Titles starting with J from Gulls Nest Books

Routledge, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Gale (drama, U. of Manchester, England) discusses the life, politics, and theory of British playwright, novelist, and broadcaster Priestly (1894-1984). Then she looks at how his key plays reflect his major concerns with family, gender, and sexual relations; time; and work. A final section focuses on the production of three specific plays. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Routledge, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Gale (drama, U. of Manchester, England) discusses the life, politics, and theory of British playwright, novelist, and broadcaster Priestly (1894-1984). Then she looks at how his key plays reflect his major concerns with family, gender, and sexual relations; time; and work. A final section focuses on the production of three specific plays. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Routledge, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Gale (drama, U. of Manchester, England) discusses the life, politics, and theory of British playwright, novelist, and broadcaster Priestly (1894-1984). Then she looks at how his key plays reflect his major concerns with family, gender, and sexual relations; time; and work. A final section focuses on the production of three specific plays. (©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Routledge, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Gale (drama, U. of Manchester, England) discusses the life, politics, and theory of British playwright, novelist, and broadcaster Priestly (1894-1984). Then she looks at how his key plays reflect his major concerns with family, gender, and sexual relations; time; and work. A final section focuses on the production of three specific plays. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Routledge, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Gale (drama, U. of Manchester, England) discusses the life, politics, and theory of British playwright, novelist, and broadcaster Priestly (1894-1984). Then she looks at how his key plays reflect his major concerns with family, gender, and sexual relations; time; and work. A final section focuses on the production of three specific plays. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Baxter (Anglia Ruskin U., UK) presents eight essays of contemporary literary criticism of the fiction of British writer J. G. Ballard. Topics include the implications of time, space, and psychology in Ballard's early fiction; the influence of Surrealism on The Atrocity Exhibition; Crash as a site of Gothic horror and humor; Ballard's cinematic imagination and the film adaptations of The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and Empire of the S... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Financial advisors will receive advice on attracting and keeping today's Internet-savvy Baby Boomer clientele and gain an understanding of the needs and expectations of this generation. There is material on forming lucrative relationships with other professionals, managing clients' mutual funds portfolios, and taking advantage of technology to research, create, and manage client portfolios. Includes a list of Internet addresses, and infor... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The introduction to this collection of essays on the writing of Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee begins, curiously, with a defense of literary criticism and theory. Boehmer (literature, University of Oxford), Eaglestone (contemporary literate, Royal Holloway, University of London) and Iddiols (Royal Holloway, University of London) believe that the complexities of Goetzee's work, along with its relevance to world concerns, make literary exege... more information

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Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, is set against a larger backdrop of the United States' emergence as a world power in the first half of the 20th century and the shifting of social and political priorities during the Cold War. Cassidy (natural science, Hofstra U.) has aimed this volume at general readers interested in Oppenheimer's childhood and college education, his role in the d... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Written for experienced Java programmers, this guide describes the development of distributed multi-tiered applications on the Java 2 enterprise edition (J2EE) platform. Walsh (Mantis) explains the concept of web services and the core XML APIs, and demonstrates how to construct dynamic responses to client requests with servlets, create dynamic web pages with Java server pages, and build reusable business objects with enterprise Java beans. (©... more information

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Manning Publications Co., 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Covering areas outside the scope of specifications, this book delves into the advanced features and configuration of the JBoss 5 Application Server, from a programmer’s point of view. It focuses on enterprise- class topics, such as high availability, security, and performance. Simple examples are used to walk through configuring the server’s component containers, such as the JBoss Web Server, the EJB3 server, and JBoss Messaging, and... more information

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Landes Bioscience, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Researchers in a number of biomedical disciplines review one of the pathways by which a signal is transmitted from the membrane to the nucleus to change the functions of a cell, the c-Jun animo-terminal kinases pathway. Their topics include the discovery of the pathway and its biological functions, physiological roles of the different JNKs, the JNK signal transduction pathway in Drosophila, and the pathway as a therapeutic target. (©2006 Book Ne... more information

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O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This tutorial on the JRuby programming language is aimed at users and programmers who need to integrate this information into an existing platform without needing to learn Ruby, Rails or Java first. Edelson (platform engineering, MTV networks) and Liu, a software developer and game designer, explain how to install JRuby on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and how to deploy Rails applications using JMS, JMX, JPA, Spring and Hibernate. The authors al... more information

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American Mathematical Society, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In addition to the proceedings of the September 2003 workshop, this collection reprints a paper by Macdonald on the algebra of partitions, a paper by Littlewood on certain symmetric functions, and a paper by Jack on a class of symmetric polynomials with a parameter. The 13 new research papers explore asymptotics of multivariate orthogonal polynomials with hyperoctahedral symmetry, triple groups and Cherednik algebras, lowering and raising... more information

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Harrington Park Press, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Gay liberation pioneer Nichols was editor of the first gay weekly newspaper in the US. Campbell (communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State University) charts Nichols' life and legacy, from his suburban childhood to his final days in a cancer treatment center in 2005. Braided throughout the biography is a history of the ideas Nichols used to bring the gay rights movement to critical mass and discussion of the sources of the ideas tha... more information

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Heritage House Publishing, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Whyte left his native Scotland in his mid-20s to teach high-school English in Canada, but is best known in his adopted country as a professional singer, actor, and entertainer; he is also the author of a series of Arthurian novels, A Dream of Eagles, and his more recent Knights Templar trilogy. He offers a collection of personal reminiscences of people, events, and times that have left lasting impressions on him since his arrival in Canada in... more information

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Scholar's Bookshelf, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. It was in essence a humiliating victory, as the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the War of 1812 ended, but Jackson's strategy, perseverance and therefore his appeal to the common voter became famous. Originally published in 1856, Walker's nearly minute-by-minute account bristles with skirmishes, wayward and obedient cannon, frantic planning sessions and desperate searches for materiel, brave soldiers (mainly American), foolish so... more information

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ABC-CLIO, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. It has been said to be a golden age for the common man, but some, including slaves, Native Americans and women, would differ. Jacksonian democracy held promise in that it made more eligible to vote, as long as they were white and male, and saw the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, although marked early on with pollution and social strife. This collection of nine essays, written by leading historians, describes the lives of the powerful, the powerless a... more information

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BRILL, 2005. New. CD-ROM; not a bound book. ... more information

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Reichert Verlag, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Of the eight contributions presented here, seven are in German. The article in English is titled "The impact of culture on the training of music therapists; Pre-conference symposium Brisbane 2005." Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. (©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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