The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first...View more

Once my fingers were fully cheezelled, I moved up to the cocktail Frankfurt bowl and started poking those things into my mouth as fast as...View more

 fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human...View more

Easy to use- Features a clear page design to help pinpoint the word, sense, and collocation- Groups collocations according to part of speech and meaning-...View more

In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington,...View more

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard...View more

If you could trade your comfort zone for an exotic realm you knew only in books and your imagination, how would you do it? Undertaking...View more

Pastel Dreams The powerful architecture of North Korea Erased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea’s trophy capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch from...View more

The book, published in 2002 by Greenwood Press, has been extensively modified for this second edition, published under the auspices of the most prestigious university...View more

Author: August Sarnitz Publisher: Taschen Released Date: 2018 ISBN: 9783836564335View more

The classical starchitect Understanding the influence of Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio (1508 1580) is largely considered the father of Western architecture. Strongly influenced by formal temple designs in...View more

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and...View more