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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 11:51pm CET by admin
Música: Turntablism/Hip Hop/Old-School Rap/Funk Disco
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Leave it to the archivists at Strut to uncover another facet of the near-legendary New York dance scene of the '70s and '80s. After releases from Larry Levan and Danny Krivit shedding light on what it meant to go clubbing in the late '70s, the label moved to hip-hop — that other musical phenomenon of the era — with The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash. Half mix album and half history lesson, the compilation cuts back and forth between interviews, vintage or newly recorded turntable sessions, and a few old-school standalones — Babe Ruth's "The Mexican," Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express," Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Games" — to get listeners in the mood. Only two of the seven mix sessions are old, though the new mixes were apparently done the same way they would've if he'd been allowed his own mix album in 1982 instead of 2002. (It's a fact obviously hard to prove, but the closest he got at the time, 1981's seven-minutes-of-madness single "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel," is still breathtaking.) The new mixes sound just as good, with the master flashing across the spectrum of '70s dance — from Parliament to Thin Lizzy to Cerrone to Spoonie Gee to the Eagles — with deft flicks of the wrist serving as all the transition he needs. The 20-page color liners, produced with Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster (of the mixing history lesson Last Night a DJ Saved My Life), are the next best thing to a full video documentary. It's just slightly less revelatory than Strut's crown jewel, Larry Levan's Live at the Paradise Garage (mostly because few knew that one existed), but The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash is still the best look at the best DJ in history.
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Grandmaster Flash - The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash [2002]
Posted: February 29th, 2008, 11:48pm CET by admin
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Lil' Flip & Young Noble - All Eyez On Us
Label................: Real Talk Ent.
Genre................: Rap
StoreDate............: Mar-04-2008
Source...............: CDDA
Size.................: 63,6 MB
Total Playing Time...: 48:51
Release Notes:
Tracklisting
01. Flip Gates 00:57
02. Where You From 04:32
03. Can't Let It Happen 05:11
04. Over Time 04:13
05. Be About Somethin 04:35
06. Pure Uncut 00:40
07. I'm A G 04:14
08. Last Dayz 05:17
09. Gettin Paper 00:28
10. Speakin My Language 05:20
11. On MY Team 04:59
12. Pill Or Two 03:50
13. Givin It Back 03:48
14. Purple Lean 00:47
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 11:37pm CET by admin
Música: Funk/R&B/Disco/High Energy/Electro/Dance Rock
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Despite being known globally for its two top ten hits as per the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1983, Freeez was initially known for its emergence as one of the UK's first and leading Jazz Funk bands of the very early eighties. Founded by John Rocca, Freeez gained considerable respect from the industry, DJs and the Jazz Funk and Dance public as a dance music group from London, England. Freeez is perhaps best remembered for its youthful style of British Funk especially the UK top ten eighties hit Southern Freeez and other UK and European hits. Much of the band's early work, including the track Southern Freeez became part of the Jazz-funk scene in the UK, in the early 1980s. The band were signed to the record label Beggars Banquet Records. The song "I.O.U.", written, produced and mixed by Arthur Baker, (then known for his work with New Order and Afrika Bambaatta), was also used on the 80's Breakdance movie Beat Street. It spent two weeks at number one in the US Billboard dance chart, sandwiched between the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, and was number 2 in the national United Kingdom Gallup charts through the summer of 83. It was followed by other releases from the album such as "Pop Goes My Love" / "Scratch Goes My Dub," which hit the US top five. In 1987 a new remix of "I.O.U." showed the strength of the 80's anthem by climbing back up to number eighteen on the U.S. dance chart, plus number twenty-three in the national United Kingdom Gallup charts. The original group consisted of various musicians depending on the year but always with founder John Rocca and key members such as Andy Stennet - keyboards, Peter Maas - bass, and Paul Morgan or Everton Mcalla - drums. Freeez's first record, Keep in Touch, included guitarist Jean Paul Bluey Maunick founder of Incognito. Southern Freez incuded vocals by Ingrid Mansfield Alman. John Rocca and Stennet also recorded as Pictures and under other pseudo names such Pink Rhythm in 1985.
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Freeez - Gonna Get You [1983]
Posted: February 29th, 2008, 11:29pm CET by admin
Now that they have released their debut LP "Hold On Now, Youngster..." Los Campesinos! have been touring the UK and the rest of Europe. Now they have announced they will be coming to North America in support of the record. They will have a stop at SXSW then head to England and start the Nrth American leg of the tour in NJ.
