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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:46pm CET by RufatZ
Tony Romeo " Bacterial Biofilms (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)"
Springer | 2008-04 | ISBN: 3540754172 | PDF | 308 pages | 3,2 Mb
Throughout the biological world, bacteria thrive predominantly in surface attached, matrix enclosed, multicellular communities or biofilms, as opposed to isolated planktonic cells. This choice of lifestyle is not trivial, as it involves major shifts in the use of genetic information and cellular energy, and has profound consequences for bacterial physiology and survival. Growth within a biofilm can thwart immune function and antibiotic therapy and thereby complicate the treatment of infectious diseases, especially chronic and foreign device-associated infections. Modern studies of many important biofilms have advanced well beyond the descriptive stage, and have begun to provide molecular details of the structural, biochemical and genetic processes that drive biofilm formation and its dispersion. There is much diversity in the details of biofilm development among various species, but there are also commonalities. In most species, environmental and nutritional conditions greatly influence biofilm development. Similar kinds of adhesive molecules often promote biofilm formation in diverse species. Signaling and regulatory processes that drive biofilm development are often conserved, especially among related bacteria. Knowledge of such processes holds great promise for efforts to control biofilm growth and combat biofilm-associated infections.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:46pm CET by RufatZ
J Joel Faflak "Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery"
State University of New York Press | 2007-11-08 | ISBN: 0791472698 | PDF | 319 pages | 2,2 Mb
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:45pm CET by RufatZ
J Jean Gelman Taylor "Indonesia: Peoples and Histories"
Yale University Press | 2004-10 | ISBN: 0300097107 | PDF | 420 pages | 1,5 Mb
Indonesia: Peoples and Histories
by Jean Gelman Taylor
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Charles M. Quinn “Computational Quantum Chemistry "
Academic Press | 2002-03 | ISBN: 0125696825 | PDF | 260 pages | 19,7 Mb
Computational Quantum Chemistry removes much of the mystery of modern computer programs for molecular orbital calculations by showing how to develop Excel spreadsheets to perform model calculations and investigate the properties of basis sets. Using the book together with the CD-ROM provides a unique interactive learning tool. In addition, because of the integration of theory with working examples on the CD-ROM, the reader can apply advanced features available in the spreadsheet to other applications in chemistry, physics, and a variety of disciplines that require the solution of differential equations.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:44pm CET by RufatZ
The Standard C Library
Prentice Hall PTR; New Ed edition | ISBN: 0131315099 | 512 pages | July 11, 1991 | DJVU | 4 Mb
Prentice Hall's most important C programming title in years. A companion volume to Kernighan & Ritchie's C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. A collection of reusable functions (code for building data structures, code for performing math functions and scientific calculations, etc.) which will save C programmers time and money especially when working on large programming projects. The C Library is part of the ANSI (American National Standard Institute) for the C Language. This new book contains the complete code for the library. It covers elements of the library with which even the most experienced C programmers are not familiar such as internationalization (the ability to write programs that can adapt to different cultural locales, for example, using the C library, programmers can write software that manipulates large character sets such as Kanji). Structured like the Standard C Library, it contains 15 headers declaring or defining all of the names in the library. A separate chapter covers each header, including excerpts from relevant portions of the C Standard showing all codes needed to implement each portion of the library and explaining why it is necessary. The book teaches readers the concepts and design issues associated with library building. Using this book, programemrs will be less likely to re-code something that already exists in a given program. Plauger is one of the world's leading experts on C and the C Library.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:44pm CET by RufatZ
Kerson Huang “Introduction to Statistical Physics "
CRC | 2001-11-01 | ISBN: 0748409416 | Djvu | 400 pages | 1,9 Mb
Statistical physics is a core component of physics degree courses. It is primarily concerned with the behavior of matter in bulk-from boiling water to the superconductivity of metals. This new textbook guides the reader quickly through a statistical view of the physical world, including a wide range of physical applications to illustrate the methodology. It moves from basic examples to more advanced topics, such as broken symmetry and the Bose-Einstein equation. To accompany the text, the author, a renowned author, has written a Solutions Manual/Instructor's Guide, available free of charge to lecturers who adopt Introduction to Statistical Physics for their courses.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:43pm CET by RufatZ
Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition
McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 2 edition | ISBN: 0070131511 | 1056 pages | July 16, 2001 | CHM
The updated new edition of the classic Introduction to Algorithms is intended primarily for use in undergraduate or graduate courses in algorithms or data structures. Like the first edition, this text can also be used for self-study by technical professionals since it discusses engineering issues in algorithm design as well as the mathematical aspects.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:42pm CET by RufatZ
Srivatsa Vasudevan “Effective Functional Verification: Principles and Processes"
Springer | 2006-07-21 | ISBN: 0387286012 | PDF | 256 pages | 1,4 Mb
Effective Functional Verification is organized into 4 parts. The first part contains 3 chapters designed appeal to newcomers and experienced people to the field. There is a survey of various verification methodologies and a discussion of them.
The second part with 3 chapters is targeted towards people in management and higher up on the experience ladders. New verification engineers reading these chapters learn what is expected and how things work in verification. Some case studies are also presented with analysis of proposed improvements.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:42pm CET by RufatZ
Noboru Miura “Physics of Semiconductors in High Magnetic Fields"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-11-24 | ISBN: 0198517564 | PDF | 368 pages | 6,5 Mb
this book describes the basic concepts of various physical phenomena in semiconductors and their modulated structures under high magnetic fields. The topics cover magneto-transport phenomena, cyclotron resonance, far-infrared spectroscopy, magneto-optical spectroscopy, diluted magnetic semiconductors in high magnetic fields, as well as the recent advances in the experimental techniques needed for high field experiments. Starting from the introductory part describing the basic theoretical background, each chapter introduces typical experimental data which were actually obtained in very high magnetic fields mostly in the pulsed field range up to several megagauss (20-100T). The book has both the character of a textbook and a monograph. For researchers and students with an interest in semiconductor physics or in high magnetic fields, it will serve as a useful guide.
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 6:41pm CET by RufatZ
Peter W. Jusczyk “The Discovery of Spoken Language (Language, Speech, and Communication)"
The MIT Press | 2000-07-31 | ISBN: 0262600366 | PDF | 326 pages | 1,4 Mb
The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infants learn the organization of native language sound patterns.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:26pm CET by RufatZ
James Henry Breasted “Ancient Records of Egypt: The First Through the Seventeenth Dynasties, Vol. 1"
University of Illinois Press | 2001-05-17 | ISBN: 0252069900 | PDF | 400 pages | 11,4 Mb
Around the turn of the last century, James Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves. This five-volume compendium is the result.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:26pm CET by RufatZ
James Henry Breasted “Ancient Records of Egypt: VOL. 2: The Eighteenth dynasty"
University of Illinois Press | 2001-05-17 | ISBN: 0252069749 | PDF | 456 pages | 13,7 Mb
Around the turn of the last century, James Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves. This five-volume compendium is the result.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:25pm CET by RufatZ
James Henry Breasted “Ancient Records of Egypt: VOL. 3: The Nineteenth dynasty"
University of Illinois Press | 2001-06-20 | ISBN: 0252069757 | PDF | 312 pages | 10,9 Mb
Around the turn of the last century, James Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves. This five-volume compendium is the result.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:24pm CET by RufatZ
James Henry Breasted “Ancient Records of Egypt: The Twentieth Through the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties, Vol. 4 "
University of Illinois Press | 2001-05-17 | ISBN: 0252069765 | PDF | 552 pages | 15,9 Mb
Around the turn of the last century, James Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves. This five-volume compendium is the result.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:24pm CET by RufatZ
Oksana Beheshti, Travel Guide to Esfahan, Kashan and More
2005 | Tehran, Rowzaneh Pub. | ISBN: 964-334-171-2 | Pages: 308 | PDF | ~220 MB
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This guide has been compiled to help the visitors to get the most from their stay in the Esfahan province. It provides both expert recommendations and detailed practical advice. The book has been divided into four parts. The first part introduces Iran and provides the reader with some essential facts about the country. The second part deals with Esfahan, the main city of the province and the most popular destination with Western tourists in Iran. In this section, the general information about Esfahan, as well as the city's most important sites are discussed. This part also embraces the sites in the immediate vicinity of the city. The third part of the book is dedicated to some of the most important towns of the province, among them Kashan, which is explored in great detail. The fourth part holds some practical information that may be useful to the visitors, particularly to those who travel to Iran for the first time. Carefully researched suggestions for hotels and restaurants are also found here.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:22pm CET by RufatZ
