I Can’t Walk but I Can Crawl: A Long Life with Cerebral Palsy (Lucky Duck Books)
Paul Chapman Educational Publishing | 2005-10-18 | ISBN: 1412918723 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB

`As well as being of interest to educators, Joan Ross’s autobiography would be would be worth including as a text for pupils following citizenship curriculum in secondary schools’ - SENCO Update

Joan is an adult with cerebral palsy who grew up when compulsory education was not in place for all children.

Her memories of her childhood before inclusion, her development as a teenager and her adult life are chronicled without sentiment and this book offers the reader an autobiography of someone who lives with a significant disability.

The book is supported by SCOPE who have provided an introduction and informative commentary about cerebral palsy.

The book is of general interest and offers information and inspiration to Scope members and those whose lives are touched by CP.

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Unbelievably Good Deals and Great Adventures that You Absolutely Can’t Get Unless You’re Over 50, 2009-201
McGraw-Hill | 2008-12-11 | ISBN: 0071598847 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The over-50 set’s bible for bargains, from golf to globetrotting

Inside this proven bestseller you will find even more information about trips, discounts, clubs, programs, and special perks–only good if you are over 50! Unbelievably Good Deals and Great Adventures That You Absolutely Can’t Get Unless You’re Over 50 includes amazing bargains on airfares, hotels, car rentals, public transportation, vacations designed for you and your grandkids, tennis camps, golf vacations, ski clubs, bike trips, and free–or almost free–college educations.

“One of the most-thumbed volumes on my desk. A fantastic piece of research.”
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DK Guide to the Savage Earth by Trevor Day
Publisher: DK CHILDREN (October 1, 2001) | 64 pages | ISBN: 0789479192; 075661791X | PDF | 17.7 MB
This book provides a remarkable account of our planet’s structure and the literally Earth-shattering process that shape it — often with savage consequences for human being and other living things.

Lavishly and spectacularly illustrated, with many unusual views of the Earth and its features, DK Guide to Savage Earth offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the making and shaping of planet Earth. No stone is left unturned as the Earth’s physical processes are clearly explained, from the churning currents of molten rock inside the Earth that smash continents together and pull oceans apart to the relentless action of turbulent volcanoes, rivers of ice, and seismic shudders. Large-format photographs from the world’s very best photographers, together with specially created digital images, create a breathtaking portrait of the power of our planet.
Front cover: Costa Rica’s Arenal volcano erupts at night. At 5,356 ft high, and constantly active since 1968, Arenal maintains the almost perfect conical shape that makes it the typical volcano.

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Sanford Friedenthal, Alan Moore, Rick Steiner, “A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language”
Morgan Kaufmann | 2008 | ISBN: 0123743796 | 576 pages | PDF | 21,7 MB
Systems engineers and architects must understand how all the parts of a system work together to satisfy its requirements. SysML is a general purpose graphical modeling language used to specify, analyze, and design systems that may include hardware, software, and personnel. It allows engineers to describe how a system interacts with its environment, and how its parts must interact to achieve the desired system behavior and performance.

The SysML model provides a shared view of the system, enabling a design team to surface issues early and prevent problems that would otherwise delay development and degrade design quality. Since SysML is based on UML, it also facilitates integration between systems and software development. SysML is now being adopted by companies across a broad range of industry, including Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, and IT System Developers.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for modeling systems with SysML. It includes a full description of the language along with a quick reference guide, and shows how the language can be applied to specify, analyze, and design systems. It contains examples to help readers understand how SysML can be used in practice. The book also includes guidance on how an organization or project can transition to model based systems engineering using SysML, with considerations for processes, methods, tools, and training.

*The authoritative guide for understanding and applying SysML
*Authored by the foremost experts on the language
*Language description, examples, and quick reference guide included
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English Verb Drills by Ed Swick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 9, 2009) | 208 pages | ISBN: 0071608702 | PDF | 1.7 MB

Your shortest route to mastering verb conjugations
One of the greatest challenges in learning a language is mastering verb conjugations. English Verb Drills makes it easier than ever for you to meet that challenge. It allows you to focus exclusively on building your mastery of verbs without being distracted by other elements of grammar. Combining the features of a workbook and reference manual, this book clearly and systematically explains how the verb system works while providing more than 150 drills for practice.

