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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:08am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Barry Moreno
- ISBN: 9780313326820
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Dec 2004
- Pages: 368
Ellis Island, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was the major portal for European immigrants to the United States and looms large in 19th century and early 20th century history. After extensive restoration, today it is a national symbol and important museum. Authored by a noted historian and librarian at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, this is the first encyclopedia devoted to the Island, documenting its various incarnations. It contains more than 430 essay entries on the crucial people, operations, rooms and buildings, events, immigration laws and acts, organizations, and other terms associated with the island's history. This ready reference is perfect for synthesizing information for student reports on immigration and heritage. Genealogists and browsers will find this captivating reading as well. A chronology, primary document appendixes, and plentiful photos are added value.
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- Author(s): Norman Steenrod
- ISBN: 9780691005485
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Date: 05 Apr 1999
- Pages: 224
Fibre bundles, now an integral part of differential geometry, are also of great importance in modern physics--such as in gauge theory. This book, a succinct introduction to the subject by renown mathematician Norman Steenrod, was the first to present the subject systematically.
It begins with a general introduction to bundles, including such topics as differentiable manifolds and covering spaces. The author then provides brief surveys of advanced topics, such as homotopy theory and cohomology theory, before using them to study further properties of fibre bundles. The result is a classic and timeless work of great utility that will appeal to serious mathematicians and theoretical physicists alike.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:08am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780313294358
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Jul 1997
- Pages: 416
Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in feminist views of the Italian literary tradition. While feminist theory and methodology have been accepted by the academic community in the U.S., the situation is very different in Italy, where such work has been done largely outside the academy. Among nonspecialists, knowledge of feminist approaches to Italian literature, and even of the existence of Italian women writers, remains scant. This reference work, the first of its kind on Italian literature, is a companion volume for all who wish to investigate Italian literary culture and writings, both by women and by men, in light of feminist theory. This volume covers eight centuries of Italian literature, from the Middle Ages to the present. Included are entries for major canonical male authors, such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as for female writers such as Lucrezia Marinella and Gianna Manzini. These entries discuss how the authors have shaped the image of women in Italian literature and how feminist criticism has responded to their works. Entries are also provided for various schools and movements, such as deconstruction, Marxism, and new historicism; for genres and forms, such as the epic, devotional works, and misogynistic literature; for figures and types, such as the enchantress, the witch, and the shepherdess; and for numerous other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor, summarizes the relationship of the topic to feminist thought, and includes a brief bibliography. The volume closes with a selected general bibliography of major studies.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:08am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780313296512
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Jul 1999
- Pages: 672
The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably written by French writers. As early as the 12th century, women troubadours in the south of France were writing poems. French women continued writing through the ages, their number increasing as education became more available to women of all classes. And yet, of the great number of works by women writers who preceded the current feminist movement, very few have survived. A few writers such as Marie de France, George Sand, and Simone de Beauvoir became part of the canon. But critics, mostly male, had judged the works of only a few women writers worthy of recognition. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women writers and to rethink literary history, scholars in French literature began to take a new look at women writers who had been popular during their lifetimes but who had not been admitted into the canon. This reference book provides extensive information about French women writers and the world in which they lived. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for authors; literary genres, such as the novel, poetry, and the short story; literary movements, such as classicism, realism, and surrealism; life-cycle events particular to women, such as menstruation and menopause; events and institutions which affected women differently than men, such as revolutions, wars, and laws on marriage, divorce, and education. The volume spans French literature from the Middle Ages to the present and covers those writers who lived and worked mainly in France. The entries are written by expert contributors and each includes bibliographical information. The entries focus on each writer's awareness of how her gender shaped her outlook and opportunities, on how categorizations, structures, and terms used to describe literary works have been defined for women, and the ways in which women writers have responded to these definitions. The volume begins with a feminist history of French literature and concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a chronology of women writers.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:08am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard A. Spears
- ISBN: 9780071497855
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 2
- Date: 07 Jan 2008
- Pages: 288
Chow down on American English
This concise, easy-to-use reference defines and explains hundreds of contemporary American slang expressions and illustrates their use in real-life situations. You will learn to understand this integral part of living English as used by Americans in all walks of life.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard A. Spears
- ISBN: 9780071497831
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 2
- Date: 07 Jan 2008
- Pages: 288
Better understand American English by mastering its phrasal verbs
This authoritative reference offers thousands of American English phrasal verbs, two-word verbs, prepositional verbs, and verbs that are used together. Entries include definitions and examples of phrasal verbs used in context. With help from McGraw-Hill's Essential American Phrasal Verbs Dictionary , you will become familiar with English as it is used in the media, at work, around the house, and in everyday conversations. This knowledge will help you comprehend English as it is spoken in the United States and add variety to your word usage.
Inside you will find:
- 1,800 entries with examples of everyday usage
- The latest phrasal verbs used in the American lexicon
- Fun illustrations that show the humor of taking expressions too literally
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Brian Stableford
- ISBN: 9780415974608
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 06 Sep 2006
- Pages: 760
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings.
Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the
Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow andcounterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780080445861
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Feb 2006
- Pages: 1360
Magnetic and superconducting materials pervade every avenue of the technological world from microelectronics and mass-data storage to medicine and heavy engineering. Both areas have experienced a recent revitalisation of interest due to the discovery of new materials, and the re-evaluation of a wide range of basic mechanisms and phenomena.
This Concise Encyclopedia draws its material from the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Materials and Engineering , and includes updates and revisions not available in the original set -- making it the ideal reference companion for materials scientists and engineers with an interest in magnetic and superconducting materials.
* Contains in excess of 130 articles, taken from the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology , including ScienceDirect updates not available in the original set.
* Each article discusses one aspect of magnetic and superconducting materials and includes photographs, line drawings and tables to aid the understanding of the topic at hand.
* Cross-referencing guides readers to articles covering subjects of related interest.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780313317835
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Nov 2002
- Pages: 480
Feminist efforts have recovered the works of early women poets, and much of this rediscovered work now appears in anthologies. As a result, women poets writing today must not only struggle against a largely male tradition, but must also confront existing feminist expectations. In mapping the achievements of contemporary American women poets, this reference helps liberate them from restrictive conventional views and illustrates the tremendous diversity of their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on nearly 70 American women poets who published significant works after 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and presents a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the poet's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Included poets come from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, geographical regions, and social classes. Some, such as Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich, have received significant critical attention, while others are only beginning to attract interest and acclaim.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ann T. Kellogg, Amy T. Peterson, Stefani Bay, Natalie Swindell
- ISBN: 9780313312205
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Mar 2002
- Pages: 328
In an Influential Fashion profiles 164 fashion designers and retailers from many countries who have had the most impact on American dress and culture from the late 19th century to the year 2000. Each entry introduces a fashion personality or retailer whose influence on the industry reflected societal, political, and/or economic change. The commercial side of fashion, neglected in most fashion encyclopedias, is explored here, with details of licensing agreements and marketing innovations not easily found elsewhere. Students and professionals in fashion design, retailing, costume research, and social history will all find this book a valuable addition to their libraries. Each entry includes the birth and death dates of designers, their education and training, career highlights and accomplishments, and awards they have won. The entry describes the designer or retailer's signature styles, with a keen emphasis on the designer's contributions to American fashion design and culture. As appropriate, the entry summarizes any licensing agreements and influential marketing innovations. Web sites, lists of museums and fashion design schools, and numerous appendices make In an Influential Fashion a complete resource on American fashion history for the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781573562577
- Publisher: Oryx Press
- Date: 30 Mar 2002
- Pages: 240
Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a common thread runs through the literature of the Nazi Holocaust--a "motif of personal testimony to the dearness of humanity." With that perspective the expert authors of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature undertake profiling 128 of the most influential first generation authors who either survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by author, all of the entries answer the same basic questions about the author and his or her work: What is the nature of the author's literary response to the Holocaust? What is his or her place in Holocaust literature? What does the author's work contribute to an understanding of the Holocaust? What is distinctive about the author's work? What are some key moments in the author's life? What issues does the author's work pose for the reader? To address these questions, the entries are generally organized into three primary divisions: (1) an opening section on why the author's work has a significant or distinctive place in Holocaust literature, (2) a second section containing information on the author's biography, and (3) a critical examination of the highlights of the author's work. In most cases, the third section is the longest, since the focus of the encyclopedia is the literature, not the author. The Encyclopedia is intended for all students and teachers of the Holocaust, regardless of their levels of learning. Avenues for further research are incorporated at the conclusion of each entry and in a comprehensive bibliography of primary works of Holocaust literature and a second bibliography of critical studies of Holocaust literature.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780747566441
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition: 2
- Date: 15 Mar 2004
- Pages: 384
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- Author(s): P.H. Collin
- ISBN: 9780747566243
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date: 18 Aug 2003
- Pages: 1024
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:07am CEST by admin
- Author(s): A. Ivanovic, P.H. Collin
- ISBN: 9780747566212
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition: 3
- Date: 07 Jul 2003
- Pages: 304
From market research and packaging to TV advertising and publicity, all aspects of marketing are defined and explained in this overview of marketing terminology. Useful supplements in this updated edition include SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses and a sample print specification form.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard Bowyer
- ISBN: 9781904970156
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Reference
- Date: 27 Aug 2005
- Pages: 288
Ideal for anyone learning English for military purposes, foreign nationals working with English- speaking military personnel, and civilian professionals working with military accounts, this reference provides up-to-date definitions of more than 6,000 American, British, and international military terms. Topics include tactics, weapons, commands, machinery, military personnel, maneuvers, and geographical vocabulary.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780747572206
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date: 20 Sep 2004
- Pages: 288
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780313307355
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Sep 2000
- Pages: 550
This volume is a compilation of the U.S. federal special prosecutor/independent counsel investigations spanning the complete twenty-one year tenure from 1978-1999 of the independent counsel statute. The entries include individuals who have served as investigators; those who have been targets of investigations; all attorney generals who have called for appointment of special prosecutors; all presidents during whose terms of office such prosecutors served; and all legal cases that served to argue for or against the constitutionality of the independent counsel statute. These historical precedents are traced from Ulysses Grant's appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the St. Louis Whiskey Scandal in 1875. More contemporary cases include Watergate, precipitated by Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" dismissal of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973; Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra Investigation; and Special Prosecutor Ken Starr's Whitewater investigation of the Clintons and the ensuing permutations which brought individuals like Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky to prominence and also brought the statute calling for such investigations into constitutional debate. The book is fully cross-referenced and contains a comprehensive bibliography and index. It will be of interest to scholars and students of American History and Constitutional History.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Samuel J. Rogal
- ISBN: 9780313299162
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 May 1997
- Pages: 400
William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful British writers of his time. From October 1897, when he completed his medical education at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, until his death in December 1965, Maugham wrote twenty novels, filled nine volumes with his short stories, wrote thirty-one plays, and published seven volumes of prose nonfiction. His writings reflect the tensions of the Boer War, World War I, and World War II; the lavishness of the highest levels of British and American society during the first six decades of the 20th century; the glamor of Hollywood, Paris, New York, San Francisco, and London; and the romance of China, Malaya, Borneo, and India. His popularity brought him prosperity. At a 1962 auction, 35 of his paintings sold for nearly $1.5 million; bequests in his will totaled $280,000; his royalties during the last ten years of his life averaged $50,000 per year; and his Riviera estate, purchased in 1927 for $48,000, sold for $730,000 in 1967. This reference book is a guide to Maugham's fascinating life and career. The volume begins with a brief discussion of the importance of Maugham's life and work, followed by a detailed chronology of important biographical and literary events. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, the encyclopedia overviews Maugham's drama, fiction, and prose nonfiction; his family; the persons whom he knew and with whom he associated; the places where he lived and to which he journeyed, particularly the cities and villages that he inserted into his works; and the historical, cultural, social, and political issues that governed his life and career. Each entry closes with a brief bibliography, and the volume includes a selected bibliography of critical studies.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Gerald R. Pitzl
- ISBN: 9780313320101
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 28 Feb 2004
- Pages: 320
Human geography focuses on the ways that humans interact with each other and with the environment, illuminating the complex processes and nature of our global society. Themes within the field of human geography reflect the diverse perspectives of, among others:
Culture Population Economics Politics Urbanization Social behavior This book presents the full range of this remarkable field, presenting nearly 300 pertinent models, concepts, theories, and people associated with human geography. It is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to human geography and will be an indispensable guide for high school students taking AP Human Geography, a useful supplement to college texts, and a valuable guide for researchers. AP Human Geography is a new offering in many high schools, and the entries in this encyclopedia were selected with input from AP teachers of the subject. The entries reach back to the ancient Greeks, such as Herodotus, and also cover current manmade crises, such as urban sprawl. Suggested readings, a selected bibliography, and photos complement the text. read more at Amazon
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mona Baker
- ISBN: 9780415093804
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 09 Jan 1998
- Pages: 654
Who were the translators and interpreters of a given historical period? How did they approach the act of translation?
The
Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies covers a variety of such issues. This work is divided into two parts, and is ordered alphabetically for ease of lookup:
* Part 1 (General) covers the conceptual framework of the discipline. Categories of entries include: central issues (e.g.
unit of translation, translatability ); summaries of distinct perspectives on translation (e.g.
linguistic perspective, interpretive approach ); types of translation (e.g.
literary translation, dubbing ).
* Part II (History and traditions) covers the history of translation in major linguistic/cultural communities. There are entries on a wide range of languages which include Russian, French, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Finnish.
Consultant Editors: Susan Bassnett, Peter Fawcett, Marilyn Gaddis-Rose, Michael Hoey, Eugene Nida, Douglas Robinson and Gideon Toury Contributors include: Jean Delisle, Umberto Eco, Daniel Gile, Theo Hermans, Juliane House, Louis Kelly, Jose Lambert, Anthony Pym, Lawrence Venuti and Judith Woodsworth.
Contributors include: Jean Delisle, Umberto Eco, Daniel Gile, Theo Hermans, Juliane House, Louis Kelly, Jose lambert, Anthony Pym, Lawrence Venuti and Judith Woodsworth.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Peter Collin
- ISBN: 9781904970118
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Reference
- Edition: 4
- Date: 30 Sep 2005
- Pages: 480
In the new edition of this bestselling dictionary, more than 16,000 terms from English-speaking and international medical practices are explained in clear, simple words. Words in specialized fields such as surgery, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry are all addressed with sentences and grammar notes for each entry. Filled with indispensable practical references for interns, nurses, medical secretaries, and trainees in any medical field, the clear explanations make it ideal for any student or practitioner of medicine.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:06am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Bruce Merry
- ISBN: 9780313308130
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 May 2004
- Pages: 544
Greece has an old and influential literary tradition. The lion's share of attention has been given to classical Greek literature, yet the nation continues to produce significant imaginative works. This reference provides more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on important authors, texts, genres, themes, and topics in Greek literature from the Byzantine period to the present. Brief, readable entries provide basic information on the history and development of modern Greek literature and language. Each entry is thoroughly cross-referenced, and most conclude with a bibliography of further information resources. The encyclopedia also offers a useful chronology of modern Greek literature, a select bibliography of important general works, and a detailed subject index.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:05am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Thomas L. Heath, Euclid
- ISBN: 9780486600888
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Edition: 2
- Date: 01 Jun 1956
- Pages: 464
Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the
Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books 1-2: Triangles, rectangles.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:05am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Duncan Watts
- ISBN: 9780719067211
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Date: 04 Mar 2004
- Pages: 352
Understanding US/UK Government and Politics is a further volume in the
Understanding Politics series. Clear and accessible in style, it offers invaluable insights into the similarities and differences between British and American politics. These are summarized in useful boxes at the end of each chapter, where there are also details of relevant websites and likely examination questions. The book begins by examining the setting against which government and politics operates in Britain and the United States, noting aspects of the history and social structure of each country before exploring the concept of political culture. The underlying ideas and values of British and American people are compared, and the book goes on to analyse the constitution and the protection of rights, before considering the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government in detail.
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Posted: August 31st, 2008, 1:05am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783805583138
- Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Jul 2007
- Pages: 196
In recent years, new technologies to investigate skin response have allowed researchers to explore the interplay of environmental and genomic elements in skin cell biology, decipher the biochemical steps undertaken in the process, and study the genetics underlying variations in skin response to the environment. In this volume the state-of-the-art findings, ranging from molecular biology to epidemiology, are discussed thoroughly. The publication thus provides new insights for dermatologists, allergologists and immunologists who seek a better understanding of disease processes and new therapeutic strategies.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781402049606
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Mar 2008
- Pages: 1800
The
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures contains almost 600 entries on the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside the United and Europe. This multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural work treats the life and physcial sciences, medicine, and technology, and covers Africa, Asia, the Islamic world, Native America (North, Central and South), and the Pacific.
The work will be of interest to historians of science and technology, historians of mathematics, historians of astronomy, historians of medicine, sociologists and scholars working in the field of regional and cultural studies.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781402049606
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Mar 2008
- Pages: 1800
The
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures contains almost 600 entries on the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside the United and Europe. This multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural work treats the life and physcial sciences, medicine, and technology, and covers Africa, Asia, the Islamic world, Native America (North, Central and South), and the Pacific.
The work will be of interest to historians of science and technology, historians of mathematics, historians of astronomy, historians of medicine, sociologists and scholars working in the field of regional and cultural studies.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781402049606
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Mar 2008
- Pages: 1800
The
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures contains almost 600 entries on the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside the United and Europe. This multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural work treats the life and physcial sciences, medicine, and technology, and covers Africa, Asia, the Islamic world, Native America (North, Central and South), and the Pacific.
The work will be of interest to historians of science and technology, historians of mathematics, historians of astronomy, historians of medicine, sociologists and scholars working in the field of regional and cultural studies.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Paul DuBois
- ISBN: 9780735712126
- Publisher: Sams
- Edition: 2
- Date: 17 Jan 2003
- Pages: 1248
In the second edition of MySQL Paul DuBois provides an updated, comprehensive guide to one of the most popular relational database systems.
MySQL is the most popular open source database server in the world, with more than 2 million installations and customers including Yahoo!, MP3.com, Motorola, and NASA.
MySQL 4.0, now generally available, is a long-awaited update to the database management system that has many new features, including a new table definition file format, enhanced replication, and more functions for a full text search.
Instead of giving readers merely an overview of MySQL 4.0, DuBois continues to include the most sought-after answers to the questions he hears most often from the community.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Lajos Hanzo, Peter Cherriman, Jurgen Streit
- ISBN: 9780470518496
- Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 16 Nov 2007
- Pages: 702
Since the publication of
Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience.
Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication.
- New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications
- Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers
- Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications
- Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems.
This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Lajos Hanzo, Peter Cherriman, Jurgen Streit
- ISBN: 9780470518496
- Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 16 Nov 2007
- Pages: 702
Since the publication of
Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience.
Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication.
- New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications
- Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers
- Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications
- Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems.
This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners.
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- Author(s): Lajos Hanzo, Peter Cherriman, Jurgen Streit
- ISBN: 9780470518496
- Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 16 Nov 2007
- Pages: 702
Since the publication of
Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience.
Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication.
- New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications
- Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers
- Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications
- Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems.
This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners.
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- Author(s): Dave Johnson
- ISBN: 9780071495806
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 5
- Date: 13 Feb 2008
- Pages: 428
Capture stunning photos with your digital camera
Now you can take professional-quality shots every time-no matter what kind of digital camera you're using. Completely updated for the latest technologies, How to Do Everything: Digital Camera, Fifth Edition shows you how to take full advantage of all of your camera's features and settings. You'll learn the fundamentals of photography, composition, lighting, and exposure, and get techniques for different subjects and situations. The book also explains how to use a variety of photo-editing tools and offers expert tips for storing, sharing, and printing your photographs.
- Choose the best digital camera and accessories for your needs
- Get the most out of a Digital SLR camera and interchangeable lenses
- Compose great shots and control lighting and exposure
- Master close-ups, action shots, panoramas, and high dynamic range photos
- Organize, store, and share photos in JPG, TIF, GIF, and RAW formats
- Edit, enhance, correct, repair, and crop your images
- Have fun with special effects and photo projects
- Print professional-quality photos
- Troubleshoot and maintain your digital camera
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- Author(s): Dave Johnson
- ISBN: 9780071495806
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 5
- Date: 13 Feb 2008
- Pages: 428
Capture stunning photos with your digital camera
Now you can take professional-quality shots every time-no matter what kind of digital camera you're using. Completely updated for the latest technologies, How to Do Everything: Digital Camera, Fifth Edition shows you how to take full advantage of all of your camera's features and settings. You'll learn the fundamentals of photography, composition, lighting, and exposure, and get techniques for different subjects and situations. The book also explains how to use a variety of photo-editing tools and offers expert tips for storing, sharing, and printing your photographs.
- Choose the best digital camera and accessories for your needs
- Get the most out of a Digital SLR camera and interchangeable lenses
- Compose great shots and control lighting and exposure
- Master close-ups, action shots, panoramas, and high dynamic range photos
- Organize, store, and share photos in JPG, TIF, GIF, and RAW formats
- Edit, enhance, correct, repair, and crop your images
- Have fun with special effects and photo projects
- Print professional-quality photos
- Troubleshoot and maintain your digital camera
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- Author(s): Dave Johnson
- ISBN: 9780071495806
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 5
- Date: 13 Feb 2008
- Pages: 428
Capture stunning photos with your digital camera
Now you can take professional-quality shots every time-no matter what kind of digital camera you're using. Completely updated for the latest technologies, How to Do Everything: Digital Camera, Fifth Edition shows you how to take full advantage of all of your camera's features and settings. You'll learn the fundamentals of photography, composition, lighting, and exposure, and get techniques for different subjects and situations. The book also explains how to use a variety of photo-editing tools and offers expert tips for storing, sharing, and printing your photographs.
- Choose the best digital camera and accessories for your needs
- Get the most out of a Digital SLR camera and interchangeable lenses
- Compose great shots and control lighting and exposure
- Master close-ups, action shots, panoramas, and high dynamic range photos
- Organize, store, and share photos in JPG, TIF, GIF, and RAW formats
- Edit, enhance, correct, repair, and crop your images
- Have fun with special effects and photo projects
- Print professional-quality photos
- Troubleshoot and maintain your digital camera
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:37pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Thomas Powell
- ISBN: 9780071492164
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1
- Date: 21 Feb 2008
- Pages: 654
The Definitive Guide to Ajax Web Application Development
Evolve from the click-and-wait programming pattern to the latest Web 2.0 paradigm using this comprehensive guide to Ajax. Written by Web development expert Thomas Powell, the book lays out every feature of Ajax alongside detailed explanations and real-world code examples.
Ajax: The Complete Reference explains how to create and test Ajax-enabled Web applications using the XMLHttpRequest object as well as alternative JavaScript-based communication mechanisms. You'll explore a variety of sample applications featuring emerging user-interface conventions and build applications that address real-world networking and security issues. A robust communication library is developed throughout the book that enables you to architect flexible Ajax applications. The latest technologies such as Web services, Flash-Ajax integration, client-side templates, Comet, and Offline Access are also covered. Discover the future of Web development today!
- Work with traditional JavaScript communication approaches like iframes
- Explore all the quirks and details in the XMLHttpRequest object
- Handle disparate data formats, including XML, JSON, CSV, YAML, and more
- Deal with networking issues, including timeouts, retries, response ordering, and a variety of server and content errors
- Simplify JavaScript programming using open-source Ajax libraries like YUI
- Secure Ajax applications using authentication, obfuscation, and encryption
- Implement common Ajax UI patterns such as auto suggest, click-to-edit, and drag-and-drop
- Solve troubling Ajax architecture problems, including back button, history, and bookmarking issues
- Learn Ajax's role in Web 2.0 and Web services
- Explore push style communication using Comet and Flash
- Discover the future of offline Web application access and operation
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- Author(s): Thomas Powell
- ISBN: 9780071492164
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1
- Date: 21 Feb 2008
- Pages: 654
The Definitive Guide to Ajax Web Application Development
Evolve from the click-and-wait programming pattern to the latest Web 2.0 paradigm using this comprehensive guide to Ajax. Written by Web development expert Thomas Powell, the book lays out every feature of Ajax alongside detailed explanations and real-world code examples.
Ajax: The Complete Reference explains how to create and test Ajax-enabled Web applications using the XMLHttpRequest object as well as alternative JavaScript-based communication mechanisms. You'll explore a variety of sample applications featuring emerging user-interface conventions and build applications that address real-world networking and security issues. A robust communication library is developed throughout the book that enables you to architect flexible Ajax applications. The latest technologies such as Web services, Flash-Ajax integration, client-side templates, Comet, and Offline Access are also covered. Discover the future of Web development today!
- Work with traditional JavaScript communication approaches like iframes
- Explore all the quirks and details in the XMLHttpRequest object
- Handle disparate data formats, including XML, JSON, CSV, YAML, and more
- Deal with networking issues, including timeouts, retries, response ordering, and a variety of server and content errors
- Simplify JavaScript programming using open-source Ajax libraries like YUI
- Secure Ajax applications using authentication, obfuscation, and encryption
- Implement common Ajax UI patterns such as auto suggest, click-to-edit, and drag-and-drop
- Solve troubling Ajax architecture problems, including back button, history, and bookmarking issues
- Learn Ajax's role in Web 2.0 and Web services
- Explore push style communication using Comet and Flash
- Discover the future of offline Web application access and operation
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- Author(s): Thomas Powell
- ISBN: 9780071492164
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1
- Date: 21 Feb 2008
- Pages: 654
The Definitive Guide to Ajax Web Application Development
Evolve from the click-and-wait programming pattern to the latest Web 2.0 paradigm using this comprehensive guide to Ajax. Written by Web development expert Thomas Powell, the book lays out every feature of Ajax alongside detailed explanations and real-world code examples.
Ajax: The Complete Reference explains how to create and test Ajax-enabled Web applications using the XMLHttpRequest object as well as alternative JavaScript-based communication mechanisms. You'll explore a variety of sample applications featuring emerging user-interface conventions and build applications that address real-world networking and security issues. A robust communication library is developed throughout the book that enables you to architect flexible Ajax applications. The latest technologies such as Web services, Flash-Ajax integration, client-side templates, Comet, and Offline Access are also covered. Discover the future of Web development today!
- Work with traditional JavaScript communication approaches like iframes
- Explore all the quirks and details in the XMLHttpRequest object
- Handle disparate data formats, including XML, JSON, CSV, YAML, and more
- Deal with networking issues, including timeouts, retries, response ordering, and a variety of server and content errors
- Simplify JavaScript programming using open-source Ajax libraries like YUI
- Secure Ajax applications using authentication, obfuscation, and encryption
- Implement common Ajax UI patterns such as auto suggest, click-to-edit, and drag-and-drop
- Solve troubling Ajax architecture problems, including back button, history, and bookmarking issues
- Learn Ajax's role in Web 2.0 and Web services
- Explore push style communication using Comet and Flash
- Discover the future of offline Web application access and operation
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:37pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Simon R. Blackburn, Peter M. Neumann, Geetha Venkataraman
- ISBN: 9780521882170
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Nov 2007
- Pages: 294
How many groups of order n are there? This is a natural question for anyone studying group theory, and this Tract provides an exhaustive and up-to-date account of research into this question spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to and including Sylow's Theorems, a little knowledge of how a group may be presented by generators and relations, a very little representation theory from the perspective of module theory, and a very little cohomology theory - but most of the basics are expounded here and the book is more or less self-contained. Although it is principally devoted to a connected exposition of an agreeable theory, the book does also contain some material that has not hitherto been published. It is designed to be used as a graduate text but also as a handbook for established research workers in group theory.
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- Author(s): Simon R. Blackburn, Peter M. Neumann, Geetha Venkataraman
- ISBN: 9780521882170
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Nov 2007
- Pages: 294
How many groups of order n are there? This is a natural question for anyone studying group theory, and this Tract provides an exhaustive and up-to-date account of research into this question spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to and including Sylow's Theorems, a little knowledge of how a group may be presented by generators and relations, a very little representation theory from the perspective of module theory, and a very little cohomology theory - but most of the basics are expounded here and the book is more or less self-contained. Although it is principally devoted to a connected exposition of an agreeable theory, the book does also contain some material that has not hitherto been published. It is designed to be used as a graduate text but also as a handbook for established research workers in group theory.
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- Author(s): Simon R. Blackburn, Peter M. Neumann, Geetha Venkataraman
- ISBN: 9780521882170
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Nov 2007
- Pages: 294
How many groups of order n are there? This is a natural question for anyone studying group theory, and this Tract provides an exhaustive and up-to-date account of research into this question spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to and including Sylow's Theorems, a little knowledge of how a group may be presented by generators and relations, a very little representation theory from the perspective of module theory, and a very little cohomology theory - but most of the basics are expounded here and the book is more or less self-contained. Although it is principally devoted to a connected exposition of an agreeable theory, the book does also contain some material that has not hitherto been published. It is designed to be used as a graduate text but also as a handbook for established research workers in group theory.
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- Author(s): David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
- ISBN: 9780596516178
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Date: 25 Jan 2008
- Pages: 444
The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Ruby's facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is devoted to Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities. The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery of the language.
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- Author(s): David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
- ISBN: 9780596516178
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Date: 25 Jan 2008
- Pages: 444
The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Ruby's facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is devoted to Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities. The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery of the language.
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- Author(s): Fred Szabo
- ISBN: 9780126801460
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 23 Feb 2004
- Pages: 268
This unique book is a guide for students and graduates of mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, and other number-based disciplines contemplating a career in actuarial science. Given the comprehensive range of the cases that are analyzed in the book, the
Actuaries' Survival Guide can serve as a companion to existing study material for all courses designed to prepare students for actuarial examinations.
* Based on the curricula and examinations of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)
* Presents an overview of career options and details on employment in different industries
* Provides a link between theory and practice; helps readers gain the qualitative and quantitative skills and knowledge required to succeed in actuarial exams
* Includes insights from over 50 actuaries and actuarial students
* Written by Fred Szabo, who has directed the actuarial co-op program at Concordia University for over ten years
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- Author(s): Fred Szabo
- ISBN: 9780126801460
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 23 Feb 2004
- Pages: 268
This unique book is a guide for students and graduates of mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, and other number-based disciplines contemplating a career in actuarial science. Given the comprehensive range of the cases that are analyzed in the book, the
Actuaries' Survival Guide can serve as a companion to existing study material for all courses designed to prepare students for actuarial examinations.
* Based on the curricula and examinations of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)
* Presents an overview of career options and details on employment in different industries
* Provides a link between theory and practice; helps readers gain the qualitative and quantitative skills and knowledge required to succeed in actuarial exams
* Includes insights from over 50 actuaries and actuarial students
* Written by Fred Szabo, who has directed the actuarial co-op program at Concordia University for over ten years
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- Author(s): Agatha Christie
- ISBN: 9780007139699
- Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
- Date: 19 Aug 2002
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- ISBN: 9781588297921
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Feb 2008
- Pages: 580
Glutamate receptors are critically important for normal brain function. The preceding decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the physiological function and molecular structure of these proteins. The Glutamate Receptors provides an expansive review of the field with a topical update to two excellent books - The Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. An exciting primer to the study of glutamate receptors and their central role in neurotransmission, The Glutamate Receptors covers the extraordinary research and significant developments in the decade since the previous books were published and gives a snapshot of how prominent scientists look to the future of research in the field. Both insightful and comprehensive, The Glutamate Receptors provides an invaluable reference to students and scientists on nearly every aspect of glutamate receptor structure and function.
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- ISBN: 9781588297921
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Feb 2008
- Pages: 580
Glutamate receptors are critically important for normal brain function. The preceding decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the physiological function and molecular structure of these proteins. The Glutamate Receptors provides an expansive review of the field with a topical update to two excellent books - The Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. An exciting primer to the study of glutamate receptors and their central role in neurotransmission, The Glutamate Receptors covers the extraordinary research and significant developments in the decade since the previous books were published and gives a snapshot of how prominent scientists look to the future of research in the field. Both insightful and comprehensive, The Glutamate Receptors provides an invaluable reference to students and scientists on nearly every aspect of glutamate receptor structure and function.
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- ISBN: 9781588297921
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Feb 2008
- Pages: 580
Glutamate receptors are critically important for normal brain function. The preceding decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the physiological function and molecular structure of these proteins. The Glutamate Receptors provides an expansive review of the field with a topical update to two excellent books - The Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. An exciting primer to the study of glutamate receptors and their central role in neurotransmission, The Glutamate Receptors covers the extraordinary research and significant developments in the decade since the previous books were published and gives a snapshot of how prominent scientists look to the future of research in the field. Both insightful and comprehensive, The Glutamate Receptors provides an invaluable reference to students and scientists on nearly every aspect of glutamate receptor structure and function.
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- Author(s): Agatha Christie
- ISBN: 9780007139712
- Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
- Date: 18 Nov 2002
At a Hallowe'en party, Hercule Poirot aids mystery writer Ariadne Oliver in an investigation into the murder of a young girl-who may have witnessed a murder herself. But unmasking the killer proves more daunting than bobbing for apples.
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- Author(s): Agatha Christie
- ISBN: 9780007139712
- Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
- Date: 18 Nov 2002
At a Hallowe'en party, Hercule Poirot aids mystery writer Ariadne Oliver in an investigation into the murder of a young girl-who may have witnessed a murder herself. But unmasking the killer proves more daunting than bobbing for apples.
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- Author(s): Steven Feuerstein
- ISBN: 9780596514105
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Edition: 2
- Date: 22 Oct 2007
- Pages: 292
In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL into a set of best practices-recommendations for developing successful applications. Covering the latest Oracle release, Oracle Database 11g, Feuerstein has rewritten this new edition in the style of his bestselling
Oracle PL/SQL Programming . The text is organized in a problem/solution format, and chronicles the programming exploits of developers at a mythical company called My Flimsy Excuse, Inc., as they write code, make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes-and each other.
This book offers practical answers to some of the hardest questions faced by PL/SQL developers, including:
- What is the best way to write the SQL logic in my application code?
- How should I write my packages so they can be leveraged by my entire team of developers?
- How can I make sure that all my team's programs handle and record errors consistently?
Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices summarizes PL/SQL best practices in nine major categories: overall PL/SQL application development; programming standards; program testing, tracing, and debugging; variables and data structures; control logic; error handling; the use of SQL in PL/SQL; building procedures, functions, packages, and triggers; and overall program performance.
This book is a concise and entertaining guide that PL/SQL developers will turn to again and again as they seek out ways to write higher quality code and more successful applications.
"This book presents ideas that make the difference between a successful project and one that never gets off the ground. It goes beyond just listing a set of rules, and provides realistic scenarios that help the reader understand where the rules come from. This book should be required reading for any team of Oracle database professionals."
--Dwayne King, President, KRIDAN Consulting
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:36pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Keith Martin
- ISBN: 9780240520599
- Publisher: Focal Press
- Date: 23 Jul 2007
- Pages: 352
Learn how to integrate the new versions and features of all design programs within Creative Suite 3 with this definitive guide. Improve your productively by achieving professional results faster and more collaboratively. Simplify both your creative and production tasks as you move your creative elements freely between applications while maintaining editing capability all in one unified design environment.
With this book, you get a unique combination with...
* Focus on integration so that you can work most efficiently with the Suites packages together as part of your overall design workflow, saving valuable time
* Colorful, practical tutorials that use multiple programs for real-life projects
* Look-up reference and troubleshooting organization for cross-program issues - even if you use just 2 or 3 of the CS programs
* Coverage from basics for readers who are just beginning with the Suite through in-depth, comprehensive info for cross program mastery
From print, Web, or multimedia projects to PDFs, you get the most hands-on approach to cross-Suite issues. Exciting real-world projects include building entire websites and multi-chapter books. Produce effective and efficient PDFs for approval and print or screen using Acrobat with content from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Whether you work with design, editorial, advertising, or production, you will not find this information anywhere else!
Praise from Ginna Baldassarre, Sr. Product Manager, Creative Suite, Adobe Systems Inc.
"After reading this book, I was so happy to see that we have a great resource/tool that really highlights the strides Adobe has taken to really integrate these products. Keith's book is so easy to follow and really targets the benefits and efficiencies gained by having all the creative tools work seamlessly. Keith really makes you feel like you are in his studio with him, watching him work, and learning about all the different products. It's almost a magical experience.
After reading this book, I know that you will continue to fall in love with all the new features the CS3 applications have to offer.and perhaps learn some new things that you didnt know! I know I did."
* A unique guide showing you how to use the 7 packages within Adobe's Creative Suite 3 together and efficiently as part of your overall workflow, saving you valuable time
* Produce professional results with highly illustrated, practical how-to tutorials
* Ideal to use as a look-up reference and trouble shooting manual for cross-program issues - even if you own just 2 or 3 of the CS programs
* Bonus CD packed with project files so you can work right alongside the examples in the book; sample images, partially completed layouts and graphics from the projects; and links to useful online resources
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- Author(s): Andrzej M. Szymanski, Janusz Mikolaj Szymanski
- ISBN: 9780444988980
- Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
- Date: 27 May 1990
- Pages: 330
Language Notes Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish
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- Author(s): Andrzej M. Szymanski, Janusz Mikolaj Szymanski
- ISBN: 9780444988980
- Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
- Date: 27 May 1990
- Pages: 330
Language Notes Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish
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- Author(s): Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell
- ISBN: 9780563394006
- Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
- Date: 07 Feb 1994
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- Author(s): Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell
- ISBN: 9780563394006
- Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
- Date: 07 Feb 1994
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- Author(s): I.J. McColm
- ISBN: 9780306432873
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Mar 1990
- Pages: 336
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- Author(s): David S. Frankel
- ISBN: 9780471319207
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 17 Jan 2003
- Pages: 352
- Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new methodologyf rom OMG that uses modeling languages like UML along with programming languages like Java to build software architectures
- PriceWatersCoopers' prestigious Technology Center just predicted that MDA will be one of the most important methodologies in the next two years
- Written by the lead architect of the specification who provides inside information on how MDA has worked in the real world
- Describes MDA in detail and demonstrates how it can work with existing methodologies and technologies such as UML,MOF, CWM, and Web services
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:36pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell
- ISBN: 9780563389378
- Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
- Date: 19 Jul 2004
When nurse Amy Leatheran agrees to look after archaeologist Dr Leidners wife Louise at a dig, she finds herself taking on more than just nursing dutiesshe also has to help solve murders. Hercule Poirot is visiting the excavation site but will the great detective be in time to prevent a multiple murderer from striking again?
