European Paganism by Ken Dowdenby Ken Dowden | English | 1999 | ISBN-10: 0415120349 | 390 Pages | PDF | 3,86 Mb
Description : European Paganism uncovers the facts about pagan rituals and worship, presenting the observations of ancient and medieval pagans themselves and the fulminations of Christian fathers and bishops. Many of the sources cited are available in this book in translation for the first time.
The Future of the Internet And How to Stop ItDescription : This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners.
Understanding Your Dog for Dummies gives you everything you need to learn to understand your pooch’s unique dialect of “Doglish”—and shows you how to take on the role as pack leader to give your dog the cues, guidance, and consistency she needs to shape and develop good behaviors. Inside you’ll discover how to:
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Borko Furht: Wireless Internet Handbook
AUERBACH | 2003-03-28 | ISBN 0849315026 | PDF | Pages 632 | 6.44 MB
Wireless applications are definitely the next big thing in communications. Millions of people around the world use the Internet every day - to stay in touch with remote locations, follow the stock market, keep up with the news, check the weather, make travel plans, conduct business, shop, entertain themselves, and learn. The logical next step is the development of the wireless Internet, where cell phones, PDAs, and laptops let us receive and send e-mails, and perform all the activities that we are currently performing over the wireline Internet. Filled with contributions from international experts, Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications describes basic concepts, current developments, and future trends in designing modern architectures. The book covers: · Wireless local access techniques to the mobile Internet · User mobility in IP networks · Multimedia streaming over wireless Internet · Quality of service issues · Location management techniques and clustering architectures · Wireless Internet security issues · Bluetooth, CDMA, TDMA, Wireless Application Protocol, 802.11x, and more · Different mobile and wireless Internet services · Wireless Internet enterprise applications · Mobile multimedia and graphics applications · Mobile video telephony · Wireless video surveillance · Wireless applications in medicine The scope of the information covered and the expertise of leading researchers and industry professionals combine to make Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications the definitive resource on current and future trends in designing modern architectures for the wireless Internet.