Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives
Springer | ISBN 0387463402 | 2007-01-02 | PDF | 210 pages | 3.6 MB
A woman’s middle age had traditionally been regarded as a time of loss and decline. But in the wake of the women's movement and other societal and cultural events, a profound shift has taken place. Far from being marginalized, midlife women stand at the forefront of a great transformation of cultural perceptions and attitudes. They are rejecting stereotypes, embracing new opportunities, and forming what this important book terms "a new collective middle-aged identity."

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The Development of Social Engagement: Neurobiological Perspectives (Series in Affective Science)
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN 0195168712 | 2005-12-01 | PDF | 450 pages | 2.6 MB
The Development of Social Engagement, edited by Peter J. Marshall and Nathan A. Fox, brings together some of the latest research on social engagement processes across a range of life stages and species. The opening chapters provide overviews of cutting-edge research on social engagement in areas such as temperament, face processing, joint attention, language development, and early social cognition in humans. Subsequent chapters address questions related to biological determinants of social systems, play, and maternal behavior across a variety of species, as well as evolutionary issues associated with social engagement. Finally, a number of chapters examine the application of rigorous biologically focused research paradigms to the study of atypical social engagement in children. Atypical social engagement is framed in terms of disorders such as autism and Williams Syndrome, as well as in the effects of adverse early rearing environments such as institutions. This volume will be a valuable guide for those interested in a neurobiological approach to the study of social development. It provides an introduction to current research directions in this rapidly expanding field for both student and professional researchers in developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and developmental psychopathology.

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Francesca Rossi (Editor), Peter van Beek (Editor), Toby Walsh (Editor), "Handbook of Constraint Programming"
pages: 978 | Publisher: Elsevier Science (October 13, 2006) | English | ISBN-10: 0444527265 | PDF | 11.6 MB
Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is currently applied with success to many domains, such as scheduling, planning, vehicle routing, configuration, networks, and bioinformatics

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The aim of this handbook is to capture the full breadth and depth of the constraint programming field and to be encyclopedic in its scope and coverage. While there are several excellent books on constraint programming, such books necessarily focus on the main notions and techniques and cannot cover also extensions, applications, and languages. The handbook gives a reasonably complete coverage of all these lines of work, based on constraint programming, so that a reader can have a rather precise idea of the whole field and its potential. Of course each line of work is dealt with in a survey-like style, where some details may be neglected in favor of coverage. However, the extensive bibliography of each chapter will help the interested readers to find suitable sources for the missing details. Each chapter of the handbook is intended to be a self-contained survey of a topic, and is written by one or more authors who are leading researchers in the area.

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Timothy Baycroft, Mark Hewitson, What Is a Nation?: Europe 1789-1914
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0199295751 | 2006 | PDF | 2 MB | 392 pages
This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism across a range of European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. It aims to put detailed studies of nationalist politics and thought, which have proliferated over the last ten years or so, into a wider European context. By means of such contextualization, together with new and systematic comparisons, What is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914 reassesses the arguments put forward in the principal works on nationalism as a whole, many of which pre-date the proliferation of case studies in the 1990s and which, as a consequence, make only inadequate reference to the national histories of European states.

The study reconsiders whether the distinction between civic and ethnic identities and politics in Europe has been overstated and whether it needs to be replaced altogether by a new set of concepts or types. What is a Nation? explores the relationship between this and other typologies, relating them to complex processes of industrialization, increasing state intervention, secularization, democratization and urbanization. Debates about citizenship, political economy, liberal institutions, socialism, empire, changes in the states system, Darwinism, high and popular culture, Romanticism and Christianity all affected - and were affected by - discussion of nationhood and nationalist politics.

The volume investigates the significance of such controversies and institutional changes for the history of modern nationalism, as it was defined in diverse European countries and regions during the long nineteenth century. By placing particular nineteenth-century nationalist movements and nation-building in a broader comparative context, prominent historians of particular European states give an original and authoritative reassessment, designed to appeal to students and academic readers alike, of one of the most contentious topics of the modern period.