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- Author(s): Paul Redding
- ISBN: 9780521872720
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 22 Oct 2007
- Pages: 262
Examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within current analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. But these assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who while contributing to core areas of the analytic movement, nevertheless have found in Hegel sophisticated ideas that are able to address problems which still haunt the analytic tradition after a hundred years. Paul Redding traces the consequences of the displacement of the logic presupposed by Kant and Hegel by modern post-Fregean logic, and examines the developments within twentieth-century analytic philosophy which have made possible an analytic re-engagement with a previously dismissed philosophical tradition.
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- Author(s): Paul Redding
- ISBN: 9780521872720
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 22 Oct 2007
- Pages: 262
Examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within current analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. But these assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who while contributing to core areas of the analytic movement, nevertheless have found in Hegel sophisticated ideas that are able to address problems which still haunt the analytic tradition after a hundred years. Paul Redding traces the consequences of the displacement of the logic presupposed by Kant and Hegel by modern post-Fregean logic, and examines the developments within twentieth-century analytic philosophy which have made possible an analytic re-engagement with a previously dismissed philosophical tradition.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:36pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Paul Redding
- ISBN: 9780521872720
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 22 Oct 2007
- Pages: 262
Examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within current analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile dismissal of the idealists, based on the claim that their metaphysical views were irretrievably corrupted by the faulty logic that informed them. But these assumptions are challenged by the work of such analytic philosophers as John McDowell and Robert Brandom, who while contributing to core areas of the analytic movement, nevertheless have found in Hegel sophisticated ideas that are able to address problems which still haunt the analytic tradition after a hundred years. Paul Redding traces the consequences of the displacement of the logic presupposed by Kant and Hegel by modern post-Fregean logic, and examines the developments within twentieth-century analytic philosophy which have made possible an analytic re-engagement with a previously dismissed philosophical tradition.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:36pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780080440316
- Publisher: Pergamon
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Dec 2001
- Pages: 284
This is the first book solely devoted to single-molecule biochemistry and molecular biology. Authors were selected on the basis of their contribution to this new and exciting field, and were asked to focus more on the biological problems that can be approached using single-molecule techniques rather than on the techniques per se. It is thought that such techniques will eventually dominate the physical characterization of biologically important macromolecules.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:36pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Leslie Baldacci
- ISBN: 9780071417358
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 1
- Date: 25 Aug 2003
- Pages: 224
A respected journalist turned-teacher reveals what's really happening in America's schools
In 1999, Chicago Sun-Times veteran Leslie Baldacci left her prestigious, twenty-five year career to teach at a public school in one of Chicago's roughest South Side neighborhoods.
As she later commented, "I thought I knew rough. I thought I had answers. I didn't know jack."
But Baldacci never looked back, and the result is Inside Mrs. B's Classroom , a compelling, first-hand narrative from the trenches of the inner-city school system that addresses one of society's most critical issues from gritty, daily personal experience.
An expert on Chicago's massive education reform efforts even before she turned in her press credentials, Baldacci adds an informed, intellectual layer to this insightful, engaging work. In an era in which many people talk about wanting to make a difference, Baldacci has done so. Here she shares the whole picture, from the unrealistic expectations to the surprises--good and bad--that make up education today. Above all, she shows how an individual can, did--and continues to--make a difference in the lives of American children.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jean-Pierre Schermann
- ISBN: 9780444527080
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Date: 20 Nov 2007
- Pages: 512
This book presents an overview of recent advances in the intertwining of the following research fields: photon and electron spectroscopy, quantum chemistry, modelling and mass-spectrometry. The coupling of these disciplines offers a new point of view to the understanding of isolated elementary building blocks of biomolecules and their assemblies. It allows the unambiguous separation between intrinsic properties of biomolecular systems and those induced by the presence of their environment.
The first chapters provide background in modelling (I), frequency-resolved spectroscopy using microwave, infrared and UV photons, time-resolved spectroscopy in the femtosecond domain and energy-resolved electron spectroscopy (II) and production of gas-phase neutral and ionic biomolecular species, mass-spectrometry, ion mobility and BIRD techniques (III).
Chapter IV is devoted to case studies of gas-phase experimental investigations coupled to quantum or classical calculations. The topics are structural studies of nucleobases and oligonucleotides, peptides and proteins, sugars; neuromolecules; non-covalent complexes; chiral systems, interactions of low-energy electrons with biomolecules in the radiation chemistry context and very large gas-phase biomolecular systems.
The fifth chapter concerns the link between gas-phase and liquid-phase. Different treatments of solvation are illustrated through examples pointing out the influence of progressive addition of water molecules upon properties of nucleobases, peptides, sugars and neuromolecules.
Offer a new perspective to the understanding of isolated elementary building blocks of bio molecules
Includes case studies of experimental investigations coupled to quantum or classical calculations
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Gordon Cook
- ISBN: 9780123739919
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Dec 2007
- Pages: 296
This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances made by their predecessors. Written by Gordon Cook, contributor to the hugely popular
Mansons Tropical Diseases , this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline.
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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 11:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Dennis R. Wier
- ISBN: 9781888428377
- Publisher: Transmedia
- Date: 27 May 1996
- Pages: 182
This book describes a new model for trance as well as practical techniques to analyse and design trances. Trance is used consciously and unconsciously not only by psychologists, therapists and hypnotists, but also yogis, priests, magicians, witches, advertisers, politicians, lawyers, addicts and psychotics. Writing from his personal experience, Wier suggests that some of these ideas might represent new practical precision tools for psychologists as well as for those who work with the occult. Practical suggestions for meditators, yogis, witches and others are included to deepen trance and to increase the depth as well as terminating trance. Pathological trance and trance abuse are also described with suggestion on how they may be recognized and prevented.
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- Author(s): Bruce E. Larock, Roland W. Jeppson, Gary Z. Watters
- ISBN: 9780849318061
- Publisher: CRC
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Sep 1999
- Pages: 552
The first of its kind, this modern, comprehensive text covers both analysis and design of piping systems. The authors begin with a review of basic hydraulic principles, with emphasis on their use in pumped pipelines, manifolds, and the analysis and design of large pipe networks. After the reader obtains an understanding of how these principles are implemented in computer solutions for steady state problems, the focus then turns to unsteady hydraulics. These are covered at three levels:
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Angus M. Gunn
- ISBN: 9780313340024
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Date: 30 Dec 2007
- Pages: 824
Disasters can strike at any time. From the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius to Hurricane Katrina, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters have caused tremendous loss of life, human suffering, and environmental catastrophe. The complex technological and social changes of the last few centuries have not only intensified the impact of such natural disasters, but have added new introduced new reasons to be concerned - plane crashes, bombings, industrial accidents, genocides. Calling some disasters "natural" and others "man-made" downplays the important interrelationship between the event and human actions. Human actions - or inactions - can catapult a natural phenomenon into a deadly catastrophe. Likewise, nature can be terribly disrupted by events that are created by humans. The Encyclopedia of Disasters covers over 180 of the most important disasters in history. Arranged chronologically, the encyclopedia includes entries on those disasters that have had the greatest historical, environmental, and cultural impact: BLThe eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum
The London Fire of 1666, which flattened much of London and allowed the rebuilding of the city BLThe influenza epidemic of 1918, which killed millions BLThe 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake in Alaska, which caused death and destruction as far away as Hawaii BLThe worst nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1964, that has rendered the surrounding landscape uninhabitable BLThe 2004 earthquake that created a tsunami that killed thousands in Sumatra Each entry includes a list of readings for additional research, and the encyclopedia is illustrated with numerous photos and line illustrations that show the destruction and despair caused by these disasters. read more at Amazon
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): K. Thomas
- ISBN: 9780750624657
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
- Date: 27 Feb 1996
- Pages: 317
* Details symptoms and causes of defects * Of special interest to these investigating building failures and expert witnesses * Much needed comprehensive reference This book provides a clear, well-illustrated guide to the specification and design of modern masonry and covers brickwork, blockwork and stone masonry forms of construction. It also describes and analyses possible defects and gives advice on effective remedial works.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Deborah Cameron, Don Kulick
- ISBN: 9780521009690
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 07 Apr 2003
- Pages: 192
This accessible book looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on examples that range from personal ads to phone sex, sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, this work provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of "sexuality", it encompasses not only issues surrounding sexual orientation and identity, but also questions about the discursive construction of sexuality and the verbal expression of erotic desire.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jr, Robert D. van Valin
- ISBN: 9780521635660
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 May 2001
- Pages: 256
Clearly organized and accessible, this comprehensive new textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure using data from a typologically wide variety of languages. The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax. Each chapter includes generous exercises and recommendations for further study.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780028654720
- Publisher: MacMillan Reference Books
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Aug 2002
- Pages: 2000
From Library Journal This four-volume set makes the latest professional research on gerontology accessible to general readers, especially high school and college students. Under the direction of Ekerdt (sociology and gerontology, Univ. of Kansas), some of the world's leading gerontologists and aging researchers have contributed 400-plus concise and readable entries that offer excellent introductions to important concepts. The entries, which cover an array of topics selected from the humanities and the life, biological, and social sciences, feature such key issues as nursing homes, animal models of aging, the visual arts, mental health, community services, disorders of later life, sensory changes, housing, benefit programs, research techniques, genetics, careers in aging, and retirement. Although the text focuses primarily on the United States, aging in other nations and cultures is examined as well. Many of the entries are supplemented with diagrams, photographs, and drawings, and all are accompanied by short, current bibliographies of primary resource materials. A contents outline explains the encyclopedia's approach to aging, while the list of articles offers an overview of the entire set. In addition, numerous cross references help readers navigate aging's interdisciplinary knowledge base. Other books in this area include the single-volume Encyclopedia of Elder Care, a somewhat technical volume focusing primarily on healthcare and caregiver issues; The Encyclopedia of Aging, 3d ed., edited by George L. Maddox, which is similar to Ekerdt's volume in its scope and coverage but lacks the overall vision that is so well explained in Ekerdt's preface; and the slightly dated two-volume Encyclopedia of Gerontology: Age, Aging, and the Aged, edited by James E. Birren, which emphasizes health and biological issues and is occasionally vague or overly scientific in its subject descriptors. Ekerdt's work is a good choice for large public and academic libraries.
Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Lib., Cleveland Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From The great increase in the scholarly study of aging is attributable to both demographic increases and the growth in clinical and social services to the aging population. Correspondingly, we see an increase in the number of reference works published in an area that is of high interest popularly, academically, and professionally. In more than 400 entries, this encyclopedia aims "to present advanced ideas about aging at an accessible level." The editor in chief, Ekerdt, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of Kansas, and six other editors worked with the many contributors (also more than 400), both scholars and practitioners from the U.S and abroad.
Topics represent the range of information in gerontology, covering biological, medical, psychological, and sociological topics as well as social and public policy issues. Articles range from very specific, for example, Congregate housing or Fluid balance, to more general essays, such as Bereavement or Visual arts and aging. About one-third to one-half of the articles focus on biological, medical, or psychological aspects of aging. There are also good treatments of social policy--a history of Social Security, articles on adult protective services, housing options, etc. Many of the articles are broken into segments. Cellular aging has a general overview article, then four more-specific ones dealing with such issues as cell death or DNA. Long-term care and Retirement are similarly broken into segments. This is a useful approach when the audience may vary in levels of familiarity with the topics.
Most of the emphasis is on the U.S., with some attention given to other countries and cultures and comparisons between cultures. Several articles fall in the topic group of aging around the world--entries on China and Japan, three to four pages on Western Europe or South Asia. The cross-cultural articles are not comprehensive enough to make this work international in scope. The whole of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, is dealt with in one fairly brief article.
The signed articles are presented alphabetically. In the fore matter there are alphabetical lists of the articles by both title and author (the first of which has several articles listed out of alphabetical sequence near the beginning). A very useful feature follows: lists of articles grouped by specific topic areas, for example, "Cognition," "End of Life Issues," and "Work." Each article also has cross-references to related articles and a bibliography; however, some of the authors have cited research in the body in the briefest style (e.g., "Jones, 1984") and have not included those references in the bibliography. A very detailed index allows access to the wealth of factual information in the entries despite the omission of references to some topics one would expect, for example, respite care and use of restraints. But, on the whole, the coverage of both general topics and very specific information is impressive. Many well-produced illustrations and diagrams accompany the text in an exceptionally attractive product
There is no dearth of reference publishing in this area. Many consumer-oriented titles that deal with specifics of health or retirement are available in print, as are some more-encyclopedic popular works such as The Encyclopedia of Health and Aging: The Complete Guide to Health and Well-Being in Your Later Years (rev. ed., Key Porter, 2001) and The Encyclopedia of Aging and the Elderly (Facts On File, 1992). The new edition of the one-volume The Graying of America: An Encyclopedia of Aging, Health, Mind, and Behavior (2d ed., Univ. of Illinois, 2001) is suitable for general readers and undergraduates. The two works that are the most comparable in scope are the new edition of George Maddox's The Encyclopedia of Aging: A Comprehensive Resource in Gerontology and Geriatrics (3d ed., Springer, 2001) and James Birren's Encyclopedia of Gerontology: Age, Aging, and the Aged (Academic, 1996). The Birren work, although older now, is still in print, and its review in RBB noted that it "is a comprehensive source that offers a multidisciplinary overview of all aspects of aging." Written for professionals, it is accessible to educated lay readers. The Maddox work, now in its third edition, is also a broad look at aging, with articles ranging from general interest to very specialized topics. Its style, heavily referenced with research, may be less accessible to the general reader, even the educated lay reader whom Ekerdt also has in mind.
On the whole, this new encyclopedic treatment is an outstanding choice for academic libraries serving both professional programs and other courses of study as well as being suitable for larger public libraries. It balances the task of presenting advanced information in an accessible fashion extremely well. RBB
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781588297860
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Mar 2008
- Pages: 584
This important book fills a need in the developing area of pain medicine, providing physicians with an up-to-date resource that details current understanding about the basic science underlying the mechanism of action of the various CAM therapies used for pain. This state-of-the-art text summarizes the clinical evidence for safety and efficacy and provides practical guidelines about how such treatments can be successfully and safely integrated into a pain practice.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard Bradley
- ISBN: 9780521612708
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 05 Mar 2007
- Pages: 340
Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence. In this landmark study - the first significant survey of the archaeology of Britain and Ireland for twenty years - Richard Bradley offers a new interpretation of the unique archaeological record of these islands based on a wealth of current and largely unpublished data. Bradley surveys the entire archaeological sequence over a 4,000 year period, from the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic period to the discovery of Britain and Ireland by travellers from the Mediterranean during the later pre-Roman Iron Age. Significantly, this is the first modern account to treat Britain and Ireland on equal terms, offering a detailed interpretation of the prehistory of both islands.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780749436278
- Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
- Date: 20 Dec 2002
- Pages: 240
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780631231424
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Date: 07 Apr 2006
- Pages: 456
The
Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging field.
Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics
Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings
Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference read more at Amazon
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
- ISBN: 9788172611088
- Publisher: Rebel Publishing House
- Edition: 2
- Date: 01 Dec 1999
- Pages: 273
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:39pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Roger Barnard, Jeff Cady
- ISBN: 9780194570398
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Date: 27 Dec 1993
- Pages: 112
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kelly L. Murdock
- ISBN: 9780470187609
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 15 Jan 2008
- Pages: 1250
Master the complexities of 3ds Max by working through more than 150 short tutorials under the guidance of 3D expert Kelly Murdock. If you're a beginner, a Quick Start chapter shows you how to create an exciting animation your first day using the software. You'll find extensive detail on the latest features, allowing quick ramp-up for veterans of earlier 3ds versions. In addition, the book includes a 16-page, full-color insert with examples of cutting-edge 3ds Max art as well as a DVD with all the examples in the book, models and textures you can customize, a full-color and searchable PDF of the book.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): F.W. King, D. Anncree, D.A. Cree
- ISBN: 9780582553538
- Publisher: Longman
- Date: 17 Sep 1979
- Pages: 336
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): J. S. Dagpunar
- ISBN: 9780470854945
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 23 Mar 2007
- Pages: 348
Simulation and Monte Carlo is aimed at students studying for degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science, and allied subjects, who wish an up-to-date account of the theory and practice of Simulation. Its distinguishing features are in-depth accounts of the theory of Simulation, including the important topic of variance reduction techniques, together with illustrative applications in Financial Mathematics, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and Discrete Event Simulation.
Each chapter contains a good selection of exercises and solutions with an accompanying appendix comprising a Maple worksheet containing simulation procedures. The worksheets can also be downloaded from the web site supporting the book. This encourages readers to adopt a hands-on approach in the effective design of simulation experiments.
Arising from a course taught at Edinburgh University over several years, the book will also appeal to practitioners working in the finance industry, statistics and operations research.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:38pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780824750565
- Publisher: CRC
- Edition: 1
- Date: 05 May 2004
- Pages: 1744
PRINT/ONLINE PRICING OPTIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST AT e-reference@taylorandfrancis.com
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:38pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Alan Watts
- ISBN: 9780679723004
- Publisher: Vintage
- Date: 28 Aug 1989
- Pages: 176
A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:25pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John Mills
- ISBN: 9780333971307
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Date: 18 Jan 2003
- Pages: 240
John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed. He argues that the main goal of economics ought to be to show how to achieve a combination of economic growth, full employment, low inflation, avoidance of extreme poverty, and sustainability. That it has failed to do so is neither inevitable nor accidental. It has failed because of a combination of intellectual error and the effects of social and political pressure, which Mills claims could and should have been avoided.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:25pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Steve Selvin
- ISBN: 9780195144895
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Jun 2001
- Pages: 323
Using real data from published sources, this engaging and lucid casebook shows how statistical tools can be used to analyze important epidemiologic issues. Its 18 cases address a variety of interesting research problems from Mendel's classic sweet pea experiments to recent studies of AIDS and
exposure to electro-magnetic field radiation. Each includes a data set. The cases are described succinctly and the methods used to analyze them are then discussed in detail. A wide range of statistical and graphical tools are included, from simple mean values to nonparametric bivariate regression
smoothing techniques. The level of discussion is sophisticated but mathematically simple, affording access to a broad audience interested in using collected data to study human health and disease. The author's focus on describing, interpreting and presenting results will set this book apart from
other texts.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:25pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780815515388
- Publisher: William Andrew Publishing
- Date: 01 Apr 2007
- Pages: 1000
Indispensable for food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging engineers,
Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery covers in one comprehensive volume fundamental food engineering principles in the design of food industry machinery. The handbook provides broad, yet technically detailed coverage of food safety, regulations, product processing systems, packaging, facilities, waste management, and machinery design topics in a "farm to the fork" organization.
The 22 chapters are contributed by leading experts worldwide with numerous illustrations, tables, and references. The book includes the new USDA regulations for "certified organic" processing, as well as state-of-the-art technologies for equipment both on the farm and in the plant.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:24pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard Coyne
- ISBN: 9780262032285
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 28 Sep 1995
- Pages: 408
Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought. He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science.
Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking -- including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction -- comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia. He also probes the claims made of information technology, including its presumptions of control, its so-called radicality, even its ability to make virtual worlds, and shows that many of these claims are poorly founded.
Among the writings Coyne visits are works by Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Gadamer, Derrida, Habermas, Rorty, and Foucault. He relates their views to information technology designers and critics such as Herbert Simon, Alan Kay, Terry Winograd, Hubert Dreyfus, and Joseph Weizenbaum. In particular, Coyne draws extensively from the writing of Martin Heidegger, who has presented one of the most radical critiques of technology to date.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:24pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Marc D. Hauser
- ISBN: 9780262581554
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 27 May 1997
- Pages: 771
Bound to become a classic and to stimulate debate and research,
The Evolution of Communication looks at species in their natural environments as a way to begin to understand what the real units of analysis of communicating systems are, using arguments about design and function to illuminate both the origin and subsequent evolution of each system. It lights the way for a research program that seriously addresses the problem of how communication systems, including language, have been designed over the course of evolution.
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- Author(s): William J. Freed
- ISBN: 9780262062084
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 31 Dec 1999
- Pages: 573
Although there are many scientific and philosophical reasons to study the brain, for William J. Freed, "the most compelling reason to study the brain is to be able to repair the brains of individuals with nervous system injury or disease." Advances in repairing the nervous system, as well as new data on brain development, growth, and plasticity, have revolutionized the field of brain research and given rise to the technology of brain tissue transplantation. In this book Freed discusses both what may and what may not be possible.
The book covers two aspects of neural tissue transplantation research. One involves the transplantation of particular cells to repair or augment specific neuronal systems. This technique could be useful for such conditions as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, chronic pain, and epilepsy. The other line of research concerns regeneration from injury, especially of the spinal cord.
After providing basic background on transplantation, brain structure, and development, the book discusses Parkinson's disease, the use of transplants to influence localized brain functions, circuit reconstruction, and genetic engineering and other future technologies.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:24pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): William H. Calvin
- ISBN: 9780262531542
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 06 Feb 1998
- Pages: 262
The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you are awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human type of consciousness with its versatile intelligence.
Surprisingly, the subtitle's mosaics of the mind is not a literary metaphor. For the first time, it is a description of a mechanism of what appears to be an appropriate level of explanation for many mental phenomena, that of hexagonal mosaics of electrical activity that compete for territory in the association cortex of the brain.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:24pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, Paul St
- ISBN: 9780262071857
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 01 May 1998
- Pages: 333
Philosophical modeling is as old as philosophy itself; examples range from Plato's Cave and the Divided Line to Rawls's original position. What is new are the astounding computational resources now available for philosophical modeling. Although the computer cannot offer a substitute for philosophical research, it can offer an important new environment for philosophical research.
The authors present a series of exploratory examples of computer modeling, using a range of computational techniques to illuminate a variety of questions in philosophy and philosophical logic. Topics include self-reference and paradox in fuzzy logics, varieties of epistemic chaos, fractal images of formal systems, and cellular automata models in game theory. Examples in the last category include models for the evolution of generosity, possible causes and cures for discrimination, and the formal undecidability of patterns of social and biological interaction.
The cross-platform CD-ROM provided with the book contains a variety of working examples, in color and often operating dynamically, embedded in a text that parallels that of the book. Source code of all major programs is included to facilitate further research.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:24pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Stan Kelly-Bootle
- ISBN: 9780262611121
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 10 Apr 1995
- Pages: 260
"Ascertain the meaning
before consulting this dictionary," warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions.
New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor,
The Devil's DP Dictionary , was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing "laxicon" is a response to the "Unix pandemic" that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a "hugely bewildered, lay audience."
The original dictionary, an urbane and witty pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work, parried chiefly the mainframe and mini-folklore of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This long-awaited revision adds over 550 new entries and enhances many of the original definitions. Key targets are "a host of new follies crying out for cynical lexicography [including] the GUI-Phooey iconoclasts, object orienteering, and the piping of BLObs down the Clinton-Gore InfoPike."
ack n. [Origin: back-formed negation of nak.] A signal indicating that the error-detection circuits have failed.
computer science n. [Origin: possibly Prof. P. B. Fellgett's rhetorical question, "Is computer science?"] A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.
multimedia n. An application attacking all five senses of the user -- sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch -- but especially, smell.
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- Author(s): Peter Richards
- ISBN: 9780727917126
- Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Mar 2003
- Pages: 149
The definitive guide to a career in medicine. This book will help students to decide whether a course in medicine is the right career path for them. As well as information on courses, schools and making an application, students will find out what to expect from life as a medical student and doctor.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780262082228
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 02 Aug 1993
- Pages: 424
Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The twenty-one contributions focus on the implementation, application, and impact of computer-mediated communication in a global context.
Previously limited to scientific research, global networks now have an impact on social, educational, and business communications. Individuals with a personal computer, a modem, and some simple software can join a new social community that is based on interest, not location.
Global Networks, which was written largely with the assistance of the internet, provides an understanding of the issues, opportunities, and pitfalls of this new social connectivity. It looks at how -networking technology can support and augment communication and collaboration from such perspectives as policy constraints and opportunities, language differences, cross-cultural communication, and social network design.
Linda M. Harasim is a Professor in the Department of
Communications at Simon Fraser University.
Contributors: Linda M. Harasim. John Quarterman. Howard Rheingold. Anne Branscomb. Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler. Marvin Manheim. Hiroshi Ishii. Jan Walls. Michael Kirby and Catherine Murray. Andrew Feenberg. Robin Mason. Margaret Riel. Beryl Bellman, Alex Jeffrey Shapard. Lucio Teles. Howard Frederick. Mitchell Kapor and Daniel Weitzner. Shumpei Kumon and lzurni Aizu. Robert Jacobson. read more at Amazon
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780787649340
- Publisher: Thomson Gale
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Dec 2001
- Pages: 2762
From Library Journal Designed for students of nursing and the allied health professions, caregivers, and the educated lay reader, this five-volume set includes over 850 signed articles on various aspects of nursing. Covered here are nursing and allied healthcare education and training, current health issues (viewpoints, professional implications), tests and procedures (descriptions, precautions, aftercare), and equipment/tools (descriptions, operation, healthcare team roles), as well as diseases (causes, diagnosis, treatment) and human biology/body systems (functions, role in human health). Although there is some overlap, particularly in the last two categories with The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (LJ 2/15/99; 2d ed. 2001), this text focuses primarily on the interests of nurses and allied health professionals. According to the preface, the essays were contributed by physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, but Krapp (The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine) has not always indicated their credentials. Over 400 black-and-white illustrations or photos and 50 tables enhance the material, as does an extensive list of print and nonprint resources, which includes up-to-date web addresses. The alphabetical arrangement, the shaded boxes defining key terms, and the ample cross references will be familiar to users of other Gale reference products. This work will make an excellent, albeit expensive, addition to large public libraries and graduate institutions offering appropriate programs. Margaret K. Norden, Marymount Univ. Lib., Arlington, VA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From This new encyclopedia from Gale covers a wide range of subjects related to nursing and the allied health professions. The 850 signed alphabetical entries deal with diseases and disorders
(Alcoholism, Movement disorders ); tests and procedures
(Barium enema, Lithotripsy ); equipment and tools
(Heart-lung machines, Stethoscope) ; human biology and body systems
(Cardiovascular system, Cell division) ; nursing and allied health professions
(Biomedical engineering, Nurse midwifery ); and current health issues
(Americans with Disabilities Act, Managed care plans ).
The entries are one to six pages long. They include definitions and descriptions along with basic material related to the subject (diagnosis and treatment of diseases, maintenance of equipment, and required education for careers). Definitions of key terms appear in shaded boxes, and black-and-white illustrations augment the text. Resource lists appear at the ends of the articles. An appendix lists allied health and nursing organizations.
Although there is a great deal of useful material here, all of it is readily available in other sources that libraries may own. General medical encyclopedias such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2d ed., Gale, 2001), the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (11th ed., Ferguson, 2000), The Encyclopedia of Associations (Gale, annual), and the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice (7th ed., Lippincott, 2001) cover much of this subject matter. This high-priced, redundant source is not a necessary purchase. RBB
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Gregory J. E. Rawlins
- ISBN: 9780262680974
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 09 May 1997
- Pages: 194
In
Moths to the Flame , Gregory Rawlins takes us on a humorous yet thought-provoking tour of the world wrought by modern technology.
The book's first four chapters explore the worlds of privacy, virtual reality, publishing, and computer networks, while the last four focus on social issues such as warfare, jobs, computer catastrophes, and the future itself. Throughout, eye-opening historical comparisons give a context for the computer age, showing how new technologies have always bred hope and resistance. Provocative yet balanced and sophisticated,
Moths to the Flame is an indispensable guidebook to the future.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): M. Gabriel Khan
- ISBN: 9781588299796
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 3
- Date: 18 Sep 2007
- Pages: 416
With a step-by-step method for accurate interpretation of the ECG, this third edition of Rapid ECG Interpretation describes a systematic approach consistent with the changes in cardiology practice over the past decade. All diagnostic ECG criteria are given with relevant and instructive ECGs, providing a quick review or refresher for proficiency tests and for physicians preparing for the ECG section of the Cardiovascular Diseases Board Examination.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780262531375
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Date: 01 Aug 1996
- Pages: 226
Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to manipulate matter -- to program matter -- with atomic precision will utterly change the economic, ecological, and cultural fabric of our lives. This book, which is accessible to a broad audience while providing references to the technical literature, presents a wide range of potential applications of this new material technology.
The first chapter introduces the basic concepts of molecular engineering and demonstrates that several mutually reinforcing trends in current research are leading directly into a world of surprisingly powerful molecular machines. Nine original essays on specific applications follow the introductory chapter. The first section presents applications of nanotechnology that interact directly with the molecular systems of the human body. The second presents applications that function, for the most part, outside the body. The final section details the mechanisms of a universal human-machine interface and the operation of an extremely high resolution display system.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:23pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Evis Sala, Alan H. Freeman, David J. Lomas, Helmut Ringl
- ISBN: 9781848000957
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Mar 2008
- Pages: 144
Cross-sectional imaging is now widely available and routinely used as part of decision-making process in surgical patients. Advances in techniques, the availability and combination of different imaging modalities have made rapid and accurate diagnoses possible. This book provides basic information on these imaging findings in the main surgical pathologies.
The first part describes the principles of imaging and different imaging techniques available. Giving pros and cons of each technique, it provides useful information and guidance on the appropriate choice of imaging. Symptom-based, rather than organ-based, the second part provides a practical approach to imaging patients with common surgical complaints in order to aid understanding and encourage a problem-solving approach to selecting different imaging modalities.
Providing a simple diagnostic framework for common surgical situations, this useful guide will be invaluable for surgical residents, trainees, medical students, and consultant surgeons.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:22pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540297338
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Apr 2008
- Pages: 626
Beginning with the scientific basis of tumors, "The Surgery of Childhood Tumors" provides up-to-date information on epidemiology, cytogenetics and molecular biology, before looking at current treatments, integrating surgery, neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Additionally, a chapter on counseling reflects the book's holistic approach to treating children with cancer.
The chapters are written by world-renowned international authorities on pediatric cancer from major children's cancer groups in the UK, Europe and the US. Contributors discuss geographical variations in treatment for each type of tumor. Excellent full-colour pictures and detailed line drawings illustrate all aspects of managing childhood tumors, including technical details of operation which are often neglected in other texts. This comprehensive book provides a contemporary approach for pediatric, general and urological surgeons dealing with childhood tumors. New chapters in this second edition provide the latest developments and strategies in pediatric surgical oncology.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:22pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Alberto Rosenblatt, Renaud Bollens, Baldo Espinoza Cohen
- ISBN: 9783540747260
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Apr 2008
- Pages: 226
In this book every urologic procedure is described in a step by step sequence of events and the text is supplemented with innumerous Tips, colored illustrations and high definition photographs depicting the main steps of the procedures. The structure of every chapter is extremely clear, and emphasis is given to the laparoscopic surgical technique. The aim of this manual is to provide the Urologic Surgeon the practice of the art of Laparoscopic Surgery. It guides the reader through every stage of the laparoscopic procedure, from the equipment's settings to the correct position of the needle on the needle holder.
The first chapter introduces the reader to the basic aspect of Laparoscopy, the physiologic effecs of pneumoperitoneum and its potential clinical outcome in the body systems, anesthesia problems in laparoscopy, technical considerations and check list on equipment and instruments. It demonstrates he correct handling of laparoscopic instruments, going through basic and advanced suturing techniques. The following chapters describe the surgical technique of urological procedures with detail, including an introduction to the subject and ending with an updated suggested readings list.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:22pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Howard Feldman
- ISBN: 9780415390453
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Jul 2007
- Pages: 160
Authored by one of the world's leading authorities on the management of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, this highly illustrated atlas describes the colorful history of Alzheimer's disease; its neuropathological basis from structural brain imaging and post-mortem studies; and its devastating effects on perception, cognition, communication, and social behavior. The book will also place great emphasis on the increasingly identifiable risk factors for development of the disease, with a view towards prevention.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:22pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780415425803
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare
- Edition: 2
- Date: 26 Dec 2007
- Pages: 760
The First Edition did much to establish and define the scope of the emerging subspecialty of aging men's health. The central mission of the new edition is to unpick normal physiologic aging in men from pathologic processes. We plan to eschew any material that is routinely available in the standard textbooks of medicine and geriatrics and maintain a unique male perspective. Wherever possible, the book will record consensus on diagnostic criteria, emphasize evidence-based medicine, and highlight translational science, i.e. the demonstration of how knowledge of the molecular and physiological processes can inform and lead clinical practice. There will be increased advice on treatment options. There will be two new sections: Basic Sciences and Sexual Dysfunction.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:22pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John Maindonald, John Braun
- ISBN: 9780521813365
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Aug 2003
- Pages: 400
Using modern statistical software systems requires training both in the software itself and in the underlying statistical methods. Concentrating on the freely available R system, this volume demonstrates recently implemented approaches and methods in statistical analysis. The authors introduce elementary concepts in statistics through examples of real-world data analysis drawn from their experience as teachers and as consultants. R code and data sets for all examples are available on the Internet. This emphasis on practical methodology combined with a tutorial approach makes the book accessible to anyone with a knowledge of undergraduate-level statistics. The methods demonstrated are suitable for use in a wide variety of disciplines, from social sciences to medicine, engineering and science.
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- Author(s): Lincoln D. Stein
- ISBN: 9780201615715
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
- Date: 06 Jan 2001
- Pages: 784
"Network programming"--the term had a distinct meaning once, but now it begs the question, "Is there another kind?" That's why Lincoln Stein's
Network Programming with Perl is valuable. It shows how one of the world's top Perl authorities brings the language to bear on problems that require communication among computers, showing that you may not have to resort to Java as soon as you may have thought to meet a networking requirement. What's more, Stein doesn't assume you have a lot of Perl expertise. An intermediate-level familiarity with the language should enable you to understand the examples in the book and follow its classic code-and-commentary structure.
Stein presents full, working scripts, calling attention to particularly interesting lines and passages by repeating them in the text. If a program makes use of an unusual or previously undiscussed function (and lots of them do, because one of the author's missions is to introduce the contents of specialized libraries), its syntax and legal parameters will be documented and a concise statement of its behavior provided. The example programs are the best part of this book, though. As the problems get more complicated, it's fun to watch Stein solve them with efficient, attractive code. Unless you're a really experienced professional, you'll be able to study the examples in this book and learn a lot. --David Wall
Topics covered:
- Perl function libraries and techniques that allow programs to interact with resources over a network
- IO::Socket library
- Net::FTP library
- Net::Telnet library
- Net::SMTP library
- Chat problems
- Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) issues
- Markup-language parsing
- Internet Protocol (IP) broadcasting and multicasting
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:22pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780471193630
- Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
- Date: 16 Dec 2002
- Pages: 1638
This Encyclopedia provides coverage of a wide range of topics contributed by experts world wide. The work emphasizes the chemicals used in agriculture for management of pests, their development, use, metabolism, toxicology and mode of action. These chemicals include pesticides, such as the herbicides (weed killers), insecticides and fungicides. Applications of biotechnology are included as are discussions of natural products and growth regulators. Fertilizers and soil fertility are covered at length as well as the persistence of pesticide residues, their degradation, environmental transport and implications of their residues in the environmental. Toxicological and regulatory implications are included throughout.
* Comprehensive range of topics included - emphasizing chemicals used in pest management and soil fertility.
* Cover the chemistry, properties, toxicology, biotechnology, regulatory and environmental aspects of agrochemicals.
* Expert contributors from around the world.
* Provides an introduction to the field of agrochemicals.
* Environmental and toxicological aspects are included.
This work is a single source reference containing authoritative articles, definitions, literature citations and suggestions for further reading.
Available as a 3-volume print set or a convenient online edition. For details regarding the online edition please visit Wiley InterScience at www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/eoa
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:21pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540773696
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 25 Feb 2008
- Pages: 393
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2007, held in Saint Malo, France, in June 2007.
The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on new steganographic schemes, watermarking schemes, computer security, steganography and code theory, watermarking security, steganalysis, watermarking and re-synchronization, fingerprinting, forensics, and steganalysis.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:21pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): S.N. Sivanandam, S. Sumathi, S. N. Deepa
- ISBN: 9783540357803
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 16 Nov 2006
- Pages: 430
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:02pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Frank P. Incropera, David P. DeWitt
- ISBN: 9780471386490
- Publisher: Wiley
- Edition: 4
- Date: 15 Aug 2001
- Pages: 912
The de facto standard text for heat transfer - noted for its readability, comprehensiveness and relevancy. Now revised to include clarified learning objectives, chapter summaries and many new problems. The fourth edition, like previous editions, continues to support four student learning objectives, desired attributes of any first course in heat transfer:
* Learn the meaning of the terminology and physical principles of heat transfer delineate pertinent transport phenomena for any process or system involving heat transfer.
* Use requisite inputs for computing heat transfer rates and/or material temperatures.
* Develop representative models of real processes and systems and draw conclusions concerning process/systems design or performance from the attendant analysis.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:02pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard E. Sonntag, Claus Borgnakke, Gordon J. Van Wylen
- ISBN: 9780471152323
- Publisher: Wiley
- Edition: 6
- Date: 26 Aug 2002
- Pages: 816
For the past three decades, Sonntag, Borgnakke, and Van Wylen's FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMODYNAMICS has been the leading textbook in the field. Now updated and enhanced with numerous worked examples, homework problems, and illustrations, and a rich selection of Web-based learning resources, the new Sixth Edition continues to present a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics, while retaining an engineering perspective.
