David Brian: 298 books
Python Cookbook
Recipes for Mastering Python 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.
Inside,...
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
The Definitive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Behind every web transaction lies the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) --- the language of web browsers and servers, of portals and search engines, of e-commerce and web services. Understanding HTTP is essential for practically all web-based programming, design, analysis, and administration.
While...
Emotionally Bulletproof - Scott's Story (Book 2)
The Three, Twelve, and Seventy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Are Your Relationships Helping You Or Holding You Back?
As his own family turns on him, Scott Calloway has trouble answering this question. After saving his aunt from her abusive husband, Scott finds himself managing her construction company. With the danger of becoming a target of his abusive...
by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stephen Vittoria, S. Brian Willson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Just as the lives of slaves and Indigenous peoples paid for the early growth of the new American nation, so too were lives sacrificed to advance the expansion of empire in the 20th century. Book Two in this epic three-part series is a damning account of war—and the selling of war in America—revealing...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Inside Out and Outside In
Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Psychopathology in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Inside Out and Outside In has established itself as a foundational book for mental health practitioners in a variety of disciplines who work with clients in complex social environments. It is unique in its focus on the forces that shape people from within and also from their social worlds, with sensitivity...
by Don Ross, Jessica C Flack, Doug Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary...
Changing Space, Changing City
Johannesburg after apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
The Civil War in Popular Culture
Memory and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest...
The Essential Bible Companion to the Psalms
Key Insights for Reading God’s Word
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The Essential Bible Companion to the Psalms provides fundamental information regarding the meaning, background, context, and application of the Psalms. In addition to practical application, numerous charts are included that provide information about the various types of psalms (messianic, prophetic,...
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Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History [4 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Science and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This book provides a holistic consideration of climate change that goes beyond pure science, fleshing out the discussion by considering cultural, historical, and policy-driven aspects of this important issue.
• Contributions from more than 100 experts
• Excerpts from reports from...
Emerging Values in Health Care
The Challenge for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.
This interdisciplinary volume explains how health...
Tackling Addiction
Pathways to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and...