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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Number Of Pages: 124
Publication Date: 2006-12-22
Sales Rank: 660142
ISBN / ASIN: 1904811329
EAN: 9781904811329
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Studio: Packt Publishing

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A comprehensive and practical guide to PAM for Linux: how modules work and how to implement them, covering 11 common modules, and installation of third-party offerings. Also covers developing your own modules in C. First this book explains how Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) simplify and standardize authentication in Linux. It shows in detail how PAM works and how it is configured. Then 11 common modules used across UNIX/Linux distributions are examined and explained, including all their parameters. Installation of third-party modules is discussed, and the development of new modules and PAM-aware applications is outlined PAM-aware applications reduce the complexity of authentication. With PAM you can use the same user database for every login process. PAM also supports different authentication processes as required. Moreover, PAM is a well-defined API, and PAM-aware applications will not break if you change the underlying authentication configuration. The PAM framework is widely used by most Linux distributions for authentication purposes. Originating from Solaris 2.6 ten years ago, PAM is used today by most proprietary and free UNIX operating systems including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, following both the design concept and the practical details. PAM is thus a unifying technology for authentication mechanisms in UNIX. PAM is a modular and flexible authentication management layer that sits between Linux applications and the native underlying authentication system. PAM can be implemented with various applications without having to recompile the applications to specifically support PAM. This book provides a practical approach to UNIX/Linux authentication. The design principles are explained thoroughly, then illustrated through the examination of popular modules. It is intended as a one-stop introduction and reference to PAM. This book is for experienced system administrators and developers working with multiple Linux/UNIX servers or with both UNIX and Windows servers. It assumes a good level of admin knowledge, and that developers are competent in C development on UNIX-based systems.

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Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Sales Rank: 561107
ISBN / ASIN: 7119002406
EAN: 9787119002408
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Press
Studio: Foreign Languages Press

he textbook for the introductory course in Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanking International Acupuncture Training Centers since 1979. Over the years when it has been in use, its clear and simple presentation has proved invaluable in the teaching of non-Chinese doctors. Presented in an easily understandable form, it is applicable to those who are just beginning their studies of acupuncture and moxibustion.

A Short Table of Contents:
Part I A General Description of the Basic Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine YIN-YANG AND THE FIVE ELEMENTS YIN-YANG THE FIVE ELEMENTS
# ZANG-FU (INTERNAL ORGANS) THE ZANG ORGANS FU ORGANS EXTRAORDINARY ORGANS
# CHANNELSAND COLLATERALS NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION FUNCTIONS OF CHANNELS AND COLLATERALS
# QI, BLOOD AND BODY FLUID QI BLOOD BODY FLUID
# ETIOLOGY SIX EXOGENOUS FACTORS SEVEN EMOTIONAL FACTORS MISCELLANEOUS PATHOGENIC FACTORS
# METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS INSPECTION AUSCULTATION AND OLFACTION INQUIRING PALPATION
# DIFFERENTIATION OF SYNDROMES DIFFERENTIATION OF SYNDROMES ACCORDING TO EIGHT PRINCIPLES DIFFERENTIATION OF SYNDROMES ACCORDING TO THE THEORY OF ZANG-FU DIFFERENTIATION OF SYNDROMES ACCORDING TO THE THEORY OF CHANNELS AND COLLATERALS

PART II Channels, Collaterals and Points
# AN INTRODUCTION TO CHANNELS, COLLATERALS AND POINTS DISTRIBUTION IF THE 14 CHANNELS ON THE BODY SURFACE CLASSIFICATION OF POINTS SPECIFIC POINTS METHODS OF LOCATING POINTS AN OUTLINE OF THE THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES OF THE POINTS OF THE 14 CHANNELS
# THE 12 REGULAR CHANNELS AND THEIR POINTS THE LUNG CHANNEL OF HAND-TAIYIN THE LARGE INTESTINE CHANNEL OF HAND-YANGMING THE STOMACH CHANNEL OF FOOT-YANGMING THE SPLEEN CHANNEL OF FOOT-TAIYIN THE HEART CHANNEL OF HAND-SHAOYIN THE SMALL INTESTINE CHANNEL OF HAND-TAIYANG THE URINARY BLADDER CHANNEL OF FOOT-TAIYANG THE KIDNEY CHANNEL OF FOOT-SHAOYIN THE PERICARDIUM CHANNEL OF HAND-JUEYIN THE SANJIAO CHANNEL OF HAND-SHAOYANG THE GALL BLADDER CHANNEL OF FOOT-SHAOYANG THE LIVER CHANNEL OF FOOT-JUEYIN
# THE EIGHT EXTRA CHANNELS AND THEIR POINTS THE DU CHANNEL THE REN CHANNEL THE CHONG CHANNEL THE DAI CHANNEL THE YANGQIAO CHANNEL THE YINQIAO CHANNEL THE YANGWEI CHANNEL THE YINWEI CHANNEL EXTRAORDINARY POINTS

PART III Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy
# TECHNIQUE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION MANIPULATION OF THE FILIFORM NEEDLE OTHER ACUPUNCTURE METHODS MOXIBUSTION CUPPING
# A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT BASIC PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT ACCORDING TO DIFFERENTIATION OF PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS THE BASIC PRINCIPLE GOVERNING PRESCRIPTION AND COMBINATION OF POINTS THE APPLICATION OF SPECIFIC POINTS
# TREATMENT OF COMMON DISEASES WITH ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION WINDSTROKE (APOPLEXY) - SYNCOPE - HEADACHE - TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA - DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO - FACIAL PARALYSIS - SUNSTROKE - MALARIA THE COMMON COLD - COUGH - ASTHMA - INSOMNIA - PALAPITATION, ANXIETY - DEPRESSIVE AND MANIC MENTAL DISORDERS - VOMITING - HICCUP - EPIGASTRIC PAIN - ABDOMINAL PAIN - DIARRHEA - DYSENTERY - JAUNDICE - HYPOCHONDRIAC PAIN - LOW BACK PAIN - EDEMA - NOCTURNAL ENURESIS - RETENTION OF URINE - SEMINAL EMISSION - IMPOTENCE - BI SYNDROMES (PAINFUL JOINTS) - WEI SYNDROME (PARALYSIS) - HYSTERIA - AMENORRHEA - DYSMENORRHEA - UTERINE HEMORRHAGE - LEUKORRHEA - MORNING SICKNESS - LACTATION INSUFFICIENCY - INFANTILE DIARRHEA - MUMPS - URTICARIA - ERYSIPELAS - HERPES ZOSTER - FURUNCLE AND LYMPHANGITIS - ACUTE MASTITIS - APPENDICITIS - GOITER - SPRAIN - DEAFNESS AND TINNITUS - CONGESTION, SWELLING AND PAIN OF THE EYE - RHINORRHEA - EPISTAXIS - TOOTHACKE - SORE THROAT
# EAR ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE AURICLE AND CHANNELS, COLLATERALS AND ZANG-FU ORGANS ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE OF THE AURICLE AURICULAR POINTS CLINICAL APPLICATION OF EAR ACUPUNCTURE
# A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA PRINCIPLES OF SELECTING POINTS FOR ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA MANIPULATION METHOD REMARKS SOME EXAMPLES OF SELECTING POINTS FOR ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA

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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 2007-01-10
Sales Rank: 730
ISBN / ASIN: 0764577042
EAN: 9780764577048
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

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"If one book can help you master Vista, this is it." --Fred Langa, former editor-in-chief of Byte Magazine

"These two know more about Windows than Microsoft does." --Chris Pirillo, editor of Lockergnome.com

Go beyond Microsoft's Help guide and discover the true secrets of Windows Vista that are essential to power users. Written by two of the most recognized Windows authorities, this resource provides you with numerous tips, tricks, and undocumented features that aren't available anywhere else. You'll find extensive screenshots, tables, and illustrations that clearly show how to achieve optimal performance, fix desktop problems, and take advantage of the robust features of Windows Vista.

The Insider's Guide to

Installing and upgrading your system (see Chapter 2)
Quickly finding and organizing all of your files (see Chapter 5)
Taking advantage of new security features (see Chapter 8)
Creating your own movies and DVDs (see Chapter 12)
Playing state-of-the-art games with amazing effects (see Chapter 14)
Going wireless using Windows Vista mobility features (see Chapter 15)
Managing your schedule with WindowsÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â® Calendar (see Chapter 20)

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Publisher: Orchard Publications
Number Of Pages: 636
Publication Date: 2007-03-08
Sales Rank:
ISBN / ASIN: 1934404012
EAN: 9781934404010
Binding: Perfect Paperback
Manufacturer: Orchard Publications
Studio: Orchard Publications

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This text includes the following chapters and appendices: Numbers and Arithmetic Operations, Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Fundamentals of Geometry, Fundamentals of Plane Trigonometry, Fundamentals of Calculus, Mathematics of Finance and Economics, Depreciation, Impairment, and Depletion, Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Random Variables, Common Probability Distributions and Tests, Curve Fitting, Regression, and Correlation, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Introduction to MATLAB, The Gamma and Beta Functions and Distributions, Introduction to Markov Chains, The Lambda Index, The Black-Scoles Stock Options Model, The Altman Bankruptcy Z-Score

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Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Mps)

ISBN: 1572318937
Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Pr

Summary:
Written by a team of VB experts from the U.K. who call themselves the Mandelbrot Set, the second edition of Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 covers topics central to effective enterprise development. Chapters on project management, debugging, and testing and coding styles can help you get control of the project life cycle in Visual Basic. Other sections provide expert advice on using business objects, databases, exception handling, and other topics that extend the reach of today's Visual Basic. Besides being written in a lively style, Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 imparts a good deal of technical knowledge you aren't likely to find anywhere else, including material on Y2K programming. --Richard Dragan

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ISBN: 0-672-30168-7

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This book has several purposes. First, it introduces advanced parts of the C language. It also describes changes in the ANSI standard, which is the only true definition of the C language. In addition, the book contains much of what I have learned (often the hard way) about C programming.

Advanced C is divided into five parts, and each part can be used by itself. Part I gets you started and lays the groundwork for the rest of the book. In Part II, you learn how to manage data and files when programming in C. Part III introduces integrating C with other languages and interfacing with other environments such as database programs. Part IV is a reference section that covers the header files, the intrinsic functions, the preprocessor, and some performance and debugging techniques. Part V Advanced C xxiv (the appendixes) contains an ASCII table, information about different compilers, an introduction to C++, and a cross-reference of functions and their header files. Many chapters contain example programs. In some chapters, a single example program is used to demonstrate several topics in the chapter.

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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 912
Publication Date: 2001-06-26
Sales Rank: 442667
ISBN / ASIN: 0471417432
EAN: 9780471417439
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

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Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies)

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Number Of Pages: 486
Publication Date: 2004-04-07
Sales Rank: 53465
ISBN / ASIN: 1558608192
EAN: 9781558608191
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
Studio: Morgan Kaufmann

The best one volume book out there, but not perfect

This is the best single volume book on the subject of information visualisation that I've read. Sure, there are other very nice books on diagrams, maps, data analysis, modelling and scientific visualisation. However, none of them have the scope of this book.

And therein lies the problem. For a single volume book Ware's effort tries to cover too much and some of the chapters are quite weak (chapter 0 and 10). Also, the fact that it was written by a psychologist shows in a good and bad way: human visual cognition is correctly the foundation upon which to build visualisation. Unfortunately the examples and the ideas for implementation are often lacking or poor in quality.

The first edition also has typesetting errors, so be sure to get the second edition.

All in all, it's still a book worth getting if you're in any serious way connected with the practise of visualisation. However, don't expect it to be the bible of the field, as such a thing does not exist (yet).

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Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 359
Publication Date: 2006-11-02
Sales Rank: 40428
ISBN / ASIN: 0849372534
EAN: 9780849372537
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: CRC
Studio: CRC

Book Description: )

The hard disk drive (HDD) is an excellent example of the practical application of precision mechatronics. Hard Disk Drive: Mechatronics and Control describes the control aspects of an HDD, explains difficulties faced by designers, provides solutions, and highlights challenges of future-generation drives. Combining academic interests with practical problems, it provides a problem-oriented approach to the fundamental concepts of control, examines the process involved in the manufacturing of HDDs, and illustrates the application of precision mechatronics in great detail. Mechatronics researchers not working in HDD will find many concepts developed that are useful for problems in their own areas.

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Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 832
Publication Date: 2005-01-31
Sales Rank: 7829
ISBN / ASIN: 1590594614
EAN: 9781590594612
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress

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Pro Spring is not a blatant clone of the supplied documentation. Instead...the authors gracefully introduce Spring by adopting a very pragmatic approach based on their real-world experiences with the framework.

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬? Valentin Crettaz, JavaRanch Bartender

Spring--the open source Java-based framework--allows you to build lighter, better performing applications. Written by Spring insiders Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek, Pro Spring is the only book endorsed by Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework. At over 800 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive book available and thoroughly explores the power of Spring. You'll learn Spring basics and core topics, as well as share the authors' insights and real-world experience with remoting, mail integration, hibernate, and EJB.

From the Foreword: "Rob's enthusiasm for Spring--and technology in general--is infectious. He has a wide range of industry experience and a refreshingly practical, common sense approach to applying it. All those qualities come out in this book. It's evident on nearly every page that it reflects in-depth experience with Spring and J2EE as a whole. Rob is not only an author and open source developer--he is an application developer, like his readers. I firmly believe that the best writing on software development comes out of experience in the trenches, so this is my kind of book.

If you're new to Spring, this book will help you understand its core concepts and the background in areas such as transaction management and O/R mapping that underpins them. If you're already using Spring, you will learn about features you haven't yet seen and hopefully, gain a deeper understanding of those features you're already using."
--Rod Johnson, Founder of the Spring Framework.

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MP3, standing for MPEG-1, Layer 3, is a codec for compressing the size of audio files for digital distribution. Much more than a definition, MP3 is nothing less than a cultural and economic revolution on the Internet. Every day, hundreds of thousands of MP3 music files are searched for, shared, recorded and listened to by computer and Internet users of all kinds. Either alone or collected into massive download sites, the MP3 revolution is seriously threatening the traditional ways people find, listen to and create music. MP3 players and encoders are available for all major computer platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, Linux and BeOS. MP3 hardware players include portable players you can take with you jogging or exercising from manufactures like Sony, Diamond and Philips to home stereo and car stereo players. MP3: The Definitive Guide introduces the power-user to just about all aspects of MP3 technology. It delves into detail on obtaining, recording, and optimizing MP3 files using both commercial, and Open Source methods. Coverage is complete for four platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Linux and BeOS. In depth chapters describe all aspects of the MP3 experience from distributing, streaming, broadcasting, converting and playing to archiving your collection. Readers will learn how to test their equipment, optimize their encoding times, evaluate their playback options, control and organize a collection, even burn their own CD's or distribute their own music to a massive worldwide audience over the Internet. In addition, the author fills readers in on the complex legal issues surrounding MP3 files. Everything you need to know to enjoy MP3 today and tomorrow is contained in this single volume. MP3 is here to stay, and the applications for this versatile compression format are expanding exponentially along with its user base. MP3: The Definitive Guide should appeal to a broad audience of users, from the those just getting into this exciting new technology, to those who want to fully immerse themselves in the complexities and possibilities that MP3 presents.

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ISBN: 0201310090
Author: Doug Lea
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Edition: 2 edition (November 5, 1999)
Paperback: 432 pages

Summary:
Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd Edition surveys a wide field of research in parallelism and concurrency and shows how to do more with multithreading in Java with dozens of patterns and design tips. Written for the advanced Java developer, this book offers a comprehensive tour of leading-edge thinking about parallel coding processes.
Within the dozens of techniques and tips offered here, this book accomplishes at least two goals. First, it shows how concurrency is implemented by default within Java, with material on how built-in features (like the synchronized keyword and its memory model) can be expected to perform when dealing with multiple threads. Naturally, Java threads themselves are also covered, including priorities, scheduling, and the like.
Much of this book looks at ways to improve performance of concurrent code beyond the simple default strategies. After defining criteria for measuring concurrent code (such as safety and "liveness," a measure of running live threads effectively), the book presents dozens of techniques for letting threads work together safely. For the working Java programmer, coverage of patterns that have been implemented in the downloadable java.concurrency package will be the most immediately useful. (Within this nearly encyclopedic survey, short code snippets are used for every pattern and concept.)
Though theoretical at times, this book offers plenty of ideas and sample code to get you started thinking of ways to improve multithreaded code.
Impressively comprehensive, Concurrent Programming in Java offers a veritable bible of techniques for doing two things at once with threads in Java. It's a worthwhile guide to the state-of-the-art strategies for improving the performance of your Java threads. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Threads and concurrency in Java, design considerations (safety, liveness, and performance), Before/After Patterns, layering, adapters, immutability and synchronization, deadlock, resource ordering, the Java Memory Model and concurrency, using the java.concurrency package, confinement, refactoring for concurrency, mutexes, read-write locks, recovering from failure, notifications, semaphores, latches, exchanges, transactions, one-way messages, worker threads, polling and event-driven I/O, parallelism techniques (fork/join, computation trees, and barriers), Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).

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ISBN: 0596001576
Author: Scott Oaks
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Edition: 2 edition (May 17, 2001)
Paperback: 620 pages

Summary:
Scott Oakes' Java Security is extraordinary both for its technical depth and its readability. It provides the Java programmer with a complete overview of the Java security architecture and security classes, plus a wealth of detailed information and code examples for specific implementations. The book opens with a clear discussion of what Java security is, how the various Java sandbox models work, and how Java applications and applets execute within the security model. The following chapters look in depth at the elements of the Java security architecture: language rules, class loaders, the security manager, the access controller, and permission objects. All these chapters provide detailed information on implementation, as well as an excellent explanation of the role of each feature within the entire security picture. The second half of the book covers cryptographic features in the Java security package (much enhanced in Java 1.2) and how Java programs work with code that performs authentication and encryption. Here, you'll find detailed chapters on message digests, keys and certificates, key management, digital signatures, and the Java Cryptography Extensions. Anyone who needs to understand Java security, but especially those who will implement security features in Java applications, will want to own this book.

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Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2005-06-08
Sales Rank: 49841
ISBN / ASIN: 0672327473
EAN: 9780672327476
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sams
Studio: Sam

Book Description: )

Take your Java programming skills beyond the ordinary. Java After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work will make Java your playground with ten detailed projects that will have you exploring the various fields that Java offers to build exciting new programs. You'll learn to:

Create graphics interactively on Web servers
Send images to Web browsers
Tinker with Java's Swing package to make it do seemingly impossible things
Search websites and send e-mail from Java programs
Use multithreading, Ant and more!

Increase your Java arsenal by taking control of Java and explore its possibilities with Java After Hours.

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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2002-10-23
Sales Rank: 485693
ISBN / ASIN: 0130449296
EAN: 9780130449290
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall

Summary:
BlueJ is a Java development environment that runs on top of the Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit making use of the standard compiler and virtual machine. It allows readers to create objects of any class and interact with their methods. For the first time, the traditionally difficult concepts of objects and classes are brought alive in an easily manipulable visual form. This truly ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œobjects firstÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚? approach within the customized BlueJ environment will revolutionize the way programming is learned. The book includes a copy of BlueJ. Takes a project driven approach to problem solvingÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?the book is structured along the lines of fundamental development tasksÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?providing readers with clear coverage of the principles of object-oriented programming. Programmers and non-programmers who want to learn Java with a state of the art approach and user-friendly programming environment.

From the Back Cover
Objects First with Java:
A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ
Learn JAVA and BLUEJ straight from the source!

Welcome to the first introductory programming textbook that completely integrates BlueJ with the teaching of object-oriented principles using Java.

BlueJ is a Java development environment that runs on top of the Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit making use of the standard compiler and virtual machine. It has been specifically designed for the introductory teaching of object-oriented programming, allowing the student to create objects of any class and interact with their methods. This truly objects first approach within the customized BlueJ environment is expected to revolutionise the way programming is taught. For the first time, the traditionally difficult concepts of objects and classes are brought alive in an easily manipulable visual form.

Key features:

* Objects first approach
BlueJ supports teaching tools that are not available in other environments, including the visualisation of class structure. This means that the student can interact with objects directly, even before looking at the first line of Java syntax!
* Project driven approach to problem solving
Each chapter contains problems which are analyzed before the language constructs are introduced that can solve them. What is more, the book is structured along the lines of fundamental development tasks, giving clear coverage of the principles of object-oriented programming
* Spiral approach
Challenging topics are introduced early, and then revised later in the book in a different context in order to deepen understanding
* Thorough treatment of object-oriented principles
Pointers are used within each chapter to refer the student to further reading, supplementary sources, and language references
* Supplements
The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing the JDK and BlueJ for various operating systems. A supplement download website contains the style guide for all examples used in the book, as well as PowerPoint slides for instructors.

