P Newman: 20 books

Book cover of A New World of Labor

A New World of Labor

The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

by Simon P. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center...
Book cover of Parades and the Politics of the Street

Parades and the Politics of the Street

Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

by Simon P. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able...
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Embodied History

The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia

by Simon P. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts...
Book cover of Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World
by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012

This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...
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Planning World Cities

Globalization and Urban Politics

by Andy Thornley, P. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
Book cover of Penetration Testing and Network Defense
by Daniel P. Newman, Andrew Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005

The practical guide to simulating, detecting, and responding to network attacks  Create step-by-step testing plans Learn to perform social engineering and host reconnaissance Evaluate session hijacking methods Exploit web server vulnerabilities Detect attempts to breach database security Use...
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Academic Labor

The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies

by Jonathan Sterne, Thomas A. Discenna, Toby Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

USC Annenberg Press has published The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies, edited by Jonathan Stere. This collection features the work of 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. Twenty-one authors take on difficult questions...
Book cover of Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems
by Gerald P. Schatten, Santiago Schnell, Philip Maini
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Mathematical and computational biology is playing an increasingly important role in the biological sciences. This science brings forward unique challenges, many of which are, at the moment, beyond the theoretical techniques available. Developmental biology, due to its complexity, has lagged somewhat...
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Debugging Game History

A Critical Lexicon

by Mikael Jakobsson, Nick Montfort, Erkki Huhtamo
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
Book cover of Once Upon A Nightmare (A Nightmare City Novella)
by P.S. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018

Last night, Elysia Rey was a dream. Today she’s alive, flung into a world where phones are smart and magic is called electricity.  A world in which her kind has no right to live and is hunted by monsters and humans alike.  But Elysia Rey wasn’t created to roll up and die. She has...
Book cover of The Granting of Wishes - Three Christmas Short Stories
by P.S. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018

Can impossible wishes ever be granted? Christmas is, above any other time in the year, a time of wishes. Of sending them out into the world. Of making lists of them. Of granting them. We wish for the possible, but more often we wish for the impossible, because Christmas is that magical...
Book cover of Atlas of the English Civil War
by P.R Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005

The English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War, including the campaigns of Montrose, the battle of Edgehill and...
Book cover of The Real Story of Paddy the Englishman, This Ain’T No Joke
by P. Randolph Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017

This is the story of one mans journey through life on a path filled with love, hurt, regret and joy, come walk with him.
Book cover of Perioperative Medicine E-Book

Perioperative Medicine E-Book

Managing for Outcome

by Mark F. Newman, MD, Lee A Fleisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007

Recognized authorities in anesthesiology and surgical critical care present you with today's best management approaches for achieving optimal perioperative outcomes. They review the potential risks to all major organ systems by examining the incidence and significance of organ dysfunction...assessing...
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