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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 11:59pm CET
Java: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN:0072231890 | Edition - Third | 648 pages | PDF | 4.3MB
Learn the fundamentals of Java 2 programming from renowned Java genius Herb Schildt. Discover why Java is the preeminent language of the Internet, how to use object-oriented programming, and how to write programs with the general form of Java. Coverage includes advanced topics such as inheritance, exception handling, the I/O system, applets, and much more.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 11:04pm CET
Max Jones, "The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott’s Antarctic Sacrifice"
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0192805703 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 369 pages
Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, only eleven miles from a supply camp.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 11:00pm CET
Pass4sure - CompTIA A+ : 220-601 + 220-602 Exams | 884kb
220-601 : With the complete collection of questions and answers, Pass4sure has assembled to take you through 600 Q&As to your 220-601 Exam preparation. In the 220-601 exam resources, you will cover every field and category in CompTIA A+ helping to ready you for your successful CompTIA Certification.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:53pm CET
Programming WPF by Chris Sells
O'Reilly; 2 edition (August 28, 2007) | ISBN: 0596510373 | 863 pages | PDF | ~7.5 Mb
If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major elements.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:52pm CET
Show Me Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Que; 1st edition | ISBN: 0789730057 | 448 pages | September 15, 2003 | CHM | 15 Mb
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 provides powerful new tools with which to create, analyze, and share spreadsheet information. Excel 2003 takes advantage of the latest technologies such as XML and Microsoft SharePoint to extend desktop productivity and workspace collaboration over an intranet or the Internet. This book covers these changes, as well as smart tags, which are far more flexible in Excel 2003, and several statistical functions that have been improved to make data analysis easier. Show Me's visual format highlights these usability features for new or upgrading users, especially those upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2000. Though Excel 2003 has the fewest changes of all the Office applications, new and upgrading users will need a resource to quickly get them working with the software. This book's succinct yet complete coverage does just that! Additional features of this book include a "Troubleshooting Guide" to help solve common problems and a "Project Guide" with a listing of real-world projects by feature, as well as a "MOS Exam Guide" with a complete listing of MOS objectives and page numbers to locate the objectives. This feature gives the series a definite advantage over competing visual titles.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:45pm CET
Ruvani Ranasinha, "South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation"
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0199207771 | 2007 | PDF | 1 MB | 313 pages
This is the first book to provide a historical account of the publication and reception of South Asian anglophone writing from the 1930s to the present, based on original archival research drawn from a range of publishing houses. This comparison of succeeding generations of writers who emigrated to, or were born in, Britain examines how the experience of migrancy, the attitudes towards migrant writers in the literary market place, and the critical reception of them, changed significantly throughout the twentieth century.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:42pm CET
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner
Course Technology PTR; 1 edition | ISBN: 1592008143 | 440 pages | December 22, 2005 | CHM | 39 Mb
Written for the beginning programmer with little to no prior programming experience, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner teaches programming skills using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition as a foundation language. Written in a straight-forward style, using a games-based approach that makes learning beginning-level programming fun and easy, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner is the perfect introductory programming book.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:38pm CET
Beginning PHP 4 - Programmer to Programmer
Wrox | ISBN: 0764543644 | 816 pages | 8,7 MB | PDF
Book programming code in arhcive! PHP is a server-side scripting language. It is an open source, cross platform technology (NT, Linux, UNIX), rapidly gaining popularity as a scripting language for people running dynamic websites. Using practical examples and a step by step approach, this book explains how to develop web applications using PHP.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:38pm CET
Programming and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition | ISBN: 007134666X | 336 pages | September 18, 2000 | PDF | 2 Mb
This reader-friendly guide shows you how to take charge of the newest, most versatile microcontrollers around, Atmel's AVR RISC chip family. Inside, Electronics World writer and astronomy instrumentation developer Dhananjay V. Gadre walks you from first meeting these exciting new computers-on-a-chip all the way through design and ready-to-launch products.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:12pm CET