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Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: 2002-09-12
Sales Rank: 495926
ISBN / ASIN: 0672323990
EAN: 0752063323991
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sams
Studio: Sams

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"Java P2P Unleashed" provides a single source for Java developers who want to develop P2P systems. The book explains the benefits of each technology and shows how to fit the P2P "pieces" together - both in building new systems and integrating with existing ones.starts with a discussion of the P2P architecture, referencing similarities with existing, familiar systems while previewing several types of P2P applications. It explains how to plan ahead for security, routing, performance and other issues when developing a P2P application.Each technology included in the book - JXTA, Jini, JavaSpaces, J2EE, Web services - is approached from a P2P perspective, focusing on implementation concerns Java developers will face while using them. The last section includes several large-scale examples of different P2P applications - managing content, building communities, integrating services, routing messages, and using intelligent agents to gather information. The final chapter looks ahead to future developments in Java P2P technologies.

Lead Author Bio

Robert Flenner is an independent Java software developer based in Texas. He contributed to Professional Jini (Wrox) and Professional Java eCommerce (Wrox). Robert is a regular contributor to the O'Reilly ONJava Web site, where he is currently publishing a series of articles related to Jini and JavaSpaces. He has been involved in managing, architecting, and developing information systems for 17 years. His most recent book is Jini and JavaSpaces Application Development (Sams), published in December 2001.
Contributing Authors

Michael Abbott has more than 10 years of distributed computing experience, has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, and speaks regularly on XML and distributed transaction management. Mike founded METAmorphosis, a company focusing on managing distribution transactions across heterogeneous databases, and is currently working with code. Mike is very involved in the computing communityÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚?he participates on a JSR Expert Group at Sun, participates on a technical committee at OASIS, is currently the president of the BEA User Group in Silicon Valley, and has chaired the XML Sig for the Software Development Forum for the past two years.

Mike was most recently the CTO and Executive-Vice President of Electron Economy, a supply chain software company, prior to its acquisition by Viewlocity. During his tenure there, Electron Economy was named to Upside's Top 100 companies of 2000 and filed four technical patents. Mike also serves on the board of directors for Innogenex, and on the strategic advisory board to SchemaLogic. He holds a B.S. degree in biochemistry with a focus in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, and has completed Ph.D. work at the University of Washington.

Toufic Boubez is the Chief Technology Officer of Layer 7 Technologies, specializing in Web services security. While at IBM, he was a senior technologist in the Emerging Technologies group and the chief architect of IBM's Web services initiative, as well as the architect of the first iterations of the IBM Web Services Toolkit. He was also IBM's technical representative to UDDI, and a coauthor of the UDDI V1 API specification. Toufic represented IBM on other standards bodies, such as the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative, and helped drive IBM's early XML and Web services strategy. He has acted as technical chair for the XML Web Services One Conference, and technical chair for various tracks.

Toufic has more than 15 years of experience in IT and has presented and published papers in the areas of Web services, XML, software agents, machine learning, object technology, B2B, business modeling, simulation, neural networks, wavelet analysis, and distributed computing. He is the coauthor of Building Web Services with Java (Sams).

Frank Cohen is a software entrepreneur who has contributed to the worldwide success of personal computers since 1975. He has written operating systems for microcomputers, helped establish video games as an industry, helped establish the Norton Utilities franchise, lead Apple's efforts into middleware and Internet technologies, and is currently serving as principal architect for the Sun Community Server, Inclusion.net, and TuneUp.com. Frank is principal maintainer for the open-source TestMaker project and is CEO for PushToTest, a scalability and performance testing solutions company. Previously, Frank authored Testing Web Services (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2002) and contributed to Java Web Services Unleashed (Sams, 2002). You can reach Frank at fcohen@pushtotest.com.

Navaneeth Krishnan works for Sun Microsystems's Sun ONE Identity Server group in Bangalore, India. He has extensive experience in designing and developing J2EE-based application frameworks and solutions. His current focus is on user identity management, Web services and peer-to-peer technologies. He has been involved in JXTA since mid-2001, and strongly believes that it has the potential to make a significant impact in the area of peer-to-peer computing.

He spends his spare time writing articles, contributing to books, and exploring the endless possibilities created by emerging technologies. Previously, he contributed to JXTA: Java P2P Programming (Sams).

Alan Moffet has over 20 years of development (C++, Java, Smalltalk, XML) and management experience with companies such as Northern Telecom (Texas). He is currently an independent consultant whose interests are in distributed systems, systems architecture, components and objects, and software engineering. He specializes in the application of emerging technologies and improving organizational development capacity.

Rajam Ramamurti is a designer and developer who specializes in creating documentation for a variety of technologies, including J2EE, EJB, XML, and C++. Clients have included Gene Logic, Kanisa, Netscape, Oracle, and Progress Software, for whom she conducted training sessions on EJB architecture. She holds a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bilal Siddiqui is an electronics engineer, an XML consultant, and the co-founder of WaxSys, a company focused on simplifying e-business. After graduating with a degree in electronics engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, in 1995, he began designing software solutions for industrial control systems. Later he turned to XML, and used his experience programming in C++ to build Web- and WAP-based XML processing tools, server-side parsing solutions, and service applications. He is a technology evangelist and a frequently published technical author.

Frank Sommers is CEO and founder of Autospaces, a company focused on bringing Jini technology and Web services to the automotive software market. He has been developing Java-based software since attending Sun Microsystems' first Java conference in November, 1995. Frank's interests include parallel and distributed computing, the discovery and representation of knowledge in databases, and the philosophical foundations of computing

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Publisher: Manning Publications
Number Of Pages: 841
Publication Date: 2006-11-24
Sales Rank: 1629
ISBN / ASIN: 1932394885
EAN: 9781932394887
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Manning Publications
Studio: Manning Publications

Book Description: )

Persistence-the ability of data to outlive an instance of a program-is central to modern applications. Hibernate, the most popular Java persistence tool, provides automatic and transparent object/relational mapping making it a snap to work with SQL databases in Java applications. Hibernate applications are cheaper, more portable, and more resilient to change. Because it conforms to the new EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence 1.0 standard, Hibernate allows the developer to seamlessly create efficient, scalable Java EE applications.

Java Persistence with Hibernate explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples. You'll immediately dig into the rich programming model of Hibernate 3.2 and Java Persistence, working through queries, fetching strategies, caching, transactions, conversations, and more. You'll also appreciate the well-illustrated discussion of best practices in database design, object/relational mapping, and optimization techniques.

In this revised edition of the bestselling Hibernate in Action, authors Christian Bauer and Gavin King-the founder of the Hibernate project-cover Hibernate 3.2 in detail along with the EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence standard.

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Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites Problem Design Solution

Publisher: Wrox
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2005-04-15
Sales Rank: 401661
ISBN / ASIN: 0764583069
EAN: 9780764583063
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wrox
Studio: Wrox

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Shelley Powers "What Are Syndication Feeds"
O'Reilly | ISBN: 0-596-52697-0 | December 2005 | CHM | 55.2 kB

Syndication feeds have become a standard tool on the Web. But when you enter the world of syndicated content, you're often faced with the question of what is the "proper" way to do syndication. This edoc, which covers Atom and the two flavors of RSS--2.0 and 1.0--succinctly explains what a syndication feed is, then gets down to the nitty-gritty of what makes up a feed, how you can find and subscribe to them, and which feed will work best for you.

Reviewer on O'Reilly's web site:

Though the basics of this shortcut cover some good information, I think it has a little problem with deciding who the intended audience is. Most of the content is more of a definition, description and overview of RSS feeds, which is fitting to the title. But, it takes the time to define the elements of a fee for different feed protocols, etc. which would really only be interesting to someone trying to build a feed by hand. For those sections, if they are intended for a more advanced user, they followed it short.

Though I have been impressed by many of the O'Reilly shortcut titles it for their concise and accurate information provided in a downloadable real time (read that instant gratification) format, this title fell a little bit short. That said, there is some good information here for beginners who want to understand a little bit more about what RSS feeds are, how to use an aggregator, how to subscribe to feeds in general, and things like that.

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod and iTunes (2nd Edition) (Absolute Beginner's Guide)

Publisher: Que
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2005-09-15
Sales Rank: 819372
ISBN / ASIN: 0789734575
EAN: 9780789734570
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Que
Studio: Que

Summary:
Apple has taken the digital music world by storm and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod + iTunes, Second Edition is your umbrella. It will provide you with all of the information that you need to get the most out of these amazing digital music tools. From the basics of listening to audio CDs using iTunes to purchasing music from the iTunes Music Store to customizing playlists on your iPod, you will be equipped to master digital music using these tools. You'll discover how each tool works on its own and then how you can use all three together to get the most out of each tool. The second edition also includes coverage of the new iPod photo and iPod shuffle music players. Join the millions of people who are using iPod and iTunes every day with the Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod + iTunes, Second Edition.

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Publisher: Que
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2005-09-15
Sales Rank: 819372
ISBN / ASIN: 0789734575
EAN: 9780789734570
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Que
Studio: Que

Summary:
Apple has taken the digital music world by storm and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod + iTunes, Second Edition is your umbrella. It will provide you with all of the information that you need to get the most out of these amazing digital music tools. From the basics of listening to audio CDs using iTunes to purchasing music from the iTunes Music Store to customizing playlists on your iPod, you will be equipped to master digital music using these tools. You'll discover how each tool works on its own and then how you can use all three together to get the most out of each tool. The second edition also includes coverage of the new iPod photo and iPod shuffle music players. Join the millions of people who are using iPod and iTunes every day with the Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod + iTunes, Second Edition.

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Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2003-08-11
Sales Rank: 404909
ISBN / ASIN: 1592000738
EAN: 0082039500737
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR
Studio: Course Technology PTR

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If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for more practical Python programming applications and you will learn how these skills can be put to use in real- world scenarios. Best of all, by the time you finish this book you will be able to apply the basic principles you?ve learned to the next programming language you tackle.

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Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2003-01-31
Sales Rank: 1164020
ISBN / ASIN: 0130666483
EAN: 0076092023456
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR

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IP in Wireless Networks by Basavaraj Patil, Yousuf Saifullah, Lachu Aravamudhan, Shavantha Kularatna, Stefano Faccin, Risto Mononen, Sreenivas Sreemanthula, Sarvesh Sharma, Lachu Lyengar
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (January 31, 2003) | ISBN: 0130666483 | CHM | 2,6 Mb | 400 pages

The complete network professional's guide to delivering wireless IP.

Wireless IP: the professional's guide to understanding data in wireless networks
Covers IP in 802.11, Bluetooth(tm), GSM/GPRS, W-CDMA, cdma2000, i-mode, and more
Includes expert insights into architecture, mobility models, and applications
Previews emerging applications such as Multimedia Messaging (MMS) and VoIP-over-wireless
IP in Wireless Networks is the first comprehensive guide that shows how IP is enabled in 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. A world-class team of wireless engineers presents a systematic, expert guidance for every leading wireless technology, including 802.11, Bluetooth(tm), GSM/GPRS, CDMA and i-mode. This book's in-depth coverage encompasses architecture, deployment strategies, operation, mobility models, applications, and much more.

The evolution of wireless networks from circuit-switched to packet-switched
Key technical challenges to wireless IPÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚?and proven solutions
Current and emerging wireless IP applications, including Multimedia messaging, VoIP-over-wireless, and location services
The standards bodies relevant to the wireless architectures that are defining the specifications for the emerging wireless Internet
Beyond 3G: a 3GPP/3GPP2 perspective
If you're responsible for planning, developing, deploying, or managing wireless IP networks, you'll find IP in Wireless Networks an indispensable resource

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Publisher: Sybex
Number Of Pages: 356
Publication Date: 2006-11-29
Sales Rank: 44305
ISBN / ASIN: 0470084588
EAN: 9780470084588
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sybex
Studio: Sybex

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Develop the skills you need in the real world

Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of PC Technicians, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of a PC Technician's job, including:
* Installing hardware and software
* Maintaining hardware and software
* Installing and upgrading operating systems and networks
* Installing and upgrading security systems

An invaluable study tool

This no-nonsense book also covers the common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its A+ certification candidates to know how to perform. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, including:
* Installing or replacing a power supply
* Installing or replacing a laptop hard drive
* Upgrading Windows(r) 2000 to Windows(r) XP
* Scanning for and removing viruses
* Installing printer drivers
* Troubleshooting your network

The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

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Bacteria and Viruses (The Lucent Library of Science and Technology)

Publisher: Lucent Books
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 2004-05-21
Sales Rank: 1057474
ISBN / ASIN: 1590184386
EAN: 9781590184387
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Lucent Books
Studio: Lucent Books
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They are responsible for some of the deadliest diseases, yet they play a vital role in maintaining life on earth. In Bacteria and Viruses, learn about the scientists who found them, how we fight the harmful ones, and how beneficial microbes can be used to improve our lives.

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Recently molecular biology has undergone unprecedented development generating vast quantities of data needing sophisticated computational methods for analysis, processing and archiving. This requirement has given birth to the truly interdisciplinary field of computational biology, or bioinformatics, a subject reliant on both theoretical and practical contributions from statistics, mathematics, computer science and biology.

* Provides the background mathematics required to understand
why certain algorithms work
* Guides the reader through probability theory, entropy and
combinatorial optimization
* In-depth coverage of molecular biology and protein
structure prediction
* Includes several less familiar algorithms such as DNA
segmentation, quartet puzzling and DNA strand separation
prediction
* Includes class tested exercises useful for self-study
* Source code of programs available on a Web site

Primarily aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students from bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, mathematics and the biological sciences, this text will also interest researchers from these fields

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 286
Publication Date: 2000-09-15
Sales Rank: 3490366
ISBN / ASIN: 0471872512
EAN: 9780471872511
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

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Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Real World)

Publisher: Peachpit Press
Number Of Pages: 568
Publication Date: 2005-11-10
Sales Rank: 20117
ISBN / ASIN: 0321337026
EAN: 9780321337023
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press

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How do you define a serious Illustrator user? How about one who uses Illustrator to produce robust and professional-looking vector graphics but also needs the program to be flexible and efficient in workflow and production cycles. If this describes you or the user you strive to be, then you need this book Filled with the industrial-strength techniques and best practices required to get you up to speed fast on Illustrator CS2 without missing a beat in your production workflow, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 is the definitive reference for the serious Illustrator user. Thoroughly updated for this version of the software, Illustrator pro Mordy Golding offers a complete guide to the new features such as Live Trace, Live Paint, the Control Palette, Custom Workspaces, and expanded support for Mobile devices, to name a few. You'll also find practical insights on creating type, symbols, graphs, color, effects, Web graphics, and more. Along with tips, sidebars, and expert commentary, there are also numerous illustrations and screen shots included to offer readers the most complete coverage on this extraordinary application. Designers from all fields--illustrators, animators, package designers, graphic designers, web designers, and more--will find Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 their one-stop guide to creating powerful designs in Illustrator CS2.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 562
Publication Date: 2004-12-22
Sales Rank: 3269945
ISBN / ASIN: 3540214313
EAN: 9783540214311
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies covering such problems as contract or procedure validation and strategic behaviour. This book is about theory, formalization, and proof-of-concept implementation of these and related matters. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art results, the book places this work in the context of nearly twenty years of developments in formal modelling for electronic commerce. A comprehensive bibliography and index are provided.

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070-217 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure
070-220 Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network
070-228 Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
070-229 Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Enterprise Edition
070-272 Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications
070-284 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server
070-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
070-291 Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
070-296 Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for a W2K MCSE
070-297 Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure
070-299 Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network
070-300 Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures
070-301 TK's Managing, Organizing, and Delivering IT Projects by Using Microsoft Solutions Framework 3.0
070-305 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
070-306 Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
070-310 XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual Basic.NET
070-316 Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET

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05. 070-216 ... ... ... 22. 070-271 ... ... ... 39. 070-306
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07. 070-218 ... ... ... 24. 070-281 ... ... ... 41. 070-316
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09. 070-220 ... ... ... 26. 070-284 ... ... ... 43. 074-100
10. 070-221 ... ... ... 27. 070-285 ... ... ... 44. MOS-A2K
11. 070-222 ... ... ... 28. 070-290 ... ... ... 45. MOS-AXP
12. 070-223 ... ... ... 29. 070-291 ... ... ... 46. MOS-E2E
13. 070-224 ... ... ... 30. 070-292 ... ... ... 47. MOS-OXP
14. 070-225 ... ... ... 31. 070-293 ... ... ... 48. MOS-P2K
15. 070-226 ... ... ... 32. 070-294 ... ... ... 49. MOS-W2E
16. 070-227 ... ... ... 33. 070-296 ... ... ... 50. MOS-W2K
17. 070-228 ... ... ... 34. 070-297 ... ... ... 51. MOS-WXP

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Publisher: University of California Press
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: 1991-08-26
Sales Rank: 1604342
ISBN / ASIN: 0520070593
EAN: 9780520070592
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press

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Book Description
Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally. But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind of Samuel Clemens. It was some time before he took full possession of the personality the world now recognizes.
This is the story of the coming of age of Mark Twain. It begins in 1867, with Clemens stepping off the steamship Quaker City and almost immediately declaring himself "in a fidget to move." It comes to a close in 1871, with Clemens settling in Hartford. Mark Twain was substantially formed during the intervening years, as Clemens came East, gained fame and fortune with the publication of Innocents Abroad, courted and married Olivia Langdon, and established himself as a professional writer. Each of these steps represented a profound change in the former Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope as he sifted through the elements in his personality and began to assume the qualities we now associate with him. The tale that unfolds here shows how, through that process, the Mark Twain of the late 1860s became the Mark Twain of all time.

About the Author
Jeffrey Steinbrink is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Franklin and Marshall College.

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Publisher: Bantam
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2005-11-29
Sales Rank: 11365
ISBN / ASIN: 0553804162
EAN: 9780553804164
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Bantam
Studio: Bantam

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Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?and altogether irresistibly odd.

WeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢re all a little odd beneath the surface. HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s the most unlikely hero youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ll ever meetÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?itÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s got a duty to do the right thing. ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s the way Odd sees it and thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s why heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.

A childhood friend of OddÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s already an old friend, youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ll be led on an unforgettable journey through
a world of terror, wonder and delightÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.

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Publisher: William Morrow
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Sales Rank: 173955
ISBN / ASIN: 0060734558
EAN: 9780060734558
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Studio: William Morrow
Average Rating: 4.5

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Annabelle is tired of being the lone failure in a family of overachievers. She's endured dead-end jobs and a broken engagement. Even her hair's a mess! But that's going to change now that she's taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking business. All Annabelle has to do is land the Windy City's hottest bachelor as her client, and she'll be the most sought-after matchmaker in town. Nothing is going to stand in her way -- not the drunk lying comatose under her car, not her family's disapproval, and certainly not the lingering effects of a broken heart.

With his money green eyes and calculated charm, Heath Champion is the best sports agent in the country. He's wealthy, driven, and gorgeous, so why does he need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? True, she's entertaining, and she does have a certain quirky appeal. But Heath is searching for the ultimate symbol of his success -- the perfect wife. And to make an extraordinary match, he needs an extraordinary matchmaker, right?

Thin, rich, utterly fabulous Portia Powers has spent her career making matches for everyone but herself. Her take-no-prisoners attitude has built Power Matches into the top matchmaking agency in Chicago. So what if she has more enemies than friends and she's one breath away from a nervous breakdown? Neither an upstart like Annabelle Granger nor Heath Champion's menacing, but oddly intriguing, bodyguard, will keep her from getting what she wants -- a Power Match for Heath ... the city's very own Jerry Maguire.

Soon everyone in Chicago has a stake in the outcome, right down to Annabelle's overprotective book club. When the matchmaker promises she'll do anything to keep her star client happy ... does she mean anything? If Annabelle isn't careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town -- a man who's beginning to ask himself: Exactly how perfect does perfect have to be?

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Publisher: Avon
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 1993-02-01
Sales Rank: 899911
ISBN / ASIN: 0380769387
EAN: 9780380769384
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Avon

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A fulfilling sex life is one of the great joys of life, yet many woman silently wonder why their own sexual pleasure falls short of the romantic fantasies they hear about. Now the secrets of sexual ecstasy are revealed. Seven clearly describes steps to success will tell you:

The simple exercises that will help you become orgasmic

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 301
Publication Date: 2005-08-23
Sales Rank: 3209407
ISBN / ASIN: 0387276971
EAN: 9780387276977
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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The need for natural and effective Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is increasingly important due to the prevalence of computers in human activities. Computer vision and pattern recognition continue to play a dominant role in the HCI realm. However, computer vision methods often fail to become pervasive in the field due to the lack of real-time, robust algorithms, and novel and convincing applications. This state-of-the-art contributed volume is comprised of articles by prominent experts in computer vision, pattern recognition and HCI. It is the first published text to capture the latest research in this rapidly advancing field with exclusive focus on real-time algorithms and practical applications in diverse and numerous industries, and it outlines further challenges in these areas. Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction is an invaluable reference for HCI researchers in both academia and industry, and a useful supplement for advanced-level courses in HCI and Computer Vision.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 326
Publication Date: 2004-11-12
Sales Rank: 2989601
ISBN / ASIN: 1852336048
EAN: 9781852336042
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

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Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of sensors in the non-visible bands. As a result, there is a need for existing computer vision methods and algorithms to be adapted for use with non-visible sensors, or for the development of completely new methods and systems. Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum is the first book to bring together state-of-the-art work in this area. It presents new & pioneering research across the electromagnetic spectrum in the military, commercial, and medical domains. By providing a detailed examination of each of these areas, it focuses on the development of state-of-the-art algorithms and looks at how they can be used to solve existing & new challenges within computer vision. Essential reading for academics & industrial researchers working in the area of computer vision, image processing, and medical imaging, it will also be useful background reading for advanced undergraduate & postgraduate students

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 406
Publication Date: 2005-04-29
Sales Rank: 1248852
ISBN / ASIN: 354024039X
EAN: 9783540240396
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

We live in a noisy world! In all applications (telecommunications, hands-free communications, recording, human-machine interfaces, etc.) that require at least one microphone, the signal of interest is usually contaminated by noise and reverberation. As a result, the microphone signal has to be "cleaned" with digital signal processing tools before it is played out, transmitted, or stored. This book is about speech enhancement. Different well-known and state-of-the-art methods for noise reduction, with one or multiple microphones, are discussed. By speech enhancement, we mean not only noise reduction but also dereverberation and separation of independent signals. These topics are also covered in this book. However, the general emphasis is on noise reduction because of the large number of applications that can benefit from this technology. The goal of this book is to provide a strong reference for researchers, engineers, and graduate students who are interested in the problem of signal and speech enhancement. To do so, we invited well-known experts to contribute chapters covering the state of the art in this focused field.

