Learn about the current issues affecting lead paint, asbestos, and Chinese drywall litigation cases with this book. Written from both the plaintiff and defense perspective, the guide offers advice on defending a case and a state-by-state summary for comparison and the future of each of these unique litigation issues. It also includes strategies for the defense when trying a case and identifies issues that often arise or should be considered when prosecuting.
Teach your students the craft of designing and building parallel programs specifically programs that employ multiple processors operating at once to solve a large computational problem with the clear presentation and fresh, contemporary approach found in Kaminsky’s BUILDING PARALLEL PROGRAMS. Written by experienced instructor and industry developer Alan Kaminsky, this book addresses techniques for parallel programming on both major categories of parallel computers SMPs and clusters. Your students gain first-hand experience working with the increasingly popular programming language, Java, as they complete programs from the text written in Java and use a unique, author-developed Java class library. The book emphasizes how to use performance metrics in the design of parallel programs, a topic not even addressed in most other texts. Give your students the contemporary, hands-on experience they need to succeed in today’s parallel programming with Kaminsky’s BUILDING PARALLEL PROGRAMS. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Helps readers learn the craft of designing and building parallel programs - specifically programs that employ multiple processors operating at once to solve a large computational problem. This book addresses techniques for parallel programming on both major categories of parallel computers - SMPs and clusters.
This book uses the author's childhood and career to extensively illustrate the deep merits of performing crosschecks between the right and left sides of the brain. You can expect to feel amused while learning which side is which and what they do. When either fear or greed are dominant, the self may refuse to consult the empathetic silent hemisphere. The result is self-serving rationalization, and a civilization overloaded with short-term expedients, many of which are likely to be painfully undone by that handmaiden of reality, Mother Nature.
It is 1974 and Nicolas Kraven, lecturer in English Literature at Mosholu College in the Bronx, is adrift upon a sea of troubles: his affair with his neighbour's wife threatens to progress from Thursday night to permanence; his students are a mixture of campus revolutionaries, predatory sexual exhibitionists and an old man intent on proving Merlin was a Jew; an elderly academic specialist in Love, possessor of a devastatingly effective aphrodisiac and a libido that belies her years, has alarming designs on his person; the Kraven demons, a familial curse, are in hot pursuit; and a spectre from his past, the one man who can smash this already chaotic life into ruins, is expected imminently. Kraven flies to London, where he finds brief consolation in the arms of Candy Peaches, a stripper from Sausalito, and then to Harrogate, the town to which he was evacuated as a child, there to confront the ghost of his father, and to slay Kraven's demons.
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is “arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn’t easy to read . . . or at least he wasn’t until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, reader-friendly prose. Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series—What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good—they’ve collectively sold almost 600,000 copies. And they continue to sell year after year after year because Chomsky’s ideas become, if anything, more relevant as time goes by. For example, twenty years ago he pointed out that “in 1970, about 90% of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment—more or less productive things—and 10% for speculation. By 1990, those figures had reversed.” As we know, speculation continued to increase exponentially. We’re paying the price now for not heeding him them.
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