Tour Dates:
2/29 Munich, Germany - Atomic Café
3/01 Rees-Haldern Germany - Haldern Festival
3/04 Paris, France - Nouveau Casino
3/06 Milan, Italy - Musicdrome
3/07 Bologna, Italy - Covo Club
3/13 Austin, TX - Emo's (Canvas Media/Onion/Saddle Creek SXSW day party)
3/14 Austin, TX - Cedar Creek (Filter Magazine SXSW day party)
3/15 Austin, TX - The Parish (Arts & Crafts SXSW showcase)
3/28 Umea, Sweden - Umea Festival
3/29 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
4/10 Cardiff, Wales - Solus
4/11 Tunbridge Wells, England - Forum (two shows)
4/12 London, England - The Quad
4/13 Norwich, England - Waterfront
4/14 London, England - The Windmill
4/16 Hereford, England - Jailhouse
4/17 Bradford, England - St. Georges Hall
4/18-19 London, England - Camden Crawl
4/20 London, England - Hoxton Bar & Grill
4/25 Rouen, France - Le 506
4/26 Bordeaux, France - Theatre Barbey
4/27 Clermont-Ferrand, France - Cooperative de Mai
4/28 Orleans, France - Astrolabe
5/09-11 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre
5/14 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
5/15 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
5/16 Washington, DC - Black Cat
5/17 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
5/19 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
5/21 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
5/22 Montreal, Quebec - Petit Campus
5/23 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
5/24 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
5/26 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
5/27 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
5/28 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre
5/31 Seattle, WA - Neumo's
6/01 Vancouver, BC - Plaza Club
6/02 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
6/03 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
6/05 Sacramento, CA - TBA
6/06 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's
6/07 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
6/08 Pomona, CA - Glass House
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Noite embalada por Sound System em estilo jamaicano.
Alex Jurássico e Lucas c-s se revezam entre operação de som e seleção musical centrada principalmente no reggae antigo e em musica brasileira do mesmo período (60/70). Um baile regado a: soul-macumba, baião-steady e talvez ska-eieiê entre outros suíngues e balanços mais.
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Espaço Impróprio apresenta Jurassic SS.
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Alex Jurássico e Lucas c-s se revezam entre operação de som e seleção musical centrada principalmente no reggae antigo e em musica brasileira do mesmo período (60/70). Um baile regado a: soul-macumba, baião-steady e talvez ska-eieiê entre outros suíngues e balanços mais.
Posted: February 29th, 2008, 11:25pm CET by admin
Tracklist
01. Papoose - Intro 00:34
02. Papoose - Bang Bang (Produced by Sid Roams) 04:38
03. Papoose - Ride Out (feat. C-Murder) 04:03
(Produced by HipHopGame.Com)
04. Papoose - Pop A Wheely (Produced by Certifyd) 02:46
05. Papoose - Success (Produced by JR Rotem) 02:04
06. Papoose - Goin’ To Da Bank Right Now (Produced by GQ Beats) 02:34
07. Papoose - Destiny (Produced by Prime Tracks) 04:10
08. Papoose - Chips (Produced by Prime Tracks) 01:57
09. Papoose - Real Right (feat. Thug A Cation) 04:11
(Produced by J Swift)
10. Papoose - Flatline (Produced by E Dubb) 04:27
11. Papoose - Interlude 00:25
12. Papoose - Law Library (Produced by E Dubb) 03:23
13. Papoose - Cherades 2 (Produced by Buc Wild) 03:16
14. Papoose - I Like It (feat. Debarge) 03:24
(Produced by DJ Kay Slay)
15. Papoose - Sex You Up 2008 (feat. Ray J) 02:11
(Produced by DJ Kay Slay)
16. Papoose - Is It Good To You (Produced by E Dubb) 03:58
17. Papoose - Cancel Christmas (feat. Remy Ma) 02:49
(Produced by Sha Money XL)
18. Papoose - Scream (Produced by E Dubb) 03:01
19. Papoose - Qutta Town (Produced by Balls) 03:09
20. Papoose - Pop Off (Produced by E Dubb) 04:14
21. Papoose - Nothings Changed (Produced by HipHopGame.Com) 03:17
22. Papoose - Gift And A Curse (Produced by Certifyd) 02:33
23. Papoose - Comprehend (feat. Pete Rock) 02:29
(Produced by Pete Rock)
24. Papoose - Pop Life (Produced by DJ Kay Slay) 01:16
25. Papoose - Who Shot Ya 2008 08:03
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Posted: February 29th, 2008, 11:23pm CET by admin
Tracklist:
1. Let it go Feat. Lil Kim & Missy
2. Last night Feat. Diddy
3. I changed my mind Feat. Kanye West
4. Shoulda let you go
5. Give it up to me Feat. Sean Paul
6. I just want it to be over
7. Guess what Feat. Jadakiss
8. Give me more
9. You’ve changed
10. Got to get my heart back
11. Ive changed Feat. Jaheim
12. We could be
13. Love
14. I remember
15. I shoulda cheated
16. Work it out
17. Fallin out
18. Trust (Unreleased)
Bonus:
19. Dreamin Feat. Young Jeezy
20. Best friend Feat. R. Kelly & Pollow The Don
21. Love you better Feat. Keith Sweat
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Author: Mark McElroy
Publisher: Que
Pub Date: October 19, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-7686-6872-7
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7686-6872-8
Pages: 60
Size: 4.6 MB
You've seen lots of "how to" information...but 101 Reasons to Switch to a Mac offers the "why to"! Inside, instead of tech-talk and speed tests, 101 Reasons to Switch to the Mac offers true stories and unbiased advice from a long-time Windows user who, along with a million others in 2005, made the switch to a Mac.
