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  • WEB APPLICATION SECURITY
    ANDREW HOFFMAN
    In the first edition of this critically acclaimed book, Andrew Hoffman defined the three pillars of application security: reconnaissance, offense, and defense. In this revised and updated second edition, he examines dozens of related topics, from the latest types of attacks and mitigations to threat modeling, the secure software development lifecycle (SSDL/SDLC), and more. Hoff...

    $681.00

  • THE DANGEROUS SEX
    HOFFMAN R HAYS
    First published in 1966, The Dangerous Sex shows how the irrational concept of the "dangerous sex" evolved and how it was – and is – used by man to maintain his dominance. He examines sexual practices and beliefs, marriage customs and rituals, and social behaviour in every society and every age from pre-historic times to the present day. The result is a revealing picture of the...

    $1,339.00

  • FROM APE TO ANGEL
    HOFFMAN R HAYS
    First published in 1958, From Ape to Angel is a popular history of social anthropology which sketches the extraordinary world of ethical, religious and marital customs revealed by the men and women who travelled to remote places to live among and observe primitive people. Here, in absorbing detail, are the findings of such scholars as Henry Schoolcraft, who unravelled the myste...

    $1,339.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THEORY
    PAUL GRAHAM / JOHN HOFFMAN
    This vibrant and significantly revised new edition is a comprehensive and accessible text for studying political theory in a changing world. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, it introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped our world, and the ideas that form the currency of political debate. Consis...

    $979.00

  • EVALUATING INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING
    SHARON THOMAS / JIM KNIGHT / MICHELLE HARRIS / ANN HOFFMAN
    A clear and comprehensive guide to evaluating and supporting instructional coaches and coaching programs, including how to recruit, hire, and retain effective coaches.With sound practices in place to evaluate coaching programs, instructional coaches will become better partners, teachers will become better mentors, and students will become better learners.Few evaluation systems ...

    $798.00

  • THE INSTRUCTIONAL PLAYBOOK
    JIM KNIGHT / ANN HOFFMAN / MICHELLE HARRIS / SHARON THOMAS
    In schools, every day is "game day." Every day, teachers need the best resources and forms of support because students deserve the best we as educators can offer. An instructional playbook aims to serve as that kind of support: a tool that coaches can use to help teachers match specific learning goals with the right research-based instructional strategies.Coaches have enormous ...

    $621.00

  • THE SCIENCE OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL
    JAY HOFFMAN
    The game of American football may be the greatest team sport that exists. It epitomizes the need of a "team" first approach to achieve the desired success. Success is often measured as the hoisting of a championship trophy, which involved a journey that required discipline, perseverance, sacrifice, and hard work. These traits are the backbone of success in football, but more im...

    $1,099.00

  • AIRBNB, SHORT-TERM RENTALS AND THE FUTURE OF HOUSING
    LILY M. HOFFMAN / BARBARA SCHMITTER HEISLER
    How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the conditions wrought by the 2008 financial crisis, the authors bring together a diverse body of literature and construct case studies of cities in the US, Australia and Germany to examine the struggles of local authorities to protect their housing and neighborhoo...

    $779.00

  • BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
    PERRY D HOFFMAN / PENNY STEINER-GROSSMAN
    Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still persist. Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatme...

    $779.00

  • THE GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
    DANIEL HOFFMAN / ALLAN BOWDITCH
    The pharmaceutical industry, long thought of as a recession-proof investment, now faces a day of reckoning. The reasons for this impending downfall are not hard to discern. The prices the industry charges for its prescription drugs have escalated at four to five times the cost-of-living increases during the past two decades and have reached a point where 30% of Americans must c...

    $1,099.00

  • COLLEGE SPORTS AND INSTITUTIONAL VALUES IN COMPETITION
    JENNIFER LEE HOFFMAN
    College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition interrogates the relationship between athletics and higher education, exploring how college athletics departments reflect many characteristics of their institutions and are also susceptible to the same challenges in delivering on their mission. Chapters cover the historical contexts and background of campus athletics, issue...

    $1,099.00

  • GOVERNING THE ATOM
    JOHN BYRNE / ‎STEVEN M. HOFFMAN
    Promoted as a form of limitless, low-cost energy without the polluting effects of Its fossil fuel counterparts, nuclear power has enjoyed unparalleled support in several countries. Despite the development of an extensive set of policy and institutional mechanisms to foster its use. nuclear technology has been troubled by a wide range of problems and continues to pose risks many...

    $739.00

  • THE POWER OF PRACTICE-BASED LITERACY RESEARCH
    MISTY SAILORS / JAMES V. HOFFMAN
    Accessible and inviting, this book showcases how teachers and literacy coaches can use research as a tool to teach literacy effectively and with intention. Sailors and Hoffman invite literacy specialists and practicing and preservice teachers into a conversation about how they can use research as means for professional learning, mentorship, and empowerment. Chapters feature a w...

    $899.00

  • PRACTICING ORAL HISTORY AMONG REFUGEES AND HOST COMMUNITIES
    MARELLA HOFFMAN
    Practicing Oral History among Refugees and Host Communities provides a comprehensive and practical guide to applied oral history with refugees, teaching the reader how to use applied, contemporary oral history to help provide solutions to the ‘mega-problem’ that is the worldwide refugee crisis. The book surveys the history of the practice and explains its successful application...

