Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices when it comes to this complicated emotion. Packed with helpful suggestions for those seeking love and those already in it, this book is about love's many puzzles. The second edition furthers the work of the popular and successful first edition. With expanded research, theory, and practice, this book once again provides one of a kind understandings of the experience of love. The new edition offers updated references to recent research, new chapter exercises, and "case examples" of romantic stories to begin each chapter. Read more...

Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines? Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 300 articles covering the whole spectrum of topics in brain theory and neural networks. The first two parts of the book, prepared by Michael Arbib, are designed to help readers orient themselves in this wealth of material. Part I provides general background on brain modeling and on both biological and artificial neural networks. Part II consists of "Road Maps" to help readers steer through articles in part III on specific topics of interest. The articles in part III are written so as to be accessible to readers of diverse backgrounds. They are cross-referenced and provide lists of pointers to Road Maps, background material, and related reading. The second edition greatly increases the coverage of models of fundamental neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, and neural network approaches to language. It contains 287 articles, compared to the 266 in the first edition. Articles on topics from the first edition have been updated by the original authors or written anew by new authors, and there are 106 articles on new topics. Read more...

"I've fallen in love with Accidental Branding. It is my favorite business book for 2008!" --Diane K. Danielson, TopShelf Reading Picks Blogger, Entrepreneur.com CEO, Downtown Women's Club and coauthor of The Savvy Gal's Guide to Online Networking (or What Would Jane Austen Do?) "The central idea of this book is nothing short of brilliant. Not that you can start a business like Burt's Bees in your basement, but that even experts can learn a lesson from the accidental marketers. Great stuff." --Seth Godin, author of Meatball Sundae "Accidental Branding is a gift from a master storyteller. Vinjamuri has an extensive knowledge of brands and a keen nose for great stories." --Scott WilliamsChief Marketing Officer, Morgans Hotel Group "Accidental Branding is a wake-up call for budding entrepreneurs who think a great brand is only about market research." --Eve TahminciogluMSNBC.com's YourBiz blogger, author of From the Sandbox to the Corner Office "Vinjamuri tells stories to get us to think differently about familiar brands.A great read!" --Dawn KiernanDirector of Marketing, American Express Read more...

Tungate writes in a style that's easy to follow, articulate, and knowledgeable. The book is broken down into 21 chapters that cover everything from street style to haute couture to counterfeits. It's a must read for anyone who is in the fashion business and wants to know just what it takes to make a brand. The branding style that Tungate covers are the biggest designers to date as well as those up an coming. It reads very smoothly and you walk away with an immense knowledge of all these different brands. Did you know that the first Nike shoe was created by pouring rubber into a waffle maker? Exactly. Neither did I. Read more...

Since the publication of the first edition the number of GSM subscribers has exploeded and it is now deployed in more than 140 countries worldwide. Revised and updated GSM Switching, Services and Protocols now features the abundant new services and applications that GSM can provide. By focusing on the fundamentals of the mobile radio systems, it provides an excellent introductory insight to the whole area of GSM cellular radio. By providing an easy-to-follow instructive text, this second edition will have insight appeal to telecommunication engineers, researchers, adn developers. The highly graphical approach and numerous illustrations will also make it an indispensable reference for senior undergraduates and postgraduates in electrical and computer engineering. - Details the GSM phase 2+ services, including new data and speech services and service platforms, such as AMR, ASCI. CAMEL and EFR - Features a brand new chapter on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) - Contains a completly revised and expanded chapter 'GSM - The story goes on' - Presents new sections on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the migration to UMTS - Includes expaned and updated chapters on Logical Channels and Channel Coding Read more...

A business card is more than a piece of paper with your name on it. It's your calling card; a snapshot of your brand identity, a constant reminder in your client's Rolodexes. Perhaps that's why Rockport's Best of Business Card Design Series is so eagerly anticipated year after year. Now, Rockport brings together the very best examples of innovative, stand-out designs from three of its annual volumes. In The Best of the Best of Business Card Design, readers will find hundreds of unique and memorable designs for every type of client, and in a broad range of colors, styles, and shapes. Filled with inspiration for designers and their clients around the world, this creative resource shows how any individual or business can make a tiny space speak volumes about who they are, and what they do. Read more...

