L Tom: 81 books

This book picks up right where Learning Perl leaves off. With Intermediate Perl, you’ll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language. This gentle but thorough guide introduces you to modules, complex data structures, and object-oriented...

If you ask Perl programmers today what book they relied on most when they were learning Perl, you'll find that an overwhelming majority will name Learning Perl--also known affectionately as "the Llama." The first edition of Learning Perl appeared in 1993 and has been a bestseller ever since. Written...

The Krypto Economy elaborates on the underlying dynamics of our digital era to better create a responsible technological future. Living in a world of exponential technological advancement, we have new construction kits to create and probe possible realities. Marshall McLuan once said that first we...

Book 1 of the Blood for Blood series.  In a world where men and women teleport using air, dirt, and water...  Kidnapped as an infant, Hakon is raised by the earth-empowered Terra people. Considered less than beasts, the clawed-hand warriors plot revenge against the air-empowered Alem that...

From Disability Theory to Practice pays tribute to Professor Jerome Bickenbach’s highly influential and immensely important work. Professor Bickenbach is a scholar, policy-maker, and activist, of international stature. This volume brings together ten friends, mentors, and mentees, who have penned...

This innovative physics textbook intended for science and engineering majors develops classical mechanics from a historical perspective. The presentation of the standard course material includes a discussion of the thought processes of the discoverers and a description of the methods by which they...

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...

El presente libro se encuentra estructurado en tres partes bien diferenciadas. En la primera, se examina la relación que existe entre el constitucionalismo latinoamericano y el estadounidense. En particular, se examina la idea ampliamente difundida de que Latinoamérica es un mero espacio de reproducción...

Beinahe täglich fliegen unbemannte, schwer bewaffnete Drohnen ihre von der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbemerkten Einsätze. Vor Bildschirmen sitzende Krieger in US-amerikanischen Militärbasen, britischen und demnächst vielleicht auch deutschen Kasernen töten per Mausklick nach politischen Vorgaben....

Diez apasionantes historias que diseccionan diferentes aspectos de la enfermedad. Unos personajes que afrontan dificultades que ponen a prueba su verdadera naturaleza. Situaciones impactantes, inciertas y dolorosas que sacuden al lector y le muestran lo mejor y lo peor de la condición humana. Diez...

Las tecnologías digitales han cambiado radicalmente nuestro modo de entender el fenómeno de la comunicación. Éste ha devenido un objeto de estudio escurridizo que aún plantea más preguntas que respuestas a los investigadores. Dada la rapidez con la que se suceden los cambios y la poca constancia...