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Moves forward into the post-PC era with new examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. This title includes examples, exercises, and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the Cloud.

Humans versus Nature relates the history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relations between human societies and the natural environment in all regions of the world and tracing the current environmental crisis to its roots in the deep past.

The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Through Goldberg's interviews with changemakers in government, private industry, academia, and nonprofits, this book takes a panoramic and in-depth look at how these leaders are driving a revolution.

Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx might appear strange bedfellows, the president and the intellectual revolutionary. Yet they shared an abiding interest in labor, labor relations, and slavery. This volume puts the two of them in dialogue, using linked, short passages from their writings, and thereby uncovers their agreements and disagreements about this fundamental issue.

Offers coverage of the composition, structure, and properties of inorganic glasses. This book facilitates learning with a discussion of fundamental concepts, chapter-ending problem sets, an emphasis on key ideas, and timely notes on suggested readings.

With Occasional Pieces, composer Christian Wolff brings together a collection of his most notable writings and interviews from 1950 to the present, shining a new light on American music of the second half of the twentieth century. Included are profiles of Wolff's experimentalist contemporaries, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham.

The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. This title focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, laptops, and other devices.

Describing the origins of genocide, violent conflict and terrorism, principles and practices of prevention, and avenues to reconciliation,this book considers societal conditions, culture and insitutions, and the psychology of individuals and groups. It focuses both on past cases such as the Holocaust, and contempoary ones such including Rwanda and the Congo.

A candid portrait of America's greatest university and it's dazzling achievements and academic pratfalls through seven decades of dramatic change.

This text offers a comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" programme of national security - the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though "containment" originated under Truman, Eisenhower developed the first strategy for the issues of the nuclear age.