All Renny Harding wants is to play centre-forward and help his team - the Blue Hornets - win the championship. All Bruce McCormack wants is to win the championship for his team - the Yellow Jackets - and to take home the MVP award. The two boys could not be more different, but can they be friends?
Microsoft's Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), a subset of Visual Basic for Applications, is a powerful language for Internet application development where it can serve as a scripting language for server-side Internet applications (i.e., Active Server Pages), and client-side Web pages. It can also be used for system scripting (i.e., ...
Lightweight yet powerful, VBScript from Microsoft is used in four main areas: server-side Web applications using Active Server Pages (ASP), client-side Web scripts using Internet Explorer, code behind Outlook forms, and automating repetitive tasks using Windows Script Host (WSH). "VBScript in a Nutshell", Second Edition delivers current and ...
Eleven-year-old Chris is small for his age, so he can't believe it when he learns he's been selected for the exclusive all-star travelling hockey team. It's not all fun and games playing for the Arctic Wolves, however. Some of the kids on the opposition are much bigger and rougher, and they pick on Chris because of his size. But Chris isn't the ...
Panoramic photographs and sweeping mosaics of the surface of Mars, drawn from digital images taken by Pathfinder and Sojourner and photos taken by the Vik space missions in the 1970s.
The 2003 edition of this essay collection contains works by Jonathan Lethem, Richard Melzer, Greil Marcus, Sarah Vowell, Nick Tosches, Roseanne Cash, and Luc Sante, among others.
While his mother is working overseas, Matt Harper is living temporarily with his uncle in Dragon Valley, where he practices his snowboard technique and contends with a local bully.
Two competitive brothers take to the dangerous Devil's Ravine for a contest of snowboarding moves and daring runs. Freddie ponders whether this opportunity to outshine his brother Dondi is really worth the risk.
Master advanced techniques and explore strategies to deploy Autodesk« Architectural Desktop (ADT) 3.3! Written by Paul F. Aubin, author of the popular Mastering Autodesk« Architectural Desktop, this guidebook emphasizes the process of creating projects with ADT and equips readers with tools to assess current CAD standards and build checklists for ...
Kelly Conroy loves playing softball--and she's so good that her team almost won the championship last season. When the new season begins, Kelly is thrilled to be playing with her friends again, but then she receives the devastating news that she's been traded to another team.
Studies confirm what Goldberg and Fitzgerald have observed in their clients: getting leaner--not just thinner--is the single most important change necessary to feel and look better. The 12-week Lean Look program offers readers a straightforward guide to getting the lean body they've always wanted.
DNS on Windows NT is a special edition of the classic DNS and BIND, which Microsoft recommends for Windows NT users and administrators. It discusses one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many ...
Malik Edwards regards golf as an old man's game--until he sees a young black golfer on TV. But where does a kid living in Brooklyn get the gear or the money to play--and where can he play?
When industrial sabotage causes an experiment in atomic energy to go awry, nuclear physicist Doctor Phillip Solar is transformed into a living atomic reactor! Now Doctor Solar uses his miraculous energy-based powers to protect the innocent and to thwart the diabollcal machinations of the mysterious archcriminal known only as Nuro. The original ...
Mary Lee Bendolph's extraordinary patchworks garnered national attention when they were featured among the works of other quiltmakers from her tiny, predominately African American community in the 2002 blockbuster exhibition and book, "The Quilts of Gee's Bend." This beautiful book examines Bendolph's inspiration, creative process, and individual ...
"Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)" is an impassioned argument in favor of science - primarily the theory of evolution - and against creationism. Why impassioned? Should not scientists be dispassionate in their work? 'Perhaps', write the authors, 'but it is impossible to remain neutral when our most successful scientific theories are ...
When physicist Doctor Phillip Solar's experimental nuclear power caused him to absorb a dangerous amount of atomic radiation, the scientist miraculously survived only to find that he had gained incredible powers over matter and energy. Now, Solar must isolate himself from others to avoid exposing them to the same harmful and deadly radiation that ...
Jackie Estacado, mafia hitman and Darkness wielder, died in a blaze of revenge. The Darkness, however, was not about to let him go so easily. It pieced him back together and wrenched him back from the depths of hell. Now, he must find a new place in a family that had moved on without him - and Jackie wants the top spot.
Microsoft's Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), a subset of Visual Basic for Applications, is a powerful language for Internet application development, where it can serve as a scripting language for server-side, client-side, and system scripting. Based on the book "VBScript in a Nutshell", this text details every VBScript language element - ...
Three mini-campaigns set in present-day New York State lead investigators through serial murder investigations, madness, and into the middle of an ancient conflict between bitter rivals. Along the way investigators will be aided by mysterious allies, face the Cult of the Sacred Light and the Black Brotherhood, and confront immortal horrors beyond ...
Grendel. A name synonymous with crime and violence. Hunter Rose. A name familiar with wealth and privilege. Two identities, one Devil. Acclaimed Grendel creator Matt Wagner crafts a series of tales that spotlights those the Devil has influenced and intimidated, a grim grimoir of punishment and revenge illustrated in stark black, white, and blood ...
Spanning from "Vietnam and the Johnson Years" to "Clinton and Everyone Else", the editorial cartoons of Paul Szep showcase his biting wit and scathing social commentary. At The Boston Globe since 1966, Szep, as he is known to his thousands of loyal fans, has had more than three decades to hone the razor edge of his ironic, sarcastic humor. No one ...
How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? What lessons can be drawn to influence the future shape of criminal justice policy? "Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice" is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a ...
Rivalry flares between twelve-year-old Freddie and his fourteen-year-old brother Dondi, both on and off the snowboarding slopes, nearly leading to disaster.
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