* Publisher: Harlequin
* Number Of Pages: 185
* Publication Date: 2006-11-01
* Sales Rank: 499731
* ISBN / ASIN: 0373125801
* EAN: 9780373125807
* Binding: Mass Market Paperback
* Manufacturer: Harlequin
* Studio: Harlequin
* Average Rating: 4
* Total Reviews: 4

* Publisher: DK ADULT
* Number Of Pages: 160
* Publication Date: 1998-01-01
* Sales Rank: 38639
* ISBN / ASIN: 1564586499
* EAN: 9781564586490
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: DK ADULT
* Studio: DK ADULT
* Average Rating: 4
* Total Reviews: 53
Amazon.com:
One might think a former Penthouse Forum magazine editor would be in over her head when it came to interpreting the sacred Kama Sutra for contemporary lovers. Surprisingly, Anne Hooper has grasped the subtle, but more important, messages of India’s traditional love manuals. She discourages readers from focusing on accomplishing distorted poses, as if they were athletic feats. Instead, she has written a compelling commentary that encourages readers to emphasize pressure points, manners, artistic freedom, and most of all finding and pursuing a loving sexual relationship rather than an overly choreographed one. Almost every page is illustrated with tasteful photos of nude lovers demonstrating the many sacred positions, while Hooper’s text offers suggestions on how to apply the ancient teachings to contemporary lovemaking. –Gail Hudson

Book Description:
Anne Hooper’s Kama Sutra updates and reinterprets the 2,000 year–old sexual text in a fully illustrated guide that features specially commissioned photographs and information on ways to enrich and diversify one’s sex life. In this classic volume of sexual learning, Anne Hooper brings together the best of the eastern sexual teaching, the Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao to create a new classic that encourages an emphasis on pressure points, manners, artistic freedom, and most of all finding and pursuing a loving sexual relationship. She discourages the focus from accomplishing distorted poses—-in actuality, they are advanced yoga positions—-and instead has discovered the true spirit of these ancient teachings and applied the teachings to contemporary lovemaking.

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* Publisher: Alpha
* Number Of Pages: 400
* Publication Date: 2001-12-05
* Sales Rank: 106267
* ISBN / ASIN: 0028641752
* EAN: 9780028641751
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Alpha
* Studio: Alpha
* Average Rating: 3.5
* Total Reviews: 7

Book Description:
Uncover the sacred side of sex?with this second edition of the bestselling guide.

In this updated, fully illustrated second edition of the bestselling book, Dr. Judy Kuriansky?a certified associate Ipsalu Tantra Teacher?uncovers every aspect of this ancient practice. From the sacred beliefs behind Tantra and Tantric loving to the practice of Tantric techniques, this book includes a new chapter on sacred sex, an updated chapter on Tantra rituals, the author?s own Tantric sex therapy technique, tips from world-renowned Tantric experts, and listings of national Tantra instructors and workshops.

? Fully illustrated
? Author is a tantric expert who has studied with pioneer Margot Anand
? A basic introduction to the principles of Tantra
? Tantric sex was recently featured in an episode of Sex and the City and in an article in New York magazine

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* Publisher: Avon
* Number Of Pages: 384
* Publication Date: 2007-08-01
* Sales Rank: 12315
* ISBN / ASIN: 0061178039
* EAN: 9780061178030
* Binding: Mass Market Paperback
* Manufacturer: Avon
* Studio: Avon
* Average Rating: 4.5
* Total Reviews: 29

Everyone in Truly knows that the Hennessy men are irresistible, and the current owner, Mick, is no exception. His late father was a skirt-chasing heartbreaker who ended up causing disaster for two families. So far, Mick’s managed to keep the ladies in line, but when he claps eyes on Maddie, with her luscious curves and tempting lips, he can’t resist getting tangled up with her.

But Maddie is keeping secrets, not the least of which is her true reason for being in town. And when Mick discovers what`s really going on, there is going to be a whole lot of trouble in Truly.

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* Publisher: Little Black Dress
* Number Of Pages: 320
* Publication Date: 2007-02-08
* Sales Rank: 14192
* ISBN / ASIN: 0755334043
* EAN: 9780755334049
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Little Black Dress
* Studio: Little Black Dress
* Average Rating: 4
* Total Reviews: 4
Review:A good old (steamy) Romance.

