Dark sweat, white gold

In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. S...

Dark tourism

Dark Tourism has seen a surge in popularity in the last decade as people seek a richer travel experience, choosing to meaningfully engage with humankind’s more troubling heritage, rather than opting for merely escapist vacations.

Dark traces

Recently widowed South African Detective Magson seeks serial killer, explores different sides of murder—killing for love, killing for pleasure.

Dark trophies

The only comparative and historical study of the use of human body parts as trophies by military personnel in modern warfare Argues that these deviant practices represent important evidence of the power of metaphor in structuring human social behaviour An exploration of the close col...

Dark winter

Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun.Casey’s research...

Dark. sweet.

Clear-eyed, soaring poems capture our intimacy with the natural world and represent best of the Pulitzer and NBCC finalist's career.

Darkacre

A penetrating, richly metaphoric survey of the human landscape.

Darkansas

A Powell’s Top Five Staff Pick of 2017 A Library Journal Top Fall Indie Fiction Pick The Nervous Breakdown Book Club Official Selection November 2017 A Spinetingler Magazine Best Books of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Recommended Read A Chicago Review of Books Recommended Read A Volume 1 Brooklyn Rec...

Darkening peaks

Looking up at mountains, people now see bare, dark rock where white snow and ice once stood—dramatic evidence of the accelerating pace of glacier retreat due to climate change. This groundbreaking work is the first to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary, global exploration of the scientific,...

Darkness before daybreak

This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world, Darkness before Daybreak reveals ...

Darkness by design

An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, ...

Darkness moves

Darling vulgarity

Vivid and sensual new poems from the editor of the prestigious Contemporary American Poetry.

Darwin

The definitive biography of Charles Darwin—now in one abridged and fully updated volumeBased on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award–winning biography hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” (Newsday) • “a wonderful and well-rounded portrait” (The Washington Post) • and “magnific...

Darwin in russian thought

Darwin in Russian Thought delves into the profound impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on Russian intellectual culture from the 1860s to the October Revolution. This meticulously researched work explores the diversity of Russian responses to Darwinism, highlighting its role in shaping scientif...

Darwin's bastards

These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest. Fro...

Darwin's origin of species

Darwinian agriculture

Harnessing evolution for more sustainable agricultureAs human populations grow and resources are depleted, agriculture will need to use land, water, and other resources more efficiently and without sacrificing long-term sustainability. Darwinian Agriculture presents an entirely new approach to th...

Darwinian fairytales

Das offizielle raspberry pi-handbuch für einsteiger / the official raspberry pi beginner's guide

Der Raspberry Pi ist ein kompakter, cleverer Computer, der in Großbritannien hergestellt wird und großes Potenzial birgt. Mit einem energieeffizienten Prozessor der Desktop-Klasse ausgestattet, wurde der Raspberry Pi entwickelt, um dir beim Erlernen des Programmierens zu helfen. Tauche in die Fun...

Das sowjetische fieber

What did the citizens of the Soviet Union identify with? Where did the societal faultlines lie? Did mass demonstrations destabilize Soviet order? How did informal groups come into being within a society based on uniformity? What impact did media and new forms of connection have on the development...

Data & analytics for instructional designers

Add Data and Analytics to Your TD ToolkitInstructional design pro Megan Torrance addresses the importance of instructional designers accessing and applying learning and performance data—from how to design learning experiences with data collection in mind to how to use the data to improve and eval...

Data alchemy in the insurance industry

This collected edition provides a comprehensive and practical roadmap for insurers, data scientists, technologists, and insurance enthusiasts alike, to navigate the data-driven revolution that is sweeping the insurance landscape.

Data analysis for scientists and engineers

Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers is a modern, graduate-level text on data analysis techniques for physical science and engineering students as well as working scientists and engineers. Edward Robinson emphasizes the principles behind various techniques so that practitioners can adapt th...

Data analysis for social science

An ideal textbook for complete beginners—teaches from scratch R, statistics, and the fundamentals of quantitative social scienceData Analysis for Social Science provides a friendly introduction to the statistical concepts and programming skills needed to conduct and evaluate social scientific stu...

Data analytics and psychometrics

This book encourages using data mining methodologies to address psychometric challenges in education, statistics and computer science. It explores process data, learning analytics and data mining for security and cheating detection. The book includes theoretical and practical insights, with appli...

Data borders

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship. Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Melissa Villa-Nicholas shows...

Data curation and information systems design from australasia

The need for decolonizing mismanagement practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, of First Nations peoples’ materials and knowledge has been widely recognised. Authors from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds powerfully challenge entrenched assumptions of knowledge capture a...

Data driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, s...

Data engineering design patterns

Data projects are an intrinsic part of an organization's technical ecosystem, but data engineers in many companies continue to work on problems that others have already solved. This hands-on guide shows you how to provide valuable data by focusing on various aspects of data engineering, including...

Data engineering for data-driven marketing

Offering a thorough exploration of the symbiotic relationship between data engineering and modern marketing strategies, Data Engineering for Data-Driven Marketing uses a strategic lens to delve into methodologies of collecting, transforming, and storing diverse data sources.

Data ethics and digital privacy in learning health systems for palliative medicine

Informing both research and practice, Data Ethics and Digital Privacy in Learning Health Systems for Palliative Medicine brings attention to an important issue that lies at the intersection of medicine, science, and digital technology and communication.

Data excess in digital media research

Provoking an ethical reconsideration of what we do, or do not do, with excess data, this is a call to action for researchers and scholars to rethink how they conduct their research as the consequences of datafication grow ever more central to both our academic endeavours and our lives.

Data lives

The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of d...

Data love

Data Love considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical eval...

Data mining for the social sciences

We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and access...

Data money

In this groundbreaking ethnographic analysis of crypto economies and their global markets and communities, Koray Caliskan offers an inside view of how cryptocurrencies are made and traded.

Data science and analytics

Data Science and Analytics explores the application of big data and business analytics by academics, researchers, industrial experts, policy makers and practitioners, helping the reader to understand how big data can be efficiently utilized in better managerial applications.

Data science essentials in python

Data science for business

Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This...

Data science from scratch

Data visualization with microsoft power bi

The first book that delivers data viz best practices precisely for Power BI This practical guide shows how to quickly create visualizations and build savvy dashboards, with 25 chapters that explore different chart types plus 40 visuals from the AppSource gallery, from default to advanced, all ove...