Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred store windows. We see manifestations of societal fears everyday, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. In A Philosophy of Fear, Lars Svendsen now explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion, as he investigates how and why fear has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life.
Make math a snap with ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS. Using everyday language and lots of examples, Kaufman and Schwitters show you how to apply algebra concepts and ace the test. This volume also comes with Interactive Skillbuilder CD-ROM. This program is packed with over 8 hours of video instruction to help it all make sense. Plus, you’ll get the powerful web-based iLrn Homework program that makes your assignments a breeze. Get the grade you need with ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS.
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
Joe Haldeman’s ?adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy. Now, the multiple Hugo and Nebula award?winning author pits a lone war veteran against a mysterious enemy who is watching his every move?and threatens him with more than death unless he kills for them.
Nothing appeals to Annie Sullivan’s sense of romance like hunting for a missing heirloom. She can’t get enough of the stories surrounding Sinclair Drummond’s Scottish ancestors. But when they search his mansion together, she can’t get enough of her bossand they make love.
AVERY WADE is tired of being burned by the men in her life. First, shed been burned by her stepfather and, second, by Scott Madison who took off with her virginity and her heart. The Get Even Agency gave her back a family, her pride, and a sense of control. Control is everything to Avery.
As a development team, you want to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate’s From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that’ll help persuade managers and executives who’ve seen it all. See when and where the switch makes sense, and see how to make it.