This book has seriously put my Ice Queen status in danger!!
I found it a great fun and easy to read. The fact that it ended just how I wanted it to left me feeling thouroghly fufilled. Although some could say it was slighty rushed I was glad it was’nt dragged out along with my suspence.
The only problem now is i cant get my hands on another Rachel Gibson quick enough to see what it brings, although I think Ill be avoiding “Watch Jane Score” due to Rob Sutter appearing in this book previous to this one(I fear it would be like hearing about your boyfriends ex-girlfriends!!)

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* Publisher: Avon
* Number Of Pages: 384
* Publication Date: 2003-02-01
* Sales Rank: 43233
* ISBN / ASIN: 0060009241
* EAN: 9780060009243
* Binding: Mass Market Paperback
* Manufacturer: Avon
* Studio: Avon
* Average Rating: 4.5
* Total Reviews: 81
Amazon.com:
Setting: Seattle, Washington
Sensuality: 8

At long last, Seattle Times columnist Jane Alcott has a shot at a full-time assignment. She badly needs the income, but unfortunately, the opening is for a sports reporter traveling with the Seattle Chinooks hockey team and she knows nothing about the game. To add to her difficulty, the team doesn’t want her, especially Luc “Lucky” Martineau, the Chinooks $33 million goalie. The team stonewalls when she tries to interview them and they haze her mercilessly; it isn’t until the superstitious Luc decides that she brings good luck that Jane gets a shot at being a real journalist. But when her acceptance by the team leads to spending more time with Luc, Jane finds, to her dismay, that he’s more than a handsome, empty-headed sports jock and her heart is in danger.

For his part, Luc learns that behind “plain Jane’s” boring dark clothing and black-rimmed glasses lies a quick wit, nerves of steel, and a personality that charms him. And when Jane appears at a team banquet with a new haircut, makeup, and a killer red dress with matching sexy stilettos, Luc’s affection fast-forwards into a major case of serious lust. But if Jane lets herself fall in love, she’ll have to find a way to explain the secret she’s hiding before it becomes public knowledge and Luc’s passion turns to hate. Can she bring herself to tell him the truth? And if she does, will he forgive her?

Set in the rough and tumble world of professional hockey, See Jane Score features an intelligent, likable heroine and a hero with depth beneath his sports jock façade. The layered characters, intriguing setting, and the novel’s compelling emotional plot all add up to an excellent contemporary romance. Don’t miss this one. –Lois Faye Dyer

Book Description:
Award–winner and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Gibson’s smart, sassy contemporary romances are making her one of the genre’s fastest rising stars.

Master today’s world of Cisco networking with this book’s completely updated, fully illustrated visual approach
Easy enough for novices, substantive enough for networking professionals
Covers the latest networking topics—from network architecture to secure wireless, unified communications to telepresence

In Full Color

Jim Doherty • Neil Anderson • Paul Della Maggiora

Now 100 percent updated for the latest technologies, this is today’s easiest, most visual guide to Cisco® networking. Even if you’ve never set up or managed a network, Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.

What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!
How networks and the Internet work
How to build coherent, cost-effective network infrastructures
How to design networks for maximum reliability and availability
What you need to know about data center and application networking
How to secure networks against today’s threats and attacks
How to take advantage of the latest mobility technologies
How virtualizing networks can help businesses leverage their network investments even further
How to combine messaging, calendaring, telephony, audio, video, and web conferencing into a unified communications architecture

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, the only authorized publisher for Cisco®.

Category: Cisco

Covers: General Networking

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This book is quite academic in tone, but practical in content. It is more of a math book that uses imaging in its examples than a book about imaging that uses math as a tool. It does a good job of starting from the beginning in any mathematical topic it explains, going through an explanation of the theory including proofs, and almost always showing at least one imaging example to explain each mathematical topic. Exercises are included, but these are not generally proofs in the classical sense. Instead, you may be asked to draw a diagram or image proving a theorem, or be asked to explain how a particular image proves a theorem. Answers to selected exercises are in the back of the book. Because this book has such good explanations on subjects such as the SVD and information theory, it might be useful to students that are not that interested in imaging simply because the analogies made to imaging make the mathematical theory quite clear. However, the last two parts of this six part book are very much aimed at those who are interested in image processing. I notice that the table of contents is not shown here, so I do that next:

