... about human history and the present world detailed in these pages It is an unabashed attempt at big history, in the tradition ofThe Wealth of Nations, Das Kapital, The Rise ofthe Western World, ... Thus the average person in theworldof 1800 was no better off than the average person of 100,000 BC Indeed in 1800 the bulk oftheworld s population was poorer than their remote ancestors The ... species The break between the economics of humans and the economics ofthe rest ofthe animal world occurred within the past two hundred years It is commonly assumed that the huge changes in the...
... editions of HTML for theWorldWide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide She also wrote the bestselling Perl and CGI for theWorldWide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, and the Macintosh and Windows versions of ... Appendix A, XHTML Figure i.4: TheWorldWideWeb Consortium (http://www.w3.org) is the main standards body for theWeb You can find the official specifications there for all ofthe languages discussed ... will enable you to move on to the other pieces ofthe puzzle, once you're ready The XML VQS Web Site On the XML for theWorldWide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide Web site (http://www.cookwood.com/xml/),...
... in our history: as, the discovery of America; the exploration of our coast and continent; the settlements that failed; the planting ofthe English colonies; the life ofthe colonists; the struggles ... REVOLUTION XII THE QUARREL WITH THE MOTHER COUNTRY XIII THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE BEGUN XIV THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE STATES AND ON THE SEA XV THE WAR IN THE WEST AND IN THE SOUTH DEVELOPMENT OFTHE UNION ... specimens ofthe products ofthe lands he had discovered THE VOYAGE HOME. The Pinta was overtaken off the Haitian coast, but a dreadful storm parted the ships once more, and neither again saw the other...
... language The alteration in the meanings of words, the changes in the application of them, the variation in the use of phrases, the falling away ofthe inflexions all these things become plain to the ... between the +spoken+ language and the +written+ or +printed+ language; between the language ofthe +ear+ and the language ofthe +eye+; between the language ofthe +mouth+ and the language ofthe ... +Apennine+ +The Second Keltic Element.+ The Normans came from Scandinavia early in the tenth century, and wrested the valley ofthe Seine out ofthe hands of Charles the Simple, the then king of the...
... independent use ofthe book, and the adoption ofthe topical mode of recitation and study, as far as possible, by placing the questions at the close ofthe work, rather than at the bottom of each page ... believe that there are people on the other side ofthe world, walking with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down? And then, how can a ship get there? The torrid zone, through which they must ... crossed the Isthmus of Darien the next year, and from the summit ofthe Andes beheld thewide expanse ofthe Pacific Ocean Wading into its waters with his naked sword in one hand, and the banner of...
... DISTRIBUTION as a way of life The purpose of each on of these is and always has been to keep knowledge in the hands ofthe few and away from the minds ofthe many I predict that in the not-too-distant-future ... just for the ten minutes the first two might require, the reading ofthe first two of these documents that were put on the Internet starting 24 years ago: and maybe reading the beginning ofthe third ... pretending their goal is some universal form of education This is the story ofthe Bright Side and Dark Side ofthe Internet .Bright Side first The Facts: The Internet is a primitive version of the...
... vocabulary on theWeb to pick our types from, regardless of how the concepts in these vocabularies are modeled The concrete implications oftheWeb context for the RDF model of SEM are the following ... sem:hasActor, to express the sem:Role that the sem:Actor (the Netherlands) plays in the context of this given event As there are two sem:Roles for the Netherlands in the context ofthe event, according ... for the representation of different roles for the same actor within one event The resolution ofthe interpretation of such statements, however, is out ofthe scope ofthe model Likewise, the...
... for theWorldWide Web, Second Edition, Rolf Oppliger For a listing of recent titles in the Artech House Computing Library, turn to the back of this book Security Technologies for theWorldWide ... have to give the buyer another one The question that arises immediately is whether the security and safety properties of this car are equal to the ones from the other car Marketing professionals ... whether one ofthe books could be used to educate WorldWideWeb (WWW) professionals (e.g., Webmasters and Web server administrators) in security matters Unfortunately, I realized that while the books...
... very often goes astray: one concerns the great question ofthe Free and the Necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil; the other consists in the discussion of continuity and of ... formula for the volume of a truncated pyramid: V = (n/3) (a2 + ab + b2), where a and b are lengths ofthe sides ofthe base ofthe pyramid and n is the height ofthe pyramid Yet the Rhind Papyrus ... that the sum ofthe square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root ofthe remaining side Well, the Scarecrow’s heart is in the right place The Pythagorean theorem...