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Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition

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Learning Cocoa with Objective-C is the "must-have" book for people who want to develop applications for Mac OS X, and is the only book approved and reviewed by Apple engineers. Based on the Jaguar release of Mac OS X 10.2, this edition of Learning Cocoa includes examples that use the Address Book and Universal Access APIs. Also included is a handy quick reference card, charting Cocoa's Foundation and AppKit frameworks, along with an Appendix that includes a listing of resources essential to any Cocoa developer--beginning or advanced. Completely revised and updated, this 2nd edition begins with some simple examples to familiarize you with the basic elements of Cocoa programming as well Apple's Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder. After introducing you to Project Builder and Interface Builder, it brings you quickly up to speed on the concepts of object-oriented programming with Objective-C, the language of choice for building Cocoa applications. From there, each chapter presents a different sample program for you to build, with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions to teach you the fundamentals of Cocoa programming. The techniques you will learn in each chapter lay the foundation for more advanced techniques and concepts presented in later chapters. You'll learn how to:

Effectively use Apple's suite of Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder
Build single- and multiple-window document-based applications
Manipulate text data using Cocoa's text handling capabilities
Draw with Cocoa
Add scripting functionality to your applications
Localize your application for multiple language support
Polish off your application by adding an icon for use in the Dock, provide Help, and package your program for distribution

Each chapter ends with a series of Examples, challenging you to test your newly-learned skills by tweaking the application you've just built, or to go back to an earlier example and add to it some new functionality. Solutions are provided in the Appendix, but you're encouraged to learn by trying. Extensive programming experience is not required to complete the examples in the book, though experience with the C programming language will be helpful. If you are familiar with an object-oriented programming language such as Java or Smalltalk, you will rapidly come up to speed with the Objective-C language. Otherwise, basic object-oriented and language concepts are covered where needed.

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications held June 26, 2004 in Saint Malo, France. (Coregrid)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 190
Publication Date: 2004-11-19
Sales Rank: 4483757
ISBN / ASIN: 0387233512
EAN: 9780387233512
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications is the essential reference for the most current research on Grid technologies. This first volume of the CoreGRID series addresses such vital issues as the architecture of the Grid, the way software will influence the development of the Grid, and the practical applications of Grid technologies for individuals and businesses alike. Part I of the book, "Application-Oriented Designs", focuses on development methodology and how it may contribute to a more component-based use of the Grid. "Middleware Architecture", the second part, examines portable Grid engines, hierarchical infrastructures, interoperability, as well as workflow modeling environments. The final part of the book, "Communication Frameworks", looks at dynamic self-adaptation, collective operations, and higher-order components. With Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications, editors Vladimir Getov and Thilo Kielmann offer the computing professional and the computing researcher the most informative, up-to-date, and forward-looking thoughts on the fast-growing field of Grid studies.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 194
Publication Date: 2005-11-17
Sales Rank: 1032349
ISBN / ASIN: 1846280354
EAN: 9781846280351
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

The new capabilities of ubiquitous and pervasive computing imply that products, locations, consumers and employees create rich streams of information about themselves, their immediate environment and their use. This book brings together technological and business aspects of conducting commerce using ubiquitous and pervasive computing techniques and also examines its implications for society at large. Individual chapters examine in detail the core technologies that make ubiquitous computing possible, the business standards that must be established to support the envisioned global infrastructures, and the applications in the supply chain and for consumers that can be built today. They also examine business cases where investment in this technology is appropriate as well as the economics mechanisms that must be designed for the effective use of such systems. The implications of ubiquitous and pervasive commerce for the legal system, for employees of retailers and for privacy protection of the public at large are also discussed.

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Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

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Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies covering such problems as contract or procedure validation and strategic behaviour. This book is about theory, formalization, and proof-of-concept implementation of these and related matters. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art results, the book places this work in the context of nearly twenty years of developments in formal modelling for electronic commerce. A comprehensive bibliography and index are provided.

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 562
Publication Date: 2004-12-22
Sales Rank: 3269945
ISBN / ASIN: 3540214313
EAN: 9783540214311
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer

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ISBN: 0764573470
Author: Tony Bove / Cheryl Rhodes
Publisher: For Dummies

Summary:
* Updated to cover the latest iLife features and enhancements, including the new GarageBand application
* Seven minibooks on iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iPod, and iLife Extras get readers quickly up to speed with all of Apple's digital media applications
* Covers the key features of each application, including ripping songs and working with a playlist (iTunes), editing and saving digital photo files (iPhoto), assembling picture and video clips into a home movie (iMovie), creating DVD slide shows and movies (iDVD), and setting up and recording in a digital music studio (GarageBand), plus bonus coverage of Apple's market-leading iPod

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Publisher: Cisco Press
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2002-11-08
Sales Rank: 1387771
ISBN / ASIN: 1587050927
EAN: 0619472050927
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Cisco Press
Studio: Cisco Press

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Hands-on techniques for securing Windows(r) servers, browsers, and network communications

Create effective security policies and establish rules for operating in and maintaining a security- conscious environment
Learn how to harden Windows multi-user platforms, including NT, 2000, and XP
Understand secure installation options for Windows web servers and how to enhance security on existing web and FTP server installations
Improve security at the end user's workstation, including web browsers, desktops, and laptops
Evaluate the pros and cons of installing a certificate server and becoming your own Certification Authority
Learn the Cisco PIX Firewall and Cisco IOS Firewall architecture and how to apply Cisco standard and extended access lists
Discover ways to test the current state of security and keep it up to date
Learn to engage end users as part of the overall network security solution

While the Internet has transformed and improved the way we do business, this vast network and its associated technologies have opened the door to an increasing number of security threats. The challenge for successful, public web sites is to encourage access to the site while eliminating undesirable or malicious traffic and to provide sufficient levels of security without constraining performance or scalability. The more reliant organizations become on the Internet to perform daily jobs or conduct transactions, the greater the impact a breach of network security has. Just as Cisco Systems has been an innovator in using the Internet to conduct business, so too is it a market leader in the development and sale of products and technologies that protect data traveling across the Internet. Yet a network security solution is only as strong as its weakest link. Network attacks can occur at any point, including the network connection, the firewall, the web server, or the client. Hardening the defenses at all these points is key to creating an effective, all-encompassing network security solution.

Web Security Field Guide provides you with hands-on, proven solutions to help patch the most common vulnerabilities of Windows(r) web servers and browsers within the context of an end-to-end network security architecture. Avoiding conceptual discussions of underlying technologies, the book spends little time discussing how each application works. Using plain language and lots of step-by-step examples, the book instead focuses on helping you secure your web servers and prevent the majority of network attacks. Divided into five parts, the book opens with an overview of essential background information and helps you establish working network security rules and policies. Parts II through IV teach you the techniques for hardening the operating system, the web server, and the browser. Part V of the book addresses overall network security, focusing on preventing and controlling access. Topics such as becoming a Certification Authority, Cisco PIX(r) Firewall, Cisco IOS(r) Firewall, access lists, ongoing security maintenance, and testing are all examined in-depth, providing an overall network security plan that can drastically reduce the risk to your business systems and data.

Full of diagrams, screen captures, and step-by-step instructions for performing simple tasks that can radically improve the security of your Internet business solutions, Web Security Field Guide is a practical tool that can help ensure the integrity and security of your business-critical applications.

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Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

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This essential reference organizes material into a set of nine stand-alone, task-oriented minibooks that enable readers to understand all aspects of the Fedora OS, the latest release of the most popular Linux distribution
Each minibook covers a different aspect of Fedora, such as getting users started with Fedora, the various workstations and applications, OpenOffice.org, networking, system administration, security, running Internet servers on a Fedora system, and programming
More experienced readers can use this desktop reference to look up how to perform specific tasks, such as hooking up to the Internet, using a cable modem, or reading e-mail
Includes the full Fedora Core distribution with source code on DVD and all of the CD content that comes with Fedora, saving readers hours of download time
Publisher: For Dummies
Number Of Pages: 874
Publication Date: 2004-08-06
Sales Rank: 828747
ISBN / ASIN: 0764567934
EAN: 9780764567933
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies

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ISBN: 0764539698
Author: Dave Taylor
Publisher: For Dummies
Edition: (May 12, 2003)
Paperback: 384 pages

Summary:
Discover new security features and easier installation
Light up your system with a new resource manager, volume manager, and directory server
In the dark about Solaris 9? Open this book and let the sun shine in! It'll help you chart a course for StarOffice, explore CDE and GNOME desktops, and harness Solaris power to configure Web servers, access Internet services, build great Web sites, manage files and directories, and a galaxy of other tasks.
The Dummies Way
* Explanations in plain English
* "Get in, get out" information
* Icons and other navigational aids
* Tear-out cheat sheet
* Top ten lists
* A dash of humor and fun

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ISBN: 007222679X
Author: Kathy Ivens
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Edition: 1 edition (November 13, 2002)
Paperback: 593 pages

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Manage your small business easily and effectively with the ONLY Intuit-authorized guide to QuickBooks! Now you can take charge of your small business finances and learn to use the many helpful and innovative elements of this powerful software with the official guide to QuickBooks 2003.

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The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company - 1935 - All About Coffee

Publisher: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 1922
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ISBN / ASIN: B000NYP2OC
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Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,
Studio: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,

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How to Reclaim Your Life (APA Lifetools)

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Number Of Pages: 203
Publication Date: 2005-09
Sales Rank: 188777
ISBN / ASIN: 1591470498
EAN: 9781591470496
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)
Studio: American Psychological Association (APA)

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If you suffer from chronic pain, this proven 10-step program brings hope and relief, showing you how gradual changes in specific behaviors can lead to great improvements in your ability to cope. Psychologists Turk and Winters' recommendations are based on solid research that shows what works and on their success with thousands of patients. Unlike the authors of other pain books, they promise no miracle cures, but they do help you learn "not to let your body push you around" so life becomes enjoyable again. The key lessons in this book include ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Uncovering some of the myths about pain and the deceptive ways it fools your body into unconstructive behavior ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Pacing your activity, so you build strength without overdoing or underdoing it ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Learning how to induce deep relaxation so you can begin to enjoy life again ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Dealing with disturbed sleep and chronic fatigue ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Improving your relations with family and friends, and soliciting support ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Changing your habitual behaviors in ways that reduce pain ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Combating the negative thinking that often accompanies pain ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Regaining your self-confidence and trust in yourself ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ The power of goal-setting and humor ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ Dealing with the inevitable relapses and setbacks once improvement has set in Workbook exercises, behavior logs, and suggested readings help you integrate these lessons into your daily life and learn to live well despite pain.

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Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Second Edition: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems (Colloid Science)

Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 450
Publication Date: 1992-01-15
Sales Rank: 389049
ISBN / ASIN: 0123751810
EAN: 9780123751812
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Academic Press
Studio: Academic Press

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This book describes the roles of various intermolecular and interparticle forces in determining the properties of simple systems such as gases, liquids, and solids, of more complex colloidal, polymeric, and biological systems. The book provides a thorough grounding in theories and concepts of intermolecular forces, allowing students and researchers to recognize which forces are important in any particular system and how to control these forces.

Key Features
* Surface-force measurements
* Solvation and structural forces
* Hydration and hydophobic forces
* Ion-correlation forces
* Thermal fluctuation (steric and undulation) forces
* Particle and surface interactions in polymer melts and polymer solutions
* Contains worked examples, discussion topics, and more than 100 problems

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Learning Perl the Hard Way
by Allen B. Downey

Do we really need another Perl book? Well obviously I think so, and here's why:

* I want a book for people who already know how to program in another language, but don't know Perl.

* I want a book that gets through the basics as quickly as possible. I'm sick of reading about the precedence of operators; I want to know how to do the fun stuff.

* I want a book that emphasizes good programming style in Perl. Many of the Perl programs I have seen are written in a quick-and-dirty style; I wanted to see if the style I have developed in other languages can translate.

* In many Perl books, object-oriented programming is treated as an optional feature for advanced programming. I wanted to bring it closer to the center of focus (although I am anything but an object-oriented bigot).

In presenting Perl features, I tried to find examples that are interesting in their own right, and that encourage the reader to explore Perl's features.

This book is a work in progress. I have some ideas about what will go into the next few chapters, but I am open to suggestions. I am looking for interesting programming projects that highlight some of the moderately advances features of Perl, like inter-process communication, the Perl/tk interface, or one of the infinite number of modules on CPAN.

Learning Perl the Hard Way is a free book available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

Printable versions of the book are available in PDF and gzipped Postscript. The LaTeX source code (with figures and a Makefile) will be available soon.
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By: Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
ISBN: 1566491568
Publisher: Welcome Rain - 2000-06
Hardcover | 1st Welcome Rain ed Edition | 254 Pages | List Price: $24.95 (USD) | Sales Rank: 619916
Ever wonder why women can brush their teeth while walking and talking on various subjects while men generally find this very difficult to do? Why 99 percent of all patents are registered by men? Why stressed women talk? Why so many husbands hate shopping? According to Barbara and Allan Pease, science now confirms that "the way our brains are wired and the hormones pulsing through our bodies are the two factors that largely dictate, long before we are born, how we will think and behave. Our instincts are simply our genes determining how our bodies will behave in given sets of circumstances." That's right: socialization, politics, or upbringing aside, men and women have profound brain differences and are intrinsically inclined to act in distinct--and consequently frustrating--ways.

The premises behind Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps is that all too often, these differences get in the way of fulfilling relationships and that understanding our basic urges can lead to greater self-awareness and improved relations between the sexes. The Peases spent three years researching their book--traveling the globe, talking to experts, and studying the cutting-edge research of ethnologists, psychologists, biologists, and neuroscientists--yet their work does not read a bit like "hard science." In fact, the authors go to considerable lengths to point out that their book is intended to be funny, interesting, and easy to read; in short, this is a book whose primary purpose is to talk about "average men and women, that is, how most men and women behave most of the time, in most situations, and for most of the past."

Why Men Don't Listen, therefore, deals largely in generalizations, and this is bound to alienate some readers. "We don't beat around the bush with suppositions or politically correct clichÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â©s," the Peases claim. Those up for an irreverent and unapologetic take on why men and women just can't help themselves sometimes may just decide to read on. --Svenja Soldovieri

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Publisher: Adobe
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date:
Sales Rank: 1640
ISBN / ASIN: B000E8JLBW
EAN: 0718659494759
Binding: DVD-ROM
Manufacturer: Adobe
Studio: Adobe
Average Rating: 4
Total Reviews: 2

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2004-09-07
Sales Rank: 92044
ISBN / ASIN: 0071446494
EAN: 0639785388357
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill

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A fast and proven two -week program for the ultimate body transformation David Kirsch, personal trainer and a fitness guru of the TV show "Extreme Makeover," has whipped into shape some of the most famous bodies in America. Supermodels Heidi Klum and Linda Evangelista, as well as celebrities such as Liv Tyler, have turned to David Kirsch for his foolproof training regimen when they needed to get to their level of optimum fitness--fast. Now in The Ultimate New York Body Plan , Kirsch shows you how to burn fat and get fit in only two weeks--just in time for that class reunion or anniversary cruise. This program includes: Easy-to-master lessons on which body parts to target and get the shape you want A customized "ABCDEF" diet--banning alcohol, bread, starchy carbs, dairy, extra sweets, fruits, and most fats--with delicious recipes and menus A high-powered exercise plan combining fat-burning moves with cardio-sculpting workouts The fastest way to build muscle mass and boost metabolism

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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company.
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
Sales Rank: 334223
ISBN / ASIN: 1578700140
EAN: 0619472001400
Binding: Textbook Binding
Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company.
Studio: MacMillan Publishing Company.

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While all other electronic commerce titles focus on "how to," The Economics of Electronic Commerce is the first to present current issues of electronic commerce from an economics perspective. Everyone involved in building electronic commerce applications and systems, as well as Internet consultants and economists, needs this foundational information for the future of the Internet.

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Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2006-07-28
Sales Rank: 673412
ISBN / ASIN: 3540301542
EAN: 9783540301547
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Business applications are designed using profound knowledge about the business domain, such as domain objects, fundamental domain-related principles, and domain patterns. Nonetheless, the pattern community's ideas for software engineering have not impacted at the application level, they are still mostly used for technical problems.

This book takes exactly this step: it shows you how to apply the pattern ideas in business applications and presents more than 20 structural and behavioral business patterns that use the REA (resources, events, agents) pattern as a common backbone. If you are a developer working on business frameworks, you can use the patterns presented to derive the right abstractions (e.g., business objects) and to design and ensure that the meta-rules (e.g., process patterns) are followed by the developers of the actual applications. And if you are an application developer, you can use these patterns to design your business application, to ensure that it does not violate the domain rules, and to adapt the application to changing requirements without the need to change the overall architecture. As with patterns in general, this approach allows for both more flexible and more solid software architectures and hence better software quality.

"It's a great book, marvelous in breadth and depth. An impressive achievement. I particularly liked the modeling handbook examples." Bob Haugen, Business Technology Consultant and Contributor to REA standardization in ISO, UN/CEFACT and ebXML, UK

"I enjoyed reading it very much, it gave many new insights into REA and its applications." Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

"This book by Pavel Hruby is destined to become a landmark in business modeling. Pavel heralds the replacement of traditional workflow-oriented modeling with a new breed of approaches that focus on delivering change-resilient and highly reusable business models. I highly recommend this book to you!" Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada]

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Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Agent-Based Reasoning (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
Sales Rank: 2646384
ISBN / ASIN: 3764372176
EAN: 9783764372170
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

An important aspect of multi agent systems are agent reasoning techniques for problem solving, either at the level of a single agent or at the level of distributed collaboration amongst multiple agents. Constraint satisfaction problems are significant in the domain of automated reasoning for artificial intelligence. They can be applied to modeling and solving of a wide range of combinatorial applications such as planning, scheduling and resource sharing in a variety of practical domains e.g. transportation, production, supply-chains, network management, and human resource management. In this book we study new techniques for solving constraint satisfaction problems, with a special focus on solution adaptation applied to agent reasoning. Most work in constraint satisfaction has focused on computing a solution to a given problem. In practice, it often occurs that an existing solution needs to be modified to satisfy additional criteria or accommodate changes in the problem. Based on constraint satisfaction problem structures and their symmetries, we develop techniques for adapting solutions in applications and show how these techniques can be used when the agent is situated in dynamic and distributed environments.

This book is addressed to researchers in the artificial intelligence domain who are interested in constraint satisfaction techniques for agent reasoning. Moreover, as these methods are important for many applications such as planning, scheduling, diagnosis and resource allocation, researchers and application engineers in these domains will also benefit from applying the techniques described in this book.

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Publisher: Charles River Media
Number Of Pages: 392
Publication Date: 2002-12-05
Sales Rank: 197423
ISBN / ASIN: 1584502703
EAN: 9781584502708
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Charles River Media
Studio: Charles River Media

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Learn the basics of what makes a great character model and gain new insights to the many issues facing the character animator. Using the tried and proven methods found in Animating Real-Time Game Characters, you'll quickly bring your character animation to the next level. Find detailed coverage on modeling, rigging, and weighting real-time game characters using 3ds max and character studio. Explore effective keyframing techniques that focus on dramatic poses and proper timing. Discover how to work with and adjust motion capture data as well as what to look for when working with mocap studios. Get an inside glimpse at the process of taking a real-time game character from concept to export into a game technology. With the popularity of games like Quake III: Arena, Unreal Tournament, and Warcraft III, real-time gaming is here to stay. Whether you're a working professional or an eager novice, Animating Real-Time Game Characters will absolutely help you improve your character animation skills using 3ds max and character studio.