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This is the private book of Madonna s.e.x story!
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CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is a best-of-breed Cisco? exam study guide that focuses specifically on the topics for the DESGN exam. Senior networking consultants Anthony Bruno and Steve Jordan expertly cover the latest exam content, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve your knowledge of Cisco network design. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.
CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. ��Do I Know This Already?�� quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and concise Foundation Summary information make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it. Challenging chapter-ending review questions help you assess your knowledge and reinforce key concepts.
The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a topic-by-topic basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text.
Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this book helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.
CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.
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The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 200 practice questions for the DESGN exam, all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.
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Linux+ Certification Study Guide (c) by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
The type of the release is: eBook
In the PDF format with ISBN: 007148874X and Pub Date: August 27, 2007
The size of the release is: 07 disks x 2.88mb
And released on: 02/25/2008
This fully integrated study system delivers trusted and up-to-date
coverage of the newly revised CompTIA Linux+ certification exam.
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in-depth explanations, this is the only study guide to include
platform-independent practice exams.
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Andrew Radford “English Syntax: An Introduction" Cambridge University Press (May 31, 2004) | ISBN: 0521834996 | PDF | 396 pages | 2 Mb
This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. An extensive glossary is included and each chapter contains a workbook section with "helpful hints", exercises, and model answers, suitable for class discussion and self-study.
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US News & World Report February 25 2008
PDF | English | 12 MB
The editorial staff of U.S.News & World Report is based in Washington, D.C., but it is owned by U.S.News & World Report, L.P., which is based in the Daily News building in New York City. Founded in 1933 as United States News, it merged with World Report in 1948. The magazine's founder, David Lawrence (1888–1973), sold it to his employees. In 1984, it was purchased by Mortimer Zuckerman, who is also the owner of the New York Daily News.
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US News & World Report February 18 2008
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US News & World Report February 11 2008
PDF | English | 11 MB
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Harvard Business Review February 2008
PDF | English | 24 MB
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and enjoys the reverence of academics, executives, and management consultants. It has been the frequent publishing home for well known scholars and management thinkers, among them Clayton M. Christensen, Peter F. Drucker, Michael E. Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, Robert S. Kaplan, Robert H. Schaffer and others. Management and business concepts and terms such as "Balanced scorecard," "Core competence," "Strategic intent," "Reengineering," "Globalization," "Marketing myopia," and "Glass ceiling" were first given prominence in HBR's pages. Its worldwide English-language circulation is 240,000, and there are 11 licensed editions of the magazine, including two Chinese-language editions, a German edition, a Brazilian (Portuguese-language) edition, and an English-language South Asia edition. The magazine is editorially independent of Harvard Business School. It is not peer reviewed.
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Now you can get the most out of your Mac, whether it’s an iMac, MacBook, or Mac mini. How to Do Everything: Mac shows you how to set up and customize your Mac and use all of the built-in tools and applications, such as iTunes, Mail, Safari, and the iLife and iWork suites. The revolutionary new features available in Mac OS X Leopard are also covered, such as Quick Look, Time Machine, and Spaces. Plus, you’ll get details on hardware and peripherals, networking, troubleshooting, and maintenance. This is your must-have Mac guide!
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Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematicalvocabulary
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Build and maintain a converged multimedia network environment
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Master the Signal Processing Concepts and Techniques Needed to Design and Operate Any Wireless Communications Network Signal Processing for Wireless Communications offers communications engineers an application-focused guide to the essential concepts and techniques of wireless signal processing. This comprehensive reference examines the role that key algorithms and standard migration paths play in the design and day-to-day operations of today’s state-of-the-art wireless networks.
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Channing C. Ahn “Transmission Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry in Materials Science and the EELS Atlas"
Wiley-VCH | 2005-01-04 | ISBN: 3527405658 | PDF | 472 pages | 11,3 Mb
This book package provides a reference on electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS) with the transmission electron microscope, an established technique for chemical and structural analysis of thin specimens in a transmission electron microscope. Describing the issues of instrumentation, data acquisition, and data analysis, the authors apply this technique to several classes of materials, namely ceramics, metals, polymers, minerals, semiconductors, and magnetic materials.
Transmission electron microscopy is a workhorse for characterizing the microstructure of materials that range from polymers to superconductors. Electron energy loss spectrometry is a relatively new addition to the group of diffraction, imaging and spectroscopic techniques available for the study of materials with the transmission electron microscope. Many of themethods that are required to convert from an understanding of electron scattering physics to a new understanding of a material can be daunting. Transmission Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry in Materials Science is the result of a growing demand from materials scientists to combine analytical tools and problem-solving approaches. We hope that this emphasis on applications can help to shorten the learning curve necessary to achieve productive EELS experiments Rapid changes in instrumentation and the associated analytical methods require
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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Cambridge University Press | 2005-01-17 | ISBN: 052152069X | 468 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries.
