New Release Books by Michael Kay

From the longtime host of the New York Yankees’ television broadcasts, ESPN Radio’s The Michael Kay Show, and YES Network’s Emmy Award–winning CenterStage comes an “entertaining…greatest-hits collection” (Kirkus Reviews) of his most memorable interviews with the most intriguing personalities in sports and entertainment—from Jay-Z to Mike Tyson to Serena Williams to Adam Sandler to Bon Jovi to Larry David. Emmy Award–winning television announcer and interviewer Michael Kay’s eighteen years as host of YES Network’s CenterStage have given him access to many remarkable figures in sports and entertainment. Now, this absorbing selection of the best, most revealing—and often surprising—interviews is available in one amazing collection, including some of the behind-the-scenes stories that didn’t appear on camera. From Kay’s very first CenterStage interview in 2001 with quarterback Steve Young, the show’s creators knew they had something special. Kay’s ability to get celebrities and otherwise private personalities to open up and share candid insights has become his trademark. Among the interviews featured in the book are those with Red Auerbach, Charles Barkley, Mike Tyson, Bobby Orr, Sly Stallone, Jay-Z, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, John McEnroe, Rob Reiner, Seth Meyers, Serena Williams, Alan Alda, David Halberstam, Larry David, Bob Costas, Billy Crystal, Lindsey Vonn, Chris Evert, and Quentin Tarantino. For any pop culture fan or sports enthusiast, this prized collection “should be high on your reading list” (Alex Rodriguez, three-time American League MVP).

Narrative non-fiction about the author's struggle with the loss of his mother. Through searching the bible, the author attempts to reconcile the experience of sickness and death in the world we live in, and the promises of faith, healing and hope in the Gospel of Jesus.

Combining coverage of both XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, this book is the definitive reference to the final recommendation status versions of both specifications. The authors start by covering the concepts in XSLT and XPath, and then delve into elements, operators, expressions with syntax, usage, and examples. Some of the specific topics covered include XSLT processing model, stylesheet structure, serialization, extensibility, and many others. In addition to online content that includes error codes, the book also has case studies you'll find applicable to your own challenges.

As XML gains popularity, developers are looking to implement XML technologies in their line-of-business applications This book offers readers real-world insight into XML so that they can build the best possible applications Offers an in-depth look at XML and discusses XML tools, services (RSS, SOAP, REST, WSDL), programming (DOM, SAX, Ajax), and languages (.NET, Java, PHP)

This book is an autoethnography of the writer's experiences studying in a master's program in Japanese to English technical translation as a heritage speaker of Japanese He describes how his self-perception as a Japanese American and speaker of Japanese change through Japanese language study and the ways in which he approached his language study and crafted his sense of identity in relation to his heritage language and culture These approaches to language study and the hybridized, anthropophagic identity he created for himself were accomplished through the meta-autoethnographic procession of revision and through reflexivity In this way, the creation of the autoethnographic narrative paralleled and was connected to my process of language acquisition and identity development The educational experiences are contextualized in his early life and general educational experiences, how he perceived them, and how he perceived himself in them to give a sense of how he interpreted my successes and struggles in trying to learn his heritage language over the course of the three years he spent working on the degree. These successes and struggles are related to larger social and educational issues that heritage language learners face in studying their mother tongue, such as prejudice in the form of monolingual norms in mainstream language classes, to give a different, more nuanced understanding of these issues and to present new data that might not be collectible in other forms of inquiry. While this narrative relates only experiences from his point of view, Michael Allred often presents angles of different lived experiences through various aspects of his identity such as heritage language learner, world language teacher, and researcher in heritage language studies and world language education; as these different roles have also shaped his values and positionality with respect to issues in heritage language education The result is a complex text that describes lived experiences throughout his life and relates them to multifaceted issues in heritage language education to better understand this complexity.

