Build Rich Applications that Run on the Desktop, the Web, Mobile Devices...Anywhere! Using JavaFX, developers and graphic designers can work together to build robust, immersive applications and deploy them anywhere: on the desktop, on the Web, and on millions of Java-enabled mobile devices. JavaFX lets you maintain your existing graphics and seamlessly integrate them into Java applications. Plus, JavaFX Script is a declarative language that allows you to preserve your investment in the Java platform while allowing more creativity with JavaFX’s Rich Internet Application environment. JavaFX™: Developing Rich Internet Applications brings together all the knowledge, techniques, and reusable code you need to quickly deliver production-quality solutions. Writing for both developers and designers, the authors explain how JavaFX simplifies and improves the RIA development process, and they show how to make the most of its ready-built components and frameworks. JavaFX™ covers everything from data integration to multimedia, special effects to REST. The authors present a full chapter of code recipes and a complete case study application. This book’s wide-ranging content includes <ul>
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<li>Writing fast, efficient JavaFX Script programs </li>
<li>Using data binding to simplify Model-View-Controller application design </li>
<li>Creating rich user experiences with JavaFX visual components </li>
<li>Bringing user interfaces to life with lighting, reflection, and other special effects </li>
<li>Adding motion with the JavaFX animation framework </li>
<li>Incorporating pictures, sound, and videos in your applications </li>
<li>Creating RESTful applications with JSON and XML </li>
<li>Writing JavaFX applications that make the most of the underlying Java platform</li> </ul> The Java™ Series is supported, endorsed, and authored by the creators of the Java technology at Sun Microsystems, Inc. It is the official place to go for complete, expert, and definitive information on Java technology. The books in this Series provide the inside information you need to build effective, robust, and portable applications and applets. The Series is an indispensable resource for anyone targeting the Java platform.

Javafx: Developing Rich Internet Applications

Computers & Technology

Clarke, Jim

Connors, Jim

Bruno, Eric

Networking & Cloud Computing

Addison-Wesley Professional

Practical advice on creating rituals, a healing and transformative means of helping a person or a group to maneuver with confidence through times of transition.

Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Paulist Press

Unlike many works on spirituality, this engaging and user-friendly book is specifically aimed at the busy lay person. It underlines the idea that spirituality is not exotic, something for the few, but that it is in ordinary things and daily life that we can find intimacy with God. Spirituality, says the author, popular speaker and retreat master Fr. Jim Clarke, is a developmental process. It is the art of making connections, seeing the divine in the human, and claiming it for ourselves. Every day we become more human, or less human, depending upon our ability to reflect on our experiences....One of the signs of a healthy spirituality is that it offers a cohesive worldview: there is a place for everything and everyone no exclusivism. All the parts fit together tragedy and glory, suffering and joy and everything in between. All the pieces play a part, but not necessarily equally. Each chapter offers simple questions to stimulate the thought process in developing or integrating the different components of a vital or transformative spirituality. Specific prayer forms and spiritual practices from a variety of spiritual traditions are suggested to assist in creating a framework for attending to a personal interior life. An appealing feature of this book is that chapters can be read quickly, in sequence or separately, depending upon one s own particular interest. In addition, the book can be used for individual nourishment, adult study groups, or a group retreat.

Soul-Centered: Spirituality for People on the Go

Life happens―with all its questions, longings, challenges, and missteps; but even more importantly, with its constant search for wholeness and happiness. It is not concerned with canonical or theological debates, but with pastoral considerations. Here Comes Life! shows the reader how to live out the teachings of Pope Francis in real life. †

Here Comes Life!: Seeking Wholeness and Happiness

The author addresses the broad topic of devotionalism in the Catholic Church―its implications for a mature spirituality in individuals, and its impact on the ecclesial community. He does this by examining a variety of well-known Catholic devotions across cultural lines to probe the truth and meaning of each of these lines of faith expression. I explore the benefits―and the potential traps inherent in many of these devotions, and in devotionalism in general. When the historical and cultural context of a devotion is ignored and is directly applied with no discernment process, distortions can, and do, occur. Using various insights from the fields of theology, depth psychology, anthropology, and spirituality, Clarke explores the historical narrative behind many popular devotional practices and surveys the principles of the ritualistic expression of their prayer practices. Informed by the Church’s doctrine, he addresses the misconceptions, superstitions, misapplications, and misalliances behind some of these devotions. A strong linkage can often be discerned between faith expression and national origin; this gives space to a strange mixture of political and ecclesial influences, and often leads to a cultic following. The author reclaims the original fire of the creator of the particular devotion. Finally, the author offers some helpful and healthy devotions for the present historical context. Making a case for the need for an embodied and prophetic spirituality, he then re-presents much-loved devotions through that lens. These tools for adaptation will be clearly spelled out and accessible to anyone seeking to deepen and enrich their engagement with the divine. †

Rethinking Catholic Devotions: Energy, Engagement, Transformation!

