Product Description: This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski’s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative...read more

Product Description: The core book in SEI's influential architecture curriculum, this book introduces software architecture both for practicing software engineers and for students pursuing careers in software design or management. It combines the authority of SEI's pioneering curriculum with the proven pedagogical effectiveness of a book that's been used for many years in countless training and college courses...read more

Product Description: In Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science, Paul Clements develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory...read more

Product Description: Full-color guide • Make your trip to Ireland unforgettable with illustrated features, 54 maps, and 310 color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Practical advice for getting around • Convenient overview of each region and its highlights • Easy-to-read color regional maps Explore Dublin, County Cork, Connemara, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on the spectacular Ring of Kerry, Dublin’s famed pubs, and the new Irish cuisine • Great itineraries, best golf courses, top food markets  Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s Ireland-based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Revised annually to provide the latest informatio...read more

Product Description: The Burren in County Clare is slow to give up its secrets. For years Paul Clements has been drawn to its history, mystery, and peculiarities. Here he writes absorbingly about the rocks, hills, and walls; the colors, the animals, and subjects that excite him such as the exotic wild flowers, ancient ruins, early morning birdsong, and whiskey smells in historic pubs...read more

Product Description: “This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn’t have thought it possible to improve on the original. As the field of software architecture has grown over these past decades, there is much more to be said, much more that we know, and much more that we can reflect upon of what’s worked and what hasn’t—and the authors here do all that, and more...read more

Product Description: Terrorism grips the covert missions assigned to the United States Marshals Service by the Justice Department. Terrorism prevails in such a manner as to be undetected by the pilots and their associates. When the transparent terrorism turns apparent, people begin to die...read more

Product Description: In honor of the 80th birthday of British travel journalist Jan Morris, her colleagues and successors have put together this celebratory, biographical tribute, which explores both the writer and her writing. By revisiting more than 50 years of descriptions of her travels, her epic three-volume history of the British Empire, and her startling and thoughtful memoir about her sex change, the volume contains many full, intimate insights into her character from renowned contributors, including George Band, Arturo di Stefano, David Fieldhouse, Don Geroge, David Hurn, Pico Iyer, Robert McCrum, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Patrick Nairn, Jim Perrin, Hilary Rubenstein, Colin Thubron, Erica Wagner, Alan Whicker, Simon Winchester, and Peregrine Wortsthorne...read more

Product Description: A pocket-format, affordable guide, concentrating on a mix of specifically gay-related topics and mainstream subjects together with areas where gay travelers have specific requirements or need extra advice.

Product Description: A pocket-format, affordable guide, concentrating on a mix of specifically gay-related topics and mainstream subjects together with areas where gay travelers have specific requirements or need extra advice.

Product Description: Chronicles the author's comic attempt to find the highest point in each of Ireland's 32 counties

Product Description: We are a nation in process, we have the tools to excel to greater heights. For some of those that confronted our shores in the late 19th and early 20th century, you are either unaware of this country foundation or unconcerned of it's undead roots...read more

Product Description: Out Around Barcelona/Sitges has been researched, written and photographed by gay authors and photographers, to give a fully integrated mix of gay specific information, such as gay life and the scene in the city of Barcelona and the resort of Sitges, as well as general recommendations to the best places to see and stay...read more

Product Description: The foundation of any software system is its architecture. Using this book, you can evaluate every aspect of architecture in advance, at remarkably low cost -- identifying improvements that can dramatically improve any system's performance, security, reliability, and maintainability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is relatively new to the software industry. A software product line is a family of systems that share a common set of core technical assets, with preplanned extensions and variations to address the needs of specific customers or market segments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A handbook on Latin American dancing for complete beginners. It gives separate guidelines for men and women and step-by-step illustrations of the footsteps integrated with music beats. It covers the cha-cha-cha, rumba, jive, rock 'n' roll, samba, paso doble, mambo, bossa nova and Argentine tango...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For courses in Advanced Software Engineering. Achieving high product quality, while at the same time meeting time-to-market and cost goals, has emerged as a critical priority for software developers. Quality is often the greatest, most visible product differentiator...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first full-length study of Jan Morris, one of Britain's foremost travel essayist and popular historians. It takes a critical look at a unique writer who after spending more than forty years as a man, underwent a sex-change in the 1970s and became a woman...read more