Christopher A Jones: 12 books

If you are a Python programmer who wants to incorporate XML into your skill set, this is the book for you. Python has attracted a wide variety of developers, who use it either as glue to connect critical programming tasks together, or as a complete cross-platform application development language....

In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War, making U.S. foreign policy has become more difficult, due in part to less clarity and consensus about threats and interests. In After the End James M. Scott brings together a group of scholars to explore the changing international situation...

The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...

“Within every heart sleeps the animal.  The One awakened will be lord of all.”  Hidden from his kin and sheltered from his future, Dusu is raised among the Galemren wild elves in the secret heart of the Ugoma Jungle, a world in which he does not belong. But Dusu is not entirely human...

"I have what you crave."  After destroying Dusu's village, Delgoth has followed the Cat's scent to Ujoa. Descending upon the city with a barbarian horde, the Wolf found not what he sought, but what he needed... the perfect bait. As the city burned, Delgoth claimed his prize, Idanya,...

“I name you betrayer of Ugoma!”  Led by Delgoth, the Ancient of the Wolf, the relentless hordes of Sil-Sakramoor have devoured the Tribe of the Gathering Wind, leaving few survivors. The heart of Ugoma has been scorched, and Waso lays the blame on his adopted brother Dusu. The two must put...

“And when man and beast are one,  the world shall hold its breath in fear.”  Dusu’s Path is clouded with the discovery of love and the outside world, and so too are his senses. Unnoticed by the young warrior, another picks up his scent and tracks him to where his Galemren family dwell. ...

Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined. Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...

The phrase "beat generation" -- introduced by Jack Kerouac in 1948 -- characterized the underground, nonconformist youths who gathered in New York City at that time. Together, these writers, artists, and activists created an inimitably American cultural phenomenon that would have a global...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...