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Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy, “Probabilistic Linguistics”
The MIT Press | 2003-04-01 | ISBN: 0262523388 | 463 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become increasingly clear, however, that many levels of representation, from phonemes to sentence structure, show probabilistic properties, as does the language faculty. Probabilistic linguistics conceptualizes categories as distributions and views knowledge of language not as a minimal set of categorical constraints but as a set of gradient rules that may be characterized by a statistical distribution.
Whereas categorical approaches focus on the endpoints of distributions of linguistic phenomena, probabilistic approaches focus on the gradient middle ground. Probabilistic linguistics integrates all the progress made by linguistics thus far with a probabilistic perspective.
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to probabilistic approaches to linguistic inquiry. It covers the application of probabilistic techniques to phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It also includes a tutorial on elementary probability theory and probabilistic grammars.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:56am CET by nazya
Malte C. Ebach, Raymond S. Tangney “Biogeography in a Changing World (Systematics Association Special Volumes)”
CRC | 2006-11-01 | ISBN: 0849380383 | 232 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Hampered by a confusing plethora of approaches and methods, biogeography is often treated as an adjunct to other areas of study. The first book to fully define this rapidly emerging subdiscipline, Biogeography in a Changing World elucidates the principles of biogeography and paves the way for its evolution into a stand-alone field.
Drawing on contributions from leading proponents of differing methods within biogeography, the book clearly defines the differing, sometimes conflicting, perspectives in the field and their correspondingly different methodological approaches. This gives readers the opportunity to refocus on a range of issues including the role of biological processes such as vicariance, dispersal and extinction in biogeographical explanation, the possibility of biogeographical pattern, and the role of geological reconstructions in biogeographic explanation. The book also explores the discipline’s current relationship with other disciplines and discusses potential developments.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:54am CET by nazya
Douglas N. Walton, “Relevance in Argumentation”
Lawrence Erlbaum | 2003-09-01 | ISBN: 080584760X | 311 pages | PDF | 17,9 MB
In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This method enables a critic to judge whether a move can be said to be relevant or irrelevant, and is based on case studies of argumentation in which an argument, or part of an argument, has been criticized as irrelevant. Walton’s method is based on a new theory of relevance that incorporates techniques of argumentation theory, logic, and artificial intelligence.
The work uses a case-study approach with numerous examples of controversial arguments, strategies of attack in argumentation, and fallacies. Walton reviews ordinary cases of irrelevance in argumentation, and uses them as a basis to advance and develop his new theory of irrelevance and relevance. The volume also presents a clear account of the technical problems in the previous attempts to define relevance, including an analysis of formal systems of relevance logic and an explanation of the Grecian notion of conversational relevance.
This volume is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in those fields using argumentation theory–especially philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science and communication studies, in addition to argumentation. The work also has practical use, as it applies theory directly to familiar examples of argumentation in daily and professional life. With a clear and comprehensive method for determining relevance and irrelevance, it can be convincingly applied to highly significant practical problems about relevance, including those in legal and political argumentation.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:52am CET by nazya
Paul Bedell, “Wireless Crash Course,2 Ed”
McGraw-Hill Professional | 2005-05-24 | ISBN: 007145280X | 552 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This acclaimed wireless intro book provides a thorough understanding the basic workings of wireless networks, technology, and regulations, clearly explaining concepts like radio frequency, cell sites and switching, as well as the regulatory processes that affect all wireless service providers and equipment manufacturers.
This new edition has been heavily revised to cover digital wireless: GPRS, 3G, UTMS, cdma2000, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the host of new digital services driving wireless growth.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:51am CET by nazya
Kip Gregory “Winning Clients in a Wired World: Seven Strategies for Growing Your Business Using Technology and the Web”
Wiley | 2004-03-19 | ISBN: 0471249750 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A valuable guide to making technology work for your business
Now that the Internet bubble has burst, financial service professionals are looking for more realistic ways to use technology to their advantage. J. K. Lasser Pro Taming Technology offers easy and effective methods to do just that.
