War/Photography surveys both iconic and newly discovered photographs of war and conflict, from daguerreotypes documenting the Crimean and American Civil Wars to digital images made by soldiers in 21st-century Iraq. Accompanying a landmark exhibition opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, it is generously illustrated with over 525 powerful images and includes texts by some of today's most important scholars of war photography. This ambitious book offers a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between photography and armed conflict.

The featured works represent a range of perspectives—from journalists to soldiers to ordinary citizens—and span six continents, yet together they communicate the consummate experience of war: its brutality, humanity, and even humor. The book's essays investigate the immediate impact, dissemination, and historical influence of war photography.

Develop mobile enterprise applications in a language you already know!

With employees, rather than the IT department, now driving the decision of which devices to use on the job, many companies are scrambling to integrate enterprise applications. Fortunately, enterprise developers can now create apps for all major mobile devices using C#/.NET and Mono, languages most already know. A team of authors draws on their vast experiences to teach you how to create cross-platform mobile applications, while delivering the same functionality to PC's, laptops and the web from a single technology platform and code-base. Rather than reinventing the wheel with each app, this book provides you with the tools you need for cross-platform development--no new languages needed!

• Presents an overview of the sea change occurring with the use of enterprise mobile applications and what it means for developers
• Shares the criteria for evaluating and selecting the best option for application architecture
• Reviews tools and techniques for setting up a cross-platform development environment
• Offers an introduction to the MonoCross open-source project and pattern for cross-platform development

Packed with specific software design patterns, development best practices, code examples and sample applications, this must-have book gets you started developing cross-platform mobile apps today.

Contains four tales of love and danger woven around the theme of a tapestry, including the tale of a Jane Sillee, who is sent by the Seelie queen to medieval Scotland to battle for the soul of highland laird Aedan MacKinnon.

Presents information about the history of Ellis Island, the process immigrants went through after arriving in the United States, and how to visit the island today.

Explains the history behind why Memorial Day is celebrated and examines how the holiday has changed over time.

Explains the history of the Mount Rushmore monument, how it was built, and what it symbolizes.

Explains the history of the White House, how it has changed over time, and what it symbolizes.

Capitalismo naturale, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1999 - qui presentato con una nuova introduzione degli autori che fa il punto su quanto è successo da allora - è uno dei testi che hanno dato forma ai concetti ispiratori della Green Economy. Il capitalismo naturale è infatti profondamente differente dal capitalismo tradizionale. Quest'ultimo ha sempre trascurato il valore monetario delle risorse naturali e dei servizi forniti dagli ecosistemi, senza i quali, oltre che la vita stessa, non sarebbe possibile alcuna attività economica. Il capitalismo naturale, al contrario, contabilizza le risorse e punta all'efficienza per riuscire a produrre di più con meno. Ridisegna le logiche industriali sulla base di un modello che esclude gli sprechi e la produzione di rifiuti; sposta l'economia verso un flusso continuo di valore e servizi; investe nella protezione e nell'espansione del capitale naturale esistente. Il volume, ricco di esempi e aneddoti, lascia ogni lettore con la speranza che lo storico contrasto tra business e ambiente possa giungere a una pacifica e costruttiva conclusione.

This introductory image processing text is ideal for college students studying computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, or computer science. While most other image processing texts target engineering, this book places image processing within the realm of both the engineer and the computer scientist by emphasizing software design. The text builds on an accessible mathematical foundation and on extensive sample Java code to teach students the fundamentals of image processing. The text is accompanied by rich illustrations that demonstrate the results of performing processing on famous art pieces. This approach gives readers real-world examples of ways they may use image processing. Each chapter includes problems to help students master the material.

One of the best-known classics of children's literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in Kenneth Grahame's letters to his young son, where he first recounted the adventures of Rat and Badger, of Mole and Toad--all narrated in virtuoso language ranging from lively parody to elaborate fin-de-siècle mysticism. Yet for a children's book, it is concerned almost exclusively with adult themes: fear of radical changes in political, social, and economic power. This new edition considers this conundrum and provides a wealth of fascinating contextual information about the book's author and its historical, cultural, and literary significance. The Introduction by Peter Hunt, one of the foremost scholars of children's literature, focuses on the book's status as a classic, and as both a self-portrait of Kenneth Grahame's psyche and a portrait of an age. Reproducing the text of the first British edition, the book includes explanatory notes that shed light on the sources of the book--biographical, psychological, geographical, and literary--and an up-to-date bibliography.

The names change, but the game remains the same.

The pimp has reached nearly mythical status. We are fascinated by the question of how a guy from the ghetto with no startup capital and no credit -- nothing but the words out of his mouth -- comes not only to have a stable of sexy women who consider him "their man," but to drive a Rolls, sport diamonds, and wear custom suits and alligator shoes from Italy.

His secret is to follow the "unwritten rules of the game" -- a set of regulations handed down orally from older, wiser macks -- which give him superhuman powers of charm, psychological manipulation, and persuasion.

In Pimpology, star of the documentaries Pimps Up, Ho's Down and American Pimp and Annual Players Ball Mack of the Year winner Ken Ivy pulls a square's coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. Ken's lessons will serve any person in any interaction: Whether at work, in relationships, or among friends, somebody's got to be on top. To be the one with the upper hand, you've got to have good game, and good game starts with knowing the rules.

If you want the money, power, and respect you dream of, you can't just "pimp your ride," you need to pimp your whole life. And unless you've seen Ray Charles leading Stevie Wonder somewhere, you need Ken's guidelines to do it. They'll reach out and touch you like AT&T and bring good things to life like GE. Then you can be the boss with the hot sauce who gets it all like Monty Hall.

This Focus Philosophical Library edition includes a new translation of Descartes' seminal discourse, with an original essay by Richard Kennington. This text is designed to provide the student with a close translation, notes, and a glossary of key terms, facilitating access to ideas as they originally were presented and helping to make the translator's work transparent