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Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)

Duke University Press, 2019

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by...

American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure

Routledge, 2018

American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure highlights the necessary tension between our constitutional principles and institutions and the populist heat that sometimes roils our national politics, especially at the current political moment. Our constitutional democracy has been under pressure for some time,...

Human Rights Practices during Financial Crises

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries. This book offers a human rights perspective on financial crises vis-à-vis low-income and least developed countries. It systematically...

Computational Aesthetics (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

Springer, 2018

The essence of natural computing is aesthetics; for example, in cooking, one of the most common forms of natural computation, the decision to add salt, and how much, is based on the aesthetics of taste. Because touch perception is instinctively related to a sense of beauty, the aesthetics of tactile sense are considered as algorithms by using...

Higher Categories and Homotopical Algebra (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This book provides an introduction to modern homotopy theory through the lens of higher categories after Joyal and Lurie, giving access to methods used at the forefront of research in algebraic topology and algebraic geometry in the twenty-first century. The text starts from scratch - revisiting results from classical homotopy theory such as...

Patients, Doctors and Healers: Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism, Kristensen argues that medical practices are...

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Python Projects for Beginners: A Ten-Week Bootcamp Approach to Python Programming

Apress, 2019

Immerse yourself in learning Python and introductory data analytics with this book’s project-based approach. Through the structure of a ten-week coding bootcamp course, you’ll learn key concepts and gain hands-on experience through weekly projects.

Each chapter in this book is presented as a full week of...

The Object-Oriented Thought Process (5th Edition) (Developer's Library)

Addison Wesley, 2019

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is the foundation of modern programming languages, including C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic .NET, Ruby, Objective-C, and Swift. Objects also form the basis for many web technologies such as JavaScript, Python, and PHP.

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Beginning Git and GitHub: A Comprehensive Guide to Version Control, Project Management, and Teamwork for the New Developer

Apress, 2019

Learn the fundamentals of version control through step-by-step tutorials that will teach you the ins-and-outs of Git. This book is your complete guide to how Git and GitHub work in a professional team environment.

Divided into three parts – Version Control, Project Management and Teamwork – this book...

Security for Software Engineers

CRC Press, 2018

Security for Software Engineers is designed to introduce security concepts to undergraduate software engineering students. The book is divided into four units, each targeting activities that a software engineer will likely be involved in within industry.

The book explores the key areas of attack...

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python: Enhance your ethical hacking skills to build automated and intelligent systems

Packt Publishing, 2019

Implement defensive techniques in your ecosystem successfully with Python

Key Features

Identify and expose vulnerabilities in your infrastructure with Python

Learn custom exploit development

Make robust and powerful cybersecurity tools with Python

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C++ Concurrency in Action

Manning Publications, 2019

Summary

This bestseller has been updated and revised to cover all the latest changes to C++ 14 and 17! C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition teaches you everything you need to write robust and elegant multithreaded applications in C++17.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in...