Best Selling Books by Michael Montgomery

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft’s unified platform for developing modern, service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this guide provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building maintainable, extensible, and reusable WCF-based applications. Authors Juval Löwy—one of the world’s top .NET experts—and Michael Montgomery have revised this edition to include the productivity-enhancing features of .NET Framework 4.6, along with the latest WCF ideas and techniques. By teaching you the why and the how of WCF programming, this book will help you master WCF and make you a better software engineer. Learn WCF’s architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport sessions Use built-in features such as service contracts, instance and concurrency management, transactions, queued services, and security Increase the quality of your WCF services by using design options, tips, and best practices in Löwy’s ServiceModelEx framework Understand the rationale behind particular design decisions, and rarely understood aspects of WCF development Learn why Azure Service Fabric is the killer app for modern DevOps

Over the last 350 years, Ireland has sent a constant stream of emigrants to North America. Estimates range from 6 to 10 million. Each emigrant spoke English, Irish, or Ulster Scots. Many indeed used two of these tongues. One of the most formative chapters in this fascinating story is the often-overlooked arrival of perhaps 200,000 people from Ulster in the colonial era, specifically in the sixty years before the American Revolution. This book recounts the lasting impact they made on the development of the,English language of the United States from the 18th century to the present day. It documents nearly 400 terms and meanings, each with quotations from both sides of the Atlantic, that were contributed to American English by these 18th-century settlers from Ulster. Drawing on letters they sent back to their homeland and on other archival documents associated with their settlement, including local fiction and poetry, it shows that Ulster emigrants and their children, who settled mainly in the American interior, gave as much to regional American English as any other group from the Old World. Its pages contain many pleasant surprises: readers will find terms both instantly recognisable and unfamiliar. The numerous quotations not only bring alive the speech of earlier days on both sides of the Atlantic but also extend our understanding of the culture, mannerisms and life of those pioneering times and, through the spoken and written word, poignantly link the past with the present.

Boy and Shannon are running from the jackals. They find themselves trapped. A new angel takes Shannon to another time and tries to take Shannons soul. Boy finds the second book then fights in the ring of blood. Noahs new love is taken from him. He meets new people and finds new friends, new angels, and some giants. He fights dinosaurs and spiders to stay alive and tries to find his father and friends. It all comes down to the end. Who lives?

Reading chapter one gives you directions for making charms and spells and talks about the colourful history of magic, starting from the mighty Atlanteans during the last great ice age 13,000 years ago, who perfectly mastered the wonderful craft and became very authentic sorcerers and magicians. Reading chapter eight gives you instructions for making the legendary philosopher's stone, a magical red crystal glowing in the dark that can be powdered and mixed together with a bottle of sweet red wine, miraculously granting drinkers of that supernatural shiraz a particular kind of immortality, plus rather famously changing ordinary grey lead into glittering yellow gold. Reading chapter thirteen gives you the most important component required for generating pure magical firepower which revolves completely around rivers of sparkling electricity. You will also discover stories about Merlin and castle knights from the misty enchanted kingdom of Great Britain. Stories about the devastatingly beautiful witch called Circe and her magical island from ancient Greek mythology. More information about Paracelsus and magnificent creatures like faeries, elves, dwarves, and goblins. More information about the tremendously mysterious and popular Rosicrucians who were positively great at practical magic and came from the sophisticated Shakespearean 1600's. Very old fashioned recipes for valentine love potions crafted from lizard orchid roots and marvellous merryweather potions crafted from million dollar saffron spice. Revolutionary secrets about levitation and making things quite literally float off the ground. Courageous captains riding the blue waves of the sea should really always have a good compass and trustworthy map. Get ready for more adventures because after 13 years worth of detective work and ridiculous quantities of coffee and donuts, resourcefully climbing mountains of library books and golden parchment, HERE IS YOUR TREASURE MAP. Cheers and good luck!

Offers exercises, quizzes, and strategies designed to improve one's spelling skills, teach spelling tricks, and aid in the identification of thousands of commonly misspelled words

This is a wonderful book of words and phrases that gives poetry new meaning. Michael Montgomery Matthews is a poet who uses life experiences to express the things that all people can feel and relate to. This is not a how to, but, rather, a how it is book.

Often considered merely a repository of archaic or even Elizabethan English, the language of southern Appalachia represents a distinctive American dialect that is both conservative and innovative. This dictionary marks the first comprehensive, historical record of the traditional speech of this region. Focusing on the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and western North Carolina, it features more than six thousand names, usages, meanings, and folk expressions that are found in the region, exemplified by more than fifteen thousand documented quotations.

The OWL and the PUSSY CATS tells the tragic story of a man who gave such pleasure to countless millions of children, yet was deprived the joy of having any of his own.

This story about a job on the moon is on the third level of the Hop, Step, Jump series. The series moves on from stories told in simple sentences with basic grammatical structures, through freer use of language to the level of reading reached at the end of primary school.

Amina is very shy. Although she is trained in first aid, she doesn't think she is very good at anything. A terrible accident on a school trip makes her forget her shyness. Amina is the only one who knows what to do.

Describes Johnny Appleseed's life on the road and his mission to plant trees, journeying across the land with his big bag of apple seeds and his cooking pot hat