of enlargement on NATO as an alliance system, on U.S. foreign and defense policy, and on the European neutrals.
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Where was Golgotha? Was Peter’s house in Capernaum? Was Mary from the town of Magdala? Where was Bethsaida? We’ve all heard the arguments, but what do the archaeological finds tell us? This book pulls together archaeological information, scattered in journals and final reports, relating to the Gospel of Luke with appealing photography, instructive illustrations, and fascinating recent finds. It uses archaeology to reconstruct the social, religious, historical, geographical, and pathological context for the story of Jesus and the Jesus-movement. The book not only features the “shiny objects” from the excavations (the beautiful pottery, buildings, and entertainment facilities) but also...