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Willum Cubbert, now an architect, was wounded in Vietnam and rescued by Rick Steadman, a man he was never able to meet. But since Rick saved his life, Willum feels indebted to him and offers him a place to stay should he ever need it. On Willum’s thirty-fourth birthday, Rick shows up, and turns out to be a nightmare, for he is completely inept when it comes to socializing, and even more so when it comes to being a human bei
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Richard Elster was a scholar — an outsider — when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply “ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency.”

We see Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, “somewhere south of nowhere,” in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on document
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Programming in Scala is the definitive book on Scala, the new language for the Java Platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts into a unique and powerful tool for developers.

Coauthored by the designer of the Scala language, this authoritative book will teach you, one step at a time, the Scala language and the ideas behind it.

The book is carefully crafted to help you learn. The first few chapters will give you enough of the basics that you can already start using Scala for simple tasks. The entire book is organized so that each new concept builds on concepts that came before – a series of steps that promises to help you master the Scala language and the important ideas about programming that Scala embodies.

A comprehensive tutori
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