Part I - THE PLANE
1. Isometries
Introduction; Isometries and their sense; The classification of isometries
2. How Isometries combine
Reflections are the key; Some useful compositions; The image of a line of symmetry; The dihedral group; Appendix on groups;
3. The seven braid patterns
Constructing braid patterns
4. Plane patterns and symmetries
Translations and nets; Cells; The five net types;
5. The 17 plane patterns
Preliminaries; The general parallelogram net; The centered rectangular net; The square net; The hexagonal net; Examples of the 17 plane pattern types; Scheme for identifying pattern types;
6. More plane truth
Equivalent symmetry groups; Plane patterns classified; Tilings and Coxeter Graphs; Creating plane patterns;

Part II - MATRIX STRUCTURES
7. Vectors and matrices
Vectors and handedness; Matrices and determinants; Further products of vectors in 3-space; The matrix of a transformation; Permutations and proof of determinant rules;
8. Matrix algebra
Introduction to eigenvalues; Rank and some ramifications; Similarity to a diagonal matrix; The Singular Value Decomposition;

Part III - Here’s to Probability
9. Probability
Sample spaces; Baye’s Theorem; Random variables; A census of distributions; Mean inequalities;
10. Random Vectors
Random Vectors; Functions of a random vector; The ubiquity of normal/Gaussian vectors; Correlation and its elimination;
11. Sampling and inference
Statistical inference; The Bayesian approach; Simulation; Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Part IV- Information, Error, and belief
12. Entropy and coding
The idea of entropy; COdes and binary trees; Huffman text compression; Huffman code redundancy; Arithmetic codes; Prediction by partial matching; LZW Compression; Entropy and minimum description length;
13. Information and error correction
Channel capacity; Error-correcting codes; Probabilistic decoding; Bayesian nets in computer vision;

Part V- Transforming the Image
14. The Fourier Transform
The DFT; The CFT; DFT connections;
15. Transforming Images
The Fourier Transform in two dimensions; Filters; Deconvolution and image restoration; Compression
16. Scaling
Nature, fractals, and compression; Wavelets; The Discrete Wavelet Transform; Wavelet relatives

Part VI - See, Edit, and Reconstruct
17. B-Spline Wavelets
Splines from boxes; The step to subdivision; The wavelet subdivision; The wavelet formulation; Band matrices for finding Q,A, and B; Surface wavelets;
18. Further methods
Neural networks; Self-organizing nets; Information Theory revisited; Tomography

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If advertising and public relations were the best ways to connect with a company’s audience through traditional media, and blogs are the best way to connect with millions of customers through the medium of online consumer generated media, then how can companies best use blogs to connect with their audience through the medium of consumer-generated media?

The answer is through blogger relations, the process of interacting with bloggers and blog readers to get a company’s message to an audience. This book targets business people, marketing professionals, public relations firms, search engine optimization and online marketing agency staff with a primer on the importance of corporate blogging and how to conduct a successful blogger relations ongoing campaign.

* Provides tools for companies to interact with customers through blogging communities
* Shows how to transform public relations and search marketing through consumer-generated media, RSS feeds and comment interaction strategies
* Describes how to optimize blog articles for blog search engines and provides content strategies
* Provides companies the planning tools to evaluate its blogging community and company resources for effective blogging

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Using WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) technology, you can build an enterprise-wide Business Integration (BI) infrastructure that makes it easier to connect any business resources and functions, so you can adapt more quickly to the demands of customers and partners. Now there’s an introductory guide to creating standards-based process and data integration solutions with WBI.

WebSphere Business Integration Primer thoroughly explains Service Component Architecture (SCA), basic business processes, and complex long-running business flows, and guides you to choose the right process integration architecture for your requirements. Next, it introduces the key components of a WBI solution and shows how to make them work together rapidly and efficiently. This book will help developers, technical professionals, or managers understand today’s key BI issues and technologies, and streamline business processes by combining BI with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Coverage includes
Linking BI, business process management (BPM), and SOA
BI scenarios, architecture, patterns, and the IBM Business Object Framework
Business orchestration utilizing WS-BPEL and other industry standards
BI development with WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and the SCA programming model
WebSphere Process Server (WPS): a runtime for service-oriented applications
Defining business maps, rules, business state machines, and human tasks
Managing BI services: security, auditing, and more
Integrating third-party and legacy systems with WebSphere adapters
Utilizing WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Business Monitor
Using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB) to integrate services

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Cryptographic solutions using software methods can be used for those security applications where data traffic is not too large and low encryption rate is tolerable. On the other hand, hardware methods offer high-speed solutions making them highly suitable for applications where data traffic is fast and large data is required to be encrypted in real time. VLSI (also known as ASIC), and FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are two alternatives for implementing cryptographic algorithms in hardware. FPGAs offer several benefits for cryptographic algorithm implementations over VLSI as they offer high flexibility. Due to its reconfigurable property, keys can be changed rapidly. Moreover, basic primitives in most cryptographic algorithms can efficiently be implemented in FPGAs.