The text lays the groundwork for subsequent studies in fields such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer and statistical thermodynamics, and prepares students to effectively apply thermodynamics in the practice of engineering.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:02pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Suzanne Baron, Christoph Lee
- ISBN: 9780071453653
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Oct 2005
- Pages: 384
Lange Flash Cards: Pharmacology covers all major pharmacologic agents through a succinct and thorough presentation of each prototypical drug and key characteristics. The cards focus on the most high-yield drugs and examine the associated biochemistry, physiology, and microbiology in relation to the mechanisms of action of each drug. Clinical pharmacology is one of the most-tested subjects on Step 1, comprising approximately 15-20% of all questions
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:02pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ahindra Nag
- ISBN: 9780071489706
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Dec 2007
- Pages: 312
Learn about the ways to economically manufacture biofuels
Written by a team of international experts, Biofuels Refining and Performance describes the refining processes and issues involved in producing fuel derived from recently living organisms or their by-products. Each chapter offers detailed discussion of theory as well as the actual experimental procedure used to economically manufacture biofuels on a commercial scale.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:01pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540754176
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 29 Feb 2008
- Pages: 296
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: August 26th, 2008, 3:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kenneth J. Ryan, C. George Ray
- ISBN: 9780838585290
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
- Edition: 4
- Date: 14 Jul 2003
- Pages: 992
The leading microbiology text! Thoroughly revised and updated, this book provides students with a solid grasp of etiologic agents, pathogenic processes, epidemiology, and the basis of major therapy. Includes complete discussions of the major bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic pathogens. Highlighted marginal notes and clinical applications are included throughout.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Patience Worth
- ISBN: 9780787309817
- Publisher: Health Research
- Date: 27 Jun 1976
- Pages: 640
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Stan Gibilisco, Norman H. Crowhurst
- ISBN: 9780071494489
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
- Edition: 3
- Date: 09 Oct 2007
- Pages: 627
A thorough revision of the classic tutorial of scientific and engineering mathematics
For more than fifteen years, Mastering Technical Mathematics has been the definitive self-teaching guide for those wishing to boost their career by learning the principles of mathematics as they apply to science and engineering. Featuring the same user-friendly pedagogy, practical examples, and detailed illustrations that have made this resource a favorite of the scientific and technical communities, the new third edition delivers four entirely new chapters and expanded treatment of cutting-edge topics.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Joyce Y. Johnson
- ISBN: 9780071496247
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Dec 2007
- Pages: 304
The balanced way to learn about fluids and electrolytes
Need a solid foundation in fluids and electrolytes but finding this complex subject difficult to permeate? Here's the solution! Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified makes everything so easy to understand, you'll feel like you're learning through osmosis.
Written by a nursing professor, this accessible guide explains, clearly and concisely, the key elements underlying fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance and imbalances. You will learn about the various health conditions related to imbalances and get details on diagnostic testing, regulators, and treatment options. Useful charts and key terms throughout help you to remember important concepts. Complete with end-of-chapter quizzes to test your knowledge, this book will teach you the fundamentals of fluids and electrolytes in no time at all.
Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified is your shortcut to mastering this essential nursing topic.
This fast and easy guide offers:
- Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter
- An NCLEX-style quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses
- Causes and symptoms of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalance-related conditions
- Coverage of diagnostic tests and treatment options
- A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781402069628
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Feb 2008
- Pages: 441
Physical laws are for the most part expressed in terms of differential equations, and natural classes of these are in the form of conservation laws or of problems of the calculus of variations for an action functional. These problems can generally be posed as Hamiltonian systems, whether dynamical systems on finite dimensional phase space as in classical mechanics, or partial differential equations (PDE) which are naturally of infinitely many degrees of freedom. This volume is the collected and extended notes from the lectures on Hamiltonian dynamical systems and their applications that were given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute in Montreal in 2007. Many aspects of the modern theory of the subject were covered at this event, including low dimensional problems as well as the theory of Hamiltonian systems in infinite dimensional phase space; these are described in depth in this volume. Applications are also presented to several important areas of research, including problems in classical mechanics, continuum mechanics, and partial differential equations. These lecture notes cover many areas of recent mathematical progress in this field, including the new choreographies of many body orbits, the development of rigorous averaging methods which give hope for realistic long time stability results, the development of KAM theory for partial differential equations in one and in higher dimensions, and the new developments in the long outstanding problem of Arnold diffusion. It also includes other contributions to celestial mechanics, to control theory, to partial differential equations of fluid dynamics, and to the theory of adiabatic invariants. In particular the last several years has seen major progress on the problems of KAM theory and Arnold diffusion; accordingly, this volume includes lectures on recent developments of KAM theory in infinite dimensional phase space, and descriptions of Arnold diffusion using variational methods as well as geometrical approaches to the gap problem. The subjects in question involve by necessity some of the most technical aspects of analysis coming from a number of diverse fields. Before the present volume, there has not been one text nor one course of study in which advanced students or experienced researchers from other areas can obtain an overview and background to enter this research area. This volume offers this, in an unparalleled series of extended lectures encompassing this wide spectrum of topics in PDE and dynamical systems.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Don Brown, Chad Davis, Scott Stanlick
- ISBN: 9781933988078
- Publisher: Manning Publications
- Date: 01 May 2008
- Pages: 500
The original Struts project revolutionized Java web development and its rapid adoption resulted in the thousands of Struts-based applications deployed worldwide. Keeping pace with new ideas and trends, Apache Struts 2 has emerged as the product of a merger between the Apache Struts and OpenSymphony WebWork projects, united in their goal to develop an easy-to-use yet feature-rich framework. Struts 2 represents a revolution in design and ease of use when compared to classic Struts. It adds exciting and powerful features such as a plugin framework, JavaServer Faces integration, and XML-free configuration.
Struts 2 In Action introduces the Apache Struts 2 web application framework and shows you how to quickly develop professional, production-ready modern web applications. Written by Don Brown, one of the leading developers of Struts 2, Chad Davis, a passionate Struts 2 developer, along with Scott Stanlick, this book gently walks you through the key features of Struts 2 in example-driven, easy-to-digest sections.
Struts 2 in Action delivers accurate, seasoned information that can immediately be put to work. This book is designed for working Java web developers-especially those with some background in Struts 1 or WebWork. The core content, covering key framework components such as Actions, Results, and Interceptors, includes new features like the annotation-based configuration options. You'll find chapters on Struts 2 plugins, FreeMarker, and migration from Struts 1 and WebWork 2. Finally, new topics such as the Ajax tags, Spring Framework integration, and configuration by convention give familiar subjects new depth.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781588299390
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Feb 2008
- Pages: 228
With the growing global fear of a major pandemic, avian influenza virus research has increased greatly in importance during this young century. In Avian Influenza Virus, an expert team of researchers and diagnosticians examine the fundamental yet essential virological methods for AI virus research and diagnostics as well as some of the newest molecular procedures currently used for basic and applied research. Exciting, cutting-edge new methods focus on studying the virus itself and work with avian hosts, an area greatly lacking in research. Following the format of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, each chapter provides readily reproducible laboratory protocols offering step-by-step instruction and lists of the necessary equipment for the task.
Comprehensive and timely, Avian Influenza Virus equips diagnosticians and researchers with the current tools and information they need to learn more about this high impact disease.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Canavos
- ISBN: 9789684518568
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
- Date: 27 Apr 1994
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- Author(s): Gina Greifenstein
- ISBN: 9783833806568
- Publisher: Graefe und Unzer Verlag
- Date: 28 Feb 2007
- Pages: 64
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- Author(s): James Chambers, Lee Ann Chearney, Deborah S. Romaine, Candace B., Ph.D. Levy, Cathy S. Jewell
- ISBN: 9780816060634
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Nov 2006
- Pages: 1765
From Health and medicine are among the most common subjects leading patrons to the library. Organized by body system, this four-volume encyclopedia provides basic overviews of the human body and the diseases and conditions that may affect its function. Volume 1 covers the ears, nose, mouth, and throat; the eyes; the integumentary system; the nervous system; the musculoskeletal system; and pain and pain management. Volume 2 is the cardiovascular system, the blood and lymph, the pulmonary system, the immune system and allergies, infectious diseases, and cancer. The gastrointestinal system, the endocrine system, the urinary system, the reproductive system, and psychiatric disorders and psychological conditions comprise volume 3, and volume 4 has sections for topics such as preventive and alternative medicine, drugs, nutrition, and emergency first aid. Appendixes offer information about vital signs, advance directives, and medical specialties as well as a glossary of medical terms and abbreviations, a time line of modern medicine, and concise, notable biographies. Each volume has its own index, and there is a cumulative index in volume 4. Within the volumes, each section begins with diagrams and an overview of the anatomy and physiology of the organ system. Alphabetical entries covering individual topics follow. Entries for diseases and conditions include causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, prognosis, risk factors, and preventive measures. Those for surgical procedures cover an explanation of the procedure, risks and complications, outlook, and lifestyle modifications. Entries about drugs discuss the type of medication, how it works, common uses, and risks and side effects. Those for diagnostic tests cover the reasons for the test, preparations, how the test is done, recovery, and risks and complications. All entries have cross-references to related material within the same section. The entries in the emergency-first-aid section contain instructional material, but users will need to take a class to perform most of these techniques effectively. The information about what to tell a dispatcher when calling 911, how to protect oneself, and what not to do at an accident scene is very useful. This encyclopedia is a good choice for libraries that do not own the more comprehensive Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (3d ed., 2006). The organization may be confusing for users accustomed to the traditional alphabetical format, but the index will help them locate the material that they need. Bibel, Barbara
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- Author(s): Richard Noll
- ISBN: 9780816064052
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Edition: 3
- Date: 30 Oct 2006
- Pages: 400
From Library Journal In this collection of short articles, Noll (psychology, Allentown Coll.; The Jung Cult: Origins of Charismatic Movement) explores the history, etiology, biology, and treatment of psychotic disorders. The encyclopedia's positive features include excellent references for further reading at the end of each article, a good bibliography, appendixes listing the North American and European diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, and sources of further information on schizophrenia. But by Noll's admission, the emphasis here is almost exclusively on schizophrenia, with bipolar disorder and other psychoses receiving scant coverage. While the little snippets on such topics as "Utica Cribs" and "Vampirism, Clinical" are interesting, it is hard to imagine the reference search that would lead to them. In general, this seems like the sort of book that would be handiest in the practitioner or scholar's office. For larger academic collections.DMary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Schizophrenia has plagued, mystified, and baffled the human race for centuries. At various times it was attributed to cosmic forces overtaking one's soul or being possessed by Satan. Finally, through the study of psychiatry in the nineteenth century, schizophrenia was identified and recognized as an illness. Recent DNA research has recognized a genetic link to mental illness, but the specific cause of schizophrenia still remains to be identified.
The latest edition of the Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders has been revised and expanded to reflect the latest (post-1999) scientific and scholarly research. Biologically related schizophrenic disorders, genetics, antipsychotic drug treatments, and pathophysiology are a few of the topics explored in the more than 600 entries. Among the new entries are Brief psychotic disorder, Electronarcosis therapy, Glutamate hypothesis, and Substance-induced psychotic disorder. In addition, author Noll has taken advantage of new scholarship on the history of psychiatry "to place the science of schizophrenia into its historical context" and revise entries such as Dementia praecox. Many entries discussed separately in previous volumes have been combined in this volume to provide clearer, more thorough explanations. Appendixes list diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and information for pertinent organizations.
As with both previous editions, as well as other volumes in the Facts On File Library of Health and Living, the language is clear, making this volume equally suitable for use by patients, scholars, and general readers. A solid addition for health collections. Ann Cohen
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- Author(s): Sander Gilman
- ISBN: 9780415974202
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Nov 2007
- Pages: 308
Diets and dieting have concerned--and sometimes obsessed--human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. In this innovative reference work that spans many periods and cultures, the acclaimed cultural and medical historian Sander Gilman lays out the history of diets and dieting in a fascinating series of articles.
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- Author(s): Gail E. FitzSimons
- ISBN: 9781402006692
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Jul 2002
- Pages: 280
This book presents an institutional study located at the intersection mathematics education and vocational education. Using the concept of technology as a unifying theme, the book presents a critique of neoliberalist policies and their impact upon curriculum, teachers' work, and the apparent de-institutionalisation of vocational education - with particular reference to mathematics education and the consequences for adult students as (potential) workers and citizens.
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- ISBN: 9780387254753
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Apr 2005
- Pages: 254
We are witnessing the important developments of complex dynamic systems which include the areas of telecommunications, manufacturing, transportation or power networks, and the rapidly emerging research area seeking to understand and analyze biological systems using the tools of systems theory. In addition, countries' economies are increasingly dependent in the ongoing globalization of economic exchanges. This is in large part made possible by the massive development of information technologies, and the ubiquity of communication systems which permit the existence of global marketplaces.
ANALYSIS, CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS gathers in a single volume a spectrum of complex dynamic systems related papers written by experts in their fields, and strongly representative of current research trends. Complex systems present important challenges, in great part due to their sheer size which makes it difficult to grasp their dynamic behavior, optimize their operations, or study their reliability. Yet, we live in a world where, due to increasing inter-dependencies and networking of systems, complexity has become the norm. With this in mind, the volume comprises two parts. The first part is dedicated to a spectrum of complex problems of decision and control encountered in the area of production and inventory systems. The second part is dedicated to large scale or multi-agent system problems occurring in other areas of engineering such as telecommunication and electric power networks, as well as more generic context.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:58pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781414406145
- Publisher: Gale Cengage
- Date: 03 Nov 2006
- Pages: 859
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:58pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780792381822
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Jun 1998
- Pages: 452
An exciting new development has taken place in the digital era that has captured the imagination and talent of researchers around the globe -
wavelet image compression . This technology has deep roots in theories of vision, and promises performance improvements over all other compression methods, such as those based on Fourier transforms, vectors quantizers, fractals, neural nets, and many others. It is this revolutionary new technology that is presented in
Wavelet Image and Video Compression , in a form that is accessible to the largest audience possible.
Wavelet Image and Video Compression is divided into four parts. Part I,
Background Material , introduces the basic mathematical structures that underly image compression algorithms with the intention of providing an easy introduction to the mathematical concepts that are prerequisites for the remainder of the book. It explains such topics as change of bases, scalar and vector quantization, bit allocation and rate-distortion theory, entropy coding, the discrete-cosine transform, wavelet filters and other related topics. Part II,
Still Image Coding , presents a spectrum of wavelet still image coding techniques. Part III,
Special Topics in Still Image Coding , provides a variety of example coding schemes with a special flavor in either approach or application domain. Part IV,
Video Coding , examines wavelet and pyramidal coding techniques for video data.
Wavelet Image and Video Compression serves as an excellent reference and may be used as a text for advanced courses covering the subject.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:58pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor
- ISBN: 9780520087606
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 03 Nov 1997
- Pages: 380
This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming, from fundraising to exhibition, in lucid and complete detail--information never before assembled in one place. The first section discusses filmmaking styles and the assumptions that frequently hide unacknowledged behind them, as well as the practical and ethical issues involved in moving from fieldwork to filmmaking. The second section concisely and clearly explains the technical aspects, including how to select and use equipment, how to shoot film and video, and the reasons for choosing one or the other, and how to record sound. Finally, the third section outlines the entire process of filmmaking: preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Filled with useful illustrations and covering documentary and ethnographic filmmaking of all kinds,
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking will be as essential to the anthropologist or independent documentarian on location as to the student in the classroom.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:58pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Osamu Saeki
- ISBN: 9783540230212
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Dec 2004
- Pages: 145
The volume develops a thorough theory of singular fibers of generic differentiable maps. This is the first work that establishes the foundational framework of the global study of singular differentiable maps of negative codimension from the viewpoint of differential topology. The book contains not only a general theory, but also some explicit examples together with a number of very concrete applications.
This is a very interesting subject in differential topology, since it shows a beautiful interplay between the usual theory of singularities of differentiable maps and the geometric topology of manifolds.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:57pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780387160085
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Jan 1986
- Pages: 347
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- Author(s): Jerrold E. Marsden, Gerard Misiolek, Juan-Pablo Ortega, Matthew Perlmutter, Tudor S. Ratiu
- ISBN: 9783540724698
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 24 Aug 2007
- Pages: 524
In this volume readers will find for the first time a detailed account of the theory of symplectic reduction by stages, along with numerous illustrations of the theory. Special emphasis is given to group extensions, including a detailed discussion of the Euclidean group, the oscillator group, the Bott-Virasoro group and other groups of matrices. Ample background theory on symplectic reduction and cotangent bundle reduction in particular is provided. Novel features of the book are the inclusion of a systematic treatment of the cotangent bundle case, including the identification of cocycles with magnetic terms, as well as the general theory of singular reduction by stages.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:43pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781588291585
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Apr 2004
- Pages: 328
This concise survey of stroke and stroke prevention contains all the up-to-date resources that a physician needs everyday in the office to assess and treat patients at high risk of stroke. The authors isolate the individual areas where intervention can help reduce stroke risk, provide background data on the major risk factors (hypertension, lipids, diabetes, tobacco, and alcohol), and offer practical advice on lifestyle issues, such as diet, vitamin use, and exercise. Among the therapies fully discussed are lipid management, antithrombotic therapy, hormonal therapy, stenting, and angioplasty.
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- ISBN: 9781588291585
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Apr 2004
- Pages: 328
This concise survey of stroke and stroke prevention contains all the up-to-date resources that a physician needs everyday in the office to assess and treat patients at high risk of stroke. The authors isolate the individual areas where intervention can help reduce stroke risk, provide background data on the major risk factors (hypertension, lipids, diabetes, tobacco, and alcohol), and offer practical advice on lifestyle issues, such as diet, vitamin use, and exercise. Among the therapies fully discussed are lipid management, antithrombotic therapy, hormonal therapy, stenting, and angioplasty.
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- Author(s): Marie-Francine Moens
- ISBN: 9780792377931
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Mar 2000
- Pages: 288
Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts summarizes the latest techniques of automatic indexing and abstracting, and the results of their application. It also places the techniques in the context of the study of text, manual indexing and abstracting, and the use of the indexing descriptions and abstracts in systems that select documents or information from large collections. Important sections of the book consider the development of new techniques for indexing and abstracting. The techniques involve the following: using text grammars, learning of the themes of the texts including the identification of representative sentences or paragraphs by means of adequate cluster algorithms, and learning of classification patterns of texts. In addition, the book is an attempt to illuminate new avenues for future research.
Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts is an excellent reference for researchers and professionals working in the field of content management and information retrieval.
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- Author(s): Marie-Francine Moens
- ISBN: 9780792377931
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Mar 2000
- Pages: 288
Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts summarizes the latest techniques of automatic indexing and abstracting, and the results of their application. It also places the techniques in the context of the study of text, manual indexing and abstracting, and the use of the indexing descriptions and abstracts in systems that select documents or information from large collections. Important sections of the book consider the development of new techniques for indexing and abstracting. The techniques involve the following: using text grammars, learning of the themes of the texts including the identification of representative sentences or paragraphs by means of adequate cluster algorithms, and learning of classification patterns of texts. In addition, the book is an attempt to illuminate new avenues for future research.
Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts is an excellent reference for researchers and professionals working in the field of content management and information retrieval.
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- Author(s): O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor, J.Z. Zhu
- ISBN: 9780750663205
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 6
- Date: 21 Mar 2005
- Pages: 752
The Sixth Edition of this influential best-selling book delivers the most up-to-date and comprehensive text and reference yet on the basis of the finite element method (FEM) for all engineers and mathematicians. Since the appearance of the first edition 38 years ago, The Finite Element Method provides arguably the most authoritative introductory text to the method, covering the latest developments and approaches in this dynamic subject, and is amply supplemented by exercises, worked solutions and computer algorithms.
The classic FEM text, written by the subject's leading authors
Enhancements include more worked examples and exercises, plus a companion website with a solutions manual and downloadable algorithms
With a new chapter on automatic mesh generation and added materials on shape function development and the use of higher order elements in solving elasticity and field problems
Active research has shaped The Finite Element Method into the pre-eminent tool for the modelling of physical systems. It maintains the comprehensive style of earlier editions, while presenting the systematic development for the solution of problems modelled by linear differential equations.
Together with the second and third self-contained volumes (0750663219 and 0750663227), The Finite Element Method Set (0750664312) provides a formidable resource covering the theory and the application of FEM, including the basis of the method, its application to advanced solid and structural mechanics and to computational fluid dynamics.
* The classic introduction to the finite element method, by two of the subject's leading authors
* Any professional or student of engineering involved in understanding the computational modelling of physical systems will inevitably use the techniques in this key text
* Enhancements include more worked examples, exercises, plus a companion website with a worked solutions manual for tutors and downloadable algorithms
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- Author(s): O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor, J.Z. Zhu
- ISBN: 9780750663205
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 6
- Date: 21 Mar 2005
- Pages: 752
The Sixth Edition of this influential best-selling book delivers the most up-to-date and comprehensive text and reference yet on the basis of the finite element method (FEM) for all engineers and mathematicians. Since the appearance of the first edition 38 years ago, The Finite Element Method provides arguably the most authoritative introductory text to the method, covering the latest developments and approaches in this dynamic subject, and is amply supplemented by exercises, worked solutions and computer algorithms.
The classic FEM text, written by the subject's leading authors
Enhancements include more worked examples and exercises, plus a companion website with a solutions manual and downloadable algorithms
With a new chapter on automatic mesh generation and added materials on shape function development and the use of higher order elements in solving elasticity and field problems
Active research has shaped The Finite Element Method into the pre-eminent tool for the modelling of physical systems. It maintains the comprehensive style of earlier editions, while presenting the systematic development for the solution of problems modelled by linear differential equations.
Together with the second and third self-contained volumes (0750663219 and 0750663227), The Finite Element Method Set (0750664312) provides a formidable resource covering the theory and the application of FEM, including the basis of the method, its application to advanced solid and structural mechanics and to computational fluid dynamics.
* The classic introduction to the finite element method, by two of the subject's leading authors
* Any professional or student of engineering involved in understanding the computational modelling of physical systems will inevitably use the techniques in this key text
* Enhancements include more worked examples, exercises, plus a companion website with a worked solutions manual for tutors and downloadable algorithms
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- Author(s): Beth Williamson
- ISBN: 9780192803283
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 09 Sep 2004
- Pages: 144
This Very Short Introduction decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found in Christian art: the Eucharist, the image of the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, Old and New Testament narrative imagery, and iconography. It also explores the theological and historical background of
Christian imagery, from the devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the twenty-first century.
Williamson uses examples from, amongst others, Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rosetti. She concludes by outlining the co-existence in contemporary 'post-Christian' culture of the deliberately controversial works of artists such as Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili, alongside the consciously devotional
works of those such as Eric Gill and Peter Blake.
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- Author(s): Beth Williamson
- ISBN: 9780192803283
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 09 Sep 2004
- Pages: 144
This Very Short Introduction decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found in Christian art: the Eucharist, the image of the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, Old and New Testament narrative imagery, and iconography. It also explores the theological and historical background of
Christian imagery, from the devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the twenty-first century.
Williamson uses examples from, amongst others, Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rosetti. She concludes by outlining the co-existence in contemporary 'post-Christian' culture of the deliberately controversial works of artists such as Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili, alongside the consciously devotional
works of those such as Eric Gill and Peter Blake.
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- Author(s): Eleanor Nesbitt
- ISBN: 9780192806017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 08 Dec 2005
- Pages: 176
The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is ranked as the world's fifth largest religion. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11 indicated that they were being mistaken for Muslims, and suggests that the raising
of sufficient and appropriate awareness about Sikhism still needs to be addressed. This book is one of the first to introduce newcomers to Sikhism's meanings, beliefs, practices, rituals, and festivals. Eleanor Nesbitt highlights the key threads in the fascinating history, from the Gurus and the
development of the Sikh appearance, to martyrdom and militarization in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the diaspora. She also examines the recent proliferation of Sikh lifestyles in today's news and entertainment media. This book is an essential guide to increasing understanding of the Sikh
religion and culture.
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- Author(s): Eleanor Nesbitt
- ISBN: 9780192806017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 08 Dec 2005
- Pages: 176
The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is ranked as the world's fifth largest religion. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11 indicated that they were being mistaken for Muslims, and suggests that the raising
of sufficient and appropriate awareness about Sikhism still needs to be addressed. This book is one of the first to introduce newcomers to Sikhism's meanings, beliefs, practices, rituals, and festivals. Eleanor Nesbitt highlights the key threads in the fascinating history, from the Gurus and the
development of the Sikh appearance, to martyrdom and militarization in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the diaspora. She also examines the recent proliferation of Sikh lifestyles in today's news and entertainment media. This book is an essential guide to increasing understanding of the Sikh
religion and culture.
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- Author(s): Ryan Russell, Ido Dubrawsky, FX, Joe Grand, Tim Mullen
- ISBN: 9781931836876
- Publisher: Syngress
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Apr 2003
- Pages: 330
"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box" is NOT intended to be a "install, configure, update, troubleshoot, and defend book." It is also NOT another one of the countless Hacker books out there. So, what IS it? It is an edgy, provocative, attack-oriented series of chapters written in a first hand, conversational style. World-renowned network security personalities present a series of 25 to 30 page chapters written from the point of an attacker who is gaining access to a particular system. This book portrays the "street fighting" tactics used to attack networks and systems.
Not just another "hacker" book, it plays on "edgy" market success of Steal this Computer Book with first hand, eyewitness accounts
A highly provocative expose of advanced security exploits
Written by some of the most high profile "White Hats", "Black Hats" and "Gray Hats"
Gives readers a "first ever" look inside some of the most notorious network intrusions
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- Author(s): Ryan Russell, Ido Dubrawsky, FX, Joe Grand, Tim Mullen
- ISBN: 9781931836876
- Publisher: Syngress
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Apr 2003
- Pages: 330
"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box" is NOT intended to be a "install, configure, update, troubleshoot, and defend book." It is also NOT another one of the countless Hacker books out there. So, what IS it? It is an edgy, provocative, attack-oriented series of chapters written in a first hand, conversational style. World-renowned network security personalities present a series of 25 to 30 page chapters written from the point of an attacker who is gaining access to a particular system. This book portrays the "street fighting" tactics used to attack networks and systems.
Not just another "hacker" book, it plays on "edgy" market success of Steal this Computer Book with first hand, eyewitness accounts
A highly provocative expose of advanced security exploits
Written by some of the most high profile "White Hats", "Black Hats" and "Gray Hats"
Gives readers a "first ever" look inside some of the most notorious network intrusions
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- Author(s): John Hendry
- ISBN: 9780199267552
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 06 May 2004
- Pages: 330
We live in a 'bimoral' society, in which people govern their lives by two contrasting sets of principles. On the one hand there are the principles associated with traditional morality. Although these allow a modicum of self-interest, their emphasis is on our duties and obligations to others:
to treat people honestly and with respect, to treat them fairly and without prejudice, to help and are for them when needed, and ultimately, to put their needs above their own. On the other hand there are the principles associated with the entrepreneurial self-interest. These also impose
obligations, but of a much more limited kind. Their emphasis is competitive rather than cooperative: to advance our own interests rather than to meet the needs of others. Both sets of principles have always been present in society but in recent years, traditional moral authorities have lost much of
their force and the morality of self-interest has acquired a much greater social legitimacy, over a much wider field of behavior, than ever before. The result of this is that in many situations it is no longer at all apparent which set of principles should take precedence. In this book, John Hendry
traces the cultural and historical origins of the 'bimoral' society have also led to new, more flexible forms of organizing, which have released people's entrepreneurial energies and significantly enhanced the creative capacities of business. Working within these organizations, however is fraught
with moral tensions as obligations and self-interest conflict and managers are pulled in all sorts of different directions. Managing them successfully poses major new challenges of leadership, and 'moral' management, as the technical problem-solving that previously characterized managerial work is
increasingly accomplished by technology and market mechanisms. The key role of management becomes the political and moral one of determining purposes and priorities, reconciling divergent interests, and nurturing trust in interpersonal relationships. Exploring these tensions and challenges, Hendry
identifies new issues of contemporary management and puts recognized issues into context. He also explores the challenges posed for a post-traditional society as it seeks to regulate and govern an increasingly powerful and global business sector.
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- Author(s): John Hendry
- ISBN: 9780199267552
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 06 May 2004
- Pages: 330
We live in a 'bimoral' society, in which people govern their lives by two contrasting sets of principles. On the one hand there are the principles associated with traditional morality. Although these allow a modicum of self-interest, their emphasis is on our duties and obligations to others:
to treat people honestly and with respect, to treat them fairly and without prejudice, to help and are for them when needed, and ultimately, to put their needs above their own. On the other hand there are the principles associated with the entrepreneurial self-interest. These also impose
obligations, but of a much more limited kind. Their emphasis is competitive rather than cooperative: to advance our own interests rather than to meet the needs of others. Both sets of principles have always been present in society but in recent years, traditional moral authorities have lost much of
their force and the morality of self-interest has acquired a much greater social legitimacy, over a much wider field of behavior, than ever before. The result of this is that in many situations it is no longer at all apparent which set of principles should take precedence. In this book, John Hendry
traces the cultural and historical origins of the 'bimoral' society have also led to new, more flexible forms of organizing, which have released people's entrepreneurial energies and significantly enhanced the creative capacities of business. Working within these organizations, however is fraught
with moral tensions as obligations and self-interest conflict and managers are pulled in all sorts of different directions. Managing them successfully poses major new challenges of leadership, and 'moral' management, as the technical problem-solving that previously characterized managerial work is
increasingly accomplished by technology and market mechanisms. The key role of management becomes the political and moral one of determining purposes and priorities, reconciling divergent interests, and nurturing trust in interpersonal relationships. Exploring these tensions and challenges, Hendry
identifies new issues of contemporary management and puts recognized issues into context. He also explores the challenges posed for a post-traditional society as it seeks to regulate and govern an increasingly powerful and global business sector.
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- Author(s): Michael Spivey
- ISBN: 9780195170788
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Pages: 448
The cognitive and neural sciences have been on the brink of a paradigm shift for over a decade. The traditional information-processing framework in psychology, with its computer metaphor of the mind, is still considered to be the mainstream approach, but dynamical-systems accounts of mental
activity are now receiving a more rigorous treatment, allowing them to more beyond merely brandishing trendy buzzwords. The Continuity of the Mind will help to galvanize the forces of dynamical systems theory, cognitive and computational neuroscience, connectionism, and ecological psychology that
are needed to complete this paradigm shift.
In The Continuity of the Mind Michael Spivey lays bare the fact that comprehending a spoken sentence, understanding a visual scene, or just thinking about the days events involves the serial coalescing of different neuronal activation patterns, i.e., a state-space trajectory that flirts with a
series of point attractors. As a result, the brain cannot help but spend most of its time instantiating patterns of activity that are in between identifiable mental states rather than in them. When this scenario is combined with the fact that most cognitive processes are richly embedded in their
environmental context in real time, the state space (in which brief visitations of attractor basins are your thoughts) suddenly encompasses not just neuronal dimensions, but extends to biomechanical and environmental dimensions as well. As a result, your moment-by-moment experience of the world
around you, even right now, can be described as a continuous trajectory through a high-dimensional state space that is comprised of diverse mental states.
Spivey has arranged The Continuity of the Mind to present a systematic overview of how perception, cognition, and action are partially overlapping segments of one continuous mental flow, rather than three distinct mental systems. The initial chapters provide empirical demonstrations of the gray
areas in mental activity that happen in between discretely labeled mental events, as well as geometric visualizations of attractors in state space that make the dynamical-systems framework seem less mathematically abstract. The middle chapters present scores of behavioral and neurophysiological
studies that portray the continuous temporal dynamics inherent in categorization, language comprehension, visual perception, as well as attention, action, and reasoning. The final chapters conclude with discussions of what the mind itself must look like if its activity is continuous in time and its
contents are distributed in state space.
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- Author(s): Lynette A. Jones, Susan J. Lederman
- ISBN: 9780195173154
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Apr 2006
- Pages: 280
Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives. Lynette Jones and Susan Lederman present hand function as a continuum ranging from activities that are essentially
sensory in nature to those that have a strong motor component. They delineate four categories of function along this sensorimotor continuum--tactile sensing, active haptic sensing, prehension, and non-prehensile skilled movements--that they use as a framework for analyzing and synthesizing the
results from a broad range of studies that have contributed to our understanding of how the normal human hand functions.
The book begins with a historical overview of research on the hand and a discussion of the hand's evolutionary development in terms of anatomical structure. The subsequent chapters review the research in each of the four categories along the continuum, covering topics such as the intensive spatial,
temporal, and thermal sensitivity of the hand, the role of hand movements in recognizing common objects, the control of reaching and grasping movements, and the organization of keyboard skills. Jones and Lederman also examine how sensory and motor function develops in the hand from birth to old age,
and how the nature of the end effector (e.g., a single finger or the whole hand) that is used to interact with the environment influences the types of information obtained and the tasks performed. The book closes with an assessment of how basic research on the hand has contributed to an array of
more applied domains, including communication systems for the blind, haptic interfaces used in teleoperation and virtual-environment applications, tests used to assess hand impairments, and haptic exploration in art. Human Hand Function will be a valuable resource for student and professional
researchers in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, engineering, human-technology interaction, and physiology.
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- Author(s): Lynette A. Jones, Susan J. Lederman
- ISBN: 9780195173154
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Apr 2006
- Pages: 280
Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives. Lynette Jones and Susan Lederman present hand function as a continuum ranging from activities that are essentially
sensory in nature to those that have a strong motor component. They delineate four categories of function along this sensorimotor continuum--tactile sensing, active haptic sensing, prehension, and non-prehensile skilled movements--that they use as a framework for analyzing and synthesizing the
results from a broad range of studies that have contributed to our understanding of how the normal human hand functions.
The book begins with a historical overview of research on the hand and a discussion of the hand's evolutionary development in terms of anatomical structure. The subsequent chapters review the research in each of the four categories along the continuum, covering topics such as the intensive spatial,
temporal, and thermal sensitivity of the hand, the role of hand movements in recognizing common objects, the control of reaching and grasping movements, and the organization of keyboard skills. Jones and Lederman also examine how sensory and motor function develops in the hand from birth to old age,
and how the nature of the end effector (e.g., a single finger or the whole hand) that is used to interact with the environment influences the types of information obtained and the tasks performed. The book closes with an assessment of how basic research on the hand has contributed to an array of
more applied domains, including communication systems for the blind, haptic interfaces used in teleoperation and virtual-environment applications, tests used to assess hand impairments, and haptic exploration in art. Human Hand Function will be a valuable resource for student and professional
researchers in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, engineering, human-technology interaction, and physiology.
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- ISBN: 9780444504296
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jul 2002
- Pages: 304
"3-D modeling and inversion is a reality, and not an illusion." This is the clear conclusion of the Second International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Electromagnetics held at the University of Utah in 1999. Containing papers submitted by 36 authors, this volume, by the sheer number of works, their diversity, and the truly international character of the efforts attests to the vigor with which the problems of the field are pursued today.
The papers in this book are grouped in three parts: 3-D EM modeling; 3-D EM inversion; and 3-D EM in practice. They cover a wide range of topics in forward modeling and inversion based on new fast approximate approaches and new efficient solutions by integral equation, finite difference and finite elements techniques. If the 1980s were the decade of rapid development in 3D seismics, the 1990s became the decade of growing interest of practical geophysicists in 3D EM modeling and inversion methods.
The contributions contained in this volume represent a snapshot of today's state-of-the-art in three-dimensional electromagnetics.
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- ISBN: 9780444504296
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jul 2002
- Pages: 304
"3-D modeling and inversion is a reality, and not an illusion." This is the clear conclusion of the Second International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Electromagnetics held at the University of Utah in 1999. Containing papers submitted by 36 authors, this volume, by the sheer number of works, their diversity, and the truly international character of the efforts attests to the vigor with which the problems of the field are pursued today.
The papers in this book are grouped in three parts: 3-D EM modeling; 3-D EM inversion; and 3-D EM in practice. They cover a wide range of topics in forward modeling and inversion based on new fast approximate approaches and new efficient solutions by integral equation, finite difference and finite elements techniques. If the 1980s were the decade of rapid development in 3D seismics, the 1990s became the decade of growing interest of practical geophysicists in 3D EM modeling and inversion methods.
The contributions contained in this volume represent a snapshot of today's state-of-the-art in three-dimensional electromagnetics.
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- Author(s): Carol Isaacson Barash
- ISBN: 9780313349003
- Publisher: Praeger Publishers
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Dec 2007
- Pages: 288
Advances in genetics research, largely, though not entirely, spawned by the Human Genome Project, have led to a broad array of new technologies that promise to revolutionize life as we have known it. Medicine and agriculture are already starting to utilize new technologies to greatly improve disease prevention and treatment and food production. Yet, these "improvements" often raise ethical questions that are not easy to untangle. Some have gone as far to as to argue that certain applications, such as embryonic stem cell research, threaten the very fiber of our moral compass. While the application of scientific advances to better mankind has always raised thorny ethical issues, the ethical impact of genetic advances arguably reaches a new height because the applicability of advances is exceptionally broad, deep, and potentially irreversible. To utilize such technologies could mean saving thousands of lives, but where and how do we draw the line? Here, Barash sheds light on the actual ethical concerns surrounding various types of genetic technologies, introducing readers to the competing issues at stake in the arguments about the scientific application of the new technologies available and those on the horizon. She begins by illustrating the history of genetic advances, their societal applications, and the ethical issues that have arisen from those applications. Using case studies and examples throughout, she walks readers through the various considerations involved in a variety of areas related to the application of genetic technologies currently available and possible in the future. Covering topics ranging from stem cell research to genetically modified food, genetic mapping to cloning, this book offers a thoughtful approach to the complex issues at play in the various fields of genetic technologies.
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- Author(s): Carol Isaacson Barash
- ISBN: 9780313349003
- Publisher: Praeger Publishers
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Dec 2007
- Pages: 288
Advances in genetics research, largely, though not entirely, spawned by the Human Genome Project, have led to a broad array of new technologies that promise to revolutionize life as we have known it. Medicine and agriculture are already starting to utilize new technologies to greatly improve disease prevention and treatment and food production. Yet, these "improvements" often raise ethical questions that are not easy to untangle. Some have gone as far to as to argue that certain applications, such as embryonic stem cell research, threaten the very fiber of our moral compass. While the application of scientific advances to better mankind has always raised thorny ethical issues, the ethical impact of genetic advances arguably reaches a new height because the applicability of advances is exceptionally broad, deep, and potentially irreversible. To utilize such technologies could mean saving thousands of lives, but where and how do we draw the line? Here, Barash sheds light on the actual ethical concerns surrounding various types of genetic technologies, introducing readers to the competing issues at stake in the arguments about the scientific application of the new technologies available and those on the horizon. She begins by illustrating the history of genetic advances, their societal applications, and the ethical issues that have arisen from those applications. Using case studies and examples throughout, she walks readers through the various considerations involved in a variety of areas related to the application of genetic technologies currently available and possible in the future. Covering topics ranging from stem cell research to genetically modified food, genetic mapping to cloning, this book offers a thoughtful approach to the complex issues at play in the various fields of genetic technologies.
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- ISBN: 9780387231174
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 12 Oct 2007
- Pages: 491
The scope of the proposed book is to identify and emphasize the successful link between computational materials modeling as a simulation and design tool and its synergistic application to experimental research and alloy development. Compared to other areas in science where computational modeling has made substantial contributions to the development and growth of a particular field, computational materials modeling has been rather limited in its ability to insert itself as a major tool in materials design. The impression that computational modeling is simply an intellectual pursuit with no real life application has, in the long run, hindered the more widespread use of computational materials procedures by the mainstream materials community.