The history of philosophy in Arabic goes back almost as far as Islam itself. Philosophically interesting theological disputes were underway within two centuries of the founding of Islam in 622 C.E. At the same time some important scientific, medical, and philosophical texts from the Greek tradition were being studied and used in the Syriac tradition, with Aristotelian logic being employed in theological debates. By the third century of the Muslim calendar (the ninth
century C.E.), a great translation movement centered inBaghdad was in full bloom. In response, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish philosophers writing in Arabic began to make important contributions to a tradition of philosophizing that continues alive to the present day.
Debates and contests on logic, grammar, theology, and philosophy by Muslims, Christians, and Jews took place at the caliphal court.
The structure and foundation of the cosmos, the natures of entities in the physical world, the relation of human beings to the transcendent divine, the principles of metaphysics, the nature of logic and the foundations of epistemology, and the pursuit of the good life in ethics – in sum, the traditional issues of philosophy, old wine, albeit in new skins – were debated with intensity, originality, and penetrating insight.
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Robert Lafore “Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (2nd Edition) "
Sams | 2002-11-16 | ISBN: 0672324539 | PDF | 800 pages | 3,5 Mb
Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, Second Edition is designed to be easy to read and understand although the topic itself is complicated. Algorithms are the procedures that software programs use to manipulate data structures. Besides clear and simple example programs, the author includes a workshop as a small demonstration program executable on a Web browser. The programs demonstrate in graphical form what data structures look like and how they operate. In the second edition, the program is rewritten to improve operation and clarify the algorithms, the example programs are revised to work with the latest version of the Java JDK, and questions and exercises will be added at the end of each chapter making the book even more useful.
Educational Supplement
Suggested solutions to the programming projects found at the end of each chapter are made available to instructors at recognized educational institutions. This educational supplement can be found in the Instructor Resource Center.
This section is intended for teachers and others who want a quick overview of the contents of the book. It assumes you’re already familiar with the topics and terms involved in a study of data structures and algorithms.
The first two chapters are intended to ease the reader into data structures and algorithms as painlessly as possible.
Chapter 1, “Overview,” presents an overview of the topics to be discussed and introduces a small number of terms that will be needed later on. For readers unfamiliar with object-oriented programming, it summarizes those aspects of this discipline that will be needed in the balance of the book, and for programmers who know C++ but not Java, the key differences between these languages are reviewed.
Chapter 2, “Arrays,” focuses on arrays. However, there are two subtexts: the use of classes to encapsulate data storage structures and the class interface. Searching, insertion, and deletion in arrays and ordered arrays are covered. Linear searching and binary searching are explained. Workshop applets demonstrate these algorithms with unordered and ordered arrays.
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John J. Amoss, Dan Minoli “Handbook of IPv4 to IPv6 Transition: Methodologies for Institutional and Corporate Networks "
AUERBACH (December 6, 2007) | ISBN: 0849385164 | PDF | 248 pages | 3,5 Mb
In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office recommended that all agencies begin planning a coherent transition to IPv6. IPv6 will solve the problem of limited IP addresses and improve internetworking capabilities. This promising protocol is gaining momentum and it is only a matter of time before the transition will have to occur globally. The problem is that during the three-to-six year transition period, IPv6 and its predecessor, IPv4, will have to successfully coexist in order to ensure service continuity.
Not only federal agencies, but corporations and institutions must start planning the transition to IPv6 now to maintain the operation, security, and interoperability of their networks.
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The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is now gaining momentum as an improved network layer protocol. There is much commercial interest and activity in Europe and Asia, and as of press time, there also was some traction in the United States. For example, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced that from October 1, 2003, all new developments and procurements needed to be IPv6-capable; the DoD’s goal was to complete the transition to IPv6 for all intra- and internetworking across the agency by 2008. In 2005, the U.S. General Accountability Office
(GAO) recommended that all agencies become proactive in planning a coherent transition to IPv6. The expectation is that in the next few years a transition to this new protocol will occur worldwide.
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Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mario Arias-Oliva “E-Human Resources Management: Managing Knowledge People "
Idea Group Publishing | 2004-11-01 | ISBN: 1591404355 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,5 Mb
This book provides a deep discussion about e-HRM issues so the reader can have a thoughtful background about the key role played by those who participate in e-HRM activities. A variety of experiences are provided to involve the reader in real problems an
was released. In the first scene of the movie, Ant Z 4195 is talking to his psychoanalyst and saying: “…and my job, don’t get me started on, cause it really annoys me…I feel physically inadequate, I, I, my whole life I’ve never been able to lift 10 times my own body weight and when you get down to it, handling dirt is…yuck, you know is not my idea of a rewarding career. It’s this whole gung-ho super-organism thing that I, I, you know I can’t get, I try but I
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Z 4195 is striving to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work of the ant colony. Our unhappy and depressed ant is working for a traditional hierarchical organization, where people are not treated as valuable assets and IT systems are not yet implemented. Even worse, he is currently working for an organization that may have neither examined people management practices, nor made a real connection between people and organizational performance.
