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Posted: January 15th, 2010, 1:46pm CET by mrblue
Part exposé, part x-rated travel guide — the ultimate insider’s look at America’s adult playground
Vegas. It’s a place where Midwestern couples become uninhibited swingers, where shy schoolgirls morph into sexy strippers pulling in $1,000 a night, and where randy tourists come to score at more than just blackjack and craps. What happens here, stays here — and Vegas nightlife is hotter than it’s ever been before.
In Skin City, journalist and longtime Vegas resident Jack Sheehan goes beyond the bright lights to explore the dark thrills of the city’s sex industry. Both lurid and fascinating, here is an unabashed look at the stripping, swinging, hustling, and hooking that have turned a desert gaming metropolis into the world’s capital of lascivious entertainment. But more than a no-holds-barred exposé, Sheehan’s Skin City offers a connoisseur’s catalogue of where to go for readers whose tastes run to the erotic — with everything from valuable pointers from lap dancers, call girls, and vice cops to porn star Jenna Jameson’s list of her favorite Vegas strip clubs.
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Posted: January 7th, 2010, 7:01pm CET by kfadmin
MultiLingual covers the rapidly growing field of international language technology and global business communications. The content emphasizes information on international software development and localization with technical programming articles as well as market-related pieces.
MultiLingual is distributed nine times a year (eight issues plus an annual resource directory/index) to readers in 60 countries. Issues cover topics ranging from technical internationalization to project management to language histories. In addition, product and book reviews give you the latest news and opinions.
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Posted: November 17th, 2009, 9:18am CET by -cosmos-
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Posted: October 28th, 2009, 3:49am CET by eBooker
This book offers in 27 chapters a collection of all the technical aspects of specifying, developing, and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of AI tools. Topics covered include neural networks, fuzzy controls, decision trees, rule-based systems, data mining, genetic algorithm and agent systems, among many others. The goal of this book is to show some potential applications and give a partial picture of the current state-of-the-art of AI. Also, it is useful to inspire some future research ideas by identifying potential research directions. It is dedicated to students, researchers and practitioners in this area or in related fields.
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Posted: October 15th, 2009, 5:39am CEST by mrblue
Delivering successful projects means the ability to produce high quality software within budget and on time—consistently, but when one mentions quality to software engineers or project managers, they talk about how impossible it is to eliminate defects from software. This assumption is passed on and on until it becomes accepted wisdom, with the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. And when a project fails to arrive on time or up to standards, team members will turn on each other. The project got delayed because the engineers did a poor job in development or too much was promised upfront for this short of a timeline.
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Posted: October 12th, 2009, 7:58am CEST by eBooker
476 pages | 2007 | PDF | 5 Mb
Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. From basic theory through project planning, cost estimating, and manufacturing methods, this vital resource offers you everything needed for solar power design success.. .
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Posted: October 9th, 2009, 11:28am CEST by eBooker
Exit-Architecture. Design Between War and Peace: With a Foreword by Heiner Mühlmann and a Project
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“First we shape things, then they shape us”, was Churchill’s view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author’s answers to these questions are a surprise. Through war and proximity to stress. After a tour d’horizon through Roman temples, Washington’s corridors of power and Mecca’s anti-panic architecture it becomes clear that architecture is anything but in the background. Instead it is situated in the hot spot of transmission dynamics and is capable of altering cultures, empires and even religions.
About the Author
Stephan Trüby. Architect, theoretician and curator. Studied architecture at the AA School, London where he also lectured. Since 2001 he has been assistant professor for architectural theory and design at the Institut Grundlagen moderner Architektur, at the University of Stuttgart. He is the director of Exit Ltd. a firm specialized in architectural and design consulting. His numerous works have been published as books and in magazines.
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Posted: October 4th, 2009, 8:55am CEST by eBooker
692 pages | 1994 | PDF | 15 Mb
Hardbound. Carbohydrates and glycoconjugates play an important role in several life processes. The wide variety of carbohydrate species and their inherent polydispersity and heterogeneity require separation techniques of high resolving power and high selectivity such as high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and capillary electrophoresis (HPCE).
