With a new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court's social rights decisions, Brian Ray argues that the Court's procedural enforcement approach has had significant but underappreciated effects on law and policy, and challenges the view that a stronger substantive standard of review is necessary to realize these rights. Drawing connections between the Court's widely acclaimed early decisions and the more recent second-wave cases, Ray explains that the Court has r...

Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing. The theories, research methods, and pedagogies covered here offer a conception of style as more than decoration or correctness—views that are still prevalent in many college settings as well as in public discourse.

Bilongo is a tale of romantic obsession that weaves its way from an American merchant ship plying Oriental waters onto a string of beaches in Central and South America in which the central character, Rawley Aimes, is torn between his love for his wife and his consuming desire for another woman. This book blends the themes of love, betrayal, redemption and the use and the abuse of occult power in a surrealistic form of writing which restricts the reader to an objective view like that of a h...

Emerald Greed is an adventure set in the Pantanal, vast, inhospitable wetlands in the center of South America at the headwaters of the Rio Paraguay. This book tells of the emerald trade, cocaine smuggling and of politics as practiced in Brazil. The story begins with Jack Tate in Rio de Janeiro, working to reestablish the industry contacts he had prior to leaving for Africa to trade in the “blood diamonds” that were fueling the Angolan Civil War. This African venture which ended in a Zairia...

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The Face of God is the story of a commercially successful but dissipated pop artist who rediscovers himself and his art through a contract to sculpt the face of God. This story of redemption winds through the New York art scene and high society, through the poor, mean streets of Salvador, Bahia and through the muddied waters of the Rio Xingu in the lower Amazon. “Brewer offers a highly intriguing concept: a pop artist who rekindles his life and career after he is contracted to sculpt the f...

Copacabana at Midnight is a collection of poetry and short stories which shares themes with several of the author’s novels. These verses were written in the isolation of life at sea. This work speaks of love, loss, loneliness, betrayal, obsession, possession, horror, illness, death, forgiveness and of the beauty and the power of the oceans.

All humans have weaknesses. Even mythical warriors and superheroes have a weakness. For author Brian Ray Gross, that weakness is food. This creates an interesting paradox: food is intended to strengthen, nourish, and sustainbut when we consume too much, we become weakened by it. In this weakness, we cannot be the people God intends for us to be.In Half the Man I Used to Be, Gross shares his story about food, weight, and his weight loss journey. He tells how it all came to ...

Where do ghosts go when they disappear from view? Do they know they are dead? Are they only on Earth to fulfil some greater purpose? Down-to-earth stone mason John Townsend had never considered these questions until he met the ghost of Penny Peverell, whilst renovating an Elizabethan mansion. Warm to the touch, Penny wasn't your typical spectre; she felt like a real living woman... and kissed like one too! Head-over-heels in love with a woman long since dead, John is perplexed by Penny's c...

Brian’s new orc castle is in trouble Brian’s dad is trying to assemble it.The slots are much too small, so Brian invents a shrink ray.Brian’s dad decides to use it to play a few pranks on grumpy, old Mrs. Smith …

This book is your gateway to understanding how data is organized, stored, and manipulated to create powerful applications.With clear explanations, real-world examples, and hands-on exercises, you'll learn essential data structures like arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and hash tables. Discover how these structures work, when to use them, and why they are crucial for writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code. Each chapter is designed to break down comple...

This comprehensive guide takes you step by step through the fundamentals of data mining, making it an essential resource for aspiring data scientists, analysts, and anyone curious about the power of data-driven decision-making.Starting with the basics, this book demystifies core concepts such as data preprocessing, classification, clustering, and association rule mining. With practical examples and clear explanations, you'll explore popular algorithms, tools, and techniques used to...