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Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide
Lawrence Erlbaum | ISBN 0805844279 | 2005-12-01 | PDF | 176 pages | 0.9 MB
Gender and Computers presents evidence that shows that girls and young women are being left behind on the road to information technology. This book not only documents the digital divide but also provides guideposts to overcoming it. Social psychological theories and data are brought to bear on understanding the societal and environmental roots of the divide. Remedies ranging from family dynamics to teacher-student interactions to the controversial question of the gender organization of schools and school systems are proposed.

Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide:
*considers the authors' original research as well as recently published work by other leading scholars;
*documents that girls are at a marked disadvantage in their ability to learn about and profit from information technology in our educational system;
*sets the problem of computer anxiety in a rich context of social psychological theories, including stereotype threat, self-fulfilling prophecy, social comparison and attribution theory; and
*offers suggestions that parents, teachers, and school systems can implement to overcome the digital divide.

The book is intended to appeal to students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, education, human factors, and computer science interested in gender differences in general, and in human-computer interaction, in particular. The authors' goal is to stimulate social scientists and educators to further research this topic to generate solutions to the problem.

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Gorillaz - Rise of the Ogre
304 Pages | November 2, 2006 | English | ISBN: 1594489319 | PDF | 68 MB
How do you write a fake biography of a fake band? With style, writer and Gorillaz touring drummer Browne and comic book illustrator Jamie Hewlett, along with the design collective Zombie Fresh Eaters, answer back lustily. Gorillaz are a music/art hybrid masterminded by Hewlett and Blur frontman Damon Albarn, a veritable cartoon supergroup made up of mountainous B-boy Russel Hobbs, Japanese girl guitarist Noodle, metal-worshipping bassist Murdoc, and hollow-eyed, angular vocalist 2D. They are a genuine pop sensation. Rise of the Ogre is an autobiography about the virtual band Gorillaz. Ostensibly written by the four band-members in collaboration with (actual) Gorillaz musician and official scribe Cass Browne, the book is 304 pages long and is extensively illustrated.

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Web Analytics: An Hour a Day | Avinash Kaushik
ISBN: 0470130652 | June 05, 2007 | PDF | 443 pages | 4 Mb

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Web Analytics: An Hour A Day is the first book by an in-the-trenches practitioner of web analytics. It provides a unique insider’s perspective of the challenges and opportunities that web analytics presents to each person who touches the Web in your organization. Rather than spamming you with metrics and definitions, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day will enhance your mindset and teach you how to fish for yourself. Avinash Kaushik is a expert in web analytics and author of the top-rated blog Occam’s Razor (http://www.kaushik.net/avinash). In this book, he goes beyond web analytics concepts and definitions to provide a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful web analytics strategy. His revolutionary approach to web analytics challenges prevalent thinking about the field and guides readers to a solution that will provide truly informed and actionable insights.

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An Anthropology of Names and Naming
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521848636 | 2006-04-24 | PDF | 302 pages | 1.6 MB
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are ‘just’ labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names ‘right’. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life.

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Utah Beach : Normandy (Battleground Europe Series)
Pen and Sword 2001 | Carl Shilleto | ISBN: 0850527368 | English | PDF | 160 p.
The fortunes of war and clear-headed decisions by commanders on the scene combined to make Utah Beach the most successful and least costly of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Strong ocean currents and the confusion of battle placed the landing force a mile south of its target, but further away from German artillery and in a sector that was less heavily defended because the land inland was flooded. The first craft ashore happened to contain Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. who immediately brought order to what might have been a chaotic situation. The U.S. 8th Infantry Regiment quickly began to move inland for a crucial linkup with the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, all of whose landing zones were behind Utah Beach. The personalities, units and individual actions of this dramatic D-Day landing are all covered in the usual Battlegroud Europe fashion, with numerous illustrations, maps and a guide to the area as it is today.


