Silver Award Winner at the Chartered Institute of Buildings Literary Awards:
“This book looks in fine detail at the composition and properties of building materials from an ecological perspective. Packed full of fresh information and comprehensive data, it tackles a subject about which very little has been published before. There is a freshness and clarity of treatment that stems from the author’s clear passion for the subject. Ignore this book at your – and your grandchildren’s – peril.”CIOB Committee

‘[The book] is tightly packed with text, tables, references and illustrations; it is thorough…and it is wide-ranging in coverage of materials and techniques, both familiar and less so.’
Adam Voelcker, The Architectural Review

‘…an amazingly comprehensive and thorough resource, full of gems of wisdom, and anyone seriously interested in exploring alternatives to mainstream materials will find a great deal of useful material.’
Environmental Building News –Review

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Brilliant HTML & CSS is a visual quick reference book that teaches all that you need to know to create clean, forward-looking, standards-compliant, accessible Web sites using HTML & CSS. It will give you a solid grounding on the theory, coding skills, and best practices needed to use HTML & CSS to build sophisticated web pages a complete reference for the beginner and intermediate user. Summary Brilliant HTML and CSS provides beginning Web designers and developers with the necessary theory, coding skills, and best practices to create clean, forward-looking, standards-compliant, accessible Web sites. The text reinforces the important distinction between structure and presentation and emphasizes the proper application of HTML tags and CSS properties from the opening chapter. Part I focuses on structural development, while Part II addresses presentation topics, and Part III offers advice about common design and navigation problems and the rationale behind their solutions. Upon finishing this book, a reader with no prior experience in Web design and development will be able to build sophisticated static pages. (An ideal companion to this book would be Brilliant JavaScript.) In keeping with the Brilliant series, the book uses a highly visual, task-based approach to achieve its objectives. Brilliant Features *Detailed index and troubleshooting guide to help you find exactly what you need to know *Each task is presented on one or two pages *Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem *Numerous screenshots illustrate each step * See Also boxes point you to related tasks and information in the book * Did you know ?…sections alert you to relevant expert tips, tricks and advice

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This textbook provides an overview of the field of computer systems and network management. Systems management courses are being taught in different graduate and undergraduate computer science programs, but there are no good books with a comprehensive overview of the subject. This text book will provide content appropriate for either an undergraduate course (junior or senior year) or a graduate course in systems management. Systems Management is emerging as the predominant area for computer science in the enterprise, with studies showing that the bulk (up to 80%) of an enterprise IT budget is spent on management/operational issues and is the largest piece of the expenditure.

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To achieve consistent software project success under the pressures of today’s software development environment, software organizations require achievable plans including viable estimates of schedule, resources, and risks. To estimate realistically, you must understand how to apply sound estimation processes, tools, and data.

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves is a practical, hands-on discussion of the software estimation, planning, and control process. This includes critical factors that impact estimates, methods for selecting and applying appropriate measures to projects, proper software sizing, and processes to identify and manage risk. The authors use their expertise in sizing, estimation, process engineering, and risk management to clearly demonstrate problems that make many estimates crumble and solutions that provide successful project plans. The book offers insight not available anywhere else, enabling you to recognize and avoid downstream impacts resulting from poor estimates.

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The MCSE 70-293 Exam Prep is the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date study guide if you are preparing for one of the four core exams required of this popular Microsoft certification. Updated for R2 versions of the product and the exam, this book serves as both a learning and practice tool. Organized according to the exam objectives, which help you quickly and easily assess your understanding of the key exam topics, the book features several key features that help you score better on the test: exam objective explanations, notes, tips, warnings, key terms, exercises, step-by-step examples, study strategies, fast facts, as well as multiple self-assessment opportunities. This is the ultimate study guide to help you prepare for this required MCSE exam. The 70-293 exam measures the ability to plan and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure.