    $999.00

  • 50 YEARS OF COMBINATORICS, GRAPH THEORY, AND COMPUTING
    FAN CHUNG, RON GRAHAM, FREDERICK HOFFMAN, LESLIE HOGBEN, RONALD C. MULLIN AND DOUGLAS B. WEST
    50 Years of Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing advances research in discrete mathematics by providing current research surveys, each written by experts in their subjects. The book also celebrates outstanding mathematics from 50 years at the Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing (SEICCGTC). The conference is noted for the dissem...

    $1,339.00

  • GREAT BRITAIN AND THE GERMAN TRADE RIVALRY
    ROSS J. S. HOFFMAN
    Originally published in 1933, this volume covers 3 features of British history in the 40 years prior to the First World War: the inroad made by commercial and industrial Germany on the far-flung business empire of Great Britain; the British national reaction to this German rivalry and the influence of that rivalry upon the shaping of British policy toward Germany. ...

    $979.00

  • DRIVING FORCE
    KURT HOFFMAN
    This book is concerned with the future direction of the international division of labour in manufacturing. It explores the different patterns of foreign direct investment in the eras of machinofacture and systemofacture with respect to a study of the global production of automobile components. ...

    $1,099.00

  • CONCEPTS OF IDENTITY
    KATHERINE HOFFMAN
    Concepts of identity are complex and changing, and in this book Katherine Hoffman examines images of individuals and families from ancient Egypt to the presentmore than two thirds of the book covers the twentieth century. Through a comprehensive study of paintings, sculpture, photography, film, television, and other media, Hoffman provides eye-open ...

    $1,139.00

  • NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
    JOE D. HOFFMAN / STEVEN FRANKEL
    Emphasizing the finite difference approach for solving differential equations, the second edition of Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists presents a methodology for systematically constructing individual computer programs. Providing easy access to accurate solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems, each chapter begins with objectives, a discussion of a ...

    $3,400.00

  • REAL-TIME RENDERING
    TOMAS AKENINE-MO¨LLER / ERIC HAINES / NATY HOFFMAN
    Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years. This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also pre...

    $2,200.00

  • THE SUN IS RISING IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
    PETER F. VARADI / FRANK WOUTERS / ALLAN R. HOFFMAN
    Both Africa and the Middle East are blessed with enormous solar energy resources. Electrification is an urgent need in Africa, where many of its 54 countries are among the world’s fastest-growing economies, but where half the population still has no access to electricity. Solar energy is seen as the fastest and cheapest path to addressing this need. Oil-rich countries in the Mi...

    $999.00

  • FROM THE TRENCHES
    WENDY HOFFMAN / ALISON MILLER
    This book is a shaking read, its controversial political statement putting forward the demand that readers accept the existence of conscious splitting of personality through treachery, deception, betrayal, torture, and violence. Beginning with the introductory poem, the book is an outcry about the significance of personal freedom as well as a blazing plea for commitment to maki...

    $999.00

  • EXCHANGING VOICES
    LYNN HOFFMAN
    For this book, the author has not only compiled her writing for the last ten years, but she has written her own commentary about the personal and intellectual journey which led her from one paper to the next. The papers themselves read like a chronicle of the major ideas of the past ten years, but her commentary sheds a new light on the process of learning. It enables the reade...

    $1,139.00

  • THE NEW POLITICAL CULTURE
    TERRY NICHOLS CLARK / VINCENT HOFFMANN-MARTINOT / VINCENT HOFFMAN-MARTINOT
    This volume introduces a new style of politics, the New Political Culture (NPC), which began in many countries in the 1970s. It defines new rules of the game for politics, challenging two older traditions: class politics and clientelism. ...

    $1,139.00

  • BUSINESS AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
    ANDREW HOFFMAN / SUSSE GEORG
    The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection of the natural environment have developed into maturing areas of study within the management sciences. Busines...

    $499.00

  • PROBABILITY WITH A VIEW TOWARDS STATISTICS, VOLUME I
    J. HOFFMAN-JORGENSEN
    Volume I of this two-volume text and reference work begins by providing a foundation in measure and integration theory. It then offers a systematic introduction to probability theory, and in particular, those parts that are used in statistics. This volume discusses the law of large numbers for independent and non-independent random variables, transforms, special distributions, ...

    $4,600.00

  • PROBABILITY WITH A VIEW TOWARDS STATISTICS, VOLUME II
    J. HOFFMAN-JORGENSEN
    Volume II of this two-volume text and reference work concentrates on the applications of probability theory to statistics, e.g., the art of calculating densities of complicated transformations of random vectors, exponential models, consistency of maximum estimators, and asymptotic normality of maximum estimators. It also discusses topics of a pure probabilistic nature, such as ...

    $4,600.00

  • PROBABILITY WITH A VIEW TOWARDS STATISTICS, VOLUME I
    J. HOFFMAN-JORGENSEN
    Volume I of this two-volume text and reference work begins by providing a foundation in measure and integration theory. It then offers a systematic introduction to probability theory, and in particular, those parts that are used in statistics. This volume discusses the law of large numbers for independent and non-independent random variables, transforms, special distributions, ...

    $4,400.00

  • PRACTICING ORAL HISTORY TO IMPROVE PUBLIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
    MARELLA HOFFMAN
    The use of contemporary oral history to improve public policies and programs is a growing, transdisciplinary practice. Indispensable for students and practitioners, Practicing Oral History to Improve Public Policies and Programs is the first book to define the practice, explain how policy-makers use it, show how it relates to other types of oral history, and provide guidance on...

    $979.00

  • FLOURISHING
    ANDREW J. HOFFMAN / JOHN R. EHRENFELD
    This astonishing book invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other books about sustainability, this one goes beyond the typical stories that we tell ourselves about repairing the environmental damages of human progress. ...

    $859.00


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