Author: Philip Dawso
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: renaissance, retrospective, liner
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-04-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0393061663
ISBN-13: 9780393061666

A spectacularly illustrated account of the ocean liner’s place in transportation and social history. The iconic ocean liner, with its towering dark hull and brilliant white superstructure, remains a powerful symbol of human endeavor. This unique two-hundred-year retrospective takes us from the liner’s origins in mail services to its role as nineteenth-century mass transportation, in wartime and in immigration to the New World, and finally to its modern renaissance in the Queen Mary 2, the first liner to be built in thirty years. With cruising now a major tourist industry, this new

Author: Philip S. Dawson
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press Ltd
Keywords: renaissance, amp, retrospective, liner
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1844860493
ISBN-13: 9781844860494

Author: Martin Rudner
Publisher: Carleton University Press
Keywords: retrospective, development, malaysian
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-10
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0886292204
ISBN-13: 9780886292201

Author: the late Bernard Schwartz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: retrospective, court, warren
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1996-10-10
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0195104390
ISBN-13: 9780195104394

A judge-made revolution? This seeming oxymoron is exactly what the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren achieved. This book is the first retrospective on the Warren Court--a detailed analysis of the Court’s accomplishments by well-known judges, professors, lawyers, and popular writers such as Anthony Lewis, David Halberstam, and David J. Garrow. The book is divided into three parts: Part One looks at the Warren Court’s decisions in different fields (equal protection, freedom of speech, press, criminal law, etc.); Part Two, The Justices, is an intimate look at the principal

Authors:Andrew Adonis, Keith Thomas,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: retrospective, jenkins, roy
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-11-18
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0199274878
ISBN-13: 9780199274871

Roy Jenkins was a dominating figure in British politics across the four decades before his death in 2003, with an impact and legacy greater than many prime ministers of the period. These essays, by friends and associates of Roy Jenkins from every phase of his life, chart his remarkable career with insight, anecdote, and empathy. Each contributor writes from a close and unique relationship with their subject.

Authors:Lane A. Hemaspaandra, Alan L. Selman,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: retrospective, theory, complexity
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 1997-06-05
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0387949739
ISBN-13: 9780387949734

Complexity theory has been a flourishing area of research in the last ten years and currently provides one of the most active subjects for future research problems in computer science. This volume provides a survey of the subject in the form of a collection of articles written by experts that together provide a comprehensive guide to research. The editors’ aim has been to provide an accessible description of the current state of complexity theory,and to demonstrate the breadth of techniques and results that make the subject exciting. Thus, papers run the gamut from sublogarithmic space t

Author: C. J. Date
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: review, analysis, retrospective, model, relational, database
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $13.80
ISBN-10: 0201612941
ISBN-13: 9780201612943

(Pearson Education, Wesley-Longman, Inc.) An historical account and assessment of E.F. Codd’s contribution to the field of database technology. Revisits Codd’s original papers, explaining their contribution and significance, and restating and reinforcing their message for a new generation of professionals. Softcover.