Rick Broida, Dave Johnson “How to do Everything with Your Zire Handheld "
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | 2003-03-14 | ISBN: 0072229306 | PDF | 224 pages | 3,5 Mb
This friendly, solutions-oriented guide is filled with step-by-step examples that illustrate how to set up and navigate your Zire, and make the most of the hardware, built-in applications, and third-party tools. Each chapter begins with the specific how-to topics that will be covered. Within the chapter, each topic is accompanied by a solid, easy-to-follow walkthrough of the process.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:22pm CET by RufatZ
Maurice Schiff “Introduction to Communication Systems Simulation"
Artech House Publishers | 2006-01-31 | ISBN: 1596930020 | PDF | 238 pages | 2,2 Mb
Computer simulation is becoming an increasingly critical area in communications systems engineering as practitioners strive to maximize accuracy and efficiency, while speeding up project time. This authoritative, one-stop resource presents the essentials of communications systems analysis and simulation. Written in a straight forward, easy-to-understand manner, the book provides a thorough treatment of all the fundamental topics such as sampling, frequency analysis, linear systems, and filters. Professionals gain a clear understanding of the real-world effects of computer simulation and learn how to perform efficient calculations and system simulations. Moreover, this practical reference features detailed examples that help engineers and students master the material, and includes an appendix of simulation algorithms that helps save time on the job.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:19pm CET by RufatZ
A.M. Mathai, H.J. Haubold “Special Functions for Applied Scientists"
Springer | 2008-03-07 | ISBN: 0387758933 | PDF | 496 pages | 5,9 Mb
Chapter 1 introduces elementary classical special functions. Gamma, beta, psi, zeta functions, hypergeometric functions and the associated special functions, generalizations to Meijer's G and Fox's H-functions are examined here. Discussion is confined to basic properties and selected applications. Introduction to statistical distribution theory is provided. Some recent extensions of Dirichlet integrals and Dirichlet densities are discussed. A glimpse into multivariable special functions such as Appell's functions and Lauricella functions is part of Chapter 1. Special functions as solutions of differential equations are examined. Chapter 2 is devoted to fractional calculus. Fractional integrals and fractional derivatives are discussed. Their applications to reaction-diffusion problems in physics, input-output analysis, and Mittag-Leffler stochastic processes are developed. Chapter 3 deals with q-hyper-geometric or basic hypergeometric functions. Chapter 4 covers basic hypergeometric functions and Ramanujan's work on elliptic and theta functions. Chapter 5 examines the topic of special functions and Lie groups. Chapters 6 to 9 are devoted to applications of special functions. Applications to stochastic processes, geometric infinite divisibility of random variables, Mittag-Leffler processes, alpha-Laplace processes, density estimation, order statistics and astrophysics problems, are dealt with in Chapters 6 to 9. Chapter 10 is devoted to wavelet analysis. An introduction to wavelet analysis is given. Chapter 11 deals with the Jacobians of matrix transformations. Various types of matrix transformations and the associated Jacobians are provided. Chapter 12 is devoted to the discussion of functions of matrix argument in the real case. Functions of matrix argument and the pathway models along with their applications are discussed.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:19pm CET by RufatZ
Trilingualism in Family, School, and Community
Multilingual Matters Limited | 2004-01 | ISBN: 1853596930 | 242 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
With the focus on family, school and the wider community, this text illustrates personal, social, cultural and political factors contributing to the acquisition and maintenance of trilingualism and highlights a rich pattern of trilingual language use.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:18pm CET by RufatZ
V. A. Vassiliev “Introduction to Topology"
American Mathematical Society | 2001-04 | ISBN: 0821821628 | Djvu | 149 pages | 1,2 Mb
This English translation of a Russian book presents the basic notions of differential and algebraic topology, which are indispensable for specialists and useful for research mathematicians and theoretical physicists. In particular, ideas and results are introduced related to manifolds, cell spaces, coverings and fibrations, homotopy groups, intersection index, etc. The author notes, "The lecture note origins of the book left a significant imprint on its style. It contains very few detailed proofs: I tried to give as many illustrations as possible and to show what really occurs in topology, not always explaining why it occurs." He concludes, "As a rule, only those proofs (or sketches of proofs) that are interesting per se and have important generalizations are presented."
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:52pm CET by RufatZ
Frederick Mosteller “Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions "
Dover Publications | 1987-05-01 | ISBN: 0486653552 | Djvu | 88 pages | 1,5 Mb
Remarkable selection of puzzlers, graded in difficulty, that illustrate both elementary and advanced aspects of probability. Selected for originality, general interest or because they demonstrate valuable techniques, the problems are ideal as a supplement to courses in probability or statistics, or as stimulating recreation for the mathematically minded. Detailed solutions. Illustrated.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:51pm CET by RufatZ
J. C. C. McKinsey “Introduction to the Theory of Games "
Dover Publications | 2003-04-25 | ISBN:0486428117 | PDF | 382 pages | 8,9 Mb
One of the classic early monographs on game theory, this comprehensive overview of the mathematical theory of games illustrates applications to situations involving conflicts of interest, including economic, social, political, and military contexts. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; advanced calculus a prerequisite. Includes 51 figures and 8 tables.1952 edition.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:50pm CET by RufatZ
Melvin Dresher “Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications "
RAND Corporation | 2007-09-25 | ISBN:0833042254 | PDF | 198 pages | 6,1 Mb
Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications, originally published by Prentice Hall in 1961, was written by Melvin Dresher, a RAND research mathematician, during the heyday of Game Theory at RAND. This book introduced readers to the basic concepts of game theory and its applications for military, economic, and political problems, as well as its usefulness in decisionmaking in business, operations research, and behavioral science.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:49pm CET by RufatZ
Richard Barrett "Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation"
Butterworth-Heinemann (2006-03-15) | ISBN 0750679743 | 280 Pages | PDF | 1.1 Mb
Richard Barrett, author of the best-selling book Liberating the Corporate Soul, presents his new thinking
Based on his experience working with over 1,000 organizations in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:48pm CET by RufatZ
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Informa Healthcare | 2005-07-14 | ISBN: 1841843164 | 208 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
Living donor kidney (LDK) transplantation has become the definitive approach to the treatment of end-stage renal failure, providing a better quality of life and the best opportunity for survival. A timely compendium of the current practice of LDK transplantation presented by international experts, this text explores a number of controversial aspects of this innovative technique.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:48pm CET by RufatZ
Samuel L. Greitzer “International Mathematical Olympiads 1959-1977"
Mathematical Association of America (MAA) | 1979-06 | ISBN: 0883856271 | Djvu | 204 pages | 1,4 Mb
The International Olympiad has been held annually since 1959; the U.S. began participating in 1974, when the Sixteenth International Olympiad was held in Erfurt, G.D.R.
In 1974 and 1975, the National Science Foundation funded a three week summer training session with Samuel L. Greitzer of Rutgers University and Murray Klamkin of the University of Alberta as the U.S. teams' coaches. Summer training sessions in 1976, 1977 were funded by grants from the Army Research Office and Office of Naval Research. To date the U.S. teams have consistently placed among the top three national scores: second in 1974(the USSR was first), third in 1975 (behind Hungary and the G.D.R) and 1976 (behind the USSR and Great Britain) and first in 1977.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:47pm CET by RufatZ
Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mario Arias-Oliva “E-Human Resources Management: Managing Knowledge People "
Idea Group Publishing | 2004-11-01 | ISBN: 1591404355 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,5 Mb
This book provides a deep discussion about e-HRM issues so the reader can have a thoughtful background about the key role played by those who participate in e-HRM activities.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:46pm CET by RufatZ
Handbook of Advanced Cancer Care
Cambridge University Press | 2003-06-02 | ISBN: 0521010438 | 532 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
Currently, there is no comprehensive source of information available to non-specialist physicians and nurses providing end-of-life care for advanced cancer patients at a level between specialist oncology texts and nursing texts.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:46pm CET by RufatZ
New Economy Edge
Wiley | 2001-07-11 | ISBN: 0471498440 | 256 pages | PDF | 13,5 MB
The Wiley New Economy Excellence series has a simple aim - to help managers create and sustain competitive advantage in the new economy. Written by series editor Jeremy Kourdi, New Economy Edge is an inspiring look at how to create and develop profitable online activities by grasping the impact of the Internet on employees, markets, customers and business partners.
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:45pm CET by RufatZ
"XML Schema"
O'Reilly | ISBN: 0596002521 | 2002 | PDF | 473 pages | 4.26 MB
Explains XML Schema foundations, a variety of different styles for writing schemas, simple and complex types, datatypes and facto keys, design choices, documentation and limitations.
