Web Scraping with Python

This book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the volumes of the same name published in 1974 and 1981. It provides its readers with a single, self-contained, fully-integrated and modern

A fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America, The Conquest of America has become a classic in its field. It offers an original

This sequel to "Reform in Eastern Europe" is a report on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbours. Focusing on the problem of East-West migration

Fun-filled volume challenges youngsters to find cleverly concealed objects while being introduced to letters of the alphabet and objects beginning with those letters. On the "A" page: an obvious ARTIS

While his beautiful and popular girlfriend, Lora, is out of town one weekend, Scotty enters into a brief affair with Shannon, a young woman he has just met, but when the weekend is over and Scotty wis

A leading feminist activist, author, and nationally known lecturer writes of her struggle to integrate a feminist head with a Jewsih heart.

The comprehensive guide to creating, valuing, and trading today's most innovative fixed-income securities . Financial markets worldwide are being flooded with a wealth of innovative and increasingly c

"First Job is readable and entertaining. The chapters are short and well organized. Each chapter begins and ends with summaries, so that the reader is well prepared to move on to new subject areas. Th

Unappreciative of what he has in life, Danny travels with the magical old man Socrates into another world, where his quest for the crystal castle teaches him that it is the journey itself that makes a

Complete with glossary and bibliography, this book is a must have for every serious student of mammology. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume uses two or more pairs of contrast

This stunning photographic essay on Greece is the result of a passionate love affair with the country conducted over twenty years by Clay Perry, a photographer whose books on English landscape, archit

For those who work with FIBER in weaving, spinning, crocheting, knitting, macrame; for those who work with CLOTH in batik, tie-dying, quilting, applique, soft sculpture, sewing. With this book you can

Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities."This biography begins not with one of the universally known incidents of Alexander's life, but with an account of his fathe

What is Te?What is Taoism?What has Piglet to do with either?Te (pronounced "Deh") is Chinese for Virtue. Taoism is a Chinese philosophy. (Practically speaking, it's more than "Chinese," and more than

"I spy with my little eye something beginning with A..." Even the very youngest art lovers can spy out the apple in Magritte's Son of Man through the zigzags in de Geest's Portrait of a Child. Interac

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of ho

Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their

A small red puppy named Clifford learns about the fun one can have playing with bubbles in a chunky-shaped board book that focuses on toddlers' experiences.

Illus. in black-and-white. With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American history and the mystery of that eerie half-hour b

This comprehensive series of volumes on inorganic chemistry provides inorganic chemists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Every volume r

" This is an account of a Native American family in central Kentucky in the year 1585. Fishes-With-Hands, his wife She-Who-Watches, and their family grind corn, make cooking pots, and build their home

Ruth Beall Heinig draws on her experience as a creative drama specialist to give teachers some practical but substantial methods of dramatizing literature with their students.

Written to convey an intuitive feel for both theory and practice, its main objective is to illustrate what a powerful tool density estimation can be when used not only with univariate and bivariate da

The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of

Discusses how the physician can supply patients with the necessary preventive measures against coronary heart disease (CHD). The work covers traditional variables of disease as well as the societal, e

Jenneen, Kate, Ellamarie and Ashley are enviable women. They are desirable and powerful, with glamorous jobs in the media and the theatre and the closest of friendships. But each of the friends has a

With The Magic of Recluce, L.E. Modesitt made his impressive hardcover debut, breaking out in wide scope and grand scale with a novel in the great tradition of the war between good and evil in a wonde

The original works of the great Chasidic rabbis are not readily available and have never been rendered into English. As with his previous books, The Great Torah Commentators and The Responsa Anthol

This volume presents an exegetical analysis of the first seven chapters of the Apocalypse. It reaffirms the basic framework of eschatology espoused by ancient Christianity, but with added perspectiv

This down-to-earth book is aimed at Third World development staff involved in working with the rural poor and draws on the author's own field experience in Africa and Asia. The book is also relevant t

First published in 1864, Macaria; or, Altars of Sacri?ce was the third novel of Augusta Jane Evans, one of the leading women writers of nineteenth-century domestic ?ction. A wartime best seller, with

Fifteen intermediate to advanced level arrangements of the most often requested classical pieces for weddings. These can be played as solos, duets or trios with or without piano accompaniment. Include

The Hopi Indians of Arizona have long been portrayed in the anthropological literature as a sober, peaceful, and cooperative people with an egalitarian social organization. Hopi ideology itself encou

From exploring the basic principles of entomology to starting a collection, The Practical Entomologist is the perfect introduction to the world of insects.Beginning with the basics, the text describe

Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploi

Fifteen intermediate to advanced level arrangements of the most often requested classical pieces for weddings. These can be played as solos, duets or trios with or without piano accompaniment. Include

This down-to-earth book is aimed at Third World development staff involved in working with the rural poor and draws on the author's own field experience in Africa and Asia. The book is also relevant t

(Applause Books). A documented screenplay of the Oliver Stone film, complete with historical annotation, with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer, Tom Wicker, Gerald

With the art in 43 award-winning books as your palette, and the author's constructive insight and guidance for support, you can introduce the elements of design and explore the various media used by i

A self-study textbook for readers with the mathematical background of a sophomore student of engineering or science. Describes various forms of representing information, and establishes that both reco