History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide...
Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Florida, living room while watching a 2006 ESPN report on the Barrow Whalers, a high school football team consisting mostly of Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo natives playing in the most difficult of...
As database administrators, our primary duty is to protect the data in
the databases we are responsible for. This data represents the heart and
soul of the company employing us, and could destroy a business if not
maintained properly. In this context, the proper application of a sound
backup and restore solution is absolutely...
This book details the heart and soul of modern commutative and algebraic geometry. It covers such topics as the Hilbert Basis Theorem, the Nullstellensatz, invariant theory, projective geometry, and dimension theory. In addition to enhancing the text of the second edition, with over 200 pages reflecting changes to enhance clarity and...
Expecting to relax during a routine flight home, I casually glanced through
the contents of the airline’s magazine and practically suffered a heart attack.
The first feature article was entitled, “How to Live Forever”! Believing for
a moment that Becoming Immortal had been scooped, I tore through the
magazine...
When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno's characteristics, influences, and origins and argued that although techno enjoyed its most widespread popularity in Europe, its birthplace and most important incubator was...
Behind the experience and talents cataloged in your resume lies an intrinsic power that fuels your soul and your success: your genius. As ancient as the Greeks, as trendy as New Age, the concept of genius is fully grounded in contemporary life in this powerful journey of self-discovery that takes you right to the core of what makes you...
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary...
Lonely Planet’s 7th edition of Cambodia will take you into the heart of Southeast Asia: beautiful beaches (without the tourist tide), remote wilds, subtle cuisine and elaborate temples. From the famed Angkor Wat to the old-world charms of Siem Reap and the ‘Phnomenal’ capital city of Phnom Penh – it’s all here....
Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into a fully human 'rational' part, a...
"This is probably the single most valuable resource for the entrepreneurs aspiring to build successful companies"âRon Conway, Special Adviser, SV Angel, and investor in Facebook, Google, Twitter, Foursquare, PayPal, Zappos
"I highly recommend Venture Capitalists at Work. This book...
The authors of this text provide an overview of the world of data protection and familiarize the reader with general backup concepts. Learn different types of backup and strategies, find out how to best protect your data, and much more.
Managing a backup rotation is a woefully underestimated chore that often finds itself delegated to an...
