Bücher von William Gibson

Written by the founders of the Institute of Validation, this introduction to validation cuts through all the jargon and focuses on the essentials. Valuable to novices and experienced validators alike, this book helps readers understand validation fundamentals and how these principles can help build the highest quality into products. The authors address associated costs, responsibilities, policies, strategies, support activities, SOPs, Master Plans, and other related subjects. The book also provides tools that support understanding the logic behind the validation process and covers testing, certification, protocols, final reports, sign-offs, and ways to create seamless audit trails.

';Pattern Recognitionis William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules inNeuromancer.'Neil Gaiman, author ofAmerican Gods';One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century.'The Washington Post Book WorldThe accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now...Cayce Pollard is a new kind of propheta world-renowned ';coolhunter' who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internetfootage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing fathera Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbingand compellingas the twenty-first century promises to be...

This book considers how Early Modern England was transformed from a turbulent and rebellious kingdom into a peaceable land. By considering the history of Taunton, Somerset, the most rebellious town in the kingdom, it is possible to see how the emerging features of the Enlightenment ¿ moderation, reason and rational theology ¿ effected that transformation. The experience of Taunton in the seventeenth century was marked by economic fluctuations of the cloth trade and military struggles in the Civil War, the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution. The primary motivation for the citizens was zealous Puritanism. It inspired support for Parliament and rebellion against James II. But in the final quarter of the century a new rational and moderate Protestantism emerged from the largest Nonconformist congregation in the country and from a distinguished dissenting academy. The study shows that both the militancy of the seventeenth century and the enlightened moderation of the eighteenth century were principally inspired by religious rather than secular values. This book contributes to our understanding of England¿s transformation and of the religious factors that stimulated it.

The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life has been transformed into a one-woman play of overwhelming power and triumph by William Gibson, author of The Miracle Worker. Golda's Balcony earned actress Tovah Feldshuh a 2003 Drama Desk award."Enlightening ... Now, hearing from someone who was there at the birth of the country, who sacrificed to make that happen, helps remind us where the Middle East standoff came from and why it never seems to end."- The New York Times"A valentine to the famously tough prime minister."- New York Post

A wide-ranging study of the history of the Church in England, from 1688 to 1832. This tumultuous period saw the relationship between religion and politics at its most fraught, and the book considers the consequences of the events of the period and the changes they brought to Church and politics.