Nino Luraghi, "The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus"
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0199215111 | 2007 | PDF | 2 MB | 273 pages
| “ | This is not only a book on Herodotus, but also a study of the origins of Greek historiography. Rather than investigate what made Herodotus a unique figure in the history of historiography, most of the essays collected here focus on attitudes which Herodotus shared with his contemporaries, historians and others, and on aspects which make him a typical product of his time. This emphasis confronted us with a further choice. Herodotus’Histories are an account of past events and foreign lands and habits, and at the same time a critical enquiry, which may as such profitably be compared with the enquiries which were being carried out in Greece in the same period and in the most diferent fields by philosophers, scientists, and other ‘intellectuals’. | ” |
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:53pm CET
JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook by Danny Goodman (Author)
O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (August 8, 2007) | ISBN: 0596514085 | 604 pages | PDF | ~3 Mb
In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment in mind, the new edition of this book offers bite-sized solutions to very specific scripting problems that web developers commonly face. Each recipe includes a focused piece of code that you can insert right into your application.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:59pm CET
Richard A. Spears "McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms"
McGraw-Hill (2003-09-01) | ISBN 0071408584 | 1104 Pages | PDF | 11.4 Mb
The most in-depth, comprehensive book of common idioms and phraseology available. From proverbial expressions ("the best things in life are free") to idiomatic expressions ("the best of both worlds") to the all-too-familiar clichés ("the best-case scenario"), idioms are not only embedded in our language, but they are also a colorful reflection of our American culture. McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms embraces the fullest breadth of these idioms in one comprehensive reference that is a must-have for both ESL learners and native speakers.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:55pm CET
Sams, «Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days»
Sams | ISBN 0672329433 | Edition 5th | PDF | 720 pages | 3.8 MB
In just 21 days, you can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop three kinds of programs with Java: applications on your computer, servlets on a web server, and browser-launched Java Web Start applications.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:28pm CET
Plasma technologies for textiles by R. Shishoo
CRC | ISBN: 1420044508 | 2007 | PDF | 322 pages | 2 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:16pm CET
Environmental Aspects of Textile Dyeing by R.M. Christie
CRC | ISBN: 1420044451 | 2007 | PDF | 238 pages | 1.8 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:03pm CET
Why our World No Longer Fits our Bodies by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0192806831 | 2006 | PDF | 304 pages | 1.15 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:03pm CET
Sir David Attenborough - Life on Air [Autobiography][Unabridged]
Autobiography | MP3 | 64kbps CBR | 133 Tracks | 16 Discs | 489 MB | 17:49 hr:mn | RAR | RS.com
Audio CD | English | ISBN: 0754094588 | Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Sir David Attenborough's Life On Air began in 1950, having taken a degree in Natural Sciences in the University of Cambridge, done National Service in the Navy, got married, done a year as an editor with an educational publisher, had a son and then answered a BBC recruiting ad in the Times. Turned down for BBC Radio, he was offered a traineeship in BBC TV which was pioneering the medium in Britain and he has never looked back. The rest is TV history and you can hear Sir David's personal view of it all in his engaging and highly entertaining audio book. Told with a lot of humour, the listener will meet all manner of fascinating people and animals in every corner of the world. This man has done more in his life than any of us will ever do and he has shared it with us on screen and in this marvellous audio book.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 7:27pm CET
Clifton G. Fonstad "Microelectronic Devices and Circuits"
Mcgraw-Hill College (1994-01-01) | ISBN 0070214964 | 640 Pages | PDF | 32.8 Mb
Combining solid state devices with electronic circuits for the junior level microelectronics course, this new textbook offers an integrated approach so that students truly understand how a circuit works. Other features include an emphasis on modeling of electronic devices and analysis of non-linear circuits. Spice problems, worked examples, and end-of-chapter problems enhance the text.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 7:20pm CET
Erik Larsson "Introduction to Advanced System-on-Chip Test Design and Optimization (Frontiers in Electronic Testing)"
Springer (2005-11-07) | ISBN 1402032072 | 388 Pages | PDF | 5.3 Mb
