Red Herrings and White Elephants: The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day


From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered with hundreds of common idioms borrowed from ancient traditions and civilizations throughout the world. In Red Herrings and White Elephants, Albert Jack has uncovered the amazing and sometimes downright bizarre stories behind many of our most familiar and eccentric modes of expression:
If you happen to be a bootlegger, your profession recalls the Wild West outlaws who sold illegal alcohol by concealing slender bottles of whiskey in their boots. If you're on cloud nine, you owe a nod to the American Weather Bureau's classification of clouds, the ninth topping out all others at a mountainous 40,000 feet. If you opt for the hair of the dog the morning after, you're following the advice of medieval English doctors, who recommended rubbing the hair of a dog into the wound left by the animal's bite.
A delightful compendium of anecdotes on everything from minding your p's and q's to pulling out all the stops, Red Herrings and White Elephants is an essential handbook for language-lovers of all ages.
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Mastering Regular Expressions 3rd Edition


Regular expressions are a central element of UNIX utilities like egrep and programming languages such as Perl. But whether you're a UNIX user or not, you can benefit from a better understanding of regular expressions since they work with applications ranging from validating data-entry fields to manipulating information in multimegabyte text files. Mastering Regular Expressions quickly covers the basics of regular-expression syntax, then delves into the mechanics of expression-processing, common pitfalls, performance issues, and implementation-specific differences. Written in an engaging style and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions offers a wealth information that you can put to immediate use.
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Kenpo Techniques


Kenpo techniques are groups of basic moves arranged in a pre-planned sequence to illustrate a possible defense for a given scenario.
They are taught with the "Three phase concept" which views the techniques in 3 stages (phases): Ideal, What-if, and Formulation.
In a "real world" situation, the Kenpo practitioner isn't expected to complete a whole specific technique. One never knows exactly how an opponent may react to any block, check or strike. For any given technique one can apply the equation formula to fit the reactions of their opponent, or perhaps the practitioner has a comfort level with certain movement and prefers to use the basics with which they are the most capable.
Some people believe that the techniques are the heart of Kenpo. They are. Unfortunately, too many people lose sight of why. Always remember, the techniques are vehicles for learning the principles of Kenpo. That is their lesson.
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Handbook of Medicinal Herbs



Page: 896
Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (June 27, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849312841
ISBN-13: 978-0849312847
Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.2 x 1.8 inches

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The World Cookbook For Students



From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe this is a great 5 volume collection of recipes to travel the world without ever having to leave your kitchen.
A great addition to anyone's cookbook collection.

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Multi-moment Asset Allocation and Pricing Models


While mainstream financial theories and applications assume that asset returns are normally distributed and individual preferences are quadratic, the overwhelming empirical evidence shows otherwise. Indeed, most of the asset returns exhibit «fat-tails» distributions and investors exhibit asymmetric preferences. These empirical findings lead to the development of a new area of research dedicated to the introduction of higher order moments in portfolio theory and asset pricing models.
Multi-moment asset pricing is a revolutionary new way of modeling time series in finance which allows various degrees of long-term memory to be generated. It allows risk and prices of risk to vary through time enabling the accurate valuation of long-lived assets.
This book presents the state-of-the art in multi-moment asset allocation and pricing models and provides many new developments in a single volume, collecting in a unified framework theoretical results and applications previously scattered throughout the financial literature. The topics covered in this comprehensive volume include: four-moment individual risk preferences, mathematics of the multi-moment efficient frontier, coherent asymmetric risks measures, hedge funds asset allocation under higher moments, time-varying specifications of (co)moments and multi-moment asset pricing models with homogeneous and heterogeneous agents.
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Encyclopedia of Algorithms



Editor: Ming-Yang Kao
Hardcover: 1166 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387307702
ISBN-13: 978-0387307701
Format: pdf

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Learning Flex 3



Learning Flex 3 Getting Up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications
Adobe Dev Library| ISBN-10: 0596517327 |13 Mb|Jul 01, 2008 | PDF | |304 pages |English|Rar

How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop. "Learning Flex 3" offers step-by-step instructions that are clear and concise, along with tips and tricks that author Alaric Cole has gathered after years of using Flex and teaching it to fellow developers at Yahoo! You'll understand how Flex works, how to use the MXML markup language and work with ActionScript, how to deploy RIA's to the desktop using Adobe AIR, and much more.Whether you're a beginner, or an experienced web developer coming to Flex from another platform, "Learning Flex 3" is the ideal way to learn how to: set up your environment with FlexBuilder and Eclipse; create a new Flex project; use the different design views in Flex; write code with MXML; lay out your Flex application; embed images and graphics; build a user interface; add interactivity with ActionScript; handle user input; move, display, and collect data; add custom components with MXML; add sound effects, filters, and transitions; style your applications with CSS, skins, and themes; and, deploy applications to the Web, or to the desktop using Adobe AIR.

