Bøker av Michael FitzGerald

Examines Hitler's extraordinary rise from homelessness to world leadership.Hitler's career remains one of the most extraordinary in world history. No one else has gone from sleeping on park benches to become a world leader. After the First World War he became involved in extremist politics - first on the far left and then the far right.It is often assumed that Hitler's ambitions were never realistic and his failure was inevitable. This book challenges that view and suggests a number of missed opportunities or misjudgements that might have led to a different result.Michael FitzGerald shows how Hitler's personal defects contributed considerably to Germany's defeat. In addition to the military mistakes he made a series of political, economic and foreign policy blunders were major factors in his failure to achieve his goals.

This book tells the story of the supposed Wunderwaffen - miracle weapons - that Hitler claimed would win them the war: Nazi flying the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 rocket, the V-3 heavy gun and much besides. Was he simply boasting out of desperation, or were these weapons projects a real threat to Allied victory? Michael FitzGerald investigates.

In an era defined by unprecedented connectivity and rapid exchange of ideas, it is both paradoxical and disheartening to witness the deepening divides that have taken root within our society. As we stand at the crossroads of history, the nation finds itself grappling with a profound challenge-the fracture of unity that has seeped into the very fabric of our collective identity. This book, titled "Fractured Unity: The Government's Division of the American People," embarks on a thought-provoking exploration of the forces, factors, and consequences that have contributed to this unsettling phenomenon.

The fiat system we live under today is nothing like the monetary systems of the past... At least not the prosperous ones.It is a rather strange time in which a small minority of global elites are able to control or influence nearly every aspect of our lives through control of the monetary system.They are able to take from us and give to them what they please with control of the monetary system.The Monero Standard is about how we can use money to fundamentally revolutionize societies incentive structures, the challenges we face in society today & how we overcome them to build a long lasting platform for freedom and prosperity.We look at why Monero is the best tool the world has ever seen to provide that platform.We can vote all we want and protest all we want. IT WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. We must change that by opting into the strongest form of money the world has ever seen...Here's how...

A NEW Space Transportation Paradigm has emerged. Ideas brought forward in this report are presented in clear and understandable ways, although a revolutionary concept is becoming real. The envisioned cooperative and collaborative operations between rockets and space elevators will benefit mankind into the next century. 1- Space Elevators can be accomplished because there is a material for the tether, 2- Space Elevators are Earth Friendly, and 3- Space Elevators ENABLE Interplanetary Missions with:o Fast Transit to Mars (as short as 61 days, with variations out to 400+)o Can release towards Mars EVERY day (no 26 month wait)o Can move massive amounts of cargo (170,000 Metric tonnes/year to GEO and beyond)

Brings dramatically to life the nature of the combat between the hunter and hunted at sea, roles that could switch at the drop of a depth charge or the flick of a button to launch a torpedo.

"Autism and Creativity" is a study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less significant than has often been claimed.

Designed to introduce students at the tertiary level to both Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. This book is aimed at developing analytical skills by rooting analysis in SFL methodology so that students can tackle a range of discourse types. It is of interest to students interested in working in both SFL and CDA.

This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby's core components, from operators to reserved words to data structures to method syntax, highlighting those key features that you'll likely use every day when coding Ruby.

Officiating a professional boxing match can be a thankless job. When a match goes well, no one focuses on the referee. But when a controversy arises, everyone remembers the man who makes the call.

Developers and system administrators alike are uncovering the true power of XML, the Extensible Markup Language that enables data to be sent over the Internet from one computer platform to another or one application to another and retain its original format. Flexible enough to be customized for applications as diverse as web sites, electronic data interchange, voice mail systems, wireless devices, web services, and more, XML is quickly becoming ubiquitous.XML Hacks is a roll-up-your-sleeves guide that distills years of ingenious XML hacking into a complete set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for web developers, system administrators, and programmers who want to go far beyond basic tutorials to leverage the untapped power of XML.With plenty of useful real-world projects that illustrate how to define, read, create, and manipulate XML documents, XML Hacks shows readers how to put XML's power to work on the Internet and within productivity applications. Each Hack in this book can be read easily in a few minutes, saving programmers and administrators countless hours of searching for the right answer. And this is an O'Reilly Hacks book, so it's not just practical, imminently useful, and time-saving. It's also fun.From Anatomy of an XML Document to Exploring SOAP Messages XML Hacks shows you how to save time and accomplish more with fewer resources. If you want much more than the average XML user--to explore and experiment, do things you didn't know you could do with XML, discover clever shortcuts, and show off just a little--this invaluable book is a must-have.

If youre a programmer new to regular expressions, this easy-to-follow guide is a great place to start. Youll learn the fundamentals step-by-step with the help of numerous examples, discovering first-hand how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns.Regular expressions are an essential part of a programmers toolkit, available in various Unix utlilities as well as programming languages such as Perl, Java, JavaScript, and C#. When youve finished this book, youll be familiar with the most commonly used syntax in regular expressions, and youll understand how using them will save you considerable time.Discover what regular expressions are and how they workLearn many of the differences between regular expressions used with command-line tools and in various programming languagesApply simple methods for finding patterns in text, including digits, letters, Unicode characters, and string literalsLearn how to use zero-width assertions and lookaroundsWork with groups, backreferences, character classes, and quantifiersUse regular expressions to mark up plain text with HTML5

This book presents strategies to tackle the difficulties in social interaction and communication experienced by adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Focusing on the development of interaction skills through teaching social competence, it explains how to design an effective social skills intervention programme leading to successful peer interaction.

This book is a revealing exploration of the lives of 21 famous writers, philosophers, musicians and painters including George Orwell, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andy Warhol and many others, in light of the recognized criteria for diagnosis of high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome (AS).

This guide provides information to help students with AS prepare successfully for the rites and rituals of studying, interact with staff and fellow students, cope with expectations and pressures, and understand their academic and domestic responsibilities. The authors draw on first hand interviews with AS students and direct clinical experience.

XSLT is a powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else. That something else can be an HTML document, another XML document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file, a Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) file, Java code, or a number of other things. You write an XSLT stylesheet to define the rules for transforming an XML document, and the XSLT processor does the work.As useful as XSLT is, its peculiar characteristics make it a difficult language in which to get started. In fact, newcomers are often a little dazed on first contact. Learning XSLT offers a hands-on introduction to help them get up to speed with XSLT quickly. The book will help web developers and designers understand this powerful but often mystifying template-driven and functional-styled language, getting them over the many differences between XSLT and the more conventional programming languages.Learning XSLT moves smoothly from the simple to complex, illustrating all aspects of XSLT 1.0 through step-by-step examples that you'll practice as you work through the book. Thorough in its coverage of the language, the book makes few assumptions about what you may already know. You'll learn about XSLT's template-based syntax, how XSLT templates work with each other, and gain an understanding of XSLT variables. Learning XSLT also explains how the XML Path Language (XPath) is used by XSLT and provides a glimpse of what the future holds for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0.The ability to transform one XML vocabulary to another is fundamental to exploiting the power of XML. Learning XSLT is a carefully paced, example-rich introduction to XSLT that will have you understanding and using XSLT on your own in no time.