The Mirror Maker

The Mirror Maker
Author: Primo Levi
Publisher: Abacus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780349138664

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The Mirror Maker is a collection of short stories and essays written by Primo Levi. One of his previous novels, The Truce, is soon to become a major film.

The Mirror Makers

The Mirror Makers
Author: Stephen R. Fox
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1984
Genre: Advertising
ISBN: 9780252066597

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Stephen Fox explores the consistently cyclical nature of advertising from its beginning. A substantial new introduction updates this lively, anecdotal history of advertising into the mid-1990s. --Publisher.

The Mirror Maker

The Mirror Maker
Author: Primo Levi
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1990-09-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780805209891

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With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America’s most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi’s love for science with his keen perception of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi’s quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces.

The Mirror Maker

The Mirror Maker
Author: Primo Levi
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1989
Genre: Short Stories, English
ISBN: 9780749390976

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A collection of short stories and essays on a range of major topical issues, these essays were first published in La Stampa. Levi's previous books include The Periodic Table, If Not Now When? and The Drowned and the Saved.

The Mirror Thief

The Mirror Thief
Author: Martin Seay
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612195156

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A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay’s debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination—was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?—the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however—a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose—has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . . Meanwhile, in two other Venices—Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today—two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . . All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down—an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.

The Water Mirror

The Water Mirror
Author: Kai Meyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 143910879X

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In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin—a boy who was once a master thief—works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city and to the guards who patrol the streets on living stone lions. Merle herself possesses something magical: a mirror whose surface is water. She can reach her whole arm into it and never get wet. But Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody knows who or what she is—only that her power flows through the canals and keeps the Egyptians at bay. When Merle and Serafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, they are catapulted into desperate danger. They must do everything they can to rescue the Queen and save the city—even if it means getting help from the Ancient Traitor himself.

The Mirror Makers

The Mirror Makers
Author: Clare Colvin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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The Mirror

The Mirror
Author: Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 113668753X

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This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.

The Mirror Maker

The Mirror Maker
Author: Primo Levi
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1992-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780517088456

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Data Lake for Enterprises

Data Lake for Enterprises
Author: Tomcy John
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2017-05-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1787282651

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A practical guide to implementing your enterprise data lake using Lambda Architecture as the base About This Book Build a full-fledged data lake for your organization with popular big data technologies using the Lambda architecture as the base Delve into the big data technologies required to meet modern day business strategies A highly practical guide to implementing enterprise data lakes with lots of examples and real-world use-cases Who This Book Is For Java developers and architects who would like to implement a data lake for their enterprise will find this book useful. If you want to get hands-on experience with the Lambda Architecture and big data technologies by implementing a practical solution using these technologies, this book will also help you. What You Will Learn Build an enterprise-level data lake using the relevant big data technologies Understand the core of the Lambda architecture and how to apply it in an enterprise Learn the technical details around Sqoop and its functionalities Integrate Kafka with Hadoop components to acquire enterprise data Use flume with streaming technologies for stream-based processing Understand stream- based processing with reference to Apache Spark Streaming Incorporate Hadoop components and know the advantages they provide for enterprise data lakes Build fast, streaming, and high-performance applications using ElasticSearch Make your data ingestion process consistent across various data formats with configurability Process your data to derive intelligence using machine learning algorithms In Detail The term "Data Lake" has recently emerged as a prominent term in the big data industry. Data scientists can make use of it in deriving meaningful insights that can be used by businesses to redefine or transform the way they operate. Lambda architecture is also emerging as one of the very eminent patterns in the big data landscape, as it not only helps to derive useful information from historical data but also correlates real-time data to enable business to take critical decisions. This book tries to bring these two important aspects — data lake and lambda architecture—together. This book is divided into three main sections. The first introduces you to the concept of data lakes, the importance of data lakes in enterprises, and getting you up-to-speed with the Lambda architecture. The second section delves into the principal components of building a data lake using the Lambda architecture. It introduces you to popular big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Sqoop, Flume, and ElasticSearch. The third section is a highly practical demonstration of putting it all together, and shows you how an enterprise data lake can be implemented, along with several real-world use-cases. It also shows you how other peripheral components can be added to the lake to make it more efficient. By the end of this book, you will be able to choose the right big data technologies using the lambda architectural patterns to build your enterprise data lake. Style and approach The book takes a pragmatic approach, showing ways to leverage big data technologies and lambda architecture to build an enterprise-level data lake.