While this behavior is still prevalent in many of today’s companies, we are presenting a book about e-HRM, about how IT is changing traditional HRM functions, about how e-HRM practices are implemented. Could this be a paradox? We hope so, because as Junipier (1996) pointed out: “Paradox is
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Douglas B. Reeves “The Daily Disciplines of Leadership: How to Improve Student Achievement, Staff Motivation, and Personal Organization"
Jossey-Bass | 2002-11-04 | ISBN: 0787964034 | PDF | 272 pages | 2 Mb
The Daily Disciplines of Leadership is a comprehensive and down-to-earth manual for school leaders that addresses the daunting challenges that today's principals, superintendents, and teacher-leaders face on a daily basis. Written by Douglas Reeves— a leading authority on academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability— the information in this book is based on his extensive experience working with educators, administrators, and school board members from across the country and internationally. Reeves discusses the basic purpose of leadership, presents four key leadership archetypes, and offers practical recommendations for action. Covering a wide range of topics— from accountability systems to personal communications— this book will serve as the 'go to' resource for novice and seasoned school leaders alike
Here is what I know about you. Your time is limited; each day you face competing demands not only for scarce financial resources but also for one of the most important resources of all, the time and attention of leadership. Moreover, your choices are rarely clear-cut
and you must confront the fog of ambiguity regularly. You are weary of the hype and tripe that masquerades as educational policy analysis, and you are intolerant of one more fact-free debate. You know that the worlds of education, business, government, and nonprofit organizatio ns can all contribute wisdom to one another, even while you acknowledge that the challenges of all these sectors differ. Youare frustrated and sometimes angry at the pabulum that passes for
educational research, and you get very, very cranky with the patronizing sophistry of the purveyors of doom as well as with bland reassurances that all is well. You can handle the truth, and you prefer it with unvarnished complexity and ambiguity. You know, in sum, that Einstein was right when he said that things should be made as simple as possible, but not more so.
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Organizational and Educational Change
Lawrence Erlbaum | 2002-07-01 | ISBN: 0805834095 | 312 pages | PDF | 16,5 MB
Jean M. Bartunek, the 2001-2002 President of the Academy of Management, has written an excellent scholarly book on organizational and educational change. Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group--a group of teachers--that was creating change in its organization setting, a Network of Independent Schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the Network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two years. It explores the identity, work, and evolution of change agent groups in organizations, with particular emphasis on teachers and educational change. Through the book's extensive quotations and narrative account, the reader is enabled to enter into the world of the teacher group studied over the course of its nine-year history.
In addition, the book includes analysis of the underlying processes involved in the change, focusing on the change agent group's identity, its actions and relationships with stakeholders as they jointly evolved over time, and their impacts on the vitality of the change effort. It contributes a new understanding of fundamental processes involved in organizational change, especially when viewed from the perspective of change agents. In addition, the book provides practical implications for change agents, specifically change agents in schools. As such, this account will be useful for graduate students and researchers in organizational change, educational leadership, and professional development. It is a part of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates growing series in organization management.
Organizational change initiatives are frequently led by small groups of organization members. In Quality of Work Life and similar organizational involvement initiatives, for example, task forces composed of managers and hourly employees have typically led the change initiative (Moch &
Bartunek, 1990). In schools, small leadership teams help create professional communities and school improvement initiatives (Scribner, Cockrell, Cockrell, & Valentine, 1999). Organizational transformation efforts are typically led by groups of top managers (Nutt & Backoff, 1997). Organizational task forces play a leadership role in reengineering efforts (Hammer & Champy, 1994). In shared governance initiatives in hospitals, groups of nurses typically lead the change project (Rousseau & Tijoriwala, 1999). Small groups lead diversity initiatives in organizations (Alderfer, Tucker, Alderfer, & Tucker, 1988; Friedman, 1996).
Small pilot groups typically lead organizational learning initiatives (Roth & Kleiner, 2000; Senge et al., 1999). Small groups of organization members even lead large group interventions
(Bunker & Alban, 1996). Small groups that initiate and lead organizational change efforts are often in existence for several years, including rotation and replacement of their membership.
The experiences of groups of organizational members leading change efforts, especially groups that endure over several years, have received almost no scholarly attention. Rather, attention typically is paid primarily to the overall outcomes of change efforts, without specific attention to the change agents. This is problematic. Change agent groups' understandings of the
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Dr. Shel Leanne "How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors"
McGraw-Hill (2003-12-26) | ISBN:007141827X | 256 Pages | PDF | 1.6 Mb
The interview strategies that help graduates of the nation's top business schools get the best jobs with the highest salaries
Interviewing for a job is more than answering questions. The most successful candidates are those who've done their homework, who come prepared with polished answers for every question, and who know how to steer the conversation where they want it to go. Now professional career coach Shelly Leanne--a Harvard graduate--teaches job seekers proven interview techniques taught at the nation's top business schools. How to Interview Like a Top MBA arms job seekers with:
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J. C. C. McKinsey “Introduction to the Theory of Games "
Dover Publications | 2003-04-25 | ISBN:0486428117 | PDF | 382 pages | 8,9 Mb
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One of the classic early monographs on game theory, this comprehensive overview of the mathematical theory of games illustrates applications to situations involving conflicts of interest, including economic, social, political, and military contexts. Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; advanced calculus a prerequisite. Includes 51 figures and 8 tables.1952 edition.