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A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement, Second Edition

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2003-09-26
Sales Rank: 232436
ISBN / ASIN: 0321186133
EAN: 0785342186130
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Description:Capability Maturity Model Integration(SM) (CMMI) has rapidly become a preferred means of improving organizational processes in industry and government. Building on a decade of work with process improvement models, including the Capability Maturity Model(R) (CMM(R)) for Software and the Systems Engineering Capability Model, a team of over two hundred engineering and process improvement experts worked for three years to create this broader, more agile instrument for guiding, integrating, and appraising improvement activities. CMMI provides a single, integrated framework for improving processes throughout an organization, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the organization as a whole.

The CMMI Product Suite is rich in detail and guidance, but correspondingly large and somewhat complex. The sheer volume of information it presents can seem overwhelming. CMMI Distilled reduced that complexity with a fresh and approachable introduction to the key elements of CMMI and integrated process improvement.

This new edition of CMMI Distilled, updated for CMMI version 1.1, includes more material in layman's language to meet a wider variety of reader's needs, but has not lost any of the technical content that made the first edition so successful. Written for those new to model-based process improvement, it also offers insights that can help even battle-scarred process improvement veterans and experienced systems, software and quality engineers perform better. CMMI(R) Distilled, Second Edition is especially appropriate for executives and managers who need to understand why process improvement is valuable, why CMMI is a tool of choice, and how to maximize the return on their efforts and investments.

The three authors have been involved with CMMI since its inception, and they bring a wealth of their own experience and knowledge to this book. They highlight the pitfalls and short cuts that are all too often learned by costly experience. Above all, they provide a context for understanding why CMMI is the fastest growing process improvement framework in the world.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2005-07-11
Sales Rank: 1107684
ISBN / ASIN: 0387257446
EAN: 9780387257440
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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The last several years have seen significant progress on two related fronts in hardware and software design for electronic systems. The first is the rapid growth in the design of complex System-on-Chip devices (SoC). The second is progress in adding capabilities to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to better support the design of real-time and embedded systems, culminating in the UML 2.0 specification which is nearing final approval. It is thus an excellent time to evaluate the combination of these two topics into a unified theme: UML for SoC design. At DAC 2004, we organized a UML and SoC workshop as a discussion forum to bring hardware, SoC, and UML experts together. For that workshop, we received great international interest and contributions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The success of the workshop has demonstrated that there is a great interest in both academia and industry to create and investigate joint efforts in SoC design and UML. This book is a collection of the main contributors of the DAC 2004 UML and SoC workshop, providing the first set of papers for such a joint effort. Some additional contributions to the book were made by other experts who did not present at the workshop. The selected chapters present approaches to executable UML, UML translations for FPGA synthesis and SystemC simulation, as well as UML-specific SoC methodologies. They give insights into the current state of the art, and the most recent advances in applying UML to SoC design. They provide a representative overview of current UML activities in SoC design and give an excellent introduction to UMLÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s application in hardware and hardware/software codesign.

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A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 302
Publication Date: 2006-07-10
Sales Rank: 21542
ISBN / ASIN: 0387270361
EAN: 9780387270364
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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SystemVerilog for Verification teaches the reader how to use the power of the new SystemVerilog testbench constructs plus methodology without requiring in-depth knowledge of Object Oriented Programming or Constrained Random Testing. The book covers the SystemVerilog verification constructs such as classes, program blocks, C interface, randomization, and functional coverage. SystemVerilog for Verification also reviews some design topics such as interfaces and array types. There are extensive code examples and detailed explanations. The book will be based on Synopsys courses, seminars, and tutorials that the author developed for SystemVerilog, Vera, RVM, and OOP. Concepts will be built up chapter-by-chapter, and detailed testbench using these topics will be presented in the final chapter. SystemVerilog for Verification concentrates on the best practices for verifying your design using the power of the language.

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Number Of Pages: 730
Publication Date: 1999-12-15
Sales Rank: 308804
ISBN / ASIN: 1565926420
EAN: 9781565926424
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
Studio: O'Reilly Media

This book is important for System Administrators and DBAs. The book is well-written and have discussed all the major UNIX flavors back and recovery. The author went further by discussing the Backup and Recovery of major databases on these UNIX operating systems.
I give 5 stars.

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Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 800
Publication Date: 1995-03
Sales Rank: 827815
ISBN / ASIN: 0672306557
EAN: 9780672306556
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sams
Studio: Sams

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Originally titled Developing Your Own 32 Bit Operating System this book shows you how one man built a complete, 32 bit operating system for the Intel processors from scratch, running on processors from the 80386, all the way up to the Pentium III.

If you want to know what it takes to build an operating system, or you want to build your own, you will need this book! It is indespensible, It covers all of the major components that make up a modern micro-kernel operating system. It includes a CD-ROM containing all the heavily commented code. (Intel 32 bit Assembler and C) to show you how one was built (from concept to debugger). (For Intermediate to Advanced Programming Level)

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Predict Market Swings With Technical Analysis

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2002-03-15
Sales Rank: 490716
ISBN / ASIN: 0471205966
EAN: 9780471205968
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

Download Details: Editorial Reviews Book Description A fresh perspective on predicting the market The experience of Wall Street investment manager and analyst Michael McDonald offers a new perspective on how to navigate the turbulent ups and downs of the markets. His innovative approach to the stock market teaches investors how to use new investment strategies intended to replace the "buy and hold forever" strategies of yesterday. McDonald discusses what a "trading range" market is-a roller-coaster ride in which the market will neither gain nor lose much ground-and guides readers through this market with his proven investment strategies. This book provides an understandable way to make sense of the unpredictable stock market, taking into account more complex theories, including chaos and contrarian approaches. Along with his expert advice, McDonald presents four investing paradoxes that will help investors make smarter decisions now and predict where the market is heading, using his proven theories. From the Inside Flap Predict Market Swings With Technical Analysis The efficient market theory concludes that stock prices are essentially random and unpredictable. So how do thousands of professionals earn a living each year on Wall Street by predicting stock prices? The answer is quite simpleÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œby using techniques that allow for a stock market that can at times become predictable. Let Wall Street financial consultant and market analyst Michael McDonald show you how to navigate the turbulent ups and downs of the market in Predict Market Swings with Technical Analysis. This fresh approach to trading using technical analysis will teach you how to trade the swings of the market by catching the upswings and selling just before major downswings. With the help of a few ideas from chaos theory, McDonald introduces you to a new model that is more accurate than the efficient market model, is closer to the ideas most traders have of the market, and allows for a market that is at times predictable. YouÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢ll learn how to use this model to align and integrate various pieces of stock market information that were previously confusing or at odds and then start to trade for maximum profits. YouÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢ll also learn about the specific parts of this model, including "fair value"ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œrepresented as D/I (dividends over interest rates)ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œwhich represents important economic factors. McDonald continues his in-depth analysis by exploring the area of technical analysis and revealing how it can help locate markets that are unstable and ready to experience a possible feedback loop movement. YouÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢ll learn how to find the beginning and end of major swingsÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œusing decision-making tools such as contrary opinion indicatorsÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œthat will form the trading range, as well as how to navigate the trading range market once it appears. Besides explaining the model he uses to understand stock market movements, McDonald also reveals how new discoveries in chaos theory help explain the fractal nature of stock price charts and then moves on to provide a firmer theoretical foundation for the controversial Elliot Wave theory. McDonald rounds out this comprehensive trading guide by offering a broad outline of the possible pattern the market will make during its projected sideways run and then presenting his studies on strategies for sideways markets in anticipation of this period. Through expert advice, real-world examples, and proven trading techniques, Predict Market Swings with Technical Analysis will help you make profitable trading decisions today and accurate predictions of market movements tomorrow.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 545
Publication Date: 2005-05-03
Sales Rank: 2239112
ISBN / ASIN: 3211249346
EAN: 9783211249345
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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The papers in this volume present theoretical insights and report practical applications both for neural networks, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation. In the field of natural computing, swarm optimization, bioinformatics and computational biology contributions are no less compelling. A wide selection of contributions report applications of neural networks to process engineering, robotics and control. Contributions also abound in the field of evolutionary computation particularly in combinatorial and optimization problems. Many papers are dedicated to machine learning and heuristics, hybrid intelligent systems and soft computing applications. Some papers are devoted to quantum computation. In addition, kernel based algorithms, able to solve tasks other than classification, represent a revolution in pattern recognition bridging existing gaps. Further topics are intelligent signal processing and computer vision.

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Partial Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations (Applied Mathematical Sciences)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 377
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Sales Rank: 623204
ISBN / ASIN: 0387322000
EAN: 9780387322001
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) and variational methods were introduced into image processing about fifteen years ago. Since then, intensive research has been carried out. The goals of this book are to present a variety of image analysis applications, the precise mathematics involved and how to discretize them.

Thus, this book is intended for two audiences. The first is the mathematical community by showing the contribution of mathematics to this domain. It is also the occasion to highlight some unsolved theoretical questions. The second is the computer vision community by presenting a clear, self-contained and global overview of the mathematics involved in image processing problems. This work will serve as a useful source of reference and inspiration for fellow researchers in Applied Mathematics and Computer Vision, as well as being a basis for advanced courses within these fields.

During the four years since the publication of the first edition, there has been substantial progress in the range of image processing applications covered by the PDE framework. The main goals of the second edition are to update the first edition by giving a coherent account of some of the recent challenging applications, and to update the existing material. In addition, this book provides the reader with the opportunity to make his own simulations with a minimal effort. To this end, programming tools are made available, which will allow the reader to implement and test easily some classical approaches.

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Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Sales Rank: 990197
ISBN / ASIN: 0262025779
EAN: 9780262025775
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Studio: The MIT Press

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The continuing development of implantable neural prostheses signals a new era in bioengineering and neuroscience research. This collection of essays outlines current advances in research on the intracranial implantation of devices that can communicate with the brain in order to restore sensory, motor, or cognitive functions. The contributors explore the creation of biologically realistic mathematical models of brain function, the production of microchips that incorporate those models, and the integration of microchip and brain function through neuron-silicon interfaces. Recent developments in understanding the computational and cognitive properties of the brain and rapid advances in biomedical and computer engineering both contribute to this cutting-edge research.

The book first examines the development of sensory system prostheses -- cochlear, retinal, and visual implants -- as the best foundation for considering the extension of neural prostheses to the central brain region. The book then turns to the complexity of neural representations, offering, among other approaches to the topic, one of the few existing theoretical frameworks for modeling the hierarchical organization of neural systems. Next, it examines the challenges of designing and controlling the interface between neurons and silicon, considering the necessity for bidirectional communication and for multiyear duration of the implant. Finally, the book looks at hardware implementations and explores possible ways to achieve the complexity of neural function in hardware, including the use of VLSI and photonic technologies.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Sales Rank: 31620
ISBN / ASIN: 0387954686
EAN: 9780387954684
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Summary:
Intended for students of intermediate organic chemistry, this text shows how to write a reasonable mechanism for an organic chemical transformation. The discussion is organized by types of mechanisms and the conditions under which the reaction is executed, rather than by the overall reaction as is the case in most textbooks. The treatment emphasizes unifying principles, showing how common mechanisms link seemingly disparate reactions. Each chapter discusses common mechanistic pathways and suggests practical tips for drawing them. Worked problems are included in the discussion of each mechanism, and "common error alerts" are scattered throughout the text to warn readers about pitfalls and misconceptions that bedevil students. Each chapter is capped by a large problem set. The author has drawn on his own research and the current literature to ensure that appropriate attention is given to topics across the range of modern organic chemistry. The text is unique in its inclusion of a chapter on reactions mediated or catalyzed by transition metals, an area in which mechanistic understanding is now essential. Relatively new topics such as olefin metathesis and cycloaromatization are covered without giving short shrift to more traditional areas such as carbonyl chemistry. The text assumes a basic knowledge of organic chemistry. It can be used either in a formal course or by students working on their own, and will be particularly useful for graduate students studying for qualifying examinations. It will also be useful to students and researchers in biochemistry, pharmacology, and inorganic chemistry. "This is an excellent and well-presented work.... The author ... has succeeded well in treating the central ideas of reactivity and selectivity in an integrated whole. The clear style of writing, the well chosen examples, and the ... concise summaries of the main points provided at the end of each chapter should enable the reader to easily consolidate what has been learned.... The book is indeed a little work of art." -- Jens Hartung, Angewandte Chemie International Edition "I have taught a one-credit course with this book for three years, and, uniformly, the students have rated this book highly for its clarity and for the scope of the problems. ... This book does an excellent job at its stated goal: 'to teach students to come up with reasonable mechanisms for reactions they have never seen before.'" -- Amy Howell, Synthesis "I have just finished my first year of graduate studies in organic chemistry at Duke University. I just wanted to let you know how much your book got me through the past year of course work.... When it came to mechanisms, I found the clarity and thoroughness I needed only in your book. It was impressive how you were able to present so much information in a clear and comprehensive manner yet keep the book so manageable in size. In addition to the text, I also was able to benefit from the problems.... Great practice!! The on-line answers are much better than looking up answers by reference.... I am reading it again this summer in preparation for my preliminary exam next spring." -- David Gooden

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 145
Publication Date: 2005-11-21
Sales Rank: 1747659
ISBN / ASIN: 0387276343
EAN: 9780387276342
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

With the ever increasing use of computers for critical systems, computer security that protects data and computer systems from intentional, malicious intervention, continues to attract attention. Among the methods for defense, the application of a tool to help the operator identify ongoing or already perpetrated attacks (intrusion detection), has been the subject of considerable research in the past ten years. A key problem with current intrusion detection systems is the high number of false alarms they produce. Understanding Intrusion Detection through Visualization presents research on why false alarms are, and will remain a problem; then applies results from the field of information visualization to the problem of intrusion detection. This approach promises to enable the operator to identify false (and true) alarms, while aiding the operator to identify other operational characteristics of intrusion detection systems. This volume presents four different visualization approaches, mainly applied to data from web server access logs.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 202
Publication Date: 2005-04-13
Sales Rank: 1034709
ISBN / ASIN: 038723697X
EAN: 9780387236971
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Cross-layer design seeks to enhance the capacity of wireless networks significantly through the joint optimization of multiple layers in the network, primarily the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers. Although there are advantages of such design in wireline networks as well, this approach is particularly advantageous for wireless networks due to the properties (such as mobility and interference) that strongly affect performance and design of higher layer protocols. This unique monograph is concerned with the issue of cross-layer design in wireless networks, and more particularly with the impact of node-level multiuser detection on such design. It provides an introduction to this vibrant and active research area insufficiently covered in existing literature, presenting some of the principal methods developed and results obtained to date. Accompanied by numerous illustrations, the text is an excellent reference for engineers, researchers and students working in communication networks.

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Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1998-03-20
Sales Rank: 70545
ISBN / ASIN: 0471197130
EAN: 9780471197133
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
Studio: John Wiley & Sons

Summary:
If patterns are good ideas that can be re-applied to new situations, AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis looks at what goes wrong in software development, time and time again. This entertaining and often enlightening text defines what seasoned developers have long suspected: despite advances in software engineering, most software projects still fail to meet expectations--and about a third are cancelled altogether.
The authors of AntiPatterns draw on extensive industry experience, their own and others, to help define what's wrong with software development today. They outline reasons why problem patterns develop (such as sloth, avarice, and greed) and proceed to outline several dozen patterns that can give you headaches or worse.
Their deadliest hit list begins with the Blob, where one object does most of the work in a project, and Continuous Obsolescence, where technology changes so quickly that developers can't keep up. Some of the more entertaining antipatterns include the Poltergeist (where do-nothing classes add unnecessary overhead), the Boat Anchor (a white elephant piece of hardware or software bought at great cost) and the Golden Hammer (a single technology that is used for every conceivable programming problem). The authors then proceed to define antipatterns oriented toward management problems with software (including Death by Planning and Project Mismanagement, along with several miniature antipatterns, that help define why so many software projects are late and overbudget).
The authors use several big vendors' technologies as examples of today's antipatterns. Luckily, they suggest ways to overcome antipatterns and improve software productivity in "refactored solutions" that can overcome some of these obstacles. However, this is a realistic book, a mix of "Dilbert" and software engineering. A clever antidote to getting too optimistic about software development, AntiPatterns should be required reading for any manager facing a large-scale development project

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 367
Publication Date: 2005-12-19
Sales Rank: 943221
ISBN / ASIN: 3540265961
EAN: 9783540265962
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudoprimes and primitive elements. Their applications to problems in the real world are one of the main themes of the book. This revised fourth edition is augmented by recent advances in primes in progressions, twin primes, prime triplets, prime quadruplets and quintruplets, factoring with elliptic curves, quantum factoring, Golomb rulers and "baroque" integers.

From reviews of earlier editions ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“

"I continue to find [SchroederÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s] Number Theory a goldmine of valuable information. It is a marvellous book, in touch with the most recent applications of number theory and written with great clarity and humor.ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ Philip Morrison (Scientific American)

"A light-hearted and readable volume with a wide range of applications to which the author has been a productive contributor ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ useful mathematics outside the formalities of theorem and proof." Martin Gardner

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Really Learn 100 Phrasal Verbs for Business by Dilys Parkinson
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0194316963 | Year:2005 | 116 pages | PDF | 6.5 MB
English level: Intermediate
A companion volume to Really Learn 100 Phrasal Verbs, focusing on 100 phrasal verbs that are commonly used in business. The book teaches the verbs by first presenting each one in authentic contexts and then giving learners opportunities to practise them.

Key features:
Each page focuses on one verb.
Graphs, diagrams, and illustrations help learners understand and remember.
Review pages consolidate learning.
The answer key forms a mini-reference dictionary.
Designed for self-study but can also be used in the classroom.
Useful preparation for BEC and other Business English exams.

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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 204
Publication Date: 2007-01-23
Sales Rank: 249262
ISBN / ASIN: 0470068531
EAN: 9780470068533
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

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CA has assembled dozens of real-world stories from customers to help readers understand how to use the included software to move all of their songs, pictures, files, and settings over to a new computer or how to back up their files to keep them safe
Shows what can go wrong and how to use the software to prevent a data disaster
Straightforward language and simple terms that are low on "tech speak" explain what users need to do to combat potential problems and how to schedule a recurring backup of a PC's DNA in order to restore the desktop in the event of a disaster
CA will include its complete Desktop DNA Migrator software free with this book, which readers can use to move all their data and settings from an old computer to a new one (valued at $60.00; no renewal needed)

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The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0

Publisher: friends of ED
Number Of Pages: 520
Publication Date: 2007-02-26
Sales Rank: 3467
ISBN / ASIN: 1590597338
EAN: 9781590597330
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: friends of ED
Studio: friends of ED

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Understand MXML containers

Create transitions

Create data-driven applications with XML

Interface Flex with ColdFusion

Understand the power of states

Flex 2 represents something of a revolution in web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation tool to a powerful enterprise web design and development tool. with nearly 98% of all web browsers and cellular phones running the Flash player needed to use Flash and Flex applications, knowledge of Flex is indispensable for any serious web designer and developer.

This book will show you how to create powerful, rich Internet applications using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 2 software, you will explore in depth how ActionScript 3.0 interacts with Flex's powerful XML-like design language: MXML. the text will take you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of strictly practical exercises.

You will:

Examine the power of designing layouts using Flex's MXML containers.

Discover many of the new features of ActionScript 3.0.

Work your way through a professional case study, building up a complete Flex application.

Connect Flex to Adobe's powerful ColdFusion application server, and start to work with Flex applications powered by dynamic server-side code.

Learn how states can smoothly transition your application interfaces between different data displays.

Put quite simply, this book is all you'll need to master Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 application development. Welcome to the revolution!

Summary of contents:

Chapter 1: Introducing RIAs and Installing Flex Builder 2

Chapter 2: Introducing Flex and Flex Builder 2

Chapter 3: Introducing ActionScript 3.0

Chapter 4: Containers and Components

Chapter 5: Navigation Containers

Chapter 6: Flex and XML

Chapter 7: States

Chapter 8: Case Study: Part 1

Chapter 9: The Repeater Component

Chapter 10: Case Study: Part 2

Chapter 11: Drag and Drop

Chapter 12: Flex and ColdFusion

Chapter 13: Charting

Chapter 14: Printing

Chapter 15: Unfinished Symphony

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Publisher: Hungry Minds
Number Of Pages: 936
Publication Date: 2000-11
Sales Rank: 438361
ISBN / ASIN: 0764546767
EAN: 0785555023659
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
Studio: Hungry Minds

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With complete coverage of the new Palm wireless and Web capabilities, this one-step reference shows programmers how to create next-generation applications for Palm OS devices using all the latest development platforms and tools. The author has tested the many code samples against all Palm OS versions right up to the new OS 3.5. The value-packed CD-ROM includes development tools, demos, and sample code.