Since the invention of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), some 40 years ago, a considerable amount of cryptographic algorithm implementation literature has been produced both, for software and hardware platforms. Unfortunately, virtually there exists no book explaining how the main cryptographic algorithms can be implemented on reconfigurable hardware devices.

This book will cover the study of computational methods, computer arithmetic algorithms, and design improvement techniques needed to implement efficient cryptographic algorithms in FPGA reconfigurable hardware platforms. The concepts and techniques to be reviewed in this book will make special emphasis on the practical aspects of reconfigurable hardware design, explaining the basic mathematics related and giving a comprehensive description of state-of-the-art implementation techniques. Thus, the main goal of this monograph is to show how high-speed cryptographic algorithms implementations can be achieved on reconfigurable hardware devices without posing prohibited high requirements for hardware resources.

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It is clear that Visual Studio Team System is the future of development from Microsoft’s perspective. Development is no longer a personal pursuit by one developer in a darkened room; it is a collective effort by a team of peers. VSTS supports this broader vision by providing a complete collaboration platform for the entire project team. VSTS takes a services-oriented approach leveraging Windows SharePoint Services and SQL Server Business Intelligence Suite. Additionally, VSTS brings the life cycle to life by making it part of the integrated suite.

For those seeking to use test-driven development, VSTS is the tool for you. If you’re an architect, there is a new set of domain-specific modeling tools that makes it easy to visualize systems, determine application relationships, and deploy into a logical datacenter. For testers, Microsoft’s new suite of test tools provides a powerful web testing environment with virtually unlimited extensibility. In addition, the new load tools allow you to perform world-class scalability testing.

Even if you are just considering adopting VSTS, Pro Visual Studio Team System with Team Edition for Database Professionals, Second Edition will provide you with a comprehensive overview. Furthermore, you will be able to dive deep into any area with detailed descriptions, samples, and walkthroughs. Roll up your sleeves and get ready for a new way of developing solutions!
What you’ll learn

This book will guide you through the entire breadth of VSTS. If you are a stakeholder, you have a portal that gives you instant access to project documents, status, and performance indicators. If you are a project manager, you will learn how create, manage, and assess team performance. As VSTS is integrated with MS Office, you can quickly assign tasks and gather work status. With reporting from the data warehouse, you get a real-time view of all project metrics. If you are a developer, you will learn how to write higher-quality code, and ensure that the code works and performs well.
Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone with an interest in Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Whether you’re an architect, developer, tester, or database professional implementing VSTS or just considering it, this book will provide you with the answers that you need.
About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
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Pro ASP.NET for SQL Server: High Performance Data Access for Web Developers explains how to use ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 most efficiently together. It covers all crucial performance issues and illustrates optimal techniques with enterprise-quality development.

Performance is always an issue, and optimizing database access is one of the most daunting performance challenges facing web developers. With Brennan Stehling as your guide, you’ll explore the many overlaps of web and database technologies, including configuration, programming, performance tuning, and deployment. You’ll learn how to make high-performance database access not just a goal, but a reality.

What you’ll learn

Discover what impedes ASP.NET 2.0 access to SQL Server 2005 and how to make web applications and databases work blindingly fast together.
Learn to make the subtle choices between DataSets, DataReaders, and DataObjects, to simplify code and maximize performance.
Optimize data-bound controls and create your own.
See when a custom database provider is advisable and how to build one.
Understand how to monitor and measure web/database performance.
Learn to build, deploy, and configure enterprise-level web applications against SQL Server 2005.

Who is this book for?

Anyone involved in .NET web development will find this book invaluable. Whether you’re struggling just to handle traffic or scaling up to meet demand, you’ll find all the tools, tips, and techniques you need for high-performance web access to databases. If you want to build enterprise-level web database applications 100% of the time, this book will tell–and show–you how to do it.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases: From Novice to Professional

Expert ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Application Design

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