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Richard Barrett "Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation"
Butterworth-Heinemann (2006-03-15) | ISBN 0750679743 | 280 Pages | PDF | 1.1 Mb
Richard Barrett, author of the best-selling book Liberating the Corporate Soul, presents his new thinking Based on his experience working with over 1,000 organizations in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
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One of the many things that impressed me about Richard’s last book, Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization, was the epigraph written by the late Willis Harman, who was co-founder of the World Business Academy.Willis wrote:
Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility for the whole. But business has not had such a tradition. This is a new role, not well understood or accepted. Built on the concept of capitalism and free
enterprise from the beginning was the assumption that the actions of the many units of individual enterprise, responding to market forces and guided by the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith, would somehow add up to desirable outcomes. But in the last decade of the twentieth century, it has become clear that the “invisible hand” is faltering. It depended on a
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Linux+ Certification Study Guide
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (August 27, 2007) | 1038 pages | ISBN:007148874X | 17 Mb
The most exam-focused CompTIA Linux+ study guide available This fully integrated study system delivers trusted and up-to-date coverage of the newly revised CompTIA Linux+ certification exam. Featuring more than 200 review questions, step-by-step exercises, and in-depth explanations, this is the only study guide to include platform-independent practice exams. The CD-ROM contains sample questions, video training, and more.
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This is a big issue. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a number of job applicants for open positions in my organization. I learned early on that you can’t rely on the Skills and Knowledge section of an applicant’s résumé to get an accurate picture of what they can and can’t do. Case in point: Back in the late 1990s my group had a position open that required an exceptionally strong background in computer hardware and networking. The job posting listed “extensive background with computers and networking” as one of the requirements for the position.
One of the candidates I interviewed claimed in her résumé to have an extensive background in these areas. In fact, during the interview she claimed to be an expert in the field. I have to admit, her résumé did look impressive.
However, as the interview progressed I began to have some doubts. This person just didn’t speak or act like a true techie, so I decided to give a little test. I asked her to connect an Iomega Jazz drive to the external SCSI port on a workstation. A pretty easy task for an expert, right? Well, she couldn’t do it. In fact, she didn’t even know where to begin.
To make a long story short, upper management eventually hired this applicant in spite of my objections. It wasn’t a good situation. She didn’t have the background required and subsequently performed very poorly on the job and eventually quit after only a year. The key problem in this situation was conflicting definitions of a “computer and networking expert.” We define this as someone who could install expansion cards, hard drives, and operating systems as well as set up a computer network.
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Carl Cavanagh Hodge “Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (Two Volumes)"
Greenwood Press | 2007-11-30 | ISBN:0313334048 | PDF | 1016 pages | 3,6 Mb
In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of the imperial powers on the societies they dominated. This encyclopedia offers current, detailed information on the major world powers of the nineteenth century and their global empires, as well as on the people, events, and ideas, both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism. Besides detailed entries that describe the formation, structure, and influence of the economic and territorial empires built by Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan, the Ottoman Turks, and the United States prior to World War I, the encyclopedia also offers entries on such important figures as: BLJoseph Chamberlain BLGeorges Clemenceau BLMustapha Kemal BLAlexander Kerensky BLRudyard Kipling BLHirobumi Ito BLHelmuth von Moltke BLIbn Saud Other entries cover such important events as the following: BLBattle of Blood River BLBoxer Insurrection BLCongress of Berlin BLFashoda Incident BLItalo-Turkish War of 1911-12 BLJameson Raid And still other entries cover such countries, treaties, alliances, and movements as: BLEgypt BLEntente Cordiale BLGerman Confederation BLGuinea BLJadidism BLIndia BLTreaty of Inkiar Skelessi Besides over 800 clearly written and highly informative entries, the encyclopedia includes primary documents, a chronology, and extensive introductory essay, a bibliography, a guide to related topics, and a series of useful maps.
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Meetings North: Successful Meetings in Northern Michigan. From resorts to restaurants, lodging to local attractions, you will find the resources here and in the pages of Meetings North to build successful
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Games For Windows March 2008
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Games for Windows: The Official Magazine is a monthly computer game magazine published by Ziff Davis Media and the Microsoft Corporation. It is the successor to Computer Gaming World. The publication date of its first issue was released in November 2006. According to Ziff Davis, the magazine is to be a "rebirth" of the Computer Gaming World magazine, which has lost news stand presence over the past few years [2]. Furthermore, according to the editorial staff of CGW/GFW, the magazine will essentially remain unchanged and is in no way subject to Microsoft's influence, something reflected in the language of the legal agreement between Ziff Davis and Microsoft (akin to how the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine's (OPM) content was not influenced by Sony in any way, outside of what's in the demo discs).