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Professional Palm OS ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â® Programming (Wrox Professional Guides)
ISBN: 076457373X
Author: Lonnon R. Foster / Glenn Bachmann
Publisher: Wrox
Edition: Language: English
Paperback: 954 pages

Summary:
Professional Palm OS Programming Palm OS has defined the standard for handheld and mobile devices for nearly a decade, thanks to its convenience, power, and ease of use. As the popularity of these devices continues to grow, so does the demand for programmers to build original applications. This book guides both aspiring and experienced programmers through the ins and outs of creating software for Palm OS. Covering nearly every aspect of Palm OS development, this useful resource gets you started with the fundamentals, such as how Palm OS works and the available development tools. You'll then quickly move on to new aspects of Palm OS, including the new Palm OS Cobalt, the next generation operating system. Packed with hands-on instructions, lots of code, and insider advice, this book will help you make your applications work seamlessly. What you will learn from this book The various multimedia functionalities for audio and video recording and playback How to create applications that make use of TCP/IP communications options New and updated coverage of Palm OS development tools, including Metrowerks' CodeWarrior ;9.3 and the new PODS from PalmSource Methods of programming system elements, graphics, and alarms Techniques for storing, manipulating, and retrieving data An understanding of the very complex topic of conduit programming and why it uses different tools Who this book is for This book is for experienced C programmers who are looking to either start developing applications in Palm OS or who would like to take their Palm OS skills to the next level. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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ISBN: 052100859X
Author: Brian R. Hunt / Ronald L. Lipsman / J. Rosenberg / Kevin R. Coombes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: Language: English
Paperback: 348 pages

Summary:
Here is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB, a comprehensive software system for mathematics and technical computing that should be useful to both beginning and experienced users. It contains concise explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood instructions for using MATLAB's programming features, graphical capabilities, and desktop interface. It also includes an introduction to SIMULINK, a companion to MATLAB for system simulation. Written for MATLAB 6, this book can also be used with earlier (and later) versions of MATLAB. Chapters contain worked-out examples of applications of MATLAB to interesting problems in mathematics, engineering, economics, and physics. In addition, it contains explicit instructions for using MATLAB's Microsoft Word interface to produce polished, integrated, interactive documents for reports, presentations, or on-line publishing. This book explains everything you need to know to begin using MATLAB. Intermediate and advanced users will find useful information here, especially if they are making the switch to MATLAB 6 from an earlier version.

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Publisher: Sybex
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: 2006-06-06
Sales Rank: 253640
ISBN / ASIN: 0471918636
EAN: 9780471918639
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sybex
Studio: Sybex

Book Description: )

If you thought Photoshop Elements was just for correcting and organizing photographs, this book will turn your head around. It opens up a whole new set of creative possibilities to explore as you learn how to combine images using this versatile program."
ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?Jan Kabili, author and trainer

Create your own visual composite masterpieces

Combine your digital photos with an artist's flair and create dazzling composites, thanks to Photoshop Elements and this comprehensive guide from an industry expert. Using great photography and expert design sense, author Ted LoCascio clearly shows how it's done, from simple tasks such as swapping an image background, to more advanced ones such as creating an abstract photomontage.

Loaded with fresh ideas, the book mixes clear and helpful narrative instruction, step-by-step tutorials, and hands-on video demonstrations providing the coverage you need to create sophisticated, even gallery-ready compositions.

Inside you'll find:

In-depth coverage of how to swap, combine, replace, and mix pictureelements to get the most stunning digital images possible
Over 150 full-color printed photos and more than two hours of video training on the companion CD, so you can see exactly how it's done

Discover how to:

Use layers effectively, including adding effects, adjusting opacity and blend, and combining layers
Make use of filters, styles, and textures for added pizzazz
Apply masks, including using neutral layer masks, combining multiple exposures, and masking with Camera RAW files
Build a keepsake wedding montage and an abstract photo collage

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Battle of the year (BOTY) - Breakdance
2CD (SHOW) | DVDRip | 2006 | 640x344 | MP3 - 145 kbps | 01:21:35 | 697Mb
Battle of the Year, commonly referred to as BOTY, is an annual international breakdancing competition. Regional elimination events are held worldwide culminating in World Finals which are held at the Volkswagenhalle in Braunschweig, Germany. The format comprises firstly a showcase in which all countries perform a routine demonstrating their ability in the different styles of breakdance. Winners are chosen by a panel of judges. The four best teams are selected to take part in the final 3/4 and 1/2 battles. Teams from all over the world take part and the competition is very highly regarded in the breakdance scene.

Battle of the Year, commonly referred to as BOTY, is an annual international breakdancing competition. Regional elimination events are held worldwide culminating in World Finals which are held at the Volkswagenhalle in Braunschweig, Germany. The format comprises firstly a showcase in which all countries perform a routine demonstrating their ability in the different styles of breakdance. Winners are chosen by a panel of judges. The four best teams are selected to take part in the final 3/4 and 1/2 battles. Teams from all over the world take part and the competition is very highly regarded in the breakdance scene

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 766
Publication Date: 2006-04-11
Sales Rank: 1385008
ISBN / ASIN: 3540211519
EAN: 9783540211518
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice, and science of developing large-scale software products needs a believable, professional base. The textbooks in this three-volume set combine informal, engineeringly sound practice with the rigour of formal, mathematics-based approaches. Volume 3 is based on the maxim: "Before software can be designed its requirements must be well understood, and before the requirements can be expressed properly the domain of the application must be well understood." This book covers the process from the development of domain descriptions, via the derivation of requirements prescriptions from domain models, to the refinement of requirements into software designs, i.e., architectures and component design. Emphasis is placed on what goes into proper domain descriptions and requirements prescriptions, how one acquires and analyses the domain knowledge and requirements expectations, and how one validates and verifies domain and requirements models. The reader can take an informal route through Vol. 3, and this would be suitable for undergraduate courses on software engineering. Advanced students, lecturers, and researchers may instead follow the formal route through Vol. 3, and in this case Vol. 1 is a prerequisite text. Lecturers will be supported with a comprehensive guide to designing modules based on the textbooks, with solutions to many of the exercises presented, and with a complete set of lecture slides.

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2004

Agnelli & Nelson: Holding On To Nothing (Thunder Dance Extended Mix) (Music Videos 24 DVD)
(February 2004)
Motorcycle: As The Rush Comes (Thunder Dance Extended Mix) (Music Videos 30 DVD) (March 2004)
DJ Tiesto vs. Usher: Love Comes Like Yeah (Djs Danjgo'n Rimi Radio Edit) (Music Videos 30 DVD) (April 2004)
Britney Spears Feat. Usher: Yeah Toxic (May 2004)
Ferry Corsten: It's Time (Luke Slater Rockers Shock Thunder Dance Edit) (Music Videos 31 DVD) (June 2004)
Eminem vs. Mario Lopez: Superman Forever (June 2004)
Blank & Jones: Mind Of The Wonderful (Martin Roth Thunder Dance Edit) (September 2004)
Eamon Vs. Atomic Kitten: F**k It's OK (October 2004)
Usher: Yeah (Speedbreaker Thunder Dance Edit) (October 2004)
Kylie Minogue vs. Kraftwerk: Slow (November 2004)
Beyonce: Naughty Girl (Speedbreaker Thunder Dance Edit) (November 2004)
Ayumi Hamasaki: Seasons (D-Z Blue Sunbeam Mix) (December 2004)
The Prodigy: Girls (Rex The Dog Thunder Dance Edit) (December 2004)
The Prodigy Feat. Michael Jackson: The Way It Is (Thriller Video Edit) (December 2004)

2005

Prodigyremixed feat. Missy Elliot: Medusa Bitch (January 2005)
Tiesto feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw: Just Be (Thunder Dance Extended Mix) (January 2005)
Tomcraft vs. Tara Lowe: Loneliness (Gary Gee Bootleg Remix) (January 2005)
Tiesto feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw: Just Be (Thunder Dance Extended Mix) (Live) (February 2005)
The Prodigy Feat. Missy Elliot & Kelis: Under My Dutch (September 2005)
Stellar Project presents Ciara Feat. Missy Elliot: 1, 2 Step (Get Up Stand Up) (Pomatic's Mash Mix) (November 2005)
El Bartoand Liam B presents Rihanna vs. Laura Branigan: Hey Mrs. Branigan (December 2005)

2006

RÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¸yksopp vs. Michael Jackson: Rock With You (DJ Ricochet Mashup Mix) (January 2006)
Gwen Stefani vs. Ying Yang Twins vs. The Game: Wait, Hollaback, Westside (Pomatic's Mash Mix) (January 2006)

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2006

The Black Eyed Peas vs. Dave McCullen: My Bitch (January 2006)
Pharrell feat. Gwen Stefani: Can I Have It Like That (Pomatic and Kee Remix)(March 2006)
Twista vs. Mylo ft. Kanye West: Overnight Celebrity, Pressure (Pomatic Mashup Mix) (April 2006)
Ying Yang Twins vs. Jock Jams: Y'all Shakin' For This (Jam Har Mashup Mix) (April 2006)
Mandy Moore: I Wanna Be With U (Soul Solution Remix) (April 2006)
Eminem vs. No Doubt: Without Hella (Mr. Maybe Mashup Mix) (May 2006)
C & C Music Factory vs. Missy Elliot: Everybody Gossip Now (DJ King of Pants Mashup Mix) (May 2006)
Sean Paul vs. Black Eyed Peas vs. Ying Yang Twins ft. Pitbull: Don't Shake With My Temperature (Pomatic Mashup Mix) (May 2006)
Gwen Stefani vs. Urban Cookie Collective: Hollaback It On Home Girl (Mad Maximillion Mashup Mix) (June 2006)
No Doubt vs. The Prodigy: Hella Good Girls (Andy Churchill Mashup Mix) (July 2006)
Nirvana vs. Basement Jaxx: Oh Gosh, My Basement Smells Like Teen Spirit (Andy Churchill Mashup Mix) (August 2006)
Frankee vs. Eamon: Fuck It Right Back (Stephen Lee Mashup Mix) (August 2006)
Bon Garcon: Freak You (Seamus Haji And Paul Emanuel TD Edit) (September 2006)
Rihanna: Unfaithful (Tony Moran Radio Edit) (September 2006)
Gnarls Barkley vs. Raze: Crazy 4 Love (Pomatic Mashup Mix) (September 2006)
Nelly Furtado: Promiscuous (Morels Pink Noise Edit) (October 2006)
Rank 1 feat. Janet Jackson: The Pleasure Principle (Janet on Airwaves Mix) (October 2006)
2 Unlimited: Tribal Dance (Thunder Dance Edit) (October 2006)
Rihanna: S.O.S. (Nevins Glam Club Mix) (October 2006)
Backstreet Boys: As Long As You Love Me (Soul Solution Remix) (November 2006)
Big Ang Feat. Siobhan: It's Over Now (Flip & Fill Remix) (November 2006)
Till West & DJ Delicious vs Cassie & Jay-Z: Me & You (Deja Vu) (DJ Nicky T Remix) (November 2006)
Justin Timberlake vs. The Prodigy: Sexy Girls Are Back (CjR Mix) (December 2006)
Nelly Furtado: Promiscuous (Electro House Remix) (DJ Nicky T Remix) (December 2006)
2 Unlimited vs. Reel 2 Reel: Get Ready To Move It (December 2006)
Rihanna: We Ride (Lenny B. Radio Edit) (December 2006)
Justin Timberlake vs. Chris Lake: Love Changes (Ben Double M Mashup Mix) (December 2006)

2007

Jessica Simpson vs. Yazoo: Don't Go Public Affair (Pomatic Mashup Mix) (January 2007)
Justin Timberlake vs. Michael Jackson: Don't You Love The Closet (DJ King of Pants Mashup Mix) (January 2007)
Booty Luv: Boogie 2Nite (Seamus Haji Big Love Edit) (January 2007)
Tamperer vs. Ciara: Feel My Goodies (DJ King of Pants Mashup Mix) (January 2007)
Justin Timberlake vs. The Cure: Lullaby Love (Ben Double M Mashup Mix) (January 2007)
Destiny's Child vs. Matt: Lose My Breath (Ben Double M Mashup Mix) (February 2007)
Missy Elliot vs. Technotronic: Pump Up The Party People (DJ King of Pants Mashup Mix) (February 2007)
Justin Timberlake vs. David West: My Suffering Love (CjR Mix) (February 2007)

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 566
Publication Date: 2005-10-12
Sales Rank: 539765
ISBN / ASIN: 038720881X
EAN: 9780387208817
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer
Average Rating: 4.5

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This textbook introduces software engineering to advanced-level undergraduate and graduate students of computer science. It emphasizes a case-study approach whereby a project is developed through the course of the book, illustrating the different activities of software development. The sequence of chapters is essentially the same as the sequence of activities performed during a typical software project. The revised edition updates this sequence for today's standards and adds a valuable chapter on architecture. All activities, including quality assurance and control activities, are described in each chapter as integral activities for that phase of development. Similarly, the author carefully introduces appropriate metrics for controlling and assessing the software process. The text is bolstered by numerous examples, chapter summaries, a helpful bibliography, and good index.

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Black Men's Swimsuit Extra Magazine spotlights the hottest, drop-dead gorgeous video actresses, college girls, and models, in exciting settings for today's hip urban male. Swimsuit Extra is about what every man dreams and lusts for...the best of everything. Featuring issues which target specific themes, such as the College Girls Issue, the Solid Gold Issue, the Platinum Issue, and the Chocolate Issue, BlackMen's Swimsuit Extra celebrates the world's sexiest African-American women and other women of color through provocative swimsuit pictorials, providing a visual feast for the sophisticated male.

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Erotic japanese comics - 10 various stories in one book

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Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: 2006-09-13
Sales Rank: 15866
ISBN / ASIN: 1590597117
EAN: 9781590597118
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress
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BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is based on the experiences of many of the most prominent experts in the field. It features over 170 problem-solving recipes for BizTalk developers and administrators.

BizTalk Server 2006 builds on the heritage and core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004, leading to a powerful tool that encompasses the latest Microsoft technologies and industry standards for automating and managing business processes. BizTalk Server 2006 adds incremental value to BizTalk 2004 by improving administration, deployment, and other key areas of the product.

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Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 2005-06-20
Sales Rank: 98573
ISBN / ASIN: 1590595009
EAN: 9781590595008
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress

It's nice having a collection of high-quality writing related to software and the business in one place instead of trawling the Web for it.

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬? Meryl K. Evans, meryl.net & Slashdot Contributor

...an entertaining read with a number of enlightening insights into what I do for a living...

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The whole book is fantastic though, and you should absolutely pick it up...in dead tree form.

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬? Garrett Rooney, Software Engineer and Author

This is a book worth checking out, even if you're not a software developer.

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬? David Bindel, Tea Total

Frustrated by the lack of well-written essays on software engineering, Joel Spolsky (of www.joelonsoftware.com fame) has put together a collection of his favorite writings on the topic.

With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati.

The Best Software Writing I contains writings from:

Ken Arnold
Leon Bambrick
Michael Bean
Rory Blyth
Adam Bosworth
danah boyd
Raymond Chen
Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi
Cory Doctorow
ea_spouse
Bruce Eckel
Paul Ford
Paul Graham
John Gruber
Gregor Hohpe
Ron Jeffries
Eric Johnson
Eric Lippert
Michael Lopp
Larry Osterman
Mary Poppendieck
Rick Schaut
Aaron Swartz
Clay Shirky
Eric Sink
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Mods and Customizations to make MySpace Your Space (ExtremeTech)

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2006-08-28
Sales Rank: 143231
ISBN / ASIN: 0470045841
EAN: 9780470045848
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley

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Get noticed. Get discovered.

It's YourSpace

There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It's all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.

Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:

Embedding graphics
Creating animated images
Developing your own background
Building custom cursors
Changing profile text styles
Getting kinky with links
Adding a comments box
Altering your contact table
Redesigning the navigation bar
Making DIV overlays

A companion Web site provides even more tricks and techniques.

Visit www.myspaceismyplace.com to find all code from this book, links to software and featured profiles, a reader forum, and more.

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Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. This title covers the new development framework for Rich Internet Applications, Adobe Flex 2. In the course of the book, the reader will build several Web applications using Flex Builder and incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0.

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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2001-12-15
Sales Rank: 163513
ISBN / ASIN: 0764548859
EAN: 0785555100800
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

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Part of the new Cracking the Code Series, Wireless Programming with J2ME provides a look at the code behind wireless Java applications.

Think of J2ME as a tiny version of Java specifically for mobile devices -- perfect for bringing powerful, robust applications to mobile phone, pagers, PDAs, and other handhelds. Writing applications for handheld and mobile devices is different than regular Java programming. Mobile developers have to deal with limited screen real estate, bandwidth and computing power. This book covers six wireless applications complete with Flow Diagrams and line-by-line code description. It covers all of J2ME including CDC,CLDC and MIDP with an emphasis on practical code.

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Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: 2007-01-29
Sales Rank: 136808
ISBN / ASIN: 0470016337
EAN: 9780470016336
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

Book Description: )

Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates. It is therefore imperative for a company to optimize and simplify the complexity of managing its data resources.

Plenty of storage products are now available, however the challenge remains for companies to proactively manage their storage assets and align the resources to the various departments, divisions, geographical locations and business processes to achieve improved efficiency and profitability. Data Lifecycles identifies ways to incorporate an intelligent service platform to manage and map the storage of data. The authors give an overview of the latest trends and technologies in storage networking and cover critical issues such as world-wide compliance.

Data Lifecycles:

Provides a single-source guide to data and storage methodologies, processes, technologies and compliance issues.
Addresses the need of an encompassing intelligent data and storage management platform for modern businesses.
Gives an overview of the latest data technologies and concepts such as utility computing and information lifecycle management.
Clearly defines and describes lifecycle management and strategies to ensure growth of critical business data.
Shows how to dramatically reduce the total cost of storage ownership and provide rapid return on investment.
Enables customers to make decisions directed toward the purchase of storage tools and storage management solutions.

This text is an ideal introduction to modern data lifecycle management for network managers, system administrators, storage/system architects, network managers, information management directors as well as CIO/CTOs and their teams, senior IT managers and decision makers, and database administrators.

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Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 832
Publication Date: 2002-10-08
Sales Rank: 1009107
ISBN / ASIN: 0824793552
EAN: 9780824793555
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: CRC

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Exploring the structure and physical and chemical properties of solutions, dispersions, soft solids, fats, and cellular systems, Physical Chemistry of Foods describes the physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during the manufacture, handling, and storage of foods. Coverage progresses from aspects of thermodynamics, bonds and interaction forces, and reaction kinetics, to transport phenomena, polymers, colloidal interactions, nucleation, glass transitions and freezing, and soft solids. This comprehensive volume effectively clarifies the physicochemical processes encountered in food product development.

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PDF Size: 12 MB

Publisher: AUERBACH
Number Of Pages: 329
Publication Date: 2006-12-15
Sales Rank: 1207968
ISBN / ASIN: 0849382149
EAN: 9780849382147
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: AUERBACH
Studio: AUERBACH

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This forward-looking reference introduces a new generation of network technologies and architecture that allows the creation, customization, and management of new services and applications deployed dynamically into network nodes. The author outlines the architecture of active and programmable networks, discusses the enabling technologies for network programmability in detail, and introduces several paradigms and prototypes. He then explores packet scheduling, management, routing, and security in active and programmable networks and examines active wireless and mobile networks. The final chapter presents several real-world examples of currently deployed active and programmable networks.

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Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Number Of Pages: 944
Publication Date: 2000-12-22
Sales Rank: 295439
ISBN / ASIN:
EAN: 9780780360310
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley-IEEE Press
Studio: Wiley-IEEE Press

Book Description: )

"FOUNDATIONS FOR MICROWAVE ENGINEERING, Second Edition, covers the major topics of microwave engineering. Its presentation defines the accepted standard for both advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on microwave engineering. An essential reference book for the practicing microwave engineer, it features:

Planar transmission lines, as well as an appendix that describes in detail conformal mapping methods for their analysis and attenuation characteristics
Small aperture coupling and its application in practical components such as directional couplers and cavity coupling
Printed circuit components with an emphasis on techniques such as even and odd mode analysis and the use of symmetry properties
Microwave linear amplifier and oscillator design using solid-state circuits such as varactor devices and transistors

FOUNDATIONS FOR MICROWAVE ENGINEERING, Second Edition, has extensive coverage of transmission lines, waveguides, microwave circuit theory, impedance matching and cavity resonators. It devotes an entire chapter to fundamental microwave tubes, in addition to chapters on periodic structures, microwave filters, small signal solid-state microwave amplifier and oscillator design, and negative resistance devices and circuits. Completely updated in 1992, it is being reissued by the IEEE Press in response to requests from our many members, who found it an invaluable textbook and an enduring reference for practicing microwave engineers.

About the Author

Robert E. Collin is the author or coauthor of more than 150 technical papers and five books on electromagnetic theory and applications. His classic text, Field Theory of Guided Waves, is also a volume in the series. Professor Collin has had a long and distinguished academic career at Case Western Reserve University. In addition to his professional duties, he has served as chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and as interim dean of engineering.

Professor Collin is a life fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). He is a member of U.S. Commission B of URSI and a member of the Geophysical Society. Other honors include the Diekman Award from Case Western Reserve University for distinguished graduate teaching , the IEEE APS Distinguished Career Award (1992), the IEEE Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award (1992), the IEEE Electromagnetics Award (1998), and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 1990 Professor Collin was elected to the National Academy of Engineering."

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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
Sales Rank: 1379687
ISBN / ASIN: 0387240055
EAN: 9780387240053
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Computer Security in the 21^st Century shares some of the emerging important research trends reflected in recent advances in computer security, including: security protocol design, secure peer-to-peer and ad hoc networks, multimedia security, and intrusion detection, defense and measurement.