If you need to create or use formal descriptions of XML vocabularies, the W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable document structures and content. An alternative to DTDs as the way to describe and validate data in an XML environment, XML Schema enables developers to create precise descriptions with a richer set of datatypes?such as booleans, numbers, currencies, dates and times?that are essential for today?s applications. Schemas are powerful, but that power comes with substantial complexity. This concise book explains the ins and outs of XML Schema, including design choices, best practices, and limitations. Particularly valuable are discussions of how the type structures fit with existing database and object-oriented program contexts. With XML Schema, you can define acceptable content models and annotate those models with additional type information, making them more readily bound to programs and objects. Schemas combine the easy interchange of text-based XML with the more stringent requirements of data exchange, and make it easier to validate documents based on namespaces. You?ll find plenty of examples in this book that demonstrate the details necessary for precise vocabulary definitions.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:48pm CET by RufatZ
Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services
Microsoft Press | ISBN: 0735623929 | 928 pages | November 28, 2007 | CHM | 13 Mb
Dive deep into the architecture of Exchange Web Servicesand master the intricacies for accessing data with the new, unifying API. Exchange Web Services offers new functionality, replacing old, disparate APIs. This practical guide introduces developers to Exchange Web Services. It includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the architecture and key features, including messaging, folders, calendaring, tasks, notifications, searching, availability, and autodiscovery. Developers who are moving applications using previous APIs to Exchange Web Services will learn how to determine the correct web services constructsand the implications of those decisions. This book assumes only knowledge of how to write HTTP requests, but it provides proxy examples in Microsoft Visual C#.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:47pm CET by RufatZ
Dean Paxson , Douglas Wood “The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance (Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management)"
Blackwell Publishers (February 1999) | ISBN:0631211888 | PDF | 225 pages | 1,6 Mb
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts covering the whole of the fast changing field of contemporary finance. Bringing together specially commissioned and carefully edited entries from an international team of the world's best known and respected finance scholars and teachers, this will become the standard reference for students, researchers, academics and practitioners.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:46pm CET by RufatZ
Plant Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols
Humana Press; 1 edition | ISBN: 1588296539 | 640 pages | January 7, 2008 | PDF | 12 Mb
Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing field. Data volumes continue to grow and there is an increasing breadth of available data, including sequence, gene expression, protein, metabolite and phenotypic data. Novel databases are being developed for specific species or experiment types. These databases and tools may greatly assist in the application of plant biotechnology, though they require a basic set of skills to identify and utilize the most appropriate resource.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:46pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Brentano
Cambridge University Press | 2004-02-09 | ISBN: 0521007658 | 344 pages | PDF | 1,25 MB
This volume brings together newly commissioned chapters on his important work in theory of judgement, reform of syllogistic logic, theory of intentionality, empirical descriptive psychology and phenomenology, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and ontology, value theory, and natural theology. It also offers a critical evaluation of Brentano's significance in his historical context, and of his impact on contemporary philosophy in both the analytic and the continental traditions.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:45pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche
Cambridge University Press | 2000-07-03 | ISBN:052162729X | 332 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This is the first collection of essays to address Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically. There are chapters devoted to Malebranche's metaphysics, his doctrine of the soul, his epistemology, the celebrated debate with Arnauld, his philosophical method, his occasionalism and theory of causality, his philosophical theology, his account of freedom, his moral philosophy, and his intellectual legacy.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:45pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham
Cambridge University Press | 1999-12-13 | ISBN:052158244X | 438 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
This volume offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of Ockham's thought: logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics and natural philosophy, epistemology, ethics, action theory, political thought and theology. It is the first study of Ockham in any language to make full use of the new critical editions of his works, and to consider recent discoveries concerning his life, education, and influences.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:44pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley
Cambridge University Press | 2005-12-19 | ISBN:0521456576 | 468 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
In defending the immaterialism for which he is most famous, George Berkeley, one of the most influential modern philosophers, redirected modern thinking about the nature of objectivity and the mind's capacity to come to terms with it. Along the way, he made striking and influential proposals concerning the psychology of the senses, workings of language, aims of science, and scope of mathematics.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:43pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Husserl
Cambridge University Press | 1995-05-26 | ISBN:0521436168 | 528 pages | PDF | 23,7 MB
Using this book as a guide to Husserl would leave you wondering "well so what did this guy do all in all." Husserl as presented here is a philosophical logician of Russell variety, but seriously perplexed in his engagement with the problems, but with occassional insights in this or that subject. Well if this is what we should understand from Husserl, then he doesn't deserve a place in no companion to landmark philosophers. If he does he should be taken from the point of view of the tradition in which he has achieved his historical stature as the founder of the phenomenological school (which doesnt mean we should be uncritical and dogmatic).
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:42pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Milton
Cambridge University Press | 1989-06-30 | ISBN:0521368855 | 320 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The Companion's eighteen contributors have written informative, stimulating, often argumentative essays that will provoke thought and discussion both in and out of the classroom, on all the important aspects of the background to, and substance of, Milton's life and work. The Cambridge Companion to Milton offers in a single volume the responsible and diverse introduction to Milton that undergraduate students, together with their professors, are looking for.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 8:40pm CET by RufatZ
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard
Cambridge University Press | 1997-10-28 | ISBN:0521477190 | 446 pages | PDF | 16,2 MB
This companion probes the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive subtlety. The topics covered include Kierkegaard's views on art and religion, ethics and psychology, theology and politics, and knowledge and virtue.
Much attention is devoted to the influence of Kierkegaard on twentieth-century philosophy. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Kierkegaard currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Kierkegaard.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:16pm CET by RufatZ
Mario Puzo, «The Godfather»
Signet | ISBN 0451167716 | October 5, 2004 | PDF | 1,9 MB | 448 Pages
"The Godfather is the story of organized crime in the 1940's which revolves around the Corleone family. Don Vito Corleone is the head of a New York Mafia "family". Problems arise when a gangster supported by another Mafia family, Solozzo, announces his intentions to start selling drugs all over New York. Don Vito hates the idea of drugs as he is quite happy with his hotel and gambling business. Don is shot by Solozzo's men. Solozzo then kidnaps one of Don's advisors, Tom Hagen and tries to make him force Don's eldest son, Sonny to agree to sell drugs, but the plan goes wrong when Sollozzo finds out that Don Corleone is still alive."
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:15pm CET by RufatZ
Michael Frank Hordeski,«New Technologies for Energy Efficiency»
Fairmont Press | ISBN: 0824709365 | PDF | 3,13 Mb | 376 Pages | 2002 Year
This book examines the full scope of technologies available to address the electricity supply crisis. The author details the tools and technologies available for incorporating smaller, clean, more efficient energy into energy management plans. He examines the role of new technologies in reducing operating costs and developing more innovative and practical approaches to energy management. Topics include implementation of alternative energy programs, management of power quality, cost-effective power generation solutions, cost-effective energy services, information monitoring and diagnostic systems, energy storage options, integration of lighting and cooling systems, and more.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:15pm CET by RufatZ
John M. Anderson “The Grammar of Names"
Oxford University Press, USA (January 31, 2008) | ISBN: 0199533954 | PDF | 387 pages | 1,6 Mb
This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics, John Anderson examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories, and considers how the morphosyntactic behaviour of names connects to their semantic roles. He argues that names occur in two basic circumstances: one involving vocatives and their use in naming predications, where they are not definite; the other their use as arguments of predicators, where they are definite. This division is discussed in relation to English, French, Greek, and Seri, and a range of other languages. Professor Anderson reveals that the semantic status of names, including prototypicality, is crucial to understanding their morphosyntax and role in derivational relationships. He shows that semantically coherent subsets of names, such as those referring to people and places, are characterized by morphosyntactic properties which may vary from language to language.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:14pm CET by RufatZ
Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf"
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company | ISBN 97838759839 |September 1998 | PDF | 1,1 MB | 368 Pages
Mein Kampf (English: My Struggle/My Battle) is a book by the German-Austrian Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, which combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's National Socialist political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and volume 2 in 1926.
Following the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler went into hiding. However, he was arrested on November 11, 1923, was remanded, and, after a 24-day trial, found guilty of high treason and sentenced to five years imprisonment (of which the term was to be reduced by four months and two weeks for the time served in prison prior to and during the trial). Presiding Judge Neithhardt was convinced that Hitler and the other members of the Kampfbund had acted honorably, and Hitler was therefore eligible for parole in six months and also to be given the privilege of Festungshaft (imprisonment without penal labor). This permitted Hitler a steady flow of visitors and a desk in his cell.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:14pm CET by RufatZ
Microwave Engineering
Wiley | 2004-02-05 | ISBN: 0471448788 | 720 pages | PDF | 115 MB
A considerable amount of material in this book is related to the design of specific microwave circuits and components, for both practical and motivational value. It also presents the analysis and logic behind these designs so that the reader can see and understand the process of applying the fundamental concepts to arrive at useful results. The derivations are well laid out and the majority of each chapter's formulas are displayed in a nice tabular format every few pages. This Third Edition offers greatly expanded coverage with new material on: Noise; Nonlinear effects; RF MEMs; transistor power amplifiers; FET mixers; oscillator phase noise; transistor oscillators and frequency multiplier.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:13pm CET by RufatZ
Dennis Freeborn “From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variations Across Time "
Palgrave Macmillan; 3 edition (December 12, 2006) | ISBN: 1403998809 | PDF | 218 pages | 10,4 Mb
This practical and informative course book leads the student through the development of the language from Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century.