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SAS Graphics for Java: Examples Using SAS AppDev Studio and the Output Delivery System | Wendy Bohnenkamp, Jackie Iverson
ISBN: 159047693X | June 18, 2007 | PDF | 5 Mb

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Jump-start your SAS graph skills! Here, in one convenient source, is all the information you need to create your own SAS graphs. This example-rich reference familiarizes you with custom tags in SAS AppDev Studio and shows you how to use ODS statements and the Java Device Driver to create graphs. Written for programmers at all experience levels, this dynamic book focuses on the attributes, parameters, and options that make graphs convey what you really want them to convey. It also provides SAS/GRAPH samples and WORK data sets. This text is suited for programmers who already know how to use SAS AppDev Studio to create and deploy a JSP or servlet application. A basic level of SAS ODS programming knowledge is required.

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Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices
Springer | ISBN 0387237550 | 2004-11-19 | PDF | 340 pages | 23.6 MB
The area of Virtual Organizations as a main component of the new discipline of Collaborative Networks has been particularly active in Europe where a large number of R&D projects have been funded. Many projects and practical developments of collaborative networks have also been taking place in other regions, namely the USA, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan. The fast evolution of the information and communication technologies and in particular the so-called Internet technologies, also represents an important motivator for the emergence of new forms of collaboration. However, the research in many of these cases is highly fragmented, considering that each project is focused on solving specific problems. As such, there is no effective consolidation/harmonization among them in order to have an effective impact and facilitate the interaction among the involved experts.

This book represents a contribution to the consolidation of the already vast amount of empirical knowledge and practical experience. As such, a synthesis of results collected from the analysis of a large number of projects and industry case studies is presented, focusing on the following main areas of work on virtual organizations: Principles and models, ICT infrastructures and tools, Implementation issues, and Case studies.

Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices provides valuable elements for the researchers, engineers, managers and industry planners, PhD students, and decision-makers interested in research and innovative development activities in the area of e-business and collaborative networks.

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Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip (New Departures in Anthropology)
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 052100473X | 2003-11-24 | PDF | 244 pages | 0.6 MB
Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. After revealing the importance of rumor and gossip as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery, it demonstrates their role in the genesis of social and political violence, as seen in peasant rebellions, as well as witch-hunts. The study draws upon examples from Africa, Europe, India, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.

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Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran
Not Avail | ISBN 158487211X | 2005-01 | PDF | 314 pages | 1.2 MB
As Iran edges closer to acquiring a nuclear bomb and its missiles extend an ever darker diplomatic shadow over the Middle East and Europe, Iran is likely to pose three threats. First, Iran could dramatically up the price of oil by interfering with the free passage of vessels in and through the Persian Gulf as it did during the l980s or by threatening to use terrorist proxies to target other states oil facilities. Second, it could diminish American influence in the Gulf and Middle East by increasing the pace and scope of terrorist activities against Iraq, Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states, Israel, and other perceived supporters of the United States. Finally, it could become a nuclear proliferation model for the world and its neighbors (including many states that otherwise would be more dependent on the United States for their security) by continuing to insist that it has a right to make nuclear fuel under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and then withdrawing once it decides to get a bomb. To contain and deter Iran from posing such threats, the United States and its friends could take a number of steps: increasing military cooperation (particularly in the naval sphere) to deter Iranian naval interference; reducing the vulnerability of oil facilities in the Gulf outside of Iran to terrorist attacks, building and completing pipelines in the lower Gulf region that would allow most of the non-Iranian oil and gas in the Gulf to be exported without having to transit the Straits of Hormuz; diplomatically isolating Iran by calling for the demilitarization of the Straits and adjacent islands, creating country-neutral rules against Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty state members who are suspected of violating the treaty.