Testing of Integrated Circuits is important to ensure the production of fault-free chips. However, testing is becoming cumbersome and expensive due to the increasing complexity of these ICs. Technology development has made it possible to produce chips where a complete system, with an enormous transistor count, operating at a high clock frequency, is placed on a single die - SOC (System-on-Chip). The device size miniaturization leads to new fault types, the increasing clock frequencies enforces testing for timing faults, and the increasing transistor count results in a higher number of possible fault sites. Testing must handle all these new challenges in an efficient manner having a global system perspective.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 7:11pm CET
Jerry C. Whitaker "Microelectronics 2nd Edition"
CRC (2005-11-09) | ISBN 0849333911 | 464 Pages | PDF | 15.3 Mb
When it comes to electronics, demand grows as technology shrinks. From consumer and industrial markets to military and aerospace applications, the call is for more functionality in smaller and smaller devices. Culled from the second edition of the best-selling Electronics Handbook, Microelectronics, Second Edition presents a summary of the current state of microelectronics and its innovative directions. This book focuses on the materials, devices, and applications of microelectronics technology. It details the IC design process and VLSI circuits, including gate arrays, programmable logic devices and arrays, parasitic capacitance, and transmission line delays.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 6:54pm CET
Tim Robertson, "iPod and iTunes Starter Kit"
Que (2004-12-01) | ISBN 0789732785 | 432 Pages | PDF | 21.2 Mb
The iPod and iTunes are the hottest technologies in the world of digital music today. Whether you're a Mac or Windows user, the iPod and iTunes Starter Kit provides all the information that you need to get the most out these amazing digital music tools, including the Apple iTunes Music Store. From the basics of listening to audio CDs to advanced customization of music on an iPod, this book will enable you to master digital music by using these tools.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 6:43pm CET
Practical Problem Solving in HPLC
Publisher: Wiley-VCH | 2000-05-19 | ISBN 3527298428 | Pages: 180 | PDF | 5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 6:36pm CET
Cecil Textbook of Medicine; 23 edition
ISBN: 1416028056 | English | Aug 29 2007 | 3120 pages | 200 mb | CHM
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 6:25pm CET
Managing Data with Excel (Business Solutions)
Publisher: Que | Language: English | ISBN: 0789731002 | 384 pages | CHM | 15 MB
You have learned the methods to the madness of Excel. Formulas and functions are friends instead of foes. Yet you know there's something missing that could make your job even easier. That "something" is efficient and effective data management. Managing Data with Excel is the only book on the market that focuses on just that. Learn how to efficiently move data, automate data storage and import data into worksheets and pivot tables. Case studies are included in each chapter to illustrate real-world applications of these functions. Invest your time in learning this now so that you can stop wasting your time figuring out how to work around problems.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 6:23pm CET
MATLAB Primer, Seventh Edition
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC | 7th edition | English | ISBN: 1584885238 | 232 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
With the spread of the powerhouse MATLAB software into nearly every area of math, science, and engineering, it is important to have a strong introduction to using the software. Updated for version 7.0, MATLAB® Primer, Seventh Edition offers such an introduction as well as a "pocketbook" reference for everyday users of the software.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 6:20pm CET
Chemical Bonding at Surfaces and Interfaces
Publisher: Elsevier Science | 2007-10-26 | ISBN 0444528377 | 532 | PDF | 19 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 4:13pm CET
Advances in Virus Research, Volume 70
Publisher: Academic Press | 2007-09-17 | ISBN:0123737281 | Pages: 300 | PDF | 4 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 4:08pm CET
Linux Programming by Example by Kurt Wall
Que | ISBN:0789722151 | PDF | 560 pages | 30.8 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 3:48pm CET
Art Deco Stained Glass Designs by Ed Sibbett
Dover Publications | ISBN:0486235505 | 1977 | PDF | 64 pages | 2RS Parts : 17+24 Mb
The geometric orientation of Art Deco and its brilliant hard colors make this style perfect for the medium of stained glass. This collection contains 91 newly rendered, yet authentic, Art Deco patterns, which constitute a rich source of ideas for stained glass workers. The designs represent the major Art Deco motifs and sub-styles - abstract patterns in bold straight-line and curved motifs; representations of men and women in characteristic 1920's garb; geometrically stylized birds, trees and animals; and the flowing forms of flowers and plants that are a holdover from the Art Nouveau period.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 3:34pm CET
Linear Elastic Waves by John G. Harris
Cambridge University Press | ISBN:052164383X | 2001 | PDF | 178 pages | 1.8 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 3:12pm CET
Continuous Lattices and Domains (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications) by G. Gierz, K. H. Hofmann, K. Keimel, and J. D. Lawson
Cambridge University Press | ISBN:0521803381 | 2003 | PDF | 628 pages | 2.5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 3:05pm CET
Functional Dairy Products: Pt. 2 By Maria Saarela