Hence, the purpose of this book is to provide the average person working in the materials field with a more balanced perspective of the role that computational modeling can play in every day research and development efforts. This will by done by presenting a series of examples of the successful application of various computational modeling procedures (everything from first principles to quantum approximate to CALPHAD methods) to real life surface and bulk alloy problems.
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- ISBN: 9780198529873
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 03 Mar 2005
- Pages: 232
For several years there has been a growing interest in understanding the dynamics of parasites in ecosystems, as well as the diversity of ways in which they influence ecosystem functioning through their effects on host populations and communities. Ecologists, epidemiologists, evolutionary
biologists, and other scientists are increasingly coming to realise that parasites must be taken into account when studying ecosystems. Parasitism and Ecosystems summarizes current knowledge on this topic, providing a comprehensive overview for researchers and students. It represents the first
synthesis of both the roles and the consequences of pathogens in ecosystems, utilizing well-documented case-studies to illustrate the main issues as well as identifying prospects for future research.
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- ISBN: 9780198529873
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 03 Mar 2005
- Pages: 232
For several years there has been a growing interest in understanding the dynamics of parasites in ecosystems, as well as the diversity of ways in which they influence ecosystem functioning through their effects on host populations and communities. Ecologists, epidemiologists, evolutionary
biologists, and other scientists are increasingly coming to realise that parasites must be taken into account when studying ecosystems. Parasitism and Ecosystems summarizes current knowledge on this topic, providing a comprehensive overview for researchers and students. It represents the first
synthesis of both the roles and the consequences of pathogens in ecosystems, utilizing well-documented case-studies to illustrate the main issues as well as identifying prospects for future research.
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- ISBN: 9783805575003
- Publisher: S. Karger Publishers (USA)
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Feb 2003
- Pages: 174
The exceptionally successful history of botulinum toxin and its likely future has hardly an equivalent. Initially, it was used in strabismus, blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm, later also in focal dystonia and spasticity and it has been shown to effectively treat wrinkles, hyperhidrosis and a great number of ensuing indications. By treating symptoms or disorders associated with pain, its analgesic effect was first noticed. The efficacy and reasons for this side effect have since been investigated and a number of models explaining the mode of action have been presented. However, even if we know that botulinum toxin undoubtedly helps in certain pain syndromes, there is still much work to do to identify the major ones, define the optimum dose and the preferred site of injection. Indicating current positions and kindling the growing interest in this extraordinary therapeutic agent this book presents a timely overview on pain management with botulinum toxin. Thus, it will be of great interest especially for anesthesiologists and neurologists in their clinical work and medical research.
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- Author(s): Nicholas P. Money
- ISBN: 9780195189711
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 31 Aug 2006
- Pages: 216
This book is concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history. These are the plagues of trees and crop plants, caused by invisible spores that have reshaped entire landscapes and decimated human populations. The Triumph of the Fungi focuses on the fascinating biology of the well- and lesser-known diseases, and also tells the stories of the scientists involved in their study, and of the people directly impacted by the loss of forest trees like the chestnut, and cash crops such as coffee and cacao. In a surprisingly brief time, human knowledge of the fungi that infect plants has evolved from Biblical superstition, to the recognition of the true nature of plant disease, and, more recently, to a sense of awe for the sophistication of these microbes. The crucial issue of human culpability in these fungal epidemics is addressed in the books closing chapter.
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- Author(s): Nicholas P. Money
- ISBN: 9780195189711
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 31 Aug 2006
- Pages: 216
This book is concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history. These are the plagues of trees and crop plants, caused by invisible spores that have reshaped entire landscapes and decimated human populations. The Triumph of the Fungi focuses on the fascinating biology of the well- and lesser-known diseases, and also tells the stories of the scientists involved in their study, and of the people directly impacted by the loss of forest trees like the chestnut, and cash crops such as coffee and cacao. In a surprisingly brief time, human knowledge of the fungi that infect plants has evolved from Biblical superstition, to the recognition of the true nature of plant disease, and, more recently, to a sense of awe for the sophistication of these microbes. The crucial issue of human culpability in these fungal epidemics is addressed in the books closing chapter.
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- Author(s): C.B. Martin
- ISBN: 9780199234103
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 10 Jan 2008
- Pages: 192
What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical.
C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of "ontologically serious" metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that "all things that exist are only particulars", and argues that properties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of
causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problem.
Martin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious "vegetative" systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational use. The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representation. A concluding
chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with Locke takes us directly to the world of Spinoza and Einstein. Along the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind
in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substances and properties).
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- Author(s): C.B. Martin
- ISBN: 9780199234103
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 10 Jan 2008
- Pages: 192
What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical.
C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of "ontologically serious" metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that "all things that exist are only particulars", and argues that properties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of
causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problem.
Martin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious "vegetative" systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational use. The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representation. A concluding
chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with Locke takes us directly to the world of Spinoza and Einstein. Along the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind
in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substances and properties).
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- Author(s): Nathan Salmon
- ISBN: 9780199284719
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 02 Feb 2006
- Pages: 434
Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical
significance of Godel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.
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- Author(s): Nathan Salmon
- ISBN: 9780199284719
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 02 Feb 2006
- Pages: 434
Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical
significance of Godel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.
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- ISBN: 9781568591308
- Publisher: Mazda Pub
- Date: 27 Dec 2000
- Pages: 308
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- Publisher: Mazda Pub
- Date: 27 Dec 2000
- Pages: 308
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- Author(s): Graham Bell
- ISBN: 9780198569725
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition: 2
- Date: 25 Feb 2008
- Pages: 656
This book adopts an experimental approach to understanding the mechanisms of evolution and the nature of evolutionary processes, with examples drawn from microbial, plant and animal systems. It incorporates insights from remarkable recent advances in theoretical modeling, and the fields of
molecular genetics and environmental genomics.
Adaptation is caused by selection continually winnowing the genetic variation created by mutation. In the last decade, our knowledge of how selection operates on populations in the field and in the laboratory has increased enormously, and the principal aim of this book is to provide an up-to-date
account of selection as the principal agent of evolution. In the classical Fisherian model, weak selection acting on many genes of small effect over long periods of time is responsible for driving slow and gradual change. However, it is now clear that adaptation in laboratory populations often
involves strong selection acting on a few genes of large effect, while in the wild selection is often strong and highly variable in space and time. Indeed these results are changing our perception of how evolutionary change takes place. This book summarizes our current understanding of the causes
and consequences of selection, with an emphasis on quantitative and experimental studies. It includes the latest research into experimental evolution, natural selection in the wild, artificial selection, selfish genetic elements, selection in social contexts, sexual selection, and speciation.
Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution is an advanced textbook suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in evolutionary biology, ecology, population genetics, and experimental evolution. It will also be a valuable reference tool for those professional researchers
in these fields requiring an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the topic, as well as providing anaccessible treatment of evolutionary mechanisms for molecular and cellular biologists.
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- Author(s): Ian Adams
- ISBN: 9780415228107
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 05 Aug 2003
- Pages: 288
Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the life and thought of major figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. The entries provide an accessible and clearly written introduction to the major ideas and schools of thought which have shaped contemporary politics, including figures such as: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, Mohandas Ghandi, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas. Fully cross-referenced and including a glossary of theoretical terms, this wide ranging and accessible book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the evolution and history of contemporary political thought.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:41pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ian Adams
- ISBN: 9780415228107
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 05 Aug 2003
- Pages: 288
Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the life and thought of major figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. The entries provide an accessible and clearly written introduction to the major ideas and schools of thought which have shaped contemporary politics, including figures such as: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, Mohandas Ghandi, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas. Fully cross-referenced and including a glossary of theoretical terms, this wide ranging and accessible book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the evolution and history of contemporary political thought.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:41pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): J.R. Dobbs, The SubGenius Foundation, Rev. Ivan Stang
- ISBN: 9780671638108
- Publisher: Fireside
- Date: 15 May 1987
- Pages: 192
Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now.
First, there was The Gilgamesh .
Then... the Bhagavad-Gita
Then... the Torah, the New Testament, the Koran
Then... the Book of Mormon, Dianetics, I'm OK You're OK.
And now... The Book of the Subgenius (How to Prosper in the Coming Weird Times)
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:41pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): J.R. Dobbs, The SubGenius Foundation, Rev. Ivan Stang
- ISBN: 9780671638108
- Publisher: Fireside
- Date: 15 May 1987
- Pages: 192
Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now.
First, there was The Gilgamesh .
Then... the Bhagavad-Gita
Then... the Torah, the New Testament, the Koran
Then... the Book of Mormon, Dianetics, I'm OK You're OK.
And now... The Book of the Subgenius (How to Prosper in the Coming Weird Times)
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jr., Rowland Richards
- ISBN: 9780849301148
- Publisher: CRC
- Edition: 1
- Date: 12 Dec 2000
- Pages: 456
Evolving from more than 30 years of research and teaching experience, Principles of Solid Mechanics offers an in-depth treatment of the application of the full-range theory of deformable solids for analysis and design. Unlike other texts, it is not either a civil or mechanical engineering text, but both. It treats not only analysis but incorporates design along with experimental observation. Principles of Solid Mechanics serves as a core course textbook for advanced seniors and first-year graduate students. The author focuses on basic concepts and applications, simple yet unsolved problems, inverse strategies for optimum design, unanswered questions, and unresolved paradoxes to intrigue students and encourage further study. He includes plastic as well as elastic behavior in terms of a unified field theory and discusses the properties of field equations and requirements on boundary conditions crucial for understanding the limits of numerical modeling. Designed to help guide students with little experimental experience and no exposure to drawing and graphic analysis, the text presents carefully selected worked examples. The author makes liberal use of footnotes and includes over 150 figures and 200 problems. This, along with his approach, allows students to see the full range, non-linear response of structures.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Karim M. Abadir, Jan R. Magnus
- ISBN: 9780521822893
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 22 Aug 2005
- Pages: 464
The first volume of the Econometric Exercises Series, Matrix Algebra contains exercises relating to course material in matrix algebra that students are expected to know while enrolled in an (advanced) undegraduate or a postgraduate course in econometrics or statistics. The book features a comprehensive collection of exercises with complete answers. More than just a collection of exercises, the volume is a textbook organized in a completely different manner than the usual textbook. It can be used as a self-contained course in matrix algebra or as a supplementary text.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): R. Dean Adams
- ISBN: 9781402072550
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Sep 2002
- Pages: 268
Design and test are considered jointly in this book since knowledge of one without the other is insufficient for the task of having high quality memories. Knowledge of memory design is required to understand test. An understanding of test is required to have effective built-in self-test implementations. A poor job can be done on any of these pieces resulting in a memory that passes test but which is not actually good. The relentless press of Moore's law drives more and more bits onto a single chip. The large number of bits means that methods that were "gotten away with" in the past will no longer be sufficient. Because the number of bits is so large, fine nuances of fails that were rarely seen previously now will happen regularly on most chips. These subtle fails must be caught or else quality will suffer severely.
Are memory applications more critical than they have been in the past? Yes, but even more critical is the number of designs and the sheer number of bits on each design. It is assured that catastrophes, which were avoided in the past because memories were small, will easily occur if the design and test engineers do not do their jobs very carefully.
High Performance Memory Testing: Design Principles, Fault Modeling and Self Test is based on the author's 20 years of experience in memory design, memory reliability development and memory self test.
High Performance Memory Testing: Design Principles, Fault Modeling and Self Test is written for the professional and the researcher to help them understand the memories that are being tested.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:40pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): R. Dean Adams
- ISBN: 9781402072550
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Sep 2002
- Pages: 268
Design and test are considered jointly in this book since knowledge of one without the other is insufficient for the task of having high quality memories. Knowledge of memory design is required to understand test. An understanding of test is required to have effective built-in self-test implementations. A poor job can be done on any of these pieces resulting in a memory that passes test but which is not actually good. The relentless press of Moore's law drives more and more bits onto a single chip. The large number of bits means that methods that were "gotten away with" in the past will no longer be sufficient. Because the number of bits is so large, fine nuances of fails that were rarely seen previously now will happen regularly on most chips. These subtle fails must be caught or else quality will suffer severely.
Are memory applications more critical than they have been in the past? Yes, but even more critical is the number of designs and the sheer number of bits on each design. It is assured that catastrophes, which were avoided in the past because memories were small, will easily occur if the design and test engineers do not do their jobs very carefully.
High Performance Memory Testing: Design Principles, Fault Modeling and Self Test is based on the author's 20 years of experience in memory design, memory reliability development and memory self test.
High Performance Memory Testing: Design Principles, Fault Modeling and Self Test is written for the professional and the researcher to help them understand the memories that are being tested.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:40pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9789812564122
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Date: 30 Oct 2005
- Pages: 400
The science of energy harvesting materials is experiencing phenomenal growth and attracting huge interest. Exploiting recently acquired insights into the fundamental mechanisms and principles of photosynthesis, it is now possible to forge entirely new and distinctive molecular materials and devise artificial photosystems and applications far remote from conventional solar cell technology. In this comprehensive treatment of energy harvesting, a team of internationally acclaimed scientists at the forefront of the subject paint a state-of-the-art picture of modern energy harvesting materials science. Covering all aspects of the subject, ranging from natural plant and bacterial photosystems, through their biologically inspired synthetic analogs, to other photoactive molecular materials such as dendrimers, the book also establishes the theory and underlying principles across the full range of light harvesting systems. With an authoritative, comprehensive and well-referenced content, it will appeal to all students, researchers and technologists interested or involved in solar energy, photobiology and photoactive materials science.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:40pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9789812564122
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Date: 30 Oct 2005
- Pages: 400
The science of energy harvesting materials is experiencing phenomenal growth and attracting huge interest. Exploiting recently acquired insights into the fundamental mechanisms and principles of photosynthesis, it is now possible to forge entirely new and distinctive molecular materials and devise artificial photosystems and applications far remote from conventional solar cell technology. In this comprehensive treatment of energy harvesting, a team of internationally acclaimed scientists at the forefront of the subject paint a state-of-the-art picture of modern energy harvesting materials science. Covering all aspects of the subject, ranging from natural plant and bacterial photosystems, through their biologically inspired synthetic analogs, to other photoactive molecular materials such as dendrimers, the book also establishes the theory and underlying principles across the full range of light harvesting systems. With an authoritative, comprehensive and well-referenced content, it will appeal to all students, researchers and technologists interested or involved in solar energy, photobiology and photoactive materials science.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:34am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jan Borchers
- ISBN: 9780471498285
- Publisher: Wiley
- Edition: 1
- Date: 16 May 2001
- Pages: 268
A much-needed guide on how to apply patterns in user interface design
While the subject of design patterns for software development has been covered extensively, little has been written about the power of the pattern format in interface design. A Pattern Approach to Interactive Design remedies this situation, providing for the first time an introduction to the concepts and application of patterns in user interface design. The author shows interface designers how to structure and capture user interface design knowledge from their projects and learn to understand each other's design principles and solutions. Key features of this book include a comprehensive pattern language for the interface design of interactive exhibits as well as a thorough introduction to original pattern work and its application in software development. The book also offers invaluable practical guidance for interface designers, project managers, and researchers working in HCI, as well as for designers of interactive systems.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:34am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jan Borchers
- ISBN: 9780471498285
- Publisher: Wiley
- Edition: 1
- Date: 16 May 2001
- Pages: 268
A much-needed guide on how to apply patterns in user interface design
While the subject of design patterns for software development has been covered extensively, little has been written about the power of the pattern format in interface design. A Pattern Approach to Interactive Design remedies this situation, providing for the first time an introduction to the concepts and application of patterns in user interface design. The author shows interface designers how to structure and capture user interface design knowledge from their projects and learn to understand each other's design principles and solutions. Key features of this book include a comprehensive pattern language for the interface design of interactive exhibits as well as a thorough introduction to original pattern work and its application in software development. The book also offers invaluable practical guidance for interface designers, project managers, and researchers working in HCI, as well as for designers of interactive systems.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:34am CEST by admin
- Author(s): J. C. C. McKinsey
- ISBN: 9780486428116
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 25 Apr 2003
- Pages: 382
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: August 24th, 2008, 10:34am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Michael Khairallah
- ISBN: 9780750678506
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Date: 07 Nov 2005
- Pages: 312
A practical reference written to assist the security professional in clearly identifying what systems are required to meet security needs as defined by a threat analysis and vulnerability assessment. All of the elements necessary to conduct a detailed survey of a facility and the methods used to document the findings of that survey are covered. Once the required systems are determined, the chapters following present how to assemble and evaluate bids for the acquisition of the required systems in a manner that will meet the most rigorous standards established for competitive bidding. The book also provides recommended approaches for system/user implementation, giving checklists and examples for developing management controls using the installed systems. This book was developed after a careful examination of the approved reference material available from the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International) for the certification of Physical Security Professionals (PSP). It is intended to fill voids left by the currently approved reference material to perform implementation of systems suggested in the existing reference texts. This book is an excellent How To for the aspiring security professional who wishes to take on the responsibilities of security system implementation, or the security manager who wants to do a professional job of system acquisition without hiring a professional consultant.
* Offers a step-by-step approach to identifying the application, acquiring the product and implementing the recommended system.
* Builds upon well-known, widely adopted concepts prevalent among security professionals.
* Offers seasoned advice on the competitive bidding process as well as on legal issues involved in the selection of applied products.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:33am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Carl Roper, Dr. Lynn Fischer, Joseph A. Grau
- ISBN: 9780750678032
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 1
- Date: 23 Aug 2005
- Pages: 400
This book is the only one available on security training for all level of personnel. Chief Security Officers (CSOs), security managers, and heads of security forces often have to design training programs themselves from scratch or rely on outside vendors and outside training companies to provide training which is often dry, stilted, and not always applicable to a specific corporate or government setting. This title addresses the theories of sound security training and awareness, then shows the reader how to put the theories into practice when developing or presenting any form of security education, training, motivation or awareness.
* Shows how to establish and integrate a structured, internally consistent and coherent program from the ground up
* Illustrates how to assess and analyze security program needs and audience and customize training accordingly
* Numerous Appendices to help the security manager justify security spending on training initiatives
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:33am CEST by admin
- Author(s): John D. Williams
- ISBN: 9780833042224
- Publisher: RAND Corporation
- Date: 25 Sep 2007
- Pages: 304
When The Compleat Strategyst was originally published in 1954, game theory was an esoteric and mysterious subject, familiar only to specialized researchers, particularly in the military. Its prominence today can be traced at least in part to this classic book, which popularized the subject for amateurs, professionals, and students throughout the world. This is a reprint of a 1966 revised edition of the book originally published in 1954.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:33am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Max A. Eggert
- ISBN: 9781870471602
- Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
- Date: 28 Feb 1999
- Pages: 104
Understanding the concept of motivation is an invaluable management tool for helping individuals at all levels of employment produce their best work. This book integrates and synthesizes the complex subject of motivation into a compact, concise and very readable form.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:33am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Max A. Eggert
- ISBN: 9781870471602
- Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
- Date: 28 Feb 1999
- Pages: 104
Understanding the concept of motivation is an invaluable management tool for helping individuals at all levels of employment produce their best work. This book integrates and synthesizes the complex subject of motivation into a compact, concise and very readable form.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:32am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Melvin Dresher
- ISBN: 9780833042255
- Publisher: RAND Corporation
- Date: 25 Sep 2007
- Pages: 198
This classic work, originally published in 1961, was written by Melvin Dresher, a RAND research mathematician, during the heyday of game theory research at RAND. The book introduces 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. This is a reprint of the original 1961 edition. Classic work from 1961 discusses 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: August 24th, 2008, 10:32am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard Barrett
- ISBN: 9780750679749
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Mar 2006
- Pages: 280
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.
*New thinking from best-selling author on the value-driven organization
*Integrates cutting-edge technologies available to companies on the web
*Integrates many methodologies into a whole system approach to cultural transformation
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:31am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Dr. Shel Leanne
- ISBN: 9780071418270
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Dec 2003
- Pages: 256
The interview strategies that help graduates of the nation's top business schools get the best jobs with the highest salaries
Interviewing for a job is more than answering questions. The most successful candidates are those who've done their homework, who come prepared with polished answers for every question, and who know how to steer the conversation where they want it to go. Now professional career coach Shelly Leanne--a Harvard graduate--teaches job seekers proven interview techniques taught at the nation's top business schools. How to Interview Like a Top MBA arms job seekers with:
- Insights and advice from top corporate executives, headhunters, and MBA program administrators
- Worksheets, charts, diagrams, and other valuable tools for creating a customized interview strategy and plan of action
- Valuable lessons on how to read interviewer signals, take control of an interview, turn weaknesses into strengths, ask the right questions, and much more
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:31am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Dr. Shel Leanne
- ISBN: 9780071418270
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Dec 2003
- Pages: 256
The interview strategies that help graduates of the nation's top business schools get the best jobs with the highest salaries
Interviewing for a job is more than answering questions. The most successful candidates are those who've done their homework, who come prepared with polished answers for every question, and who know how to steer the conversation where they want it to go. Now professional career coach Shelly Leanne--a Harvard graduate--teaches job seekers proven interview techniques taught at the nation's top business schools. How to Interview Like a Top MBA arms job seekers with:
- Insights and advice from top corporate executives, headhunters, and MBA program administrators
- Worksheets, charts, diagrams, and other valuable tools for creating a customized interview strategy and plan of action
- Valuable lessons on how to read interviewer signals, take control of an interview, turn weaknesses into strengths, ask the right questions, and much more
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:31am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780306462979
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Dec 1999
- Pages: 218
This proceedings is based on the third Atomic Force Microscopy/Scanning Tunneling Microscopy symposium. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an interface between scientists, engineers, representatives of industry, government, and academia, all of whom have a common interest in probe microscopies. The papers have been written by experts in probe microscopy from around the world, representing a wide range of disciplines, including physics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, chemistry, and materials science.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:30am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ralph A. Artino, Anthony M. Gaglione, Niel Shell
- ISBN: 9780883856291
- Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer
- Date: 27 Dec 1982
- Pages: 198
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:30am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Carole Martin
- ISBN: 9780071425476
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Dec 2003
- Pages: 160
How to become an interview genius and land the job of your dreams
If a job interview is an oral exam in which job seeker must give the right answers to a set of questions in order to get hired, then this is the ultimate guide to acing the exam. Written by The Interview Coach at Monster.com, Boost Your Interview IQ offers an enjoyable, interactive way to prepare for and succeed at any job interview.
Combining the features of a step-by-step guide and a skill-building workbook, it:
- Shows job seekers how to craft job-winning answers to the 50 key questions interviewers ask
- Features an Interview IQ Test, interview skill-building exercises, and other interview aptitude boosting tools
- Teaches candidates how to shape their experiences into stories that showcase their skills, knowledge, and personalities
- Offers proven techniques for acing the behavioral interview--the popular new wave interviewing strategy
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:30am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Charles T. Salkind, James M. Earl
- ISBN: 9780883856253
- Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Date: 27 Jun 1973
- Pages: 192
The annual high school contests have been sponsored since 1950 by the Mathematical association of America and the Society of Actuaries, and more recently by Mu Alpha Theta (1965), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1967) and the Casualty Actuarial Society (1971). Problems from the contests during the period 1950-1960 are published in Volume 5 of the New Mathematical Library, and those for 1961-1965 are published in Volume 17. The New Mathematical Library will continue to publish these contest problems from time-to-time; the present volume contains those from the period 1966-1972. The questions were compiled by Professor C.T. Salkind until his death, and since 1968 by Professor J.M. Earl, who died on November 25, 1972 after submitting problems for the 1973 contest. Professors Earl and Salkind also prepared the solutions for the contest problems. In preparing this and the earlier Contest Problem Books the editors of the NML have expanded these solutions and added alternative solutions.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:29am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781841843162
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Jul 2005
- Pages: 208
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. Discussing the current situation in detail, the authors focus on the responsibility of the medical community to the live kidney donor as a patient and the potential for complacency regarding donor risk. The authos also emphasize the ethical principles that must dictate practice in LDK transplantation for the foreseeable future.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:29am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780883856277
- Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Date: 27 Jun 1979
- Pages: 204
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.
Members of U.S. team are selected from the 100 top scorers on the Annual High School Examinations (see NML vols. 5, 17, 25) by subsequent competition in the U.S. Mathematical Olympiad.
In this volume the demonstrably effective coach and prime mover in planning the participation of the U.S.A. in the I.M.O., Samuel L. Greitzer, has compiled all the IMO problems from the First through the Nineteenth (1977) IMO and their solutions, some based on the contestants' papers.
The problems ae solvable by methods accessible to secondary school students in most nations, but insight and ingenuity are often required. A chronological examination of the questions throws some light on the changes and trends in secondary school mathematics curricula.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:28am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Janet Dine
- ISBN: 9780521660709
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 05 Jun 2000
- Pages: 208
This book explores the legal issues concerning groups of companies including regulation at national, international and global level. It offers a comparative discussion of the way in which issues common to the regulation of groups have been approached in the UK, in the European Union, in other member states of the union, in the United States and, where helpful, in other countries including the emergent economies of eastern European states. The author highlights the often tragic consequences of globalization by transnationals including polarization of income and environmental damage.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:28am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jean M. Bartunek
- ISBN: 9780805834093
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jul 2002
- Pages: 312
Jean M. Bartunek, the 2001-2002 President of the Academy of Management, has written an excellent scholarly book on organizational and educational change. Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group--a group of teachers--that was creating change in its organization setting, a Network of Independent Schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the Network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two years. It explores the identity, work, and evolution of change agent groups in organizations, with particular emphasis on teachers and educational change. Through the book's extensive quotations and narrative account, the reader is enabled to enter into the world of the teacher group studied over the course of its nine-year history.
In addition, the book includes analysis of the underlying processes involved in the change, focusing on the change agent group's identity, its actions and relationships with stakeholders as they jointly evolved over time, and their impacts on the vitality of the change effort. It contributes a new understanding of fundamental processes involved in organizational change, especially when viewed from the perspective of change agents. In addition, the book provides practical implications for change agents, specifically change agents in schools. As such, this account will be useful for graduate students and researchers in organizational change, educational leadership, and professional development. It is a part of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates growing series in organization management.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781591404354
- Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
- Date: 01 Nov 2004
- Pages: 296
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. A variety of experiences are provided to involve the reader in real problems an
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jo Boaler
- ISBN: 9780805840049
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Sep 2002
- Pages: 224
Revised and expanded edition for the North American market (first edition published in 1997 by Open University Press). The first book to provide direct evidence for the relative effectiveness of "traditional" and "reform" teaching methods in mathematics.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Alfred S. Posamentier, Charles T. Salkind
- ISBN: 9780486691480
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 21 May 1996
- Pages: 272
Stimulating collection of over 300 unusual problems involving equations and inequalities, Diophantine equations, number theory, quadratic equations, logarithms and more. Problems range from easy to difficult. Detailed solutions, as well as brief answers, for all problems are provided.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521010436
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 02 Jun 2003
- Pages: 532
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. Two eminent physicians from one of the world's foremost cancer centers have drawn together a remarkable team to provide a handbook which covers the full range of problems non-specialists will encounter. This highly accessible text covers general principles in oncology, each of the primary tumors, and management of specific symptoms and syndromes.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mark D'Esposito
- ISBN: 9781842142950
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare
- Edition: 1
- Date: 13 Apr 2006
- Pages: 224
Functional imaging has the capability to reveal changes in the pathophysiology of tissues and organ systems, mapping the progression and severity of disease, uptake of drugs, and the recovery of tissues following trauma, disease episodes or surgery. In this authoritative new work, leading specialists in neurology and neuroimaging present an update on the MRI and PET investigation of diseases of the central nervous system. An insightful reference for anyone working in the field, this work discusses how these new technologies can be used to investigate the most important disorders encountered in clinical neurology and psychiatry, ranging from chronic progressive diseases such as Alzheimer's, episodic disruptions of function as seen in epilepsy, and the subtle changes caused by drug dependency and abuse.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Eric van der Vlist
- ISBN: 9780596002527
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Jun 2002
- Pages: 400
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. Topics include:
- Foundations of XML Schema syntax
- Flat, "russian-doll", and other schema approaches
- Working with simple and complex types in a variety of contexts
- The built-in datatypes provided by XML Schema
- Using facets to extend datatypes, including regular expression-based patterns
- Using keys and uniqueness rules to limit how and where information may appear
- Creating extensible schemas and managing extensibility
- Documenting schemas and extending XML Schema capabilities through annotations
In addition to the explanatory content,
XML Schema provides a complete reference to all parts of both the XML Schema Structures and XML Schema Datatypes specifications, as well as a glossary. Appendices explore the relationships between XML Schema and other tools for describing document structures, including DTDs, RELAX NG, and Schematron, as well as work in progress at the W3C to more tightly integrate XML Schema with existing specifications. No matter how you intend to use XML Schema - for data structures or document structures, for standalone documents or part of SOAP transactions, for documentation, validation, or data binding ? all the foundations you need are outlined in
XML Schema .
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:27am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jeremy Kourdi
- ISBN: 9780471498445
- Publisher: Wiley
- Edition: 1
- Date: 11 Jul 2001
- Pages: 256
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. Features include a review of products and services suitable for new channels, a guide to integrating 'clicks' into 'bricks', and an exploration of the skills required to take a business forward once a new direction has been set.
Other titles in the New Economy Excellence series include:
New Economy Energy: Unleashing Knowledge for Competitive Advantage
Sultan Kermally - 0471499633
New Economy Expression: Redefining Marketing in the Multi-Channel Age
David Mercer - 0471500089
New Economy Emotion: Engaging Customer Passion with e-CRM
Alfredo Zingale and Matthias Arndt - 0470841354
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 10:26am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Frederick Mosteller
- ISBN: 9780486653556
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 01 May 1987
- Pages: 88
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: August 22nd, 2008, 8:02pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521477192
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 28 Oct 1997
- Pages: 446
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: August 22nd, 2008, 8:02pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521368858
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Jun 1989
- Pages: 320
The Cambridge Companion to Milton will provide an accessible and helpful guide for any student of Milton, introducing readers to both the scope of Milton's work and the range of current approaches to it. 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: August 22nd, 2008, 8:02pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521582445
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 13 Dec 1999
- Pages: 438
The Franciscan William of Ockham was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Ockham is important not only in the history of philosophy and theology, but also in the development of early modern science and of modern notions of property rights and church-state relations. 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: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780631211884
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
- Date: 27 Feb 1999
- Pages: 225
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.
The Dictionary has been carefully designed to give both the expert and the newcomer overviews and succinct presentations of the most important concepts, terms and techniques in modern finance. With entries ranging from extended explorations of major topics to short definitions of key terms, this major reference work gives the user: Authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the whole field.A fully indexed and cross-referenced for detailed research with relevant citations for further study.Definitive entries covering the very latest development in finance.A completely international perspective and author base. This dictionary is part of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management which contains ten further volumes covering each of the key areas of management science developed under the editorship of Professor Cary Cooper from the Manchester School of Management and Professor Chris Argyris of Harvard Business School.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Unit Manufacturing Process Research Committee, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council
- ISBN: 9780309051927
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Date: 03 Jan 1995
- Pages: 228
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kenneth P. Winkler
- ISBN: 9780521456579
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 19 Dec 2005
- Pages: 468
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. A team of distinguished contributors not only examines Berkeley's achievements in this Companion, but also his neglected contributions to moral and political philosophy, writings on economics and development, and defense of religious commitment and religious life.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Marc Thompson
- ISBN: 9780750677868
- Publisher: Newnes
- Date: 01 May 2006
- Pages: 496
Intuitive Analog Circuit Design
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521436168
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 26 May 1995
- Pages: 528
Exploring the full range of Husserl's work, these essays reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. There are treatments of his most important contributions to phenomenology, intentionality and the philosophy of mind, epistemology, the philosophy of language, ontology, and mathematics. An underlying theme of the volume is a resistance to the idea, current in much intellectual history, of a radical break between "modern" and "postmodern" philosophy, with Husserl as the last of the great Cartesians.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521627290
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 03 Jul 2000
- Pages: 332
The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with the religious Platonism of St. Augustine. 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: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521007658
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 09 Feb 2004
- Pages: 344
Franz Brentano (1838-1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. 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: August 22nd, 2008, 8:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Doug Henwood
- ISBN: 9780860916703
- Publisher: Verso
- Date: 27 May 1998
- Pages: 372
A scathing dissection of the wheeling and dealing in the world's greatest financial center. Spot rates, zero coupons, blue chips, futures, options on futures, indexes, options on indexes. The vocabulary of a financial market can seem arcane, even impenetrable. Yet despite its opacity, financial news and comment is ubiquitous. Major national newspapers devote pages of newsprint to the financial sector and television news invariably features a visit to the market for the latest prices. Does this prodigious flow of information have significance for anyone except the tiny percentage of people who have significant holdings of stocks or bonds? And if it does, can non-specialists ever hope to understand what the markets are up to? To these questions Wall Street answers an emphatic yes. Its author Doug Henwood is a notorious scourge of the stock exchange in the pages of his acerbic publication Left Business Observer. The Newsletter has received wide acclamation from J.K. Galbraith, among others, and occasional less favorable comment. Norman Pearlstine, then executive editor of the Wall Street Journal, lamented, `You are scum ... it's tragic that you exist.' With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic and often corrupt. And though, as Henwood reveals, their activity contributes almost nothing to the real economy where goods are made and jobs created, they nevertheless wield enormous power. With over a trillion dollars a day crossing the wires between the world's banks, Wall Street and its sister financial centers don't just influence government, effectively they are the government.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780792361930
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 29 Feb 2000
- Pages: 648
The subject of algebraic cycles has thrived through its interaction with algebraic K-theory, Hodge theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology. These interactions have led to such developments as a description of Chow groups in terms of algebraic K-theory, the arithmetic Abel-Jacobi mapping, progress on the celebrated conjectures of Hodge and Tate, and the conjectures of Bloch and Beilinson.
The immense recent progress in algebraic cycles, based on so many interactions with so many other areas of mathematics, has contributed to a considerable degree of inaccessibility, especially for graduate students. Even specialists in one approach to algebraic cycles may not understand other approaches well.
This book offers students and specialists alike a broad perspective of algebraic cycles, presented from several viewpoints, including arithmetic, transcendental, topological, motives and K-theory methods. Topics include a discussion of the arithmetic Abel-Jacobi mapping, higher Abel-Jacobi regulator maps, polylogarithms and L-series, candidate Bloch-Beilinson filtrations, applications of Chern-Simons invariants to algebraic cycles via the study of algebraic vector bundles with algebraic connection, motivic cohomology, Chow groups of singular varieties, and recent progress on the Hodge and Tate conjectures for Abelian varieties.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): William R. Leo
- ISBN: 9783540572800
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 2
- Date: 25 Feb 1994
- Pages: 378
This book treats the experimental techniques and instrumentation most often used in nuclear and particle physics experiments as well as in various other experiments. It provides useful results and formulae, technical know-how and informative details. This second edition has been revised; sections on Cherenkov radiation and radiation protection have been updated and extended. Thanks to the author's long teaching experience, the material is presented in a very practical, hands-on way making the book a useful text and laboratory companion for students and experienced scientists alike.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Joseph Rubin
- ISBN: 9780974636825
- Publisher: Limelight Media
- Date: 01 Mar 2004
- Pages: 820
Providing Excel users with a tutorial and help tool, this book offers simple answers and solutions for any problem or question. Contained in this tool is a complete collection of tips, tricks, and shortcuts, including some that have never been seen before. These include limiting the movement in an unprotected cell and reducing the workbook size for quick sending via email. How the suggestions can be implemented in only a few easy steps is explained in detail. All of the most recent versions of the software including Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003 are covered. Users will also find a list of related tips as well as blank lines where they can add their own notes, turning the book into a personalized manual for maximizing their Excel abilities.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780412802003
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Dec 1998
- Pages: 992
This multiauthor book reviews the present state of knowledge on the manufacturing, processing and applications of neat, modified, filled and reinforced polypropylenes. An international group of leading experts surveys all important scientific and technical aspects of polypropylene (PP) in a concise manner. This book, of an encyclopaedic nature represents an updated and comprehensive report on the synthesis, processing, testing and applications of PP and related systems (modified, filled, reinforced). Each key aspect is the subject of an articles which is presented in a way which will also be useful for non-specialists. The articles are grouped in alphabetical format allowing the reader to find the information needed quickly. The easy retrieval of the information is supported by a comprehensive reference guide based on key-words.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes
- ISBN: 9780124042605
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Aug 2003
- Pages: 232
Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of serial killer task forces to learn why. What is the underlying psychology of a serial killer and why this defeats task force investigations?
This is the first book of its kind that combines state-of-the-art psychological assessment experience with the expertise of a homicide investigator who has tracked some of this country's most notorious serial killers. The author also brings to the book hands-on best practices gleaned from the experience of other task forces.
Readers, both professionals and students, will benefit from the comprehensive and critical case reviews, the analysis of what went wrong, what went right, and the after-action recommendations of evaluators in the US, UK, and Canada.
The book covers:
* The nature of the psychology of a serial killer
* How crime assessment profiling reveals that psychology
* Why psychological profiles fail
* How serial killer task forces defeat themselves
* How the media can, and usually does, undermine the task force operation
* The big secret of all serial killer investigations: police already have the killer's name
* The best practices for catching a serial killer
* Comprehensive case reviews of some of the US's and UK's most baffling serial killer cases
* A list of best practices for serial killer task force investigators
* Recommendations for how to manage comprehensive files and computer records
* Practical advice on how to manage the media: what to say and not to say
* Insight into what a serial killer might be thinking and doing to stay away from police
* Recommendations for setting up and administering long-term investigations
* Practical tips on how to maintain a task force's psychological edge and avoid defeatism
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ola Norrman
- ISBN: 9789197069458
- Publisher: Bokforlaget
- Date: 01 Jan 1999
- Pages: 93
The best reference available on how to ferment and distill your own alcohol safely and easily. Although this is still illegal in many countries, knowledge is an easy burden, and amateur distillation is free and legal in many countries.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil
- ISBN: 9781402160820
- Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
- Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Pages: 432
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1856 edition by John Murray, London.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540781523
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 11 Mar 2008
- Pages: 287
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2008, held in Dresden, Germany, in February 2008.
The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum reaching from pre-fabrication adaptation of architectural templates to dynamic run-time adaptation of deployed systems with special focus on adaptivity and adaptive system architectures. The papers are organized in topical sections on hardware design, pervasive computing, network processors and memory management, reconfigurable hardware, real-time architectures, organic computing, and computer architecture.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540781363
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 11 Mar 2008
- Pages: 325
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2008, held in Montreal, Canada, in February 2008.