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1.3 Who Should Read This Book?
I have written this book as a reference for anyone intending to study computer
graphics, computer animation, computer games or virtual reality, especially for
people who want to understand the technical aspects. Although it is possible to
study these topics without requiring the support of mathematics, increasingly, there
are situations and projects that require animators, programmers and technical directors
to resort to mathematics to resolve unforeseen technical problems. This may be
in the form of a script or an extra piece of program code.

1.4 Aims and Objectives of This Book
One of the aims of this book is to bring together a range of useful mathematical
topics that are relevant to computer graphics. And the real objective is to provide
programmers and animators with an understanding of mathematics so that they can
solve all sorts of problems with confidence.
I have attempted to do this by exploring a range of mathematical topics without
intimidating the reader with mathematical symbols and abstract ideas. Hopefully, I
will be able to explain each topic in a simple and practical manner, with a variety of
practical examples.
This is far from an exhaustive study of the mathematics associated with computer
graphics. Each chapter introduces the reader to a new topic, and should leave the
reader confident and capable of studying more advanced books.

1.5 Assumptions Made in This Book
I suppose that I do expect that readers will have some understanding of arithmetic
and the general knowledge of the principles of mathematics, such as the ideas of
algebra. But, apart from that, each subject will be introduced as though it were the
first time it had been discovered.
In the chapter on curves and surfaces I have used a little calculus. Readers who
have not studied this subject should not be concerned about missing some vital piece
of information. I only included it to keep the explanation complete.

1.6 How to Use This Book
I would advise starting at the beginning and proceeding chapter by chapter. Where
a subject seems familiar, just jump ahead until a challenge is discovered. Once you
have read the book, keep it handy so that you can refer to it when the occasion arises.
Although I have tried to maintain a sequence to the mathematical ideas, so that
one idea leads to another, in some cases this has proved impossible. For example,
determinants are referred to in the chapter on vectors, but they are described in detail
in the next chapter on transforms. Similarly, the later chapter on analytic geometry
contains some basic ideas of geometry, but its position was dictated by its use of
vectors. Consequently, on some occasions, the reader will have to move between
chapters to read about related topics.

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The main links with your PC and the outside world are the centronic port, used for connecting the printer, the RS232 port, used for the mouse, and the games port for a joystick. This book explores how these input/output (I/O) ports can be put to use through a range of other interfacing applications. This is especially useful for laptop and palmtop PCs which cannot be fitted with internal I/O cards. A novel approach is taken by this book, combining the hardware through which the ports can be explored, and the software programming needed to carry out a range of experiments.

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Fuzzy Logic, at present is a hot topic, among academicians as well various programmers. This book is provided to give a broad, in-depth overview of the field of Fuzzy Logic. The basic principles of Fuzzy Logic are discussed in detail with various solved examples. The different approaches and solutions to the problems given in the book are well balanced and pertinent to the Fuzzy Logic research projects. The applications of Fuzzy Logic are also dealt to make the readers understand the concept of Fuzzy Logic. The solutions to the problems are programmed using MATLAB 6.0 and the simulated results are given. The MATLAB Fuzzy Logic toolbox is provided for easy reference.

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information systems and technologies for national, international, and societal security-related applications. ISI topics include ISI data management, data and text mining for ISI applications, terrorism informatics, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, public health and bio-security, crime analysis, cyber-infrastructure protection, transportation infrastructure security, policy studies and evaluation, information assurance, and other related topics. With the rise of global terrorism, the field has been given an increasing amount of attention from academic researchers, law enforcement, intelligent experts, information technology consultants and practitioners.

SECURITY INFORMATICS is global in scope and perspective. Leading experts will be invited as contributing authors from the US, UK, Denmark, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, etc. It is the first systematic, archival volume treatment of the field; the volume will cover the very latest advances in ISI research and practice. It is organized in four major subject areas: (1) Information and Systems Security, (2) Information Sharing and Analysis in Security Informatics, (3) Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses, and (4) National Security and Terrorism Informatics. The volume features high-quality contributions from worldwide leading experts across a variety of discipline domains. Each contribution follows a uniform structure and has undergone a thorough peer-review process.

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