From the "New York Times" bestselling authors of "Crucial Conversations" ...Whether your goal is to change minds, change markets, or change the world-anything is possible for an influencer. Everyone wants to be an influencer. We all want to learn how to help ourselves and others change behavior. And yet, in spite of the fact that we routinely ...
This classic text demonstrates the relationships between the software and hardware and focuses on the fundamental concepts that are the basis for current computer design. Using a distinctive, 'learning by evolution' approach, the authors present the idea from its first principles, incrementally adding complexity through a series of worked examples ...
This best-selling title, considered for over a decade to be essential reading for every serious student and practitioner of computer design, has been updated throughout to address the most important trends facing computer designers today. In this edition, the authors bring their trademark method of quantitative analysis not only to high ...
The performance of software systems is dramatically affected by how well software designers understand the basic hardware technologies at work in a system. Similarly, hardware designers must understand the far reaching effects their design decisions have on software applications. For readers in either category, this classic introduction to the ...
This rediscovered spirituality classic is a haunting yet uplifting tale which will appeal to readers of Embraced by the Light and The Celestine Prophecy. Originally published in 1914, this is the story of a man who speaks from beyond the grave with a hopeful message of life and growth.
David A. Patterson and Randall E. Basham have produced the first book and CD-ROM to combine text, video and graphs to clearly describe and illustrate how social workers can use spreadsheets to collect data, analyze statistics and create graphs of research results. Students and professionals will find this an excellent guide to taking advantage of ...
This work seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the "pre-chance" period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work.
This is an extraordinary book based on more than fifty diaries of Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were taking place. It illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by European Jewry during the Holocaust, showing how Jews chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the inferno.
In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving parents and taken to safety by what came to be known as the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from the Holocaust and placed them with guardians in England. When she boarded the train in ...
Abraham Mapu's first novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (The Love of Zion), published in 1853, won immediate acclaim. Its sixteen editions attest to its continued popularity. This edition also features selections of Mapu's others novels, as well as an introduction to his life and work by David Patterson of Oxford University.
Just in time for the coming election year, this book looks at the changing of the guard in 2006 and speculates on where the system may be heading in 2008. It provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which candidates, interest groups, and parties perceived their opportunities and allocated their campaign resources during the midterm ...
"Once in a great while, a landmark computer-science book is published. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition, is such a book. In an era of fluff computer books that are, quite properly, remaindered within weeks of publication, this book will stand the test of time, becoming lovingly dog-eared in the hands of anyone who ...
The Roosevelt family, with its rambunctious father and six children, invaded and occupied the White House as no other family has since. Roosevelt was a wonderful father, writing to his children, guiding them, playing with them and loving them as do only the best fathers. Long out of print, these personal letters are warm, wonderfully wise and ...
More than fifty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, searching for words to convey the enormity of that event. Efforts to express its realities and its impact on successive generations often stretch language to the breaking point - or to the ...
This volume is part of the Real Politics series and is appropriate for our courses in Congress, Elections, and as a supplementary text in American Government. This book communicates how the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)has changed the playing field for congressional elections in some ways, and in other ways how it has not, as well as how ...
Since 1960, "Financing the Election" volumes have presented reliable information on the costs and trends of campaign finance in the United States. In establishing the parameters of electoral campaigns and political spending - and interpreting the results - "Financing the 2004 Election" provides a unique resource for readers and citizens interested ...
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach focuses on computer architecture as a modern science. The second edition explores the next generation of architectures and design techniques with view to the future. A basis for modern computer architecture.
Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. In this revealing book, David Patterson explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Fackenheim's ...
The author, David Patterson, set out on a journey that led from the Kingdom of Night to the Land of the Covenant. And from those waters of purification he emerged transformed body and soul.
Drawing on more than 300 Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness, divinity, humanity, prayer, responsibility, exile, dwelling, gratitude, and ...
An examination of the recorded memoirs of 50 Holocaust survivors. Patterson draws on the sacred texts of Jewish tradition and the philosophy of Fackenheim and Levinas. He discusses the recovery of tradition, recovery seen as recovery from illness, and recovery as a process which has no resolution.
Sixty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, pondering the enormity of that event. This book explores how inquiry about the Holocaust challenges understanding, especially its religious and ethical dimensions. Debates about God's relationship to ...
The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations, resulting in 30 million casualties, including more than 8 million killed. Set against the backdrop of this massive carnage, "The Search for Negotiated Peace" is the gripping story of the events that moved high ...
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