The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers comprise state of the art research and present new results in Formal Concept Analysis and related fields. These results range from theoretical novelties to advances in FCA-related algorithmic issues, as well as application domains of FCA such as data visualization, information retrieval, machine learning, data analysis and knowledge management.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780792393856
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Mar 1994
- Pages: 340
This volume presents the interrelationships and possible connecting threads between two recent attempts within economic theory to step out of the mainstream of conventional neoclassical wisdom: evolutionary and neo-Schumpeterian theory. Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches to economics present a challenge to conventional neoclassical orthodoxy. They provide new insights into how markets function, how innovations are carried out, how technologies change, and how growth occurs in existing real economies. The two fields of theory and research in which these approaches have proven especially fruitful are the role of innovation for economic change and development and the theory of the firm. The wide range of topics dealt with in this volume provides further proof of the versatility and fruitfulness of these approaches.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780123742087
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Feb 2008
- Pages: 248
Volume forty-five of the
Advances in Clinical Chemistry series contains review articles of wide interest to clinical laboratory scientists and diagnostic adventurers. Articles in this volume cover such topics as Inhibins as Diagnostic Markers in Human Reproduction; uPA and PAI-1 in Breast Cancer: Review of Their Clinical Utility and Current Validation in the Prospective NNBC-3 Trial; Advances in Multiple Analyte Profiling; Immune Monitoring of Clinical Trials with Biotherapies; Dietary Modification of Brain Function: Effects on Neuroendocrine and Psychological Determinants of Mental Health and Stress Related Disorders; Menopause, Estrogen and Gonadotropins in Alzheimer Disease; Immunosuppression Routed via the Kynurenine Pathway: A Biochemical and Pathophysiologic Approach; Pathophysiology of Tumor-associated Macrophages.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783805582964
- Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Aug 2007
- Pages: 192
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780387709895
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 20 Jun 2007
- Pages: 405
Recent advances in trauma treatment, coupled with ongoing traumatic world events, point to a critical need for global standards in assessment. But despite the best intentions of Western psychology, one model does not fit all cultures. Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD addresses key issues in the field to help fill this knowledge gap.
Focusing equally on theoretical concepts, culturally valid assessment methods, and cultural adaptation in trauma and resilience, 29 experts present the cutting edge of research and strategies. Extended case examples (including West Africans in Austria, Hmong in the U.S., and Aboriginal people in Australia) illustrate an informative range of symptom profiles, comorbid conditions, and coping skills, as well as secondary traumas that can occur in asylum seekers. Professional concerns are also highlighted, from training and competency issues to the challenges of translating assessment into treatment. The results are a vital set of insights and guidelines that will contribute to more aware and meaningful practice.
Included in the coverage:
- Twenty-one questions central to understanding trauma in cultural context.
- In-depth studies on the effects of trauma over multiple generations, and developmental issues among traumatized youth.
- A review of traditional interventions and current trauma assessment practice from China.
- Reports on the combined use of psycho- and pharmacotherapy in treating refugees.
- Cross-cultural perspectives on the Impact of Events ScaleRevised and other widely used assessment methods.
- Renewed debates over the nature of PTSD as a reaction to mass trauma.
With the world in its current state, Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD is necessary reading for practitioners and academics in mental health. It is also highly relevant to those in a range of ethnomedicine, social work, and international aid and advocacy.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 7:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780444521736
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Aug 2007
- Pages: 250
Regularly reviewing the "state-of-the-art" developments in the antiviral drug research field, this latest volume spans the conceptual design and chemical synthesis of new antiviral compounds. It discusses their structure-activity relationship, mechanism and targets of action, pharmacological behavior, antiviral activity spectrum, and therapeutic potential for clinical use.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): David E. Matthews, Vernon T. Farewell
- ISBN: 9783805581899
- Publisher: Not Avail
- Edition: 4
- Date: 31 Jan 2007
- Pages: 322
Univ. of Waterloo, Canada. Presents many of the more complex statistical methods and techniques currently appearing in medical publications. This edition features new chapters on Poisson regression, the analysis of variance, meta-analysis, diagnostic tests, and more. For clinicians. Previous edition: c1996. Expanded-outline format. DNLM: Biometry-methods.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Willis C. Maddrey
- ISBN: 9781896998060
- Publisher: BC Decker Inc.
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Jun 2000
- Pages: 108
Hepatitis C is a serious viral illness that affects the liver. Most often spread by blood-to-blood contact, the majority of people infected with hepatitis C do not know they are infected until liver damage has occurred. Because the hepatitis C virus changes its form frequently, presently there is no vaccine for HCV; but once diagnosed, effective treatment is available for many. Written for people diagnosed with hepatitis C and under the care of a physician, this informative book is designed to answer questions about the condition and allow the reader to play an active role in its treatment.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Sandra Oliver
- ISBN: 9780749435417
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Dec 2001
- Pages: 160
This challenging book reflects the intense discussion that is taking place on the nature of public relations and its role in developing and supporting management strategy. It links models and theories of strategic management to the PR function and discusses how globalization and the Internet are shaping and changing organizational PR strategy.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Michael Crichton
- ISBN: 9780375404375
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Date: 27 Nov 1999
Read by John Bedford Lloyd
Nine Cassettes, 15 Hours
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century
feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not since
Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future -- the emerging field of quantum technology -- with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative,
Timeline carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783805574631
- Publisher: S. Karger Publishers (USA)
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Oct 2002
- Pages: 270
Opening up new avenues in medical communication Telemedicine, the practice of transferring medical data using interactive audio, visual and data communication systems, is fast becoming indispensable in modern medicine, healthcare and education. This volume reviews the rapidly expanding and changing field of telemedicine in general with a special focus on teledermatology. As well as presenting historical and technological aspects, the book also describes several of the many fields of application in detail - one of them being teleteaching which already forms an essential part of medical training. Another major issue in telemedicine is the discussion of legal and ethical aspects of teleconsulting. Further contributions acquaint the reader with the various possibilities of telemedicine such as telemedicine for the family doctor, teleradiology, applications in surgery, telepathology, telecardiology, telemedicine in oncology and ophthalmology, and telepsychiatry. The particular aspects of teledermatology are discussed in detail in a separate section. All healthcare professionals from the medical practitioner to the pharmacist, healthcare manager, nurse or technician will find this compilation of up-to-date data valuable reading. The detailed discussion of teledermatology makes it indispensable for the dermatologist.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Anthony Mancuso
- ISBN: 9781413306361
- Publisher: NOLO
- Edition: 4
- Date: 15 May 2007
- Pages: 524
Set up a corporation, skip the lawyer, save money!
Incorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining:
why and when to incorporate
what you need to know about corporate taxation
whether to elect S corporation tax status
how to incorporate an existing business
Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including:
Limited Liability
Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments.
Tax Advantages
You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes.
Access to Capital
Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public.
Employee Perks
The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax-deductible, corporate-paid benefits such as:
pension plans
stock-option and stock bonus plans
medical expense reimbursement
term life insurance coverage
and more
Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions.
The 4th edition provides the latest federal laws, plus the current laws, rules and procedures of your state. read more at Amazon
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Christopher D. Lloyd
- ISBN: 9780415316811
- Publisher: CRC
- Date: 25 Oct 2006
- Pages: 244
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.
Different models make use of data in unique ways, and this book offers perspectives on various definitions of what constitutes local, varying spatial scales, and nonstationary models. The author discusses analyses of single variables on grids, multiple variables, deterministic approaches to spatial prediction, geostatistical prediction, and point patterns. He uses numerous worked examples, illustrations, and case studies to shed light on issues involved in implementing the concepts in practice, and makes use of physical and social science data sets. In each chapter, the book follows a consistent format that introduces global approaches followed by corresponding local approaches, providing an assessment of the suitability of various methods in particular situations.
Combining a valuable array of tools for GIScience and GISystems, Local Models for Spatial Analysis guides you in selecting and applying the most appropriate model for a given purpose and set of data.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780262112789
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Oct 2003
- Pages: 630
A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (
The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences ),
The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in children and adults, from basic science to clinical diagnosis.
MITECD is divided into four sections that reflect the standard categories within the field (also known as speech-language pathology and audiology): Voice, Speech, Language, and Hearing. Within each category, entries are organized into three subsections: Basic Science, Disorders, and Clinical Management. Basic Science includes relevant information on normal anatomy and physiology, physics, psychology and psychophysics, and linguistics; this provides a scientific foundation for entries in the other subsections. The entries that appear under Disorders offer information on the definition and characterization of specific disorders, and tools for their identification and assessment. The Clinical Management subsection describes appropriate interventions, including behavioral, pharmacological, surgical, and prosthetic.
Because the approach to communication disorders can be quite different for children and adults, many topics include separate entries reflecting this. Although some disorders that are first diagnosed in childhood may persist in some form throughout adulthood, many disorders can have an onset in either childhood or adulthood, and the timing of onset can have many implications for both assessment and intervention.
Topics covered in
MITECD include cochlear implants for children and adults, pitch perception, tinnitus, alaryngeal voice and speech rehabilitation, neural mechanisms of vocalization, holistic voice therapy techniques, computer-based approaches to children?s speech and language disorders, neurogenic mutism, regional dialect, agrammatism, global aphasia, and psychosocial problems associated with communicative disorders.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Imre Lakatos
- ISBN: 9780521280303
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 28 Nov 1980
- Pages: 295
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 2 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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- Author(s): Imre Lakatos
- ISBN: 9780521280310
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 28 Nov 1980
- Pages: 258
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. Imre Lakatos had an influence out of all proportion to the length of his philosophical career. This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work. It demonstrates too the force and spirit he brought to every issue with which he engaged, from his most abstract mathematical work to his passionate 'Letter to the director of the LSE'. Lakatos' ideas are now the focus of widespread and increasing interest, and these volumes should make possible for the first time their study as a whole and their proper assessment.
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- Author(s): John E. Shively
- ISBN: 9780896030909
- Publisher: Humana Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 08 Jul 1986
- Pages: 463
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Peter Viney, Karen Viney
- ISBN: 9780194572200
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Date: 07 Nov 1996
- Pages: 176
An innovative course in language and communication skills.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Greg Stone
- ISBN: 9780769291703
- Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company
- Date: 27 Mar 2000
Arranged by Greg Stone, capturing Bill Evan's unique close-voiced jazz piano chord voicings on the guitar.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783805569194
- Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Oct 1999
- Pages: 130
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Joan Minninger
- ISBN: 9781596590366
- Publisher: Your Coach in a Box
- Date: 01 Feb 2006
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- Author(s): Robert B. Brandom
- ISBN: 9780674009035
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Date: 01 Nov 2002
- Pages: 448
A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to the present.
Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars, he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning intentionality, and therefore mindedness itself, revealing an otherwise invisible set of overlapping themes and explanatory strategies. Variously functionalist, inferentialist, holist, normative, and social pragmatist in character, the explanations of intentionality offered by these philosophers, taken together, form a distinctive tradition. The fresh perspective afforded by this tradition enriches our understanding of the philosophical topics being addressed, provides a new conceptual vantage point for viewing our philosophical ancestors, and highlights central features of the sort of rationality that consists in discerning a philosophical tradition--and it does so by elaborating a novel, concrete instance of just such an enterprise.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Dennis Freeborn
- ISBN: 9781403998804
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition: 3
- Date: 12 Dec 2006
- Pages: 480
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. This third edition has been expanded to provide more guidance and background information for students. New sections have also been added to outline the development of writing hands and provide a brief introduction to palaeography. The book also now has a fully integrated supplemental website.
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- Author(s): P. F. Strawson
- ISBN: 9780415051859
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Dec 1990
- Pages: 256
The classic, influential essay in 'descriptive metaphysics' by the most distinguished living English analytic philosopher.
This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.
Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. read more at Amazon
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ludwig Wittgenstein
- ISBN: 9780631205692
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
- Edition: 2
- Date: 27 Feb 1998
- Pages: 272
The
Philosophical Investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) present his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780805833904
- Publisher: CRC
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Aug 2002
- Pages: 624
Principles and Practice of Aviation Psychology is an important addition to the literature in aviation psychology. Covering the history of aviation to the actual pilot actions and tasks today, the editors have brought together a wonderful set of contributors who are leaders in this field.
The text presents psychological principles and research pertinent to the interface between a pilot and the cockpit. Understanding the cognitive demands and the capabilities and limitations of the pilot has important implications on selection and training of pilots and display/control designs in the cockpit. Emphasis is placed on the scientific methods of achieving this understanding together with the view that theories and principles of human behavior would have much to learn from practical problems and applied studies.
Key features:
*Each chapter is rooted in the "real world" of aviation and performs the valuable service of presenting us with solid theoretical discussion that combines applied relevance and practical insights.
*This book shows the state-of-the-art overview of aviation psychology for the second century of aviation.
*Presents a unique set of engineering principles within the context of the aviation domain.
*Can serve as a textbook for courses in aviation psychology.
Principles and Practice of Aviation Psychology is written for researchers, students, equipment and systems designers, trainers, pilots, managers, aerospace engineers, air traffic controllers, and government regulatory personnel and investigators.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): G Tullis
- ISBN: 9780582838031
- Publisher: PEARSON ELT
- Date: 19 Feb 2004
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:58pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): David M. Pozar
- ISBN: 9780471448785
- Publisher: Wiley
- Edition: 3
- Date: 05 Feb 2004
- Pages: 720
Focusing on the design of microwave circuits and components, this valuable reference offers professionals and students an introduction to the fundamental concepts necessary for real world design. The author successfully introduces Maxwell's equations, wave propagation, network analysis, and design principles as applied to modern microwave engineering. 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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- Author(s): John Drew, Sarah Meyer
- ISBN: 9782888930181
- Publisher: Rotovision
- Date: 20 Feb 2008
- Pages: 224
New in Paperback! Color Management shows how to implement color as a practical form of problem solving. It is a consolidated resource, arming designers with an understanding of how to communicate with and manage color in all its aspects and applications; subtractive and additive; pigment, CMYK and RGB; 2-D and 3-D; still and motion. Sensitivity of pigments to light and air and the stability of inks are also detailed, as is the human factor, through issues of color legibility and the physical and psychological effects of color. In its depth and breadth, it is a unique body of information.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:58pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780792358053
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Aug 1999
- Pages: 452
Animal cell technology is a growing discipline of cell biology which aims not only to understand structures, functions and behaviors of differentiated animal cells but also to ascertain their abilities to be used in industrial and medical purposes. The goal of animal cell technology includes accomplishments of clonal expansion of differentiated cells with useful ability, optimization of their culture conditions, modulation of their ability to produce medically and pharmaceutically, important proteins, and the application of animal cells to gene therapy and artificial organs. This volume gives the readers a complete review of present state of the art in Japan. The Proceedings will be useful for cell biologists, biochemists, molecular biologists, immunologists, biochemical engineers and other disciplines related to animal cell culture, working in either academic environments or in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:58pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John Hughes
- ISBN: 9781405082211
- Publisher: Macmillan Education
- Date: 21 Mar 2006
- Pages: 96
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:15pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Damir Filipovic
- ISBN: 9783540414933
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 11 May 2001
- Pages: 134
Bond markets differ in one fundamental aspect from standard stock markets. While the latter are built up to a finite number of trade assets, the underlying basis of a bond market is the entire term structure of interest rates: an infinite-dimensional variable which is not directly observable. On the empirical side, this necessitates curve-fitting methods for the daily estimation of the term structure. Pricing models, on the other hand, are usually built upon stochastic factors representing the term structure in a finite-dimensional state space. Written for readers with knowledge in mathematical finance (in particular interest rate theory) and elementary stochastic analysis, this research monograph has threefold aims: to bring together estimation methods and factor models for interest rates, to provide appropriate consistency conditions and to explore some important examples.
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- Author(s): W.N. Venables, B.D. Ripley
- ISBN: 9780387954578
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 4
- Date: 02 Sep 2003
- Pages: 512
S-PLUS is a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas which have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S-PLUS to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S-PLUS and a course in modern statistical methods. S-PLUS is available for both Windows and UNIX workstations, and both versions are covered in depth. The aim of the book is to show how to use S-PLUS as a powerful and graphical data analysis system. Readers are assumed to have a basic grounding in statistics, and so the book in intended for would-be users of S-PLUS and both students and researchers using statistics. Throughout, the emphasis is on presenting practical problems and full analyses of real data sets. Many of the methods discussed are state-of-the-art approaches to topics such as linear, nonlinear, and smooth regression models, tree-based methods, multivariate analysis and pattern recognition, survival analysis, time series and spatial statistics. Throughout, modern techniques such as robust methods, non-parametric smoothing, and bootstrapping are used where appropriate. This third edition is intended for users of S-PLUS 4.5, 5.0, 2000 or later, although S-PLUS 3.3/4 are also considered. The major change from the second edition is coverage of the current versions of S-PLUS. The material has been extensively rewritten using new examples and the latest computationally intensive methods. The companion volume on S Programming will provide an in-depth guide for those writing software in the S language. The authors have written several software libraries that enhance S-PLUS; these and all the datasets used are available on the Internet in versions for Windows and UNIX. There are extensive on-line complements covering advanced material, user-contributed extensions, further exercises, and new features of S-PLUS as they are introduced. Dr. Venables is now Statistician with CSRIO in Queensland, having been at the Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, for many years previously. He has given many short courses on S-PLUS in Australia, Europe, and the USA. Professor Ripley holds the Chair of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford, and is the author of four other books on spatial statistics, simulation, pattern recognition, and neural networks.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:15pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ira Berkowitz
- ISBN: 9781581312676
- Publisher: Vault, Inc.
- Date: 25 Apr 2004
- Pages: 128
This guide offers a look at professional careers in advertising, at the industry's history and trends, and advice on marketing oneself to potential employers.
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- Author(s): Bernhard H. Walke, P. Seidenberg, M. P. Althoff
- ISBN: 9780470845578
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 16 Dec 2002
- Pages: 352
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) is the third generation telecommunications system based on WCDMA. WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) is the radio interface for UMTS. WCDMA is characterised by use of a wider band than CDMA. It has additional advantages of high transfer rate, and increased system capacity and communication quality by statistical multiplexing, etc. WCDMA efficiently utilises the radio spectrum to provide a maximum data rate of 2 Mbit/s.
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) will offer a consistent set of services to mobile computer and phone users no matter where they are located in the world. Based on the GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) communication standard, UMTS, endorsed by major standards bodies and manufacturers, is the planned standard for mobile users around the world by 2002.
Today's cellular telephone systems are mainly circuit-switched, with connections always dependent on circuit availability. Packet-switched connection, using the Internet Protocol (IP), means that a virtual connection is always available to any other end point in the network. It will also make it possible to provide new services, such as alternative billing methods (pay-per-bit, pay-per-session, flat rate, asymmetric bandwidth, and others). The higher bandwidth of UMTS also promises new services, such as video conferencing and promises to realise the Virtual Home Environment (VHE) in which a roaming user can have the same services to which the user is accustomed when at home or in the office, through a combination of transparent terrestrial and satellite connections.
- Provides an introduction to cellular networks and digital communications
- Covers the air interface, radio access network and core network
- Explains the Release '99 specifications clearly and effectively
- Discusses UMTS services and future services beyond 3G
- Features numerous problems and solutions in order to aid understanding
Ideal for Academics and students on telecommunications, electronics and computer science courses, research and development engineers working in mobile/wireless communications and Cellular operators and technical consultants.
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- Author(s): Henrik Schulze, Christian Lueders
- ISBN: 9780470850695
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 23 Sep 2005
- Pages: 420
Theory and Applications of OFDM and CDMA is an ideal foundation textbook for those seeking a sound knowledge of this fast-developing field of wideband communications. The advanced transmission techniques of OFDM, applied in wireless LANs and in digital and video broadcasting, and CDMA, the foundation of 3G mobile communications, have been part of almost every communication system that has been designed in recent years, with both offering a high degree of flexibility in adjusting the system to the requirements of the application and to the impairments caused by the transmission channel.
Starting from the basics of digital transmission theory, the reader gains a comprehensive overview of the underlying ideas of these techniques and their strengths and weaknesses under various conditions. In this context, the specific requirements of the mobile radio channel and their relevance for the design of digital transmission systems are discussed and related to the items of channel coding and modulation.
- Clear explanation of the basics of digital communications, mobile radio channels, coding and modulation, OFDM as a multicarrier system and CDMA as an application of spread spectrum techniques
- Discusses the most important mobile radio and digital broadcasting systems that use OFDM and CDMA, and explains in detail the underlying ideas for the choice of system parameters
- Progresses from the fundamentals of wideband communication through to modern applications
- Includes a Companion Website featuring a solutions manual, electronic versions of the figures and other useful resources
This volume will be an invaluable resource to advanced undergraduate students and first/second year postgraduates of electrical and engineering and telecommunications. It will also appeal to practising engineers, researchers and those in academia who wish to expand their knowledge on modern aspects of digital communications and systems in a mobile radio environment.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:15pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jason Alba
- ISBN: 9781581313284
- Publisher: Vault, Inc.
- Edition: 2
- Date: 25 Apr 2005
- Pages: 128
Professional career guide from the Vault Career Library - from a look at the types of accounting, including tax and audit, to the types of accounting careers, including the Big Four accounting firms, and government work.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:14pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Neil Fletcher
- ISBN: 9780751338737
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
- Date: 03 Jun 2004
- Pages: 296
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- Author(s): Glen O. Gabbard, Eva P. Lester
- ISBN: 9781585620982
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
- Date: 26 Nov 2002
- Pages: 223
Introduced in 1995, Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis was lauded by the psychoanalytic community for its balanced, clear perspective professional boundary issues. It has since become the definitive text on the subject, and it is used in psychoanalytic seminars and courses all over the world. In this acclaimed volume, authors Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., and Eva P. Lester, M.D., shed light on the many controversies surrounding boundary issues and equip readers with strategies for recognizing and dealing with boundary problems on the part of both clinicians and patients. Using history, theory, case examples, and practical approaches, Drs. Gabbard and Lester help clinicians: Understand the history of boundary violations in psychoanalysis and see how transgressions spark and evolve within the vulnerable framework of psychoanalysis. Gain a psychoanalytic understanding of sexual and nonsexual boundary violations by both clients and their doctors, with many detailed case examples that illuminate the dynamics of these transgressions. Develop knowledge and awareness of posttermination boundaries and the role of boundaries in psychoanalytic supervision. Learn practical institutional responses to serious violations, including preventive techniques, assessment and rehabilitation approaches, and transference/countertransference management approaches. With information geared toward both clinicians and institutions, Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis is an invaluable resource for understanding and treating those who have transgressed professional boundaries. More broadly, it will help all clinicians develop an awareness of emerging problems in the psychoanalytic relationship in time to take steps to avoid serious transgressions.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:14pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780634040641
- Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
- Date: 01 Jan 2002
- Pages: 352
Get more bang for your buck with this big collection of over 70 memorable movie moments, including: Almost Paradise * Also Sprach Zarathustra, Opening Theme * Cole's Song * The Crying Game * Funny Girl * I Say a Little Prayer * Il Postino (The Postman) * Jailhouse Rock * Psycho (Prelude) * Puttin' on the Ritz * She * Southampton * Take My Breath Away (Love Theme) * Theme from "Terms of Endearment" * Up Where We Belong * The Way We Were * Where the Boys Are * and more.
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- ISBN: 9788425217203
- Publisher: Gustavo Gili
- Date: 26 Oct 1997
- Pages: 64
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- Author(s): Ilona M. Bray
- ISBN: 9780873377997
- Publisher: NOLO PRESS
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Jan 2003
- Pages: 250
The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a winding one -- and running into bureaucratic hassles is inevitable. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can get the job done, step by step. Find out how to:
*make sure that you are eligible (and not risking deportation)
*use special exceptions for disabled persons, military personnel, spouses of citizens and others
*prepare the application forms and documents
*study for the citizenship exam
*have a successful interview with an INS official
*deal with delays, lost applications or other complications
*enjoy your new status as a U.S. citizen
*help family members immigrate
Becoming a U.S. Citizen covers topics that most other guides don't, helping you avoid trouble spots. You may even be able to take advantage of special rules that allow some applicants to apply early, take the exam in their own language and more.
The book provides forms with line-by-line instructions to fill them out, plus handy checklists that help you organize the application and interview materials.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:14pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781585621040
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Sep 2004
- Pages: 179
This refreshing new work is a practical overview of religious and spiritual issues in psychiatric assessment and treatment. 11 distinguished contributors assert that everyone has a worldview and that these religious and spiritual variables can be collaborative partners of science, bringing critical insight to assessment and healing to treatment. Unlike other works in this field, which focus primarily on spiritual experience, this clearly written volume focuses on the cognitive aspects of belief and how personal worldview affects the behavior of both patient and clinician. Informative case vignettes and discussions illustrate how assessment, formulation, and treatment principles can be incorporated within different worldviews, including practical clinical information on major faith traditions and on atheist and agnostic worldviews.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:14pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mardi Jon Horowitz
- ISBN: 9781585621071
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Sep 2002
- Pages: 132
Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes is a comprehensive guide to treating patients with disorders related to loss, trauma, and terror. Author Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., is the clinical researcher who is largely responsible for modern concepts of posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD). In this book he reveals strategies for treating PTSD and expands the coverage to include several related diagnoses. The author uses a unique approach to treatment. Rather than organizing the book by diagnoses, he outlines essential explanatory principles that cover a range of diagnostic entities. Readers will learn an integrative approach that is based on a cognitive-dynamic theory. This approach enables readers to apply solid foundation principles for more effective diagnosis and treatment.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:14pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Gregory E. Gray
- ISBN: 9781585620968
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Oct 2003
- Pages: 237
This practical handbook provides quick access to EBP theories, tools, and methods. Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry is a one-stop reference for using the literature to improve patient outcomes. Features include: Practical - Filled with how-to information, Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry outlines the latest techniques for accessing, assessing, and interpreting the literature. Conveniently sized - Small enough to fit in your jacket pocket, it's ideal for daily reference. Easy to use - Includes many tables of essential websites for finding reliable information on the Internet, best-practice strategies for searching the medical literature, and critical appraisal worksheets for assessing the validity of findings. Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry fills an important role as the first EBP text for teaching residents, who are now required to develop such skills to meet the ACGME "practice-based learning and improvement" core competency. Special features for pedagogical use include suggestions for teaching EBP in residency programs, profuse examples from the psychiatric literature, and worksheets for the critical appraisal of clinical trials, diagnostic tests, epidemiologic studies, studies of prognosis, and more.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Simon James
- ISBN: 9780756637668
- Publisher: DK CHILDREN
- Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Pages: 72
The most trusted nonfiction series on the market,
Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
DK's classic look at Ancient Rome, now reissued with a CD and wall chart.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Miranda MacQuitty
- ISBN: 9780756637781
- Publisher: DK CHILDREN
- Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Pages: 72
The most trusted nonfiction series on the market,
Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
DK's classic look at sharks, now reissued with a CD and wall chart.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Allen J. Coombes
- ISBN: 9780751338720
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
- Date: 03 Jun 2004
- Pages: 224
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Suzanne Martin
- ISBN: 9780756609528
- Publisher: DK ADULT
- Date: 04 Jul 2005
- Pages: 160
Discover the key to staying fit and supple with this easy-to-do stretching program. Targeted warm-up and cool-down stretches prevent sports injuries, while others effectively counter aches and pains, bad posture, and the effects of aging. An added benefit is ease: this practical stretching program fits effortlessly into a busy life.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Michael Ash, Irene Ash
- ISBN: 9780471188575
- Publisher: Wiley-VCH
- Date: 01 Dec 1997
- Pages: 529
This key reference will serve as the most comprehensive source for identifying and locating products in the international chemical marketplace. It has been written for the chemists, materials sientists, end-product formulators, industrial application specialists and scientists working in associated fields.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
- ISBN: 9780415370738
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 22 Dec 2005
- Pages: 212
Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up discussions on such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms, there is a diversity of theoretical traditions. It draws on a variety of examples, and explores new directions in the complexities of diverse male identities and emotional lives across different histories, cultures and traditions.
Transforming Masculinities explores new ways of thinking men's power and the tensions men often feel in relation to prevailing cultural masculinities. Questioning the idea that masculinities can be understood exclusively as relationships of power, this book explores how men's power has to be understood in relation to specific cultures and traditions and how transformations in gender relations across generations mean we have to think in new ways about men, masculinities, cultures, bodies, sexualities and emotional life. Challenging the universal applicability of Western modelsof hegemonic masculinity Seidler suggests that we need to think differently about diverse cultural masculinities and recognize that men have to engage critically with their own cultural traditions to create more equal and loving relationships.
Written in a practical, versatile manner by an established author in this field, it points to new directions in thinking, and makes essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the fields of sociology, gender studies, politics, philosophy and psychology.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Chrys Ingraham
- ISBN: 9780415932738
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 12 Nov 2004
- Pages: 256
What is heterosexuality? In recent years, scholars in all fields have spent so much time defining homosexuality, the nature of heterosexuality has gone unexplored. This collection of original essays will unravel the current heterosexual scene in two parts: one on rights and privileges, the other on popular culture. Topics covered include weddings, proms, citizenship, marriage penalties, cartoons, mermaids and myth. This imaginative work is an impressive addition to the growing field of critical heterosexual studies.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Judith Butler
- ISBN: 9780415969239
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Aug 2004
- Pages: 288
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from
Gender Trouble . In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:12pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780122272400
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 29 Jul 2002
- Pages: 3300
The
Encyclopedia of Information Systems provides essential answers to questions increasingly asked by people in all walks of life. People can no longer claim that information about computer viruses, for example, is unimportant to their work, or that advances in speech recognition and encryption will leave them unaffected. The
Encyclopedia is therefore more useful than one might suspect to people well beyond the walls of information systems departments. Offering both general and technical information about major elements, issues, opinions, and key studies, as well as cross-references to related subjects, it captures the dynamic growth and complexity unique to our era.
Key Features
* Offers the only major encyclopedic examination of information systems; there are no competitors
* Articles begin with easily understandable concepts and become increasingly sophisticated, satisfying the needs of all readers
* Articles emphasize information that will not quickly go out of date
* Each article contains an average of 8 graphs and 8 tables illustrating its important points
* Contains approximately 220 separate articles, all original contributions commissioned for this work
* Includes approximately 700 figures and tables within the text; more than 2,000 glossary entries explain key terms, "further reading" lists appear at the end of each entry, and an extensive cross-referencing system links related articles
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:12pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mundial Banco
- ISBN: 9789586823760
- Publisher: Alfaomega Grupo Editor
- Date: 26 Jul 2003
- Pages: 192
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 5:12pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780821343425
- Publisher: International Finance Corporation
- Date: 26 Oct 1998
- Pages: 74
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:12am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783805574594
- Publisher: S. Karger Publishers (USA)
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Sep 2002
- Pages: 156
A valuable update for researchers and clinicians Tuberculosis remains one of the main fatal infections in humans. With annual morbidity and mortality rates worldwide of 8 and 2 million cases respectively, the disease is far from being eradicated. In fact, the dangerous liaison between TB and HIV, and the increasing incidences of multi-drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are aggravating the problem. The latest epidemiological data indicate that new drugs and a novel vaccine are urgently needed to control TB adequately. This volume summarizes the state of the art in the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of TB. In addition, the molecular biology of M. tuberculosis and the immunology of the host response are presented. Researchers are beginning to understand how the immune response controls the pathogen quite efficiently, yet fails to eradicate it completely in the 2 billion people worldwide who are infected but do not develop the disease. Finally, recent strategies towards the development of new vaccines are reviewed. Scientists investigating the epidemiology, immunology and molecular biology of TB or engaged in vaccine and drug development as well as physicians and social workers treating TB patients will benefit from this timely overview.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:12am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Dennis McCarthy, Nick Rich
- ISBN: 9780750658577
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Date: 21 Sep 2004
- Pages: 224
Merging the benefits of two well-known methodolgies, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance, Lean TPM shows how to secure increased manufacturing efficiency.
Based on their experienc of working with organisations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques that convert strategic vision into practical reality. Lean TPM accelerates the benefits of continuous improvement activities within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, targeting effectiveness and making processes work as planned.
* Unites world-class manufacturing, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
* Shows how to achieve zero breakdowns
* Optimises processes to deliver performance and new products efficiently
* Delivers benefit from continuous improvement activities quickly
Lean TPM provides a single change agenda for organisations. It will help to develop robust supply chain relationships and to optimise the value generating process. Supported by an integrated route map and comprehensive benchmark data, this book enables engineers, technicians and managers to explore this potent technique fully.
* Unites the concepts of world-class manufacturing, Lean and TPM.
* Shows how to accelerate the benefits gained from continuous improvement activities.
* Includes an integrated route map for Lean TPM, including benchmark data.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:12am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ricky Smith, Bruce Hawkins
- ISBN: 9780750677790
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 1
- Date: 19 May 2004
- Pages: 287
What is "Lean?" Whether referring to manufacturing operations or maintenance, lean is about doing more with less: less effort, less space, fewer defects, less throughput time, lower volume requirements, less capital for a given level of output, etc. The need to provide the customer more value with less waste is a necessity for any firm wanting to stay in business, especially in today's increasingly global market place. And this is what lean thinking is all about.
Lean Operations are difficult to sustain. More Lean Manufacturing Plant Transformations have been abandoned than have achieved true Lean Enterprise status.
There are solid and recurring reasons for both of these conditions. The most significant of these reasons is that production support processes have not been pre-positioned or refined adequately to assist the manufacturing plant in making the lean transformation. And the most significant of the support functions is the maintenance operation, which determines production line equipment reliability. Moving the maintenance operation well into its own lean transformation is a must-do prerequisite for successful manufacturing plant - or any process plant - Lean Transformations. This Handbook provides detailed, step-by-step, fully explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies of a quantity, detail and practicality that no previous publication has even approached. It is required reading, and a required reference, for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting "Lean" as their mode of operation.
* A continuous improvement strategy using new "lean" principles
* Eliminate wasteful practices from your manufacturing or chemical processes, increasing the profitability of your plant
* Save thousands of dollars a year on new equipment by keeping your existing equipment maintained using this revolutionary method
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:12am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Panel to Study the Design of Nonmarket Accounts, National Research Council
- ISBN: 9780309093194
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Date: 29 Dec 2004
- Pages: 224
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:12am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Frederick G. Harmon, Fred Harmon
- ISBN: 9780938721840
- Publisher: Kiplinger Books
- Date: 15 Mar 2001
- Pages: 360
Fred Harmon clearly describes how global and societal trends will affect companies in the next decade.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- Author(s): P. J. O'Rourke
- ISBN: 9780871134554
- Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 May 1991
- Pages: 233
If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O'Rourke's masterpiece. He clearly hates government--and has hated it since before it was cool to do so--and for all the right reasons, too: it's clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. In other words, it magnifies the faults of the poor saps who staff it.
Parliament of Whores is the humorist's howl of bitter laughter at the entire bloated, numskulled mess. As befits an ex-editor of
National Lampoon , nothing is out of bounds for O'Rourke. Speaking of the fabled "football"--that satchel that follows the president around 24/7--the author doubts there are really launch codes in there at all--nothing but "a copy of
Penthouse and a pint bottle of Hiram Walker--a
Penthouse from back in the seventies, when
Penthouse was really dirty, I'll bet."
Parliament of Whores is perfect for anyone who longs to cultivate an entertaining brand of cynicism, to be "a lone voice--not crying in the wilderness, thank you, but chortling in the rec room." O'Rourke is a master at making you laugh in spite of the better angels of your nature, and the only negative thing to be said about this tour de force is that his flamethrower brand of satire leaves nothing in its wake--certainly not the suggestion of an improvement. --Michael Gerber
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ping Chen, Sardar M.N. Islam
- ISBN: 9780387235691
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 19 Nov 2004
- Pages: 201
The determination of optimal financing and investment strategies (optimal capital structure or optimal mix of funds, optimal portfolio choice, etc.) for corporations and the economy are important for efficient allocation of resources in the economy. Optimal control methods have useful applications to these areas in finance - some optimization problems in finance include optimal control, involving a dynamic system with switching times in the form of bang-bang control. Optimal control models for corporate finance and the economy are presented in this book and the analytical and computational results of these models are also reported. Such computational approaches to the study of optimal corporate financing are not well known in the existing literature. This book develops a new computational method where switching times are considered as variables in the optimal dynamic financial model represented by a second order differential equation. A new computer program named CSTVA (Computer Program for the Switching Time Variables Algorithm), which can compute bang-bang optimal financial models with switching time, is also developed. Optimal financing implications of the model results in the form of optimal switching times for changes in financing policies and the optimal financial policies are analyzed.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780805844719
- Publisher: CRC
- Edition: 1
- Date: 06 Oct 2004
- Pages: 472
This volume is the fruit of the 5th conference on Naturalistic Decision Making which focused on the importance of studying people who have some degree of expertise in the domain in which they make decisions. The substantive concerns pertain to how individuals and groups make decisions in professional and organizational settings, and to develop suitable methods for studying these questions rigorously.
This volume appeals to practitioners in business and government, as well as academics and students who are interested in naturalistic decision making.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781576600801
- Publisher: Bloomberg Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Jul 2000
- Pages: 128
110 of the very best cartoons on politics from the New Yorker.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ellen Bendremer
- ISBN: 9781564146854
- Publisher: Career Press
- Date: 01 Jun 2003
- Pages: 256
Top Telemarketing Techniques is an information-packed resource for all sales professionals. It offers expert insight and proven strategies for using the telephone as a powerful and effective sales tool. This book offers valuable information needed to develop, improve upon, and fully utilize your telephone sales skills, allowing you to close more sales over the telephone. Telemarketing is a highly cost-effective and timesaving alternative to most other forms of sales and marketing for any organization. Top Telemarketing Techniques offers solutions for utilizing the telephone to close more sales and generate higher revenues. If you're a salesperson, manager, entrepreneur, or business leader, this is the one sales training book you need to begin maximizing your use of the telephone in order to vastly improve sales and customer relations.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Robin Leonard
- ISBN: 9781413301922
- Publisher: NOLO
- Edition: 7
- Date: 01 Jul 2005
- Pages: 250
The acclaimed plain-English solution to fixing a bad credit report!
Perhaps you've had problems with credit. Or perhaps you haven't, but your credit report says you have anyway-- nearly 80 percent of credit reports contain errors.
Either way, a less-than-flattering report can hurt your chances of qualifying for credit card, loans, renting an apartment or finding a job.
