Primarily for self-learners, Campesato explains the basics of the Python software. Readers will have an easier time the more background they have with other scripting languages and other programming l
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
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.
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
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
The science and stories behind the remarkable Polynesian settlement of the South Pacific and finally New Zealand, with plentiful illustrations and maps
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
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
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
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
London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing
Kostiner is a Chicago-based photographer who became involved with the National Fatherhood Initiative, travelled to community-based NFI programs, and met with and photographed fathers and children. Thi
Weeds Don't Perish is a memoir which combines the political with the personal aspects of the life of someone growing up in Palestine in the 30s and 40s, and living there and in the new state of Israel
Eminent South African novelist and historian Schoeman wrote most of the 17 essays here for the Quarterly Bulletin of what is now the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, with the intention of
The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is a journey of self-discovery and an exploration of man’s relationship with the Creator. Mecca is located in an arid land where nothing grows, and few, if any, earthly di
Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialisin
A witty, revealing memoir by Phantom FM DJ Steve Conway about the years he spent on Radio Caroline, the pirate radio ship with a rock 'n' roll history, published alongside the release of Richard Curti
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
Hamad presents students, academics, and professionals working in a variety of contexts with a examination of step-by-step procedures for creating and modifying 3D models using AutoCAD software, assign
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
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
Staddon analyzes science, policy, history, and current discourse around tobacco smoking, arguing that current social treatment of the issue does not line up with what the hard available data shows. He
An illustrated novel which combines John Jackson's retellings of Hinduism's foundational myths with black and white illustrations by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, in a style reminiscent of the 'Golden
For readers new to the Microsoft operating system, Richardson describes the use of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac in a project-driven approach that balances understanding with ability. Afte
Richardson explains Microsoft's presentation software for both Windows and Mac using a project-driven approach that emphasizes both understanding and ability. Each chapter begins with an overview of o
This is a masterly, immensely readable and totally convincing narrative of 500 years of this great and mightily important British industryIn fact, this new book describes with great insight and clarit
Laurie Brown has long been fascinated with what happens at the edge of cities. In her pioneering, photographic work on Los Angeles, her focus was on the terraforming activities in that quintessential
Richard Boggs first came to Sudan as a volunteer in 1986. He has very much lived among the Sudanese. His is not a life lived with expats and diplomats the warriors of the White Nile; the Nubian wrestl
Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for 40 years and has had three of his friends killed by them. The international author known for his war writing now turns his efforts on hig
Haworth parsonage and village will forever be linked inextricably with one nineteenth-century literary family. For it was here, in 1821, that Patrick Bront, an Irish Anglican clergyman, came from Thor
This volume documents the phase of white contact with the Transgariep region in Africa from 1819 to 1840 through written accounts left by the first white travelers. White hunters from the Cape Colony
When a young, naively confident Jurgen Schadeberg first arrived at The Star news offices in Johannesburg with a Leica strung over his shoulder, he was informed by the paper's chief photographer that h
Head of the Zoology Department at the U. of Pretoria for 31 years (1954-1985) and chairman of the National Parks Board of South Africa for 15 years (1979-1994), Eloff sites his involvement with the pe
Most of the literature on slavery during the first 60 years in the colony that is now South Africa, is Dutch or Afrikaans, says Schoeman, and his purpose with this volume is to translate that material
Noticing that students came to class with both Microsoft and Apple products, Richardson (director, online information technology, at a private university) and Thies (Tulane U.) developed a textbook th
Gray Hill was a distinguished Liverpool solicitor who, along with his wife, made a number of annual trips to Jordan, Palestine and Syria. This work is the record of three of these trips, made in 1888,
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
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