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Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
University Press of the Pacific | ISBN 1410217639 | 2004-10-30 | PDF | 148 pages | 1.6 MB
I am amazed to see that this book has not yet been reviewed by anyone on Amazon. The Iranian nuclear threat is arguably the greatest one now facing the U.S. and the world. And in fact Henry Sokolski has prepared another book on this threat in which he will claim that the efforts to stop Iran either militarily or by simply talking through the framework of the IAEA are futile. In any case the dangers to the world of Iran's going nuclear are very great. One is the breakdown of all proliferation agreements, the racing of neighboring states Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Egypt , Syria and Turkey to acquire nuclear weapons. Secondly the danger of an oil- market gone wild. Iran with nuclear weapons will have a tremendous new blackmail lever. It can block transit lanes, tie up the Straits of Hormuz , blackmail the world. Thirdly, Iran is the largest exporter of terror in the world. With nuclear weapons its possibilities for doing damage, especially as it makes such skillful use of surrogates in carrying out terror attacks, increase enormously.

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Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Global Jihad: A New Conflict Paradigm for the West
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs | ISBN 9652180564 | 2007-01-18 | PDF | 88 pages | 1.6 MB
The Middle East has undergone revolutionary changes in the last few years. For most of the 1990s it was the conventional wisdom that the key to regional stability was to be found in the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and, as a result, Western diplomatic energies were primarily focused on that area. Now radical Islam is gaining strength among the Palestinians with the victory of Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary elections of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas and its allies completely reject a negotiated solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and align themselves with jihadi organizations across the region. As a result, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become increasingly a part of the much larger struggle between radical Islam and the West. At the same time, Iran is more determined than ever to achieve regional hegemony. Indeed, the Sunni-Shiite rivalry is likely to emerge as the central axis of conflict in the Middle East in the years to come. Given this new strategic context, the U.S. and its Western allies have enormous leverage with the threatened Sunni Arab states. As a consequence, the West does not have to pay for their cooperation in Israeli coin. The book includes top quality pictures and maps

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Iran: Time For A New Approach
Council on Foreign Relations Press | ISBN 0876093454 |2004-11 | PDF | 86pages | 1.6 MB
Brzezinski and Gates seem to think that Iran is some Middle Eastern version of the Girl Scouts. i.e If one talks nicely and politely to them they will respond by providing nice goodies in return. But the fact , which Brezinski and Gates underplay is that Iran is a radical Muslim regime which is driven by Ideology. It is not a ' realpolitik player' in some chessboard game of international relations. It is rather a fanatically committed regime whose aim is overthrow of the United States, culturally as well as politically. Brezinski and Gates show no sign of urgency in regard to impending Iranian nuclear weapons. And this when it is clear that a nuclear Iran not only threatens domination of the Gulf, and world oil resources, but has vast new potentialities for achieving its major aims, including destruction of Israel and eventually the United States. A nuclear Iran means a nuclear- arms - race throughout the world, and the end to non- proliferation. There are works that make us see deeper into the military and political realities- and those which hide the severity of the real problems by opting for non- realistic , and simplistic solutions. This book gives much evidence of belonging to the latter category.

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ESABE, «Welding Pipeline Handbook»
ESAB | Edition - 2003 | PDF Text | 63 Pages | 1,2 Mb
Every day countless kilometres of steel pipelines are installed worldwide for the most varied civil and industrial uses. They form real networks comparable to a system of road networks, which, although not so obvious, are definitely much more intricate and carry fluids that have become essential for us. To comply with technical specifications and fulfil the necessary safety requisites, special materials and welding processes which have evolved with the sector have been developed in recent years. The main welding process used to install the pipelines is manual welding with coated electrode, which, thanks to its ease and versatility, is still the one most used.
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Baden Sollingen. The Hornet's Nest (Osprey Superbase 20) by Chris Bennett (Author)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (1991) | ISBN: 0850451149 | PDF | 17,6 Mb | 130 pages

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Sverker Johansson, Origins of Language: Constraints on Hypotheses
John Benjamins Pub Co | ISBN 9027238936 | 2006 | PDF | 2 MB | 358 pages
The origin of our capacity for language is a complex topic, requiring input from many disparate fields, from linguistics to paleoanthropology. Specialists in any one field are often unfamiliar with the evidence from other relevant disciplines. I perceive a need for an integration of knowledge from all relevant fields, outside as well as inside linguistics, in a single work. My purpose in writing this book is to bring together the material needed for such an integration, and to take the first steps towards the synthesis needed for a thorough understanding of the evolution of language.

