Martin Scorsese's challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver,"" Raging Bull," "Gooodfellas"--these…
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion o…
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, m…