Simon James: 86 books
Discrete Fuzzy Measures
Computational Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This book addresses computer scientists, IT specialists, mathematicians, knowledge engineers and programmers, who are engaged in research and practice of multicriteria decision making. Fuzzy measures, also known as capacities, allow one to combine degrees of preferences, support or fuzzy memberships...
Statistical Analysis of Geographical Data
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Statistics Analysis of Geographical Data: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of statistical analysis in geography. It covers a wide range of topics including graphical and numerical description of datasets, probability, calculation of confidence...
The Excavations at Dura-Europos conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters 1928 to 1937. Final Report VII
The Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
This is a paperback reprint of the first edition, which appeared in 2004, published by British Museum Press. The ancient city of Dura-Europos, destroyed by a Sasanian Persian siege in the AD 250s, was an important regional centre of commerce, government and military control under the Seleucid, Parthian...
The Roman Military Base at Dura-Europos, Syria
An Archaeological Visualization
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Dura-Europos, a Parthian-ruled Greco-Syrian city, was captured by Rome c.AD165. It then accommodated a Roman garrison until its destruction by Sasanian siege c.AD256. Excavations of the site between the World Wars made sensational discoveries, and with renewed exploration from 1986 to 2011, Dura remains...
by Simon James Atkinson Turney
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2014
58 a. C.: la Decima Legione, acquartierata nell'Italia del Nord, si prepara per accogliere l'arrivo del più celebre condottiero nella storia di Roma: Giulio Cesare. Marco Valerio Frontone, legato della Decima Legione, è un veterano di enorme valore che ha combattuto al fianco del grande Cesare in...
The Presidents and the Supreme Court
What Kind of Nation; Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney; FDR and Chief Justice Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Collected together, James F. Simon’s books share the bitter struggles and compromises that have characterized the relationship between the presidents and the Supreme Court Chief Justices across US history.
The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court...
Future City Blues
a tech noir collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
A tech noir collection, containing the stories The Wrong Tom Jacks by Simon Kewin, Tripler: The Beginning by Neil Vogler and Doppelgänger's Curse by Milo James Fowler.
The Wrong Tom Jacks by Simon Kewin
Simms is a genehunter, paid by megarich collectors to track down the DNA of the famous...
What Kind of Nation
Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Stru
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
What Kind of Nation is a riveting account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary.
The clash between fellow Virginians (and second cousins) Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall remains...
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney
Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. James Simon, author of the acclaimed What Kind of Nation -- an account of the battle between President Thomas...
by James Hibbard, James Kolce, Lukas White
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
While there have been quite a few attempts to get JavaScript working as a server-side language, Node.js (frequently just called Node) has been the first environment that's gained any traction. It's now used by companies such as Netflix, Uber and Paypal to power their web apps. Node allows for blazingly...
by Simon R. Cherry, PhD, James A. Sorenson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Physics in Nuclear Medicine - by Drs. Simon R. Cherry, James A. Sorenson, and Michael E. Phelps - provides current, comprehensive guidance on the physics underlying modern nuclear medicine and imaging using radioactively labeled tracers. This revised and updated fourth edition features a new full-color...
Environmental Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which parts of it are we morally obliged...
White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the...
by James F. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The epic 1950s battle that would shape the legal future of the civil rights movement is chronicled here for the first time.
The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a...