In the last decade HPLC, and recently HPCE methods have been developed for the high resolution and reproducible quantitation of carbohydrates. Despite the importance of these two column separation technologies in the area of carbohydrates, no previous book describes specialized methods for the separation, purification and detection of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates by HPLC and HPCE.
Therefore, the objective of the present book is to provide a comprehensive review of carbohydrate analysis by HPLC and HPCE by covering analytical and preparative separation techniques for all classes of carbohydrates inclu
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Posted: October 3rd, 2009, 12:20pm CEST by eBooker
Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization
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This book constitutes a collection of research achievements mature enough to provide a firm and reliable basis on modular ontologies. It gives the reader a detailed analysis of the state of the art of the research area and discusses the recent concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization.
The 13 papers presented in this book were all carefully reviewed before publication. They have been organized in three parts: Part I gives a general introduction to the idea and issues characterizing modularization and offers an in-depth analysis of properties, criteria and knowledge import techniques for modularization. Part II describes four major research proposals for creating modules from an existing ontology either by partitioning an ontology into a collection of modules or by extracting one or more modules from the ontology. Part III reports on collaborative approaches where modules that pre-exist are linked together through mappings to form a virtual large ontology.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2009, 11:28am CEST by eBooker
211 pages | 2008 | PDF | 5 Mb
The new book presents important recent research on ecology which is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at least six kinds of ecology: ecosystem, physiological, behavioural, population, and community. Specific topics include: Acid Deposition, Acid Rain Revisited, Biodiversity, Biocomplexity, Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Coral Reefs, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Fire Ecology , Floods, Global Climate Change, Hypoxia, and Invasion.
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Posted: September 30th, 2009, 5:43am CEST by eBooker
Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne
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Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning.
This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.
About the Author
Gilles Tiberghien is a philosopher and an author in the field of Land Art.
James Corner is an internationally known landscape designer and theorist and professor for landscape architecture at the Pennsylvania University, USA.
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Posted: September 29th, 2009, 11:15am CEST by eBooker
Cultures of Glass Architecture (Design and the Built Environment)
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When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaningful place-making, thereby creating a cultural identity of ‘place’.
Looking at the development of perceptions of glass facades in different cultures, it shows how modernist ‘glass’ buildings are perceived as an expression of technical achievement, as symbols of global economic success and as setting a neutral platform for multi-cultural societies - all of which are difficult for urban developers and policy makers to resist in our era of globalisation. Drawing on a number of modern and heritage design projects from Europe, the USA, the Middle East and South East Asia, the book reviews efforts of some regional towns and local places to move up the economic ladder by adopting a more ‘global’ aesthetic.
About the Author
Professor Hisham Elkadi is Professor of Architecture and Head of the Architecture Programme in the School of Art & Design at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
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Posted: September 29th, 2009, 11:12am CEST by eBooker
Light Zone City: Light Planning in the Urban Context
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The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is increasing to the point of “light terror.” A well-lit urban space can be very inviting, giving residents and visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful lighting design can also give the city at night an identity of its own and accentuate architectural qualities.
In this book, the author embodies her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design. In preparation, she visited ten European cities — including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam — with different urban situations. This has enabled her to present different planning and design tasks systematically and to illustrate specific solutions. In addition to articulating basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares, she presents and elucidates new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps with the help of examples.
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Posted: September 29th, 2009, 10:55am CEST by eBooker
The Complete Real Estate Encylcopedia
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Everything you need to know about real estate - no matter what your role - in one complete guide
Bonus online material!
From AAA-Tenant to Zoning Regulations, this alphabetically organized resource covers the laws, language, and concepts of real estate. You’ll also have access to an exclusive online tool that makes it simple to calculate, transact, and profit from real estate.
Authors with more than 65 combined years in real estate give you:
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