Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mike roberts

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  • PROGRAMMING AWS LAMBDA
    JOHN CHAPIN / MIKE ROBERTS
    Serverless revolutionizes the way organizations build and deploy software. With this hands-on guide, Java engineers will learn how to use their experience in the new world of serverless computing. You’ll discover how this cloud computing execution model can drastically decrease the complexity in developing and operating applications while reducing costs and time to market. Engi...

    $574.00

  • JAPAN AND GLOBAL MIGRATION
    MIKE DOUGLASS / GLENDA ROBERTS
    Japan and Global Migration brings together current research on foreign workers and households from a variety of different perspectives. This influx has had a substantial impact on Japan's economic, social and political landscape. The book asks three major questions: whether the recent wave of migration constitutes a new multicultural age challenging Japan's identity as homogeno...

    $1,240.00

  • THE WARS OF ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS, 323–281 BC
    BOB BENNETT / MIKE ROBERTS
    This history of Ancient Greek warfare vividly chronicles the struggle for control of the Macedonian Empire, a fateful time of change in the Ancient World.   As the story goes, Alexander the Great decreed from his deathbed that his vast Macedonian Empire should go "to the strongest". What followed was an epic struggle between generals and governors for control of the territories...

    $229.00

  • CHANGING ATTITUDES TO PUNISHMENT
    ROBERTS, JULIAN / HOUGH, MIKE
    Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly demonstrate that the public knows little about crime and justice, and holds negative views of the criminal justice system. This book, consisting of chapters from leading authorities in the field, is concerned to address this prob...

    $1,600.00

  • TWO DEATHS AT AMPHIPOLIS
    MIKE ROBERTS
    This detailed look at the deadly confrontation between a Spartan commander and a ruthless Athenian general sheds new light on the Peloponnesian War.   This book looks in detail at arguably the two most significant characters on either side in the middle years of the great Peloponnesian War—and the showdown in and around Amphipolis that led to both their deaths in 422 BC.   The ...

    $279.00

  • HANNIBAL'S ROAD
    MIKE ROBERTS
    Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 203 BC. Most studies concentrate on Hannibals series of stunning victories in the early stages of the war, culminating at Cannae in 216 BC, then refocus on the activities of his nemesis ,Scipio Africanus, in Spain until the two meet in t...

    $279.00

  • ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S LEGACY
    MIKE ROBERTS
    Why was it that 2400 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations after his death , became a weaker enti...

    $299.00

  • ROME'S THIRD SAMNITE WAR, 298–290 BC
    MIKE ROBERTS
    A compelling account of alliances, animosities, and ancient warfare in central Italy. The Third Samnite War was a crucial episode in the early history of Rome. Upon its outcome rested mastery of central Italy, and the independent survival of both Rome and the Samnites. Determined to resist aggressive Roman expansion, the Samnites forged a powerful alliance with the Senones (a t...

    $229.00

  • THE SPARTAN SUPREMACY, 412–371 BC
    MIKE ROBERTS / BOB BENNETT
    Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself ...

    $249.00

  • TWILIGHT OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
    MIKE ROBERTS / BOB BENNETT
    This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened in, and ultimately conquered, the region. This period is rarely treated in any depth, usually warranting little more than a summary as context for a discussion of the Roman conquests. The authors demonstrate that this period of ...

    $129.00