"Narratives . . . intersect with sites, accumulate as layers of history, organize sequences, and inhere in the very materials and processes of the landscape. In various ways, stories 'take place.'" --From Landscape Narratives Narrative offers fascinating ways of knowing and shaping landscapes not typically acknowledged in conventional documentation, mapping, surveys, or even in...(展开全部)

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever.This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities.Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners’ lifetimes.

Landscape design history greatly influenced today′s design process and design solutions. Illustrated History of Landscape Design provides an overview of landscape design, including the iconic spaces throughout the centuries, starting from landscapes in prehistory to current trends in landscape design. Featuring hundreds of masterful, hand–drawn images, this highly visual guide ...(展开全部)

劳伦斯·布洛克，享誉世界的美国侦探小说大师，当代硬汉派侦探小说最杰出的代表。他的小说不仅在美国备受青睐，而且跨越了大西洋，完全征服了自诩为侦探小说故乡的欧洲。 侦探小说界最重要的两个奖项，爱伦·坡奖的终身成就奖和钻石匕首奖均肯定了劳伦斯的大师地位。此外，他曾三次获爱伦·坡奖，两获马耳他之鹰奖，四获夏姆奖（后两个奖项都是重要的硬汉派侦探小说奖项）。 劳伦斯被称为“纽约犯罪风景的行吟诗人”，其作品主要包括以下四个系列： 马修·斯卡德系列：以一名戒酒无执照的私人侦探为主角； 雅贼系列：以一名中年小偷兼二手书店老板伯尼·罗登巴尔为主角； 伊凡·谭纳系列：以一名朝鲜战争期间遭炮击从此睡不着觉的侦探为主角； 奇波·哈里森系列：以一名肥胖、不离开办公室的、自我陶醉的私人侦探为主角。 此外，布洛克还著有杀手约翰·保罗·凯勒系列。 劳伦斯·布洛克生于纽约布法罗，现居纽...(展开全部)

'Susan and Victor have written the "Junior Woodchucks Guidebook" of Web applications: Everything you need to know is in there, including tons of best-practice examples, insights from years of experience, and assorted fascinating arcana. If you're writing a Web application, you'd be foolish not to have a copy' - Steve Krug, author of "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach...(展开全部)

'Susan and Victor have written the "Junior Woodchucks Guidebook" of Web applications: Everything you need to know is in there, including tons of best-practice examples, insights from years of experience, and assorted fascinating arcana. If you're writing a Web application, you'd be foolish not to have a copy' - Steve Krug, author of "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach...(展开全部)

Key Features Dive into the core patterns and components of React.js in order to master your application's design Improve their debugging skills using the DevTools This book is packed with easy-to-follow examples that can be used to create reusable code and extensible designs Book Description Taking a complete journey through the most valuable design patterns in React, this book...(展开全部)

In Functional Design, renowned software engineer Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob") explains how and why to use functional programming to build better systems for real customers. Martin compares conventional object-oriented coding structures in Java to those enabled by functional languages, identifies the best roles for each, and shows how to build better systems by judiciously usi...(展开全部)