Refactoring is about improving the design of existing code. It is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code, yet improves its internal structure. With refactoring you can even take a bad design and rework it into a good one. This book offers a thorough discussion of the ...
This quick and practical guide to grammar, punctuation, and usage skills contains important features that distinguish it from other grammar workbooks. The text's three-part format highlights the 16 most vital grammar skills up front, leaving the rest of the text for secondary topics and additional grammar activities. A self-teaching approach ...
Exercises in this workbook encourage students in American government courses to think systematically about political relationships and behaviors. Exercises focus on the analysis and interpretation of data, the discovery of basic relationships among variables, and more.
In this textbook, the authors use intuition, logic, and examples to provide a conceptual understanding of finance. The text as a whole is organized around the financial balance sheet and the theme of value creation is present throughout. Advanced mathematics are kept to a minimum. A sampling of topi
Johnny Rotten tells his own side of the Sex Pistols story and the era that spawned them, in a memoir that includes comments by others who were there during the punk revolution.
In recent years, more fathers have attempted to win custody of their children following a divorce. In "Fighting for Your Children", the authors help men who are facing such a battle, guiding them through the entire legal experience. Using anecdotes from fathers who have successfully gained full or joint custody of their children as well as from ...
This revised and updated edition of "The Economics of Banking" addresses the need for a user-friendly textbook that is mathematically accessible and provides a microeconomic context, which enables students to understand and analyze contemporary trends and operations in banking. Providing a sound theoretical basis for understanding bank behavior, ...
A practical guide to the two cities that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and also to the towns of San Giminiano and Fiesole. Every building and site of interest - churches, galleries, the dwellings of princes, saints and scoundrels - is identified and illustrated. The entries are accompanied by captions spiced with anecdotes. There is a ...
"Vadose Zone Processes" provides a unified, up-to-date treatment on the movement of water through unsaturated media. In addition to covering the basic equations governing the flow and fate of water in unsaturated media, the text covers the biogeochemistry of vadose environments and the statistical description of vadose processes. The authors ...
William Temple (1881-1944) was the outstanding British religious leader of the twentieth century. He believed that the 'modern state' was incomplete without a modern Christian church, which should set the moral and political tone of the community. His political and religious best seller, Christianity and Social Order, which was published as a ...
Offering a brief introduction to corporate finance, this text is devoted to coverage of core financial management topics and avoids unnecessary mathematics. Emphasis is on the concepts, logic, and intuition underlying financial decision-making. This text utilizes a financial balance sheet framework throughout in order to help students visualize ...
In 2005, in more than forty states, class action suits were filed claiming a father's constitutional parental right guarantees him nothing less than 50% of the time with his children. This book is devised for all those who are often overlooked in our somewhat antiquated system. Solomon's Choice provides advice pertaining to issues both in and out ...
The use of wildlife for food and other human needs poses one of the greatest threats to the conservation of biodiversity. Wildlife exploitation is also critically important to many people from a variety of cultures for subsistence and commerce. This book brings together international experts to examine interactions between the biology of wildlife ...
Wesley and the Wesleyans challenges the cherished myth that at the moment when the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were threatening the soul of eighteenth-century England, an evangelical revival - led by the Wesleys - saved it. It will interest anyone concerned with the history of Methodism and the Church of England, the Evangelical ...
In The coming Evangelical Crisis, fourteen respected Christian leaders and thinkers come together to sound the alarm about the growing trend toward what they see as a tentative and diluted gospel message.
Step-by-step tutorials show readers how to develop usable scripts. The book makes a natural progression from introductory to more advanced material. "Online Updates" on www.netscapepress.com features concrete examples and all scripts from the book.
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