At the core of the book is a series of nearly two hundred historical texts, of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile, exemplifying the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description, with commentaries forming a series of case studies which demonstrate the evidence for language change at every level - handwriting, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar and meaning.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:12pm CET by RufatZ
Kidney Cancer
S. Karger AG (Switzerland) | 1999-10 | ISBN: 380556919X | 130 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
Cancer is above all a heritable disorder of somatic cells and gene expression, but environment is also involved in its origin. Hereditary kidney cancer should prove valuable to understand the mechanisms of disease and to the development of therapeutic measures.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:12pm CET by RufatZ
Peter Viney, Karen Viney “Handshake: A Course in Communication (Student's Book and CD) "
Oxford University Press (UK) | 1996 | ISBN: 9780194572200 | PDF + mp3 | 176 pages | 14 + 19,7 + 18,2 Mb
This student's book is part of a course designed to provide a solid grounding in communication skills, from how to use language appropriately, to how to communicate and be understood, even with a limited language ability.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:11pm CET by RufatZ
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Cambridge University Press | 1980-11-28 | ISBN: 0521280311 | 258 pages | DjVu | 2,1 MB
Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume II presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.
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Posted: February 24th, 2008, 7:10pm CET by RufatZ
Local Models for Spatial Analysis
CRC | 2006-10-25 | ISBN: 0415316812 | 244 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In both the physical and social sciences, there are now available large spatial data sets with detailed local information. Global models for analyzing these data are not suitable for investigating local variations; consequently, local models are the subject of much recent research. Collecting a variety of models into a single reference, Local Models for Spatial Analysis explains in detail a variety of approaches for analyzing univariate and multivariate spatial data.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:51pm CET by RufatZ
Peter Scott, William T. Cavanaugh "The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology"
Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN 0631223428 | 2003-10-17 | 576 Pages | PDF | 1.5 Mb
Written by a team of international experts, drawn from various traditions of political theology, this outstanding resource brings together 35 newly-commissioned essays in the field.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:50pm CET by RufatZ
Diane F. Halpern “Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking"
Lawrence Erlbaum | 2002-08-01 | ISBN:0805839658 | PDF | 472 pages | 30 Mb
This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the APA, Diane Halpern, applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the thinking skills they need to succeed in today's world. This new edition retains features from earlier editions that have helped its readers become better thinkers. A rigorous academic grounding based in cognitive psychology is presented in a clear writing style with a humorous tone and supported by numerous practical examples and anecdotes.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:49pm CET by RufatZ
The Practice of Chinese Medicine: The Treatment of Diseases with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone | Language: English | ISBN:0443074909 | 1546 pages | Data: 2007 | PDF | 5 Mb
The new edition of this popular clinical text describes the application of traditional Chinese medical theory to the diagnosis and treatment of up to 48 diseases, conditions and disorders. In addition to the existing 34 covered in the first edition, 14 new conditions and symptoms have been added, and these include common, chronic and acute conditions which clinicians may see in their practice. Each chapter contains aetiology and pathology; differential diagnosis according to TCM; selection of treatments with acupuncture and herbs, with explanation of choices; case studies for illustration; summary of Western differential diagnosis; and discussion of prognosis and prevention. This book again brings the enormous wealth of the author's experience, and his insights in applying TCM medicine to a Western context, to the support of all clinicians whatever their own range of experiences.
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Craniofacial Sutures: Development, Disease and Treatment
Publisher: S Karger Pub | Language: English | ISBN: 3805583265 | 200 pages | Data: 2008 | PDF | 16 Mb
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:48pm CET by RufatZ
Matt Lamy “100 Strangest Mysteries"
Barnes & Noble | May 2007 | ISBN:0760791929 | PDF | 201 pages | 24,6 Mb
Were the Amityville hauntings cynical media manipulation? Is levitation possible? Has Earth been visited by UFOs from other realms? All these questions, and more, are considered in 100 Strangest Mysteries. Paranormal investigator Matt Lamy documents in detail the numerous phenomena and events which can be termed 'mysterious' and cannot be dismissed as mere hysteria or wild imaginings.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:47pm CET by RufatZ
Julie Ratner “Human Factors and Web Development, Second Edition"
CRC | 2002-08-01 | ISBN:0805842217 | PDF | 352 pages | 17,5 Mb
Due to the ever-changing technological landscape and the global integration of the Internet in schools, libraries, homes, and businesses, the content of this second edition changed significantly. Since many computer users are connected at both home and work, the Web has transformed communication; consumption patterns; and access to business, politicians, and neighbors halfway around the world. With numerous books on user-friendly Web sites, the editor's challenge was to deliver a volume with a radically different snapshot of the research being conducted at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:47pm CET by RufatZ
Edward James, Farah Mendelsohn “The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction "
Cambridge University Press | 2003-12-08 | ISBN:0521016576 | PDF | 326 pages | 1,5 Mb
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, historical chapters trace science fiction from Thomas More to the present day, including a chapter on film and television. The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspiration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume, including Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Joan Slonczewski, and Damien Broderick.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:46pm CET by RufatZ
Hans-Johann Glock “The Rise of Analytic Philosophy "
Blackwell Publishers | 1997-04 | ISBN:063120086X | PDF | 96 pages | 4,5 Mb
The debate about the origins of analytical philosophy has recently been revived by Michael Dummett's definition of analytic philosophy as based on the Fregean idea that the analysis of thought proceeds through the analysis of language. The contributors to this collection take a wider perspective on the rise of analytic philosophy. They include its anglophone roots, and take into consideration later developments up to and beyond the Vienna Circle. Some of them argue that Dummett's account would exclude paradigmatic analytic philosophers like Moore, Russell and perhaps even Frege himself. There is also a marked interest in the more general question of whether analytic philosophy can be defined analytically at all, or whether it should be treated as a family resemblance concept or as a particular historical tradition. The papers tackle an important topic in a scholarly yet lively way.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:46pm CET by RufatZ
Joseph Rosen “Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry"
Springer | 2008-04-01 | ISBN:3540759727 | PDF | 319 pages | 2 Mb
When we use science to describe and understand the world around us, we are in essence grasping nature through symmetry. In fact, modern theoretical physics suggests that symmetry is a, if not the, foundational principle of nature. Emphasizing the concepts, this book leads the reader coherently and comprehensively into the fertile field of symmetry and its applications. Among the most important applications considered are the fundamental forces of nature and the Universe. It is shown that the Universe cannot possess exact symmetry, which is a principle of fundamental significance. Curie's principle - which states that the symmetry of the effect is at least that of the cause - features prominently. An introduction to group theory, the mathematical language of symmetry, is included. This book will convince all interested readers of the importance of symmetry in science. Furthermore, it will serve as valuable background reading for all students in the physical sciences.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 8:45pm CET by RufatZ
Attention Deficit Disorder: Practical Coping Mechanisms, Second Edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare | Language: English | ISBN:0849330998 | 408 pages | Data: 2006 | PDF | 2 Mb
Description: Completely revised and updated, this Second Edition spans every issue related to ADD care and treatment. New chapters focus on emerging issues, the overlap of sleep disorders, how sleep disorders mimic ADD/ADHD and/or increase the symptoms, ADHD and sleep apnea, ADHD and restless legs or periodic limb movements in sleep, sleep in children, adolescents and adults, the aged population, ADD and women, novel treatment approaches, including a new cognitive training program, methods to diagnosis ADD/ADHD and separate it from other overlapping disorders, and mis-diagnosis.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:48pm CET by RufatZ
Ross Piper, "Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals"
Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0313339228 | (August 30, 2007) | PDF | 320 pages | 9613 KB
Animals have existed on Earth for many hundreds of millions of years. In that time they have evolved into a great variety of forms, exploiting nearly every habitat the planet has to offer. In the dark depths of the oceans, in the seemingly inhospitable Polar Regions, in the driest deserts, even within the bodies of other animals, there are animal species that have developed unique and extraordinary means of surviving and thriving. Extraordinary Animals is an exploration of those members of the animal kingdom who possess strange and bizarre adaptations that allow them to survive in the most extreme environments, or whose complex lives can only be said to be bewildering.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:48pm CET by RufatZ
Ruma Banerjee "Redox Biochemistry"
Wiley | 317 pages | 2007-12-17 | 0471786241 | PDF | 16.3MB
Redox Biochemistry provides an excellent text and useful resource for students and practicing researches on redox biochemistry in medical biochemistry, enzyme structure and catalysis, environmental biochemistry, and nutrition. Additionally, it provides a useful resource for practicing researchers in the fields, particularly those in medicine (carcinogenesis, neurology and neurodegenerative diseases, cataracts/lens biochemistry, dental studies), immunology, nutrition, environmental, and pharmaceutical sciences
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:46pm CET by RufatZ
Jim Geier "Deploying Voice over Wireless LANs "
Cisco Press | 2007-03-24 | ISBN:1587052318 | CHM | 264 pages | 2,1 Mb
Recent advances make it possible to deliver high-quality voice and video communications over a wireless LAN (WLAN), replacing costly wired telephone and video surveillance systems and dramatically reducing support costs. However, today’s new voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) technologies require fundamentally different skills and techniques from those used in traditional voice and video systems. Now, there’s a complete guide to every facet of VoWLAN deployment: planning, design, installation, security, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:45pm CET by RufatZ
A. van Nunen "Fiduciary Management: Blueprint for Pension Fund Excellence"
Wiley | 2007-12-04 | ISBN:0470171030 | PDF | 274 pages | 1,6 Mb
Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:44pm CET by RufatZ
Deepak Chopra "Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment"
HarperOne | 2007-05-01 | ISBN:0060878800 | PDF | 288 pages | 2,1 Mb
Bestselling author Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping novel of the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. This iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe today.