This comprehensive guide puts what’s available today in technology into a cohesive framework-one that offers a systematic way to think about and implement technology-to build and strengthen relationships with clients and prospects. J. K. Lasser Pro Taming Technology is a valuable resource for financial service professionals seeking clear, practical advice on using technology and the Internet to acquire and retain profitable business. This book provides readers with easy-to-use ideas and techniques to successfully incorporate technology into their business promotion.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:49am CET by nazya
Richard L. Mendelsohn, “The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege”
Cambridge University Press | 2005-01-10 | ISBN: 0521836697 | 246 pages | PDF | 1,05 MB
This analysis of Frege’s views on language metaphysics raised in On Sense Reference, (arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years) provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis.
It applies Frege’s technique to the central notions of predication, identity, existence and truth, and Bertrand Russell’s views throughout serve as a foil to Frege.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:47am CET by nazya
Stephan Boehm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz D. Kurz, Richard Sturn, “Is There Progress in Economics?: Knowledge, Truth and the History of Economic Thought”
Edward Elgar Publishing | 2002-08-31 | ISBN: 1840646837 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspective.
The idea of progress is particularly significant as the authors regard it as an essentially contested concept which can be defined in many ways - theoretically or empirically, locally or globally, or as encouraging or impeding the existence of other research traditions. The authors discuss the idea that for progress to make any sense there must be an accumulation of knowledge built up over time rather than the replacement of ideas by each successive generation. Accordingly, they are not concerned with estimating the price of progress, reminiscing, or assessing what has been lost. Instead they apply the complex mechanisms and machinery of the discipline to sub-fields such as normative economics, monetary economics, trade and location theory, Austrian economics and classical economics to critically assess whether progress has been made in these areas of research.
Bringing together authoritative and wide-ranging contributions by leading scholars, this book will challenge and engage those interested in philosophy, economic methodology and the history of economic thought. It will also appeal to economists in general who are interested in the advancement of their profession.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:46am CET by nazya
Brian Dive “The Healthy Organization: A Revolutionary Approach to People and Management”
Kogan Page Business Books | 2004-08 | ISBN: 0749442522 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
* Outlines the decision-making accountability model which was developed by the author at Unilever * Based on original research work * Includes work from assignments that have taken place in over 60 countries * Written in a user-friendly approachable style “Rarely does a management book encompass such well researched and tested new ideas coupled with sound advice for management.” — Management Services “This book is an excellent, pragmatic framework for organizational development.” —
Training Journal Most organizations are profoundly unhealthy. There are a number of reasons for this: poor organizational design; faulty company strategy; unclear links to strategy; poor company culture; and unhappy employees. This updated paperback edition of The Healthy Organization outlines an approach that explains why individual companies are unhealthy and how to change this using the decision-making accountability model. Based on his experience at both Unilever and Tesco (and recently the Royal Navy), Brian Dive answers the recurring questions that dog an organizations development: how many people should there be in this organization? how many layers of hierarchy are necessary? what are the logical steps of professional development for employees? He reveals that healthy organizational management will lead to greater competitiveness, spark innovation and increase employee empowerment.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:44am CET by nazya
Steve Smith, Don E. Schultz “How to Sell More Stuff!: Promotional Marketing That Really Works”
Kaplan Business | 2004-12-01 | ISBN: 0793193311 | 400 pages | PDF | 3,6 MB
With over $233 billion and 50 percent of marketing budgets allocated to consumer promotion, marketing professionals need a working reference tool to help them plan, budget, execute, and, ultimately, sell more stuff.
Sales promotions are used by the smallest mom-and-pop storefront to the most sophisticated consumer product marketer, and everyone in between.
How to Sell More Stuff tells executives, agencies, internal departments, entrepreneurs, and students alike how to close sales by influencing immediate customer behavior through an array of promotional techniques, including sweepstakes, tie-ins, coupons, events, and more.
Authors Steve Smith and renowned Professor Don E. Schultz give readers a fact-filled how-to handbook that covers the entire sales promotion spectrum clearly, concisely, and completely. Professor Schultz introduces each chapter with an insightful, analytical perspective, and then the authors show readers:
• How to choose the right tactic from over 100 options, reviewing descriptions, advantages, and disadvantages.
• How to budget the program.
• Pitfalls, cautions, and opportunities.
• How to put it all together with procedures and checklists.
Examples of leading promotions from Campbell Soup, General Mills, Stanley Tools, and Procter & Gamble. Every business, from small businesses to agencies to corporations to sales organizations to B2Bs, want to increase sales.
