Nick Trost, "Gambling Tricks with Cards"
1975 | ASIN: B0006XFWOU | 30 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB


This book is part of four-part series on gambling tricks. The series is intended to provide material for the magician who wants to present a routine of gambling tricks or who wants to include several of them in his programs of table magic.

The Very Best Of Emeril
2007 | ASIN: R20090611M | 704 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB


Chef Emeril includes recipes for every meal of the day - plus snacks, holiday meals, and party treats - so the possibilities are truly endless. With sides and optionalingredients galore, you can kick these recipes up a notch to fit every family's taste.

Karon Karter, "Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pilates Method"
2001 | ISBN: 0028639839 | Pages: 352 | PDF | 3.8 MB


This book teaches the basics of the Pilates method of fitness, a whole body workout that strengthens the abs and back and straightens the posture. Practiced worldwide by dance companies, physical therapists, and health clubs, the method is especially good for pregnant women, for people who have special fitness needs because of chronic back pain, joint stress, or obesity, and for anyone wishing to prevent osteoporosis.

How to Steal Food from the Supermarket
Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited | ISBN: 1559500913 | edition 1992 | PDF | 26 pages | 1 mb
Introduction
1. How the System Screws You 2. Reasonably Legal Methods of Reducing Your Grocery Bill 3. Illegal (But Low-Risk) Methods of Saving Money 4. Illegal Methods Short of Outright Shoplifting 5. Scamming the Scanner 6. Full-Fledged, Hard-Core, Stick-It-In-Your-Pants-And-Walk-Out-The-Door Shoplifting 7. Don't Look Like A Shoplifter 8. Supermarket Security 9. If You Get Caught

In Due Season: A Catholic Life
Publisher: Jossey-Bass | ISBN: 0470423331 | edition 2009 | PDF | 320 pages | 2,73 mb
Starred Review. In an exquisite memoir that often reads like a novel, writer Wilkes (In Mysterious Ways: The Death and Life of a Parish Priest) recounts and reflects upon his life as a Catholic. Although his journey includes a decade as a Protestant and ongoing discomfort with certain aspects of Catholicism, Wilkes deftly mines its imagery and its figures, particularly the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, a major and recurring influence. As Wilkes meanders through a life that begins in a working-class Cleveland neighborhood, he candidly relates his passages of sin and saintliness, including a conversion-in-reverse when he gains fame as a writer and an interlude following the end of his first marriage in which he lives among the poor, caring for society's castoffs. Readers will experience his confusion, the "decaying smell of [his] dying soul" and his triumphs as they wonder if the "it" he seeks will find him and whether he will marry again or become a monk. This is fine, engrossing reading for all who appreciate the struggle inherent in the spiritual quest.

Stewardship Across Boundaries
Publisher: Island Press | ISBN: 1559635150 | edition 1998 | PDF | 382 pages | 3,32 mb
Every piece of land, no matter how remote or untrammeled, has a boundary. While sometimes boundary lines follow topographic or biological features, more often they follow the straight lines of political dictate and compromise. Administrative boundaries nearly always fragment a landscape, resulting in loss of species that must disperse or migrate across borders, increased likelihood of threats such as alien species or pollutants, and disruption of natural processes such as fire. Despite the importance and ubiquity of boundary issues, remarkably little has been written on the subject.

Learning Windows Server 2003 (2nd edition)
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596101236 | edition 2006 | CHM | 742 pages | 7,2 mb
Getting Microsoft Windows Server 2003 up and running, either as a standalone or as part of a multi-site, multi-server network is a formidable task for anyone. O'Reilly's no-nonsense guide, "Learning Windows Server 2003, 2nd Edition," gives you just what you need to get the job done. It provides you with the nuts and bolts for installing, configuring, securing, and managing Windows Server 2003-plus, it has been completely updated for Service Pack 1 and release R2.
"Learning Windows Server 2003, 2nd Edition" includes just enough theory for you to understand how the different features and systems work in this latest version of Windows. You'll come away with a firm understanding of what's happening under the hood of the system, but without feeling like you're taking a graduate course in OS theory. After its high-level overview, the book offers complete discussions and treatments of all of Server 2003's major components.

Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies | ISBN: 0471752622 | edition 2006 | PDF | 840 pages | 11,9 mb
* Eight minibooks spanning over 850 pages deliver the scoop on the latest versions of seven leading Linux distributions: Fedora Core, SUSE, Debian, Xandros, SimplyMEPIS, Knoppix, and Ubuntu
* The DVD includes the full Fedora Core and Knoppix distributions plus ISO images of the other distributions covered, saving hours of downloading time
* This new edition includes all-new coverage of the SimplyMEPIS and Ubuntdistributions, an added section on the Skype Internet telephone system, and expanded coverage of Firefox, SELinux, and OpenOffice.org applications
* The eight minibooks cover Linux basics, desktops, networking, the Internet, administration, security, Internet servers, and programming
* The Linux share of the operating system market is expected to grow from three to 11 percent in the next four years

Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
Publisher: O'Reilly | ISBN: 0596003560 | edition 2002 | PDF | 216 pages | 23 mb
It's about time: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks arrives on the scene none too soon for UNIX aficionados who, having heard that the latest editions of Mac OS are based on a UNIX variant, want to see how the platform compares to more venerable versions of the eminently configurable operating system. This book highlights some key differences between the Darwin environment and more conventional UNIXs, enabling people with UNIX experience to take advantage of it as they learn the Mac OS X way of doing things at the command line.
This skinny volume neither aims to teach its readers UNIX nor introduce them to the Mac, but rather to show how Apple has implemented UNIX. It's a fast read that assumes--as the title implies--rather a lot of UNIX knowledge. With that requirement satisfied and this book in hand, you're likely to discover aspects of Aqua more quickly than you otherwise would have.

Learning XML, Second Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596004206 | edition 2003 | CHM | 432 pages | 1,72 mb
Although Learning XML covers XML rather broadly, it nevertheless presents the key elements of the technology with enough detail to familiarize the reader with this crucial markup language. This guide is brief enough to tackle in a weekend.
Author Erik T. Ray begins with an excellent summary of XML's history as an outgrowth of SGML and HTML. He outlines very clearly the elements of markup, demystifying concepts such as attributes, entities, and namespaces with numerous clear examples. To illustrate a real-world XML application, he gives the reader a look at a document written in DocBook--a publicly available XML document type for publishing technical writings--and explains the sections of the document step by step. A more simplified version of DocBook is used later in the book to illustrate transformation--a powerful benefit of XML.