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Product Description Concise but complete, this mini-encyclopedia contains over 1,500 entries covering all important concepts, compounds, techniques and acronyms for quick and easy reference. Guiding readers through the ever-increasing jungle of nucleic acid science and technology, the book distills the key information out of the large body of primary literature and presents it in a single volume. A first-stop resource for everyone, from students to established researchers, as both a desktop and library reference. From the Back Cover Concise but complete, this mini-encyclopedia contains over 1,500 entries covering all important concepts, compounds, techniques and acronyms for quick and easy reference. Guiding readers through the ever-increasing jungle of nucleic acid science and technology, the book distills the key information out of the large body of primary literature and presents it in a single volume. A first-stop resource for everyone, from students to established researchers, as both a desktop and library reference. See all Editorial Reviews Product Details * Hardcover: 350 pages * Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 1 edition (June 23, 2008) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 3527312110 * ISBN-13: 978-3527312115 Read more...

Product Description The Encyclopedia of American Journalism explores the distinctions found in print media, radio, television, and the internet. This work seeks to document the role of these different forms of journalism in the formation of America's understanding and reaction to political campaigns, war, peace, protest, slavery, consumer rights, civil rights, immigration, unionism, feminism, environmentalism, globalization, and more. This work also explores the intersections between journalism and other phenomena in American Society, such as law, crime, business, comsumption, etc. The evolution of journalism's ethical standards is discussed, as well as the important libel and defamation trials that have influenced journalistic practice, its legal protection, and legal responsibilities. Topics covered include: Associations and Organizations; Historical Overview and Practice; Individuals; Journalism in American History; Laws, Acts, and Legislation; Print, Broadcast, Newsgroups, and Corporations; Technologies. Product Details * Hardcover: 664 pages * Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 12, 2007) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0415969506 * ISBN-13: 978-0415969505 Read more...

Book Description Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem and Metal Magic The Classic Guide to Crystal, Gem, and Metal Magic Practice an ancient magic that is both natural and powerful-the elemental Earth magic of rock, stone, and metal. This comprehensive and clear guidebook by Scott Cunningham has introduced over 200,000 readers to the secrets of over 100 gems and metals. Learn how to find and cleanse stones and use them in divinations, spells, and tarot readings. Discover how to determine the energies and stories contained within each stone, and the symbolic meanings of a stone's color and shape. Also included in this classic guide are: • A 16-page full-color insert, new with this edition • Birthstone and jewelry magic lore • Tables listing both planetary and elementary rulers of stones, magical intentions, and magical substitutions About the Author Scott Cunningham practiced magic actively for over twenty years. He was the author of more than fifty books covering both fiction and non-fiction subject matter; sixteen of his titles are published by Llewellyn Publications. Scott's books reflect a broad range of interests within the New Age sphere, where he was very highly regarded. He passed from this life on March 28, 1993, after a long illness. Product Details * Paperback: 288 pages * Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st ed edition (September 1, 2002) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0875421261 * ISBN-13: 978-0875421261 Read more...

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Book Description This is a complete electronics course in 128 pages! Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, takes you on a tour of analog and digital components, explains how they work, and shows you how they are combines for various applications. Includes circuit assembly tips and 100 electronic circuits and projects you can build and test. About the Author Forrest M. Mims, III, has written dozens of books, hundreds of articles, invented scientific devices, and travelled to the Amazon for NASA. He loves to share his knowledge with eager students! Read more...

Product Description * From the garage to the living room, Geek House provides hackers with 10 PC-based hardware hacking projects that are not for the faint of heart! * Taking the DIY mentality to a whole new level, this book teaches techies how to hack, customize, and modify everything-from their sprinkler systems to the temperature of their barbecues * Adventurous readers will feast on such projects as installing a bar code inventory system for DVDs or CDs, converting RS232 to wireless, scheduling recording from any television in the house, and creating a remote control finder * Companion Web site includes the custom software and source code needed to power these geeky creations Download Description "* From the garage to the living room, Geek House provides hackers with 10 PC-based hardware hacking projects that are not for the faint of heart! * Taking the DIY mentality to a whole new level, this book teaches techies how to hack, customize, and modify everything-from their sprinkler systems to the temperature of their barbecues * Adventurous readers will feast on such projects as installing a bar code inventory system for DVDs or CDs, converting RS232 to wireless, scheduling recording from any television in the house, and creating a remote control finder * Companion Web site includes the custom software and source code needed to power these geeky creations" See all Editorial Reviews Product Details * Paperback: 304 pages * P Read more...