With How to Sell More Stuff, Smith and Schultz show them how to pick the right promotion to meet their needs and execute it flawlessly to achieve the desired results.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:42am CET by nazya
Andrew Bacevich “The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War”
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2005 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 0195173384 | PDF | 1.2 MB
In this provocative new book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology–of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This perilous union, Bacevich argues, commits Americans to a futile enterprise, turning the US into a crusader state with a self-proclaimed mission of driving history to its final destination: the world-wide embrace of the American way of life.
This mindset invites endless war and the ever-deepening militarization of US policy. It promises not to perfect but to pervert American ideals and to accelerate the hollowing out of American democracy. As it alienates others, it will leave the United States increasingly isolated. It will end in bankruptcy, moral as well as economic, and in abject failure. The New American Militarism examines the origins and implications of this misguided enterprise. The author shows how American militarism emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War. Various groups in American society–soldiers, politicians on the make, intellectuals, strategists, Christian evangelicals, even purveyors of pop culture–came to see the revival of military power and the celebration of military values as the antidote to all the ills besetting the country as a consequence of Vietnam and the 1960s. The upshot, acutely evident in the aftermath of 9/11, has been a revival of vast ambitions and certainty, this time married to a pronounced affinity for the sword. Bacevich urges us to restore a sense of realism and a sense of proportion to US policy. He proposes, in short, to bring American purposes and American methods–especially with regard to the role of the military–back into harmony with the nation’s founding ideals.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:40am CET by nazya
The Postmodern
Routledge | 2005 | ISBN: 0415280656 | Pages: 208 | PDF | 1.35 MB
HOW CAN ONE UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THE PRESENT?
WHAT MIGHT IT MEAN TO SAY THE WORLD HAS BECOME POSTMODERN?
Simon Malpas investigates the theories and definitions of postmodernism and postmodernity, and explores their impact in such areas as identity, history, art, literature and culture.
In attempting to locate the essence of the postmodern, and the contrasting experiences of postmodernity in the Western and developing worlds, he looks closely at:
• modernism and postmodernism
• modernity and postmodernity
• subjectivity
• history
• politics
This useful guidebook will introduce students to a range of key thinkers who have sought to question the contemporary situation, and will enable readers to begin to approach the primary texts of postmodern theory and culture with confidence.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:39am CET by nazya
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage
Cambridge University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0521886740 | Pages: 408 | PDF | 1.73 MB
Dictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, published and used, has much to tell us about the language and the culture of the past. This monumental work of scholarship draws on published and archival material to survey a wide range of dictionaries of western European languages (including English, German, Latin and Greek) published between the early sixteenth and mid seventeenth centuries.
John Considine establishes a new and powerful model for the social and intellectual history of lexicography by examining dictionaries both as imaginative texts and as scholarly instruments. He tells the stories of national and individual heritage and identity that were created through the making of dictionaries in the early modern period. Far from dry, factual collections of words, dictionaries are creative works, shaping as well as recording early modern culture and intellectual history.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:37am CET by nazya
Theorizing Modernisms: Essays in Critical Theory
Routledge | 1993 | ISBN: 0415077540 | Pages: 200 | PDF | 1.11 MB
At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory the contributors to this volume provide a much needed corrective to the misleading images of modernism which have dominated recent debate.
Richard Sheppard’s account of European modernism focuses on the profound ideological crisis which beset Western culture between 1890 and 1930 and examines the ways in which artists and intellectuals responded to it; Bernard McGuirk analyses the ambivalent reactions of Apollinaire and Alberti to the machine age; David Wragg investigates the aesthetic and epistemological underpinnings of verbal and visual Vorticism in the work of Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson considers the potential for a (post)modernist political aesthetic in the Merz texts of Kurt Schwitters. And finally Steve Giles Afterword provides a much needed overview of the relationship between modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism and modernity. This volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of modernism and through the use of contemporary critical theory sheds new light on current controversies surrounding postmodernism. It will be essential reading for all those interested in critical theory, cultural studies and comparative literature.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:36am CET by nazya
Beowulf: The Critical Heritage
Routledge | 1998 | ISBN: 0415029708 | Pages: 594 | PDF | 2.34 MB
Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf - including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish - from the poem’s first mention in 1705 to the Anglophone scholarship of the early twentieth century.
