From an Idea to Google is a behind-the-computer-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest search engine. With humorous black & white illustrations thro
Proclus: Ten Problems Concerning ProvidenceTranslated by Jan Opsomer & Carlos SteelIn this treatise Proclus discusses ten problems on providence and fate, foreknowledge of the future, human respon
In these proceedings for the August 2005 workshop, contributors describe their most recent work in what must be one of the most commercially applicable fields in computer science. Topics include nonvo
Lyrical text and lush pictures show how woodland animals prepare for winter -- and find food after a big snowstorm, with a little help from some human friends.
"Programming with C++, Second Edition", is an update of the highly successful first edition - a bestseller in Schaum's computer science line - and reflects the new ISO standard for C++, rendering prev
This four-volume encyclopedia is aimed primarily at middle and high school students and is the first of projected similar treatments of other science fields (biology, math, computer sciences, animal s
Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence.Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extre
This study of the psychological impulse to "make pets" examines the interplay of pleasure, aesthetics, play, and power in the molding and domination of nature, animals, and human beings--by human bein
Spiders are amazing creatures! There are 38,000 known species of spiders. Did you know a human is said to never be more than ten feet away from a spider? But spiders are NOT insects! Spiders have eigh
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance.Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient speci
One day, an alien orphan crash-lands on Earth and is adopted by a human couple, the Kents. Many years later, that little boy becomes Superman, protector of Earth! But how did the Man of Steel go from
Georgina Kincaid has formidable powers. Immortality, seduction, shape-shifting into any human form she desires, walking in heels that would cripple mere mortals—all child’s play to a succubus like h
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening j
The importance of compassion as an antidote to human suffering is a long and venerable history with recent research evidence to support it. Originally developed to help individuals who suffer high lev
At the core of this ancient strategy manual is the understanding that conflict is an inescapable part of human experience. Since, as Sun Tzu teaches, aggression and response in kind can lead only to d
為兼顧國際人權發展及台灣歷史與國情，將與人權相關之字彙、背景及其說明等資料，編撰成實用工具書，並加入中國大陸與香港常用之專有名詞，以提供社會人士、大專校院及國中小教師查閱使用。With the progress of social development, human rights have attracted more and more attention of the world,
The narrative of Cyprus' recent history has created numerous attitudes and prejudices which run deep but which have never before been explored on a human level. Now for the first time Yiannis Papadaki
Viruses are microorganisms that are as varied in type as the plants and animals of the macroscopic world. A particularly virulent virus can infect and kill a human host, which is 10 million times larg
Front-line, behind-the-scenes military adventure that will steal your breath and take you deep inside the world of the nation’s most lethal human weapons–from an Air Force Combat Crewmember who’s seen
The human race has just begun. In the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, several people are struck by a cosmic blue light that "quickens" their DNA, causing them instantaneously to evolve far beyond
The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that
In an age when almost anything can be somehow quantified and then measured, Sally Engle Merry’s latest book shows how quantification can hide or even distort as much as it reveals. She is particularly
This innovative, all-new practice-oriented workbook includes experiential learning exercises explicitly aligned to the practice behaviors recommended in the Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) E
Biotechnology is the applied science of using living organisms and their by-products for commercial development. It has grown and evolved to such an extent over the past few years that increasing numb
Papers from a spring 2005 conference describe the latest research in recognition, medical imaging, shape analysis and segmentation, early vision and stereo vision, scene analysis and tracking, intelli