Arivaca Out Yonder: A Novel of the Bar-V-Bar Ranch

Here is a rare and extraordinary story of two determined and courageous people, coming together under unusual circumstances in the tough and dangerous "open range" country of southern Arizona along the Mexican border.Their lifelong journey begins in the little village of Arivaca in the early 1900s and takes them through numerous challenges and life-threatening situations. They start out almost penniless, then find growing success when they open a small mining camp store, build a herd of cattle, and eventually become involved in the banking business in Tucson.This account of Phil and Gipsy Clarke is a must-read for anyone who loves great Western historical fiction.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

JBC Publishing Group

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Aliens? Absolutely. Robots? Of course. But why are there so many priests in space? For over a century, Science Fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism. The religion is both SF's dark twin and its dirty secret. In this first ever study of the relationship between Catholicism and SF, Jim Clarke explores the genre's co-dependence and antagonism with the largest sect of Christianity. Tracking its origins all the way back to the pamphlet wars of the Enlightenment and SF's Gothic origins, Clarke unveils a story of robot Popes, Jesuit missions to the stars, first contact between aliens and the Inquisition, and rewritings of the Reformation. Featuring close readings of over fifty SF texts, Clarke examines how the genre s greatest invention might just be the imaginary Catholicism it repeatedly and obsessively depicts, a faux Catholicism at odds with the religion's own intriguing interest in both science and the possibility of alien life.

Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy (SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction)

Essays & Correspondence

Gylphi

South Africa is the eighth largest wine-producer in the world and its wine industry is among the oldest of the New World. Today it is one of the globe's most dynamic industries, compact but diverse. In the past decade a new generation of winemakers has breathed new life into centuries-old estates and new, boutique brands alike. The wines of South Africa is in four sections. The first introduces readers to the history of South African wine, beginning with the arrival of the Dutch and the establishment of what would become Cape Town. The second section analyzes South Africa's industry today. It pinpoints the geological, geographical, and climatic conditions that create the parameters and potential of South African wine. It describes the major grape varieties and wine styles and outlines the broad range of wines being produced. It shows the current infrastructure of the industry, significant regulatory matters, and South Africa's place in export markets. It also includes a general overview of wine tourism in South Africa.The third section inspects the challenges the industry faces, focusing on the three largest: profitability and the loss of vineyards as farmers switch to higher-margin orchards; environmental concerns, the effects of climate change, and water conservation; and the legacy of apartheid and continued imbalances in the socioeconomic structure of the Western Cape, including land redistribution, black economic empowerment initiatives designed to create a new generation of black business owners, and efforts to create a skilled, better-paid black workforce within the industry.The last section familiarizes readers with the major growing areas of South Africa and the most important producers operating in each one. It opens with a description of the Wine of Origin system, which designates three tiers of major appellations: Regions, Districts and Wards. Descriptions of individual regions and the producers based within each of them follow. A glossary explains important terms that are specific to the South African wine industry.

The wines of South Africa: 9781913022037

Business & Money

Industries

Infinite Ideas Ltd.

The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself.
Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist experiments like A Clockwork Orange and Nothing Like The Sun, to his late classics Mozart and the Wolfgang and A Dead Man in Deptford.
This volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy of England's most mercurial novelist.

The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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Javafx: Developing Rich Internet Applications

Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

Soul-Centered: Spirituality for People on the Go

Here Comes Life!: Seeking Wholeness and Happiness

Rethinking Catholic Devotions: Energy, Engagement, Transformation!

Arivaca Out Yonder: A Novel of the Bar-V-Bar Ranch

Arivaca Out Yonder: A Novel of the Bar-V-Bar Ranch

Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy (SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction)

The wines of South Africa: 9781913022037

The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words