A young man in line for the throne is trapped in his father's kingdom and yearns for the outside world. Betrayed by those closest to him, Siddhartha abandons his palace and princely title. Alone and face-to-face with his demons, he becomes a wandering monk and embarks on a spiritual fast that carries him to the brink of death. Ultimately recognizing his inability to conquer his body and mind by sheer will, Siddhartha transcends his physical pain and achieves enlightenment.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:44pm CET by RufatZ
Mohamed Cheriet, Nawwaf Kharma, Cheng-Lin Liu, Ching Suen
"Character Recognition Systems: A Guide for Students and Practitioners"
Wiley-Interscience | 2007-10-12 | ISBN:0471415707 | PDF | 360 pages | 3,2 Mb
Bestselling author Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping novel of the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. This iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe today.
"Much of pattern recognition theory and practice, including methods such as Support Vector Machines, has emerged in an attempt to solve the character recognition problem. This book is written by very well-known academics who have worked in the field for many years and have made significant and lasting contributions. The book will no doubt be of value to students and practitioners."
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:43pm CET by RufatZ
Stefan Visnovsky,«Optics in Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures »
CRC | ISBN:0849336864 | PDF | 3,48 Mb | 560 Pages | 2006 Year
In the continuing push toward optical computing, the focus remains on finding and developing the right materials. Characterizing materials, understanding the behavior of light in these materials, and being able to control the light are key players in the search for suitable optical materials. Optics in Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures presents an accessible introduction to optics in anisotropic magnetic media. While most of the literature presents only final results of the complicated formulae for the optics in anisotropic media, this book provides detailed explanations and full step-by-step derivations that offer insight into the procedure and reveal any approximations. Based on more than three decades of experimental research on the subject, the author explains the basic concepts of magnetooptics; nonreciprocal wave propagation; the simultaneous effect of crystalline symmetry and arbitrarily oriented magnetization on the form of permittivity tensors; spectral dependence of permittivity; multilayers at polar, longitudinal, transverse, and arbitrary magnetization; the effect of normal or near-normal incidence on multilayers; and anisotropic multilayer gratings. Making the subject of magnetooptics and anisotropic media approachable by the nonspecialist, Optics in Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures serves as an ideal introduction to newcomers and an indispensable reference for seasoned researchers.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:43pm CET by RufatZ
Frederick Copleston "History of Philosophy, Volume 1"
Image | 1993-03-01 | ISBN:0385468431 | PDF | 544 pages | 8,7 Mb
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement -- and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:42pm CET by RufatZ
Microtubule Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine Volume 137)
Publisher: Humana Press | 2007-08-23 | 305 pages | ISBN: 1588296423 | 3.42 MB | Rapidshare&Megaupload
Microtubules are essential components of the cytoskeleton, and play critical roles in a variety of cell processes, including cell shaping, intracellular tracking, cell division, and cell migration. Microtubule Protocols presents a comprehensive collection of essential and up-to-date methods for studying both the biology of microtubules and the mechanisms of action of microtubule-interacting drugs. The straightforward presentation of readily reproducible protocols is a hallmark of the Methods in Molecular Medicine series, and is evident in this volume. Methods presented range from the purification and characterization of microtubule proteins, analysis of post-translational modifications of tubulin, and determination of microtubule structure, to the visualization of microtubule and spindle behavior, measurement of microtubule dynamics, and examination of microtubule-mediated cellular processes. Both basic scientists and clinical researchers will benefit from this collection of state-of-the-art protocols for microtubule research.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 7:41pm CET by RufatZ
Gene Expression Profiling by Microarrays-Clinical Implications
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006-07-17 | 246 pages | ISBN: 0521853966 | 3.11 MB | Rapidshare&Megaupload
Microarray analysis is a highly efficient tool for assessing the expression of a large number of genes simultaneously, and offers a new means to classify cancer and other diseases. Gene expression profiling can also be used to predict clinical outcome and response to specific therapeutic agents. This survey spans recent applications of microarrays in clinical medicine, covering malignant disease including acute leukemias, lymphoid malignancies and breast cancer together with diabetes and heart disease. Investigators in oncology, pharmacology and related clinical sciences, as well as basic scientists, will value this review of a promising new diagnostic and prognostic technology.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:43pm CET by RufatZ
Carl von Clausewitz "Principles of War"
Dover Publications | 2003-02-03 | ISBN:0486427994 | PDF | 96 pages | 1,3 Mb
Written two centuries ago by a Prussian military thinker, this is the most frequently cited, the most controversial, and in many ways, the most modern book on warfare. In this work, Clausewitz examines moral and psychological aspects of warfare, stressing the necessity of courage, audacity, and self-sacrifice, as well as the importance of public opinion.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:42pm CET by RufatZ
Robert Bayley, Ceil Lucas "Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications"
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (November 19, 2007) | ISBN:0521691818 | PDF | 422 pages | 1,7 Mb
Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system or the sentence structure of a particular language? Why is the study of language variation important outside the academic world, in say education, the law, employment or housing? This book provides an overview of these questions, bringing together a team of experts to survey key areas within the study of language variation and language change. Covering both the range of methods used to research variation in language, and the applications of such research to a variety of social contexts, it is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, communication, linguistic anthropology and applied linguistics.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:41pm CET by RufatZ
Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell-Ginet "Language and Gender "
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 3, 2003) | ISBN:0521654262 | PDF | 378 pages | 1,8 Mb
This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the book offers unprecedented breadth and depth in its coverage of the interaction between language and social life. It is the ideal textbook for students in language and gender courses in several disciplines, including linguistics, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, and anthropology.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:41pm CET by RufatZ
Bill Hewitt "Hypnosis For Beginners: Reach New Levels of Awareness & Achievement "
Llewellyn Publications; 1st ed edition (September 1, 2002) | ISBN:156718359X | PDF | 288 pages | 1,2 Mb
Clear, down-to-earth explanations of what hypnosis is and how it works How the process of hynosis works from script writing and reawakening To undo trauma and "recover" forgotten feelings How hypnosis can change addictions and hard-tochange habits How hypnosis can help in stting up new goals; manage pain; improve relationship.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:40pm CET by RufatZ
David Gubbins, Emilio Herrero-Bervera "Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism "
Springer | 2007-08-17 | ISBN:1402039921 | PDF | 1054 pages | 26 Mb
Understanding the process underlying the origin of Earth magnetic field is one of the greatest challenges left to classical Physics. Geomagnetism, being the oldest Earth science, studies the Earth s magnetic field in its broadest sense.