Market_Desc: · Experienced Professional Developers Special Features: · Wrox's definitive guide to the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 final specifications· Written by the editor of the XSLT 2.0 specification - Michael Kay· Both parts of the technology, XSLT and XPath, re-combined as they were on the 1.x releases into one book instead of two, a better value for the reader, more convenient for the reader, and what the reader expects· Hardcover! The most comprehensive, authoritative coverage of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 available is also built to last and be used over and over again for the life of the 2.0 specifications· The XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 W3C standards reached their final status of recommendation in January 2007. This recommendation status should increase 2.0 use and we'll see it begin to replace the popular 1.1 standard.· XSLT use is also growing due to its use in web 2.0 applications, the programmable web, service-oriented-applications, and web services -all of which require its ability to transform data from one format to another About The Book: Combining coverage of both XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 into one book, this is the definitive reference to the final recommendation status versions of both specifications. The first several chapters cover the concepts in XSLT and XPath and then the biggest part of the book provides a detailed reference to elements, operators, expressions with syntax, usage, and examples.

bull; Nobody knows XQuery better than this group of "experts, " after all they created it. We've cornered the market on expertise in XQuery. bull; Allows readers to focus on either or both a tutorial or reference-style approach as best suits them. bull; Currently, there are no other competing XQuery books. Authors' personal perspectives offer a welcome change to formal standards specs.

Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.

Change on the Run Leading a transformation can make or break your career. But business in the e-world is in constant, rapid flux powered by technolgy and globalizing markets, and every leader-- without exception-- will be faced with managing a major change at some time. Everyone is at risk. E-world leadership is transformational leadership and this book is about the six keys to winning in this turbulent world. Change on the Run: Competing Through e-Leadership provides hands-on guidance you will need when you face those make-or-break opportunities. -- from the Introduction to Change on the Run

What is this book about? XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 3rd Edition, is the authoritative reference guide to the language. Without using the formal and inaccessible language of the W3C specifications, it tells you exactly what every construct in the language does, and how it is intended to be used. This book is a reference rather than a tutorial; it is designed for the professional programmer who is using the language every day. It is the book that people quote when they claim that a particular product is giving the wrong answer, and the book that implementers of the language turn to when they want clarification of the specifications. At the same time, the book is readable. Reviews of the previous editions of the XSLT Programmer’s Reference, which this book grew from, show that readers appreciate the background material on the design thinking behind the language, the essay on functional programming, the occasional dry wit, the gentle criticism of the language specification when appropriate, and the fact that the examples stray into a diverse range of interesting application areas.

XSL is the styling language to match XML, and any programmer who is already using XML to organize their data in applications, whether on an inter- or intra-net, and wants to use the power and compatibility of XSL to improve the display of their data.

A visionary way of structuring businesses that allow them to respond faster to a constantly changing marketplace.

A comic about the author's life as a transgender man and his gender expression.

Feeling rich is the difference between just existing and being gloriously, deeply, passionately alive, living the very best life you were born to lead. What does feeling rich have to do with actually being rich? Plenty, it turns out. Your beliefs and feelings about money drive how you see yourself and how you define "rich."

"The Ready for Departure, Aviation English for Pilots series is a comprehensive preparatory language course for student pilots who speak English as a second or other language. The course is designed to introduce students to fundamental grammar, an ever-increasing set of aviation related terms and vocabulary and operational knowledge related to interesting aviation topics...The scope and sequence of this course is designed to stimulate learning and help students achieve ICAO Level 4 English proficiency on ICAO language proficiency tests"--Back cover.

"The Bus Lifecycle Cost Model is a spreadsheet-based planning tool that estimates capital, operating, and maintenance costs for various bus types over the full lifecycle of the vehicle. The model is based on a number of operating characteristics, including those related to the routing and frequency of the service. The model is designed to allow users to estimate and compare the total costs of offering different types of bus services over time. The model is tailored to planning bus service that serves Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMAs), allowing federal public land site planners and partners to estimate the total cost of various Alternative Transportation System (ATS) project alternatives using a systematic approach that is consistent, comparable, defensible, and credible."--Technical report documentation page.