Justin Gehtland,Stuart Halloway:Rails for Java Developers
- Taschenbuch 2008, ISBN: 9788184046373
Spinifex, North Melbourne, Australia, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illustrator: Tom Adams. Trade Paperback. 289 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Spinifex, North Mel… Mehr…
Spinifex, North Melbourne, Australia, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illustrator: Tom Adams. Trade Paperback. 289 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Spinifex, North Melbourne, Australia, 2005. First Edition. *** CONDITION: Very Good ... Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Remainder mark on page edges. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'Sex, silence and sin', this is what newly appointed professor, Dee P Scrutari, writes in her notebook as she turns her anthropological gaze on the tribe of 'non-reproducing males' who dominate St Jude's, a prestigious Jesuit liberal arts college in the north east of the US. Something is awry. What happened to the previous occupant of her newly painted office? Professor Scrutari's fieldwork begins. Her notebooks fill. The mystery mounts: disturbing odours, turbulent faculty meetings, a strange ginger cat, tenure politics and intrigue. The mix is enriched by secret student alliances, predatory priests, the end of a marriage and a new love, a faction-ridden Religious Studies department, a radical mass and a dissident feminist liturgy. The determined anthropologist doodles and decodes the symbols and signs of evil as she teams up with a band of colleagues marginalised by the department - a liberation theology nun, a gay priest, and a Jew - and three feisty women students. They strategize and sleuth as they attempt to solve a number of campus mysteries. "Evil", Dee declares, "is visceral, pervasive, subtle, not an abstract conceit at all." Evil is about now. 'Evil' is a novel full of vivid characters you know, or want to know. At once funny, witty, sobering, profound and provocative, full of affection for the academic world Diane Bell so lovingly describes, and is concerned to nurture against the darker forces she seeks to identify and expose. *** Illustrator: Tom Adams. Quantity Available: 4. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 1876756551. ISBN/EAN: 9781876756550. Inventory No: 08010048.. 9781876756550, Spinifex, 2005, 3, A postmodern speculative fiction on American contributions to the arts--jazz, comics, abstract expressionism, and literature--embodied by Verity's quest for her origin."An unforgettable vision of America transfigured by a new and utterly apocalyptic technology." -- William GIbson"In the hands of Kathleen Ann Goonan, the science of science fiction becomes something lyrical and vividly human, and the intricately imagined future she presents is thus rendered completely plausible and poignant in the extreme. Queen City Jazz is hands down the best first novel I've read in the genre in the past ten years." --Lucius ShepardThis impressive first novel by an experienced story writer combines hallucinogenic visions, historical personae and an original futuristic dystopia. Young Verity has been raised by a reconstructionist Shaker group that bases its religion on the American cult that banned sex and believed in ``simple'' virtues. The adolescent has strange powers and mysterious compulsions that cause her to seek out and learn things from technologies that her adoptive community has forsaken. After tragedy strikes her ``family,'' Verity packs up several precious burdens and repairs to the technologically superior but dangerously insane ``enlivened'' city of Cincinnati. There she meets the passionate jazz musician Sphere and becomes embroiled in mutating versions of a nanotech plague and overlapping views of the historical facts that led to the destruction of rational civilization. In Cincinnati she learns her true identity and how to affect the city's destiny. Highlights of the book include a scene in which Ernest Hemingway gets kicked off a baseball team because he's not a ``team player'' and a mini-lesson in the communication techniques of bees. Also a pleasure is watching the intelligent heroine grapple with responsibility, passion and artistic creation. Goonan's work is powerful and richly textured. --Publisher's Weekly, Tor Books, 1994, 6, USA: Paperback Library ., 1967. 154 pages; REVISED Second Printing with New Multiple Monsters ABSTRACT Art Painted Cover by Jerome Podwil; CONTENTS = 1 - Not Only Dead; 2 - Final Command; 3 - War of Nerves; 4 - Enchanted Village; 5 - Concealment; 6 - The Sea Thing; 7 - Resurrection; 8 - Vault of the Beast; ; "Prepare to have your flesh crawl with terror your heart pound with fear your eyes grow in horror as a host of hideous thins - some hairy, some finned, some scaly, some metal ( and some so strange they cannot he described in andy earth language!)" >> Very Nice un-read copy.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. FINE++, Almost New!. Illus. by Jerome Podwil Painted Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback., Paperback Library ., 1967, 5, Shroff Publishers/Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008. Softcover. New. 18 x 23 cm. If you are a Java programmer, you shouldnt have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a lot different from Java, and some of those differences support powerful abstractions that Java lacks. Well be your guides to this new, but not strange, territory. In each chapter, we build a series of parallel examples to demonstrate some facet of web development. Because the Rails examples sit next to Java examples, you can start this book in the middle, or anywhere else you want. You can use the Java version of the code, plus the analysis, to quickly grok what the Rails version is doing. We have carefully cross-referenced and indexed the book to facilitate jumping around as you need to. Thanks to your background in Java, this one short book can cover a half-dozen books worth of ideas: Programming Ruby Building MVC (Model/View/Controller) Applications Unit and Functional Testing Security Project Automation Configuration Web Services Rails for Java Developers is the fast track for Java programmers who are learning or evaluating Ruby on Rails Printed Pages: 330. Rails for Java DevelopersJustin Gehtland,Stuart Halloway9788184046373, Shroff Publishers/Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008, 6<
