This work is packed with inspiration for the difficult task of choosing suitable window dressings for your home. In "Window Dressings: Beautiful Draperies and Curtains for the Home", author Brian Coleman explores stunning window decor from Palm Beach to Seattle to New York, created by some of the country's most respected designers. Showcasing a ...
This introduction to computer science/programming in Scheme allows the student to experience the computer as a tool for expressing ideas, not as a set of mathematical obstacles. This goal is supported by the use of Scheme, a modern dialect of Lisp, designed to emphasize symbolic programming.
This full-color hands-on guide book has been enhanced to make learning even easier by offering more detailed lab setup instructions, expanded chapter summaries, and new practice exams that will reinforce the skills learned.
"Latin Style" is the decorating book for bringing the vibrant energy of the Latin culture into your home.Vibrant photographs and creative, original ideas provide the inspiration anyone needs to bring true Latin style to his or her own life. Whether as a source of inspiration or a defining accent, "Latin Style" will be the perfect addition to any ...
This full-color hands-on guide book has been enhanced to make learning even easier by offering more detailed lab setup instructions, expanded chapter summaries, and new practice exams that will reinforce the skills learned. It will empower students to successfully pass the MCSE/MCSA certification exam while preparing them to face the real-world ...
An introductory level text for students who are not majoring in computer science, as well as for computer science majors with no prior programming experience. This text teaches computer science from a functional and symbolic point of view. It provides a solid platform from which students can go on to study the seminal work "Structure and ...
Former All-Star MLB Player Jordan draws from personal experience to present this uplifting story about a confident, wise, and witty boy who achieves his dreams by overcoming the naysayers in his life. Full color.
Visit ten spectacular examples of economically sized gardens in the U.S. and England that show how any city dweller can create an oasis amidst the rush and tumble of urban life. Brian Coleman shares inspiring examples of a wide variety of small gardens, and reveals just how relaxing a small retreat can be. Get tips on how to coordinate your garden ...
This text looks at how contemporary societies are besotted with the "body", its size, shape and "health", and how governments, business and the popular media spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin.
The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning "away from the source") storage of particular classes of crops. Since the 1970s, the eleven genebanks maintained by the ...
Storage and Commodity Markets is primarily a work of economic theory, concerned with how the capability to store a surplus affects the prices and production of commodities. Its focus on the behaviour, over time, of aggregate stockpiles provides insights into such questions as how much a country should store out of its current supply of food ...
Founded in 1216, Penryn stands in a sheltered position at the head of the Penryn River and by the sixteenth century was once of the principal ports in Cornwall. The town prospered with its imports of a wide variety of cargo, and exports including tin and copper from the mining industries developed in the Camborne-Redruth area. Bustling Penryn of ...
Fronted by the irrepressible Cerys Matthews, Catatonia exploded onto the British rock scene in 1998 with hists such as "Mulder and Scully" and "Road Rage". The album "International Velvet" quickly became one of the year's biggest sellers and the follow up "Equally Cursed and Blessed", established them as a major pop force. Proud of their Welsh ...
This book provides comprehensive methodology, enabling the staff charged with an IT security audit to create a sound framework, allowing them to meet the challenges of compliance in a way that aligns with both business and technical needs. This 'road map' provides a way of interpreting complex, often confusing, compliance requirements within the ...
IP multicast is rapidly coming of age: its principles are solid, its protocols are being finalized, and it is increasingly being implemented in real-world ISP and enterprise networks. Now, a team of Juniper Networks IP multicast experts have written the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to IP multicast implementation. This book covers ...
Herbert Johnson, grandson of the founder of the SC Johnson Company, turned his corporation's fortunes around during the Depression by developing a highly successful self-polishing floor wax; in 1936 he sought out a suitable architect to design a worker-friendly new office building for the burgeoning business. The result was Frank Lloyd Wright's ...
Hand-pumped fire engines were first produced in the seventeenth century and a highly efficient machine was eventually developed by Richard Newsham. From the 1860s manual engines began to be superseded by steam fire engines but many households kept small manual pumps; a variety of such devices was available. This book shows the development of the ...
The discovery, in various quarters, of hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the chief of his Cambridge friends has stimulated the editors to produce a fundamentally new volume. Their notes too are based on archival material not previously explored. Wittgenstein's correspondents here are not his disciples but those he ...
This text looks at how contemporary societies are besotted with the "body", its size, shape and "health", and how governments, business and the popular media spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin.
`Wittgenstein and his Times' contains five essays by well-known philosophers, Anthony Kenny, Brian McGuinness, J.C.Nyiri, Rush Rees and G.H. von Wright, which relate Wittgenstein's thinking and world view to that of certain influential contemporaries. Although it is not surprising that Wittgenstein's work should have features in common with and ...
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