Highlights include presentations of :

- Fundamental new security

- Cryptographic protocols and design,

- A new way of measuring network vulnerability: attack surfaces,

- Network vulnerability and building impenetrable systems,

- Multimedia content protection including a new standard for photographic images, JPEG2000.

Researchers and computer security developers will find in this book interesting and useful insights into building computer systems that protect against computer worms, computer viruses, and other related concerns.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 188
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Sales Rank: 185423
ISBN / ASIN: 0387243933
EAN: 9780387243931
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Researchers in data management have recently recognized the importance of a new class of data-intensive applications that requires managing data streams, i.e., data composed of continuous, real-time sequence of items. Streaming applications pose new and interesting challenges for data management systems. Such application domains require queries to be evaluated continuously as opposed to the one time evaluation of a query for traditional applications. Streaming data sets grow continuously and queries must be evaluated on such unbounded data sets. These, as well as other challenges, require a major rethink of almost all aspects of traditional database management systems to support streaming applications.

Stream Data Management comprises eight invited chapters by researchers active in stream data management. The collected chapters provide exposition of algorithms, languages, as well as systems proposed and implemented for managing streaming data.

Stream Data Management is designed to appeal to researchers or practitioners already involved in stream data management, as well as to those starting out in this area. This book is also suitable for graduate students in computer science interested in learning about stream data management.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: 2005-06-14
Sales Rank: 1977560
ISBN / ASIN: 0387242260
EAN: 9780387242262
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Modern society depends critically on computers that control and manage the systems on which we depend in many aspects of our daily lives. While this provides conveniences of a level unimaginable just a few years ago, it also leaves us vulnerable to attacks on the computers managing these systems. In recent times the explosion in cyber attacks, including viruses, worms, and intrusions, has turned this vulnerability into a clear and visible threat. Due to the escalating number and increased sophistication of cyber attacks, it has become important to develop a broad range of techniques, which can ensure that the information infrastructure continues to operate smoothly, even in the presence of dire and continuous threats.

This book brings together the latest techniques for managing cyber threats, developed by some of the worldÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s leading experts in the area. The book includes broad surveys on a number of topics, as well as specific techniques. It provides an excellent reference point for researchers and practitioners in the government, academic, and industrial communities who want to understand the issues and challenges in this area of growing worldwide importance.

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Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 751
Publication Date: 2000-05-04
Sales Rank: 291575
ISBN / ASIN: 0764546848
EAN: 0785555025370
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

Book Description: )

The most comprehensive book on the market, Windows Scripting Secrets uncovers the never-before-documented features and hidden system functions that make the new Windows Scripting Host a more powerful tool. The book includes more than 200 ready-to-use scripts, and the CD-ROM contains ready-to-use libraries and examples from the book, as well as numerous scripting tools.

A few of the insights inside include

Kick-starting WSH and VBScripts
"Kidnapping" and creating COM objects
Tweaking your Registry, and monitoring system status
Powering up with Kodak Imaging
Running a Windows network with ADSI scripts

You can automate almost any system task or enhance your current functionality using the scripting solutions detailed here. From the CD-ROM, sample more than 450 scripts, or try looking for an answer in the fully searchable electronic version of the book.

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Data Structure Through C
By Yashavant P. Kanetkar, Abduln A.P.J. Kalam,

Publisher: BPB Publications
Number Of Pages: 616
Publication Date: 2003-02-28
Sales Rank:
ISBN / ASIN: 817656706X
EAN: 9788176567060
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: BPB Publications
Studio: BPB Publications

An Excellent Animated tutorial to Learn Data structures Through C Language.
PS: Tested working on different m/c's and different OS's with proper Flash plugin Installed.
Launch using the .exe file in the directory or alternatively double click on the index.html file, tested again working fine.It's a nice tutorial to learn data structures through c language.

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Publisher: Krause Publications
Number Of Pages: 2022
Publication Date: 2006-07-30
Sales Rank: 18368
ISBN / ASIN: 0896893650
EAN: 9780896893658
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
Studio: Krause Publications

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-American Numismatic Association -- the largest numismatic organization in the world -- boasts a membership of 30,000+

-Sales of Standard Catalog of World Coins annually top more than 20,000 copies

The mammoth Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-Present is worth its weight in information and up-to-date pricing. This one volume covers the past and the present in 50,000+ illustrations and more than one million current prices.

For world coin collectors serious about their collecting, especially in today's active market, this book offers:

-Comprehensive listing of all current Euro coins

-Up-to-date pricing in up to five grades of condition to aid collectors in keeping collections current

-More than 50,000 fully updated obverse and reverse illustrations

-Reference materials such as a currency conversion schedule, sizing chart, guides for translating foreign languages, and bullion value charts

A 2 MB "sample" page (Extra High Resolution) to let you decide if it's worth downloading all 1.5 GB in this set:

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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: 2002-12-04
Sales Rank: 467658
ISBN / ASIN: 0761924086
EAN: 9780761924081
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: SAGE Publications
Studio: SAGE Publications

Book Description: )

"The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on this subject...Essential for all academic and larger public libraries."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œIt is rare to find a reference volume both as timely and as well done as this effort. Considering the importance of its subject, its global and historical coverage, and its value to researchers, students, the general reader, and law enforcement, this book is a must for every library.ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚?
--REFERENCE & USER SERVICES QUARTERLY, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

"This outstanding work on terrorism accomplishes something that no other book has. The Encyclopedia of Terrorism is not only comprehensive, but accessible and brilliantly organized. It is the most important reference piece available, on the most compelling topic of our times, written by the foremost no-nonsense expert in the business. A must read for citizen and practitioner alike."
--Professor Brian Levin, Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism California State University, San Bernardino

"Kushner has gathered the type of information for which teen researchers are clamoring: biographies of key individuals, the histories of various terrorist groups both foreign and domestic, and a full discussion of specific incidents. . . . This work is ideal for libraries looking for a one-volume reference on this timely topic."
--SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

The Encyclopedia of Terrorism presents authoritative coverage of what is currently one of the worldÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s most important topics. With more than 300 articles, the Encyclopedia provides detailed discussions of the who, what, where, when, and why of terrorism. Up-to-date and timely, the articles cover such topics as Al-Qaeda, biological terrorism, extremism, Saddam Hussein, jihad, Zacarias Moussaoui, and suicide bombers. Its concise, readable format and detailed chronology, photographs, maps, and charts make this an essential reference.

An internationally recognized expert on terrorism, Harvey Kushner has studied terrorism for more than three decades. He serves as a consultant on terrorism for an array of governmental and private agencies. In addition, his commentary appears regularly on Fox National News, CNN, the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Voice of America, and in articles in Reuters, The Associated Press, the Washington Post, and other newspapers and magazines worldwide. His expertise ensures that the entries, including contributions by other authorities in the field, are of the highest quality.

Key Features

More than 300 authoritative, in-depth articles
Extensive, balanced coverage of terrorist groups (such as the IRA), key events (including September 11), people, terms, and statistics, as well as biographical, historical, and geographical information
Cross-references to related entries at the end of each article
Comprehensive, global coverage
Valuable appendices include: list of government organizations, list of terrorist organizations, list of well known female terrorists, detailed list of further readings

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Publisher: SAS Publishing
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Sales Rank: 329464
ISBN / ASIN: 1590471415
EAN: 9781590471418
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: SAS Publishing
Studio: SAS Publishing

Book Description: )

With the advance of computing technology, Monte Carlo simulation research has become increasingly popular among quantitative researchers in a variety of disciplines. More and more, statistical methods are being subjected to rigorous empirical scrutiny in the form of statistical simulation so that their limitations and strengths can be understood. With the combination of powerful built-in statistical procedures and versatile programming capabilities, the SAS System is ideal for conducting Monte Carlo simulation research! SAS for Monte Carlo Studies: A Guide for Quantitative Researchers provides a detailed and practical guide for conducting Monte Carlo studies using the SAS System. Quantitative researchers will find this book attractive for its practicality and for its many hands-on application examples of Monte Carlo research.

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Publisher: JIST Works
Number Of Pages: 163
Publication Date: 2005-03-11
Sales Rank: 350617
ISBN / ASIN: 1593571313
EAN: 9781593571313
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: JIST Works
Studio: JIST Works

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In this busy world, people don't always have the time to prepare for job interviews far in advance. For job seekers who wait until the last minute and need to speed up fast, there is Next-Day Job Interview. This book distills Mike Farr's revolutionary and proven interview advice into eight quick chapters covering self-assessment, company research, key questions, a system for answering any question that might come up, unusual situations, following up after the interview, salary negotiation, and getting more interviews.

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Publisher: McGraw Hill/Irwin
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2003
Sales Rank: 611008
ISBN / ASIN: 0070529078
EAN: 9780070529076
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill/Irwin
Studio: McGraw Hill/Irwin

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FROM THE PUBLISHER Brealey/Myers' Principles of Corporate Finance is the worldwide leading text that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Throughout the book the authors show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do. The text is comprehensive, authoritative, and modern and yet the material is presented at a common sense level. The discussions and illustrations are unique due to the depth of detail blended with a distinct sense of humor for which the book is well known and highly regarded. This text is a valued reference for thousands of practicing financial managers.

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Swarm Intelligent Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 186
Publication Date: 2006-07-28
Sales Rank: 2202876
ISBN / ASIN: 3540338683
EAN: 9783540338680
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

This volume offers a wide spectrum of sample works developed in leading research throughout the world about innovative methodologies of swarm intelligence and foundations of engineering swarm intelligent systems as well as applications and interesting experiences using the particle swarm optimisation. Swarm intelligence is an innovative computational way to solve hard problems. In particular, particle swarm optimization, also commonly known as PSO, mimics the behavior of a swarm of insects or a school of fish. If one of the particle discovers a good path to food the rest of the swarm will be able to follow instantly even if they are far away in the swarm. Swarm behavior is modeled by particles in multidimensional space that have two characteristics: a position and a velocity. These particles wander around the hyperspace and remember the best position that they have discovered. They communicate good positions to each other and adjust their own position and velocity based on these good positions.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: 2006-09-06
Sales Rank:
ISBN / ASIN: 0387365907
EAN: 9780387365909
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Publisher: Fanpro Llc
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2004-02
Sales Rank: 846968
ISBN / ASIN: 1932564004
EAN: 9781932564006
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Fanpro Llc
Studio: Fanpro Llc

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Street Smart? New to the sprawl kid? Wise up fast, cuz wiz wires or spell juice alone won't save your ass on the hungry streets. You flash your credstick in the wrong alley, drop a name in the wrong company, or flick out a spur at a gunfight, and your organs will be next up for auction. Reps are built on etiquette and connections, not just chill attitude and piles of corpses. You need to know when to deal and when to wheel, or you'll be just another skidmark on the sprawl streets. The Sprawl Survival Guide details daily life in 2063, from home amenities to nightlife to coffin clubs and cred accounts. It also exposes the ins and outs of the shadowrunners' lifestyleÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?how they operate, who they deal with and how they survive. This information is essential for both gamemasters and players, detailing the world of Shadowrun and bringing it to life. Also includes expanded rules for lifestyles, travel and fake identities. For use with Shadowrun, Third Edition.

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Publisher: Fasa
Number Of Pages: 117
Publication Date: 1990-05
Sales Rank: 881013
ISBN / ASIN: 1555601227
EAN: 9781555601225
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Fasa

A note: If you are playing Third Edition Shadowrun and don't feel like collecting old source material, skip this book completely (it is replaced by a newer sourcebook, as is its companion, Fields of Fire).

That said: Unlike some of the later sourcebooks, most things here are actually useful while not being overpowered. In addition, it gives a better range of items to choose from within a class (for example, you're not limited to only 4 light pistols).

If you are looking for more toys for your compaign, get this book. If you prefer a better idea of how to play a Street Samurai, don't look here. There's almost nothing on tips or hints in this book. Cybertechnology and Fields of Fire are much more useful for the hows and whys of playing street sams.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 394
Publication Date: 2006-02-10
Sales Rank: 1492414
ISBN / ASIN: 1402041322
EAN: 9781402041327
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, velocity, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads. They have been used in a large number of applications ranging from astronomy to flight simulators and are becoming increasingly popular in the field of machine-tool industry. This book presents a complete synthesis of the latest results on the possible mechanical architectures, analysis and synthesis of this type of mechanism. It is intended to be used by students (with over 150 exercises and numerous internet addresses), researchers (with over 650 references and anonymous ftp access to the code of some algorithms presented in this book) and engineers (for which practical results, mistakes to avoid, and applications are presented).

Since the publication of the first edition (2000) there has been an impressive increase in terms of study and use of this kind of structure that are reported in this book. This second edition has been completely overhauled. The initial chapter on kinematics has been split into Inverse Kinematics and Direct Kinematics. A new chapter on calibration was added. The other chapters have also been rewritten to a large extent. The reference section has been updated to include around 45% new works that appeared after the first edition.

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Selling and Buying Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, Boats, Parts, Accessories, and Much More on the Web's #1 Auction Site

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2004-04
Sales Rank: 248685
ISBN / ASIN: 0814472524
EAN: 9780814472521
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: AMACOM/American Management Association
Studio: AMACOM/American Management Association

Book Description: )

In 2002, 300,000 vehicles with a total value of $3 billion were sold -- on one Web site. Is it any surprise the site is eBay? For buyers, sellers, dealers, and parts and accessories vendors, there's simply no other marketplace to match the huge selection, broad exposure, and ease of use that are eBay's hallmarks. eBay Motors the Smart Way offers sellers and dealers:

* strategies for setting and getting top price for any vehicle * techniques for creating attention-grabbing auction ads * new ways to add value with superior customer service * valuable tips for using auction management services and other time-saving resources * proven methods for maximizing reputation

Also a valuable tool for buyers, the book shows how to:

* determine a vehicle's value * how find great deals and bargains * arrange an inspection and run a "lemon check" * secure financing for an online vehicle purchase

eBay Motors the Smart Way offers valuable information for all readers on how to avoid fraud and scams, how to properly document your transactions, and how to conform to state vehicle laws -- even when transacting business over state lines.

From Mazerati to MoPed, Acura to Zamboni, if it runs on a motor, it'll take off on eBay!

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Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Pages: 580
Publication Date: 2002-06-15
Sales Rank: 471733
ISBN / ASIN: 0471215716
EAN: 9780471215714
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
Studio: Wiley-Interscience

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The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
* ".readers searching for a wide ranging and up-date view of fibre optic communication systems would do well to purchase this book."-International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (on the Second Edition)
* This comprehensive, up-to-date account of fiber-optic communication focuses on the physics and technology behind fiber-optic communication systems while covering both the systems and components aspects
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Quantum Mechanics (Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Sales Rank: 216803
ISBN / ASIN: 0387989196
EAN: 9780387989198
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Intended for beginning graduate students, this text takes the reader from the familiar coordinate representation of quantum mechanics to the modern algebraic approach, emphsizing symmetry principles throughout. After an introduction of the basic postulates and techniques, the book discusses time-independent perturbation theory, angular momentum, identical particles, scattering theory, and time-dependent perturbation theory. It concludes with several lectures on relativistic quantum mechanics and on many-body theory

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association; 1st edition (June 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081440815X
ISBN-13: 978-0814408155
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches

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Purchases by women now total trillions of dollars annually, accounting for 85% of all consumer expenditures. So, reaching women should be considered the number one priority for most businesses.
Don't Think Pink will help marketers see their brands through a woman's eyes, unlocking the secrets to developing products, services, and marketing strategies that truly resonate with female buyers.

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Publisher: Lulu Press
Number Of Pages: 237
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Sales Rank: 88896
ISBN / ASIN: 1411668243
EAN: 9781411668249
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Lulu Press
Studio: Lulu Press

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A Java/J2EE technical job interview guide for job seekers, promotion seekers, pro-active learners and interviewers. Learn the core concepts and issues relating to Java/J2EE in an easy to understand questions and answers approach . Covering over 220 interview questions and answers on: Java, J2EE, Applet, Servlets, JSP, EJB, JNDI, RMI, JDBC, LDAP, JMS, XML, RUP, UML, STRUTS, SQL, Design concepts & design patterns, JUnit, Ant, CVS, Development process, Emerging technologies/frameworks like AOP, IoC, Hibernate, Spring, JSF and more.

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Publisher: Adobe Press
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2005-08-17
Sales Rank: 5337
ISBN / ASIN: 0321321898
EAN: 9780321321893
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Adobe Press
Studio: Adobe Press

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If you're ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to "Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!" this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature styleÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depthÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop's most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point featuresÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

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Publisher: A-List Publishing
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2003-09
Sales Rank: 534065
ISBN / ASIN: 1931769249
EAN: 9781931769242
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: A-List Publishing
Studio: A-List Publishing

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A guide to optimizing programs on the PC and Unix platforms, this book covers the expediency of optimization and the methods to increase the speed of programs via optimization. Discussed are typical mistakes made by programmers that lessen the performance of the system along with easily implemented solutions. Detailed descriptions of the devices and mechanism of interaction of the computer components, effective ways of programming, and a technique for optimizing programs, are provided. Programmers will also learn how to effectively implement programming methods in a high-level language that is usually done in assembler with particular attention given to the RAM subsystem. The working principles of the RAM and the way in which it is coupled with the processor as well as a description of programming methods that allows programmers to overclock the memory to reach maximum performance are included.

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Engineering and Managing Software Requirements

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 478
Publication Date: 2005-08-08
Sales Rank: 941398
ISBN / ASIN: 3540250433
EAN: 9783540250432
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Requirements engineering is the process by which the requirements for software systems are gathered, analyzed, documented, and managed throughout their complete lifecycle. Traditionally it has been concerned with technical goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems. Aurum and Wohlin, however, argue that it is no longer appropriate for software systems professionals to focus only on functional and non-functional aspects of the intended system and to somehow assume that organizational context and needs are outside their remit. Instead, they call for a broader perspective in order to gain a better understanding of the interdependencies between enterprise stakeholders, processes, and software systems, which would in turn give rise to more appropriate techniques and higher-quality systems. Following an introductory chapter that provides an exploration of key issues in requirements engineering, the book is organized in three parts. Part 1 presents surveys of state-of-the art requirements engineering process research along with critical assessments of existing models, frameworks and techniques. Part 2 addresses key areas in requirements engineering, such as market-driven requirements engineering, goal modeling, requirements ambiguity, and others. Part 3 concludes the book with articles that present empirical evidence and experiences from practices in industrial projects. Its broader perspective gives this book its distinct appeal and makes it of interest to both researchers and practitioners, not only in software engineering but also in other disciplines such as business process engineering and management science.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 198
Publication Date: 2004-09-14
Sales Rank: 241884
ISBN / ASIN: 1852338792
EAN: 9781852338794
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students. Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, this book gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. - Explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems - Describes the underlying representations used in system modelling and introduces the UML2 - Considers the relationship between requirements and modelling - Covers a generic multi-layer requirements process - Discusses the key elements of effective requirements management - Explains the important concept of rich traceability - Introduces an overview of DOORS Version 7 - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.info

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 476
Publication Date: 2006-06-02
Sales Rank: 880807
ISBN / ASIN: 0387244182
EAN: 9780387244181
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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The computer hardware and software industry is committed to using formal methods. As a result, it is crucial that students who take automata theory and logic courses retain what they have learned and understand how to use their knowledge. Yet many textbooks typically emphasize automata theory only, not logic, thus losing a valuable opportunity to tie these subjects together and reinforce learning. In fact, automata theory and logic evolved hand-in-hand, yet this connection was severed in the '70s as separate automata-theory and logic courses became possible. Now, with computer science departments suffering from overcrowded syllabi, it is often possible for undergraduates to get a BS without having had to take a course in mathematical logic!

Today's students want to know how knowledge can work for them -- learning theory as a tool is preferable to learning theory for theory's sake. To prove that theoretical tenents are not only applicable, but also necessary and relevant, useful examples must be presented. This textbook uses interactive tools throughout, such as simple BDD and SAT tools. By providing a blend of theory and practical applications the material is shown to be both inviting and current. Topics are also illustrated in multiple domains so that information is reinforced and students can begin to tie automata theory and logic together. They will also learn multiple uses of fixed-points, including BDD based model checking and understanding context-free productions.

Having used this book, students will not only know and understand automata theory, but also be able to apply their knowledge in real practice.

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Discrete, Continuous, and Hybrid Petri Nets

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 524
Publication Date: 2004-11-23
Sales Rank: 1552200
ISBN / ASIN: 3540224807
EAN: 9783540224808
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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This monograph presents a well written and clearly organized introduction in the standard methods of discrete, continuous and hybrid Petri Nets. Starting from the basics of Petri Nets the book imparts an accurate understanding of continuous and hybrid Petri Nets. Preserving the consistency of basic concepts throughout the text it introduces a unified framework for all the models presented. The book is a scientific monograph as well as a didactic tutorial which is easy to understand due to many exercises with solutions, detailed figures and several case studies. It demonstrates that Petri nets are a deep, practical and alive field important for researchers, engineers and graduate students in engineering and computer science.