Product Description With the dramatic increases in on-chip packing densities, routing congestion has become a major problem in chip design. The problem is especially acute as interconnects are also the performance bottleneck in integrated circuits. The solution lies in judicious resource management. This involves intelligent allocation of the available interconnect resources, up-front planning of the wire routes for even wire distributions, and transformations that make the physical synthesis flow congestion-aware. Routing Congestion in VLSI Circuits: Estimation and Optimization provides the reader with a complete understanding of the root causes of routing congestion in present-day and future VLSI circuits, available techniques for estimating and optimizing this congestion, and a critical analysis of the accuracy and effectiveness of these techniques, so that the reader may prudently choose an approach that is appropriate to their design goals. The scope of the work includes metrics and optimization techniques for routing congestion at various stages of the VLSI design flow, including the architectural level, the logic synthesis/technology mapping level, the placement phase, and the routing step. A particular focus of this work is on the congestion issues that deal primarily with standard cell based design. Routing Congestion in VLSI Circuits: Estimation and Optimization is a valuable reference for CAD developers and researchers, design methodology engineers, VLSI Read more...

Product Description Traditional analysis of dynamical systems has restricted its attention to smooth problems, but it has become increasingly clear that there are distinctive phenomena unique to discontinuous systems that can be analyzed mathematically but which fall outside the usual methodology for smooth dynamical systems. The primary purpose of this book is to present a coherent framework for understanding the dynamics of piecewise-smooth and hybrid systems. An informal introduction asserts the ubiquity of such models with examples drawn from mechanics, electronics, control theory and physiology. The main thrust is to classify complex behavior via bifurcation theory in a systematic yet applicable way. The key concept is that of a discontinuity-induced bifurcation, which generalizes diverse phenomena such as grazing, border-collision, sliding, chattering and the period-adding route to chaos. The results are presented in an informal style and illustrated with copious examples, both theoretical and experimental. Aimed at a wide audience of applied mathematicians, engineers and scientists at the early postgraduate level, the book assumes only the standard background of basic calculus and linear algebra for most of the presentation and will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers. The inclusion of a comprehensive bibliography and many open questions will also serve as a stimulus for future research. Product Details * Hardcover: 483 pages Read more...

Product Description A Fully Integrated Study System for OCA Exam 1Z0-052 Prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Oracle Database 11g Administration I exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCA objectives for exam 1Z0-052, including: * Database architecture * Creating an Oracle Database * Managing the Oracle instance * Configuring and managing the Oracle network * Managing database storage structures * Administering user security * Managing schema objects, data and concurrency, and undo data * Implementing Oracle Database security * Database maintenance and performance management * Backup and recovery * Moving data * Intelligent infrastructure enhancements On the CD-ROM: * One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCA exam * Detailed answers and explanations * Score report performance assessment tool * Complete electronic book * Bonus exam available free with online registration About the Author John Watson, OCP, is a senior consultant with BLP Management Consultants, and taught for Oracle University in South Africa for four years. He is the coauthor of the bests Read more...

Product Description A Fully Integrated Study System for OCA Exam 1Z0-051 Prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCA objectives for exam 1Z0-051, including: * SQL SELECT statements * Restricting and sorting data * Single-row functions * Conversion functions and conditional expressions * Group functions * Displaying data from multiple tables * Subqueries * Set operators * DML and DDL statements * Schema objects On the CD-ROM: * One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCA exam * Detailed answers and explanations * Score report performance assessment tool * Complete electronic book * Bonus exam available free with online registration About the Author John Watson, OCP, is a senior consultant with BLP management Consultants and taught for Oracle University in South Africa for four years. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g OCP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide. Roopesh Ramklass, OCP, is a technical specialist with 10 years of experience in a wide variety of IT environments. Product Det Read more...

The updated new edition of the classic Introduction to Algorithms is intended primarily for use in undergraduate or graduate courses in algorithms or data structures. Like the first edition, this text can also be used for self-study by technical professionals since it discusses engineering issues in algorithm design as well as the mathematical aspects. In its new edition, Introduction to Algorithms continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of algorithms. The revision has been updated to reflect changes in the years since the book's original publication. New chapters on the role of algorithms in computing and on probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms have been included. Sections throughout the book have been rewritten for increased clarity, and material has been added wherever a fuller explanation has seemed useful or new information warrants expanded coverage. As in the classic first edition, this new edition of Introduction to Algorithms presents a rich variety of algorithms and covers them in considerable depth while making their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Further, the algorithms are presented in pseudocode to make the book easily accessible to students from all programming language backgrounds. Each chapter presents an algorithm, a design technique, an application area, or a related topic. The chapters are not dependent on one another, so the instructor can organize his or her use of the book i Read more...