Using this unique title, you will build the confidence you need to use verbs correctly and to be comfortable expressing yourself in speech and writing.

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Brian Matsumoto, “Cell Biological Applications of Confocal Microscopy, 2 Ed”
Academic Press | 2002 | ISBN: 0125804458 | 507 pages | PDF | 12,5 MB
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“…the desired aim of providing the confocal user with a technical basis for preparing superior microscpic samples is achieved.”
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“The series is invaluable for workers at all levels of cell biology.”
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David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern, «Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer»
Publisher: Manning Publications (2003) | ISBN: 1930110960 | PDF | 5.36 Mb | 380 Pages

This book is a fast-paced but thorough guide to the effective use of Eclipse’s features and plugins for real-world Java development. Interesting examples demonstrate how to use Eclipse to build, test, and debug applications using the tools provided by Eclipse as well as third-party plugins.

Learn how to use Eclipse tools in a team environment, including Ant for moresophisticated build processes and CVS for source control. The Second Edition is completely updated for Eclipse 3.1 and adds coverage of three new major Eclipse features:
- The Visual Editor for developing graphical user applications (GUIs) using Swing/AWT and SWT
- The Web Tools Project for developing web applications with JSPs, Servlets, EJBs and Web Services
- The Eclipse Rich Client Platform for building robust, commercial-quality rich client applications like Google’s gmail

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Sue Spielman, “JSTL: Practical Guide for JSP Programmers”
Morgan Kaufmann | 2003 | ISBN: 0126567557 | 229 pages | PDF | 6,9 MB
Web developers and page authors who use JavaServer Pages (JSP) know that it is much easier and efficient to implement web pages without reinventing the wheel each time. In order to shave valuable time from their development schedules, those who work with JSP have created, debugged, and used custom tagsa set of programmable actions that provide dynamic behavior to static pagespaving the way towards a more common, standard approach to using Java technology for web development.

The biggest boost to this effort however has only recently arrived in the form of a standard set of tag libraries, known as the JSTL, which now provides a wide range of functionality and gives web page authors a much more simplified approach to implementing dynamic, Java-based web sites.
JSTL: Practical Guide for JSP Programmers is a timely resource for anyone interested in doing large-scale J2EE application development. It sticks to the main features of the JSTL so that developers don’t have to sift through unnecessary details to begin using the tags and working with the expression language. Sue Spielman’s straight-forward, practical approach is enhanced with numerous code samples and insightful descriptions to make learning the JSTL a quickly and easily accomplished task.
* Written by a best-selling author with a wealth of development experience and recognition in the Java community.
* Covers the core elements of the JSTL including the four standard tag libraries (core, internationalization/format, XML, and SQL) and expression language.
* Includes a reference section for all of the tabs and attributes contained in the JSTL.
* Via a companion web site, provides downloadable code for the code samples in the book.
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Patrick Peak, Nick Heudecker, “Hibernate Quickly”
Publisher: Manning Publications (2005) | ISBN: 1932394419 | PDF | 9.81 Mb | 220 Pages

Hibernate Quickly is a companion volume to Manning’s Hibernate in Action which is a focused and comprehensive book on the subject written by the project founders. The current book aims to give readers the 20% of information they need 80% of the time. It uses the pages saved to orient the reader within the Hibernate “ecosystem”: the peripheral technologies and techniques typically used with Hibernate.

This is the book readers are likely to turn to if they want to get up and running quickly. Examples are developed incrementally to demonstrate Hibernate concepts and to show how Hibernate works with the other common development tools and frameworks such as XDoclet, Struts, WebWork, Spring, and Tapestry. Covers the newest version, Hibernate 3.

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К.Косминков, Д.Гринюк - Самолеты сталинских соколов
Аэромузей | 2004 | Russian | 40 pages | PDF | 11.97 Mb

В этой небольшой книге - как бы справочнике в миниатюре, кратко изложена и сопровождена красочными иллюстрациями история создания и развития лучших отечественных самолетов периода 1917—1945 гг. По существу охвачена почти вся эпоха развития советских самолетов с поршневыми двигателями.

