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God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

Harper Perennial, 2007

At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.

From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and...

Windows Server 2008 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, and MCITP 70-646, 70-647

Que, 2011

Thanks for buying the Windows Server 2008 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, and MCITP 70-646, 70-647 . I’d love to say that this book was my idea, but the real credit goes to Scott Empson who originally developed the vision of this book with Cisco certifications. I’ve worked with Scott and Pearson...

A Hologram for the King

McSweeney's, 2012

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights...

Business Continuity Planning and HIPAA: Business Continuity Management in the Health Care Environment

Rothstein Associates, 2004

This book includes the precautions and procedures that address the concerns of HIPAA, but presents them along with other business components in order to emphasize the need for a holistic approach when constructing and maintaining a business plan.

This book examines business continuity planning as adapted to encompass the requirements of...

Alternative Breast Imaging: Four Model-Based Approaches (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Springer, 2004

Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques. An enabling force behind this progress has been the (so far) exponentially increasing power of computers, which has made it practical to explore...

Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

Originally devised to enhance web pages in Netscape 2.0, JavaScript is now faced with being a single-threaded language in a multimedia, multitasking, multicore world. Yet JavaScript has not only persevered since 1995, it’s thrived. One after the other, potential rivals in the browser—Flash, Silverlight, and Java...

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

O'Reilly, 2002

In 1984, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project for the purpose of developing a complete UNIX-like operating system that would allow for free software use. What he developed was the GNU operating system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX,'' and it is pronounced guh-NEW. Linux is a variant of the GNU operating system.) This...

Web Security, Privacy and Commerce, 2nd Edition

O'Reilly, 2002

The World Wide Web has changed our world. More than half the people in the United States now use the Web on a regular basis. We use it to read today's news, to check tomorrow's weather, and to search for events that have happened in the distant past. And increasingly, the Web is the focus of the 21st century...

Designing Virtual Reality Systems: The Structured Approach

Springer, 2005

Developing and maintaining a VR system is a very difficult task, requiring in-depth knowledge in many disciplines. The difficulty lies in the complexity of having to simultaneously consider many system goals, some of which are conflicting.

This book is organized so that it follows a spiral development process for each stage, describing the...

Use of Force: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series)

Atria, 2017

“With his latest pulse-pounding adventure, Brad Thor puts the rest of the genre on notice—Use of Force is the thriller to beat in 2017.”—The Real Book Spy

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor.

As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a...

The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa

James Currey, 2021

On 3 September 1984 a bloody uprising set the African townships of the Vaal Triangle aflame. Triggered by dissatisfaction over rent increases and a local government that was failing to provide any meaningful political power or social transformation to the black majority, it heralded the insurrectionary period that was to profoundly...

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Penguin Press, 2005

He has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing...

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