Product Description: Since it was first published in 1995, Photonic Crystals has remained the definitive text for both undergraduates and researchers on photonic band-gap materials and their use in controlling the propagation of light. This newly expanded and revised edition covers the latest developments in the field, providing the most up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive book available on these novel materials and their applications. Starting from Maxwell's equations and Fourier analysis, the authors develop the theoretical tools of photonics using principles of linear algebra and symmetry, emphasizing analogies with traditional solid-state physics and quantum theory. They then investigate the unique phenomena that take place within photonic crystals at defect sites and surfaces, from one to three dimensions. This new edition includes entirely new chapters describing important hybrid structures that use band gaps or periodicity only in some directions: periodic waveguides, photonic-crystal slabs, and photonic-crystal fibers. The authors demonstrate how the capabilities of photonic crystals to localize light can be put to work in devices such as filters and splitters. A new appendix provides an overview of computational methods for electromagnetism. Existing chapters have been considerably updated and expanded to include many new three-dimensional photonic crystals, an extensive tutorial on device design using temporal coupled-mode theory, discussions of diffra Read more...

Product Description Create powerful, innovative reporting solutions with Excel 2007! With this new book, which is significantly updated from the bestselling Excel 2003 version, author Timothy Zapawa provides you with in-depth coverage of Excel 2007’s enhanced reporting capabilities. Discover what you can do with PivotTable and Spreadsheet reports, enhanced conditional formatting and filtering functions, improved data access and management tools, and expanded OLAP features. With notes, tips, warnings, real-world examples, and how-to videos in every chapter, you'll soon be an expert on Excel report development! From the Back Cover Create powerful, innovative reporting solutions with Excel 2007 In this new book, significantly updated from his bestselling Excel 2003 version, Timothy Zapawa has provided you with in-depth coverage of Excel 2007's enhanced reporting capabilities. Discover what you can do with PivotTable and Spreadsheet reports, enhanced conditional formatting and filtering functions, improved data access and management tools, and expanded OLAP features. With notes, tips, warnings, real-world examples, and how-to videos in every chapter, you'll soon be an expert on Excel report development! * Understand and use key features of PivotTable® and Spreadsheet reports * Access data from SQL and Oracle databases, Web sites, OLAP cubes, and text files * Build sophisticated SQL queries using the Microsoft Query program * Read more...

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Amazon.com Keith Devlin is trying to be the Carl Sagan of mathematics, and he is succeeding. He writes: "Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent of a pair of ears. Mathematics can be seen only with the eyes of the mind." All of his books are attempts to get around this problem, to "try to communicate to others some sense of what it is we experience--some sense of the simplicity, the precision, the purity, and the elegance that give the patterns of mathematics their aesthetic value." Life by the Numbers, Devlin's companion book to the PBS series of the same name, is heavily illustrated and soothingly low on equations. But as he says, wanting mathematics without abstract notation "is rather like saying that Shakespeare would be much easier to understand if it were written in simpler language." The Language of Mathematics is Devlin's second iteration of the approach he used in Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. It covers all the same ground (and uses many of the same words) as the latter, but with fewer glossy pictures, sidebars, and references. Devlin has also added chapters on statistics and on mathematical patterns in nature. --Mary Ellen Curtin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Scientific American ...he skillfully gives both a history of Read more...

Download Description The Complete Idiot's Guide to Electrical Repair is a basic instruction manual on home wiring and repair. The book covers AC/DC, volts, watts, fuses, and circuit breakers, national and local codes, and caution signs and safety concerns. Learn when it's best to do-it-yourself and when you need to bring in the pros. Also covered are extension cords and multiple strips, switches and receptacles, installing fixtures and adding new circuits, and working around existing wiring. See all Editorial Reviews Product Details * Paperback: 400 pages * Publisher: Alpha; 1 edition (February 18, 2000) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0028638964 * ISBN-13: 978-0028638966 Read more...

THIS book is concerned with the oscillations of electrical and mechanical systems. Only systems with one degree of freedom are discussed; other books in the series deal with the problems arising when a system has more than one degree of freedom or is continuous. Mechanical systems are considered first since this is the common practice in most courses. After a discussion of equilibrium positions of systems without friction there is an account of their oscillations near equilibrium. Next, the effects of friction of the viscous type are examined. A separate chapter is devoted to electrical circuits so that those who wish to divorce them from mechanical systems may do so. However, the detailed mathematical analysis of earlier chapters has not been repeated; instead the results have been quoted. The ideas of complex and operational impedances which are more appropriate to electrical circuits than mechanical systems are also introduced in this chapter. Those who wish to develop the electrical theory at the same time as the mechanical will find some suitable examples at the end of Chapter Four. The last chapter analyses oscillations which are not necessarily small in amplitude. The non-linearities of the system must then be taken into account. A strict mathematical approach to this subject is beyond the scope of this book but it is hoped that the plausible approach adopted will enable the student to grasp the essentials of the phenomena without becoming los Read more...