Конечно, среди поистине огромного числа самолетов, созданных советскими конструкторами в тот период, трудно выделить бесспорно лучшие. Тем не менее, каждый из представленных самолетов сыграл значительную роль в развитии советской авиации, даже если он и не выпускался массовой серией.
В книге не столько дается описание того или иного самолета, сколько рассказывается о том, в каких условиях и для чего он создавался, что удалось и не удалось достичь и почему. Изложение основано на документальных данных, а почти все цветные изображения относятся к реально существовавшим машинам. Летно-технические характеристики самолетов периода Великой Отечественной войны, приводимые в таблицах, соответствуют серийным образцам, непосредственно поставлявшимся на фронт, а не первым опытным экземплярам. Поэтому возможны некоторые расхождения с известными литературными источниками.
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Ted Husted, et al, «Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework»
Publisher: Manning Publications (2002) | ISBN: 1930110502 | PDF | 4.82 Mb | 664 Pages

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“It doesn’t just talk about how to configure and develop with Struts. It’s a web application manifesto.” — Slashdot.org
“The author’s approach to making the reader a Struts expert is effective . . . Go from Struts beginner to Struts expert.” — JavaRanch.com

“The clarity of Struts in Action is even more appealing when compared to The Struts Framework and Mastering Jakarta Struts.” — Dr. Dobb’s Journal

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Struts solves the most common problems of web development. By basing your application on the Struts web application framework, you can reuse proven solutions and focus on what’s unique to your own case. Struts is an open-source product distributed by the Apache Software Foundation.
Is a comprehensive introduction to the Struts framework. It covers initial design, data validation, database access, dynamic page assembly, localization, product configuration, and other important areas. It shows you how to use both JSP tags and Velocity templates. It carefully explains the Struts architecture and control flow, as well as how to extend framework classes.
Differences between Struts 1.1 and Struts 1.0. are pointed out and a case-study illustrates the 1.0 to 1.1 transition. The book shows you dozens of proven design techniques, patterns, and strategies, many of them not found elsewhere. By providing you with practical examples of realistic uses of Struts this book helps you learn through action.

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Andrew Kakabadse, Nada Kakabadse, Linda Lee-Davies “Leading for Success: The Seven Sides to Great Leaders”
Palgrave Macmillan | English | 2008-11-25 | ISBN: 0230537154 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Classic leadership theory is presented here in a fresh and fashionable framework in this new and practical book for managers.

Written in entertaining style, securely underpinned with the most credible and extensive research, this book contains top level case studies and frank opinion from prominent business and political leaders throughout.
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Encyclopadia Britannica Book of the Year 2009
2009 ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA | ISBN: 9781593392321 ; 00681156 | 882 Pages | PDF | 53.8 MB

The year 2008 was one of momentous change and wild uncertainty. Though many concerns were raised about China’s prospects for mounting the Olympic Games, Beijing triumphed in spectacular form and staged many of the sporting events in uniquely designed venues. Later in the year, the global economic collapse sent the financial markets plunging and investors scrambling and forced consumers to tighten their belts.

Worldwide, populations that were already struggling to meet basic needs were further hampered by soaring food prices. Meanwhile, freegans, individuals dedicated to finding alternatives to a consumerist economy, munched on discarded vegetarian foodstuffs. A fractious U.S. presidential campaign resulted in the election of Democrat Barack Obama, who made history as the first African American to win that office…
The wrap-up of 2008 awaits your perusal and promises to provide a historical look at one of the most memorable years in history…

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Robert Fairman, Boris Ushkov, “Semiconducting Chalcogenide Glass: Glass Formation Structure and Simulated Transformations in Chalcogenide Glasses Pt. i ”
Academic Press Inc | 2004 | ISBN: 0127521879 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Chalcogenide glass is made up of many elements from the Chalcogenide group. The glass is transparent to infrared light and is useful as a semiconductor in many electronic devices. For example, chalcogenide glass fibers are a component of devices used to perform laser surgery. This book is a comprehensive survey of the current state of science and technology in the field of chalcogenide semiconductor glasses.

While the majority of the book deals with properties of chalcogenide glass, chapters also deal with industrial applications, synthesis and purification of chalcogenide glass, and glass structural modification.
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Симонов А.Г., Иофис Е.А. - Фотографирование при искусственном освещении
Искусство | 1959 | no ISBN | 56 страниц | PDF | 1.49 Мб

Книга была выпущена в 1959 году. Но, как ни странно, до сих пор весьма актуальна. Теория света при съемке портрета, натюрморта, предметной съемки галогеновыми и импульсными источниками.

