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Building a Career in Software

A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry

by Daniel Heller ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Software engineering education has a problem: universities and bootcamps teach aspiring engineers to write code, but they leave graduates to teach themselves the countless supporting tools required to thrive in real software companies. Building a Career in Software is the solution, a comprehensive guide to the essential skills that instructors don't need and professionals never think to teach: ... Read more

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Software engineering education has a problem: universities and bootcamps teach aspiring engineers to write code, but they leave graduates to teach themselves the countless supporting tools required to thrive in real software companies. Building a Career in Software is the solution, a comprehensive guide to the essential skills that instructors don't need and professionals never think to teach:
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Absentees

On Variously Missing Persons

by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...

An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, ... Read more

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An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil,
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Curriculum on the Edge of Survival

How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy

by Daniel Heller ...

Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, 2nd Edition, attempts to define basic aspects of the curriculum when viewed through ... Read more

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Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, 2nd Edition, attempts to define basic aspects of the curriculum when viewed through
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Political Will and Improving Public Schools

Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider

by Daniel Heller ...

The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.The suggestions for education made here will require that Americans admit certain flaws in the system, some of which involve ... Read more

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The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.The suggestions for education made here will require that Americans admit certain flaws in the system, some of which involve
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Collected Essays in Philosophy

by Giorgio Agamben ...

Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...

Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy's most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates ... Read more

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This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy's most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates
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Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders

Gentle Pathways to Resolving Conflicts

by Daniel Heller ...

This book explores ways in which educational leaders can apply the wisdom of the Tao in their day-to-day work in schools. It offers an alternative to the standard ways of western thinking to give the leader more possibilities when confronting a situation. We tend to value immediate and decisive action, winning, directing, and getting one’s way. Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders offers another ... Read more

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This book explores ways in which educational leaders can apply the wisdom of the Tao in their day-to-day work in schools. It offers an alternative to the standard ways of western thinking to give the leader more possibilities when confronting a situation. We tend to value immediate and decisive action, winning, directing, and getting one’s way. Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders offers another
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Homo Sacer

Sovereign Power and Bare Life

by Giorgio Agamben ...

Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...

Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
In this major work by the renowned Italian philosopher, an obscure figure in Roman law poses significant questions about the nature of power.The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, challenges modern conceptions of society and the individual's place within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and ... Read more

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In this major work by the renowned Italian philosopher, an obscure figure in Roman law poses significant questions about the nature of power.The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, challenges modern conceptions of society and the individual's place within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and
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The Fifth Hammer

Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World

by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...

A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysicsAn ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras invented harmony. It is said that one day, he wandered by a forge and, hearing a wondrous sound come from within, ventured in to investigate. He found five men hammering with five hammers. To his astonishment, he discovered that four of the five hammers stood in a marvelous set of ... Read more

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A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysicsAn ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras invented harmony. It is said that one day, he wandered by a forge and, hearing a wondrous sound come from within, ventured in to investigate. He found five men hammering with five hammers. To his astonishment, he discovered that four of the five hammers stood in a marvelous set of
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Handbook of Carbon Nanomaterials

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by Daniel A Heller, Mijin Kim ...

Series Book 11 & 12 - World Scientific Series on Carbon Nanoscience
This two-volume set tackles the applications and implications of carbon nanotubes in biology and medicine, from their unique promise in biotechnologies, to controversies about toxicology. Guided by carbon nanomaterials experts, editors Dr Daniel Heller and Dr Mijin Kim, multiple viewpoints are engaged.Carbon nanotubes emerged as one of the most exciting nanomaterials in the 1990s due to their ... Read more

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This two-volume set tackles the applications and implications of carbon nanotubes in biology and medicine, from their unique promise in biotechnologies, to controversies about toxicology. Guided by carbon nanomaterials experts, editors Dr Daniel Heller and Dr Mijin Kim, multiple viewpoints are engaged.Carbon nanotubes emerged as one of the most exciting nanomaterials in the 1990s due to their
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Homo Sacer

Sovereign Power and Bare Life

by Giorgio Agamben ...

Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...

Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions ... Read more

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The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions
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Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital

Centering the Periphery

by Zehavit Stern, Justin Cammy, Bozena Shallcross, Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia, Naomi Seidman, Magdalena Kozlowska, Sylwia Jakubczyk-Sleczka, Marcos Silber, Alicja Maslak-Maciejewska, Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Ela Bauer, Daniel Kupfert Heller ...

**Shortlisted by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly VolumePIASA's 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume**Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in ... Read more

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**Shortlisted by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly VolumePIASA's 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume**Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in
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Cowboy from Prague: An Immigrant's Pursuit of the American Dream

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“Charles Ota Heller’s newest memoir, Cowboy from Prague, is a gripping and hauntinglybeautiful exploration… required reading for a generation that often forgets that the struggle is themost important part of the journey.”--Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, Israel Prize LaureateFrom the author of the acclaimed memoir, Prague: My Long Journey Home, comes an inspiring account of a refugee who boarded ... Read more

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“Charles Ota Heller’s newest memoir, Cowboy from Prague, is a gripping and hauntinglybeautiful exploration… required reading for a generation that often forgets that the struggle is themost important part of the journey.”--Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, Israel Prize LaureateFrom the author of the acclaimed memoir, Prague: My Long Journey Home, comes an inspiring account of a refugee who boarded
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