James Ross

*What the Book Covers: Guides the reader through the basics of algorithms and data structures and then on to specific algorithms used in development and programming tasks. Part 1 discusses the basics of how to determine the characteristics of a given algorithm. Part 2 introduces practical sorting algorithms. Part 3 moves on to fundamental data structures. Part 4 introduces hashing, maps, etc. Part 5 moves on to certain advanced data structures useful to programmers. Part 5 wraps up with how to choose the right algorithm and how to avoid common mistakes in application. All the while, the author provides algorithm “walk through” for the reader, unique to this book. *Real World Web Solutions/Website: most unique to this book is the downloadable Java code in the form of working implementations and examples with which the reader can practice, and all of which have been fully built and tested by the author. No other book on algorithms provides this crucial application and implementation content.

Called by Raymond Chandler a sleazy, corrupt but completely believable story of a North Carolina town, this tough, realistic novel exemplifies Depression literature in the United States. Falling somewhere between the hard-as-nails writing of James M. Cain and the early stories of Ernest Hemingway, James Ross s novel was for sheer brutality and frankness of language considerably ahead of his reading public s taste for realism untinged with sentiment or profundity. In his brilliant Afterword to this new edition, George V. Higgins, author of the recent best-seller "Cogan s Trade," " "pays tribute to Ross for his courage in telling his story truthfully, in all its ugliness. The setting of "They Don" "t Dance Much "is a roadhouse on the outskirts of a North Carolina town on the border with South Carolina, complete with dance floor, restaurant, gambling room, and cabins rented by the hour. In the events described, Smut Milligan, the proprietor, seeks money to keep operating and commits a brutal murder."