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Introduction to C Language

Overview of C
Running C Programs
Structure of C Programs
Keywords, Tokens & Identifiers
Logical & Bitwise Operator
Special Operator

Datatypes, Operators & Expressions

Data Types
Arithmetic & Relation Operator
Logical & Bitwise Operator
Special Statements

Input/Output & Control Statements

Getchar(), gets(), scanf(), Printf()
Decision Making Statements
Looping Statements

Array, Strung & Functions

One Dimensional and two dimensional arrays
Implementation of arrays
Declaring and initialization strings
String Handling Functions
Category of C Functions
Nesting of Functions
Storage Class

Structures & Pointers

Defining A Structure
Initializing of Structure
Accessing Structure Members
Defining a Pointer
Initialization a Pointer
Structure Pointers

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Ever need to model a part of the human anatomy but didn't know how? Well now you can learn to model just that, with the medical modeling series.
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Publisher: Adobe Press
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2005-08-17
Sales Rank: 5337
ISBN / ASIN: 0321321898
EAN: 9780321321893
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Adobe Press
Studio: Adobe Press

Book Description: )

If you're ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to "Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!" this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature styleÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depthÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop's most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point featuresÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 358
Publication Date: 2005-09-14
Sales Rank: 1445869
ISBN / ASIN: 1846280214
EAN: 9781846280214
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Including easily digested information about fundamental techniques and concepts in software construction, this book is distinct in unifying pure theory with pragmatic details. Driven by generic problems and concepts, with brief and complete illustrations from languages including C, Prolog, Java, Scheme, Haskell and HTML. This book is intended to be both a how-to handbook and easy reference guide. Discussions of principle, worked examples and exercises are presented. All concepts outside introductory programming are explained with clear demarcation and dependencies so the experienced programmer can quickly locate material. Readable in a linear manner, with short mono-thematic to encourage dipping and reference. Also included are sections on open problems in software theory and practice. While little other than a novice programmer's knowledge is explicitly assumed, a certain conceptual maturity, either through commercial programming or academic training is required ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ each language is introduced and explained briefly as needed.

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Publisher: Blandford
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1984-01
Sales Rank: 1337969
ISBN / ASIN: 0713714905
EAN: 9780713714906
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Blandford
Studio: Blandford

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Theory of Computation (Texts in Computer Science)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 426
Publication Date: 2006-03-23
Sales Rank: 292617
ISBN / ASIN: 1846282977
EAN: 9781846282973
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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This textbook has been written with the dual purpose to cover core material in the foundations of computing for graduate students in computer science, as well as to provide an introduction to some more advanced topics for those intending further study in the area. This book contains an invaluable collection of lectures for first-year graduates on the theory of computation, focusing primarily on computational complexity theory. Topics and features include: Organization into self-contained lectures of 3-7 pages; 41 primary lectures and a handful of supplementary lectures covering more specialized or advanced topics; 12 homework sets and several miscellaneous homework exercises of varying levels of difficulty, many with hints and complete solutions. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and first-year graduates in Computer Science or Mathematics with an interest in the theory of computation and computational complexity, this book provides a thorough grounding the foundations of computational complexity theory.

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an Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (Expert's Voice in .Net)

Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: 2006-10-20
Sales Rank: 140314
ISBN / ASIN: 1590597184
EAN: 9781590597187
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress

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Have you ever spent hours coding workflow for your applications? If so, the new Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technology will make your life easier. Foundations of WF: An Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation introduces you to using Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Workflow Foundation (part of Windows Vista) to create workflow packages. The book begins by giving you an overview of Windows Workflow Foundation. Then it introduces and shows examples of the various types of workflow that can be created.

You'll discover the power of WF. You'll learn about all the prebuild activities you can include in your workflow, along with how to create your own activities. WF is fully extensible and allows you an unlimited number of options for your workflow. You'll also learn how to use workflow activities to retrieve data, and finally, how to tie an ASP.NET application with a workflow built in WF.

This book, unlike most of the Microsoft WF samples, has code in both VB .NET and C#. All the examples--and there are many--have VB .NET code, and many have the accompanying C# code. This book will allow you to begin creating new workflow applications easily in either VB .NET or C#. Each chapter includes an introduction to one or more activities that make up WF, along with examples of how to use each activity. Many chapters include a final section providing a real world example (a purchase order system). This book will have you using WF to create workflow applications with VB .NET or C# in a short amount of time.

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Mathematical Modeling by an Artificial Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 478
Publication Date: 2006-07-11
Sales Rank: 1750749
ISBN / ASIN: 3540327967
EAN: 9783540327967
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Publisher: Apress
Number Of Pages: 488
Publication Date: 2006-10-18
Sales Rank: 326469
ISBN / ASIN: 159059620X
EAN: 9781590596203
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Apress
Studio: Apress

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Objective Caml (OCaml) is an open source programming language that allows you to utilize both functional and object-oriented programming. Sporting features such as a robust object system, type safety, and an expansive standard library, OCaml is a language that encourages pragmatic solutions instead of dogmatic ones. Boasting performance on par with the likes of C/C++, and having compilers available for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X, enterprise developers should consider adding this powerful language to their repertoire.

Written for experienced programmers, Practical OCaml teaches OCaml in a code-intensive fashion. Readers are encouraged to follow along with most examples using the OCaml top-level (the interactive interpreter), giving them the opportunity to consider the purpose and syntax of each line. The author's considerable knowledge of the Java, Python, and C++ languages allows him to present the material at a level and perspective that readers hailing from varied programming backgrounds will appreciate.

Language aficionados will be sure to enjoy the occasional digression into tangential topics such as OCaml's impurities from the functional programming perspective, with thoughts about how to overcome them using mutability, references, and classes.

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Primitive and composite types
Collections
File and I/O
Modules and functors
Ocamllex and Ocamlyacc
OCamldoc
Threading
The Camlp4 preprocessor and pretty printer

In later chapters, you'll put what you've learned to work, building applications capable of performing complex log-file processing, crawling the Web, filtering spam, and even broadcasting audio over a network using the Shoutcast protocol.

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Publisher: Microsoft Press
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2007-01-10
Sales Rank: 25882
ISBN / ASIN: 0735622744
EAN: 9780735622746
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Studio: Microsoft Press

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Youre upgrading to the 2007 Microsoft Office systemcongratulations! Now learn the tips and tricks to make Microsoft Office work for you. With this fun, easy-to-read guide, you get step by step instructions for tackling common productivity problems.

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A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design (Interactive Technologies)

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-12-14
Sales Rank: 77526
ISBN / ASIN: 0123540518
EAN: 9780123540515
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
Studio: Morgan Kaufmann

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Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming?

This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how to use the Contextual Design process and adapt it to tactical projects with tight timelines and resources.

Rapid Contextual Design provides detailed suggestions on structuring the project and customer interviews, conducting interviews, and running interpretation sessions. The handbook walks you step-by-step through organizing the data so you can see your key issues, along with visioning new solutions, storyboarding to work out the details, and paper prototype interviewing to iterate the designall with as little as a two-person team with only a few weeks to spare!

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*Covers the entire scope of a project, from deciding on the number and type of interviews, to interview set up and analyzing collected data. Sample project schedules are also included for a variety of different types of projects.
*Provides examples of how-to write affinity notes and affinity labels, build an affinity diagram, and step-by-step instructions for consolidating sequence models.
*Shows how to use consolidated data to define a design within tight time frames with examples of visions, storyboards, and paper prototypes.
*Introduces CDTools, the first application designed to support customer-centered design.

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Digital Color Imaging Handbook
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The exponential growth in the use of color capture and display devices has made this handbook a must for engineers, scientists, and students in image processing and a range of related disciplines. It provides comprehensive coverage of the field, covering the fundamentals of color perception and measurement, as well as the color and image processing algorithms and technology behind current color input and output devices. It also explores how to improve on the processing of color images, how to calibrate different color devices, and digitally process color images.

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Provides a single, comprehensive source of information on the science of color imaging. Covers recent innovations in the field of color imaging and image processing. Included are extensive bibliographic references.

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Hardcover: 575 pages
Publisher: CRC (December 23, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 084930900X
ISBN-13: 978-0849309007
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.9 inches
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Publisher: Open-Solutions Consultancy
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-05-30
Sales Rank: 1683559
ISBN / ASIN: 0955292905
EAN: 9780955292903
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Open-Solutions Consultancy
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Duncan Steele has a simple choice. Work for the UK Governements elite hacker unit, or spend several years in jail. Digital Force picks up where Z4CK left off, leading the reader through a cyber-thiller that will be appreciated by anyone who enjoys a good read. Unlike films such as 'The Net' and 'Hackers' Digital Force depicts real life hacking and digital insurgence whilst keeping explanations simple, allowing even non-techies to enjoy the book.

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Classification - the Ubiquitous Challenge: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¼r Klassifikation e.V., University of Dortmund, ... Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: 2005-08-22
Sales Rank: 3929292
ISBN / ASIN: 3540256776
EAN: 9783540256779
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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The contributions in this volume represent the latest research results in the field of Classification, Clustering, and Data Analysis. Besides the theoretical analysis, papers focus on various application fields as Archaeology, Astronomy, Bio-Sciences, Business, Electronic Data and Web, Finance and Insurance, Library Science and Linguistics, Marketing, Music Science, and Quality Assurance.

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Over 9,000 pages of today's most trusted medical references can now be accessed on your PC screen at the touch of a button. The PDR Electronic Library on CD-ROM contains the full text of the 2006 PDR, PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements, PDR for Ophthalmic Medicines and PDR Guide to Drug Interactions, Side Effects and Indications. For individual use only.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 313
Publication Date: 2005-10-11
Sales Rank: 90534
ISBN / ASIN: 0387278028
EAN: 9780387278025
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
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Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos

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Scilab is a free open-source software package for scientific computation. It includes hundreds of general purpose and specialized functions for numerical computation, organized in libraries called toolboxes, which cover such areas as simulation, optimization, systems and control, and signal processing. One important Scilab toolbox is Scicos. Scicos provides a block diagram graphical editor for the construction and simulation of dynamical systems. The objective of this book is to provide a tutorial for the use of Scilab/Scicos with a special emphasis on modeling and simulation tools. While it will provide useful information to experienced users it is designed to be accessible to beginning users from a variety of disciplines. Students and academic and industrial scientists and engineers should find it useful.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part concerns Scilab and includes a tutorial covering the language features, the data structures and specialized functions for doing graphics, importing, exporting data and interfacing external routines. It also covers in detail Scilab numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations. Even though the emphasis is placed on modeling and simulation applications, this part provides a global view of Scilab. The second part is dedicated to modeling and simulation of dynamical systems in Scicos. This type of modeling tool is widely used in industry because it provides a means for constructing modular and reusable models. This part contains a detailed description of the editor and its usage, which is illustrated through numerous examples. All codes used in the book is made available to the reader.

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Publisher: Fordham University Press
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Sales Rank: 316324
ISBN / ASIN: 0823225410
EAN: 9780823225415
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
Studio: Fordham University Press

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Draw 50 Flowers, Trees and Other Plants (Draw 50)

Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: 1995-07
Sales Rank: 858191
ISBN / ASIN: 1856974693
EAN: 9781856974691
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Kingfisher Books Ltd
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For young art lovers

On library day at school my daughter usually brings home an art book of some kind. Most of the time it was a book by Lee J. Ames. Marissa really wants to draw well but at 8 doesn't understand that you have to work hard at it. I suggested to her that she get a piece of white paper and trace over the drawings and then color them in. She has really made some beautiful drawings using this book.

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Publisher: R. Schneider
Number Of Pages: 219
Publication Date: 1993-03
Sales Rank: 55684
ISBN / ASIN: 0936984120
EAN: 9780936984124
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: R. Schneider
Studio: R. Schneider

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Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2004-05
Sales Rank: 1433668
ISBN / ASIN: 0271023627
EAN: 9780271023625
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
Studio: Pennsylvania State University Press

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To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de'Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity.

Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with techniques from history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

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Inside Delphi 2006 (Wordware Delphi Developer's Library)

Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 800
Publication Date: 2005-11-25
Sales Rank: 29898
ISBN / ASIN: 1598220039
EAN: 9781598220032
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Studio: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Average Rating: 3.5

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Starting with a detailed description of Delphi and C++ languages, this book covers the essential topics such as conditions, loops, strings and arrays, procedures and functions, file I/O, and pointers and gives an introduction to OOP before venturing into

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Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2005-10-14
Sales Rank: 976774
ISBN / ASIN: 1584885467
EAN: 9781584885467
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Studio: Chapman & Hall/CRC

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Taking a practical approach, Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments presents the most useful design and modeling methods for computer simulations used to study physical systems. The authors introduce the basic concepts of design as well as the concept of Latin hypercube sampling and its modifications. They cover uniform design, measures of uniformity, and their algebraic equations. They also provide various stochastic optimization techniques along with a variety of popular algorithms, such as simulated annealing, stochastic evolutionary, and threshold acceptance. The text includes discussions on special techniques for model interpretation, including generalized ANOVA and the Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test.
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Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue

Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 1990-12-03
Sales Rank: 2692593
ISBN / ASIN: 0262031671
EAN: 9780262031677
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Studio: The MIT Press

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In most current natural language systems each query is treated as an isolated request for information regardless of its context in dialogue. Sandra Carberry addresses the problem of creating computational strategies that can improve user-computer communication by assimilating ongoing dialogue and reasoning on the acquired knowledge.

Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue critically examines plan recognition - the inference of an agent's goals and how he or she intends to achieve them. It describes significant models of plan inference and presents in detail the author's own model, which infers new goals from user utterances and integrates them into the system's model of the user's plan, incrementally expanding and adding detail to its beliefs about what the information seeker wants to do. Carberry then outlines computational strategies for interpreting two kinds of problematic utterances: utterances that violate the pragmatic rules of the system's world model and intersentential elliptical fragments. She also suggests directions for future research.

Sandra Carberry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue is included in the ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural Language Processing edited by Aravind Joshi.

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Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 648
Publication Date: 2005-04-20
Sales Rank: 225168
ISBN / ASIN: 0672326485
EAN: 9780672326486
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sams
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Authors: Terry Patten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 25, 1988)
Hardcover: 230 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 052135076X
List Price: $80.00
Amazon Sales Rank: #2,912,902

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An exploration of a new approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI-knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same knowledge-based techniques currently exploited by expert systems. Thus, the fundamental methodological problem of interfacing specialized computational representations with equally specialized linguisticrepresentations can be resolved. The study provides a detailed discussion of the formal model proposed and of a substantial implementation including a relatively large systemic grammar. It represents a fundamental and productive contribution to the literature of text generation.

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This book is a comprehensive guide to using OpenVPN for building both secure VPNs. The book is written in a very friendly style that makes this complex topic easy and a joy to read. It first covers basic VPN concepts, then moves to introduce basic OpenVPN configurations, before covering advanced uses of OpenVPN. It's suitable for both experienced and new OpenVPN users.
OpenVPN is a powerful, open source SSL VPN application. It can secure site-to-site connections, WiFi and enterprise-scale remote connections. While being a full-featured VPN solution, OpenVPN is easy to use and does not suffer from the complexity that characterizes other IPSec VPN implementations. It uses the secure and stable TLS/SSL mechanisms for authentication and encryption.
This book is an easy introduction to this popular VPN application. After introducing the basics of security and VPN, the book moves on to cover using OpenVPN, from installing it on various platforms, through configuring basic tunnels, to more advanced features, such as using the application with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, and OpenVPN scripting. While providing the necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting plenty of examples.
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Chapter 1 looks at what VPNs are, how they evolved during the last decade, why it is necessary to modern Benterprises, how typical VPNs work. The chapter also covers some essential networking concepts.
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Chapter 3 introduces OpenVPN. In this chapter, we learn about the history of OpenVPN, how OpenVPN works, and how OpenVPN compares to IPSec VPN applications.
Chapter 4 covers installing OpenVPN on both Windows, the Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. It covers the installation on Linux from the source code and RPM packages. Installation on Suse and Debian is covered in detail.
Chapter 5. Here an encryption key for OpenVPN is created and it is then used to setup up our first OpenVPN Tunnel between two windows systems in the same network. The key is then copied on a Linux system and this system is connected through a tunnel to the first windows machine.
Chapter 6 shows how to create x509 server and client certificates for use with OpenVPN. easy-rsa which comes with OpenVPN and is available for both Windows and Linux is used.
Chapter 7 reviews the syntax of the command line tool openvpn, which enables building tunnels quickly. The configuration options of openvpn are covered in detail with examples.
Chapter 8 shows how to make the example tunnels created earlier safer and persistent by choosing a reliable combination of configuration file parameters. It then covers how to configure firewalls on Linux and Windows to work with OpenVPN.
Chapter 9 focuses on using xca, the advanced Windows tool with which x509 certificates can be easily managed. Its Linux equivalent, Tinyca2, which can even manage multiple certificate authorities, is also covered.
Chapter 10 covers advanced OpenVPN configurations, including Tunneling through a proxy server, pushing routing commands to clients, pushing and setting the default route through a tunnel, Distributed compilation through VPN tunnels with distcc, and OpenVPN scripting.
Chapter 11 shows how to debug and monitor VPN tunnels. It covers standard networking tools that can be used for scanning and testing the connectivity of a VPN server.
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Network administrators and any one who is interested in building secure VPNs using OpenVPN. It presumes basic knowledge of Linux, but no knowledge of VPNs is required. All basic VPN and relevant security concepts are covered.

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ISBN: 0672311593
Author: Edward Whalen / Steve Adrien Deluca
Publisher: Sams

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Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days is a tutorial that will teach the reader the basics of using and administrating an Oracle database. This book focuses on using concrete examples to explain why things should be done in a certain way. The key topics are broken out by week below:Week One Overview of the Oracle8 Architecture; Network Computing Architecture (NCA); Installing Oracle; Planning the Database; How to Administer Users, and How to Manage Processes.Week Two Administering Logs, Control Files, Datafiles, and Tablespaces; Controlling Rolback Segments; Building Tables and Views; Using Indexes and Clusters; and Security.Week Three Effective Backup Techniques; Recovering the Database; Administering Oracle Replication; Tuning and Optimizing the Database; Administering the Oracle Web Server; and Advanced Oracle Options. - This hands-on tutorial teaches the basics of Oracle8 in a short period of time

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A complete guide to set up, configuration and administration
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- Develop the skills to implement, customize and maintain an OpenCms website

A practical guide to creating and managing your own website with this proven Java/JSP based content management system. This book takes you through the process of creating content rich websites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book does not cover extending the operations of OpenCms with Java development. The focus is on OpenCms as a complete CMS platform in itself. It does use some JSP for extensions where required.

Based on customer feedback from the acclaimed first edition "Building Websites with OpenCms", this book concentrates on the process of setting up an OpenCms 6 website, with particular attention to the new features of OpenCms 6. The 120 pages in the previous OpenCms title from Packt that covered set up and administration issues have been updated for Version 6, with over 80 new pages added on new features and broader coverage of OpenCms 6 from a non-developer point of view. If you own the previous edition, and are primarily an administrator or manager of OpenCms websites, then we recommend you buy this edition. If you are primarily a developer then you may want to consider our forthcoming title specifically on OpenCms v6 Development.

This book takes you through the process of creating content rich web sites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease Java developers into getting the most from OpenCms.OpenCms is a professional-level, open source Website Content Management System, with which you can create and manage complex websites. Based on Java and XML technology, it fits into almost any modern IT environment. Now at version 6, OpenCms has blossomed into a mature and proven content management system.

With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with OpenCms, this book is the embodiment of the author's expertise, and the perfect way to master the system. With this book you will master OpenCms, and learn the skills to implement, customize and maintain an OpenCms website.

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- Managing projects, user accounts, databases, and modules
- Working with the VFS and search
- Working with templates and the OpenCms Tag Library
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- Be confident working in the OpenCms environment
- Be able to create your own, complex, OpenCms website

This book is for anyone who wants to get an OpenCMS website up and running as quickly as possible, whether you are a user, administrator, designer or webmaster. You do not have to be a Java developer to benefit from this book, although a working knowledge of Java, JSP, and XML will help you to get the most from OpenCMS, and this book.

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Publisher: Packt Publishing
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2006-02-28
Sales Rank: 265528
ISBN / ASIN: 1904811922
EAN: 9781904811923
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Studio: Packt Publishing

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If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial.

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- Familiarize yourself with the standard cPanel layout so you can find what you are looking for quickly
- Discover what the information you see on the main cPanel interface means and how to use it to keep track of what is happening with your hosting account
- Create, manage and remove FTP accounts so you (or your web master) can upload, access and remove files from your website
- Set up, manage and learn how to access e-mail accounts, including e-mail aliases (forwarding), web mail access, e-mail quotas, mail filtering, spam blocking and mailing lists
- Create, manage and delete databases from within cPanel
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Number Of Pages: 890
Publication Date: 2005-12-08
Sales Rank: 182480
ISBN / ASIN: 0072262095
EAN: 9780072262094
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

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This comprehensive volume is fully updated for C# 2.0 -- the newest version of Microsoft's revolutionary programming language.The changes found in C# 2.0 bring Java-like power to millions of Windows programmers worldwide. With expertly crafted explanations, insider tips, and hundreds of examples, this book fully explains every aspect of C# 2.0. Written in the clear, uncompromising style that has made master programming author Herb Schildt the choice of millions, the book covers all the new and existing features of this major programming language.