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
English Audio book| MP3 | 64kbps | 168.59 mb

An important book for Christians.

Thank you Mr. Hitchens for writing this book. You, Dawkins, Harris, Gore - and others - are voices of reason crying out in the widerness aagainst the INSANITY of the disgusting, stomach turning Christio-fascism being foisted upon us. America - and the world - is doomed if we don't turn this around and head back to reason and common sense. I beleive in God and Jesus but I am not stupid enough to beleive that ancient fables from primitive tribes are literally true. God spoke to them in a way they could understand in their age. But our knowledge has grown since then and we can go beyond those simplistic, paranoid views of the world. Jesus wants us to LOVE not hate. The snake oil salesmen I see on TV all seem to think religion is all about hate and fear and telling lies about scientific fact. That is WRONG!!! That is NOT what Jesus wants. I encourage everyone - especially those who love Jesus like me - to read this book.

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Edward Tsang, "Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction"
Pages: 300 | Publisher: Academic Pr (August 1993) | Language: English | ISBN: 0127016104 | PDF | 1.2 MB
Constraint satisfaction is a general problem in which the goal is to find values for a set of variables that will satisfy a given set of constraints. It is the core of many applications in artificial intelligence, and has found its application in many areas, such as planning and scheduling. Because of its generality, most AI researchers should be able to benefit from having good knowledge of techniques in this field

This book is the most comprehensive book on the field of constraint satisfaction so far. It covers both the theoretical and the implementation aspects of the subject. It provides a framework for studying this field, relates different research, and resolves ambiguity in a number of concepts and algorithms in the literature. This book provides a solid foundation for researchers in this field. It is also an invaluable text for graduate and research level students in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

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John Leslie Livingstone,Theodore Grossman, «The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, 3rd Edition»
Wiley | ISBN 0471061859 | October 2001 - 3rd Edition | PDF | 672 Pages | 2,70 Mb
The latest volume in the bestselling series
In today's business environment, a knowledge of finance and skills in budgeting and financial planning are more important than ever before. Totally updated and revised, this highly anticipated Third Edition provides new information on five such key topics as interpreting financial statements; information technology in finance; planning capital expenditures; information technology and your firm; business valuation, and much more. Top experts in each field explain the basics of cost-volume analysis, forecasts, and budgets, and reveal how to create a winning business plan. Ideal reading for any manager or executive who needs a "refresher course" in finance.

Les Livingstone, PhD, MBA, CPA (West Palm Beach, FL), runs a national consulting firm which specializes in complex business research and expert testimony in large commercial lawsuits. He was chairman of the Division of Accounting and Law at Babson College.
Theodore Grossman (Wellesley, MA) is a senior member of the faculty of Babson College with an appointment in information technology and accounting.

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Don Henderson, "Building Web Applications With SAS/IntrNet: A Guide to the Application Dispatcher"
SAS Publishing | ISBN: 1599941899 | April 12, 2007 | 360 Pages | PDF | 4.5MB
Learn how you can save countless hours of research and development time building your Web applications with the SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher. Author Don Henderson illustrates the multitude of features and capabilities available in the SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher and shows you how to take better advantage of these tools to make your tasks easier. This dynamic book features significant tips, techniques, and well-explained examples that you can immediately incorporate into your SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher Web applications.

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Christophe Jermann (Editor), Arnold Neumaier (Editor), Djamila Sam (Editor). "LNCS 3478: Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction"
Pages: 193 | Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 22, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 354026003X | PDF | 2.5 MB

Numerical constraint systems are widely used to model problems in numerous application areas ranging from robotics to chemistry

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