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Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) March 2008
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Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is an American video game magazine. It is published by Ziff-Davis as part of the 1UP Network and releases 12 issues a year (and an occasional extra "13th" issue for the Christmas season, also known as the "Smarch" issue, a reference to an episode of The Simpsons). EGM concentrates on news regarding current video game consoles (see magazine content for detailed information). The December 2006 issue introduces new sections, expanded reviews, and focuses more on the acronym of the magazine's title in a redesign. This is the first issue redesign since June 2003. EGM has said that the reason for the design shift is to keep more in line with the site layout of their website
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Guts No 19 - Février 2008
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Choc No 104 du 21 Février au 05 Mars 2008
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Market Leader Advanced reflects the world of business today, and the issues that are shaping the business environment - from ‘energy’ to ‘doing business online’ and ‘project management’.
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* Paperback: 231 pages
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* Publisher: Allen & Unwin (January 1, 2006)
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Resumes For Communications Careers With Sample Cover Letters
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Fundamentals of the Options Market (Michael Williams & Amy Hoffman, 2000)
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Accounting for Managers (Briefcase Books Series)
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Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programs
IDRC Books | 2006-08-28 | ISBN: 0889369593 | 140 Pages | 3.23 MB | PDF
"Outcome Mapping provides not only a guide to essential evaluation map-making, but also a guide to learning and increased effectiveness, and affirmation that being attentive along the journey is as important as, and critical to, arriving at a destination." - Michael Quinn Patton
More and more, development organizations are under pressure to demonstrate that their programs result in significant and lasting changes in the well-being of their intended beneficiaries. However, such "impacts" are often the product of a confluence of events for which no single agency or group of agencies can realistically claim full credit. As a result, assessing development impacts is problematic, yet many organizations continue to struggle to measure results far beyond the reach of their programs. "Outcome Mapping" recognizes that development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environment. The originality of this approach lies in its shift away from assessing the products of a program to focus on changes in behaviour, relationships, actions, and activities in the people, groups, and organizations it works with directly. In doing so, "Outcome Mapping" debunks many of the myths about measuring impact. It will help a program be specific about the actors it targets, the changes it expects to see, and the strategies it employs and, as a result, be more effective in terms of the results it achieves. This publication explains the various steps in the outcome mapping approach and provides detailed information on workshop design and facilitation. It includes numerous worksheets and examples.
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The Sentinel CEO: Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 World
Wiley | 2007-06-29 | ISBN: 0470125411 | 208 Pages | 5.23 MB | PDF
A forward-thinking approach to addressing corporate security challenges after 9/11The Sentinel CEO takes a proactive look-from the perspective of top executives-at the ways business has changed since 9/11. Filled with in-depth interviews with America's leading CEOs, security experts, public officials, and academics, this essential tool underscores how a business's core values can help it address and recover from unforeseen threats. A revealing examination of the subtle and profound ways in which American business has changed, The Sentinel CEO explores a variety of risks facing businesses of all sizes that operate in a global environment. This important book includes timely discussion of growing anti-American sentiments worldwide, the avian flu, and the impact of tougher immigration enforcement on the talent pool in the United States.
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As a manifestation of a 'cognitive turn' observable in all social sciences, Cognitive Economics is concerned with the beliefs and mental operations held by actors placed within a dynamical and strategic environment. It appears as a synthesis of an educative research program, dealing with crossed expectations of actors, and an evolutionist research program on collective learning processes.
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Ian Brace "Questionnaire Design: How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research"
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A guide that focuses on core skills * Written by one of the most experienced market researchers in the field of questionnaire design * Includes a free CD-ROM containing questionnaire-writing software Questionnaires are a vital tool for the market researcher: they draw accurate information from respondents, give structure to interviews, facilitate data processing and provide a standard form on which facts, comments and attitudes can be recorded.
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Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and social responsibility are evident, individuals and companies are falling short in combining these duties into policies and cultures that guide behavior and decisions. The missing element is a broad-based and integrated approach to responsible leadership and governance.
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Iwonna Dubicka, Margaret O'Keeffe “Market Leader Advanced (Coursebook and CD)"
Longman 2006
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Market Leader brings today’s business issues straight into your classroom. Created with the Financial Times newspaper, Market Leader has Case Studies that really work, authentic articles from the FT and lots of additional components. Now with new editions and a new Advanced level, Market Leader is more in tune with today’s business world than ever.
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Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance. Structured as a dictionary, the book will contain clear and detailed explanations of common banking, finance and investment terms. It will include formal corporate business terms alongside the jargon that has entered business life. Terms defined in TFL will be drawn from all of the major sectors in the international capital markets and the financial industry.
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Wiley Finance Collection - The Best eBooks Vol.01 | 136 eBooks = 670 MB
001 Wiley Audio Book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Wiley Audio part1
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003 Wiley Audio Book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Wiley Audio part3
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005 Wiley 101 Real Money Questions
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007 Wiley A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company 2nd Edition
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036 Wiley Applied Quantitative Methods for Trading and Investment The Wiley Finance Series
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The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.
