Fully updated to reflect Java SE 7 language changes, Core Java(r), Volume II-Advanced Features, Ninth Edition, is the definitive guide to Java's most powerful features for enterprise and desktop application development. Designed for serious programmers, this reliable, unbiased, no-nonsense tutorial [...]

The Fragments of the Roman Historians is a definitive and comprehensive edition of the fragmentary texts of all the Roman historians whose works are lost. Historical writing was an important part of the literary culture of ancient Rome, and its best-known exponents, including Sallust, Livy, Tacitus,[...]

The dark is rising ...Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career. Then his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. Furious, Quill pursues the investigation, co-opting intelligence analyst Lisa Ross and undercover cops Costain and Sefton. But nothing a[...]

Drawing on mindfulness, body psychotherapy and positive psychology, focusing--used in conjunction with any therapy type--teaches clients how to identify their inner awareness or "felt sense" to spur real change and therapeutic progress. This clinical guide explains its core principles, how to incorp[...]

Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon of[...]

This cutting edge and comprehensive book - with contributions from the star faculty of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration - offers the latest thinking on the best practices and strategies for hospitality management. A must for students and professionals seeking to enter or expand th[...]

This text covers the development of decision theory and related applications of probability. Extensive examples and illustrations cultivate students' appreciation for applications, including strength of materials, soil mechanics, construction planning, and water-resource design. Emphasis on fundamen[...]

The scope and stature of Ruth Asawa's work are brought into brilliant focus in this superb book, created to accompany the first complete retrospective of the artist's career. Beginning with her earliest works--drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College--this[...]

"When I was little, I could hardly do anything. But now I can do lots of things, like braid my own hair and go to nmusery school. I'm not a baby anymore. I'm me "Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her ch[...]