“bruce b abbott”

Think about the managers who most influenced your career. Since they knew their career success depended on the performance of their employees, they created a fun, synergistic work environment and were rewarded with superior employee commitment and performance. These exceptional leaders succeeded be... More

The presidency was neither designed nor expected to act in concert with the American people; the Framers intended Congress to represent the popular will. Thanks in part to public outrage at Congressional abuses of power, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson led mass movements that forced major change... More

"Divided We Stand" is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on longshoremen in the ports of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and on st... More

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing,... More

About This Book... From the fundamentals of Java syntax to its most advanced features (network programming, advanced object-oriented capabilities, multi-threading), "Thinking in Java," is designed to teach. Bruce Eckel's readable style and small, direct programming examples make even the most ar... More