Steven: 5874 books
by Steven E. Landsburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
With his witty and instructive book The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg won popularity and acclaim by using economics to illuminate the mysteries of daily life, and using daily life to illuminate the mysteries of economics.
Now Landsburg returns to address fundamental issues like fairness,...
Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices
Write the Best PL/SQL Code of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL into a set of best practices-recommendations for developing successful applications. Covering the...
Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT...
Yankee Town, Southern City
Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order?
Yankee...
by Joel L. Fleishman, J. Scott Kohler, Steven Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century.
In this companion volume to The Foundation: A Great American Secret, Joel Fleishman, Scott Kohler, and Steven Schindler explore 100 of the highest-achieving foundation initiatives...
by Steven Hager
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Noam Chomsky is both the whipping post of the radical conspiracy community and the voice of reason for the intellectual left. The conspiracy community refers to Chomsky as "a gatekeeper" and a lot of people treat him like a government shill instead of the government critic he is.
But at...
Liberty and Laissez-Faire
A Primer on Freedom, Government, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
With the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States of America, the relationship between laissez-faire and liberty is drawing renewed attention.
Steven Soderlind, an economist and professor emeritus at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, delves into how the two are connected,...
Preparing to Study Abroad
Learning to Cross Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
A Student Text to Build Cultural Sensitivity, Confidence and Openness to the Expience of Study Abroad"I highly recommend that college students include a well-planned and rigorous international immersion experience in their college curriculum. This book makes an excellent starting place for embarking...
by Steven Yearley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge...
by Steven C. Stryker
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Although consultants influence the outcome of major endeavors in the fields of management, finance, government, and engineering, few attempts have been made to establish the tenets and techniques of consulting. In Principles and Practices of Professional Consulting, author Steven C. Stryker outlines...
by David M. Killoran, Steven G. Stein, Nicolay I. Siclunov
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible Workbook is the ideal companion to the PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible. While the LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible provides the conceptual basis for understanding logical argumentation, recognizing the various question types, approaching the answers,...
Europe's Promise
Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
A quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe. A world power has emerged across the Atlantic that is recrafting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. In Europe's Promise, Steven Hill explains Europe's...
Experimental Capitalism
The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries—automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin—and...
Networked Consumers
Dynamics of Interactive Consumers in Structured Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy. Steven Silver analyses this understudied area, exploring the network memberships that emerge from our everyday lives, and the consumption patterns these create.