The magnetic record left in rocks is studied in Paleomagnetism. Both fields have applications, pure and applied: in navigation, in the search for minerals and hydrocarbons, in dating rock sequences, and in unraveling past geologic movements such as plate motions they have contributed to a better understanding of the Earth.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:40pm CET by RufatZ
Wolfgang D. Schindler Peter J. Hauser "Chemical Finishing of Textiles"
CRC | 213 pages | 2004-08-23 | 084932825X | PDF | 1.9MB
With about twenty different types of chemical finishes and several thousand finishing agents, chemical finishing professionals require a solid basis of textile chemical knowledge and technical understanding, as well as some practical experience. Chemical Finishing of Textiles fulfills this need by describing all of the important types of chemical finishers and emphasizing the fundamentals rather than specific recipe and procedure proposals . It covers the advantages and disadvantages, application conditions, compatibility and combinability, testing methods, and practical tips of every important type of chemical finish. The text pays particular attention to the interplay between chemical structures and the effects of finishing products.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:39pm CET by RufatZ
David Gubbins, Emilio Herrero-Bervera "Essential Spaceflight Dynamics and Magnetospherics "
Springer | 2002-12-31 | ISBN:140201063X | PDF | 420 pages | 11,6 Mb
Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences. This might improve the explanatory power of models. The issue is quite novel, and it benefited from a thorough examination of statistical and mathematical models, conceptual models, diagrams and maps, machines, computer simulations, and artificial neural networks. These modelling practices have been approached through different disciplines. The proposed method is partly inspired by reverse engineering. The standard covering law approach is abandoned, and classical induction restored to its rightful place. It helps to solve several difficulties which impact upon the social sciences today, for example how to extend an explanatory model to new phenomena, how to establish laws, and how to guide the choice of a conceptual structure. The book can be used for advanced courses in research methods in the social sciences and in philosophy of science.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:39pm CET by RufatZ
F. Den Hond "Pesticides: Problems, Improvements and Alternatives"
Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN:0632056592 | 2003-03-07 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.2 Mb
How sustainable are current pest management practices that rely heavily on the use of pesticide products? This important book looks in depth at the question of why the environmental impact of pesticides continues to be of serious concern (the persistence of the pesticide problem) as well as identifying and critically assessing various improvements and alternative strategies to circumvent the current problems of agricultural pesticide use.
Contents of this thought-provoking book include details of the authorisation of pesticides and regulatory science, innovation in the agrochemical industry, the use of agrochemicals by farmers, variations in agricultural practice, the effect of pesticides on the environment, integrated assessment, site-specific pest management, the use of biotechnology, food industry initiatives, international policies and organic farming.
The editors have drawn together an impressive list of contributing authors in a well integrated and carefully edited book that is an essential purchase for anyone working in the areas of crop protection and agrochemicals, in academia, research, policy making, government or industry. Agricultural scientists, applied entomologists, biochemists, crop protection specialists and environmental scientists will find a huge wealth of important information within the covers of this book. Libraries in universities where agricultural sciences, crop protection, plant sciences, biological and environmental sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this book on their shelves.
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:38pm CET by RufatZ
P. Westbroek "Analytical Electrochemistry in Textiles (Woodhead Publishing in Textiles)"
Woodhead Publishing in Textiles | 344 pages | 2005-01 | ISBN:1855739194 | PDF | 4.7MB
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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 7:37pm CET by RufatZ
by Pradeep Kumar Ray " Cooperative Management of Enterprise Networks (Network and Systems Management)"
Publisher:Springer | 1MB | PDF | Pages:198 | Publication Date:2000-05-31 | ISBN:0306462761
Enterprises all over the world are experiencing a rapid development of networked computing for applications that are required for the daily survival of an organization. Client-server computing offers great potential for cost-effective networked computing. However, many organizations have now learned that the cost of maintenance and support of these networked distributed systems far exceeds the cost of buying them.
Computer Supported Creative Work (CSCW) is the new evolving area that promotes the understanding of business processes and relevant communication technologies. Cooperative Management of Enterprise Networks uses CSCW as the medium for conveying ideas on the integration of business processes with network and systems management. This book will be useful for systems management professionals wishing to know about business process integration; business managers wishing to integrate their tasks with network/systems management; software system developers wishing to adopt participatory design practices; and students and researchers.
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Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:19pm CET by RufatZ
Yadolah Dodge "The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics"
Springer | 2008-02-27 | ISBN:0387317422 | PDF | 616 pages | 3,5 Mb
The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics presents the essential information about statistical tests, concepts, and analytical methods in language that is accessible to practitioners and students of the vast community using statistics in medicine, engineering, physical science, life science, social science, and business/economics.
The reference is alphabetically arranged to provide quick access to the fundamental tools of statistical methodology and biographies of famous statisticians. The more than 500 entries include definitions, history, mathematical details, limitations, examples, references, and further readings. All entries include cross-references as well as the key citations. The back matter includes a timeline of statistical inventions. This reference will be an enduring resource for locating convenient overviews about this essential field of study.
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Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:19pm CET by RufatZ
Daniel Nettle "Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2006-09-07 | ISBN:0192805592 | PDF | 224 pages | 1,7 Mb
What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in itself, why haven't we simply evolved to be happier? Daniel Nettle uses the results of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve it. Along the way we look at brain systems, at mind-altering drugs, and how happiness is now marketed to us as a commodity. Nettle concludes that while it may be unrealistic to expect lasting happiness, our evolved tendency to seek happiness drives us to achieve much that is worthwhile in itself. What is more, it seems to be not your particular circumstances that define whether you are happy so much as your attitude towards life. Happiness gives us the latest scientific insights into the nature of our feelings of well-being, and what these imply for how we might live our lives.
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Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:18pm CET by RufatZ
Natural Products from Plants
Publisher: CRC | English | ISBN:0849329760 | 611 pages | 2006 | PDF | 15 Mb
Description: From medicinal, industrial, and culinary uses to cutting-edge laboratory techniques in modern research and plant conservation strategies, Natural Products from Plants, Second Edition reveals a vastly expanded understanding of the natural products that plants produce. In a single volume, this book offers a thorough inventory of the various types of plant-derived compounds. It covers their chemical composition, structure, and properties alongside the most effective ways to identify, extract, analyze, and characterize new plant-derived compounds. The authors examine new information on the chemical mechanisms plants use to deter predators and pathogens, attract symbiotic organisms, and defend themselves against environmental stress-insights which are key for adapting such mechanisms to human health. Along with updated and revised information from the highly acclaimed first edition, the second edition presents seven new chapters and features more than 50% new material relating to plant constituents, natural product biochemistry, and molecular biology. The book incorporates in-depth treatment of natural product biosynthesis with new collection and extraction protocols, advanced separation and analytical techniques, up-to-date bioassays, as well as modern molecular biology and plant biotechnology for the production of natural products. Unique in its breadth and coverage, Natural Products from Plants, Second Edition belongs on the shelf of interested researchers, policymakers, and consumers- particularly those involved in disease prevention, treatment, and pharmaceutical applications-who need a complete guide to the properties, uses, and study of plant natural products.
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The Adrenergic Receptors in the 21st Century
Publisher: Humana Press | English | ISBN:1588294234 | 416 pages | 2005 | PDF | 3 Mb
Description: An authoritative review of the current state-of-the-art understanding of the structure and function of the adrenergic receptor subtypes, as well as of the role played by these receptors in physiological and pathophysiological settings. Topics range from structure-function studies and the imaging of adrenergic receptors to the use of genetically altered mouse models and pharmacogenomics. Highlights include a survey of the knockout and overexpressed mouse models, a review of the new ways that adrenergic receptors can signal, and the effects of polymorphisms on clinical outcomes and on potential gene therapy applications. The side-by-side comparison of all the adrenergic receptors (a1, a2, and b) provides the reader with an excellent survey of the field, including the rationale for designing better drugs to control blood pressure and heart function.
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Pam Peters "The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-05-17 | ISBN:0521702429 | PDF | 924 pages | 2,8 Mb
The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well. This book is designed for everyone who writes and edits documents and non-fiction texts, for print or electronic delivery. Tertiary students and staff will get plenty of help from it, as well as professional editors who work with manuscripts of many different authors and commissions from multiple publishers.
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Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:16pm CET by RufatZ
Geoffrey Leech, Margaret Deuchar, Robert Hoogenraad " English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction, Second Edition"
Palgrave Macmillan; 2 edition (November 24, 2005) | ISBN:140391642X | PDF | 256 pages | 12,6 Mb
Written by a team led by a world authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has established itself as a rich educational experience for both native- and non-native-speaking students. This engaging and stimulating text enables students to learn grammar not just for its own sake, but also for the pleasure of exploring, appreciating and understanding the way language communicates in written text and spoken discourse. Throughout, the emphasis is on using grammar in present-day English.After an introduction placing grammar in its educational and cultural context, the authors present a toolkit for analyzing sentences. The second part of the book demonstrates how to apply this toolkit to spoken and written language, using a wide range of real textual materials. Each chapter ends with a set of carefully-designed exercises and tasks to aid understanding, with answers provided at the end of the volume.Now thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of today's students, this new edition features: A new Foreword by the English Association An additional introductory chapter, "Getting Started with Grammar", which introduces the subject for those with no prior knowledge Improved and extended diagrams, exercises and answers Up-to-date textual passages and examplesLively and approachable, this indispensable guide is ideal for both students and teachers who are looking for their first serious engagement with - or wishing to rediscover- English grammar.