Очень доступно изложенный материал, актуальные и до сих пор используемые в практике схемы освещения. Объем 56 страниц с черно-белыми иллюстрациями.
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Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion
Oxford University Press | 1995 | ISBN: 0195098919 | Pages: 336 | PDF | 25.39 MB

Religion is universal human culture. No phenomenon is more widely shared or more intensely studied, yet there is no agreement on what religion is. Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion in a bold and persuasive new theory.

Guthrie says religion can best be understood as systematic anthropomorphism–that is, the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things and events. Many writers see anthropomorphism as common or even universal in religion, but few think it is central. To Guthrie, however, it is fundamental. Religion, he writes, consists of seeing the world as humanlike.

As Guthrie shows, people find a wide range of humanlike beings plausible: Gods, spirits, abominable snowmen, HAL the computer, Chiquita Banana. We find messages in random events such as earthquakes, weather, and traffic accidents. We say a fire “rages,” a storm “wreaks vengeance,” and waters “lie still.” Guthrie says that our tendency to find human characteristics in the nonhuman world stems from a deep-seated perceptual strategy: in the face of pervasive (if mostly unconscious) uncertainty about what we see, we bet on the most meaningful interpretation we can. If we are in the woods and see a dark shape that might be a bear or a boulder, for example, it is good policy to think it is a bear. If we are mistaken, we lose little, and if we are right, we gain much. So, Guthrie writes, in scanning the world we always look for what most concerns us–livings things, and especially, human ones. Even animals watch for human attributes, as when birds avoid scarecrows. In short, we all follow the principle–better safe than sorry.

Marshalling a wealth of evidence from anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art, and animal behavior, Guthrie offers a fascinating array of examples to show how this perceptual strategy pervades secular life and how it characterizes religious experience. Challenging the very foundations of religion, Faces in the Clouds forces us to take a new look at this fundamental element of human life.

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The Private Equity Edge: How Private Equity Players and the World’s Top Companies Build Value and Wealth by Arthur Laffer, William Hass, IV,Shepherd G. Pryor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | Number Of Pages: 448 | Publication Date: 2009-02-19 | ISBN-10: 0071590781 | PDF | 2 Mb

The world is changing and has never been more challenging to private equity players, public companies, and investors. With record market volatility and a global economic crisis, decision makers of all types can learn from successful private equity players and other top value builders.
Private equity is growing at a rapid rate, with $2.7 trillion in transactions since 2001 and buyouts occurring in every type of market, including declining ones.

And now, with the end of investment banks as we know them, the door is open to more opportunities than ever.

In The Private Equity Edge, economics giant Arthur B. Laffer, along with value-building experts William J. Hass and Shepherd G. Pryor IV, combines the concepts of intrinsic value, macroeconomics, and incentives into a single strategy used by today’s top value builders. You’ll learn how to create value while reducing risk by:

* Thoroughly exploring relevant data to quantify ranges of value and risk
* Anticipating reactions of those whom you seek to influence
* Exploring possibilities and options before making major decisions
* Employing incentive systems that work in both up and down markets

Examples of major private equity players at Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Cerberus, and Madison Dearborne Partners illustrate what to do and what to avoid in specific situations.

Decision makers seeking to take full advantage of the new, interconnected world of business and economics will learn how to make the best decision the first time around, quickly and with conviction—the key to seizing the private equity edge.

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JoAnn Scurlock - Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia
Brill Academic Pub | 2006 | ISBN: 9004123970 | Pages: 800 | PDF | 3.18 MB
This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine.

Additionally, it transliterates and translates 352 prescriptions designed to cure psychological and physical ailments thought to be caused by ghosts.

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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (Inside Technology) by Shobita Parthasarathy
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262162423 | April 1, 2007 | Pages: 296 | PDF | 2.82 MB

In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as BRCA testing) in the United States and Britain, Parthasarathy develops a comparative analysis framework in order to investigate how national “toolkits” shape both regulations and the architectures of technologies and uses this framework to assess the implications of new genetic technologies.

BRCA testing was one of the most highly anticipated and publicized technologies of contemporary medicine. Parthasarathy argues that differences in the American and British approaches to health care and commercialization of research led to the establishment of different BRCA services in the two countries. In Britain, the technology was available through the National Health Service as an integrated program of counseling and laboratory analysis, and was viewed as a potentially cost-effective form of preventive care. In the United States, although BRCA testing was initially offered by a number of providers, one company eventually became the sole provider of a test available to consumers on demand.