Business Cards: The Art of Saying Hello is the ultimate business card book, bringing together the best examples of cards created by designers around the world. Business cards are a major design challenge; creating successful cards is all about the clever use of space; but just a little space. And that's not all. A design needs to make a splash, stand out from the crowd or announce you as part of a team; and how do you solve the problem of creating a universally understood message while catering to cultural differences and multiple languages? Materials are also important; not all cards are machine printed, and this book features cards on punched metal, stitched fabric, cards with heat-sealed cut-outs, or made from recycled subway tickets, plus clever examples of best-practice using “make-your-own” business-card machines. Over 300 cards are grouped into sections reflecting different design approaches: Typography, Photography, Materials, Illustration and Found Objects. Proving just how inventive you can be with a limited space, this book is a rich source of ideas and inspiration both for designers and anyone wishing to make a statement with their business card. Read more...

In this book, you'll: * Learn the Blend 2 and Visual Studio 2008 development environments * Create designs using Blend 2's unique tools * Use XAML and C# to add interactivity to your designs * Publish your Rich Media Applications to the Web using Silverlight The only real tool available for creating Rich Media Applications, web-based animations, and games has been Flash‚ until now! WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and Silverlight have opened the door of Rich Media Application development to Microsoft .NET developers. With Microsoft's new Blend 2 and Visual Studio 2008, you can now create compelling Rich Media Applications complete with animations and even 3D! This book shows you how to take full advantage of Blend's new interface, together with and Silverlight's vastly improved designer-developer workflow, guiding you through every step of development from downloading and installing of the development environment through creating finished, functional projects. You'll learn how to create simple drawing applications with the InkCanvas, make tabbed and scrollable interfaces, as well as build fully featured media players, photo galleries, and interactive 3D designs. Each chapter discusses major WPF and Silverlight features, provides a hands-on tutorial, and explains how that feature is implemented in the real world. In the end, you will have a collection of impressive WPF and Silverlight applications that can be added to your portfolio. Whether you' Read more...

Silverlight--the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista--is the web developer's choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with Silverlight. In these color-filled pages, a crack team of Wrox experts gives you a comprehensive introduction to Silverlight. You'll see the vivid graphics and video images you can achieve. You will learn to use the component languages, tools, and techniques of Silverlight to create applications that enhance the user experience. You'll also discover how to leverage existing technologies, such as JavaScript(r), XAML, ASP.NET, and AJAX, and incorporate them with development tools like Visual Studio(r), Expression(r) Encoder, and Expression Blend. Soon you'll be building everything from basic static pages to Internet applications that integrate rich media and animation. What you will learn from this book * Easy ways to incorporate graphics, animation, audio, and video into Internet applications * Methods for creating rich media apps that run on Windows(r) and Mac(r), as well as in Internet Explorer, Firefox(r), and Safari * How to write standard JavaScript within an HTML page to manipulate and program against any XAML DOM element, storyline animation, or video * Ways to integrate Silverlight within existing HTML pages, web Read more...

This book is intended as a guide for students using the text, Calculus III by Jerrold Marsden and Alan Weinstein. It may be unique among such guides in that it was written by a student user of the text. For each section of the text, the guide contains a list of prerequisites, a review quiz (with answers), a list of study goals, some hints for study, solutions to the odd-numbered problems, and a quiz on the section (with answers). For each review section the guide includes solutions to the odd exercises and a chapter test with solutions. Read more...

This book is intended as a guide for students using the text, Calculus I by Jerrold Marsden and Alan Weinstein. It may be unique among such guides in that it was written by a student user of the text. For each section of the text, the guide contains a list of prerequisites, a review quiz (with answers), a list of study goals, some hints for study, solutions to the odd-numbered problems, and a quiz on the section (with answers). For each review section the guide includes solutions to the odd exercises and a chapter test with solutions. Read more...

At what point should one begin Pakistan's history? Should one start with August 14, 1947 when Lord Louis Mountbatten administered the oath of office to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor General? If we start with August 14 as Pakistan's birthday, it is impossible to tell Pakistan's full story. To really understand the circumstances that resulted in the birth of Pakistan, one has to go much farther back in history. Beyond Jinnah's call for separate states in 1940, and even beyond the elections of 1937, all the way back to the eighth century when Islam first arrived on the Indian sub-continent. This expanded and updated edition provides concise, accurate, dictionary-style entries on the religious, social, political, economic, and cultural events and leaders that contributed to the founding of the Muslim state. Dr. Burki provides a helpful introduction to aid with historical context. The handy chronology and comprehensive bibliography further augment the usefulness of this volume, making it a helpful guide for the new student of Pakistan and quick ready-reference for the experienced scholar. Praise for the first edition: "...a very useful bibliography... [The introduction]...is a finely crafted essay...provides the user with an insider's view of the emergence of a new nation...a very authoritative and readable source. Recommended for all levels of college and university reference collections." --CHOICE Read more...

