• Author(s): Philip D. Tetlow
• ISBN: 9780470137949
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Date: 04 May 2007
• Pages: 239

The central thesis of The Web's Awake is that the phenomenal growth and complexity of the web is beginning to outstrip our capability to control it directly. Many have worked on the concept of emergent properties within highly complex systems, concentrating heavily on the underlying mechanics concerned. Few, however, have studied the fundamentals involved from a sociotechnical perspective. In short, the virtual anatomy of the Web remains relatively uninvestigated. The Web's Awake attempts to seriously explore this gap, citing a number of provocative, yet objective, similarities from studies relating to both real world and digital systems. It presents a collage of interlinked facts, assertions, and coincidences, which boldly point to a Web with powerful potential for life.

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• Author(s): Heather J. Meeker
• ISBN: 9780470194959
• Publisher: Wiley
• Date: 08 Feb 2008
• Pages: 285

This book is a user manual for understanding and deployment of open source software licensing in business. Written for lawyers and businesspeople alike, it explains and analyzes open source licensing issues, and gives practical suggestions on how to deal with open source licensing in a business context. Including useful forms, information, and both technical and licensing background, this book will help you avoid legal pitfalls and edcuate your organization about the risks of open source.

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• ISBN: 9781587650673
• Publisher: Salem Press
• Date: 27 Dec 2002
• Pages: 819

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• ISBN: 9780028658162
• Publisher: MacMillan Reference Books
• Edition: 2
• Date: 15 Dec 2005
• Pages: 2746

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*Starred Review* The first edition of this work was published in 1996 under the editorship of Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. A supplement appeared in 2001. Now we have a new edition edited by Palmer, a history professor at Princeton University, and published in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.

As outlined in the preface, the encyclopedia now contains nearly 1,300 entries, as opposed to 2,500 entries in the first edition and supplement. Original authors (or, in some cases, the publisher) took the opportunity to revise or update around half of the approximately 800 articles that were carried over from the first edition. Examples of the nearly 400 new articles are Anthropology and anthropologists; Astronauts; Berry, Halle; Black-Indian relations; Hip-hop; Slave religions; Urban cinema ; and Williams, Venus and Serena. Also new are entries such as Haitian Creole language, Obeah, Pele, Samba, and West Indies Federation, reflecting a crucial difference between this edition and the first--as its new subtitle indicates, the scope has been expanded beyond North America. Numerous entries have been expanded to fit this new "diasporic approach." Literature, for example, now consists of seven articles that cover the literatures of French Guiana, Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Suriname, the English-speaking Caribbean, and the Netherlands Antilles as well as the U.S. ( Baseball, on the other hand, is still focused on the U.S.). Gone are many articles that represented the U.S.-centered approach of the first edition, among them entries for major cities and all 50 states.

Entries range in length from around half a page to more than 10 pages. Most have bibliographies attached, and the bibliographies that have been updated are indicated as such. Approximately 450 black-and-white photographs (down from roughly 1,000) enhance the text, as do occasional sidebars. Volume 1 contains an alphabetical list of entries and a directory of more than 700 contributors. In volume 6 are a thematic list of entries; a collection of around 35 primary documents; a section of "Statistics and Lists" in business, education, entertainment, and other areas; and a very good index.

In the foreword, Howard Dodson, the Schomburg Center's director, explains that the way the field of African American studies has evolved and "the pace at which new knowledge is being produced" justify a second edition only 10 years after the first. Does this mean libraries should buy it? The answer is yes, because of the new edition's dramatically expanded focus. Another question is to what extent Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas duplicates Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, the five-volume set published by Oxford in June 2005. Though the two sets have much in common, there are important differences. For example, Africana has three times more entries and a broader geographical scope, covering the African presence around the world as well as providing extensive coverage of the African continent. High-school and small to medium-sized public libraries can't go wrong with either one. Large collections, especially those supporting African American studies programs, will need both. Mary Ellen Quinn
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• Author(s): Ken Cox
• ISBN: 9780470195925
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Date: 19 Feb 2008
• Pages: 404

ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies is an all new version of the popular title that makes it easy for beginners to create dynamic, data-driven Web applications on the Microsoft platform. Wherever possible the book minimizes the amount of code you write by harnessing powerful design-time tools built into Visual Web Developer 2008 and its free version, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. Where coding is required, the author walks you through the details using familiar concepts from everyday life. The book includes many examples of "geekspeak" terminology so you'll feel comfortable in a conversation with professional ASP.NET programmers.

ASP.NET developers will benefit as well because the book integrates the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 into the text and sample code. These include LINQ queries, ASP.NET AJAX, extension methods, Silverlight, and the new ListView control.