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Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices



Author(s): Zhigang Li, Hong Meng
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date : 2007
Pages : 692
Format : PDF
OCR : Y
Quality : Excellent
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 157444574X

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) possess a number of advantages over conventional display devices, such as high brightness and contrast, high luminous efficiency, fast response time, wide viewing angle, low power consumption, and light weight. In addition, the new technologies offer the potential of low manufacturing cost. OLED displays can be fabricated on large area substrates (including flexible substrates) and offer a virtually unlimited choice of colors. The technological promise of these unique characteristics puts OLEDs at the forefront of research efforts of a number of government agencies, industries, and universities. Many major industrial electronics giants and many newcomers have invested heavily inOLEDresearch and development. As a result, a stream of new OLED products has reached the marketplace and a number of large-scale manufacturing facilities are under construction. Though the field is growing rapidly and its impact is both pervasive and far-reaching, major challenges still remain, especially the lack of highly efficient, stable organic light-emitting materials, the insufficient operational lifetimes of the devices, and technical hurdles in large-scale manufacturing yields of the OLED displays.

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Probability and Schrodinger's Mechanics



Author(s): David B.Cook
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Date : 2002
Pages : 343
Format : PDF
OCR : Y
Quality : Excellent
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 9812381910

The presentation and interpretation of (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics is a very well-worked area of study; there have to be very good reasons for adding to the literature on this subject. Any abstract formalism is much less rich than the structure from which it has been abstracted; a fact that even Wittgenstein had to come to terms with in the latter part his adult life. The use of probability in quantum theory is arbitrary, eccentric, out of step with modern probability theory and is the source of the majority of "paradoxes" in the interpretation of quantum theory. Although positivism is discredited as a philosophy of science it has left a huge clutter of verbal and conceptual debris strewn across the field of quantum theory.

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Mathematical Statistics: Exercises and Solutions


This book consists of solutions to four hundred exercises, over 95% of which are in the author’s Mathematical Statistics. That textbook covers topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics.
On the other hand, this is a stand-alone book, since exercises and solutions are comprehensible independently of their source. Many solutions involve standard exercises that appear in other textbooks listed in the references. To help readers not using this book with Mathematical Statistics, lists of notation, terminology, and some probability distributions are given in the front of the book.
Readers are assumed to have a good knowledge in advanced calculus. A course in real analysis or measure theory is highly recommended. If this book is used with a statistics textbook that does not include probability theory, then knowledge in measure-theoretic probability theory is required. The exercises are grouped into seven chapters with titles matching those in Mathematical Statistics.
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Technical English Level 2



Author(s): Christopher Jacques
Date : 2008
Pages : 80
Format : pdf
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1405845570
ISBN-13 : 9781405845571

Technical English is a practical course for students in vocational education or training at work. Its syllabus covers the core language that students need to be successful in all fields of technical and industrial work.

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Steel Designers' Manual, 6th edition



Author(s): The Steel Construction Institute
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Date : 2005
Pages : 1368
Format : PDF
OCR : Y
Quality : Excellent
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1405134127

At the instigation of the Iron and Steel Federation, the late Bernard Godfrey began work in 1952 on the first edition of the Steel Designers’ Manual. As principal author he worked on the manuscript almost continuously for a period of two years. On many Friday evenings he would meet with his co-authors, Charles Gray, Lewis Kent and W.E. Mitchell to review progress and resolve outstanding technical problems. A remarkable book emerged.Within approximately 900 pages it was possible for the steel designer to find everything necessary to carry out the detailed design of most conventional steelwork. Although not intended as an analytical treatise, the book contained the best summary of methods of analysis then available.

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Facebook Cookbook - Building Applications to Grow Your Facebook


Want to build Facebook applications that truly stand out among the thousands already available? In addition to providing easy-to-follow recipes that offer practical ways to design and build scalable applications using the Facebook Platform and its new profile design, this Cookbook also explains proven strategies for attracting users in this highly competitive environment. With plenty of examples and practical solutions, Facebook Cookbook answers some of the hardest questions Facebook application developers contend with - including how and where to get started. This Cookbook will help you: Learn to build an application that scales to accommodate a sudden influx of users Explore changes from Facebook's old profile design to the new look and feel Take advantage of new integration points in the new profile design Get tips for designing applications with hosting and deployment costs in mind Discover which widgets and controls to use for building the most attractive user interface design Learn the differences between standard HTML, JavaScript, and SQL, and the versions used on the Facebook Platform Target large, defined groups on Facebook, including those who want to find jobs, hire employees, market a business, advertise, and more

If you can build simple web applications with HTML, Facebook Cookbook will help you build applications with the potential to reach millions of users around the globe. Learn what it takes to design applications that stand above the rest.
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Network Troubleshooting Tools


Network Troubleshooting Tools helps you sort through the thousands of tools that
have been developed for debugging TCP/IP networks and choose the ones that are
best for your needs. It also shows you how to approach network troubleshooting using
these tools, how to document your network so you know how it behaves under normal
conditions, and how to think about problems when they arise so you can solve them
more effectively.
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Matrix and Tensor Calculus: Apps Mechanics,Elasticity,Aerona


This volume offers a working knowledge of the fundamentals of matrix and tensor calculus that can be applied to a variety of fields, particularly scientific aeronautical engineering. Mathematicians, physicists, and meteorologists as well as engineers will benefit from its skillful combination of mathematical statements and immediate practical applications.
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How To Make Vector From A picture - Photoshop Tutorial


Step by Step Tutorial - Every artist have their own style of creating a vector portrait ranging from ultra-realistic to very cartoony. What you’ll learn in this Tutorial is my style of making one and hopefully you can come up with our style after learning the basics of vector art. Let’s begin.
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