Robert Patrick: 69 books
IoT Fundamentals
Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Use Cases for the Internet of Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Today, billions of devices are Internet-connected, IoT standards and protocols are stabilizing, and technical professionals must increasingly solve real problems with IoT technologies. Now, five leading Cisco IoT experts present the first comprehensive, practical reference for making IoT work. IoT...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...
by Robert Ludlum, Patrick Larkin
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2008
L’histoire : On croyait le roman d’espionnage définitivement enterré avec l’éclatement de l’Union Soviétique. Mais le mal, s’il change de forme, ne disparaît jamais… Bien décidés à reconstituer leur empire éclaté, les dirigeants de plus en plus autoritaires de la Russie préparent...
Apple Training Series
Mac OS X Security and Mobility v10.6: A Guide to Providing Secure Mobile Access to Intranet Services Using Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
The follow-on to Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Deployment v10.6 and Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Directory Services v10.6, this volume takes an in-depth look at the many options provided to administrators to secure access to intranet services. System administrators and other IT professionals will...
Improving Learning How to Learn
Classrooms, Schools and Networks
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn.
This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a professional...
Meeting the Ideological Challenge of Islamism
How to Combat Modern Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Islamist extremism is one of the most vital issues facing governments and populations today, as Islamist groups turn more violent, with increasing radicalized recruits. These leading scholar’s essays offer a detailed, compelling critique of the worldview, methodologies and motivations of violent Islamist...
Men and Development
Politicizing Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice,...
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
Vulnerable Children and the Law
International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.
This book takes an international perspective on child...
The Mental Art of Putting
Using Your Mind to Putt Your Best
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
An excellent aide for the putting impaired, this guide teaches golfers to use their most important asset in the game within the game—their minds.
Roman Catholicism in the United States
A Thematic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...