This is a textbook about classical elementary number theory and elliptic curves. The first part discusses elementary topics such as primes, factorization, continued fractions, and quadratic forms, in the context of cryptography, computation, and deep open research problems. The second part is about elliptic curves, their applications to algorithmic problems, and their connections with problems in number theory such as Fermat's Last Theorem, the Congruent Number Problem, and the Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. The intended audience of this book is an undergraduate with some familiarity with basic abstract algebra, e.g. rings, fields, and finite abelian groups. Read more...

A revision of the architectural classic on design analysis Precedents in Architecture, Third Edition provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs. Thirty-one leading architects are represented in this updated Third Edition in examinations of more than 100 structures assessed through a diagrammatic technique that is applicable to any structure. This impressive collection includes sixteen new buildings and eight innovative architects distinguished by the strength, quality, and interest of their designs. Readers will find valuable guidance in analyzing architectural history as an evolutionary process by exploring the commonality of design ideas reflected in a broad range of structures by internationally renowned architects. Both novices and seasoned professionals will find Precedents in Architecture, Third Edition a very useful tool for enriching their design vocabulary and for the ongoing assessment of buildings found in today's evolving landscape. Read more...

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Itil Lifecycle Publication Suite, Version 3: Continual Service Improvement, Service Operation, Service Strategy, Service Transition, Service Design By Ogc * Publisher: Stationery Office * Number Of Pages: 1343 * Publication Date: 2007-07-30 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0113310501 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780113310500 * Binding: Paperback Product Description: Official release Date is May 30, 2007. Advanced Orders are being accepted now with shipments immediately following the release date. The New core titles are aimed at the widest possible readership. Because they reflect the lifecycle of service, their appeal encompasses the entire spectrum of people involved at any stage of the process. So, without being the prime audience, everyone involved will benefit from access to the entire library. There are five publications in the ITIL Lifecycle Core Library: * Service Strategy * Service Design * Service Transition * Service Operation * Continual Service Improvement These titles share a consistent structure: * Introduction, overview, context * Service Management as a practice * Service lifecycle * Role of processes in the lifecycle * Role of functions in the lifecycle * Practice fundamentals * Practice principles * Processes * Organizational design and structures, roles and responsibilities * Challenges, critical success factors, risks * Supplemental guidance * References Summary: Wise move for the discerning buyer this season Rating: 5 The Read more...

More Info here: http://www.customguide.com/online_learning.htm Table of Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter One: The Essentials ............................................................................................ 11 Lesson 1-1: Hardware, Software, and Information Technology (IT)...................................12 Lesson 1-2: Computer Overview.........................................................................................14 Lesson 1-3: The Front of a Computer and Peripheral Devices ............................................16 Lesson 1-4: The Inside of a Computer.................................................................................18 Lesson 1-5: The Back of a Computer (Ports) ......................................................................20 Lesson 1-6: System Bus and Expansion Cards....................................................................22 Lesson 1-7: Memory Cache.................................................................................................24 Lesson 1-8: Computer Performance ....................................................................................26 Lesson 1-9: Buying a Desktop Computer............................................................................28 Lesson 1-10: Buying a Notebook Computer ....................................................... Read more...

Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 10 Minutes, Second Edition, is a compact, task-oriented tutorial that shows you how to perform the most common tasks involved in designing, creating, publishing, and administering Web pages and sites. The book covers only those HTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's Web page, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order. This edition of the book has been completely rewritten to make it more accessible for the beginning Windows or Macintosh user, and to include more easily accessible reference material. Read more...

Kylie Minogue, Official Calendar 2009 Kylie Minogue, OBE, is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She has her own lingerie brand called "Love Kylie". In Febuary 2002, she won 2 of the major awards at the 2002 Brit Awards: Best International Female and Best International Album for Fever. In 2004, she won the Best Dance Act at the 2004 Swedish NRJ Awards in Stockholm. She also won the 2004 Grammy for Best Dance Recording for her single "Come Into My World", beating off strong competition such as Madonna and Cher. She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honors List for her services to music. Birth name: Kylie Ann Minogue Birth date: May 28, 1968 Birth location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Measurements: 34C-23-34 Height: 5' (153 cm) 14 pics | 1080 x 1460 (Super HQ) | 2 MB Read more...