Parthasarathy also reports on an unsuccessful attempt by the American provider of BRCA testing to market its services in Britain. British scientists, health-care providers, and patients rejected the American technology, she argues, because it was part of a social, economic, and political system to which they were not accustomed. Parthasarathy draws lessons for the future of genetic medicine from these cross-national differences, and discusses the ways in which comparative case studies can inform policy-making efforts in science and technology.
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Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Wrox (2005) | ISBN: 0764579665 | 819 pages | PDF | 5.08 Mb
By Elizabeth Naramore Jason Gerner Yann Le Scouarnec Jeremy Stolz Michael K. Glass This update to a Wrox bestseller dives in and guides the reader through the entire process of creating dynamic data-driven sites using the open source “AMP” model: Apache Web server the MySQL database system and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors covers PHP scripting database management security integration and e-commerce functions and comes complete with a useful syntax reference.

Showcases three fully functional Web site examples with implementations for both Windows and Linux that readers can incorporate into their own projects * Updates include a new chapter on PHP5 features and functions a new example Web site application and updates to PHP5 throughout the text .
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John W. Bowker - The Sacred Neuron: The Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion
I. B. Tauris | 2005 | ISBN: 1850434816 | Pages: 150 | PDF | 10.17 MB
A new way of understanding our emotionsand faith. Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Or, that some things are beautiful, and other things ugly, some good, and others evil?

In the past these questions have been answered by separating our emotional from our rational responses, but recent work in the neurosciences suggests that the questions now deserve very different answers. In his new book, John Bowker shows that reason and emotion work much more closely together in forming human opinions and judgments than has previously been supposed. This discovery has stunning implications for religion and for the human sense of God.

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Nathan Wallace - Learn OLE DB Development With Visual C++ 6.0
Wordware Publishing | 2003 | ISBN: 1556226349 | Pages: 600 | PDF | 4.31 MB
Learn OLE DB Development with Visual C++ 6.0 presents the basics of the Component Object Model and OLE DB, and assists Visual C++ programmers in creating OLE DB providers and consumers. OLE DB is the ODBC-compliant standard from Microsoft that lets non-record-based data interact with its users via recordset semantics and powerful data controls like ADO and RDO.

This book gives you all the basics needed to create your own OLE DB consumers and providers in Visual C++, using the ActiveX Template Library and the Microsoft Foundation Classes. Putting OLE DB components on the Internet is also covered.

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The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War : 1650-1850 By Peter Goodwin
Publisher: Naval Institute Press 2001 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0870210165 | DJVU | 31 MB

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Tim Miller - 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels
University of Wisconsin Press | 2006 | ISBN: 029921690X | Pages: 312 | PDF | 1.54 MB
For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using his personal experiences to create entertaining but pointed explorations of life as a gay American man—from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement and artistic censorship.

This intimate autobiographical collage of Miller’s professional and personal life reveals one of the celebrated creators of a crucial contemporary art form and a tireless advocate for the American dream of political equality for all citizens.
Here we have the most complete Miller yet—a raucous collection of his performance scripts, essays, interviews, journal entries, and photographs, as well as his most recent stage piece Us. This volume brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through his work from its beginnings and ultimately define Miller’s place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man.

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First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 1, Second Edition (First Aid USMLE) by Tao Le, Seth Bechis
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical | Number Of Pages: 676 | Publication Date: 2009-01-23 | ISBN-10: 0071597948 | PDF | 5 Mb

The essential Q&A companion book to First Aid for the® USMLE Step 1
First Aid™ Q&A for the USMLE Step 1 features 1,000 board-style questions and answers, along with explanations for both correct and incorrect answers.

The content is keyed to First Aid for the® USMLE Step 1, allowing you to study high-yield facts and Q&As simultaneously. All questions have been reviewed by students who just aced the exam.

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Federal Facilities Council Technical Report No. 143, “Capital Asset Management: Tools and Strategies for Decision Making”
Publisher: National Academies Press | 2001 | 47 Pages | ISBN: 0309073413 | PDF | 1.1 MB

Federally owned capital assets include some 500,000 buildings and similar facilities worldwide acquired during 200 years of government operations. Government facilities are used to defend the national interest; conduct foreign policy; house historic, cultural and educational artifacts; pursue research; and provide services to the American public. These buildings and structures project an image of American government at home and abroad, contribute to the architectural and socioeconomic fabric of their communities, and support the organizational and individual performance of federal employees conducting the business of government (NRC, 1998).