But a bad credit report can almost always be improved or corrected. Credit Repair shows you how to fix your credit situation quickly and easily, explaining the necessary steps in plain English. Learn how to:
*avoid overspending *establish a realistic budget *get out of debt now *build a financial cushion *read and understand your credit report *get mistakes on your credit report fixed *protect your social security number *avoid credit discrimination *get positive information added to your credit report *negotiate with creditors
Credit Repair includes 30 forms and letters -- as tear-outs and on CD-ROM --that will help you repair your credit as easily as possible!
The 7th edition is completely updated and revised with the latest information and laws, and provides new information on identity theft and what to do if you are a victim of it. It also includes an explanation of sample credit reports from the major credit bureaus, plus resources to turn to for additional help.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Sverre J. Grimnes, Orjan G. Martinsen
- ISBN: 9780123740045
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 03 Mar 2008
- Pages: 488
Bioelectricity (or bioelectromagnetism) relates to the study of biological electrical currents, and bioimpedance deals with the measurement of electrical conductivity. They are intimately linked to biomedical engineering, with major significance for development of novel medical devices, as well as the study of biological rhythms. This completely updated new edition remains the most comprehensive reference tool for this intricate, interdisciplinary field.
The authors, both internationally recognized experts in the field, have thoroughly revised the entire text. It remains the only such work that discusses in detail dielectric and electrochemical aspects, as well as electrical engineering concepts of network theory. The highly effective, easy to follow organization has been retained, with new discussion of state-of-the-art advances in finite element analysis, endogenic sources, control theory, tissue electrical properties, and invasive measurements. There are two all new chapters on bioelectricity, along with an introduction to Geselowitz theory, the Maxwell basis of bioimpedance, and multivariate analysis as an alternative.
* Increased emphasis on bioelectricity and potential clinical applications
* Two all new chapters dealing with electrical properties of passive and excitable tissue
* Expanded discussion of finite element modelling and a broad range of applications
* Provides a complete ?all in one? reference source for a multidisciplinary, complex field
* Includes many additional figures and all improved, newly drawn illustrations throughout
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781591408192
- Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
- Date: 21 Jun 2005
- Pages: 356
The Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce Series provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, human, and cognitive impacts of the EC technologies and advances on organizations around the world. These impacts include those of EC on consumer behavior as well as on organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume 1 is the first release in this series. In our present era, electronic commerce has taken the stage as a necessary ingredient in education, manufacturing, and even research. Individuals involved in researching, improving, and using e-commerce need a strong resource to provide ideas and information on the utilization of these new technologies and what possibilities e-commerce offers. Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume I presents a wide range of the most current research in the adoption of e-commerce, e-business, and e-government. This inaugural volume will assist researchers, educators, and professionals in understanding the necessary components for e-technologies and how to best adopt these elements into their own classrooms, workplaces, and organizations throughout the world.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:11am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Nicholas D. Evans
- ISBN: 9780130473974
- Publisher: FT Press
- Date: 01 Sep 2002
- Pages: 256
Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology for Competitive Advantage shows you how to profit from the next technological revolution. Nicholas D. Evans explains how to discover powerfully disruptive techn
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:10am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Lee Wilkins, Renita Coleman
- ISBN: 9780805844757
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
- Edition: 1
- Date: 27 Dec 2004
- Pages: 288
The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the thinking of other professionals.
This text is divided into three parts:
*Part I includes chapters that explain the DIT and place it within the larger history of three fields: psychology, philosophy, and mass communication. It also provides both a statistical (quantitative) and narrative (qualitative) analysis of journalists' responses to the DIT.
*Part II adds to scholarship theory building in these three disciplines and makes changes in the DIT that adds an element of visual information processing to the test.
*Part III explores the larger meaning of this effort overall and links the results to theory and practice in these three fields.
The Moral Media pursues connections among various intellectual disciplines, between the academy and the profession of journalism, and among those who believe that what journalists do is essential. As a result, this book is appropriate for aspiring journalists; scholars in journalism and mass communication; psychologists, particularly those interested in human development and behavior; and philosophers.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:10am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Gilles Neret
- ISBN: 9783822889633
- Publisher: Taschen
- Date: 26 Nov 1994
- Pages: 800
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:10am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mark Voelpel, Charlie Parker
- ISBN: 9780793587476
- Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
- Date: 01 Jun 2001
- Pages: 104
This fascinating new book will let you explore the music of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians. For the first time ever, saxophonist Charlie Parker's legendary 'heads' and improvised solos have been meticulously adapted for the guitar in standard notation and tablature. Includes these Parker classics complete with detailed performance notes: Anthropology Au Privave Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) Bloomdido Blues (Fast) Blues for Alice Cheryl Confirmation Donna Lee K.C. Blues Kim Ko Ko Moose the Mooche Now's the Time Ornithology Parker's Mood Scrapple from the Apple Yardbird Suite.
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- Author(s): Adolf Goetzberger, Joachim Knobloch, Bernhard Voss
- ISBN: 9780471971443
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 26 Apr 1998
- Pages: 254
As environmental concerns escalate, solar power is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative energy source. Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells addresses the practical and theoretical issues fundamental to the viable conversion of sunlight into electricity. Written by three internationally renowned experts, this valuable reference profits from results and experience gained from research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Features include: Introduction to the principles of photovoltaics, providing a grounding in semiconductor physics for the novice reader Special emphasis on the methods of attaining high efficiency and thereby cost-effective solar power Examination of the physics, design and technology of crystalline silicon solar cells, in particular thin film cells Survey of a selection of alternative cell types equipping the reader with a complete overview Detailed description of measuring and analysis techniques to facilitate determining physical semiconductor and solar cell parameters Accessible to those with a basic knowledge of physics and mathematics, this is an excellent introductory book for students studying solid state and semiconductor physics. All those working in photovoltaic development and production will find Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells an indispensable resource.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:10am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781860947629
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Date: 21 Jun 2007
- Pages: 344
Advances in Earth Science outlines the latest developments and new research directions currently being made world-wide in the earth sciences. It contains invited and refereed articles by leading younger researchers on their cutting-edge research, but aimed at a general scientific audience. This exciting volume explains how powerful methodologies such as satellite remote sensing and supercomputing simulations are now profoundly changing research in the earth sciences; how the earth system is increasingly being viewed in a holistic way, linking the atmosphere, ocean and solid earth; and how the societal impact of the research in the earth sciences has never been more important. Published by Imperial College Press in collaboration with the Royal Society of London, the book features many articles originating from invited papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Eleven of the distinguished contributors hold prestigious Royal Society Research Fellowships.
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- Author(s): C. A. J. Coady
- ISBN: 9780198235514
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 23 Mar 1995
- Pages: 336
Our trust in the word of others is often dismissed as unworthy, because the illusory ideal of "autonomous knowledge" has prevailed in the debate about the nature of knowledge. Yet we are profoundly dependent on others for a vast amount of what any of us claim to know. Coady explores the nature of testimony in order to show how it might be justified as a source of knowledge, and uses the insights that he has developed to challenge certain widespread assumptions in the areas of history, law, mathematics, and psychology.
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- Author(s): Daniel Ferguson
- ISBN: 9780071389846
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
- Date: 26 Jan 2002
The one--and only--illustrated project book that takes readers step-by-step through the design and installation of their own customized car speakers.
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- Author(s): Robert Britton
- ISBN: 9780131420441
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Date: 07 Jun 2003
- Pages: 168
/*4204Q-9, 0-13-142044-5, Britton, Robert, MIPS Assembly Language Programming, 1/E*/ Users of this book will gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts of contemporary computer architecture, starting with a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). An understanding of computer architecture needs to begin with the basics of modern computer organization. The MIPS architecture embodies the fundamental design principles of all contemporary RISC architectures. This book provides an understanding of how the functional components of modern computers are put together and how a computer works at the machine-language level. Well-written and clearly organized, this book covers the basics of MIPS architecture, including algorithm development, number systems, function calls, reentrant functions, memory-mapped I/O, exceptions and interrupts, and floating-point instructions. For employees in the field of systems, systems development, systems analysis, and systems maintenance.
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- Author(s): Thomas Hill, Paul Lewicki
- ISBN: 9781884233593
- Publisher: StatSoft, Inc.
- Date: 26 Nov 2005
- Pages: 800
A comprehensive textbook on statistics written for both novices and advanced analysts. This - one of a kind - book offers a comprehensive, almost encyclopedic presentation of statistical methods and analytic approaches used in science, industry, business, and data mining, written from the perspective of the real-life practitioner ("consumer") of these methods. The primary emphasis is on applications rather than theoretical derivations and formulas. The authors, experienced researchers, draw on their diverse experiences as teachers of quantitative methods at the graduate and undergraduate levels with extensive, real-life consulting expertise (they have been involved in hundreds of projects in various areas of science, business, and industry, on all continents).
History of this book. The earlier editions of this unique book were available for over 10 years on the Internet, where it has earned praise from thousands of readers and benefited from their comments, questions, and requests for coverage of specific topics. The electronic version of this textbook has also won the prestigious distinction of becoming the only Internet resource on statistics and data analysis recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica.
From a "Novice" to Advanced Analyst. This book was written without assuming that the reader has any prior knowledge of statistics. Instead, it successfully guides the reader all the way from the basic foundations of statistical reasoning, to the most advanced, cutting-edge methods. It includes hundreds of examples and thousands of illustrations created with leading edge data visualization and data mining software. This unusually comprehensive book includes also chapters on industrial statistics, on the emerging areas of predictive analytics, data mining and text mining, and a 200-page, illustrated Glossary of statistical terms.
Electronic (CD) version. A coupon in the book entitles the reader to receive a CD with the electronic, hypertext version, which includes color graphics and animations.
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- Author(s): Tim Newark
- ISBN: 9789623616348
- Publisher: Concord Publications
- Date: 21 Dec 1998
- Pages: 48
48 pages, 20 color plates. This is the third title by the talented artist McBride, Angus. Angus just keeps getting better and better. Angus has cut down his workload nowadays to enjoy life, so the readers will not see too many of his new paintings come out. Concord Publications are proud to be able to publish 20 of his new paintings every year, and next year's project will be even more exciting. This book covers the period from fourth Century BC to 10th Century AD, featuring paintings of the Celts, Scythians, Burgundians, Franks, Goths, Huns, Saxons, Vikings etc. Most of paintings are combat scene with great emphasis on the details. Tim Newark is also a renowned historian on ancient subjects. His position as the editor of "Military Illustrated" proved his knowledge in this field.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 12:09am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781405127783
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Date: 31 Jan 2005
- Pages: 248
Until recently, the cellular basis for sudden death, the Brugada Syndrome, has largely remained an unknown to modern arrhythmologists and cardiologists, particularly in the absence of any structural heart disease. Detailed observations of age-groups, especially the young, families and populations where sudden death frequently occurs, and improved understanding of its contributory factors and mechanisms are, however, showing the way forward.
This addition to the Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias (CATA) Series, written by the investigators who discovered and probed the Brugada Syndrome, discusses the history, etiology, pathology and clinical manifestations of sudden death. From diagnosis, prognosis, to therapeutic approaches using the latest in cathater ablation techniques, electrophysiological surgery, and genetic appraisal, the work is a testimony to the author's investigation. Using clinical cases in Thailand and Laos, they further unravel the syndrome's molecular mechanisms, studying related syndromes, such as the long-QT syndrome, infant death, and arryhthmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
By being informed of the electrophysiological abnormalities that contribute to familial and genetic diseases, physicians, cardiologists and all those who care for patients with cardiac arrhythmias will be better able to identify and treat patients in whom the Brugada Syndrome may strike next.
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- Author(s): Eric Tyson, Ray Brown
- ISBN: 9780061152733
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Edition: 3
- Date: 01 Nov 2006
In the market for a home, but don't know where to start? Not to worry! From financing, mortgages, and credit scores to closing the deal, bestselling real estate authors Eric Tyson and Ray Brown walk you step by step through the entire home-buying process.
Discover how to:
- Harness the Internet to help in your search
- Determine how much home you can afford
- Select the right type of mortgage
- Work with agents, brokers, lenders, and lawyers
- Research neighborhoods and home values
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Joseph R. Dominick
- ISBN: 9780072885798
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
- Edition: 8
- Date: 26 Apr 2004
- Pages: 18
The Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in the Digital Age focuses on aspects of the media -- history, organization, ownership, economics, feedback, and career -- with increased focus on ethics and the critical cultural perspective. New to this edition is a section on the impact of the digital age in each media chapter. Dominick's cogent and lively writing style has made this text a student favorite.
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- Author(s): Joseph R. Dominick
- ISBN: 9780072885798
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
- Edition: 8
- Date: 26 Apr 2004
- Pages: 18
The Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in the Digital Age focuses on aspects of the media -- history, organization, ownership, economics, feedback, and career -- with increased focus on ethics and the critical cultural perspective. New to this edition is a section on the impact of the digital age in each media chapter. Dominick's cogent and lively writing style has made this text a student favorite.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ian Hickman
- ISBN: 9780750634472
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 2
- Date: 26 Jul 1997
- Pages: 302
* New chapter covering EMC * Appendices contain useful addresses and contacts * A thorough and practical introduction This is a practical introduction to modern RF circuit design. The content is aimed at those learning to design RF circuitry and users of modern RF equipment such as signal generators and sweepers, spectrum and network-analyzers. Pressure on the RF spectrum has never been greater and it is people with knowledge and skills of RF design who are now in demand in the electronics industry to design, produce, maintain and use equipment capable of working in this crowded environment. This is a valuable source for all RF engineers.
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- Author(s): Ian Hickman
- ISBN: 9780750634472
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Edition: 2
- Date: 26 Jul 1997
- Pages: 302
* New chapter covering EMC * Appendices contain useful addresses and contacts * A thorough and practical introduction This is a practical introduction to modern RF circuit design. The content is aimed at those learning to design RF circuitry and users of modern RF equipment such as signal generators and sweepers, spectrum and network-analyzers. Pressure on the RF spectrum has never been greater and it is people with knowledge and skills of RF design who are now in demand in the electronics industry to design, produce, maintain and use equipment capable of working in this crowded environment. This is a valuable source for all RF engineers.
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- Author(s): Mark Frauenfelder
- ISBN: 9780596527198
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Date: 14 Nov 2006
- Pages: 224
If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.
Get ready to play when MAKE Volume 08, our "Toys and Games" issue, hits the stands. You'll learn how to build a wind-up bird that really flies, how to restore an old pinball machine, and learn the secret history of the world's best-selling computer game from Myst's co-creator. You'll also meet a well-known toy inventor and learn how to make molds and casts with MythBusters star Adam Savage.
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- Author(s): Mark Frauenfelder
- ISBN: 9780596527198
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Date: 14 Nov 2006
- Pages: 224
If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.
Get ready to play when MAKE Volume 08, our "Toys and Games" issue, hits the stands. You'll learn how to build a wind-up bird that really flies, how to restore an old pinball machine, and learn the secret history of the world's best-selling computer game from Myst's co-creator. You'll also meet a well-known toy inventor and learn how to make molds and casts with MythBusters star Adam Savage.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540690160
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jun 2008
- Pages: 91
Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication. Data hiding and cryptographic techniques are often combined to complement each other, thus triggering the development of a new research field of multimedia security. Besides, two related disciplines, steganalysis and data forensics, are increasingly attracting researchers and becoming another new research field of multimedia security. This journal, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, aims to be a forum for all researchers in these emerging fields, publishing both original and archival research results.
This third issue contains five contributions in the areas of steganography and digital watermarking. The first two papers deal with the security of steganographic systems; the third paper presents a novel image steganographic scheme. Finally, this volume includes two papers that focus on digital watermarking and data hiding. The fourth paper introduces and analyzes a new covert channel and the fifth contribution analyzes the performance of additive attacks against quantization-based data hiding methods.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9789241545365
- Publisher: World Health Organization
- Edition: 3
- Date: 18 Feb 2003
- Pages: 371
Presents an historical account of the Pharmacopoeia and describes methods and procedures for the quality control of pharmaceutical substances and dosage forms, including a special section on quality control of anti-malarials.
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- ISBN: 9789241545365
- Publisher: World Health Organization
- Edition: 3
- Date: 18 Feb 2003
- Pages: 371
Presents an historical account of the Pharmacopoeia and describes methods and procedures for the quality control of pharmaceutical substances and dosage forms, including a special section on quality control of anti-malarials.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Liz Hodgkinson
- ISBN: 9780749450045
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Edition: 3
- Date: 26 Apr 2008
- Pages: 336
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- Author(s): Liz Hodgkinson
- ISBN: 9780749450045
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Edition: 3
- Date: 26 Apr 2008
- Pages: 336
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780198238836
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 15 Feb 2001
- Pages: 336
A timely and penetrating investigation, this book seeks to transform moral philosophy. In the face of continuing disagreement about which general moral principles are correct, there has been a resurgence of interest in the idea that correct moral judgements can be only about particular cases. This view--moral particularism--forecasts a revolution in ordinary moral practice that has until now consisted largely of appeals to general moral principles. Moral particularism also opposes the primary aim of most contemporary normative moral theory that attempts to show that either one general principle, or a set of general principles, is superior to all its rivals.
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- ISBN: 9780198238836
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 15 Feb 2001
- Pages: 336
A timely and penetrating investigation, this book seeks to transform moral philosophy. In the face of continuing disagreement about which general moral principles are correct, there has been a resurgence of interest in the idea that correct moral judgements can be only about particular cases. This view--moral particularism--forecasts a revolution in ordinary moral practice that has until now consisted largely of appeals to general moral principles. Moral particularism also opposes the primary aim of most contemporary normative moral theory that attempts to show that either one general principle, or a set of general principles, is superior to all its rivals.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Neil Powell
- ISBN: 9780385113236
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Date: 26 Jun 1976
- Pages: 144
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- Author(s): Neil Powell
- ISBN: 9780385113236
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Date: 26 Jun 1976
- Pages: 144
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- Author(s): Christina Fragouli, Emina Soljanin
- ISBN: 9781601980441
- Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
- Date: 08 Jan 2008
- Pages: 152
Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and performance. It is expected to be a critical technology for networks of the future. Today, more and more researchers and engineers ask what network coding is, what its benefits are, and how much it costs to design and operate networks implementing network coding. Network Coding Applications deals with wireless and content distribution networks, considered to be the most likely applications of network coding, and it also reviews emerging applications of network coding such as network monitoring and management. Multiple unicasts, security, networks with unreliable links, and quantum networks are also addressed. In tandem with the previous companion text on the theoretical foundations of network coding, Network Coding Applications provides the reader with a comprehensive state-of-the-art of this fast evolving research area.
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- Author(s): Christina Fragouli, Emina Soljanin
- ISBN: 9781601980441
- Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
- Date: 08 Jan 2008
- Pages: 152
Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and performance. It is expected to be a critical technology for networks of the future. Today, more and more researchers and engineers ask what network coding is, what its benefits are, and how much it costs to design and operate networks implementing network coding. Network Coding Applications deals with wireless and content distribution networks, considered to be the most likely applications of network coding, and it also reviews emerging applications of network coding such as network monitoring and management. Multiple unicasts, security, networks with unreliable links, and quantum networks are also addressed. In tandem with the previous companion text on the theoretical foundations of network coding, Network Coding Applications provides the reader with a comprehensive state-of-the-art of this fast evolving research area.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:26pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John Green, Stanley Appelbaum
- ISBN: 9780486261300
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 01 Sep 1989
- Pages: 48
Forty-four detailed drawings recall the glory of a magnificent civilization. Full-page illustrations of Cleopatra, Ramses II, arts and crafts, funerary practices, warfare, architectural monuments, and more are featured, along with captions. Educational entertainment for colorists of all ages; inexpensive source of royalty-free graphics for commercial artists.
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- Author(s): John Green, Stanley Appelbaum
- ISBN: 9780486261300
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 01 Sep 1989
- Pages: 48
Forty-four detailed drawings recall the glory of a magnificent civilization. Full-page illustrations of Cleopatra, Ramses II, arts and crafts, funerary practices, warfare, architectural monuments, and more are featured, along with captions. Educational entertainment for colorists of all ages; inexpensive source of royalty-free graphics for commercial artists.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:26pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Todd Stone, Jeff Lindborg, Steve Olivier, Dustin Grant
- ISBN: 9781587051180
- Publisher: Cisco Press
- Date: 03 Aug 2004
- Pages: 1008
Design, install, and manage a complete unified communications solution with this definitive guide.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the Cisco Unity architecture and feature set
- Plan, design, and install a complete unified messaging solution using the design process found within this guide
- Use features in Cisco Unity to solve legacy and convergence problems for your users
- Administer and manage Unity installations effectively by leveraging the comprehensive solutions provided in this book
- Learn about Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino support and configuration with Cisco Unity
- Support CallManager and legacy PBX integrations with your unified messaging solutions
This definitive reference helps you leverage the true power of Cisco Unity, the powerful unified communications server that provides advanced, convergence-based communication services, which integrate with the desktop applications that business professionals use everyday.
Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide shows you how to integrate Cisco Unity with Cisco IP-based communication solutions, including Cisco CallManager. Part I introduces you to the Cisco Unity architecture and teaches you about the Cisco Unity feature set. Part II helps you design and deploy a unified message solution with Cisco Unity, and Part III helps you manage and administer your solution by leveraging the tools within Cisco Unity.
Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide teaches you all that you need to know about designing, deploying, and managing a sustainable, unified messaging solution.
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.
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- Author(s): Todd Stone, Jeff Lindborg, Steve Olivier, Dustin Grant
- ISBN: 9781587051180
- Publisher: Cisco Press
- Date: 03 Aug 2004
- Pages: 1008
Design, install, and manage a complete unified communications solution with this definitive guide.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the Cisco Unity architecture and feature set
- Plan, design, and install a complete unified messaging solution using the design process found within this guide
- Use features in Cisco Unity to solve legacy and convergence problems for your users
- Administer and manage Unity installations effectively by leveraging the comprehensive solutions provided in this book
- Learn about Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino support and configuration with Cisco Unity
- Support CallManager and legacy PBX integrations with your unified messaging solutions
This definitive reference helps you leverage the true power of Cisco Unity, the powerful unified communications server that provides advanced, convergence-based communication services, which integrate with the desktop applications that business professionals use everyday.
Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide shows you how to integrate Cisco Unity with Cisco IP-based communication solutions, including Cisco CallManager. Part I introduces you to the Cisco Unity architecture and teaches you about the Cisco Unity feature set. Part II helps you design and deploy a unified message solution with Cisco Unity, and Part III helps you manage and administer your solution by leveraging the tools within Cisco Unity.
Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide teaches you all that you need to know about designing, deploying, and managing a sustainable, unified messaging solution.
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:26pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): V. I Andrianov
- ISBN: 9785891730151
- Publisher: Poligon
- Date: 26 Jun 1997
- Pages: 271
Language Notes Text: Russian
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- Author(s): V. I Andrianov
- ISBN: 9785891730151
- Publisher: Poligon
- Date: 26 Jun 1997
- Pages: 271
Language Notes Text: Russian
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:26pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Charles Faulkner
- ISBN: 9780671894870
- Publisher: Nightingale-Conant
- Date: 01 Aug 1994
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- Author(s): Charles Faulkner
- ISBN: 9780671894870
- Publisher: Nightingale-Conant
- Date: 01 Aug 1994
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Posted: August 12th, 2008, 3:26pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Tristan Taormino
- ISBN: 9780060394158
- Publisher: Collins
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Sep 2001
- Pages: 272
A frank and witty tour of modern sexuality from a knowing young "sexpert" who's seen -- and done -- it all.
From her popular columns and website to her videos and lecture series, Tristan Taormino has garnered raves for her unabashed straight talk about sex. Now, for the first time in book form, she imparts wisdom gleaned from years of adventurous and informative sexual anthropology. As a sex educator, Tristan has listened to thousands of people's most intimate questions. In Pucker Up, she responds to those queries -- no matter how taboo -- giving honest, useful advice that doesn't shy away from sensitive topics.
All the basics are covered here, but Tristan also tackles such topics as strap-ons, female ejaculation, the latest sex toys, erotica and how it can improve your love life, and new strategies for hitting that elusive G-spot. Pucker Up is quite simply an indispensable book for anyone looking for healthy, adventuresome, mind-blowing sex.
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- Author(s): Franklin Bretschneider, Jan de Weille
- ISBN: 9780123705884
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Aug 2006
- Pages: 266
Introduction to Electrophysiological Methods and Instrumentation covers all topics of interest to electrophysiologists, neuroscientists and neurophysiologists, from the reliable penetration of cells, the behaviour and function of the equipment, to the mathematical tools available for analysing data. It discusses the pros and cons of techniques and methods used in electrophysiology and how to avoid their pitfalls.
Particularly in an era where high quality off-the-shelf solutions are readily available, it is important for the electrophysiologist to understand how his or her equipment manages the acquisitions and analysis of low voltage biological signals.
Introduction to Electrophysiological Methods and Instrumentation addresses this need. The book presents the basics of the passive and active electronic components and circuitry used in apparatuses such as (voltage-clamp) amplifiers, addressing the strong points of modern semiconductors as well as the limitations inherent to even the highest-tech equipment. It concisely describes the theoretical background of the biological phenomena. The book includes a very useful tutorial in electronics, which will introduce students and physiologists to the important basics of electronic engineering needed to understand the function of electrophysiological setups. The vast terrain of signal analysis is dealt with in a way that is valuable to both the uninitiated and the expert. For example, the utility of convolutions and (Fourier, Pascal) transformations in signal detection, conditioning and analysis is presented both in an easy to grasp graphical form as well as in a more rigorous mathematical way.
* Introduces possibilities and solutions, along with the problems, pitfalls, and artifacts of equipment and electrodes
* Presents the fundamentals of signal processing of analog signals, spike trains and single channel recordings as well as procedures for signal recording and processing
* Includes appendices on electrical safety, on the use of CRT monitors in research and foundations of some of the mathematical tools used
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- Author(s): Franklin Bretschneider, Jan de Weille
- ISBN: 9780123705884
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Aug 2006
- Pages: 266
Introduction to Electrophysiological Methods and Instrumentation covers all topics of interest to electrophysiologists, neuroscientists and neurophysiologists, from the reliable penetration of cells, the behaviour and function of the equipment, to the mathematical tools available for analysing data. It discusses the pros and cons of techniques and methods used in electrophysiology and how to avoid their pitfalls.
Particularly in an era where high quality off-the-shelf solutions are readily available, it is important for the electrophysiologist to understand how his or her equipment manages the acquisitions and analysis of low voltage biological signals.
Introduction to Electrophysiological Methods and Instrumentation addresses this need. The book presents the basics of the passive and active electronic components and circuitry used in apparatuses such as (voltage-clamp) amplifiers, addressing the strong points of modern semiconductors as well as the limitations inherent to even the highest-tech equipment. It concisely describes the theoretical background of the biological phenomena. The book includes a very useful tutorial in electronics, which will introduce students and physiologists to the important basics of electronic engineering needed to understand the function of electrophysiological setups. The vast terrain of signal analysis is dealt with in a way that is valuable to both the uninitiated and the expert. For example, the utility of convolutions and (Fourier, Pascal) transformations in signal detection, conditioning and analysis is presented both in an easy to grasp graphical form as well as in a more rigorous mathematical way.
* Introduces possibilities and solutions, along with the problems, pitfalls, and artifacts of equipment and electrodes
* Presents the fundamentals of signal processing of analog signals, spike trains and single channel recordings as well as procedures for signal recording and processing
* Includes appendices on electrical safety, on the use of CRT monitors in research and foundations of some of the mathematical tools used
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- Author(s): Linda L. McCabe, Edward R.B. McCabe MD.
- ISBN: 9780520251878
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Mar 2008
- Pages: 356
The genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform--but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse. An essential reference for living in today's world, this book gives the background information critical to understanding how genetics is now affecting our everyday lives. Written in clear, lively language, it gives a comprehensive view of exciting recent discoveries and explores the ethical, legal, and social issues that have arisen with each new development.
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- Author(s): Linda L. McCabe, Edward R.B. McCabe MD.
- ISBN: 9780520251878
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Mar 2008
- Pages: 356
The genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform--but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse. An essential reference for living in today's world, this book gives the background information critical to understanding how genetics is now affecting our everyday lives. Written in clear, lively language, it gives a comprehensive view of exciting recent discoveries and explores the ethical, legal, and social issues that have arisen with each new development.
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- Author(s): Catherine Purcell, Bruce A. Arrigo
- ISBN: 9780123705105
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 24 Apr 2006
- Pages: 192
The Psychology of Lust Murder systematically examines the phenomenon of paraphilia (i.e., aberrant sexuality) in relationship to the crime of lust murder. By synthesizing the relevant theories on sexual homicide and serial killing, the authors develop an original, timely, sensible model that accounts for the emergence and progression of paraphilias expressed through increasingly violent erotic fantasies. Over time, these disturbing paraphilic images that, among other things, involve rape, body mutilation and dismemberment, torture, post-mortem sexual intercourse, and cannibalism, are all actualized. Thus, it is the sustained presence of deviant sexuality that contributes to and serves as underlying motive for the phenomenon of lust murder (a.k.a. erotophonophilia). Going well beyond theoretical speculation, the authors (Dr. Catherine Purcell, a forensic psychologist and Dr. Bruce Arrigo, a criminologist) apply their integrated model to the gruesome and chilling case of Jeffrey Dahmer. They convincingly demonstrate where and how their conceptual framework provides a more complete explanation of lust homicide than any other model available in the field today. The book concludes with a number of practical suggestions linked to clinical prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies; police training, profiling, and apprehension efforts; as well as legal and public policy responses to sexually violent and predatory assailants. Comprehensive in its coverage, accessible in its prose, and thoughtful in its analysis,
The Psychology of Lust Murder is a must read for any person interested in the crime of erotophonophilia and those offenders responsible for its serial commission.
* Contributes, in a thoughtful and scholarly way, to the audiences' existing library of books on crimes and criminals
* Provides new and insightful information on the criminal behavior of Jeffrey Dahmer
* Enables readers to compare and contrast different models/theories on sexual homicide and serial murder
* Assists researchers, educators, public officials, and the lay public determine how best to respond to the phenomenon of lust murder
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- Author(s): David Riklan
- ISBN: 9780974567235
- Publisher: Self Improvement Online, Inc.
- Date: 26 Jul 2004
- Pages: 422
The amount of resources available to help you improve your life is vast. Yet the self-help process does not have to be intimidating. Described as the "Encyclopedia" of Self Improvement, this useful reference guide narrows down the top experts in the field and sorts through their great supply of products and information.
This book will help you answer the following questions:
- Who are the Top 101 Experts in Self Improvement?
- What is the core message of each of these experts?
- What information is available from them to learn?
- How can I find the book, speaker, seminar, or program that is right for me?
"Self Improvement: The Top 101 Experts" is a comprehensive resource of information that will help you get started improving your life - quickly and effectively!
Includes information on Dr. Phil McGraw, Anthony Robbins, Sylvia Browne, Dalai Lama, Laura Schlessinger, Dale Carnegie, Paulo Coehlo, Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Wayne Dyer, Kahlil Gibran, Rick Warren, John Maxwell, Robert Kiyosaki, Carlos Castaneda, Robert Allen, John Gray, Iyanla Vanzant, Les Brown, Louise Hay, Brian Tracy, Mitch Albom, Eckhart Tolle, Og Mandino, Ken Blanchard, L. Ron Hubbard, Norman Vincent Peale, Dave Pelzer, Marianne Williamson, Napoleon Hill plus 70 More.
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- Author(s): Gyorgy Sandor
- ISBN: 9780028722801
- Publisher: Schirmer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Sep 1995
- Pages: 256
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- ISBN: 9783540260912
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Dec 2005
- Pages: 250
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- ISBN: 9783540260912
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Dec 2005
- Pages: 250
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- Author(s): Nicola Maffulli, Louis C. Almekinders
- ISBN: 9781846286285
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 06 Jun 2007
- Pages: 284
The Achilles Tendon provides a learned practical well-referenced approach to the various manifestations of achilles tendinopathy, giving illustrated details of management of the conditions depicted. From simple achilles tendinopathy through to acute rupture of the achilles tendon, the authors provide a key reference to all involved in the management of these patients. Delving not only into the anatomy, biomechanics and diagnosis of achilles tendon medicine but also into the management options open to orthopedic surgeons, sports physicians and physiotherapists, no other title has gone into such detail to identify the past, present and future options for the management of achilles tendon injuries.
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- Author(s): Nicola Maffulli, Louis C. Almekinders
- ISBN: 9781846286285
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 06 Jun 2007
- Pages: 284
The Achilles Tendon provides a learned practical well-referenced approach to the various manifestations of achilles tendinopathy, giving illustrated details of management of the conditions depicted. From simple achilles tendinopathy through to acute rupture of the achilles tendon, the authors provide a key reference to all involved in the management of these patients. Delving not only into the anatomy, biomechanics and diagnosis of achilles tendon medicine but also into the management options open to orthopedic surgeons, sports physicians and physiotherapists, no other title has gone into such detail to identify the past, present and future options for the management of achilles tendon injuries.
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- Author(s): Paul G. Hewitt
- ISBN: 9780805391985
- Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Jul 2005
- Pages: 291
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- Author(s): Paul G. Hewitt
- ISBN: 9780805391985
- Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Jul 2005
- Pages: 291
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- Author(s): Otto Snow
- ISBN: 9780966312867
- Publisher: Thoth Press
- Date: 30 Jun 2005
- Pages: 242
Love Drugs is a sequel to
Amphetamine Syntheses (2002) Expanded coverage of the synthesis of MDMA and other empathogens and stimulants.
Expanding the chemistry of empathogens. MDMA from scratch. Small and large scale production is described in detail. Hot new formulas abound. Piperonyl-acetone from both safrol and isosafrol. Multiple reduction methods using common and locally available metals.
MDA appeared in the 1960s and has been called the original love drug. It was the first in a series of molecules that produce empathy in humans. MDMA was appeared sporadically in the 1970s. MDEA followed ecstasy in the 1980s.
These molecules were controlled as they were being abused. Substituted phenyl amino-butanes have reduced abuse potential and greater safety margins. Yet, in 20 years, the development of safer entactogens has not taken place.
Love Drugs gives the reader a look at the most innovative chemistry for entactogen production. Explicit descriptions on safrol, apiol, asarone, dimethoxyallybenzene, etc. extraction from multiple botanical sources. Reviews of conventional syntheses with tips from the original chemists. Love Drugs is an inside look into the chemistry of the entactogens, present and future. Reactions have been translated into English. Millions across the globe have used MDMA as a therapeutic tool.
There is an infinite number of new entactogens on the horizon. 150+ references. Color cover. UV Laminated.
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- Author(s): Otto Snow
- ISBN: 9780966312867
- Publisher: Thoth Press
- Date: 30 Jun 2005
- Pages: 242
Love Drugs is a sequel to
Amphetamine Syntheses (2002) Expanded coverage of the synthesis of MDMA and other empathogens and stimulants.
Expanding the chemistry of empathogens. MDMA from scratch. Small and large scale production is described in detail. Hot new formulas abound. Piperonyl-acetone from both safrol and isosafrol. Multiple reduction methods using common and locally available metals.
MDA appeared in the 1960s and has been called the original love drug. It was the first in a series of molecules that produce empathy in humans. MDMA was appeared sporadically in the 1970s. MDEA followed ecstasy in the 1980s.
These molecules were controlled as they were being abused. Substituted phenyl amino-butanes have reduced abuse potential and greater safety margins. Yet, in 20 years, the development of safer entactogens has not taken place.
Love Drugs gives the reader a look at the most innovative chemistry for entactogen production. Explicit descriptions on safrol, apiol, asarone, dimethoxyallybenzene, etc. extraction from multiple botanical sources. Reviews of conventional syntheses with tips from the original chemists. Love Drugs is an inside look into the chemistry of the entactogens, present and future. Reactions have been translated into English. Millions across the globe have used MDMA as a therapeutic tool.
There is an infinite number of new entactogens on the horizon. 150+ references. Color cover. UV Laminated.
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- Author(s): Andrei Pavlov, Manoj Sachdev
- ISBN: 9781402083624
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Jul 2008
- Pages: 212
As technology scales into nano-meter region, design and test of Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) becomes a highly complex task. Process disturbances and various defect mechanisms contribute to the increasing number of unstable SRAM cells with parametric sensitivity. Growing sizes of SRAM arrays increase the likelihood of cells with marginal stability and pose strict constraints on transistor parameters distributions.
Standard functional tests often fail to detect unstable SRAM cells. Undetected unstable cells deteriorate quality and reliability of the product as such cells may fail to retain the data and cause a system failure. Special design and test measures have to be taken to identify cells with marginal stability. However, it is not sufficient to identify the unstable cells. To ensure reliable system operation, unstable cells have to be repaired.
CMOS SRAM Circuit Design and Parametric Test in Nano-Scaled Technologies covers a broad range of topics related to SRAM design and test. From SRAM operation basics through cell electrical and physical design to process-aware and economical approach to SRAM testing. The emphasis of the book is on challenges and solutions of stability testing as well as on development of understanding of the link between the process technology and SRAM circuit design in modern nano-scaled technologies.
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- Author(s): Andrei Pavlov, Manoj Sachdev
- ISBN: 9781402083624
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Jul 2008
- Pages: 212
As technology scales into nano-meter region, design and test of Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) becomes a highly complex task. Process disturbances and various defect mechanisms contribute to the increasing number of unstable SRAM cells with parametric sensitivity. Growing sizes of SRAM arrays increase the likelihood of cells with marginal stability and pose strict constraints on transistor parameters distributions.
Standard functional tests often fail to detect unstable SRAM cells. Undetected unstable cells deteriorate quality and reliability of the product as such cells may fail to retain the data and cause a system failure. Special design and test measures have to be taken to identify cells with marginal stability. However, it is not sufficient to identify the unstable cells. To ensure reliable system operation, unstable cells have to be repaired.
CMOS SRAM Circuit Design and Parametric Test in Nano-Scaled Technologies covers a broad range of topics related to SRAM design and test. From SRAM operation basics through cell electrical and physical design to process-aware and economical approach to SRAM testing. The emphasis of the book is on challenges and solutions of stability testing as well as on development of understanding of the link between the process technology and SRAM circuit design in modern nano-scaled technologies.
