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Illiberal Liberal States

Ashgate, 2009

Understanding the dynamics of the illiberal practices of liberal states is increasingly important in Europe today. This book examines the changing relationship and interaction between immigration, citizenship and integration at the European and national arenas. It studies some of the main effects and open questions as regards the...

Matthew's Enigma: A Father's Portrait of His Autistic Son

Indiana University Press, 2009

Matthew's Enigma unfolds the complex relationship between a father, who is a Romanian emigré and distinguished university professor, and his son, who was diagnosed with autism when he was 7 years old. Matei Calinescu's desire to understand Matthew -- his namesake -- is the theme of this moving memoir. Calinescu's determined...

Reliable Knowledge Discovery

Springer, 2012

With the rapid development of the data mining and knowledge discovery, a key issue which could significantly affect the real world applications of data mining is the reliability issues of knowledge discovery. It is natural that people will ask if the discovered knowledge is reliable. Why do we trust the discovered knowledge? How...

Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Java Series) (3rd Edition)

O'Reilly, 1999

The 3rd edition of the well-known reference, Java in a Nutshell, covers the essential APIs of Java 1.2, including networking, security, input and output, and basic language and utility classes. Due to the size of the Java 1.2 API, graphics and graphical user interface classes are now examined in a volume called Java Foundation Classes...

The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain

MIT Press, 2009

There are lots of books on consciousness being published these days, and I end up skimming most of them and reading a few of them. Reading somebody else’s take on the whole set of issues is often frustrating and depressing: they just don’t get it. Other times it is tantalizing; they start on the right foot, in other words, where I...

Clinical Data-Mining: Integrating Practice and Research (Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) involves the conceptualization, extraction, analysis, and interpretation of available clinical data for practice knowledge-building, clinical decision-making and practitioner reflection. Depending upon the type of data mined, CDM can be qualitative or quantitative; it is generally retrospective, but may be...

Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books, 65)

Princeton Press, 2021

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change?even if it means undermining the foundations of our...

The Apache Modules Book: Application Development with Apache (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)

Prentice Hall, 2007

The Apache Web Server (commonly known as "Apache") is, by most measures, the leading server on the Web today. For ten years it has been the unrivaled and unchallenged market leader, with approximately 70 percent of all websites running Apache. It is backed by a vibrant and active development community that operates under the umbrella of...

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

Harper Perennial, 2002

In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.

Then Lou Gerstner was...

Encyclopedia of Creation Myths

ABC Clio, 1994

A myth is a narrative projection of a given cultural group's sense of its sacred past and its significant relationship with the deeper powers of the surrounding world and universe. A myth is a projection of an aspect of a culture's soul. In its complex but revealing symbolism, a myth is to a culture what a dream is to an...

GSM Networks: Protocols, Terminology and Implementation

Artech House Publishers, 1998

Someone who wants to get to know the customs of a country frequently
receives the advice to learn the language of that country. Why? Because the differences
that distinguish the people of one country from those of another are
reflected in the language. For example, the people of the islands of the Pacific
do not have a term for...

America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones

Trine Day, 2004

The book began with an anonymous donation to the author of an 8-inch package of documents in the early 1980s. Nothing less than the membership list and supporting documents for a truly secret society the Yale Skull and Bones.

The late Johnny Johnson, of Phoenix Arizona was the spark that moved me to write first a...

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