Tom Shippey provides both a contextual introduction and a guide to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship which generated these Beowulf commentaries. The book is a vital document for the study of one of the major texts of ‘the Northern renaissance’, in which completely unknown poems and even languages were brought to the attention first of the learned world and then of popular culture. It also acts as a valuable guide to the development of nationalist and racist sentiment, beginning romantically and ending with World War and attempted genocide.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 9:34am CET by nazya
Philip Sidney: Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Series)
Routledge | 1996 | ISBN: 0415089344 | Pages: 365 | PDF | 1.22 MB
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.
Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer’s work, enabling students and researchers to read these sources direct.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:49am CET by nazya
Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics
Publisher: Cambridge University | Pages: 495 | 1998-06-28 | ISBN 0521395119 | DJVU | 17 MB
This book describes recent advances in the application of chaos theory to classical scattering and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics generally, and to transport by deterministic diffusion in particular. The author presents the basic tools of dynamical systems theory, such as dynamical instability, topological analysis, periodic-orbit methods, Liouvillian dynamics, dynamical randomness and large-deviation formalism.
These tools are applied to chaotic scattering and to transport in systems near equilibrium and maintained out of equilibrium. This book will be bought by researchers interested in chaos, dynamical systems, chaotic scattering, and statistical mechanics in theoretical, computational and mathematical physics and also in theoretical chemistry.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:48am CET by nazya
Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing
Publisher: Springer | Pages: 413 | 2009-02-19 | ISBN 1848822863 | PDF | 6 MB
Collaborative design has attracted much attention in the research community in recent years. With increasingly decentralized manufacturing systems and processes, more collaborative approaches and systems are needed to support distributed manufacturing operations.
“Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing” presents a focused collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art research efforts in the area of collaborative design and planning, as well as their practical applications towards digital manufacturing.
“Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing” provides both a broad-based review of the key areas of research in digital manufacturing, and an in-depth treatment of particular methodologies and systems, from collaborative design to distributed planning, monitoring and control. Recent development and innovations in this area provide a pool of focused research efforts, relevant to a wide readership from academic researchers to practicing engineers.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:46am CET by nazya
Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science: Metals and Alloys
Publisher: Springer | Pages: 827 | 2007-08 | ISBN 3540494715 | PDF | 30 MB
Radiation Materials Science teaches readers the fundamentals of the effects of radiation on metals and alloys. When energetic particles strike a solid, numerous processes occur that can change the physical and mechanical properties of the material. Metals and alloys represent an important class of materials that, by virtue of their use in nuclear reactor cores, are subject to intense radiation fields.
Radiation causes metals and alloys to swell, distort, blister, harden, soften and deform. This textbook and reference covers the basics of particle-atom interaction for a range of particle types, the amount and spatial extent of the resulting radiation damage, the physical effects of irradiation and the changes in mechanical behavior of irradiated metals and alloys. Concepts are developed systematically and quantitatively, supported by examples, references for further reading and problems at the end of each chapter. Beyond addressing students enrolling for a materials sciences or nuclear engineering degree, the book will benefit professionals in laboratories, reactor manufacturers and specialists working in the utility industry.
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Carbon: The Future Material for Advanced Technology Applications
Publisher: Springer | Pages: 529 | 2006-06-30 | ISBN 3540295313 | PDF | 18 MB
Carbon-based materials and their applications constitute a burgeoning topic of scientific research among scientists and engineers drawn to the field from diverse areas such as applied physics, materials science, biology, mechanics, electronics and engineering. Further development of existing materials, advances in their applications, and discovery of new forms of carbon are the themes addressed by the frontier research in these fields.
This book covers all the fundamental topics concerned with amorphous and crystalline C-based materials, such as diamond, diamond-like carbon, carbon alloys, and carbon nanotubes. The goal is, by coherently progressing from growth — and characterization techniques to technological applications for each class of material — to fashion the first comprehensive state-of-the-art review of this fast evolving field of research in carbon materials.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:43am CET by nazya
Global Terrorism 2nd Edition by James M. Lutz and Brenda Lutz
English | Routledge 2008 | ISBN: 041577246X | 361 Pages | PDF | 2.3 Mb
The unique combination of a genuinely historical focus and truly global coverage makes this
an ideal introductory textbook for anyone studying terrorism.