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- Author(s): Charles Kittel
- ISBN: 9780894643262
- Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
- Date: 26 Oct 1988
- Pages: 228
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- Author(s): Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Thomas Reisz
- ISBN: 9789810234416
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Edition: 1
- Date: 06 Dec 2006
- Pages: 700
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- Author(s): Rob Nolasco
- ISBN: 9780194334044
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 29 Apr 1999
- Pages: 120
A radical revision of the successful Streetwise course for teenagers, combining new material with the best of the original edition.
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- Author(s): Richard F. Yanda, Michael Heynes, Anne Miller
- ISBN: 9780750677608
- Publisher: Newnes
- Date: 14 Apr 2005
- Pages: 280
This book takes the reader through the actual manufacturing process of making a typical chip, from start to finish, including a detailed discussion of each step, in plain language. The evolution of today's technology is added to the story, as seen through the eyes of the engineers who solved some of the problems. The authors are well suited to that discussion since they are three of those same engineers. They have a broad exposure to the industry and its technology that extends all the way back to Shockley Laboratories, the first semiconductor manufacturer in Silicon Valley.
The CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) process flow is the focus of the discussion and is covered in ten chapters. The vast majority of chips made today are fabricated using this general method. In order to ensure that all readers are comfortable with the vocabulary, the first chapter carefully and clearly introduces the science concepts found in later chapters. A chapter is devoted to pointing out the differences in other manufacturing methods, such as the gallium arsenide technology that produces chips for cell phones. In addition, a chapter describing the nature of the semiconductor industry from a business perspective is included.
"The entire process of making a chip is surprisingly easy to understand. The part of the story that defies belief is the tiny dimensions: the conducting wires and other structures on a chip are more than a hundred times thinner than a hair - and getting thinner with every new chip design."
* Included CD gives the reader a much greater comprehension of the process than a strictly print book with static illustrations provides
* Authors are actual engineers who have a broad range of exposure and experience with chip technology
* Contains a unique chapter describing the nature of the semiconductor industry from a business perspective
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- Author(s): Jean-Pierre Berenger
- ISBN: 9781598290820
- Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
- Date: 22 Feb 2007
- Pages: 118
This lecture presents the perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundary condition (ABC) used to simulate free space when solving the Maxwell equations with such finite methods as the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method or the finite element method. The frequency domain and the time domain equations are derived for the different forms of PML media, namely the split PML, the CPML, the NPML, and the uniaxial PML, in the cases of PMLs matched to isotropic, anisotropic, and dispersive media. The implementation of the PML ABC in the FDTD method is presented in detail. Propagation and reflection of waves in the discretized FDTD space are derived and discussed, with a special emphasis on the problem of evanescent waves. The optimization of the PML ABC is addressed in two typical applications of the FDTD method: first, wave-structure interaction problems, and secondly, waveguide problems. Finally, a review of the literature on the application of the PML ABC to other numerical techniques of electromagnetics and to other partial differential equations of physics is provided.
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- Author(s): Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz
- ISBN: 9780521377096
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 29 Sep 1989
- Pages: 620
This manual is both a guide and aid to users of The Art of Electronics. It is carefully organized to follow the chapters of the main text, providing extra explanatory notes, worked examples, solutions to selected exercises and laboratory exercises. Learning aids such as glossaries, reading assignments, objectives, data sheets and summaries are also included. The manual is a product of many years' teaching at Harvard University, which has given the authors direct knowledge of concepts that students find difficult. The extra explanatory detail makes this manual an essential purchase for students using The Art of Electronics.
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- ISBN: 9780306460616
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 26 Dec 1999
- Pages: 360
The fluorine atom, by virtue of its electronegativity, size and bond strength with carbon, can be used to create compounds with remarkable properties. Small molecules containing fluorine have many positive impacts on everyday life of which blood substitutes, pharmaceuticals and surface modifiers are only a few examples.
Fluoropolymers, too, while traditionally associated with extreme high-performance applications have found their way into our homes, our clothing and even our language.
Much progress has been made in understanding the sometimes confounding properties of fluoropolymers. Computer simulation is now contributing to this with new fluorine force fields and other parameters, bringing realistic prediction within reach of the practicing physical chemist.
Fluoropolymers 1: Synthesis and
Fluoropolymers 2: Properties attempt to bring together in one place the chemistry, physics and engineering properties of fluoropolymers. The collection was intended to provide balance between breadth and depth, with contributions ranging from the introduction of fluoropolymer structure-property relationships, to reviews of subfields, to more focused topical reports.
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- Author(s): Robert-Jan Milleker
- ISBN: 9781847991201
- Publisher: Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd
- Date: 30 Nov 2007
- Pages: 704
This Book Provides an Introduction to an Attempt at Formulating the Foundations for an Axiomatisation of a Logic that is Consistent, as well as Consistently Completable, that is, a Logic not Subject to Goedel's Theorem. Also see Associated Web Site: De Veritatis Naturam
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- Author(s): Robert-Jan Milleker
- ISBN: 9781847991201
- Publisher: Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd
- Date: 30 Nov 2007
- Pages: 704
This Book Provides an Introduction to an Attempt at Formulating the Foundations for an Axiomatisation of a Logic that is Consistent, as well as Consistently Completable, that is, a Logic not Subject to Goedel's Theorem. Also see Associated Web Site: De Veritatis Naturam
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- Author(s): James Fulcher
- ISBN: 9780192802187
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 29 Jul 2004
- Pages: 160
This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the crisis tendencies of capitalism--including the S.E. Asian banking crisis, the collapse of the Russian economy, and the 1997-1998 global financial crisis--asking whether capitalism is doomed to fail. In the end, the author ruminates on a possible alternative to capitalism, discussing socialism, communal and cooperative experiments, and alternatives proposed by environmentalists.
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- Author(s): James Fulcher
- ISBN: 9780192802187
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 29 Jul 2004
- Pages: 160
This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the crisis tendencies of capitalism--including the S.E. Asian banking crisis, the collapse of the Russian economy, and the 1997-1998 global financial crisis--asking whether capitalism is doomed to fail. In the end, the author ruminates on a possible alternative to capitalism, discussing socialism, communal and cooperative experiments, and alternatives proposed by environmentalists.
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- ISBN: 9780521660259
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 28 Dec 1999
- Pages: 251
This collection of essays by leading philosophers of physics offers philosophical perspectives on two central elements of modern physics, quantum theory and relativity. The topics examined include the notorious "measurement problem" of quantum theory and the attempts to solve it by attributing extra values to physical quantities, the mysterious non-locality of quantum theory, and the philosophical aspects of the search for a theory of quantum gravity. Together the essays represent some of the most recent research in philosophy of physics, and break new ground within the philosophy of quantum theory.
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- ISBN: 9780521660259
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 28 Dec 1999
- Pages: 251
This collection of essays by leading philosophers of physics offers philosophical perspectives on two central elements of modern physics, quantum theory and relativity. The topics examined include the notorious "measurement problem" of quantum theory and the attempts to solve it by attributing extra values to physical quantities, the mysterious non-locality of quantum theory, and the philosophical aspects of the search for a theory of quantum gravity. Together the essays represent some of the most recent research in philosophy of physics, and break new ground within the philosophy of quantum theory.
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- Author(s): Kurt Mehlhorn, Peter Sanders
- ISBN: 9783540779773
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jul 2008
- Pages: 300
Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic techniques for modeling, understanding and solving algorithmic problems.
This book is a concise introduction addressed to students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, and optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated invariants, and comment on recent trends such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms. The authors use pictures, words and high-level pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on efficient implementations using real programming languages like C++ and Java.
The authors have extensive experience teaching these subjects to undergraduates and graduates, and they offer a clear presentation, with examples, pictures, informal explanations, exercises, and some linkage to the real world. Most chapters have the same basic structure: a motivation for the problem, comments on the most important applications, and then simple solutions presented as informally as possible and as formally as necessary. For the more advanced issues, this approach leads to a more mathematical treatment, including some theorems and proofs. Finally, each chapter concludes with a section on further findings, providing views on the state of research, generalizations and advanced solutions.
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- Author(s): Kurt Mehlhorn, Peter Sanders
- ISBN: 9783540779773
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jul 2008
- Pages: 300
Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic techniques for modeling, understanding and solving algorithmic problems.
This book is a concise introduction addressed to students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, and optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated invariants, and comment on recent trends such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms. The authors use pictures, words and high-level pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on efficient implementations using real programming languages like C++ and Java.
The authors have extensive experience teaching these subjects to undergraduates and graduates, and they offer a clear presentation, with examples, pictures, informal explanations, exercises, and some linkage to the real world. Most chapters have the same basic structure: a motivation for the problem, comments on the most important applications, and then simple solutions presented as informally as possible and as formally as necessary. For the more advanced issues, this approach leads to a more mathematical treatment, including some theorems and proofs. Finally, each chapter concludes with a section on further findings, providing views on the state of research, generalizations and advanced solutions.
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- Author(s): Ph Quevauviller
- ISBN: 9783527287246
- Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
- Date: 26 Nov 1995
- Pages: 306
It is increasingly recognized that the greatest risks of error in environmental analysis lie in the sample preparation rather than the analysis stage. This book describes the precautions that must be taken from the sampling to the sample pretreatment via the storage stage to assure good quality. Typical pitfalls - and recommendations for avoiding them - are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the monitoring of trace contaminants in environmental matrices (e. g., water, sediment, plants, air).
This book, based on the experience of specialists, constitutes an invaluable guide to the quality assurance relevant to environmental chemists.
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:58am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780852969533
- Publisher: Institution of Electrical Engineers
- Date: 26 Jun 1999
- Pages: 830
Research on GaN together with the related semiconductors AlN, InN and ternary semiconductors (e.g. AlGaN) has been growing at an exponential rate following recent breakthroughs in the realisation of blue light emission. This book presents the very latest insight into and numeric data on the properties together with information on processing and exploitation in LEDs, lasers and transistors. Its wide international authorship (some 100 invited contributors from USA, Europe, Japan and elsewhere), rapid compilation time and rigorous refereeing make this a unique, authoritative and up-to-date reference source.
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- Author(s): Richard Hallows, Mark Unwin, Martin Lisboa
- ISBN: 9781413009668
- Publisher: LANGUAGE TEACHING PUBLICATIONS
- Date: 17 Aug 2006
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- Author(s): Pieter M. Kroonenberg
- ISBN: 9780470164976
- Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Jan 2008
- Pages: 579
Applied Multiway Data Analysis presents a unique, thorough, and authoritative treatment of this relatively new and emerging approach to data analysis that is applicable across a range of fields, from the social and behavioral sciences to agriculture, environmental sciences, and chemistry. General introductions to multiway data types, methods, and estimation procedures are provided in addition to detailed explanations and advice for readers who would like to learn more about applying multiway methods. Using carefully laid out examples and engaging applications, the book begins with an introductory chapter that serves as a general overview of multiway analysis, including the types of problems it can address. Next, the process of setting up, carrying out, and evaluating multiway analyses is discussed along with commonly-encountered issues, such as preprocessing, missing data, model and dimensionality selection, postprocessing, transformation, as well as robustness and stability issues.
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- Author(s): Pieter M. Kroonenberg
- ISBN: 9780470164976
- Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Jan 2008
- Pages: 579
Applied Multiway Data Analysis presents a unique, thorough, and authoritative treatment of this relatively new and emerging approach to data analysis that is applicable across a range of fields, from the social and behavioral sciences to agriculture, environmental sciences, and chemistry. General introductions to multiway data types, methods, and estimation procedures are provided in addition to detailed explanations and advice for readers who would like to learn more about applying multiway methods. Using carefully laid out examples and engaging applications, the book begins with an introductory chapter that serves as a general overview of multiway analysis, including the types of problems it can address. Next, the process of setting up, carrying out, and evaluating multiway analyses is discussed along with commonly-encountered issues, such as preprocessing, missing data, model and dimensionality selection, postprocessing, transformation, as well as robustness and stability issues.
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:58am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Richard Worth
- ISBN: 9780816057566
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 30 Apr 2005
- Pages: 100
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- Author(s): Richard Worth
- ISBN: 9780816057566
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 30 Apr 2005
- Pages: 100
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:58am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kristine, Ph.D. Harper
- ISBN: 9780816057573
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 30 Apr 2005
- Pages: 100
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:58am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Loretta Fowler
- ISBN: 9780791085936
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 29 Sep 2005
- Pages: 120
Card catalog description Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Arapaho Indians.
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kristine Hirschmann
- ISBN: 9780816057580
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 30 Apr 2005
- Pages: 100
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kristine Hirschmann
- ISBN: 9780816057580
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 30 Apr 2005
- Pages: 100
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kevin Hile
- ISBN: 9780791079225
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 29 Feb 2004
- Pages: 120
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ian N. Sneddon
- ISBN: 9780486452975
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 11 Aug 2006
- Pages: 336
This text features numerous worked examples in its presentation of elements from the theory of partial differential equations. It emphasizes forms suitable for students and researchers whose interest lies in solving equations rather than in general theory. Solutions to odd-numbered problems appear at the end. 1957 edition.
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- Author(s): Ian N. Sneddon
- ISBN: 9780486452975
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Date: 11 Aug 2006
- Pages: 336
This text features numerous worked examples in its presentation of elements from the theory of partial differential equations. It emphasizes forms suitable for students and researchers whose interest lies in solving equations rather than in general theory. Solutions to odd-numbered problems appear at the end. 1957 edition.
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Michael E. Melody, Paul Rosier
- ISBN: 9780791085974
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 29 Sep 2005
- Pages: 112
Card catalog description Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Apache Indians. Includes a picture essay on their crafts.
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jeanne K. Hanson
- ISBN: 9780816059140
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Edition: 1
- Date: 09 Feb 2007
- Pages: 1768
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- Author(s): Jeanne K. Hanson
- ISBN: 9780816059140
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Edition: 1
- Date: 09 Feb 2007
- Pages: 1768
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Charles F. Gritzner
- ISBN: 9780791081426
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 12 Jul 2006
- Pages: 120
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Linda Elkins-Tanton
- ISBN: 9780816051984
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 28 Apr 2006
- Pages: 192
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Posted: August 11th, 2008, 11:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Linda Elkins-Tanton
- ISBN: 9780816051984
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 28 Apr 2006
- Pages: 192
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Dawn Bastian, Judy Mitchell
- ISBN: 9781851095339
- Publisher: ABC-CLIO
- Date: 22 Nov 2004
- Pages: 297
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- Author(s): Linda Elkins-Tanton
- ISBN: 9780816051939
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 28 Apr 2006
- Pages: 192
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Charles F. Gritzner
- ISBN: 9780791092330
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 30 Nov 2006
- Pages: 128
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): C. S. Watkins
- ISBN: 9780521802550
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Feb 2008
- Pages: 288
This is a fascinating study of religious culture in England from 1050 to 1250. Drawing on the wealth of material about religious belief and practice that survives in the chronicles, Carl Watkins explores accounts of signs, prophecies, astrology, magic, beliefs about death and the miraculous and demonic. He challenges some of the prevailing assumptions about religious belief, questioning in particular the attachment of many historians to terms such as 'clerical' and 'lay', 'popular' and 'elite', 'Christian' and 'pagan' as explanatory categories. The evidence of the chronicles is also set in its broader context through explorations of miracle collections, penitential manuals, exempla and sermons. The book traces shifts in the way the supernatural was conceptualized by learned writers and the ways in which broader patterns of belief evolved during this period. This original account sheds important new light on belief during a period in which the religious landscape was transformed.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Nancy Bonvillain
- ISBN: 9780791085943
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 29 Sep 2005
- Pages: 120
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:57am CEST by admin
- Author(s): E. Siobhan Mitchell, D. J. Triggle
- ISBN: 9780791076354
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 29 Jan 2004
- Pages: 112
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:56am CEST by admin
- Author(s): M. Saito
- ISBN: 9780870403729
- Publisher: Wehman Brothers
- Date: 29 Jun 1989
- Pages: 146
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:56am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Mallett
- ISBN: 9780415451031
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 2
- Date: 12 Nov 2007
- Pages: 396
A comprehensive, user-friendly and interesting reference book that explains key concepts, ideas and current requirements in primary English. Includes:
- over 600 entries
- short definitions of key concepts (e.g. parts of speech)
- succint explanations of current UK requirements
- extended entries on major topics such as speaking and listening, reading, writing, drama, bilingualism and children's literature
- up to date information and discussion of important issues
- key references and accounts of recent research findings
- a Who's Who of Primary English.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:56am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Roger Young
- ISBN: 9781403325822
- Publisher: 1st Books Library
- Date: 01 Aug 2002
- Pages: 152
The book is as simple as possible and aimed at a non-technical audience with absolutely no knowledge of computers or electronics, but it is an electrical engineering text. A typical page consists of a circuit diagram (or program) and a paragraph or two of explanation. The book begins with a VERY simple circuit and continues to a very complex circuit (a computer) while explaining everything. Everything has been made as simple as possible while leaving nothing out. Eighty-four circuit diagrams and some timing diagrams and short programs make every point clear.
Computers are the most complex machines that have ever been created. This is the first book to make it possible for ordinary people to understand precisely how the processor, the main and most complex part of a computer, works. In fact, it completely explains the operation of a complete, though simple, computer.
Relays, which are explained, are used in the circuitry instead of transistors for simplicity, though transistors are mentioned.
Did you ever wonder what a bit, a latch, a word (of memory), a data bus, an address bus, a memory, a register, a processor, a timing diagram, a clock (of a processor), an instruction, or machine code is? Though most explanations of how computers work are a lot of analogies or require a background in electrical engineering, this book will tell you precisely what each of them is and how each of them works without requiring any previous knowledge of computers or electronics.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:55am CEST by admin
- Author(s): David Kinnaman, Gabe Lyons
- ISBN: 9780801013003
- Publisher: Baker Books
- Date: 01 Oct 2007
- Pages: 256
Based on groundbreaking Barna Group research, unChristian uncovers the negative perceptions young people have of Christianity and explores what can be done to reverse them.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:55am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Anthony James Leggett
- ISBN: 9780198526438
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 23 Nov 2006
- Pages: 408
Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter
systems. Eschewing advanced formal methods, the author uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and
superfluidity; the physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, "classical" superconductors, superfluid 3-He, "exotic" superconductors and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases.The book should be accessible to beginning graduate students in physics or advanced
undergraduates.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:55am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781591403739
- Publisher: IGI Global
- Date: 27 Oct 2004
- Pages: 347
Contemporary Research in E-Marketing brings the intrinsically inter-disciplinary work of e-marketing, by academic researchers from various fields, to one outlet. This book fuels the cross-fertilization of ideas and greater dissemination of key research concepts. Contributions from fields as diverse as marketing, management, MIS, communication, computer science and finance offer exposure to cutting-edge ideas with broad scope and international focus.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:55am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Jack Smart, Frances Altorfer
- ISBN: 9780071430180
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 3
- Date: 14 Apr 2004
Talk like an Egyptian. Teach yourself Arabic!
With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow Teach Yourself Arabic at your own pace or use it as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is professionally designed for self-guided study, making it one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Teach Yourself Arabic includes an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.
Prepared by experts in Arabic, the course begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
- Regular and irregular verb tables
- Plenty of practice exercises and answers
- Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary
- Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
- An exploration of the culture
- And much more
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:55am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780631216346
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Date: 18 Feb 2005
- Pages: 640
A Companion to Religious Ethics is a rich resource for understanding the moral teachings and practices of the world's religions.
The volume is divided into three parts. The first section on moral inquiry covers concepts and theories in ethics, the means whereby religions transmit morals, and the issues involved in comparing different religions. The second section takes an in-depth look at particular moral traditions, discussing the origins, history, and potential future directions of each one, as well as the relevance of ethical categories to various forms of religious thought. The final series of essays discusses the ways in which the religions provide resources for addressing current moral challenges in areas such as ecology, economics, global dynamics, religious war, human rights, and other topics.
Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world's religions, and also charts new directions for work in the field of religious ethics.
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- ISBN: 9781405117524
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Date: 02 Jul 2006
- Pages: 560
The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an is the ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life.
The volume is divided into accessible sections, including an initial orientation to the text for the first-time reader. The Companion then goes on to consider:
* The structure of the Qur'an, asking why it looks the way it does.
* The content of the Qur'an and what the text is about.
* The rhetoric of the Qur'an and how it conveys its message.
* How Muslims have interpreted the text.
* The place of the Qur'an in the religion of Islam.
* The manifestation of the Qur'an in the world.
The main body of the book comprises over 30 original essays written by leading scholars in the field. These are supported by notes, an extensive bibliography, and indexes of names, Qur'an citations, topics, and technical terms.
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- Author(s): Kelton Cobb
- ISBN: 9781405106986
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Date: 16 Dec 2005
- Pages: 352
The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are asserting themselves through popular movies, novels, music, television shows and advertising.
A timely examination and contribution to the rapidly expanding field of theology and popular culture
Locates the theological analysis of culture alongside political, sociological, economic, aesthetic and psychological analyses
Surveys the work of religious and theological scholars who have turned their attention to popular culture
Considers classic Christian thinkers who have wrestled with culture, such as St. Paul, Tertullian, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Ricoeur
Proposes a method for analysing culture to discern its religious content
Identifies religious themes in popular culture
Uses illustrations, ranging from the fiction of Nick Hornby to Six Feet Under
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:55am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781402074066
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Apr 2003
- Pages: 520
Halogenated organic compounds constitute one of the largest groups of environmental chemicals. The industrial production of new halogenated organic compounds has increased throughout the last century and these compounds are integral to a variety of industrial applications. Although organohalide compounds are typically considered to be anthropogenic industrial compounds, these have their counterpart in several thousands of natural biogenic and geogenic organohalides, representing most classes of organic chemicals. Natural sources account for a significant portion of the global organohalogen budget.
This volume, authored by leading experts in the field, provides a current perspective on how both natural and synthetic organohalides are formed and degraded, and how these processes are incorporated into a global halogen cycle. The list of organohalides that can be utilized by microbes continues to increase dramatically, as do the number of dehalogenating microorganisms that have been identified and characterized. A critical step in the degradation of organohalides is cleavage of the carbon-halogen bond, and microorganisms have evolved a variety of metabolic strategies for dehalogenation. The chapters provide a global perspective on the diversity of dehalogenating microorganisms, explore their ecology, biochemistry and genetics, and review the range of biologically-mediated dehalogenation mechanisms. Many of the problematic organohalides, such as pesticides, chlorofluorocarbons, chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls, are covered in detail. The book provides a comprehensive overview of fate of these compounds in the environment, practical applications in the laboratory and the field, and strategies for the development of bioremediation technologies for organohalide-contaminated sites.
Detailed information on biodegradation and biotransformation mechanisms for a variety of organohalides and on the microorganisms mediating these processes has greatly increased our understanding of the cycling and fate of these unique and widespread compounds in our environment. The book will serve as a comprehensive resource on the processes and applications of microbial degradation of halogenated organic compounds.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
- ISBN: 9789960850443
- Publisher: International Islamic Publishing House
- Date: 27 May 2003
- Pages: 475
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- Author(s): Jonathan Owens
- ISBN: 9780199290826
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 13 Jul 2006
- Pages: 328
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the
history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a manner accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Wheeler M. Thackston
- ISBN: 9780936347400
- Publisher: Ibex Publishers
- Date: 01 Sep 2004
- Pages: 328
An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic is an elementary-level grammar of standard classical Arabic, the literary norm of the Arabic language that has not changed appreciably in fourteen hundred years. An indispensable tool for all who are interested in Islamic religion, science, and literature, the language presented in this book will enable the learner to study firsthand the primary sources of Islamic civilization and the classics of the Islamic Near East.
The grammar is presented clearly and in a logical progression amply illustrated by examples, most of which, along with the readings, have been taken directly from the text of the Koran and the body of hadith (the reports of Muhammad's sayings) and supplemented with extracts from other classical sources.
In the forty lessons all essential features of grammar are covered, and the student will acquire an active base vocabulary of over 450 common words and productive roots, from which many times that number of individual lexical items can be regularly and predictably formed. In the course of readings, passive exposure is given to more than 400 additional items of vocabulary.
Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, where he has taught Persian and Arabic for over twenty years.
Author of numerous books and articles on the languages and literatures of the Near East, his works include a new English translation of the Baburnama, A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art, and Tales from Luristan: Tales, Fables and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala-Garva. Other grammars by the author include Persian.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Glen Baker, Susan Dunn, Andrew Holt, Abel Lajtha
- ISBN: 9780387303598
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 3
- Date: 26 Mar 2007
- Pages: 496
The Handbook is intended to be a service to the neuroscience community, to help in finding available and useful information, to point out gaps in our knowledge, and to encourage continued studies. It represents the valuable contributions of the many authors of the chapters and the guidance of the editors and most important, it represents support for research in this discipline. Based on the rapid advances in the years since the second edition
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780631206453
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Date: 28 May 2004
- Pages: 440
This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.
- Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
- Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
- Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
- Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
- Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ben Caldwell
- ISBN: 9781402716126
- Publisher: Sterling
- Date: 01 Jun 2005
- Pages: 96
The sizzling hot author of Action! Cartooning (100,000 copies sold!) has created a truly "fantastic" second book: a visually eye-popping, covers-it-all manual on drawing and understanding fantasy art. A former Marvel cartoonist and one of the most talented young artists in this very hip field, Ben Caldwell now delivers his thrilling follow-up to
Action! Cartooning .
Fantasy! Cartooning is ideal for all kids and adults who love the
Lord of the Rings movies, anticipate the Christmas 2005 release of
The Chronicles of Narnia film, or have ever read a
Harry Potter book. As before, Ben does not merely teach readers how to draw a line here or a circle there; he provides much, much more. Artists will find true insider tips on how to create mind-blowing scenes, awe-inspiring monsters, bigger-than-life heroes, and really incredible, magical landscapes. And because Ben Caldwell knows the fantasy genre inside out, he explains all the complex stories and legends behind each image, too.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540248347
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 11 Aug 2005
- Pages: 542
The priority research program Analysis and Numerics for Conservation Laws was funded by the German research foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for a period of six years starting in 1997. The diversity of topics, represented in the present book, was one of the strengths of the research program. Research groups of very different background, most of which were interacting for the first time, contributed to this interdisciplinary work.
The present book contains contributions from interlinked participating projects ranging from the analysis of hyperbolic systems of first order partial differential equations, the development of improved numerical methods for these equations to applications in astrophysics and engineering. It aims at conveying their results achieved in the program to readers outside of their own particular field.
The book contains a large number of figures and a number of color plates. The reader can find an up-to-date presentation of many current research topics in the field.
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Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:54am CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9783540230267
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 12 Jan 2005
- Pages: 303
The numerical treatment of partial differential equations with particle methods and meshfree discretization techniques is a very active research field both in the mathematics and engineering community. Due to their independence of a mesh, particle schemes and meshfree methods can deal with large geometric changes of the domain more easily than classical discretization techniques. Furthermore, meshfree methods offer a promising approach for the coupling of particle models to continuous models. This volume of LNCSE is a collection of the papers from the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Meshfree Methods held in September 2003 in Bonn. The articles address the different meshfree methods (SPH, PUM, GFEM, EFGM, RKPM, etc.) and their application in applied mathematics, physics and engineering. The volume is intended to foster this new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research and to present recent advances and results in this field.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:36pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): David Ruelle
- ISBN: 9780521546492
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 29 Nov 2004
- Pages: 174
Reissued in the Cambridge Mathematical Library, this classic book outlines the theory of thermodynamic formalism which was developed to describe the properties of certain physical systems consisting of a large number of subunits. Background material on physics has been collected in appendices to help the reader. Supplementary work is provided in the form of exercises and problems that were "open" at the original time of writing.
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- Author(s): David Pears
- ISBN: 9780198751007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 21 Feb 1991
- Pages: 224
In this compelling analysis David Pears examines the foundations of Hume's theory of the mind as presented in the first book of the Treatise. Past studies have tended to take one of two extreme views: that Hume relies exclusively on a theory of meaning, or that he relies exclusively on a
theory of truth and evidence. Steering a middle course between these positions, Pears argues that Hume's theory of ideas serves both functions. He examines in detail its application to three difficult problems: causation, personal identity, and sense perception. Hume's solutions, Pears argues,
are not theories that can be given a place in standard classification of philosophical theories, but rather depend upon a subtle form of naturalism not altogether unlike Wittgenstein's naturalism. A clearly written and argued study, Hume's System will be of special interest to students and scholars
of the history of philosophy.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): David Berman
- ISBN: 9780198264675
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 01 Aug 1996
- Pages: 248
Unlike nearly all studies of Berkeley, this book looks at the full range of his work and links it with his life--focusing in particular on his religious thought. While aiming to present a clear picture of his career, Berman breaks new ground on, among other topics, Berkeley's philosophical
strategy, his account of immortality, his Jacobitism, his emotive theory of religious mysteries, and the motivation of his Siris (1744). Also distinctive is the attention paid to the Irish context of his thought, his symbolic frontispieces and portraits, and recent discoveries concerning his life
and writings.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:35pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780198564935
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 02 Jun 2005
- Pages: 238
Parsimony analysis (cladistics) has long been one of the most widely used methods of phylogenetic inference in the fields of systematic and evolutionary biology. Moreover it has mathematical attributes that lend itself for use with complex, genomic-scale data sets. This book demonstrates the
potential that this powerful hierarchical data summarization method also has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): G. Adomian
- ISBN: 9780792326441
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Dec 1993
- Pages: 372
The Adomian decomposition method enables the accurate and efficient analytic solution of nonlinear ordinary or partial differential equations without the need to resort to linearization or perturbation approaches. It unifies the treatment of linear and nonlinear, ordinary or partial differential equations, or systems of such equations, into a single basic method, which is applicable to both initial and boundary-value problems.
This volume deals with the application of this method to many problems of physics, including some frontier problems which have previously required much more computationally-intensive approaches.
The opening chapters deal with various fundamental aspects of the decomposition method. Subsequent chapters deal with the application of the method to nonlinear oscillatory systems in physics, the Duffing equation, boundary-value problems with closed irregular contours or surfaces, and other frontier areas. The potential application of this method to a wide range of problems in diverse disciplines such as biology, hydrology, semiconductor physics, wave propagation, etc., is highlighted.
For researchers and graduate students of physics, applied mathematics and engineering, whose work involves mathematical modelling and the quantitative solution of systems of equations.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Stephen Gaukroger
- ISBN: 9780198248255
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 12 Oct 1989
- Pages: 160
This book deals with a previously neglected episode in the history of logic and theories of cognition: the way in which conceptions of inference changed during the 17th century. Gaukroger focuses on the work of Descartes, contrasting his explanation of inference as an instantaneous grasp in
accord with the natural light of reason with the Aristotelian view of inference as a discursive process. He offers a new interpretation of Descartes' contribution to the question, revealing it to be a significant advance over humanist and late Scholastic conceptions, and argues that the Cartesian
account played a pivotal role in the development of our understanding of the nature of inference.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:35pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780444530981
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 1
- Date: 14 Mar 2008
- Pages: 275
Advances in Molecular Toxicology features the latest advances in all of the subspecialties of the broad area of molecular toxicology. Toxicology is the study of poisons and this series details the study of the molecular basis by which a vast array of agents encountered in the human environment and produced by the human body itself manifest themselves as toxins. Not strictly limited to documenting these examples the series is also concerned with the complex web of chemical and biological events that give rise to toxin-induced symptoms and disease. The new technologies that are being harnessed to analyze and understand these events will also be reviewed by leading workers in the field.
Advances in Molecular Toxicology will report progress in all aspects of these rapidly evolving molecular aspects of toxicology with a view toward detailed elucidation of both progress on the molecular level and on advances in technological approaches employed
* Cutting edge reviews by leading workers in the discipline.
* In depth dissection of molecular aspects of interest to a broad range of scientists, physisicans and any student in the allied disciplines.
* Leading edge applications of technological innovations in the chemistry, biochemistry and molecular medicine.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:35pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): H. S. Harris
- ISBN: 9780198243588
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 16 Mar 1972
- Pages: 606
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): R. G. Collingwood
- ISBN: 9780198246947
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 09 Dec 1983
- Pages: 192
About the Author The late R.G. Collingwood was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780306478352
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 31 Aug 2003
- Pages: 292
General inspection of a role performed in the cell by RNAs allows us to distinguish three major groups of transcripts: I . protein-coding mRNAs, II . non-coding housekeeping and III . regulatory RNAs.
The housekeeping RNAs include RNA classes that are generally, constitutively expressed and whose presence is required for normal function and viability of the cells. On the other hand, a group of regulatory RNAs includes RNA species that are expressed at certain stages of organism development or cell differentiation or as a response to external stimuli and can affect expression of other genes on the levels of transcription or translation.
Non-coding RNA transcripts form a heterogeneous class of RNAs that can not be characterized by a single specific function. Initially, the term non-coding RNA (ncRNA) was used primarily to describe polyadenylated and a capped eukaryotic RNAs transcribed by RNA polymerase II, but lacking long open reading frames. Now, this definition can be extended to cover all RNA transcripts that do not show protein-coding capacity and is sometimes used to describe any RNA that does not encode protein, including introns.
This book is an in-depth look at the function of Non-Coding RNAs and their relationship to Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John W. Yolton
- ISBN: 9780198242741
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 11 Apr 1991
- Pages: 256
This book tells for the first time the long and complex story of the involvement of Locke's suggestion that God could add to matter the power of thought in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the growth of French materialism. There is a discussion of the 'affaire de Prades', in which
Locke's name was linked with a censored thesis at the Faculty of Theology in Paris. The similarities and differences between English "thinking matter" and the French "matiere pensante" of the philosophes are also discussed.
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- ISBN: 9780444823533
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Nov 1996
- Pages: 680
Over the past 25 years, the molecular electrostatic potential has become firmly established as an effective guide to molecular interactions. With the recent advances in computational technology, it is currently being applied to a variety of important chemical and biological systems. Its range of applicability has expanded from primarily a focus on sites for electrophilic and nucleophilic attack to now include solvent effects, studies of zeolite, molecular cluster and crystal behavior, and the correlation and prediction of a wide range of macroscopic properties. Moreover, the increasing prominence of density functional theory has raised the molecular electrostatic potential to a new stature on a more fundamental conceptual level. It is rigorously defined in terms of the electron density, and has very interesting topological characteristics since it explicitly reflects opposing contributions from the nuclei and the electrons.
This volume opens with a survey chapter by one of the original pioneers of the use of the electrostatic potential in studies of chemical reactivity, Jacopo Tomasi. Though the flow of the succeeding chapters is not stringently defined, the overall trend is that the emphasis changes gradually from methodology to applications. Chapters discussing more theoretical topics are placed near the end. Readers will find the wide variety of topics provided by an international group of authors both convincing and useful.
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- Author(s): Eric Rivard, Jim Doherty
- ISBN: 9781587200793
- Publisher: Cisco Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 31 Jul 2003
- Pages: 720
More than 1100 flash cards, practice questions, and quick reference sheets for the CCNA 640-801, INTRO 640-821, and ICND 640-811 exams
CCNA test time is rapidly approaching. You've learned the concepts, you have the experience to put them to use, and now you want to practice, practice, practice until exam time. CCNA Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack gives you three methods of proven late-stage CCNA exam preparation in one package.
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More than 550 flash cards in PC, handheld, and print formats, available in customizable sets
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Contains 550+ flash cards and more than 500 practice test questions. Flash cards are downloadable to Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld devices.
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This volume is in the Flash Card and Exam Practice Pack Series from Cisco Press. Products in this series arm Cisco Career Certification candidates with a set of exam practice tools, formats, and environments to help them in the final stages of their study regimen and increase recall of key exam topics.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Denise Donohue, Tim Sammut, Brent Stewart
- ISBN: 9781587200915
- Publisher: Cisco Press
- Date: 06 Oct 2003
- Pages: 936
The new Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) exams are out, and they're significantly different from their predecessors in style and scope.
CCNP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack helps CCNP candidates prepare for their exams by reviewing essential elements of routing and switching theory and practice. These cards--which are really pages bound in a paperback book--aren't much good at teaching their subject (though a series of Quick-Reference Sheets aren't bad for building on what you already know). They're meant for pure review, and for identifying knowledge gaps that will require an explanatory text or reference to fill. This book covers four CCNP exams, and includes about 500 questions and a 30-page reference section for each.
A trip through a section of this book involves looking at the right-hand page for questions--there are two of them on each such page--then flipping the page to see the corresponding answers on the other side. Most answers are reasonably well explained (readers get an idea of why the correct answer is what it is), but they do not include citations of authoritative Cisco documents or even other Cisco Press reference books. Also, some readers may prefer a more randomized sequence to this book's grouping by theme. For that, they will have to resort to the quiz software on the companion CD-ROM. --David Wall
Topics covered : The subjects tested on the four Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) exams, including Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks 2.0 (BSCI), Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks 2.0 (BCMSN), Building Cisco Remote Access Networks v2.0 (BCRAN), and Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting Support 5.0 (CIT).
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John Allen Paulos
- ISBN: 9780809058402
- Publisher: Hill and Wang
- Date: 18 Aug 2001
- Pages: 208
This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."
But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:34pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Larry Wasserman
- ISBN: 9780387402727
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 17 Sep 2004
- Pages: 442
This book is for people who want to learn probability and statistics quickly. It brings together many of the main ideas in modern statistics in one place. The book is suitable for students and researchers in statistics, computer science, data mining and machine learning.
This book covers a much wider range of topics than a typical introductory text on mathematical statistics. It includes modern topics like nonparametric curve estimation, bootstrapping and classification, topics that are usually relegated to follow-up courses. The reader is assumed to know calculus and a little linear algebra. No previous knowledge of probability and statistics is required. The text can be used at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Eugene Machlin
- ISBN: 9780080446394
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Edition: 2
- Date: 09 Dec 2005
- Pages: 228
The subject matter of thin-films which play a key role in microelectronics divides naturally into two headings: the processing / structure relationship, and the structure / properties relationship.
Part II of 'Materials Science in Microelectronics' focuses on the latter of these relationships, examining the effect of structure on the following:
Electrical properties
Magnetic properties
Optical properties
Mechanical properties
Mass transport properties
Interface and junction properties
Defects and properties
* Captures the importance of thin films to microelectronic development
* Examines the cause / effect relationship of structure on thin film properties
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780632053247
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Jan 2001
- Pages: 308
Difficult Diabetes is intended for diabetologists and endocrinologists who want to keep abreast of the developments in this fast-changing world. It provides a distillation of clinical wisdom that is desperately required in the absence of evidence-based guidelines. This book seeks to avoid rehashing the accepted content and dogma found in the excellent textbooks of diabetes. It provides more of an in depth coverage than is possible in individual review articles. Its key objective is to provide guidance to clinicians about the most topical and controversial aspects of their practice.