Federal facilities embody significant investments and resources and therefore constitute a portfolio of public assets. At least 30 separate agencies manage these facilities. As stewards of this public investment, federal facilities program managers face a number of challenges (NRC, 1998):

*extending the useful life of aging facilities
*altering or retrofitting facilities to consolidate space or accommodate new functions and technologies
*meeting evolving facility-related standards for safety, environmental quality, and accessibility
*maintaining or disposing of excess facilities created through military base closures and realignments, downsizing, or changing demographics
*finding innovative ways and technologies to maximize limited resources

In the 1990s Congress and the Executive Branch took a number of initiatives to improve capital asset decision making in the federal government. These include enacting the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and a series of federal financial accounting standards; developing the Capital Programming Guide (1997); and appointing the President’s Commission to Study Capital Budgeting (1997). Senior and mid-level agency officials are now seeking ways to implement these initiatives efficiently and effectively.

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Stephen Brown - Wizard!: Harry Potter’s Brand Magic
Cyan Communications | 2005 | ISBN: 1904879306 | Pages: 192 | PDF | 1.39 MB
Harry Potter may not be the biggest brand in the world, or the most venerable, but his story is one of the most dramatic. This book tells the story of the Harry Potter brand and how it has taken the entertainment world by storm.

Joanne K Rowling and her fabulous money-spinning creation is a contemporary fairytale, a 21st century version of the classic cornucopian chronicle. An impoverished single parent pens an accidental bestseller, which grows exponentially. The book begets more books, which beget movies and merchandise and huge media coverage.

Today, Harry Potter is as much a brand as Tom Cruise, Starbucks or even Heinz. In a world where corporate storytelling is the new rock ’n’ roll, it is no longer enough to tell a single story coherently – important and necessary though that is. It must be a majestic brand story, a magnificent brand story, a magical brand story.

The Harry Potter “franchise” is a fascinating story in itself, but it is a story that is woven into all the other Harry Potter stories - stories about the author, stories about the readers, stories about the nay-sayers and sceptics. This book unpicks the various narrative strands that make up the Harry Potter story, and provides a fascinating insight into how Harry Potter became one of the world’s most recognised brands in an extraordinarly short period of time.

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Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics
National Academies Press | 2003 | ISBN: 030908637X | Pages: 176 | PDF | 4.89 MB

Recent scientific and technical advances have made it possible to create matter in the laboratory under conditions relevant to astrophysical systems such as supernovae and black holes. These advances will also benefit inertial confinement fusion research and research on nuclear weapons. This report describes the major research facilities on which such high energy density conditions can be achieved and lists a number of key scientific questions about high energy density physics that can be addressed by this research.

Several recommendations are presented that would facilitate the development of a comprehensive strategy for realizing these research opportunities.

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Lee Strobel - The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
Zondervan | 2004 | ISBN: 0310241448 | Pages: 352 | PDF | 1.44 MB
Are Christianity and science incompatible? If there is a God, is he only an impersonal starter force? An introductory high school biology class first propelled Lee Strobel toward a life of atheism. God and science, he reasoned, were mutually exclusive. When the former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune converted to Christianity, he decided to investigate the science he had once accepted as truth.

Did science point toward or away from God? As Strobel interviews a variety of scientists on everything from debunking evolutionary icons to the implications of the Big Bang to the existence of the human soul, he builds his case: scientific evidence points toward Intelligent Design.

Although the discussion often veers into the academic, Strobel works hard to make it accessible to those without scientific training. Throughout the book, he salts interview transcript information with interesting personal stories of his own spiritual and scientific quest for knowledge, as well as sometimes over-detailed descriptions of the actual interviews (right down to the type of beverages consumed). Each chapter contains suggestions for further reading on particular issues of science and faith.

Strobel concludes that, when correctly interpreted, science and biblical teaching support each other. He quotes physicist Paul Davies, “…science offers a surer path to God than religion.” Open-minded readers will find that this book, and its questions for reflection and group study, invites conversation and investigation.–Cindy Crosby

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