CRC | ISBN:1420043986 | 2007 | PDF | 539 pages | 5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 3:04pm CET
Handbook of gold exploration and evaluation by Eoin Henderson Macdonald
CRC | ISBN:1420044605 | 2007 | PDF | 647 pages | 5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 2:52pm CET
Biology and Chemistry of Jerusalem Artichoke: Helianthus tuberosus
Publisher: CRC | 2007-08-13 | ISBN:1420044958 | Pages:496 | PDF | 7 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 2:45pm CET
Local Probe Techniques for Corrosion Research by R Oltra, V. Maurice, R. Akid, P. Marcus
CRC | ISBN:1420054058 | 2007 | PDF | 182 pages | 2.85 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 2:37pm CET
Shape Memory Polymers and Textiles
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing | 2007-04-30 | ISBN:1845690478 | Pages:360 | PDF | 5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 2:37pm CET
Handbook of Biochemical Kinetics: A Guide to Dynamic Processes in the Molecular Life Sciences by Daniel L. Purich, R. Donald Allison
Academic Press | ISBN:0125680481 | 2000 | PDF | 788 pages | 11.5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 2:25pm CET
International Review Of Cytology, Volume 260: A Survey of Cell Biology by Kwang W. Jeon
Academic Press | ISBN:0123741149 | 2007 | PDF | 280 pages | 2.8 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 2:23pm CET
Environmental Aspects of Textile Dyeing
Publisher:Woodhead Publishing | 2007-05-10 | ISBN:1845691156 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 1 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 1:30pm CET
Medicinal Plants of the World, Volume 3: Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses
Publisher: Humana | Language: English | ISBN: 1588291294 | 648 pages | Data: 2005 | PDF | 3.5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 1:20pm CET
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PDF | 28 áтр. | ISBN: ýõт (ÿрøûþöõýøõ ú öурýðûу) | Ø÷ôðтõûь: Psyhologies | 3 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 1:11pm CET
Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 61
Publisher: Academic Press | 2007-04-19 | ISBN: 0120026635 | Pages: 392 | PDF | 2.5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 12:37pm CET
Comprehensive Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | 2007-06-15 | ISBN:047176129X | Pages: 417 | PDF | 2.5 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 12:17pm CET
The Spirit of Aikido - Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Kodansha International | ISBN:0870116002 | 1985 | DJVU | 120 Pages | 3MB
The recent expansion of aikido on a world-wide scale is nothing less than phenomel. The Total aikido population today exceeds one million, and the International Aikido Federation is growing stronger than ever. The reason for this lies in aikido itself, which, I believe, expresses in both principle and practice the highest form of martial-aesthetic-spiritual art that traditional Japanese culture has produced.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 12:12pm CET
Fullerenes: Chemistry and Reactions
Publisher: Wiley-VCH | 2005-02-11 | ISBN:3527308202 | Pages:440 | PDF | 11 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 12:02pm CET
Ninja Combat Method - Stephen Hayes
No Publisher | No Identification Code | No Year | PDF | 32 Pages | 1.6MB
Ninjitsu, the art of stealth, is a system of fighting techniques, intelligence gathering and pyschological warfare.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 12:02pm CET
Ninja Combat Method - Stephen Hayes
No Publisher | No Identification Code | No Year | PDF | 32 Pages | 1.6MB
Ninjitsu, the art of stealth, is a system of fighting techniques, intelligence gathering and pyschological warfare.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 11:45am CET
Beginning 3D Game Programming by Tom Miller (Author)
Publisher: Sams; Pap/Cdr edition (December 3, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0672326612 | CHM | 3,8 Mb | 432 pages
There are many programming hobbyists who write 2D games but there are far fewer that grasp the concepts of 3D programming. Although there are also quite a few game development books on the market, few deal with 3D game development. Those that do are mainly aimed at advanced readers. This book will provide a practical, example driven approach to learning the unique art of 3D Game Development that even the beginner can grasp.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 11:41am CET
.NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 by Alexandre Santos Lobao
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 27, 2003) | ISBN-10: 1590590511 | PDF | 1,2 Mb | 654 pages
.net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is a cool book that gets you up to speed fast on your own game projects. Balanced and complete, .net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is aimed toward beginners and advanced programmers alike. The first book to cover the Managed DirectX 9.0 interfaces, from Direct3D to DirectPlay, .net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is an indispensable guide for anybody interested in exciting new Microsoft technologies for creating great games.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 11:41am CET
Radioactivity: Introduction and History
Publisher:Elsevier Science | 2007-08-29 | ISBN:044452715X | Pages:632 | PDF | 13 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:59am CET
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development by Fletcher Dunn (Author)
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc. (June 25, 2002) | ISBN-10: 1556229119 | PDF | 11,7 Mb | 476 pages
