This book provides an overview of CSS3 for people who are comfortable with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and who want to learn CSS3. This Pocket Primer serves as a starting point for deeper exploration of CSS3.
Campesato presents an overview of the major aspects and the source code to use D3--data-driven documents--primary for self-learners who are familiar with HTML Web pages and JavaScript. For the benefit
Tabatabaian presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with an introduction to the fundamental physics, characteristics, and common models of tu
Parker presents this guide to use of the programming language Processing in game development. The first chapter discusses structural aspects of computer games in terms of player experience, coding arc
This is a fully revised edition of the Stuart's best-selling field guide to southern Africa's extraordinary wealth of mammal species – from tiny shrews to the iconic Big Five, and including those that
VanGuilder defines environmental audits, explains why to conduct them, and provides detailed guidance on how to conduct them. He also breaks down the environmental regulatory programs into more easily
"My past was behind a curtain. I had to go to Feruzeh. I had to see her so I could open the curtain of both the future and the past.” Two young people from foreign lands meet in a shop in Cam
Botros provides the fundamental knowledge necessary to understand how to design and analyze basic digital logic systems and to know how to simulate these systems using hardware description languages (
Against All Odds is a story of how Dr. Ram Chugh, refused to sublimate his enormous potential to stultifying circumstances. This intimate piece of personal history is about more than simply surviving
Social history has until now proven to be the most suitable point of departure to pursue the wider connections between sport, leisure and society or explore the interconnections between sport and leis
Richardson and Thies introduce the Microsoft Office suite to new users of computers and to people moving from another platform. They cover computing basics, word processing, presentation software, spr
It can be hard beating your brain to dredge up something you've forgotten. But how would it be if you couldn't forget anything – ever? Except, of course, the one thing you desperately want to know: wh
Appealing to general readers with an interest in South African history, this guide to important historical battlefields, provides both background contextual information as well as detailed military an
Pieter Cilliers s autobiography, first published in South Africa in 1997, is a heartrending story of a gay pastor s struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality. It was hailed for its pioneering r
September, 1900. South Africa. Simon Fonthill, along with his wife Alice, “352” Jenkins, and tracker Mzingeli, is travelling to Pretoria to meet with General Kitchener. With information that the next
On May 2, 1999, after her election to the Turkish Parliament, 30-year-old Merve Kavakci walked into the Turkish Grand National Assembly to take her oath of office wearing her Islamic headscarf. A near
The Great Plains is one of Earth's greatest ecosystems. Comprised of short- and tall-grass prairie, it extends from the Canadian Arctic south to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains in the dry west to t
Experienced freelance photographer David Freese and writer Simon Winchester (The Map that Changed the World) have gotten together to change the way readers see the West Coast. They do it through a boo
One day during the London Blitz, Julie Monday is caught in the chaos of a direct hit. Alive but suffering severe memory loss, Julie must decide to either make a new life for herself, or struggle to re
Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, hammams were absorbed by Islam to such an extent that many became almost annexes to nearby mosques. This title reveals how these ancient institutions cat
Tearing up the Silk Road is an irreverent travelogue that details a journey along the ancient trade routes from China to Istanbul, through Central Asia, Iran and the Caucasus. As Tom Coote struggles t
Rose McQuinn has agreed to help her neighbor, Mrs. Lawer, by delivering what she claims to be a family legacy to her only living relative. But Rose s philanthropic journey takes a turn towards the dan
South African philosopher Versfeld challenges the fragmentation caused by Descartes' dictum "I think therefore I am," and turns to Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and other thinkers to find wholeness. His
She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers. The thought caused her more sadness than fear; less a sense of foreboding than a cause to wonder w
This detailed and comprehensive guide to the 151 snakes indigenous to southern Africa covers all essential aspects of snake biology and behavior. Now in its second edition, A Complete Guide to the Sna
Using a question and answer format, practical examples, and numerous illustrations, this book explains child obesity concepts and related issues. It first offers easy-to-understand definitions of the
Hamad presents students, academics, and professionals working in a variety of contexts with a comprehensive guide to 2D Drafting using AutoCAD 2015 software. The author has organized the main body of
Behcet’s disease is a rare, vascular autoinflammatory illness that is little understood. Using a question-and-answer format – along with illustrations and photographs – this book gives easy-to-underst
Collects twenty-two short stories, including "Left, Right, Attention!," in which a Foreign Office employee finds his sister may be the key to deciphering the coded message he has in his briefcase.
Set in small-town 1960s, The Country Doctor’s contains four interweaving stories and portrays the scandals and tensions of a year in Everham. Follow Shelagh, a doctor with a desire to not only prove h
A cross between memoir, biography, and coffee-table photographic history book, this volume covers the author's visits to, and photographs of, WWI battlefield sites and the American Battle Monuments Co
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) led an extraordinary life, around the time of Darwin. He was dedicated to locating and identifying butterflies, particularly in South America. Crawforth (PhD candidate,
North West India, July 1897. Former army scout Simon Fonthill and his wife Alice are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to India for an anniversary party with the Guides Corps. However, an ambus
Taking pages from books of nature, art, and architecture, Rachel Fletcher provides visual designers of all disciplines and art forms with geometric methods and techniques for composing spaces and plac
After a bitter family feud because she is gay, photographer Jo is cut off from her niece and nephew. It is this loss that influences her photography from that point forward. She runs off to London, wh
This is the second volume of two-volume work examining the concept of costless inputs to wealth creation. Costless inputs are scarce, create value, cannot be purchased, and, the author argues, must be
Having worked as an adviser with police forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere), the author describes the use of police intelligence for counterinsurgency to non-specialists. He discusses polic
This text introduces the computer environment and productivity software applications in Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, and the OpenOffice.org suite to students and beginners who
