An Updated Guide to the Visualization of Data for Designers, Users, and ResearchersInteractive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications, Second Edition provides all the theory, details, and tools necessary to build visualizations and systems involving the visualization of data. In color throughout, it explains basic terminology and concepts, algorithmic and software engineering issues, and commonly used techniques and high-level algori...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation. The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France’s.”—Chicago Sun-Times

On 13 September 1759, British and French forces fought one of the most decisive battles in history, on the Plains of Abraham outside the Canadian capital, Quebec. The British force decisively routed the French, seizing the city and, ultimately, all of Canada. But the struggle for Quebec was far more than one climactic battle: the campaign involved an immense military and naval operation, an eighteenth-century D-Day.Matthew Ward has researched extensively in archive...

"Napoleon III was not a fool. He was a modern ruler trapped inside borrowed legitimacy." Many see Louis-Napoléon as a mere shadow of his famous uncle, but Napoleon III. Borrowed Glory provides a psychologically sharp re-examination of the man who anticipated modern mass politics long before it was theorized. Matthew Hollis Ward argues that Napoleon III did not simply rule through a name; he pioneered the blend of authoritarian control and manufactured popular cons...

What if history got it wrong?For more than a century, Albert Einstein has been celebrated as the greatest scientific genius of the modern age. His name has become synonymous with relativity, spacetime, and even the equation E = mc². But how much of that reputation reflects historical reality?In Against Einstein, Matthew Ward-Broadfield takes readers on a provocative journey through the forgotten history of physics, revisiting the w...

Through this guide's carefully constructed explanations and examples, you will develop an understanding of Swift grammar and the elements of effective Swift style - all thoroughly revised for Swift 5.3 and Xcode 12.Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Swift training and its well-tested materials and methodology, this guide teaches concepts and coding through hands-on exercises. You will explore Swift features in Xcode playgrounds, and you will end by building sample apps for the comma...

Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country of Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little attention from historians: it is sometimes assumed that there is not much of a subject to study. The reception of Hobbes in Ireland forces us to challenge this assumption. To begin with, Matthew Ward highlights th...

The first in an exciting, action-packed new trilogy from epic fantasy author Matthew Ward, The Darkness Before Them introduces readers to a world ruled by a dangerous immortal king, where souls fuel magic, and a supernatural mist known as the Veil threatens to engulf the land.These are dark times for the Kingdom of Khalad. As the magical mists of the Veil devour the land, the populace struggles beneath the rule of ruthless noble houses and their uncaring i...

Augusto Pinochet is a sharp and deeply researched examination of one of the most consequential political figures of the twentieth century. Rather than telling only the familiar story of repression and dictatorship, this book explores the harder and more unsettling question at the center of Pinochet’s rule: how did one of the world’s most radical free market transformations take shape under military command. Matthew Hollis Ward shows how Chile became a laboratory for neolib...

Who says the Midwest is flyover country?Ready to hit the road? Don't miss this action-packed anthology highlighting the best road trips in the Midwest. Explore storied highways and byways, including Route 66, the Great River Road, Ohio River Scenic Byway, and Lincoln Highway.From canyons in Kansas to authentic fish boils in Wisconsin to North America's largest powwow in Nebraska, you'll be astounded by how many cool things there are to see in these twelve s...

Philosophy for Everyone begins by explaining what philosophy is before exploring the questions and issues at the foundation of this important subject.Key topics in this new edition and their areas of focus include:Moral philosophy – the nature of our moral judgments and reactions, whether they aim at some objective moral truth, or are mere personal or cultural preferences; and the possibility of moral responsibility given the sorts of things that cause behavior;...

"Peter the Great did not gently reform Russia. He assaulted it into the modern world." While traditional histories often paint Peter I as a visionary admirer of the West, Breaking Russia to Save It provides a cold, psychologically sharp re-examination of a ruler who equated progress with coercion. Matthew Hollis Ward argues that Peter's "Westernization" was a strategic extraction of power, not a cultural embrace. He didn't want Western freedom; he wanted Western t...