Using realistic examples in VB, you learn to create pages that incorporate the major ASP.NET controls and features.

Coverage includes:

• Microsoft's technologies for dynamic Web content
• Installing and using Visual Web Developer 2008 (Express)
• SQL Server Express and handling database tasks
• Generating ASP.NET pages based on a database
• Inserting, sorting, editing, and deleting data
• The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and the AJAX Control Toolkit
• Understanding LINQ syntax including From, Where, and Select
• Filtering data with the LinqDataSource control
• Creating interfaces with the ListView control
• RSS and the XmlDataSource control
• Master pages, style sheets, themes, skins, and dynamic effects
• Building a sitemap and connecting navigation controls
• Security, authentication, and data validation
• E-commerce shopping cart
• Rooting out bugs and handling errors
• Compilation and deployment

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• Author(s): Doug Sahlin
• ISBN: 9780071482981
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Edition: 2
• Date: 01 Jun 2007
• Pages: 202

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!

Take great digital photos right away--the QuickSteps way. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions show you how to get the most out of your digital camera. Follow along and learn to manage controls and settings; compose your shots; photograph landscapes, people and objects; and capture action shots. You'll also find out how to edit, enhance, and correct your images, organize your digital image gallery, print high-quality photos, and share your images online. You can flip straight to the information you need easily using the color-coded tabs. Get the book that will have you shooting photos like a pro in no time.

Use these handy guideposts:

• Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks
• Need-to-know facts in concise narrative
• Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Bonus information related to the topic being covered
• Errors and pitfalls to avoid

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• Author(s): Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
• ISBN: 9780596514822
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Date: 26 Nov 2007
• Pages: 778

Do you want to learn C#? Programmers around the world have learned that C# lets them design great-looking programs and build them fast. With C#, you ve got a powerful programming language and a valuable tool at your fingertips. And with the Visual Studio IDE, you ll never have to spend hours writing obscure code just to get a button working. C#, Visual Studio and .NET take care of the grunt-work, and let you focus on the interesting parts of getting your programs written. Sound appealing?

Unlike other C# books, which just show you examples and expect you to just memorize them and move on, Head First C# gets you writing code from the beginning. You're given the tools you need, and then you're guided through fun and engaging programming projects. You'll build programs to play a card game, explore a house, and help lazy programmers manage their sick day excuses. But it's not all fun and games: you'll build business applications too, like a contact database and a program to help a party planner estimate her dinner parties. You'll build a dungeon role-playing game and a fully animated, colorful simulation of a beehive. And by the end of the book, you'll build a fast-paced, full-featured retro Invaders arcade game.

Make no mistake: by the time you're done with Head First C# , you'll be able to build full-scale, complex, and highly visual programs. And you'll have all of the C# tools you need to tackle almost any programming problem that comes your way.

Head First C# is built for your brain, using the revolutionary approach that was pioneered by the highly acclaimed and popular Head First series. You'll never get that bored, "eyes glazed over" feeling from Head First C# , because it guides you through one challenging project after another until, by the end of the book, you're a C# rock star!

Here's what you'll learn:

• Core C# programming concepts
• How to use the Visual Studio 2008 IDE to build, debug and run your programs
• Important .NET 3.5 features, including generic collections, Windows forms, GDI+ graphics, streams, serialization and more
• Using object oriented programming concepts to help you build well-designed programs
• How to build robust applications with good error handling
• The latest C# 3.0 features, including LINQ, object and collection initializers, automatic properties, extension methods and more

Throughout the book, you'll confront and conquer advanced C# concepts. Some of the most mysterious ideas are demystified and explained with clear examples: how Unicode works, events and delegates, references versus value types, the stack versus the heap, what's really going on with garbage collection, and more.

Thousands of readers have learned C# using this innovative book, including:

• Beginning programmers who want to learn programming from the ground up
• More advanced programmers who are proficient in another language (like Visual Basic, Java, SQL, FoxPro) and want to add C# to their toolbox
• Programmers who understand basic C# syntax, but are still looking to get a handle on how objects work
• Anyone who's tried to learn C#, but had to deal with books full of dull examples and nothing but boring console applications
• Lots of people who just want to learn how to build cool games!

Head First C# is built to work with any version of Visual Studio 2008, including the free express edition. (It can also can be used with any version of Visual Studio 2005.)

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• ISBN: 9780521576802
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Date: 28 Jun 1999
• Pages: 324

This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theater, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights, covering significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes, in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance and feminism.