Covers fundamental 3D math concepts that are especially useful for computer game developers and programmers. Illustrates how to put the techniques into practice, and exercises at the end of each chapter help reinforce the concepts.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:56am CET
Game Development with ActionScript by Lewis Moronta (Author)
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (November 6, 2003) | ISBN-10: 1592001106 | CHM | 3,3 Mb | 424 pages
"Game Development with ActionScript" is the guide that can show you the way! You'll cover the basics of programming with ActionScript and will explore the incredible development possibilities offered by Macromedia Flash MX 2004. You'll develop the animation techniques you need to keep players coming back for more. Transform your game as you learn how ActionScript can be used to create amazing sound effects that flow seamlessly into your game's script.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:09am CET
Transactions on Computational Systems Biology VIII
Publisher: Springer | Language: English | ISBN:3540766383 | 354 pages | Data: 2007 | PDF | 2 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:06am CET
Information Technology Solutions for Healthcare
Publisher: Springer | Language: English | ISBN:1852339780 | 354 pages | Data: 2006 | PDF | 7 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 10:04am CET
McGraw-Hill Machining and Metalworking Handbook (McGraw-Hill Handbooks)
Denis Cormier | Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | Pages:1006 | 2005-09-23 | ISBN:0071457879 | OCRed PDF|17mb
The Handbook is ideal for a machinist, mechanical engineer or anyone else who makes a living in metalworking. It concisely spans the field. Straightforwardly written. Many topics are explained. From common sheet metal practices to the latest machine tools. Technology also figures prominently elsewhere in the book. There is a chapter on computer aided design and manufacturing. It explains the essence of software packages in this arena. With tables of CAD providers, and vendors who offer extensive component libraries. While you could certainly use a CAD package to design your own custom parts, it may be more cost effective to see if an existing library has what you need. Another chapter covers solid freeform production. Using methods like electron beam melting or selective laser sintering. Or 3D printing, where a solid part is catalysed out of a special liquid. All this might sound exotic to some of you. But it's worthwhile to keep informed of such techniques.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:51am CET
Mylene Farmer Magazine 12, 13, 15 (1999)
WOLF Productions | ISSN-1253-3319 | 1999 | DjVu | 12,7 Mb | 32 pages
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:34am CET
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution
Riverhead Trade | November 5, 2002 | English | ISBN:1573229555 | 446 pages | PDF | 3.4 MB
In this intimate portrait of the great naturalist as devoted family man, Keynes describes how Charles Darwin's "life and his science were all of a piece." The great-great-grandson of the scientist, Keynes uses published documents as well as family papers and artifacts to show how Darwin's thinking on evolution was influenced by his deep attachment to his wife and children. In particular, his anguish over his 10-year-old daughter Annie's death sharpened his conviction that the operation of natural laws had nothing to do with divine intervention or morality. Keynes, also a descendant of economist John Maynard Keynes, shows that much of Darwin's intellectual struggle in writing On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man arose from his efforts to understand the role of suffering and death in the natural order of the world. Early in his career, Darwin saw the indifference of natural law as an answer to the era's religious doubts about how a benevolent god could permit human misery; cruelty and pain, he argued, should not be seen as moral issues, but as inevitable outcomes of nature. After Annie's death, however, Darwin's views darkened, and in a private letter he railed against the "clumsy, wasteful, bl***ering low and horridly cruel works of nature!" Though Keynes doesn't break new ground about Darwin's life and work, he produces a moving tribute to a thinker who, despite intimate acquaintance with the pain inflicted by the "war of nature," could still marvel that, from this ruthless struggle, "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)Forecast: General readers attracted by the book's warm, sentimental cover won't be disappointed by Keynes's equally accessible prose.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:32am CET
Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology, Volume 77
Academic Press | ISBN:0125400772 | Edition 2004-07-06 | PDF | 488 pages | 4 MB | Rapidshare & Megaupload
Nucleic acids are the fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA and are found in virtually every living cell. Molecular biology is a branch of science that studies the physicochemical properties of molecules in a cell, including nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes. Increased understanding of nucleic acids and their role in molecular biology will further many of the biological sciences including genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology is intended to bring to light the most recent advances in these overlapping disciplines with a timely compilation of reviews comprising each volume.
