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Programmer's Guide to Drupal: Principles, Practices, and Pitfalls

O'Reilly, 2015

If you’re a web programmer, your experiences have taught you certain lessons—and only some of them apply well to Drupal. Drupal has its own set of programming principles that require a different approach, and many programmers make mistakes when relying on skills they’ve used for other projects. This book will show...

Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

McGraw-Hill, 2011

Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Seventh Edition, is intended for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a wide variety of majors, including computer science, mathematics, and engineering. This renowned best-selling text, which has been used at over 500 institutions around the world,...

Introducing Bootstrap 4

Apress, 2016

Learn how to use the front end CSS framework Bootstrap 4 to create powerful web applications. You'll work with all the components of Bootstrap 4 using easy-to-follow instructions and example code snippets. You'll also use Bootstrap 4 for typography, forms, and modules, and see how to structure your page and your code to be optimally...

The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Writing remains to me an unusual practice that transforms my experience of the world whilst under the spell of writing. This book has had a particularly intensive birth, written as it is in the middle of the academic year and with everyday life swirling around it with all the attendant distractions. It has emerged from a number of related...

Human Impact on the Natural Environment

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

A brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind’s impact on the Earth’s environment—now in full color

This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms, and the atmosphere. It considers the ways in which climate...

The Concept of Number: From Quaternions to Monads and Topological Fields (Mathematics and Its Applications)

Enslow Publishers, 1988

This book consists of lectures that I have given, in Darmstadt since 1974, under various titles, for beginners or students of the third semester.

I have tried to concentrate on those themes concerning numbers, which seem to me to be the most important on essential and historical grounds, and which in my opinion...

AP English Literature & Composition For Dummies (Language & Literature)

For Dummies, 2008

Includes expert advice on annotating poems and prose!

Fine-tune reading comprehension skills with ease

Get up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner. Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP English...

Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect (Science and Fiction)

Springer, 2014

Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more.

In Holy Sci-Fi!,...

Diagrammatic Reasoning in AI

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This book is really the end product of over a decade of work, on and off, on diagrammatic reasoning in artificial intelligence (AI). In developing this book, I drew inspiration from a variety of sources: two experimental studies, the development of two prototype systems, an extensive literature review and analysis in AI,...

The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)

Routledge, 2013

The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major publication, Being and Time, which to this day remains his most...

American Cars 1946-1959: Every Model, Year by Year

McGraw-Hill, 2008

From the resumption of automobile production at the close of World War II through the 1950s, the American auto industry would see the births and deaths of several manufacturers, great technological advances, and an era of dramatic styling as a prospering nation asserted its growing mobility. Cars of this period are among the most iconic...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (Bloomsbury Companions)

Bloomsbury Reference, 2013

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, available to us through the early dialogues of Plato and the writings of his contemporaries, has had a remarkably enduring influence on virtually every area of philosophical enterprise .

This...

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