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• ISBN: 9780521794664
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Date: 16 Sep 2002
• Pages: 354

Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between "high" and "popular" culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

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• ISBN: 9780884022886
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• Date: 01 Jan 2002
• Pages: 1364

The longevity of the Byzantine state was due largely to the existence of variegated and articulated economic systems. This three-volume study examines the structures and dynamics of the economy and the factors that contributed to its development over time. The first volume addresses the environment, resources, communications, and production techniques. The second volume examines the urban economy; presents case studies of a number of places, including Sardis, Pergamon, Thebes, Athens, and Corinth; and discusses exchange, trade, and market forces. The third volume treats the themes of economic institutions and the state and general traits of the Byzantine economy. This global study of one of the most successful medieval economies will interest historians, economic historians, archaeologists, and art historians, as well as those interested in the Byzantine Empire and the medieval Mediterranean world.

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• Author(s): Gene Smith
• ISBN: 9780321529176
• Publisher: New Riders Press
• Edition: 1
• Date: 06 Jan 2008
• Pages: 216

Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and manage digital information. Tagging complements traditional organizational tools like folders and search on users desktops as well as on the web. These developments mean that tagging has broad implications for information management, information architecture and interface design. And its reach extends beyond these technical domains to our culture at large. We can imagine, for example, the scrapbookers of the future curating their digital photos, emails, ticket stubs and other mementos with tags. This book explains the value of tagging, explores why people tag, how tagging works and when it can be used to improve the user experience. It exposes tagging's superficial simplicity to reveal interesting issues related to usability, information architecture, online community and collective intelligence.

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• Author(s): Andrzej Szepietowski
• ISBN: 9783540583554
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 29 Sep 1994
• Pages: 115

This comprehensive monograph investigates the computational power of Turing machines with sublogarithmic space. The studies are devoted to the Turing machine model introduced by Stearns, Hartmanis, and Lewis (1965) with a two-way read-only input tape and a separate two-way read-write work tape. The book presents the key results on space complexity, also as regards the classes of languages acceptable, under the perspective of a sublogarithmic number of cells used during computation. It originates from courses given by the author at the Technical University of Gdansk and Gdansk University in 1991 and 1992. It was finalized in 1994 when the author visited Paderborn University and includes the most recent contributions to the field.

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• ISBN: 9780824788858
• Publisher: Marcel Dekker
• Date: 23 Nov 1993
• Pages: 616

Based on the Third International Workshop Conference on Evolution Equations, Control Theory and Biomathematics, held in Hans-sur-Lesse, Belgium. The papers examine important advances in evolution equations related to physical, engineering and biological applications.

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• Author(s): Anthony Bloch
• ISBN: 9780387955353
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 27 Sep 2007
• Pages: 504

The goal of this book is to explore some of the connections between control theory and geometric mechanics; that is, control theory is linked with a geometric view of classical mechanics in both its Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations and in particular with the theory of mechanical systems subject to motion constraints. The synthesis of topics is appropriate as there is a particularly rich connection between mechanics and nonlinear control theory. The aim is to provide a unified treatment of nonlinear control theory and constrained mechanical systems that incorporates material that has not yet made its way into texts and monographs. This book is intended for graduate students who wish to learn this subject and researchers in the area who want to enhance their techniques.

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• Author(s): Nikolai Nikolaevich Lebedev
• ISBN: 9780486637303
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Date: 01 Feb 1979
• Pages: 429

566 problems and answers impossible to find in any other single source. Topics include steady-state harmonic oscillations, the Fourier method, and the eigenfunction method for solving inhomogeneous problems. More advanced problems deal with integral transforms, curvilinear coordinates, and integral equations. Detailed solutions.


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• Author(s): Charles F. Manski
• ISBN: 9780387004549
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 12 May 2003
• Pages: 178

Sample data alone never suffice to draw conclusions about populations. Inference always requires assumptions about the population and sampling process. Statistical theory has revealed much about how strength of assumptions affects the precision of point estimates, but has had much less to say about how it affects the identification of population parameters. Indeed, it has been commonplace to think of identification as a binary event - a parameter is either identified or not - and to view point identification as a pre-condition for inference. Yet there is enormous scope for fruitful inference using data and assumptions that partially identify population parameters. This book explains why and shows how. The book presents in a rigorous and thorough manner the main elements of Charles Manski's research on partial identification of probability distributions. One focus is prediction with missing outcome or covariate data. Another is decomposition of finite mixtures, with application to the analysis of contaminated sampling and ecological inference. A third major focus is the analysis of treatment response. Whatever the particular subject under study, the presentation follows a common path. The author first specifies the sampling process generating the available data and asks what may be learned about population parameters using the empirical evidence alone. He then ask how the (typically) setvalued identification regions for these parameters shrink if various assumptions are imposed. The approach to inference that runs throughout the book is deliberately conservative and thoroughly nonparametric. Conservative nonparametric analysis enables researchers to learn from the available data without imposing untenable assumptions. It enables establishment of a domain of consensus among researchers who may hold disparate beliefs about what assumptions are appropriate. Charles F. Manski is Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University. He is author of Identification Problems in the Social Sciences and Analog Estimation Methods in Econometrics. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Econometric Society.

