Peter B. Cotton Bücher

Describing how the city of London helped transform a little-known musician named Jimmy James into rock legend Jimi Hendrix, this volume details how Hendrix helped transform London into a dynamo of popular music and social rebellion.

Brings together thinkers in the field to present in-depth diagnosis and critical analysis of the physical and social realities of exurban sprawl. These essays call for architects, urban planners, and landscape designers to work at mitigating the impact of sprawl on land and resources and improving the residential and commercial built environment.

Provides a practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning. By creating a dialogue of cities' planning successes and failures, this book illustrates that adopting a single model universally will not work.

"The artificial intelligence revolution is leaving behind small businesses and organizations who cannot afford to hire in-house teams of data scientists to build bespoke models. This book explores the nature of repeated quantitative tasks driving business optimization, from the perspective of economics, statistics, decision making under uncertainty, and privacy preserving computation"-- Provided by publisher

Als Pierre Omidyar ihnen seine Idee für Online-Auktionen erklärte, hielten ihn selbst seine besten Freunde für total verrückt. Warum sollte irgendjemand über das Internet mit vollkommen Fremden Geschäfte machen? Wenige Jahre später ist aus eBay ein globaler Marktplatz und Pierre Omidyar zum Multimilliardär geworden. In „Mein eBay“ erzählt Adam Cohen eBays Geschichte zum ersten Mal aus nächster Nähe. Der renommierte Journalist der New York Times geht nicht nur dem Erfolgsrezept von eBay auf den Grund, sondern widmet sich auch der leidenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft von Nutzern, die sich um eBay herum entwickelt hat – von der ehemaligen Hausfrau, die aus dem Verkauf von Luftpolsterfolie ein florierendes Geschäft machte, über die Sammler historischer Bügeleisen bis zu einer jungen Mutter, die ihr Gedächtnis verlor, nach Alaska zog und von dort als „Pongo“ zur Heldin der eBay- Gemeinschaft wurde. Die „Geschichten vom Marktplatz der Welt“ vermitteln dem wirtschaftlich Interessierten das Erfolgsrezept des unbestrittenen Stars der Internet-Ökonomie, erinnern augenzwinkernd an den Geist der Boomjahre und bringen dem eBay-Fan die Geschichte seiner Gemeinschaft näher.

An easy to use reference book that provides a guide to wine label language and demystifies the business of reading the label on the bottle. This work covers every major winemaking region of the new and old worlds, namely France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, California, Canada, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

The book has been recognized with the prestigious 2020 Mom's Choice Gold Award, highlighting its exceptional quality and appeal to families. It offers engaging content that resonates with both children and parents, making it a valuable addition to any family library. The themes and messages within the book promote positive values and learning experiences, ensuring it stands out among children's literature.

The Gloster Gladiator was the very last biplane fighter to enter service with the RAF. Yet, despite being one of the fastest biplanes ever built, it was already obsolete upon its introduction to service in January 1937. Nonetheless, in the first eighteen months of WW2, it garnered many combat plaudits in the skies over the frozen Arctic, the sun-kissed Mediterranean, and the arid deserts of Africa. In Britain, it provided crucial defense of the RN Fleet anchored at Scapa Flow, and was among the first aircraft sent to France to aid the BEF. Adopted early-on by the FAA and renamed Sea Gladiator, for a time this navalized version represented the nearest thing the service had to a modern fighter as it struggled toward parity with its Axis opponents.This book tells the complete story. The text covers not only the type’s remarkable operational history, but also that of Gloster’s journey to its production. Also examined are the Gladiator’s design and construction, and its subsequent technical development. Second-line duties and service with foreign air forces are also briefly covered. Supporting lavish artwork and 3-D exploded views vividly bring the aircraft to life, making it an ideal reference work for the modeler.