... theworld one way and they experience theworld in another They conceive theworld in terms of spiritual growth, peace, prosperity, and economic development Theworld they conceive is not theworld ... about these two giants The plainest difference between them is the way they treat the act of reflection Kant sees theworld as a reflection of mind Hegel sees the mind as a reflection ofworld After ... senses The moral freedom of an intelligible world is unexceptional It sees every part oftheworld in the same way The same laws apply to all parts oftheworld in all places at all times There...
... Whereas in the innermost part ofthe Jewish temple – the Holy of Holies – there was no image at all For ofthe God, whose first appearance in thehistoryoftheworld was to the people ofthe Jews ... L B 273 The growth oftheworld s population – The defeat ofthe centralEuropean powers during the First World War – The incitement ofthe masses – The disappearance of tolerance from ... building ofthe Church of St Peter – Luther’s theses – Luther’s forerunner, Hus – The burning ofthe papal bull – Charles V and his empire – The sack of Rome – The Diet of Worms – Luther at the Wartburg...
... books on web development concentrate either on the aesthetics or the mechanics ofthe site This book is about the framework that holds the two together With this book, you learn how to design web ... early Web pre -history when the terminology oftheWeb first got started, someone decided that home pages were cool So, the people who were creating content for theWeb began thinking of their ... searching Other users not know what they're looking for They come to the site with a vague idea ofthe information they need They may not know the right labels to describe what they want or even whether...
... and Iron The House of Rothschild The Pity of W a r The Cash N e x u s Empire Colossus The W a r ofthe W o r l d NIALL FERGUSON The Ascent of Money A Financial HistoryoftheWorldThe Penguin ... made ofthe gold-silver alloy known as electrum and bore the image of a lion's head, were the forerunners ofthe Athenian tetradrachm, a standardized silver coin with the head ofthe goddess Athena ... concept of money Revealingly, they had no concept ofthe future either These days they live in a clearing near the city, reliant for their subsistence on state handouts Asked if they miss the jungle,...
... books on web development concentrate either on the aesthetics or the mechanics ofthe site This book is about the framework that holds the two together With this book, you learn how to design web ... early Web pre -history when the terminology oftheWeb first got started, someone decided that home pages were cool So, the people who were creating content for theWeb began thinking of their ... or other coworkers It might be the other members of your web development team Maybe in a way you're the client The guidelines for working with a client will hold true regardless of whether the...
... part ofthe process The architect also needs to be the keeper ofthe big picture as this process unfolds and the details of design and production become the main focus of all involved Perhaps the ... Marketing The marketing team focuses on the intended purposes and audiences for theweb site They must understand what will bring the right people to theweb site and what will bring them back ... understand the goals, perspectives, and approaches ofthe other members ofthe team For example, while the marketing specialist may lead the audience analysis process, he or she needs to anticipate the...
... Architecture for theWorldWideWeb Figure 4.1 In this example, the cursor is positioned over the Investor Info button The prospective view window at the bottom shows the URL ofthe Investor Info ... back to the main Programs and Events page) or all the way back to the main page oftheweb site The trick with designing navigation systems is to balance the advantages of flexibility with the dangers ... into the middle of a large unfamiliar web site Links from remote web pages and search engine result pages allow users to completely bypass the front door or main page oftheweb site To further...
... provide them but never rely on them 4.6.1 The Table of Contents The table of contents and the index are the state ofthe art in print navigation Given that the design of these familiar systems is the ... destination Often, the higher the level of abstraction, the more intuitive the map This rule of thumb holds true for all ofthe remote navigation elements ofweb sites When consulting a table of contents ... creating these navigation bars Figure 4.10 C/Net provides a high-profile example ofthe use of text-based navigation options page 51 Information Architecture for theWorldWideWeb It is often best...
... provided by the health system They want to know how they can pay for the service They want to know how they can maintain their health page 77 Information Architecture for theWorldWideWeb We then ... Figure 5.12 These icons don't say much individually, but taken together they convey a sense of fun and invite the user to explore them further Each ofthe five holes links to a section ofthe site: ... main page, while the other omits the GPSC One uses a colon, the other a dash to separate the generic label from the publication's title One uses italics, while the other encloses the title in quotation...
... Information Architecture for theWorldWideWeb Yahoo! once was a Web version of Powell's Everything was there, but fairly easy to find Why? Because Yahoo!, like the Web, was relatively small At ... only type, the job oftheweb site architect would be much easier page 84 Information Architecture for theWorldWideWeb 6.2.1.2 Existence searching However, some users know what they want but ... that often, because you don't generally know enough about the topic to articulate your query the right way in the first place page 85 Information Architecture for theWorldWideWeb 6.2.4 The...