John Derrick: 15 books
Refinement in Z and Object-Z
Foundations and Advanced Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Refinement is one of the cornerstones of the formal approach to software engineering, and its use in various domains has led to research on new applications and generalisation. This book brings together this important research in one volume, with the addition of examples drawn from different application...
Refinement
Semantics, Languages and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Refinement is one of the cornerstones of a formal approach to software engineering. Refinement is all about turning an abstract description (of a soft or hardware system) into something closer to implementation. It provides that essential bridge between higher level requirements and an implementation...
by Derrick John Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
A page turning novel about murder, corruption and money laundering within the walls of the UN and one of its peacekeeping operations.New York City 1968A woman enters the headquarters of the UN one morning. She walks up to the UN’s director of public information, pulls out a gun and...
Not in His Image
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe...
by David Steffen, Michael Anthony Ashley, Anaea Lay
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary...
The Color of Mind
Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury answer these pressing questions and...
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Cairns Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international...
The Magnificent Seven
London's First Landscaped Cemeteries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
A ring of spectacular cemeteries, developed at the edges of London in the decade from 1832, have long been referred to as The Magnificent Seven. At the time, they set a new aesthetic for the burial of the dead, and remain rich in social history and beauty to this day. It was entrepreneurs, rather...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring
Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
The future for Nagios in the enterprise is certainly bright! Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring can help you harness the full power of Nagios in your organization. Nagios 3 contains many significant new features and updates, and this book details them all for you. Once up and running, you'll see...
by Jay Derrick, Ursula Howard, John Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Remaking Adult Learning provides an exciting and innovative addition to the literature on adult learning. Charting challenges and successes in the sector, it illustrates how taking part in well thought-out programmes can have a positive and sometimes life-saving impact on people’s lives. While grounded...
by Derrick John Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Has such a range of genres that you cant pigeon hole it into one, therefore it held my attention. The shadowy love story between the main characters, it spoke about technology from a whole new perspective. The description alone in the book allowed you to image the scenes as if you were walking through...
To Breathe into Another Voice
A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
‘Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed TheloniousMonk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almostas old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and ourown Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard thepatterns...
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