Authors:Charles Cerami, Charles A. Cerami, Robert M. Silvers
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: publisher, patriot, astronomer, surveyor, banneker, benjamin
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-01-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0471387525
ISBN-13: 9780471387527

Advance praise from Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP "Herein breathes the universal genius Benjamin Banneker — mathematician, astronomer, diarist, and sage. Biographer Charles Cerami mines the available data, eschews the apocryphal, and renders his subject human. Captured completely is the flowering genius of a largely home-schooled boy wonder, exhibiting mathematical wizardry while devouring the Bible, Plato, Epictetus, and virtually every other extant tome. The fabled memory that could have reproduced LEnfants plan for the entire District of Columbia becomes palpable and r

Author: Ethan Cerami
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: xml, reilly, essentials, services, web
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0596002246
ISBN-13: 9780596002244

As a developer new to Web Services, how do you make sense of this emerging framework so you can start writing your own services today? This concise book gives programmers both a concrete introduction and a handy reference to XML Web Services, first by explaining the foundations of this new breed of distributed services, and then by demonstrating quick ways to create services with open-source Java tools. The book explores four key emerging Web Services technologies:XML Remote Procedure Calls (XML-RPC)SOAP - The foundation for most commercial Web Services developmentUniversal Discovery, Desc

Authors:Charles Faupel, Alan Horowitz, Greg Weaver, Charles F
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: drug, american, sociology
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072406836
ISBN-13: 9780072406832

Most texts that are written in the area of drug use are written either from a counseling/psychology or physiology/pharmacology point of view, and do not attempt to deal extensively with the social context of drug use in American society. The organization of The Sociology of American Drug Use mainstreams the text for sociology and criminology programs, and at the same time provides a broader sociological perspective on drug use. Much of this material comes Faupel’s own research experience among street heroin addicts on the east coast. Throughout several of the chapters there is an ethno

Authors:Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, Charles Ti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contentious, politics, studies, cambridge, contention, dynamics
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521011876
ISBN-13: 9780521011877

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including their own) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify re

Authors:Ascanio Condivi,  Charles Holroyd, Dr. Charles
Publisher: Pallas Athene
Keywords: michelangelo, life
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1843680122
ISBN-13: 9781843680123

Michelangelo Buonarroti remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Western canon and a touchstone for all artistic endeavor. Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, he redefined not only the possibilities of the imagination, but also the very image of the artist. He was the first artist to be the subject of a biography in his lifetime, with the publication of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in 1550. Dissatisfied with Vasari’s treatment, Michelangelo encouraged his close friend and fellow painter Ascanio Condivi to publish a rival bi

Authors:Charles Sanders Peirce,  Charles Hartshorne, P
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: papers, logic, published, mathematics, exact, simplest, volumes, charles, sanders, peirce, collected, iii
Number of Pages: 1064
Published: 1933-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0674138015
ISBN-13: 9780674138018

Volumes I-VIII of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce are being reissued in response to a growing interest in Peirce’s thought--a development that was prophesied by John Dewey when he reviewed the first volume of these papers on their appearance in 1931. Writing in The New Republic, Mr. Dewey said , "Nothing much will happen in philosophy as long as a main object among philosophers is defense of some formulated historical position. I do not know of any other thinker more calculated than Peirce to give emanipation from the intellectual fortifications of the past and to arouse

Authors:Charles Sanders Peirce, Charles Hartshorne, Paul Wei
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: principles, philosophy, elements, logic, volumes, peirce, papers, charles, sanders, collected
Number of Pages: 962
Published: 1932-01-01
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 0674138007
ISBN-13: 9780674138001

Volumes 1-VI of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce are being reissued in response to a growing interest in Peirce’s thought - a development that was prophesied by John Dewey when he reviewed the first volume of these papers on their appearance in 1931. Writing in The New Republic, Mr. Dewey said, "Nothing much will happen in philosophy as long as a main object among philosophers is defense of some formulated historical position. I do not know of any other thinker more calculated than Peirce to give emancipation from the intellectual fortifications of the past and to arouse