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• Author(s): Norman K. Glendenning
• ISBN: 9789812389459
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Date: 31 Jul 2004
• Pages: 396

Contemporary Physics
"The emphasis throughout is on the formalism, which is very well described ..."

Zentralblatt MATH
A concise presentation of the theoretical foundations of the direct nuclear reactions topic at a textbook level for graduate students.

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• Author(s): Ferreyra
• ISBN: 9780824792879
• Publisher: CRC
• Date: 20 Oct 1994
• Pages: 480

Based on the lnternational Conference on Evolution Equations held recently at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, this work presents significant new research papers and state-of-the-art surveys on evolution equations and related fields. Important applications of evolution equations to problems in quantum theory, fluid dynamics, engineering, and biology are highlighted.

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• Author(s): Gary Bowman
• ISBN: 9780199228928
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date: 10 Jan 2008
• Pages: 224

Quantum Mechanics- central not only to physics but also chemistry, materials science and other fields- is notoriously abstract and difficult. Essential Quantum Mechanics is a uniquely concise and explanatory book that fills the gap between introductory and advanced courses, between
popularizations and technical treatises. By focusing on the fundamental structure, concepts and methods of quantum mechanics this introductory yet sophisticated work emphasizes both physical and matehmeatical understanding. A modern perspective is adopted throughout-the goal in part, being to gain
entry into the world of "real" quantum mechanics, as used by practicing scientists. With over 60 original problems, Essential Quantum Mechanics is suitable as either a text or a reference. It will be invaluable to physics students as well as chemists, electrical engineers, philosophers, and others
whose work is impacted by quantum mechanics, or who simply wish to better understand this fascinating subject.

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• Author(s): Olav Kallenberg
• ISBN: 9780387251158
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 27 Jul 2005
• Pages: 510

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the three basic symmetries of probability theory - contractability, exchangeability, and rotatability - defined as invariance in distribution under contractions, permutations, and rotations. Originating with the pioneering work of de Finetti from the 1930's, the theory has evolved into a unique body of deep, beautiful, and often surprising results, comprising the basic representations and invariance properties in one and several dimensions, and exhibiting some unexpected links between the various symmetries as well as to many other areas of modern probability. Most chapters require only some basic, graduate level probability theory, and should be accessible to any serious researchers and graduate students in probability and statistics. Parts of the book may also be of interest to pure and applied mathematicians in other areas. The exposition is formally self-contained, with detailed references provided for any deeper facts from real analysis or probability used in the book.

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• ISBN: 9781402018336
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 27 Mar 2004
• Pages: 404

This book consists of a series of expository articles on axiomatic, enriched and motivic homotopy theory arising out of a NATO Advanced Study Institute of the same name at the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK in September 2002.

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• Author(s): F. B. Hildebrand
• ISBN: 9780486653631
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Edition: 2
• Date: 01 Jun 1987
• Pages: 669

Well-known, respected introduction, updated to integrate concepts and procedures associated with computers. Computation, approximation, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, smoothing of data, other topics in lucid presentation. Includes 150 additional problems in this edition. Bibliography.


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• Author(s): Brian Wilson, Richard Green
• ISBN: 9781405420457
• Publisher: Parragon
• Date: 27 Dec 2004
• Pages: 256

This selection of Indian recipes will fill your kitchen with appetizing aromas and enticing flavors. Indian cuisine is presented with step-by-step instructions, photographs of key stages of preparation and helpful tips to help you create the finest Indian food. There are recipes for soups, appetizers, meat, fish, vegetarian courses and delightful desserts. This cookbook has a covered spiral binding which allows the book to open flat to the recipe of your choice.

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• Author(s): T. T. Moh
• ISBN: 9789810211950
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Date: 27 Jun 1997
• Pages: 360

This book comes from the first part of the lecture notes which the author used for a first-year graduate algebra course. The aim of this book is not only to give the students quick access to the basic knowledge of algebra, either for future advancement in the field of algebra, or for general background information, but also to show that algebra is truly a master key or a "skeleton key" to many mathematical problems. As one knows, the teeth of an ordinary key prevent it from opening all but one door; whereas the skeleton key keeps only the essential parts, allow it to unlock many doors. The author wishes to present this book as an attempt to re-establish the contacts between algebra and other branches of mathematics and sciences. Many examples and exercises are included to illustrate the power of intuitive approaches to algebra.

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