* Provides a forum for discussion of new discoveries, approaches and ideas in molecular biology
* Includes contributions from the leaders in the field
* Has abundant references
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:30am CET
Medicine, Magic and Religion
Routledge | 0415254035 | Edition 2001-05-18 | PDF | 144 pages | 18 MB | Rapidshare & Megaupload
One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal lay in an extraordinary intellect, mixed with a very real interest in his fellow man. Medicine, Magic and Religion is a prime example of this. A social institution, it is one of Rivers' finest works. In it, Rivers introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:29am CET
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.)
Harper Perennial | 0060894083 | Edition -2006-06-01 | PDF | 368 pages | 1.57 MB | Rapidshare & Megaupload
The genome's been mapped.But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life.
Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:26am CET
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: From Genes to Patients
Publisher:Humana Press | 2005-06-01 | SBN:1588293122 | Pages: 576 | PDF | 5.4 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:18am CET
Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology, Volume 76
Academic Press | 0125400756 | Edition 2003-10-10 | PDF | 356 pages | 2.74 MB | Rapidshare & Megaupload
Nucleic acids are the fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA and are found in virtually every living cell. Molecular biology is a branch of science that studies the physicochemical properties of molecules in a cell, including nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes. Increased understanding of nucleic acids and their role in molecular biology will further many of the biological sciences including genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology is intended to bring to light the most recent advances in these overlapping disciplines with a timely compilation of reviews comprising each volume.
* Provides a forum for discussion of new discoveries, approaches and ideas in molecular biology
* Includes contributions from the leaders in the field
* Has abundant references
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 9:11am CET
Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers
Publisher: Cosimo Classics | 2007-05-01 | ISBN:1602064423 | Pages: 224 | Djvu | 3 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:32am CET
Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Publisher: Humana Press | 2005-05-25 | ISBN:1588294137 | Pages: 672 | PDF | 7 Mb
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:10am CET
Yannis Tsividis "A First Lab in Circuits and Electronics"
Wiley (2001-05-09) | ISBN:0471386952 | 140 Pages | PDF | 9.3 Mb
Excellent beginners book into the fun of electronic lab Yannis Tsividis gives us a great beginners book into electronics. I found the instruction very concise and though it seems basic to the casual eye, is extremely helpful in learning from the beginning...where anyone should start, right? I learned about nor gates which was extremely fun and interesting, including trying to create my own schematic of a closed circuit relay. Once you can master the basics you are ready to go on to more advanced electronics, which can include building your very own radio!
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Posted: October 31st, 2007, 8:08am CET
" Arthroscopic and Endoscopic Spinal Surgery: Text and Atlas "
Publisher:Humana Press | Pages:400 | 2005-06-17 | ISBN:1588295222 | PDF | 13 MB
This authoritative and highly illustrated guide to arthoscopic and endoscopic surgery describes and illustrates state-of-the-art techniques and approaches that are currently used for the treatment of painful spine pathologies and the prevention of postsurgical failed back syndrome. The authors demonstrate step-by-step how minimally invasive techniques are performed in spinal surgery and how ...
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