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God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)
God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)

When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.

When Tobe Hooper’s low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." ? Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene

Passionate, provocative, and...

Javascript Programmer's Reference
Javascript Programmer's Reference
The book is aimed at people who already have some knowledge of JavaScript and need a companion volume to their daily work. It is primarily aimed at the experienced practitioner, and so does not attempt to be a tutorial for the beginner.

For a tutorial book, we suggest Paul Wilton's Beginning
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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent.
  • A comprehensive system for hiring top-notch technical employees
  • Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style
  • Learn how to find great people--and get them to work for you--in an...
Big Book of Windows Hacks
Big Book of Windows Hacks
Bigger, better, and broader in scope, the Big Book of Windows Hacks gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system, including its related applications and the hardware it runs on or connects to. Whether you want to tweak Vista's Aero interface, build customized sidebar gadgets and run them from a USB...
Word Origins
Word Origins
The average English speaker knows around 50,000 words. That represents an astonishing diversity – nearly 25 times more words than there are individual stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky. And even 50,000 seems insignificant beside the half a million recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary. But looked at from an...
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion: Your guide to Armageddon and the series based on the bestselling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion: Your guide to Armageddon and the series based on the bestselling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

A stunning full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes guide to the Good Omens television series, adapted for the screen by Neil Gaiman himself and starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

Following the original novel’s chronological structure—from “the Beginning” to “End
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A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education?providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to...
Developing with Google App Engine (Firstpress)
Developing with Google App Engine (Firstpress)
Developing with Google App Engine introduces development with Google App Engine, a platform that provides developers and users with infrastructure Google itself uses to develop and deploy massively scalable applications.
  • Introduction to concepts
  • Development with App Engine
  • Deployment into App...
Image and Signal Processing for Networked eHealth Applications (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering)
Image and Signal Processing for Networked eHealth Applications (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering)
In all societies and in all eras, health has been an issue of major importance. Our times are, of course, no different in this, except for one thing: the kind and amount of resources available to us are augmented. During the last couple of centuries, technology has certainly been the most important new resource made available to...
Using SANs and NAS
Using SANs and NAS

Data is the lifeblood of modern business, and modern data centers have extremely demanding requirements for size, speed, and reliability. Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) allow organizations to manage and back up huge file systems quickly, thereby keeping their lifeblood flowing. W. Curtis Preston's...

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