'Across Cultures' is divided into 11 modules looking at 11 different aspects of life in the English-speaking world: Everyday life, Habitats and homelands, Links with the past, States and systems, Education, Global Markets, Sport and leisure, The arts, Communication and technology, Society, Links to literature.

Logically organized by taxonomic groups, this up-to-date text covers the diagnosis and treatment of all zoo animal species and free-ranging wildlife, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and fish, unlikely to be seen by private practice veterinarians. Featuring full-color images, the consistent, user-friendly format supplies information on each animal’s biology, unique anatomy, special physiology, reproduction, restraint and handling, housing requirements, nutrition and feeding, surgery and anesthesia, diagnostics, therapeutics, and diseases. Global authorship includes multinational contributors who offer expert information on different species from around the world.

"Veterinary care of non-traditional species is a rapidly progressing field and this title is the much awaited updated version of this zoo and wildlife practitioner’s ‘bible’.

FCE Result develops the skills your students need to get the right result in the Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam. The lively content and vibrant design keep your students motivated. This can be managed by you, or students can do it as self-study. Use the new FCE Result iTools on your interactive whiteboard to bring a fresh approach to teaching.

This set of four practice tests is written by a highly experienced author, and replicates the revised FCE exam in level, content and format.

Design, build, and run Microservices using Scala elegantly
In this book we will learn what it takes to build great applications using Microservices, the pitfalls associated with such a design and the techniques to avoid them. We learn to build highly performant applications using Play Framework. You will understand the importance of writing code that is asynchronous and nonblocking and how Play leverages this paradigm for higher throughput. The book introduces Reactive Manifesto and uses Lagom Framework to implement the suggested paradigms. Lagom teaches us to: build applications that are scalable and resilient to failures, and solves problems faced with microservices like service gateway, service discovery, communication and so on. Message Passing is used as a means to achieve resilience and CQRS with Event Sourcing helps us in modelling data for highly interactive applications.



The book also shares effective development processes for large teams by using good version control workflow, continuous integration and deployment strategies. We introduce Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestrator. Finally, we look at end to end deployment of a set of scala microservices in kubernetes with load balancing, service discovery and rolling deployments.

The classic series. Essential phonics plus your imagination. Get primed for school success. There’s a reason Jolly Phonics is a favourite. No other phonics series has such a focus on play while helping you read and write. Don’t forget – these key skills are at the heart of the school curriculum. So how do you master them? Just imagine: tracing snakes to make the letter ‘S’. Or pretending to be a plane that goes ‘nnnnnn’. Explore letters and sounds, write your name and build pencil control by tracing and colouring. Jolly phonics: happy learning.