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Publisher: Addison Wesley
Number Of Pages: 440
Publication Date: 1986-07
Sales Rank: 610235
ISBN / ASIN: 0201142244
EAN: 9780201142242
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Studio: Addison Wesley

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ISBN: 1578202043
Author: Nels Johnson
Publisher: CMP Books

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Deliver a first-class presentation to your Web, home theater, and desktop video audience with proven strategies for reliable performance and positive user experiences. Culled from a decade of professional software development experience, these illustrated, step-by-step production examples are based on the latest standards (HTML, SMIL, XML, WSC, and JavaScript, among others). Inside you'll find tutorials, recipes, and complete instructions on how to capture, edit, compress, serve, and otherwise present Windows Media 9 Series video files. This book even includes hardware recommendations, tips for equipment setup, descriptions of working delivery systems, and breakdowns of the latest tools and techniques.
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Publisher: ISTE Publishing Company
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Sales Rank: 4790293
ISBN / ASIN: 1903996228
EAN: 9781903996225
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: ISTE Publishing Company
Studio: ISTE Publishing Company

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Presents the work of numerous research disciplines on creating efficient storage for large amounts of video data, and making querying and navigation of the data possible.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 1998-12
Sales Rank: 170015
ISBN / ASIN: 0393318745
EAN: 9780393318746
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
Average Rating: 5

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In this unique and startling collection of portraits following Naked New York, we see the "beautiful people" of Los Angeles first clothed, then completely naked. The people of Los Angeles are men and women of all shapes, ages, colors, and professions living in a city famed for its Hollywood glamour and perpetual summer. Photographed outdoors we see a magician, screenwriter, trapeze artist, unemployed surfer, filmmaker, casting director, aerospace engineer, and many more. This serious and, at the same time, amusing group of portraits shows the surprising differences and not so surprising similarities we have to one another clothed and unclothed. Unlike traditional nude photography, these portraits don't have erotic or sexual overtones; they are simply real people who reveal both their clothed public selves and their naked private selves. Greg Friedler's work as a documentary photographer is a kind of anthropological survey of people. If clothing is a voluntary choice, unclothed we see people in an involuntary state-we see their bodies as we see their faces, unmasked. These images are at once deeply intimate and refreshingly matter of fact.

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pages: 682 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596003080

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Written especially for those readers coming to VB.NET from an earlier version of Visual Basic, VB.NET in a Nutshell offers a quick language tour as well as a nicely thorough reference to all standard VB objects, methods, and properties. Even if you are a raw beginner, this concise reference is really all you need to get onboard with the new version of the world's most popular programming language.
The first sections of this text zero in on what's new and different in VB.NET. From the basics of the language, centering on data types and object-oriented features, this quick-start guide highlights essential language features that every VB.NET programmer needs to know. There's also material here on the underlying .NET framework, from deployment basics (like .NET assemblies) to built-in namespaces. Coverage of delegates and event handling shows how to process events. The substantially different exception handling model of VB.NET is contrasted with the older ways of handling errors.
The heart of this title has to be its reference material (over 400 pages), primarily on the built-in core VB classes in the new .NET version. While there were rumors that VB.NET changed VB completely, this material should reassure you. By providing APIs that resemble older versions, VB programmers still can leverage common string, date, and time and other functions. Every object, method, and property is described, along with sample code, and differences with VB6. A standout here are "gotchas" when using the new APIs compared to VB6. Besides objects and APIs, there is also coverage of language keywords (for logical, looping, and branching statements), too.
The book closes with several useful reference sections, one of which details all the new features to be found in VB.NET. This is almost a must-read for anyone facing the new VB.NET for the first time. Another appendix here lists VB.NET language APIs. While it's true that you can use many languages with .NET, VB.NET Language in a Nutshell covers the APIs that will give VB.NET its real flavor as a new programming language. Both a quick-start guide and a worthwhile reference to use everyday at your desk, this title is a great way to start using VB.NET in real projects quickly. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: [list] [*]Introduction to VB.NET [*]Variables and data types (including arrays, collections and parameter, and arguments) [*]Object-oriented programming in VB.NET (classes, inheritance, polymorphism and overloading) [*]Overview of the .NET Framework [*]The Common Language Runtime (CLR) [*]Managed execution [*]Assemblies and VB.NET [*].NET namespaces (including the system namespace) [*]Delegates and events [*]Error handling in VB.NET (including exception handling techniques) [*]Comprehensive language reference to VB.NET objects [*]Methods and properties (including sample code, programming tips/gotchas, VB.NET vs. VB6 differences) [*]Reference to what's new in VB.NET [*]Language elements and operators in VB.NET [*]Using the VB.NET command-line compiler [*]Unsupported VB 6 language elements[/list]

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Publisher: Pfeiffer
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2004-11-16
Sales Rank: 690619
ISBN / ASIN: 0787974021
EAN: 9780787974022
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
Studio: Pfeiffer

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Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in todays competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies? In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundy -- a pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solving -- has compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals. The book is filled with idea-generation activities that simultaneously teach the underlying problem-solving and creativity techniques involved. Each of the books 101 engaging and thought-provoking activities includes facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. Using 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will give you the information and tools you need to:

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101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving

Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in today's competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies?

In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?a pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solvingÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?has compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals. The book is filled with idea-generation activities that simultaneously teach the underlying problem-solving and creativity techniques involved. Each of the book's 101 engaging and thought-provoking activities includes facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. Using 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will give you the information and tools you need to

Generate creative ideas to solve problems
Avoid patterned and negative thinking
Engage in activities that are guaranteed to spark ideas
Use proven techniques for brainstorming with groups

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"In today's rapidly changing world, companies cannot afford to rely on old, rigid operating systems to solve their problems. They must adopt a more flexible and innovative approach by creating new ideas. In his latest book, 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving, Dr. VanGundy has compiled the best exercises for you and your team to come up with creative solutions to all sorts of company problemsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?from personal issues to new product development. This is the 'creativity reference' book every company should have on its shelf."
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Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add-ins, including VB. C/C++. Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ - Applications for Finance is a how-to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add-ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Author Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add-ins to financial applications with many examples given throughout the book. It covers the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VB versus C/C++.
"This book is for anyone who wants to do any application development in Excel. Even for an old hand at Excel development such as myself, a brief skim through reveals valuable nuggets of information. Delving deeper into the text, richer veins are easily found. This book is destined to become an essential reference on Excel development."
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"Programming Excel add-ins using the C API can be complex and difficult. Steve has done a masterful job of demystifying the process. After reading this book you'll be creating XLLs for all purposes with complete confidence. Highly recommended."
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Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
ISBN: 0470024690
Paperback: 422 pages
Data: December 15, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add-ins, including VB. C/C++. Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ - Applications for Finance is a how-to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add-ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Author Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add-ins to financial applications with many examples given throughout the book. It covers the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VB versus C/C++.

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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
Sales Rank: 106394
ISBN / ASIN: 0143036831
EAN: 9780143036838
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Publisher: Rodale Books
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Sales Rank: 202856
ISBN / ASIN: 0878577254
EAN: 9780878577255
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Studio: Rodale Books

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Dave Barry's humor speaks for itself. Barry on dating: "These are nonstereotypical times we live in, by which I mean that it is the responsibility of the man to ask for the date, and the responsibility of the woman to think up excuses that get progressively more obvious until the man figures out that the woman would rather chew on a rat pancreas." Barry on falling in love: "When two people have been on enough dates, they generally fall in love. You can tell you're in love by the way you feel: your head becomes light, your heart leaps within you, you feel like you're walking on air, and the whole world seems like a wonderful and happy place. Unfortunately these are also the four warning signs of colon disease, so it's always a good idea to check with your doctor." If you think you might be in danger of having a date, falling in love, or getting married, buy this book immediately.

From Publishers Weekly
Syndicated columnist Barry is just as funny here as in his previous humor books, Babies and Other Hazards of Sex and Claw Your Way to the Top. With a jaundiced eye, he comments on dating and marriage: opening lines ("How about that Middle East?"); French kissing "a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails"; Disney World honeymoons "They say 'honeymooning in Florida' because they don't want people to know that the highlight of the whole wild lustful romantic adventure was shaking hands with Goofy"; grounds for divorce "wearing shorts and black knee socks at the same time". In addition to the litany of love-life lunacies, there are O'Brien's 60 entertaining illustrations, including maps, pie charts, cartoons, diagrams and comic strips. A "funny index" not seen by PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Topics in Geometry, Coding Theory and Cryptography (Algebra and Applications)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 202
Publication Date: 2006-11-10
Sales Rank: 858890
ISBN / ASIN: 1402053339
EAN: 9781402053337
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer
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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Sales Rank: 935368
ISBN / ASIN: 3540221476
EAN: 9783540221470
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Modern cryptology increasingly employs mathematically rigorous concepts and methods from complexity theory. Conversely, current research topics in complexity theory are often motivated by questions and problems from cryptology. This book takes account of this situation, and therefore its subject is what may be dubbed "cryptocomplexity'', a kind of symbiosis of these two areas. This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students of computer science, mathematics, and engineering, and can be used for courses on complexity theory and cryptology, preferably by stressing their interrelation. Moreover, it may serve as a valuable source for researchers, teachers, and practitioners working in these fields. Starting from scratch, it works its way to the frontiers of current research in these fields and provides a detailed overview of their history and their current research topics and challenges.

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Algebraic Aspects of the Advanced Encryption Standard (Advances in Information Security)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Sales Rank: 1729037
ISBN / ASIN: 0387243631
EAN: 9780387243634
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springe

Book Description: )

The Belgian block cipher Rijndael was chosen in 2000 by the U.S. governmentÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the successor to the Data Encryption Standard. Rijndael was subsequently standardized as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is potentially the worldÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s most important block cipher. In 2002, some new analytical techniques were suggested that may have a dramatic effect on the security of the AES. Existing analytical techniques for block ciphers depend heavily on a statistical approach, whereas these new techniques are algebraic in nature.

Algebraic Aspects of the Advanced Encryption Standard, appearing five years after publication of the AES, presents the state of the art for the use of such algebraic techniques in analyzing the AES.

The primary audience for this work includes academic and industry researchers in cryptology; the book is also suitable for advanced-level students.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 313
Publication Date: 2005-10-11
Sales Rank: 90534
ISBN / ASIN: 0387278028
EAN: 9780387278025
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Scilab is a free open-source software package for scientific computation. It includes hundreds of general purpose and specialized functions for numerical computation, organized in libraries called toolboxes, which cover such areas as simulation, optimization, systems and control, and signal processing. One important Scilab toolbox is Scicos. Scicos provides a block diagram graphical editor for the construction and simulation of dynamical systems. The objective of this book is to provide a tutorial for the use of Scilab/Scicos with a special emphasis on modeling and simulation tools. While it will provide useful information to experienced users it is designed to be accessible to beginning users from a variety of disciplines. Students and academic and industrial scientists and engineers should find it useful.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part concerns Scilab and includes a tutorial covering the language features, the data structures and specialized functions for doing graphics, importing, exporting data and interfacing external routines. It also covers in detail Scilab numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations. Even though the emphasis is placed on modeling and simulation applications, this part provides a global view of Scilab. The second part is dedicated to modeling and simulation of dynamical systems in Scicos. This type of modeling tool is widely used in industry because it provides a means for constructing modular and reusable models. This part contains a detailed description of the editor and its usage, which is illustrated through numerous examples. All codes used in the book is made available to the reader.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2005-12-19
Sales Rank: 1619780
ISBN / ASIN: 4431241647
EAN: 9784431241645
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

The principles of adaptation to various environments have not yet been clarified. Furthermore, autonomous adaptation remains unsolved and a seriously difficult problem in robotics. Apparently, the adaptation ability shown by animals and that needed by robots in the real world cannot be explained or realized by one single function in a control system and mechanism. That is, adaptation in motion is induced at every level in a wide spectrum from the central neural system to the musculoskeletal system. This book contains the papers selected carefully from the symposium AMAM2003 particularly concerning adaptation in locomotion from the viewpoint of robotics and neurophysiology. Due to this restriction in topics adopted, we expect that this book will efficiently provide good information for scientists and engineers, which is useful to discuss the principles and mechanisms underlying animals' adaptation under unstructured environment .

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 647
Publication Date: 2005-06-21
Sales Rank: 152351
ISBN / ASIN: 038724381X
EAN: 9780387243818
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

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Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field. The newer concepts, techniques, and practices of biomedical knowledge management and data mining are introduced and examined in detail. It is the research and applications in these areas that are raising the technical horizons and expanding the utility of informatics to an increasing number of biomedical professionals and researchers.

The book is divided into three major topical sections.

Section I presents the foundational information and knowledge management material and includes topics such as: bioinformatics challenges and standards, security and privacy, ethical and social issues, and biomedical knowledge mapping.

Section II discusses the topics which are relevant to knowledge representations & access and includes topics such as: representations of medical concepts and relationships, genomic information retrieval, 3D medical informatics, public access to anatomic images, and creating and maintaining biomedical ontologies.

Section III examines the emerging application research in data mining, biomedical textual mining, and knowledge discovery research and includes topics such as: semantic parsing and analysis for patient records, biological relationships, gene pathways, and metabolic networks, exploratory genomic data analysis, joint learning using data and text mining, and disease informatics and outbreak detection.

The book is a comprehensive presentation of the foundations and leading application research in medical informatics/biomedicine. These concepts and techniques are illustrated with detailed case studies.

The authors are widely recognized professors and researchers in Schools of Medicine and Information Systems from the University of Arizona, University of Washington, Columbia University, and Oregon Health & Science University. In addition, individual expert contributing authors have been commissioned to write chapters for the book on their respective topical expertise.

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Practical WF Techniques and Examples using XAML and C#

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 2006-12-22
Sales Rank: 27853
ISBN / ASIN: 1904811213
EAN: 9781904811213
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Studio: Packt Publishing

Book Description: )

A fast-paced and practical developer's road map to working with Windows WF, from compilation to the base activity library to runtime services. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a technology for defining, executing, and managing workflows. It is part of the .NET Framework 3.0 and will be available natively in the Windows Vista operating system. Windows Workflow Foundation might be the most significant piece of middleware to arrive on the Windows platform since COM+ and the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. The difference is, not every application needs a distributed transaction, but nearly every application does have a workflow encoded inside it. In this book, K Scott Allen, author of renowned .NET articles at www.odetocode.com, provides you with all the information needed to develop successful products with Windows Workflow. From the basics of how Windows Workflow can solve the difficult problems inherent in workflow solutions, through authoring workflows in code, learning about the base activity library in Windows Workflow and the different types of workflow provided, and on to building event-driven workflows using state machines, workflow communications, and finally rules and conditions in Windows Workflow, this book will give you the in-depth information you need. Throughout the book, an example "bug reporting" workflow system is developed, showcasing the technology and techniques used. Fast-paced and to-the-point, this book takes you through the important topics of Windows WF development with clear explanations and practical example code. The book's selection of topics is driven by what the working developer needs to know. It is neither a comprehensive reference to the whole WF architecture, nor a strategy guide to the complete application development lifecycle. It's just what you as a C# developer need to know to use WF in your applications. This book is for .NET developers who want to enhance their applications with flexible workflow capabilities using Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation. The author assumes that you have read other texts on the overall architecture of WF and on WF application design strategies, and instead focuses on real-work implementation issues for C# developers.

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by Andrew A. Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko, Janis N. Vizulis and Andrei A. Mikhailovsky
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (December 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0072259175
Pages:400
Format:CHM
Size:9.8 MB

Implement bulletproof Cisco security the battle-tested Hacking Exposed way

Defend against the sneakiest attacks by looking at your Cisco network and devices through the eyes of the intruder. Hacking Exposed Cisco Networks shows you, step-by-step, how hackers target exposed systems, gain access, and pilfer compromised networks. All device-specific and network-centered security issues are covered alongside real-world examples, in-depth case studies, and detailed countermeasures. ItÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s all here--from switch, router, firewall, wireless, and VPN vulnerabilities to Layer 2 man-in-the-middle, VLAN jumping, BGP, DoS, and DDoS attacks. YouÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢ll prevent tomorrowÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢s catastrophe by learning how new flaws in Cisco-centered networks are discovered and abused by cyber-criminals. Plus, youÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚Â¢ll get undocumented Cisco commands, security evaluation templates, and vital security tools.

Use the tried-and-true Hacking Exposed methodology to find, exploit, and plug security holes in Cisco devices and networks

Locate vulnerable Cisco networks using Google and BGP queries, wardialing, fuzzing, host fingerprinting, and portscanning
Abuse Cisco failover protocols, punch holes in firewalls, and break into VPN tunnels
Use blackbox testing to uncover data input validation errors, hidden backdoors, HTTP, and SNMP vulnerabilities
Gain network access using password and SNMP community guessing, Telnet session hijacking, and searching for open TFTP servers
Find out how IOS exploits are written and if a Cisco router can be used as an attack platform
Block determined DoS and DDoS attacks using Cisco proprietary safeguards, CAR, and NBAR
Prevent secret keys cracking, sneaky data link attacks, routing protocol exploits, and malicious physical access .

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ISBN: 1593270070
Author: Jon Erickson
Publisher: No Starch Press
Edition: 1 edition (October, 2003)
Paperback: 264 pages

Book Description: )

A comprehensive introduction to the techniques of exploitation and creative problem-solving methods commonly referred to as "hacking." It shows how hackers exploit programs and write exploits, instead of just how to run other people's exploits. This book explains the technical aspects of hacking, including stack based overflows, heap based overflows, string exploits, return-into-libc, shellcode, and cryptographic attacks on 802.11b.

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Hacking GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth (ExtremeTech)

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2006-07-24
Sales Rank: 61160
ISBN / ASIN: 0471790095
EAN: 9780471790099
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

Book Description: )

This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more.

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Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Sales Rank: 216803
ISBN / ASIN: 0387989196
EAN: 9780387989198
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Intended for beginning graduate students, this text takes the reader from the familiar coordinate representation of quantum mechanics to the modern algebraic approach, emphsizing symmetry principles throughout. After an introduction of the basic postulates and techniques, the book discusses time-independent perturbation theory, angular momentum, identical particles, scattering theory, and time-dependent perturbation theory. It concludes with several lectures on relativistic quantum mechanics and on many-body theory

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By: National Research Council (U. S.), Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 030908640X

ISBN-13: 9780309086400
Publisher: Natl Academy Pr - 2002-11
Paperback | 97 Pages

Editorial Description:

The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) is transforming our society and its institutions. For the most knowledge-intensive entities of all, research universities, profound IT-related challenges and opportunities will emerge in the next decade or so. Yet, there is a sense that some of the most significant issues are not well understood by academic administrators, faculty, and those who support or depend on the institution s activities. This study identifies those information technologies likely to evolve in the near term (a decade or less) that could ultimately have a major impact on the research university. It also examines the possible implications of these technologies for the research university its activities (learning, research, outreach) and its organization, management, and financing and for the broader higher education enterprise. The authoring committee urges research universities and their constituents to develop new strategies to ensure that they survive and thrive in the digital age.

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Publisher: New York University Press
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Sales Rank: 442884
ISBN / ASIN: 0814747337
EAN: 9780814747339
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: New York University Press
Studio: New York University Press
Average Rating: 3.5

Summary:
Watching Barbara Walters's interview with Monica Lewinsky was like being caught in a tractor beam of horrified prurience. It boggled the mind that the leader of the free world would risk so much for... well, you know. The interview was many things, including funny, and that was mainly due to the enormous chasm between interviewer and interviewee regarding the heart of the matter: sex. When Walters asked, "And there were things that were done that made you as a woman happy and content?" it took women under 40 a few moments before they realized to what Walters was so coyly referring. The women of Generation (Se)X don't talk to each other like that. Even in public. They are a lot more explicit.
In Her Way, journalist Paula Kamen traces what she calls a sexual evolution, a slow but profound change in how women relate to their sexualities. Thirtysomething Kamen uses surveys (some more scientific than others), scholarly and popular literature, pop entertainment, and her own open-ended interviews with a wide variety of women to paint a picture of younger women who are more confident about their sexual selves (be they virginal or promiscuous) and in negotiating what they want in bed and their love relationships.
In keeping with the book's sex-positive message, the emphasis is on women's agency and on further possibilities for broadly satisfying sexual and interpersonal relationships. There is little about, for example, sexual violence, including date rape. Kamen has distilled a wealth of research in an engaging and accessible form, and she does not shy away from a more subtle commentary that notes the persistence of a sexual double standard for men and women. She also points out that we are still operating on "basic male definitions of sex or sexual freedoms" and asks whether, perhaps, in the words of the bumper sticker, "Women who strive to be equal to men aren't ambitious enough." --J. Riches

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Publisher: Basic Books
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2006-12-30
Sales Rank: 12032
ISBN / ASIN: 0465039146
EAN: 9780465039142
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Studio: Basic Books

Book Description: )

The "alarming and impassioned"* book on how the Internet is redefining constitutional law, now reissued as the first popular book revised online by its readers (*New York Times)

There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of o

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