Global Terrorism 2 nd edition continues to provide students with the most comprehensive introduction to terrorism as a global phenomenon. It introduces students to history, politics, ideologies and strategies of both contemporary and older terrorist groups.
Written in a clear and accessible style, each chapter explains a different aspect of terrorism and illustrates this with a wide variety of detailed case studies from across the world. Although the focus is on the contemporary, the book also includes discussion of older terrorist groups. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this edition includes new material on: July 7 attacks in London Bali bombings Domestic terrorism in Columbia Attacks in Iraq Al Qaeda, the Tamil Tigers, the IRA Animal rights extremism The unique combination of a genuinely historical focus and truly global coverage makes this an ideal introductory textbook for anyone studying terrorism.
CONTENTS
Terrorism in the World Today and Yesterday
What Is Terrorism? Definition and Classification
Tactics,Weapons, and Targets
State Sponsors and Supporters of Terrorism
- Italy and Hungary in Yugoslavia
- Iran
- The United States and the Contras in Nicaragua
- The cold war between India and Pakistan
Religious Justification for Terrorism
Ethnic and National Bases of Terrorism
Terrorism and Ideologies of the Left
Terrorism and Ideologies of the Right
Terrorism and Multiple Motivations
State Use of Domestic Terrorism and Repression
Countries with Multiple Crises of Terrorism
Counterterrorism
Terrorism: A continuing phenomenon
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Jonathan W. Steed, Jerry L. Atwood, “Supramolecular Chemistry”
Wiley | 2009-03-03 | ISBN: 0470512334 | 990 pages | PDF | 20,8 MB
A comprehensive, modern overview of the field of supramolecular chemistry and its evolution into the nanoscale; the first integrated textbook written specifically for students
Second edition now contains five new chapters: ion pair receptors, molecular guests in solution, network solids, gels, and nanochemistry
Includes examples, worked problems and references
All techniques are introduced from the supramolecular chemist’s perspective.
Wiley supplementary website also available with Powerpoint slides for instructors ; Author maintains a website of relevant URLs and additional information
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
English | Heinemann Educational Publishers 1989 | ISBN: 0435123432 | 218 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Charlie Gordon, who desperately wants to be able to read and write, undergoes a brain operation which dramatically increases his intelligence. But can his emotional development keep pace with the intellectual?
Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon.
As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Following his doctor’s instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate “progris riports.” He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can’t even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:
I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: “Punctuation, is? fun!” But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry “friends” at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he’s as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was–and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate…
Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. –David Langford
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:37am CET by nazya
Joseph S., MD Coselli, Scott A., MD LeMaire, “Aortic Arch Surgery: Principles, Strategies and Outcomes”
Wiley-Blackwell | 2008-09-29 | ISBN: 1405133619 | 400 pages | PDF | 14,8 MB
Focusing exclusively on the surgical management of aortic arch disease in adults, this concise reference provides authoritative guidance on both standard and alternative approaches from internationally recognized experts.
Topics include:
general principles of aortic diseases
imaging techniques
intraoperative management
neurologic protection strategies
options for aortic repair
surgical treatment of specific problems
complications
Abundant illustrations demonstrate significant imaging study findings and depict key techniques and strategies.
With its detailed descriptions and thorough explanations of a wide variety of approaches to imaging, brain protection and monitoring, and aortic reconstruction, Aortic Arch Surgery: Principles, Strategies and Outcomes gives practicing and prospective thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons access to the full armamentarium of management options. Anesthesiologists, perfusionists, neurologists, radiologists, and others who have a special interest in treating patients with thoracic aortic disease will also find this book an invaluable source of dependable information.
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Ian D. Hay, John A. H. Wass, “Clinical Endocrine Oncology”
Wiley-Blackwell | 2008-05-19 | ISBN: 1405145846 | 664 pages | PDF | 9,5 MB
A truly comprehensive reference for the management of patients with endocrine cancer
The new edition of Clinical Endocrine Oncology has been fully revised and extended making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference available. Written and edited by leading international experts in the field, it sets the standard in multidisciplinary care for patients with endocrine tumors.