- Provides guidance to clinicians about the most topical and controversial aspects of their practice
- Each chapter is written by an expert in the field who can give a balanced overview of the topic
- All information is as up to date as possible due to fast production of the book
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780444512871
- Publisher: North Holland
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Mar 2003
- Pages: 588
The Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics is a compendium of essays that provides a survey of the major topics in the subject. Each article traces developments, surveys the results of the past decade, discusses the current state of knowledge and presents major future directions and open problems. Extensive bibliographic material is provided. The book is intended to be useful both to experts in the field and to mathematicians and other scientists who wish to learn about or begin research in mathematical fluid dynamics. The Handbook illuminates an exciting subject that involves rigorous mathematical theory applied to an important physical problem, namely the motion of fluids.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780306460968
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Oct 1999
- Pages: 307
Drawing on a wide variety of modern and classical sources and multiple disciplines, this book presents hypothesizes about the relationship between human language and thought to brain specialization. The authors focus on aphasia-language disorder resulting from local brain damage and show that the clinical aspect represents not only loss of function of the damaged area, but also results from the interaction between damaged and intact areas of the brain.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Khalid Sayood
- ISBN: 9780126208627
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
- Edition: 3
- Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Pages: 704
Khalid Sayood's textbook-style
Introduction to Data Compression is the definitive guide to all kinds of compression schemes. Early chapters establish the mathematics involved in basic compression techniques, including lossless and lossy compression as well as the fundamentals of information theory that lay the groundwork for common forms of compression. (The book contains all the relevant formulas, although those who don't need such mathematical detail will still be able to understand the book.)
A good portion of the book examines various compression schemes, their strengths and weaknesses, and what content they work best for. Introduction to Data Compression begins with lossless compression schemes, which lose no information during the compression/decompression process. Huffman Coding, a well-established compression scheme, and arithmetic and dictionary coding also receive excellent treatment. In addition, the author takes on lossless compression for images.
For lossy compression, Sayood discusses schemes that use quantization, where a range of values is compressed in some way. He also describes scalar, vector, and differential encoding and fractal compression. A final chapter looks at video encryption (which often combines techniques from earlier chapters). Many of the compression schemes include examples from image and sound files, but the book considers a wide variety of video schemes too. This rich and confidently written text collates a lot of research and can serve as both textbook and source for designers who need a readable and mathematically solid introduction to data compression.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Peter Wayner
- ISBN: 9781558607699
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
- Edition: 2
- Date: 29 Apr 2002
- Pages: 413
Disappearing Cryptography, Second Edition describes how to take words, sounds, or images and hide them in digital data so they look like other words, sounds, or images. When used properly, this powerful technique makes it almost impossible to trace the author and the recipient of a message. Conversations can be submerged in the flow of information through the Internet so that no one can know if a conversation exists at all.
This full revision of the best-selling first edition describes a number of different techniques to hide information. These include encryption, making data incomprehensible; steganography, embedding information into video, audio, or graphics files; watermarking, hiding data in the noise of image or sound files; mimicry, "dressing up" data and making it appear to be other data, and more. The second edition also includes an expanded discussion on hiding information with spread-spectrum algorithms, shuffling tricks, and synthetic worlds. Each chapter is divided into sections, first providing an introduction and high-level summary for those who want to understand the concepts without wading through technical explanations, and then presenting greater detail for those who want to write their own programs. To encourage exploration, the author's Web site www.wayner.org/books/discrypt2/ contains implementations for hiding information in lists, sentences, and images.
Each chapter is divided into sections, providing first an introduction and high-level summary for those who want to understand the concepts without wading through technical details, and then an introductory set of details, for those who want to write their own programs. Fully revised and expanded. Covers key concepts for non-technical readers. Goes into technical details for those wanting to create their own programs and implement algorithms. Up-to-date website containing the code samples from the book.
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:33pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel
- ISBN: 9781558608894
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
- Date: 11 Apr 2005
- Pages: 424
It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business. The key is developing a web-driven community where new types of collaboration and creativity can flourish. Since 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel have been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around open source projects. In this book the authors present lessons learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.
* Winner of 2006 Jolt Productivity Award for General Books
* Describes how open source development works and offers persuasive reasons for using it to help achieve business goals.
* Shows how to use open source in day-to-day work, discusses the various licenses in use, and describes what makes for a successful project.
* Written in an engaging style for executives, managers, and engineers that addresses the human and business issues involved in open source development as well as its history, philosophy, and future
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:32pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Elektor Electronics
- ISBN: 9789053811955
- Publisher: Elektor Electronics
- Date: 16 Jul 2007
- Pages: 1
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Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:32pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, P. C. Eklund
- ISBN: 9780122218200
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Date: 20 Feb 1996
- Pages: 965
The discovery of fullerenes (also known as buckyballs) has generated tremendous excitement and opened up a new field of carbon chemistry. As the first book available on this topic, this volume will be a landmark reference in the field. Because buckyballs are essentially closed hollow cages made up of carbon atoms, they can be manipulated in a variety of ways to yield never-before-seen materials. The balls can, for instance, be doped with atoms or pulled out into tubules and filled with lead to provide properties of high-temperature superconductivity. Researchers can now create their own buckyballs in a process that is almost as simple as making soot, making this research as inexpensive as it is exotic (which has doubtless contributed to its popularity). Researchers anticipate that fullerenes will offer boundless opportunities in the development of new products, drugs and materials.
Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes introduces materials scientists, chemists, and solid state physicists to the field of fullerenes, and discusses the unique properties and applications. both current and future, of all classes of fullerenes.
Key Features
* First comprehensive resource on fullerenes and their applications
* Provides an introduction to the topic
* Presents an extensive discussion of current and future applications of Fullerenes
* Covers all classes of fullerenes
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:29pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Chloe E. Bird, Patricia P. Rieker
- ISBN: 9780521864152
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 28 Jan 2008
- Pages: 272
Gender and Health is the first book to examine how men's and women's lives and their physiology contribute to differences in their health. In a thoughtful synthesis of diverse literatures, the authors demonstrate that modern societies' health problems ultimately involve a combination of policies, personal behavior, and choice. The book is designed for researchers, policymakers, and others who seek to understand how the choices of individuals, families, communities, and governments contribute to health. It can inform men and women at each of these levels how to better integrate health implications into their everyday decisions and actions.
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:29pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Larry G. Murphy
- ISBN: 9780816049905
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 27 Nov 2002
- Pages: 128
From School Library Journal Grade 6 Up-In-depth coverage of diverse religious worship practiced among African Americans is presented. Murphy examines popular Christian religions, but also explores Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and more. The well-written account begins with the religious experiences of the first Africans in America, moves to the establishment of pioneer religious institutions, and culminates with a chapter on the current status of diverse congregations. In between are useful chapters on important historical events, including the process of the triangular slave trade, emancipation, and the Civil Rights era. Students will find ample material on well-known historical figures and current leaders, such as Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesse Jackson. Unfortunately, three lines of text are missing from one page. However, with a wealth of information accompanied by black-and-white photographs, the book is still a serviceable choice for curriculum support and public libraries.
Ajoke' T. I. Kokodoko, Oakland Public Library, CA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:29pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Kevin Patrick Grant
- ISBN: 9780816052608
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Date: 27 Aug 2004
- Pages: 166
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:29pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Harry Mileaf
- ISBN: 9780810455597
- Publisher: Hayden Book Co
- Date: 01 Jan 1967
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- Author(s): Steven D. Drucker, David Watts, Leon Chalnick, David E. Crawford, Ronald E. Taylor, Jack Leblond
- ISBN: 9780789709707
- Publisher: Que
- Date: 01 Dec 1996
- Pages: 850
Que's Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit is your one-stop resource for creating applications on the Web! Using step-by-step instructions and examples, you'll walk through the entire process--from initial design to final roll-out--of creating a complete, Web-based application. With this powerful kit, you'll explore Web application design considerations and learn about some of the hottest topics, including dynamic Webs, personalized online services and active content. This kit includes a SQL and ODBC tutorial, as well as an HTML reference, and contains comprehensive coverage of Cold Fusion's database integration capabilities. In addition, this all-in-one kit features special sections on the new features in Cold Fusion--its integration with BackOffice and intranets, as well as its transaction dynamic email, Java graphlets, and new features in CFML.
- Provides complete coverage of data manipulation, replication, validation, and security
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9781599041483
- Publisher: IGI Global
- Date: 22 Aug 2006
- Pages: 288
Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Visions provides the first step towards narrowing the gap between security and software engineering. This book introduces the field of secure software engineering, which is a branch of research investigating the integration of security concerns into software engineering practices. Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Visions discusses problems and challenges of considering security during the development of software systems, and also presents the predominant theoretical and practical approaches that integrate security and software engineering.
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Irina Georgescu
- ISBN: 9783540689973
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 25 Apr 2007
- Pages: 280
The foundations of revealed preference theory for a competitive consumer were laid by Samuelson in 1938. Later this theory was axiomatically developed by Arrow, Sen, Suzumura and other economists into the theory of choice functions.
This book extends the theory of revealed preference to fuzzy choice functions and provides applications to multicriteria decision making problems. The main topics of revealed preference theory (rationality, revealed preference and congruence axioms, consistency conditions) are treated in the framework of fuzzy choice functions. New topics, such as the degree of dominance and similarity of vague choices, are developed. The results obtained are applied to economic problems where partial information and human subjectivity involve vague choices and vague preferences. The book contains a number of new results achieved by the author. Even though the text is reasonably self-contained, previous knowledge of revealed preference and fuzzy set theory is helpful for the reader.
Social choice theorists and computer scientists will find in this monograph stimulating material for further research and concrete applications.
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): F. B. Tarbell
- ISBN: 9781404364561
- Publisher: IndyPublish.com
- Date: 27 May 2003
- Pages: 124
I. ART IN EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA
II. PREHISTORIC ART IN GREECE
III. GREEK ARCHITECTURE
IV. GREEK SCULPTURE--GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
V. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE, FIRST HALF: 625 (?)-550 B.C.
VI. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE. SECOND HALF: 550-480 B. C.
VII. THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE. 480-4506. C.
VIII. THE GREAT AGE OF GREEK SCULPTURE. FIRST PERIOD: 450-400 B. C.
IX. THE GREAT AGE OF GREEK SCULPTURE. SECOND PERIOD: 400-323 B. C.
X. THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE. 323-146 B. C.
XI. GREEK PAINTING
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780198511922
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 10 Apr 1997
- Pages: 256
In the last thirty years, combinatorial mathematics has found itself at the heart of many technological applications. The aims of the conference on which this book is based were to stimulate combinatorial mathematicians to pursue new lines of research of potential and practical importance,
and to uncover the breadth of applications to the subject. Topics covered include neural networks, cryptography, radio frequency assignment for mobile telecommunications, coding theory, sequences for communications applications, interconnection networks, data types, knot theory, radar, parallel
processing, network reliability, formal specification of programs and protocols, and combinatorial optimization.
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Harry Mileaf
- ISBN: 9780810459595
- Publisher: Sams
- Date: 27 Jun 1976
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): John Mace
- ISBN: 9780340860168
- Publisher: HODDER EDUCATION
- Date: 30 Apr 2003
- Pages: 176
Learners are practically taken by the hand and instructed on the Arabic script. Opening the door to the fundamentals of reading and writing, this book includes 100 line drawings, self-testing activities and exercises, and examples taken from signs, menus, and other real-life situations.
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Stu Campbell
- ISBN: 9780882661292
- Publisher: Garden Way Pub
- Date: 27 May 1978
- Pages: 109
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- Author(s): Rudolf Seising
- ISBN: 9783540717942
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 08 Aug 2007
- Pages: 412
In 1965 Lotfi Zadeh, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California in Berkeley, published the first of his papers on his new Fuzzy Set Theory. Since the 1980s this mathematical theory of "unsharp amounts" has been applied in many different fields with great success. The word "fuzzy" has also become very well-known among non-scientists thanks to extensive advertising campaigns for fuzzy-controlled household appliances and to their prominent presence in the media, first in Japan and then in other countries. On the other hand, the story of how Fuzzy Set Theory and its earliest applications originated remains largely unknown.
In this book, the history of Fuzzy Set Theory and the ways it was first used are incorporated into the history of 20th century science and technology. Influences from philosophy, system theory and cybernetics stemming from the earliest part of the 20th century are considered alongside those of communication and control theory from mid-century.
Today, Fuzzy Set Theory is the core discipline of "soft computing," and provides new impetus for research in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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- Author(s): Samy Abu-Taleb
- ISBN: 9780071432658
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 2
- Date: 22 Jan 2004
- Pages: 96
Bestselling quick-prep Arabic course for your travel adventures!
This accessible minicourse provides all the communication skills you need to make the most of a foreign jaunt. In just one week--less time than it takes to get a passport--you can learn enough Arabic to conduct typical travelers' transactions with conversational confidence.
Organized into seven units, one for each day of the week, these colorfully illustrated chapters feature:
- Vocabulary and phrase lists for everyday situations such as dining, shopping, and asking for directions
- Accessible grammar points and interactive practice exercises
- An easy-to-navigate vocabulary list for on-the-spot reference
- Dialogues and exercises performed by native speakers--now on CD
- Updated information about ATMs and public phones abroad
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- Author(s): Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin
- ISBN: 9783540762836
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 25 Feb 2008
- Pages: 244
This book describes new methods for building intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and soft computing techniques. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several computing paradigms, including type-1 fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithms, which can be used to create powerful hybrid intelligent systems. The authors extends the use of fuzzy logic to a higher order, which is called type-2 fuzzy logic. Combining type-2 fuzzy logic with traditional SC techniques, we can build powerful hybrid intelligent systems that can use the advantages that each technique offers. We consider in this book the use of type-2 fuzzy logic and traditional SC techniques to solve pattern recognition problems in realworld applications.
This book is intended to be a major reference for scientists and engineers interested in applying type-2 fuzzy logic for solving problems in pattern recognition, intelligent control, intelligent manufacturing, robotics and automation. This book can also be used as a textbook or major reference for graduate courses like the following: soft computing, intelligent pattern recognition, computer vision, applied artificial intelligence, and similar ones.
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- Author(s): Fethi Mansouri
- ISBN: 9780804835411
- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- Date: 15 Jul 2004
- Pages: 84
Making Out in Arabic is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to Arabic as it's really spoken. This is an excellent phrase book of modern colloquial Arabic for use in everyday, informal interactions--giving access to the sort of wonderful and catchy expressions not covered in traditional language materials. It includes an introduction to Arabic as well as a pronunciation guide, topical notes throughout on key points of language and culture, and chapters based on typical real-life encounters with speakers of Arabic, including:
Making acquaintances
Discussing likes and dislikes
Sharing a meal
Going out on the town
Developing a romantic relationship or quarreling, through to getting married or splitting up!
Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase books include Making Out in Japanese and Making Out in Chinese , Making Out in Indonesian , Making Out in Thai , More Making Out in Japanese , Making Out in Vietnamese, and Making Out in Tagalog . read more at Amazon
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- Author(s): Tim Sparrow, Amanda Knight
- ISBN: 9780470032732
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass
- Date: 17 Nov 2006
- Pages: 326
A decade on from its birth, emotional intelligence is attracting more attention than ever before. Why? Because of its proven connection to performance. Tomorrow's leaders will have to be facilitators who work collaboratively to help others develop their potential, and this will require emotionally intelligent skills and attitudes. Against this landscape, Applied EI provides the tools and advice needed to develop and manage a relationship with yourself and create positive relationships with others - the twin cornerstones of emotional intelligence.
We're all capable of acting with emotional intelligence. Most of us don't, because internal interferences - misguided beliefs and attitudes learnt in childhood - get in the way. Countering this, Applied EI attaches unique importance to the role of attitudes in developing and applying emotional intelligence. Tim Sparrow and Amanda Knight stress that EI isn't a synonym for personality; it's about managing personality. That's why knowing how to put EI into practice is essential. And that's why reducing EI to a single number or score misses the point, and serves only to give us another measure by which to judge ourselves and others.
Anyone interested in performance improvement today needs to be interested in emotional intelligence. Applied EI shows how our attitudes underpin our EI, explores how to develop emotionally intelligence attitudes, and lays out tactics for applying them in practice. It discusses what is needed at individual, team and leadership development levels, and considers what it means to be an EI practitioner. Its practical approach and unique perspective make it a must-read for anyone involved in the field of personal development.
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- Author(s): Harry Mileaf
- ISBN: 9780810455573
- Publisher: Pearson Indiana
- Date: 01 Jan 1967
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- Author(s): Tofigh Heidarzadeh
- ISBN: 9781402083228
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Jun 2008
- Pages: 292
The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas about the nature, position, motion and physical constitution of comets from Aristotle to Whipple. Unlike the available works on the history of comets, which either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of physical cometology or portray a landscape view without adequate details, the present study focuses on details of each theory. It also investigates the interaction between observational and mathematical astronomy, and the physical sciences in defining the properties of comets.
Ideas about the astrological aspects of comets are not considered in this study. Also, topics concerning the motion of comets are explained to the extent that is helpful in illustrating their physical properties. Although the present study is mainly focused on the physical theories of comets, its results will be relevant to studies in the history of geology, planetary science, and astrology. On the other hand, those results may initiate new studies about educational practices for physics and astronomy in post-Newtonian Europe, the ways that different parts of Newton's physical, astronomical and cosmological ideas evolved after him. Also, the debates about the constitution and chemical properties of comets in the post-Laplacian era may trigger new researches about possible influence of cometary studies on the foundation of astrophysics.
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- Author(s): Edward K. Blum, Sergey V. Lototsky
- ISBN: 9789812566218
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Date: 07 Jul 2006
- Pages: 496
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- Author(s): Bill Woodward, Emile B. Husson
- ISBN: 9780782143904
- Publisher: Sybex
- Date: 08 Jul 2005
- Pages: 457
For years, fiber optics was the future. Now, it's the present, and the time has come to act if you want to make a career in this fast-growing field. The Fiber Optics Installer and Technician Guide is a comprehensive resource designed to prepare you for the two leading fiber optics certifications, Fiber Optics Installer (FOI) and Fiber Optics Technician (FOT). This book's practical, objective-focused coverage includes:
- The history of fiber optics
- Principles of fiber optic transmission
- Optical fiber characteristics, construction, and theory
- Safety considerations
- Cables, connectors, and splicing
- Fiber optic light sources and transmitters
- Fiber optic detectors and receivers
- Passive components and multiplexers
- Fiber optic links
- Testing equipment
- Techniques for testing links and cables
- Troubleshooting and restoration techniques
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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- Author(s): Stephen J. Forsythe
- ISBN: 9780632054879
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Feb 2001
- Pages: 412
The book will provide an overview of the important issues in food safety, which shows no sign of diminishing as a topic of huge concern from industry to consumer. The book does not set out to compete with large standard food microbiology titles that are well established, but will be a companion text with less scientific background detail and more information for those actually going into jobs where a practical knowledge of food safety issues is necessary.
The companion website for this book can be found at: http://www.foodmicrobe.com/info.htm
- Practically oriented
- Author has wide experience of teaching cutting edge food safety information
- Topic of great and growing concern
- Succinct, core, vital information for food industry personnel
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Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:26pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Michael J. Campbell
- ISBN: 9781405134903
- Publisher: BMJ Books
- Edition: 2
- Date: 13 Jun 2006
- Pages: 144
Updated companion volume to the ever popular Statistics at Square One (SS1) Statistics at Square Two, Second Edition, helps you evaluate the many statistical methods in current use. Going beyond the basics of SS1, it covers sophisticated methods and highlights misunderstandings. Easy to read, it includes annotated computer outputs and keeps formulas to a minimum.
Worked examples of methods such as multiple and logical regression reinforce the text. Each chapter concludes with exercises to stimulate learning.
All those who need to understand statistics in clinical research papers and apply them in their own research will value this compact and coherent guide.
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- Author(s): Agnes L. DeFranco, Thomas W. Lattin
- ISBN: 9780471692164
- Publisher: Wiley
- Date: 20 Oct 2006
- Pages: 384
Real-world advice for quick retention of the most important business concepts and skills of hospitality finance
Hospitality Financial Management provides a straightforward, practical approach to help the hospitality manager effectively analyze hospitality industry management reports and financial statements; prepare accurate business forecasts, strategic pricing models, and effective cost-control systems; manage working capital; develop and finance growth strategies; perform investment analysis; prepare investment packages; negotiate and structure business deals; and ultimately increase shareholder value and personal wealth.
This comprehensive how-to book includes:
- Feature Stories--brief histories of famous hospitality leaders highlighting how they have used financial management skills to attain success for their companies and significant financial rewards for themselves
- Learning Outcomes--a summary of key topics covered in each chapter
- Finance in Action--scenarios that apply the concepts, skills, and techniques presented in the chapter to real-world situations. A step-by-step solution is provided for each problem to walk the reader through the necessary financial calculations
- The Real Deal--boxed inserts that emphasize the relevance of the book by linking financial concepts to fun facts associated with situations students either have or will encounter in their everyday lives
- Concept Checks--case studies that reinforce the materials presented and enable students to practice their analytic and problem-solving skills
Hospitality Financial Management is the perfect book for undergraduate and graduate hospitality management students, hospitality industry managers, and owners of small hospitality businesses.
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- Author(s): Peter Monk
- ISBN: 9780198508885
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 19 Jun 2003
- Pages: 464
Finite Element Methods For Maxwell's Equations is the first book to present the use of finite elements to analyze Maxwell's equations. This book is part of the Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation Series.
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- Author(s): David Groth
- ISBN: 9780782128635
- Publisher: Sybex
- Date: 26 Dec 2000
- Pages: 624
Here's the 2nd Edition of the book you need to prepare for Network+--the networking certification from CompTIA. Written by the renowned author David Groth, this Study Guide combines comprehensive coverage of each exam objective, practical exercises, and reference information. We've updated the book to cover new developments in networking, and the CD now contains Network+ test-preparation software, electronic flashcards for PCs and Palm devices, and a bonus exam.
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- Author(s): Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
- ISBN: 9780596005719
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Date: 28 Oct 2003
- Pages: 700
What do Ford Financial, IBM, and Victoria's Secret have in common? Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). As the industry standard for platform-independent reusable business components, EJB has just become Sun Microsystem's latest developer certification. Whether you want to be certifiable or just want to learn the technology inside and out,
Head First EJB will get you there in the least painful way. And with the greatest understanding. You'll learn not just what the technology *is*, but more importantly, *why* it is, and what it is and isn't good for. You'll learn tricks and tips for EJB development, along with tricks and tips for passing this latest, very challenging Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD) exam. You'll learn how to think like a server. You'll learn how to think like a bean. And because this is a Head First book, you'll learn how to think about thinking. Co-author Kathy Sierra was one of Sun's first employees to teach brave, early adopter customers how to use EJB. She has the scars. But besides dragging you deep into EJB technology, Kathy and Bert will see you through your certification exam, if you decide to go for it. And nobody knows the certification like they do - they're co-developers of Sun's actual exam! As the second book in the Head First series,
Head First EJB follows up the number one best-selling Java book in the US,
Head First Java . Find out why reviewers are calling it a revolution in learning tough technical topics, and why Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy says, "Java technology is everywhere...if you develop software and haven't learned Java, it's definitely time to dive in "Head First." And with Head First book, you don't even have to feel guilty about having fun while you're learning; it's all part of the learning theory. If the latest research in cognitive science, education, and neurobiology suggested that boring, dry, and excruciatingly painful was the best way to learn, we'd have done it. Thankfully, it's been shown that your brain has a sense of style, a sense of humour, and a darn good sense of what it likes and dislikes. In
Head First EJB , you'll learn all about:
- Component-based and role-based development
- The architecture of EJB, distributed programming with RMI
- Developing and Deploying an EJB application
- The Client View of a Session and Entity bean
- The Session Bean Lifecycle and Component Contract
- The Entity bean Lifecycle and Component Contract
- Container-managed Persistence (CMP)
- Container-managed Relationships (CMR)
- EJB-QL
- Transactions
- Security
- EJB Exceptions
- The Deployment Descriptor
- The Enterprise Bean Environment in JNDI
- Programming Restrictions and Portability
The book includes over 200 mock exam questions that match the tone, style, difficulty, and topics on the real SCBCD exam. See why Kathy and Bert are responsible for thousands of successful exam-passers-- "The Sun certification exam was certainly no walk in the park, but Kathy's material allowed me to not only pass the exam, but Ace it!" --Mary Whetsel, Sr. Technology Specialist, Application Strategy and Integration, The St. Paul Companies "Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates are two of the few people in the world who can make complicated things seem damn simple, and as if that isn't enough, they can make boring things seem interesting." --Paul Wheaton, The Trail Boss, javaranch.com "Who better to write a Java study guide than Kathy Sierra, reigning queen of Java instruction? Kathy Sierra has done it again. Here is a study guide that almost guarantees you a certification!" --James Cubetta, Systems Engineer, SGI
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Posted: August 5th, 2008, 12:48pm CEST by admin
- Author(s): Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
- ISBN: 9780791086117
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 26 Sep 2005
- Pages: 146
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- Author(s): Samuel Willard Crompton
- ISBN: 9780791086155
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 26 Sep 2005
- Pages: 138
Card catalog description Surveys the life and voyages of Sir Francis Drake and the expansion of the English naval fleet in the sixteenth century.
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- Author(s): Shane Mountjoy
- ISBN: 9780791086315
- Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
- Date: 26 Sep 2005
- Pages: 142
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Posted: August 5th, 2008, 12:48pm CEST by admin
- ISBN: 9780521870825
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 2
- Date: 21 Apr 2008
- Pages: 480
This new edition of Obstetric Anesthesia and Uncommon Disorders is a crucial resource for practitioners suddenly faced with a parturient who has an unusual medical or surgical condition. The book considers both the impact of a condition on pregnancy, labor and delivery, or the fetus and the impact of pregnancy on a condition or the effect of therapy for the disorder on the fetus or neonate. Case reports and experience from the world literature and clinical advice from many specialists have been drawn together by an international team of editors and contributors who are leading experts in the field. Clear, concise management guidelines and algorithms are provided, and each chapter is written from the viewpoint of the obstetric anesthesiologist. Obstetric Anesthesia and Uncommon Disorders continues to be an invaluable resource for any anesthesiologist involved in the clinical management of these complex patients.
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- ISBN: 9780521871839
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date: 03 Mar 2008
- Pages: 206
The philosophy of Spinoza is increasingly recognised as holding a position of crucial importance and influence in early modern thought, and in recent years it has been the focus of a rich and growing body of scholarship. In this volume of essays, leading experts in the field offer penetrating analyses of his views about God, necessity, imagination, the mind, knowledge, history, society, and politics. The essays treat questions of perennial importance in Spinoza scholarship but also constitute new and critical examinations of his worldview. Scholars of modern philosophy will welcome this volume as a collection of some of the very best recent work done on Spinoza's philosophy.
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- ISBN: 9780521683357
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 10 Mar 2008
- Pages: 192
Teledermatology: A User's Guide was written to provide practical information for those individuals contemplating or planning a teledermatology program or expanding their current use of teledermatology. It focuses on the practical aspects of teledermatology implementation while providing a comprehensive treatment of the topic. Discussions include: business models and reimbursement issues; the current status of teledermatology research; the integration of teledermatology into dermatology residency training programs; ethical considerations; confidentiality issues; and the "art of teledermatology." It explores the technical aspects of teledermatology and describes the differences between live interactive techniques and store and forward techniques. This book is intended to provide both novice and seasoned teledermatologists with comprehensive and practical information on teledermatology. Many of the chapter authors are among the world experts in teledermatology and have developed successful and viable teledermatology programs. The knowledge presented here is based on the lessons they have learned in the course of teledermatology development.
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- Author(s): Mao-Hong Yu
- ISBN: 9783540251279
- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: 1
- Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Pages: 447
Generalized Plasticity deals with the plasticity of materials and structures. It is an expansion of the "Unified Strength Theory to Plasticity Theory", leading to a unified treatment of metal plasticity and plasticity of geomaterials, generally. It includes the metal plasticity for Tresca materials, Huber-von-Mises materials and twin-shear materials and the geomaterial plasticity for Mohr-Coulomb materials, generalized twin-shear materials and the Unified Strength Theory.
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- Author(s): H. Peter Alesso, Craig F. Smith
- ISBN: 9780470118818
- Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
- Date: 14 Jan 2008
- Pages: 224
This book uses a discussion of past developments, an analysis of patterns of discovery, and a debate of prospective technology to synthesize a cohesive and compelling vision. It challenges the reader to think of the consequences of extrapolating trends, such as Moore's Law, to either reach real machine intelligence, or else retrench in the face of physical limitations.
From this perspective, the book draws the "big picture" for the Information Revolution's innovations in chips, devices, software and networks. The goal is to forecast ubiquitous intelligence where everyone is connected to devices with access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- offering what Google founder Larry Page calls "perfect search."
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- Author(s): Kau-Fui Vincent Wong
- ISBN: 9780824742362
- Publisher: CRC
- Edition: 1
- Date: 15 Jan 2003
- Pages: 432
Equipping practicing engineers and students with the tools to independently assess and understand complex material on the topic, this text is an ideal precursor to advanced heat transfer courses. Intermediate Heat Transfer discusses numerical analysis in conduction and convection, temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, conduction through a slab from one fluid to another fluid, steady-state heat conduction in a two-dimensional fin, and truncation and round-off errors in finite difference method. Replete with sample problems to clarify concepts, this is an indispensable resource for professionals and seniors and first-year graduate students pursuing tracks in mechanical, aerospace, nuclear, and chemical engineering.
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- Author(s): John M. Howie
- ISBN: 9780198511946
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 01 Feb 1996
- Pages: 368
This book is an indispensable source for anyone with an interest in semigroup theory or whose research overlaps with this increasingly important and active field of mathematics. It clearly emphasizes "pure" semigroup theory, in particular the various classes of regular semigroups. More than
150 exercises, accompanied by relevant references to the literature, give pointers to areas of the subject not explicitly covered in the text.
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- Author(s): Peter, PhD Lasch, Janina, PhD Kneipp
- ISBN: 9780470229453
- Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
- Edition: 1
- Date: 04 Apr 2008
- Pages: 385
Current methodologies and data analysis techniques in vibrational spectroscopy and their biomedical applications
As with many other spectroscopic techniques, Raman and infrared spectroscopy have made great progress due to recent developments in optics, detectors, nanotechnology, and computer science. There is increasing interest in the biomedical field in using these methods for diagnostic and in vivo applications. For example, explorative and rapid analysis techniques can be used to diagnose disease or dysfunction via infrared or Raman spectral fingerprints.
This comprehensive overview of biomedical applications of vibrational spectroscopy focuses on methodologies that are most relevant to biodiagnostics. After a few introductory chapters that summarize the current status of the field, the reference covers three primary areas:
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Current spectroscopic applications suitable for routine use in cytology,histopathology, and clinical chemistry
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New spectroscopic directions providing increased analytical sensitivity or spatial resolution that make them suitable for in vivo and in situ applications such as resonant Raman scattering, CARS, SERS, and PTIR
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Study design and the analysis of vibrational spectral fingerprints from complex biological and clinical samples
With chapters contributed by leading international experts, Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy is a core resource for chemists, biologists, and clinical researchers working at research institutes, universities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as professionals and researchers in biophysics, biomedicine, bioinformatics, and clinical and analytical chemistry.
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- Author(s): Daniel A. Beard, Hong Qian
- ISBN: 9780521870702
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Edition: 1
- Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Pages: 336
Chemical Biophysics provides an engineering-based approach to biochemical system analysis for graduate level courses on systems biology, computational bioengineering and molecular biophysics. It is the first textbook to apply rigorous physical chemistry principles to mathematical and computational modeling of biochemical systems for an interdisciplinary audience. The book is structured to show the student the basic biophysical concepts before applying this theory to computational modeling and analysis, building up to advanced topics and current research. Topics explored include the kinetics of nonequilibrium open biological systems, enzyme mediated reactions, metabolic networks, biological transport processes, large-scale biochemical networks and stochastic processes in biochemical systems. End-of-chapter exercises range from confidence-building calculations to computational simulation projects.
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- ISBN: 9781904424383
- Publisher: Crown House Publishing
- Date: 25 Jul 2006
- Pages: 192
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- Author(s): Bob Seidensticker
- ISBN: 9781576753705
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Date: 22 Mar 2006
- Pages: 254
Conventional wisdom says that technology is the greatest new growth frontier, coupling infinite potential with an ever-growing number of faster, more efficient, and more reliable products and instruments. According to this view, we live in an unprecedented golden era of technological expansion. "Future Hype argues the opposite. Author Bob Seidensticker, who has an intimate understanding of technology on professional, theoretical, and academic levels, asserts that today's technological achievements are neither fast nor progressive. He explodes seven major myths of technology, including "Change is exponential," "Product cycle time is decreasing," and "Today's high-tech price reductions are unprecedented." Examining the history of tech hype, Seidensticker skillfully uncovers the inaccuracies and misinterpretations that characterize the popular view of technology, explaining how and why this view has been created, and offering specific strategies for measuring progress against what is actually known rather than against what its boosters have promised.
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- Author(s): Donald C. Benson
- ISBN: 9780195144369
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 30 Oct 2003
- Pages: 280
This book takes a novel look at the topics of school mathematics--arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and calculus. In this stroll on the mathematical seashore we hope to find, quoting Newton, "...a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary..." This book assembles a collection of
mathematical pebbles that are important as well as beautiful.
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- Author(s): John Lechte
- ISBN: 9780761965350
- Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
- Edition: 1
- Date: 24 Feb 2003
- Pages: 222
'A book which all students of the human sciences will find useful, both for its range of engagements and its pedagogic ambitions. To be read and to be enjoyed' -
Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol
This book is
the essential roadmap to the key concepts which frame our understanding of society and culture. From cybernetics to quantum theory, from ideology to power, from aesthetics to mimesis, this book spans a range of disciplines to provide an insight into the current scientific and intellectual state of society. Written by the author of the international bestseller
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 1994) this ambitious pedagogical and intellectual project dazzles with insight and the breadth of knowledge presented.
Each entry provides a history and current meaning of the concept in question. It then outlines its place in the work of a key author, while also offering an interpretation of the term's significance, both current and classical. Concepts are organized in alphabetical order, complete with references for further research, making this the essential reference for students throughout the social sciences and humanities.
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- Author(s): Joe Karaganis
- ISBN: 9780979077227
- Publisher: Social Science Research
- Date: 19 Apr 2008
- Pages: 284
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- ISBN: 9783110189513
- Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
- Date: 25 Oct 2006
- Pages: 499
Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value.
Key features:
- An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics.
- Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field.
- Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized by a highly specific information value.
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- Author(s): Fionn Dunne, Nik Petrinic
- ISBN: 9780198568261
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 18 Aug 2005
- Pages: 258
This book gives an introduction to computational plasticity and includes the kinematics of large deformations, together with relevant continuum mechanics. Central to the book is its focus on computational plasticity, and we cover an introduction to the finite element method which includes
both quasi-static and dynamic problems. We then go on to describe explicit and implicit implementations of plasticity models in to finite element software. Throughout the book, we describe the general, multiaxial form of the theory but uniquely, wherever possible, reduce the equations to their
simplest, uniaxial form to develop understanding of the general theory and we hope physical insight. We provide several examples of implicit and explicit implementations of von Mises time-independent and visco-plasticity in to the commercial code ABAQUS (including the fortran coding), which should
prove invaluable to research students and practicing engineers developing ABAQUS 'UMATs'. The book bridges the gap between undergraduate material on plasticity and existing advanced texts on nonlinear computational mechanics, which makes it ideal for students and practicing engineers alike. It
introduces a range of engineering applications, including superplasticity, porous plasticity, cyclic plasticity and thermo-mechanical fatigue, to emphasize the subject's relevance and importance.
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- ISBN: 9783110186178
- Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
- Date: 25 Dec 2005
- Pages: 432
The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation.
The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein.
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- ISBN: 9780195104271
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Date: 13 Jun 1996
- Pages: 288
One effect of information technology is the increasing need to present information visually. The trend raises intriguing questions. What is the logical status of reasoning that employs visualization? What are the cognitive advantages and pitfalls of this reasoning? What kinds of tools can be
developed to aid in the use of visual representation? This newest volume on the Studies in Logic and Computation series addresses the logical aspects of the visualization of information. The authors of these specially commissioned papers explore the properties of diagrams, charts, and maps, and
their use in problem solving and teaching basic reasoning skills. As computers make visual representations more commonplace, it is important for professionals, researchers and students in computer science, philosophy, and logic to develop an understanding of these tools; this book can clarify the
relationship between visuals and information.
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- ISBN: 9783110198263
- Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
- Date: 01 Jul 2007
- Pages: 352
Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain," has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics. The chapters address many classic topics of Cognitive Linguistics. These topics include studies on the semantics of specific words (including polysemy and synonymy) as well as semantic characteristics of particular syntactic patterns / constructions (including constructional synonymy and the schematicity of constructions), the analysis of causatives, transitivity, and image-schematic aspects of posture verbs.
The key characteristic of this volume is that all papers adopt the methodological perspective of Corpus Linguistics, the rapidly evolving branch of linguistics based on the computerized analysis of language used in authentic settings. Thus, the contributions do not only all provide various new insights in their respective fields, they also introduce new data as well as new corpus-based and quantitative methods of analysis. On the basis of their findings, the authors discuss both theoretical implications going well beyond the singular topics of the studies and show how the discipline of Cognitive Linguistics can benefit from the rigorous analysis of naturally-occurring language. The languages which are investigated are English, German, Dutch, and Russian, and the data come from a variety of different corpora. As such, the present volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars with many different foci and interests and should pave the way for further integration of usage-based techniques of analysis within this exciting paradigm.
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- Author(s): J R Hanson
- ISBN: 9780854046454
- Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
- Edition: 1
- Date: 10 Oct 2006
- Pages: 156
Medicinal chemistry incorporates bio-organic chemistry, organic synthetic methods, physical organic chemistry and organic reaction mechanisms. These areas of chemistry are crucial to the design and synthesis of new drugs, both in academia and the pharmaceutical industry.
Chemistry and Medicines: An Introductory Text provides a general introduction to this fascinating subject. The first chapters contain a brief historical introduction followed by a description of the chemical features involved in the adsorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a drug. The remaining chapters describe the chemistry underlying the design and synthesis of some of the key drugs used to combat some major diseases of the peripheral and central nervous system, infectious diseases and cancers. A glossary and suggestions for further reading complete this textbook.
The book is aimed at those studying advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in medicinal chemistry.
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