Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java is an advanced algorithms book that fits between traditional CS2 and Algorithms Analysis courses. In the old ACM Curriculum Guidelines, this course was known as CS7. It is also suitable for a first-year graduate course in algorithm analysis As the speed and power of computers increases, so does the need for effective programming and algorithm analysis. By approaching these skills in tandem, Mark Allen Weiss teaches readers to develop well-constructed, maximally efficient programs in Java. Weiss clearly explains topics from binary heaps to sorting to NP-completeness, and dedicates a full chapter to amortized analysis and advanced data structures and their implementation. Figures and examples illustrating successive stages of algorithms contribute to Weiss' careful, rigorous and in-depth analysis of each type of algorithm. A logical organization of topics and full access to source code complement the text's coverage.

This is an entertaining history of a Jewish immigrant family during its first century in America.

How tragic if one were to journey to his past without recognizing where he was! In this book, the present generation maps its current life as well as its memories of the past for the benefit of future generations who travel back in time.

For the second or third programming course. A practical and unique approach to data structures that separates interface from implementation. This book provides a practical introduction to data structures with an emphasis on abstract thinking and problem solving, as well as the use of Java. It does this through what remains a unique approach that clearly separates each data structure's interface (how to use a data structure) from its implementation (how to actually program that structure). Parts I (Tour of Java), II (Algorithms and Building Blocks), and III (Applications) lay the groundwork by discussing basic concepts and tools and providing some practical examples, while Part IV (Implementations) focuses on implementation of data structures. This forces the reader to think about the functionality of the data structures before the hash table is implemented.

Finally - a method that teaches violinists how to improvise! Plug in and take your violin on a journey beyond the world of classical music with Mark Wood and Electrify Your Strings. With instruction right out of Mark's famous music education program, you'll learn about improvising solo and rhythm parts, modern string techniques, playing in a band, buying electric gear, and much, much more! Plus, there's valuable information not just for students, but for string teachers and school musical directors alike so they can rock their orchestras! A CD is included with recorded examples plus jam tracks in different styles and previously unreleased material.

This world-class photography book, exclusively featuring the work of photographer Mark Weiss, documents the superstars of '80s rock, showcasing era-defining images as well as never-before-published photographs, exclusive interviews with the icons of the era, and behind-the-scenes stories from the decade's most historic concerts, festivals, music video shoots, and backstage moments. Here the images that defined rock's most riotous era are presented along with the wild stories behind them. Learn what went down at the photo shoot for Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet"--including the scouting trips to the Jersey Shore in search of the "Slippery Girl" for the infamous cover that was shelved in the U.S.--and on set during the shooting of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock," Motley Crue's "Smokin' in the Boy's Room," Ozzy's "Miracle Man," Warrant's "Cherry Pie," and Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine." "The Decade That Rocked" chronicles, for the first time, Weiss's collected work, delivering a powerful illustrated homage to the flash flood of sex, spandex, music, makeup, and mayhem that hit the '80s hard rock scene like a hurricane.
All photographs (c) 2014 Mark Weiss

“Pound once observed ‘that music begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the dance, that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.’ In A Suite of Dances, Mark Weiss brings poetry and the dance back together in intricate, delightful measures. The rhythms and tone of these sly, sinuous poems jolt the reader awake with unexpected, offbeat aphorisms, jokes, and moves of improvisatory nimbleness and agile grace that always stick the landing. [...] Pulsing with wit, bravado, vulgarity, pathos, whimsy, and replete with that rarest of pleasures in contemporary poetry: the sheer surge of song, these poems ripple with a music that moves freely through the range of English lyric. The bass note of melancholy anchors them in a tradition of reflective loss and revival that is, finally, reaffirming, since, as Williams put it, ‘we know nothing and can know nothing/but/the dance.’” —Patrick Pritchett

"Gaspar Orozco's extraordinary Book of the Peony blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingness. I am writing this from Pont-Aven, where I have come to write about colonies and gatherings of artists, before regaining (what an inapproprie word,) and suddenly this poetry hits me in the Breton chill with-I can't say what-a dark blaze when I expected I have no idea what? I had been thinking ah, peony, like pensee, like a beloved and delicate pansy of thought, but this peony is nearer the chrysanthemum of Japanese writing from long ago. This remarkable poetry brings the long ago into nowness, if I can put it like that. It lights from far and also near, burning." -Mary Ann Caws

"This is a barefoot poetry, almost in the very oldest Asian sense of that phrase, a poetry of voice & body that recognizes that even body-language has accents, which surely it does. The eye is keen, the humor self-deprecating. Mark Weiss has reached that point on life's mesa where forgiveness (to oneself as well as others) may well be the most important of gestures. A book to make you glad to be in the world." - Ron Silliman

This is an entertaining history of a Jewish immigrant family during its first century in America.

How tragic if one were to journey to his past without recognizing where he was! In this book, the present generation maps its current life as well as its memories of the past for the benefit of future generations who travel back in time.

This autobiographical report of life in the first half of the last century, details the rigors of an economic recession, infant mortality due to unpasteurized milk, the 1916 influenza epidemic, women's suffrage, the first world war, the roaring 20's and the bank closings of 1929 as an immigrant struggles to become Americanized while not completely losing her identity.

Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English "en face" edition, "The Whole Island" makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolas Guillen, Jose Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejon, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world--among them Fina Garcia Marruz, Jose Kozer, Raul Hernandez Novas, and Angel Escobar--and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Perez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimon. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets--both on and off the island--have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

"It is a love story, and a tale of triumph over adversity, full of practical advice reinforced by real-life lessons..."-Linda Fairstein Mark Weiss tells the story of his 38-year-old wife Cathy's battle with breast cancer. It examines the choices they had, the decisions they made, the setbacks they experienced, and the emotional upheaval they faced. Mark Weiss candidly discusses the fears he harbored for himself, his wife and his children during this time of uncertainty. He offers insight into medical opinions, insurance discrepancies, and the toll a serious illness can take on such things as intimacy, professional standing, and financial security. Chapters include: Chemotherapy-How To Deal With the Chemo Shark; Sex and Intimacy-Will It Ever Be the Same?; Talking To Your Young Children About Mommy's Cancer; Faith and Friendships; Life After Cancer and A Painful Look In The Mirror. Mark S. Weiss is an executive vice president of a large commercial real estate company.