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Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation

Sage Publications, 2019

Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018.

The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research...

The School of Doubt (Brill Studies in Skepticism)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2019

The School of Doubt conducts a parallel philological and philosophical examination of Cicero’s Academica, a work on Hellenistic epistemology written in the first half of 45 bce. The treatise has a unique history, insofar as fragments of two different versions are extant: the second of a two-volume first edition, a dialogue...

Bad Programming Practices 101: Become a Better Coder by Learning How (Not) to Program

Apress, 2018

This book takes a humorous slant on the programming practice manual by reversing the usual approach: under the pretence of teaching you how to become the world’s worst programmer who generally causes chaos, the book teaches you how to avoid the kind of bad habits that introduce bugs or cause code contributions to be rejected....

Mastering Blockchain: Distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts explained, 2nd Edition

Packt Publishing, 2018

Learn about cryptography and cryptocurrencies, so you can build highly secure, decentralized applications and conduct trusted in-app transactions.

Key Features

Get to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchain

Build powerful...

Blockchain Quick Reference: A guide to exploring decentralized Blockchain application development

Packt Publishing, 2018

Understand the Blockchain revolution and get to grips with Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Corda.

Key Features

Resolve common challenges and problems faced in the Blockchain domain

Study architecture, concepts, terminologies, and Dapps

Make smart choices...

The Heartland: An American History

Penguin Press, 2019

A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.

When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas,...

CSS3 for Web Designers

Book Apart, 2019

Websites are not the same as pictures of websites. When one person designs in Photoshop and another converts the design to markup and CSS, the coder must make guesses and assumptions about what the designer intended. This interpretive process is never without friction—unless the coder is Dan Cederholm. When Dan codes other...

Explanation and Proof in Mathematics: Philosophical and Educational Perspectives

Springer, 2009

In the four decades since Imre Lakatos declared mathematics a "quasi-empirical science," increasing attention has been paid to the process of proof and argumentation in the field -- a development paralleled by the rise of computer technology and the mounting interest in the logical underpinnings of mathematics. Explanantion...

Introducing Azure Kubernetes Service: A Practical Guide to Container Orchestration

Apress, 2019

This book is a practical guide to Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), a container orchestration platform. The goal of this book is to take the reader from 0 to 100 deploying and running a Kubernetes cluster on Microsoft Azure cloud. For anyone embarking on this book, it is ideal to have experience in the...

e-Learning and Social Networking Handbook: Resources for Higher Education

Routledge, 2008

Student engagement with digital learning resources and online social networking are strong forces in education today. How can these resources best be utilized by educators and course designers in higher education? This book aims to provide the reader with enough background information to appreciate the value of social networking, especially...

Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2018

Behind every programming language lies a vision of how programs should be built. The vision behind Clojure is of a radically simple language framework holding together a sophisticated collection of programming features. Learning Clojure involves much more than just learning the mechanics of the language. To really get...

Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad: Augmented Reality App Development for iOS

Apress, 2018

Explore how to use ARKit to create iOS apps and learn the basics of augmented reality while diving into ARKit specific topics. This book reveals how augmented reality allows you to view the screen on an iOS device, aim the camera at a nearby scene, and view both the real items in that scene as well as a graphic image overlaid on to...

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