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 How to Lie with MapsOriginally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must.
| | Encyclopedia of Products & Industries: ManufacturingEncyclopedia of Products & Industries—Manufacturing (EPIM) is a compilation of essays on 120 major product categories across the entire spectrum of U.S. manufacturing activity. The purpose of this publication is to provide product information in structured format to students and analysts. While the focus is on products, the industrial... | | The Next Million Years.WHEN anyone starts to write on a subject, at which he has not hitherto worked professionally, his proper procedure should be to set out on a long course of reading, with careful preparatory annotations of all he has read. Such a course on a tremendous subject like the present one might easily take ten years. At the time when I determined to write... |
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SAT Writing Essentials
The SAT writing exam consists of 49 multiple-choice questions and an essay. SAT Writing Essentials mirrors the real test with 35 minutes devoted to the questions, followed by 25 minutes for the essay. Incorporating the SAT's most recent changes, these questions emphasize grammar and usage and the most effective way to revise a sentence or... | | Effective Java (2nd Edition) (The Java Series)Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the Java™ programming language so that you can write code that is clearer, more correct, more robust, and more reusable? Look no further! Effective Java™, Second Edition, brings together seventy-eight indispensable programmer’s rules of thumb:... | | American Indian Biographies (Magill's Choice)This volume is a revised and expanded edition of Salem Press’s American Indian Biographies, which was published in 1999. The majority of the essays in that first edition were taken from Salem’s Ready Reference: American Indians (1995), and 32 new essays were added. American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition includes all the subjects... |
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Handbook of Database Security: Applications and TrendsDatabase security has been gaining a great deal of importance as industry, military, and government organizations have increasingly adopted Internet-based technologies on a large-scale, because of convenience, ease of use, and the ability to take advantage of rapid advances in the commercial market. Along with the traditional security aspects of... | | Embedded Software: The Works"This one book has an amazing breadth of coverage, undertaking all the key subjects embedded engineers need to understand in order to succeed." - eg3.com, November 2005
Embedded software needs have grown exponentially over the past quarter century. In 1975 writing 10,000 lines of assembly code was a considered a... | | Music And Philosophy (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)Music played a central role in the thought of existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973). One of the most tantalizing claims he made in a set of conversations with Paul Ricoeur. Employing a geographic metaphor, he claimed that philosophy was the continent of his work while his plays formed the off-shore islands; but what was deepest was... |
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104 Number Theory Problems: From the Training of the USA IMO TeamThis challenging problem book by renowned US Olympiad coaches, mathematics teachers, and researchers develops a multitude of problem-solving skills needed to excel in mathematical contests and research in number theory. Offering inspiration and intellectual delight, the problems throughout the book encourage students to express their ideas,... | | | | |
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