The Easy, Common-Sense Guide to Solving Real Problems with NoSQL The Mere Mortals(R) tutorials have earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest way to master essential database technologies. Now, there's one for today's exciting new NoSQL databases. NoSQL for Mere Mortals guides you through so[...]
A treasury of all fourteen of the beloved Savoy Operas Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas are some of the world's best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit and extravagant wordplay. From the triumphant comic romps The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, and The Mikado to [...]
Just try harder.
Just work harder. Just do more.
But what happens when working harder doesn't seem to be getting you better results? You've got to get unstuck.
In "Getting Unstuck, "Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson show the different kinds of plateaus that can hold you back and how they c[...]
Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different - light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. Not the good brown skin his family has and not the white skin of tourists. Habo is strange and alone. His father, unable to accept Habo, abandons the family; his mother can scarcely look at him. His brothers a[...]
Traces the story of Mary Clarke, describing her choice to leave her comfortable home for a spiritual life among drug lords and inmates in one of Mexico's most notorious jails, where she organized the Servants of the Eleventh Hour community of sisters and led numerous criminals through profound spiri[...]
Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and this work tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages.[...]
Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles the entire history of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that will see its final Yankees game in 2008. As Yankee Stadium is about to become a [...]
'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.' With these words, W.S. Gilbert summed up his reasons for persisting in his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan despite the combative nature of their relationship. In fact, Michael Ainger suggests in Gilbert and Sullivan the success of the pair's work is a [...]
Describes statistical techniques for the design and evaluation of research studies on medical diagnostic tests, screening tests, biomarkers and various technologies for classification and prediction in medicine.[...]
This new course provides students and teachers with current, meaningful, and practical activities along a thematic approach to help students to develop skills, gain confidence and enjoy the study of English. Each book provides reading, writing, listening and speaking activities that support the deve[...]
Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a single-volume comprehensive compendium, hailed widely a[...]
Written by two leading authorities in the field, The Law of Contract is the perfect student companion, providing a concise overview of the fundamental principles of contract law, demystifying complex areas without oversimplification. Accessible and engaging, this invaluable text is the ideal guide t[...]
Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political objective in almost 40% of their military operations against weak state and non-state targets since 1945. Why are states with tremendous military might[...]
One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. 'I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was ...just beauty, you know?' John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not rea[...]
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists - or "fuckologists," to use his own memorable term - John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s, yet [...]
This is the new edition of the popular Decision Making in Social Work. The second edition maintains its accessible and engaging style to provide readers with a coherent framework for effective decision making. Decision making is a core activity in social work and this important text is essential rea[...]
How might we produce our subjectivity differently? Indeed, what are we capable of becoming? This book addresses these questions with a particular eye to ethics, understood as a practice of living, and aesthetics, understood as creative experimentation and the cultivation of a certain style of life. [...]
How are responses to urban policy challenges affected by new ideas about governance? How can we explain the governance transformations that result? And what are the consequences for democracy? This wide-ranging study of three European cities - Birmingham, Copenhagen and Rotterdam - shows how hybrid [...]
The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction provides an innovative and comprehensive methodology for the analysis of Storyspace hypertext fiction. The book begins by examining the development of hypertext theory from the enthusiastic claims about the narrative capabilities that accompanied the first-w[...]
Develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. This book presents an argument which is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art.[...]