The book provides specific and detailed guidance on the basic, clinical, investigative and therapeutic processes required for the thorough evaluation of a patient with a tumor in an endocrine organ. The eighty-four chapters are arranged in seven parts:
• Endocrine Oncology and Therapeutic Options
• Thyroid and Parathyroid Tumors
• Pituitary and Hypothalamic Lesions
• Adrenal and Gonadal Tumors
• Neuroendocrine Tumors and the Clinical Syndromes
• Medical Syndromes and Endocrine Neoplasia
• Endocrine-responsive Tumors and Female Reproductive Hormone Therapy.
This authoritative and practical text will be an invaluable resource for all those working in the field, including endocrinologists, medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation therapists, interventional radiologists, specialist nurses, and clinical scientists.
John A.H. Wass is joined in this edition by a new editor, Ian D. Hay, Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology Research at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:34am CET by nazya
Silurian (Late Llandovery-Ludlow) Atrypid Brachiopods: From Gotland and the United Kingdom By Paul Copper
Publisher NRC Research Press | ISBN: 0660190117 | edition 2003 | PDF | 300 pages | 9,84 Mb
The morphology, evolution, and paleoecology of the highly successful Silurian atrypide spire-bearers are described in detail, including the documentation of several new species.
Numerous detailed illustrations and plates accompany the text.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:32am CET by nazya
Deirdre A. Kelly, “Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children”
Wiley-Blackwell | 2008-10-13 | ISBN: 1405163348 | 640 pages | PDF | 12,1 MB
“An excellent up-to-date comprehensive and practical text book dealing with all aspects of paediatric hepatobiliary disease. It will be useful to both generalists and specialists as it is clinically focused with a problem-solving approach and should be useful for day-to-day as well as more esoteric clinical problems. I found it useful in my general paediatric practice and my trainees have also found it useful.
It is very practical with a diagnostic approach and lots of tables and clinical pathways to follow when confronted with day-to-day clinical problems. I have road-tested it in real life with good effect.” - Judging Panel, 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition
Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children, Third Edition provides a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of paediatric liver diseases, highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary team working and holistic management of the child and family. This fully revised edition has also been updated to cover recent advances in paediatric hepatology. It includes new chapters describing the effects of liver disease in pregnancy on mother and child through to adolescence. With increasing numbers of young people surviving into adult life this edition addresses the importance of managing adolescent transition effectively.
Trainees, practising paediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologists will welcome the practical approach outlined in this text, while other healthcare professionals involved in the management of liver disease in children will find it an accessible and comprehensive reference.
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Posted: January 29th, 2009, 8:30am CET by nazya
Edward Davies: United States in World History (Themes in World History)
Routledge | 2006-07-26 | ISBN 0415275296 | PDF | Pages 174 | 1.17 MB
In this short, accessible introductory survey of the history of the United States from 1790 to the present day, Edward J. Davies examines key themes in the evolution of America from colonial rule to international supremacy. Focusing particularly on those currents within U.S. history that have influenced the rest of the world, Davies examines key themes including industralisation, the rise of international corporations, civil rights and popular culture.
Offering a new way of examining the United States, this book reveals how concepts that originated in American’s definition of itself as a nation - concepts such as capitalism, republicanism and race - have had supranational impact across the world.
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Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage: vol.1 1811-1870
Routledge | 1996 | ISBN: 0415134560 | Pages: 286 | PDF | 1.23 MB
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer’s work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare’s plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen’s novels.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author’s reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer’s published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
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T.S. Eliot vol.1 (Critical Heritage Series)
Routledge | 1997 | ISBN: 0415159474 | Pages: 412 | PDF | 1.48 MB
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These carefully selected sources include:
* contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. In these students can read about how Lady Chatterly’s Lover shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen’s Doll’s House meant to the early women’s movement.
* little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers and critics
* significant pieces of criticism from later periods to demonstrate how an author’s reputation changed over time.
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Marcel Proust (Critical Heritage Series)
Routledge | 1997 | ISBN: 041515913X | Pages: 440 | PDF | 1.93 MB
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature.
These carefully selected sources include:
* contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. In these students can read about how Lady’s Chatterly’s Lover shocked contemporary reviewers or what Ibsen’s Doll’s House meant to the early women’s movement.
* little-published documentary material such as diaries and correspondence - often between authors and their publishers and critics
* significant pieces of criticism from later periods to demonstrate how an author’s reputation changed over time.
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