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Craig A. Evans, "Jesus and the Ossuaries"
Baylor University Press | English | ISBN:0918954886 | 183 pages | PDF | 859 KB
In this book, Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical reconstruction of early Christianity. Evans does this by providing an overview of the most important archaeological discoveries, before examining nine other inscriptions (six on ossuaries, three on stone slabs) that pertain in one way or another to the historical Jesus. He then surveys the arguments for and against the authenticity and identification of the recently discovered James Ossuary. Evans concludes his volume with a measured consideration of the historical value of the archaeological data afforded by the several inscriptions.
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Elizabeth Burton, Lynne Mitchell "Inclusive Urban Design: Streets For Life"
Architectural Press | 224 pages | 2006-04-03 | ISBN:0750664584 | PDF | 8.3MB
This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve sustainability in their designs.
Part one examines the changing experiences of people in the outdoor environment as they age and discusses existing outdoor environments and the aspects and features that help or hinder older people from using and enjoying them. Part two presents the six design principles for streets for life and their many individual components. Using photographs and line drawings, a range of design features are presented at all scales of the outdoor environment from street layouts and building form to signs and detail. Part three expands on the concept of streets for life as the ultimate goal of inclusive urban design. These are outdoor environments that people are able to confidently understand, navigate and use, regardless of age or circumstance, and represent truly sustainable inclusive communities.
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Robert Schoen "Dynamic Population Models"
Springer | 2007-03-20 | ISBN:1402052294 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,1 Mb
Dynamic Population Models is the first book to comprehensively discuss and synthesize the emerging field of dynamic modeling, i.e. the analysis and application of population models that have changing vital rates. Incorporating the latest research, it includes thorough discussions of population growth and momentum under gradual fertility declines, the impact of changes in the timing of events on fertility measures, and the complex relationship between period and cohort measures. Recently developed models for the analysis of changing mortality are examined, and generalizations of Lotkas fixed rate stable population model are developed and applied.
The book is well organized and clearly written so that it is accessible to those with only a minimal knowledge of calculus. It begins with a review of fixed rate population models, from the basic life table to multistate stable populations. The process of convergence to stability is described, and the regularities underlying change in the size and composition of any population are explored. Techniques for estimating rates from multistate population distributions are presented, and new multi-age, multistate dynamic models are developed. Building on the logical closure of demographic models and the close relationship between population stocks and flows, the book sets forth the latest approaches for capturing population change in a world experiencing profound demographic transformations.
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Dionysius Glycopantis, Nicholas C. Yannelis "Differential Information Economies"
Springer | 2004-12-22 | ISBN:3540214240 | PDF | 650 pages | 3,4 Mb
One of the main problems in current economic theory is to write contracts which are Pareto optimal, incentive compatible, and also implementable as a perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a dynamic, noncooperative game. The question arises whether it is possible to provide Walrasian type or cooperative equilibrium concepts which have these properties. This volume contains original contributions on noncooperative and cooperative equilibrium notions in economies with differential information and provides answers to the above questions. Moreover, issues of stability, learning and continuity of alternative equilibria are also examined.
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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 4:32pm CET by RufatZ
Y. Nesterov “Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization: A Basic Course"
Springer | 2003-12-31 | ISBN:1402075537 | Djvu | 254 pages | 5,3 Mb
This is the first elementary exposition of the main ideas of complexity theory for convex optimization. Up to now, most of the material can be found only in special journals and research monographs. The book covers optimal methods and lower complexity bounds for smooth and non-smooth convex optimization. A separate chapter is devoted to polynomial-time interior-point methods.
Audience: The book is suitable for industrial engineers and economists.
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iPhone For Dummies | Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus | ISBN: 0470174692 | September 26, 2007
240 pages | PDF | English | 8 Mb
Get up to speed fast with this full-color guide to Apple’s revolutionary new mobile phone– widescreen video iPod–Internet communications device.
Announced to great fanfare, Apple’s iPhone promises to reinvent the market for portable electronic devices, combining mobile phone, music and video player, digital camera, Internet browser, and e-mail in a single sleekly designed, brilliantly engineered package. Illustrated throughout with full-color screen shots and illustrations, this fun and easy guide helps you make the most of all the features of this pioneering device.
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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 4:30pm CET by RufatZ
Art Carpenter “Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure"
SAS Publishing | 2007-05-08 | ISBN:1599941953 | PDF | 496 pages | 3,1 Mb
Art Carpenter demystifies the powerful REPORT procedure and shows you how to incorporate this highly flexible and customizable procedure into your SAS reporting programs. Combining his years of SAS experience with a talent for instruction, Art offers clear and comprehensive coverage that demonstrates how valuable this procedure is for both summarizing and displaying data. Illustrated with over two hundred examples and sample exercises to reinforce your learning, this resource provides you with information that you can put to immediate use.
The text is divided into three distinct sections. Part 1 introduces you to PROC REPORT, showing you how it works and 'thinks.' This section is designed to be read linearly by users who are unfamiliar with the procedure. Part 2 is a collection of increasingly more complex examples that feature advanced options and capabilities. It also introduces the relationship between PROC REPORT and the Output Delivery System (ODS). Part 3 incorporates the options and statements described in Parts 1 and 2 into a series of examples that highlight many of the extended capabilities of PROC REPORT. Included in this section is a discussion of a few ODS statements and options that might be useful to a PROC REPORT programmer, plus an in-depth look at the PROC REPORT process itself, especially as it relates to the execution of compute blocks.
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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 4:29pm CET by RufatZ
Mamata Mukhopadhyay “Natural Extracts Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide"
CRC | 2000-06-27 | ISBN:0849308194 | PDF | 360 pages | 2,5 Mb
Synthesizing research from a wide variety of sources, this work offers a convenient guide to a clean, safe, inexpensive, non-toxic, non-polluting solvent that performs better than most conventional solvents. Natural Extracts Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide reviews recent development in the technology and its applications to the food, flavor, fragrance, and pharmaceutical industries. It outlines the many advantages the method has over traditional methods like steam distillation, solvent extraction, and molecular distillation and it supports the popular trend toward the use of natural products in these industries.
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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 4:29pm CET by RufatZ
An Introduction to English Phonology
Edinburgh University Press | March 2002 | English | ISBN 0 7486 1252 1 | 128 pages | PDF | 1.84 MB
This is a short, lively, and accessible introduction to the sounds of modern English. Its emphasis on variation, with examples from British, American, New Zealand, and Singaporean English, make it suitable for both native and non-native speakers. McMahon focuses on the vowels and consonants, but also discusses syllables, stress, and the phonology of words and phrases. She introduces new tools and terminology gradually, and discusses the motivation for key concepts.
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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 4:28pm CET by RufatZ
An Introduction to English Morphology
Edinburgh University Press | March 2002 | English | ISBN:0748613277 | 160 pages | PDF | 1.62 MB
What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English. He explains the various ways in which words are related to one another, and shows how the history of the English language has affected word structure. Topics include: words, sentences and dictionaries; a word and its parts (roots and affixes); a word and its forms (inflection); a word and its relatives (derivation); compound words; word structure; productivity; and the historical sources of English word formation.
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An Introduction to Middle English
Edinburgh University Press | February 2003 | ISBN 0 7486 1481 8 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 2.37 MB
This authoritative survey offers a concise description of Middle English, the language of Chaucer, during the period from 1100 to 1500. Middle English is discussed in relation to both earlier and later stages in the history of English and in regard to other languages with which it came into contact. The book covers the principal features of Middle English spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary and also introduces Middle English textual studies.
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An Introduction to International Varieties of English
Edinburgh University Press | ISBN 0 7486 1337 4 | March 2003 | English | 160 pages | PDF | 1.77 MB
Covering varieties of English spoken in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, this book shows how the major national varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world.
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An Introduction to Old English
Edinburgh University Press | February 2003 | ISBN:0748613293 | English | 176 pages | PDF | 1.93 MB
This accessible overview covers all the basic linguistic elements of Old English, including nouns, adjectives, verbs, syntax, word order, and vocabulary. Offering a unique study of Old English in context, it combines a wide variety of short texts with an up-to-date assessment of the forms of language that remain as the foundation of English today. Comparisons are drawn between Old and present-day English and also with other related languages such as Dutch, German, and French. Old English poetry and dialect variation are also discussed.
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Posted: February 19th, 2008, 4:25pm CET by RufatZ
How Would You Move Mount Fuji ( William Poundstone)
288 pages | 2004 | PDF | 1.3 MB | Publisher:Little Brown & Co | ISBN: 0316778494
"How Would You Move Mount Fuji?" is an easy, one-sitting kind of read. That is, unless you decide to try to solve all the puzzles in the book, in which case the time you will need to finish it will depend on your ability to solve puzzles (and your determination to maintain a normal life that is not overtaken by the need to solve every question).
