“kevin m lachapelle”

Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects, and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth centu... More

When author Kevin LaChapelle begins his career as a police officer in El Cajon, California, he fulfills a lifelong dream. But the dream soon turns into a nightmare when he discovers corruption within the ranks of the El Cajon Police Department. "Please God, Don't Let My Badge Tarnish" is the story o... More

Kevin LaChapelle has chronicled his life as a mentor, the impact it's had on himself and those he's mentored. In "PowerMentor," Kevin shares candidly about the sacrifices, heartache and rewards that come with mentoring another individual. In this book, The PowerMentor, Kevin, outlines the unchanging... More

In this book, Kevin McCrimmon describes the history of Jordan Algebras and he describes in full mathematical detail the recent structure theory for Jordan algebras of arbitrary dimension due to Efim Zel'manov. To keep the exposition elementary, the structure theory is developed for linear Jordan alg... More

This book explores the relationship between new experiences of selfhood and new patterns of social life. It does so through an encounter with young people who confront urgent social and cultural transformations, whose experience of selfhood is unclear, often shaped by social forces that while powerf... More

Written for readers seeking to take their understanding of both PHP and sound software development practices to the next level, this resource covers advanced object-oriented features, documentation, debugging, software patterns, and the Standard PHP Library, with special emphasis placed upon the inc... More

Within Europe, the banking sector is commencing a period of considerable change and consolidation. Advances in technology, competition from the non-banking sector, the introduction of the Euro, a European Central bank and, possibly, pan-European Regulation, combined with the challenge from US banks,... More

Written and tested for final release of .NET v1.0 What is this book about? ASP.NET Website Programming shows you how to build an interactive website from design to deployment. Packed with solutions to website programming problems, this book will have you bui... More

An authoritative presentation on an important emerging field.Discrete event systems are ubiquitous in modern society, and we rely heavily on their proper design, correct operation, and performance. Written by leaders in the field who have helped establish the foundations of the theory and applied th... More