David Karp: 13 books
Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges & Universities
Revised & Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Here’s a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an associate dean of student affairs who...
by David Karp
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In a dateless future, a seemingly benevolent totalitarian State has eliminated poverty, crime, war, and religious intolerance and brought the happiness of conformity to its people. Professor Burden thinks he too is a loyal citizen, but the Department of Internal Examination discovers that he secretly...
Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks
Tips, Secrets and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
In an ideal world, an operating system would do its job in the background, while you did yours in the foreground. In reality, though, operating systems often get in the way, fouling up the process at the most inopportune times. And Windows XP is no exception.O'Reilly's popular series for customizing...
Fixing Windows XP Annoyances
How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About the Windows OS
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Windows XP is the most popular operating system on the planet--and the most annoying. From incomprehensible error messages to inexplicable crashes, from wonky wireless setups to just finding a file, Windows can make your computing life a nightmare. But thanks to Fixing Windows XP Annoyances, you can...
The Burden of Sympathy
How Families Cope With Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the...
Windows 7 Annoyances
Tips, Secrets, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Windows 7 may be faster and more stable than Vista, but it's a far cry from problem-free. David A. Karp comes to the rescue with the latest in his popular Windows Annoyances series. This thorough guide gives you the tools you need to fix the troublesome parts of this operating system, plus the solutions,...
The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities, Second Edition
Repairing Harm and Rebuilding Trust in Response to Student Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A Practitioner's Reference and Guide to Implement Restorative Justice on Campus
Here’s a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus...
Responsibility for Human Rights
Transnational Corporations in Imperfect States
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Responsibility for Human Rights provides an original theoretical analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights, and why. It does this through an evaluation of the different reasons according to which such responsibilities might be assigned: legalism, universalism, capacity and publicness....
by Scott Aaronson, James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #4: March 2019
Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson
Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life, 3rd Edition
A Sociology of City Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their daily experiences as urbanites. This thoroughly updated edition...
Windows XP Pocket Reference
A Compact Guide to Windows XP
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Windows XP Pocket Reference is a handy book for power users and system administrators who need a solid reference with quick answers, but not a lot of explanation. This book is a powerful tool that quickly covers XP's applications and tools, tasks and settings, and commands. Windows XP Pocket...
by David A. Karp, Andy Rathbone
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Your vacuum comes with one. Even your blender comes with one. But your PC--something that costs a whole lot more and is likely to be used daily and for tasks of far greater importance and complexity--doesn't come with a printed manual. Thankfully, that's not a problem any longer: PCs: The Missing...
eBay Hacks
Tips & Tools for Bidding, Buying, and Selling
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2005
Whatever you call it--an online auction house, the world's largest flea market, or a vast social experiment--no metaphor completely describes the huge trading community that is eBay. Underneath it all, eBay is also a computer program and a complex socio-economic system, requiring experience, finesse,...