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 8:28pm CET by RufatZ
Giovanni Parmigiani, Elizabeth S. Garett, Rafael A. Irizarry, Scott L. Zeger
“The Analysis of Gene Expression Data"
Springer | 2003-04-08 | ISBN:0387955771 | PDF | 504 pages | 14,8 Mb
This book presents practical approaches for the analysis of data from gene expression microarrays. Each chapter describes the conceptual and methodological underpinning for a statistical tool and its implementation in software. Methods cover all aspects of statistical analysis of microarrays, from annotation and filtering to clustering and classification. Chapters are written by the developers of the software. All software packages described are free to academic users. The book includes coverage of various packages that are part of the Bioconductor project and several related R tools. The materials presented cover a range of software tools designed for varied audiences. Some chapters describe simple menu-driven software in a user-friendly fashion, and are designed to be accessible to microarray data analysts without formal quantitative training. Most chapters are directed at microarray data analysts with master-level training in computer science, biostatistics or bioinformatics. A minority of more advanced chapters are intended for doctoral students and researchers. The team of editors is from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health and has been involved with developing methods and software for microarray data analysis since the inception of this technology. Giovanni Parmigiani is Associate Professor of Oncology, Pathology and Biostatistics. He is the author of the book on "Modeling in Medical decision Making," a fellow of the ASA, and a recipient of the Savage Awards for Bayesian statistics. Elizabeth S. Garrett is Assistant Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics, and recipient of the Abbey Award for statistical education. Rafael A Irizarry is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, and recipient of the Noether Award for non-parametric statistics. Scott L. Zeger is Professor and chair of Biostatistics. He is co-author of the book "Longitudinal Data Analysis," a fellow of the ASA and recipient of the Spiegelman Award for public health statistics.
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 8:28pm CET by RufatZ
Benjamin Hart “How to Write Blockbuster Sales Letters"
Outskirts Press | 2006-01-12 | ISBN:1598002627 | PDF | 236 pages | 1,2 Mb
"Amazing returns on my mailings" "Ben Hart has given me the secret to getting into the mind of my customer and generating amazing returns on my mailings. With just a few simple changes to my own writing, I am already seeing dramatic results. Thank you for this powerful, step-by-step formula for creating 'Blockbuster Sales Letters'." Valerie Hasara Editor, OyesUcan.com "Absolutely the best in the business" "Ben Hart is absolutely the best in the business. His direct mail campaigns have single handedly turned many floundering and start-up enterprises into multi-million-dollar powerhouses. Ben's books are packed full of strategies, methods, rules and tips that will profit direct mail experts and beginners alike. And Hart's books are enormously fun to read. His writing is clear and direct . . . Every direct mail veteran, as well as anyone planning to launch their very first direct mail marketing campaign, must read Ben's books immediately. I will read this book many times." Steve Loflin Executive Director, National Society of Collegiate Scholars (400,000 members) "One of the true masters" "The dirty little secret of direct mail is that you can count the true masters on two hands and still have several fingers left over. These are the giants who produce the huge results over and over again. Ben Hart is one of the true masters. He's the guy the others are always studying and trying to 'steal smart' from. When you read this book you are learning a lifetime of success secrets from the very best in the business." Richard Rossi Co-Founder, Envision EMI, Inc., Marketer of educational programs that enroll 50,000 students every year with annual revenue of more than $70,000,000 generated by direct mail "One of the creative giants in direct mail today" "Ben Hart is one of the creative giants in direct mail today. I have personally sent Ben to number of my largest clients to help them improve their direct mail programs. Each one has thanked me because Ben's packages have consistently beaten everything they've been doing." Glen Thomas Co-Owner, RST Market
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Edward A. Bender, S. Gill Williamson “A Short Course in Discrete Mathematics"
Dover Publications | 2004-12-13 | ISBN:0486439461 | PDF | 256 pages | 1,6 Mb
What sort of mathematics do I need for computer science? In response to this frequently asked question, a pair of professors at the University of California at San Diego created this text. Its sources are two of the university's most basic courses: Discrete Mathematics, and Mathematics for Algorithm and System Analysis. Intended for use by sophomores in the first of a two-quarter sequence, the text assumes some familiarity with calculus. Topics include Boolean functions and computer arithmetic; logic; number theory and cryptography; sets and functions; equivalence and order; and induction, sequences, and series. Multiple choice questions for review appear throughout the text. Original 2005 ed. Notation Index. Subject Index.
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Sepharial “Manual of Occultism "
Kessinger Publishing | 1997-03 | ISBN:1564598152 | PDF | 372 pages | 1 Mb
Contents: The Occult Sciences; Astrology; Palmistry; Thaumaturgic Art; Hypnotism and Mesmerism; Divination; The Tarot; Cartomancy; Crystal Gazing; Visions; Geomancy; Casting; Psychometry; Dreams; Alchemy.
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Debra Anne Ross “Master Math: Algebra"
CENGAGE Delmar Learning | 1996-08-01 | ISBN:1564141942 | PDF | 192 pages | 3,4 Mb
Master Math: Algebra makes the transition form pre-algebra smooth and stress-free. This math reference guide makes learning and understanding algebraic equations, inequalities, polynmials and linear equations as simple as "two plus two."
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 8:25pm CET by RufatZ
Neck and Low Back Pain, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics by Kerry Levin
Saunders | 2007-05-15 | ISBN:1416043381 | PDF | 240 p | 4.8 M
Neck and back pain is one of the top five most common health problems in adults. In this country it occurs in 85% of adults below the age of 50, and almost all of them will have a recurrence. It is the most common cause of missed workdays and is the number one occupational hazard across the board. This issue of Neurologic Clinics addresses the latest clinical knowledge regarding this disorder and contains the following articles: Anatomy and Examination; Epidemiology and Risk Factors; Cervical Radiculopathy; Lumbrosacral Radiculopathy; Lumbar Canal Stenosis; Musculoskeletal Disorders; Neuroimaging; Electrodiagnosis; Physical Medicine approaches; Non-surgical Interventions; Surgical Interventions; and Chronic Pain Management.
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 8:24pm CET by RufatZ
Jean-Luc Lebrun " Scientific Writing: A Reader and Writer's Guide"
World Scientific Publishing Company; 1 edition (April 6, 2007) | ISBN:9812704736 | PDF | 224 pages | 1,5 Mb
Given that scientific material can be hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become major reader challenges. Scientific writers must not only present their science, but also work hard to generate and sustain the interest of readers. Attention-getters, sentence progression, expectation-setting, and memory offloaders are essential devices to keep readers and reviewers engaged. The writer needs to have a clear understanding of the role played by each part of a paper, from its eye-catching title to its eye-opening conclusion. This book walks through the main parts of a paper; that is, those parts which create the critical first impression. The unique approach in this book is its focus on the reader rather than the writer. Senior scientists who supervise staff and postgraduates can use the book to review drafts and to help with the writing as well as the science. Young researchers can find solid guidelines that reduce the confusion all new writers face. Published scientists can finally move from what feels right to what is right, identifying mistakes they thought were acceptable, and fully appreciating their responsibility: to guide the reader along carefully laid-out reading tracks.
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 8:23pm CET by RufatZ
Gale Group & The Catholic University of America, "New Catholic Encyclopedia: Jubilee Volume: The Wojtyla Years"
Gale Cengage | English | ISBN 078764787X | 681 pages | PDF | 7.66 MB
This preamble to the revised edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia focuses on the pontificate of Pope John Paul II and on events in the last decades of the twentieth century. Promising the same scholarship and comprehensive coverage praised in the NCE, the Jubilee Volume is a registry of people and issues that shaped the Church in the period after the Second Vatican Council. Their importance lies in the influence they have had on shaping the future of the Church as it crosses the threshold from one millennium to the next.
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Klaus Müllen, Ullrich Scherf " Organic Light Emitting Devices: Synthesis, Properties and Applications"
Wiley-VCH | 2006-03-06 | ISBN: 3527312188 | PDF | 426 pages | 5,2 Mb
This high-class book reflects a decade of intense research, culminating in excellent successes over the last few years. The contributions from both academia as well as the industry leaders combine the fundamentals and latest research results with application know-how and examples of functioning displays.
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 8:22pm CET by RufatZ
Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition
O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 4 edition | ISBN: 0596009771 | 1198 pages | August 22, 2005 | CHM | 3 Mb
For the past ten years, O'Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL Programming has been the bestselling book on PL/SQL, Oracle's powerful procedural language. Packed with examples and helpful recommendations, the book has helped everyone--from novices to experienced developers, and from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators--make the most of PL/SQL.
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