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The Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking is a practical reference of proven techniques, strategies, and approaches. It covers virtually all important topics dealing with multinational business finance, money, investments, financial planning, financial economics, and banking. In addition, it explores the application of computers, quantitative techniques and models, and economics to international finance and banking. You get: o Clear definitions and explanations o Step-by-step instructions o Statistical data, Charts, exhibits, and diagrams o Checklists o Practical Applications Shim presents the most current information, offers important directives, and explains the technical procedures involved in this dynamic field. This reference gives you the tools you need to diagnose and evaluate the financial situations you face on a daily basis and answers every question you may have. It provides real-life examples and suggestions for handling everyday problems. WHAT THIS BOOK WILL DO FOR YOU More than a dictionary, more than an encyclopedia, this working guide will help you quickly pinpoint: o What to look for o How to do it o What to watch out for o How to apply it in the complex world of business o What to do You'll find ratios, formulas, examples, applications, exhibits, charts, and rules of thumb to help you analyze and evaluate any multinational financial decision. You will find this Encyclopedic Dictionary practical, comprehensive, quick, and useful. In short, this is a veritable cookbook of guidelines, illustrations, and how-tos. Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking is the resource you will reach for again and again.
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The concept of Intelligent Business is to present the teacher withmultiple components, which, while they can be used all together, are designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of Business English learners.
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Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and enjoys the reverence of academics, executives, and management consultants.
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Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and enjoys the reverence of academics, executives, and management consultants.
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Creating the right type of corporate entity for a business can create enormous advantages for the savvy business-person. In this comprehensive guide, a corporate attorney explains the history and rationale of corporations and all the considerations and decisions that go into starting one. Forming a corporation, selecting board members, administering it within the law, creating tax advantages, hiring, protecting ownership of names and corporate assets, insurance, record-keeping--every part of the process is covered. The program is a listening pleasure in spite of all the technical material and, except for not having a written guide on the package, is a perfect reference audio for the kind of audience targeted by the Rich Dad's Advisors series.
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Now fully revised and in its third edition, this comprehensive best-selling text, Introducing Management: A Development Guide, explains the principles and practice of management and is ideal for both new and existing managers to assist them in their role. The text incorporates the latest innovations in management thinking and reflects the changes within the management standards. This is an essential resource for those undertaking qualifications at S/NVQ at Level 3.
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Full of practical tips to improve customer service and maintain a level of excellence, this resource helps businesses attract new customers and keep regular customers coming back. Suggestions include understanding customers, using a personalized approach, managing customers over the Internet and telephone, overseeing internal customer service, and stepping in when things go wrong.
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Unlike other histories of economics, Mark Skousen's book provides a running plot with a singular heroic figure, Adam Smith, at the center of the discipline. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or against Adam Smith and his "system of natural liberty." He shows how Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and even laissez-faire disciples Robert Malthus and David Ricardo detracted from Smith's classical model of democratic capitalism during periods of economic failure and upheaval, while Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman, among others, remodeled and improved upon Smithian economics as the world economy recovered and prospered.
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As a manifestation of a 'cognitive turn' observable in all social sciences, Cognitive Economics is concerned with the beliefs and mental operations held by actors placed within a dynamical and strategic environment. It appears as a synthesis of an educative research program, dealing with crossed expectations of actors, and an evolutionist research program on collective learning processes.
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- In Building Wireless Community Networks, author and O'Reilly network administrator Rob Flickenger offers a compelling case for building wireless networks on a local level: They are inexpensive, and they can be implemented and managed by the community using them, whether it's a school, a neighborhood, or a small business. This nuts-and-bolts guide provides all the necessary information for planning a network, getting the necessary components, and understanding protocols that you need to design and implement your network. The wireless Internet infrastructure, also known as Wi-Fi, is based on the 802.11b standard.
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- As one of the few rising stars of the semiconductor industry, WLAN design is engaging more and more engineers and companies. Essential to the overall system design, is the radio design. In Wireless LAN Radios Arya Behzad covers the necessary theory while emphasizing the practical aspects of this promising technology.
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- Next Generation IPTV Services and Technologies helps address the skills shortage and support expansion of IPTV across the globe. Telecom operators, wireless mobile providers,wireless telecommunications, cable TV companies, media companies, broadcasters, video production companies, and Internet portal companies worldwide are either offering IP video services or actively investigating their deployment.
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Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf"
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company | ISBN 97838759839 |September 1998 | PDF | 1,1 MB | 468 Pages
Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf is as vile as any book ever published. Written in 1923 while he was in prison as a revolutionary agitator and at that point unlikely ever to be anything else, Hitler built on the connected emotions of hatred and self-pity. It is the work of a failure, what is more of a man who knows himself to be a failure. The failure is everyone's fault except his own. And all these people are against him because they belong to different races: That is the key. In the book he invents a "racial ladder" with Germans naturally at the top of it and Jews down at the bottom. If only they had been properly German, all those other people would have recognized his greatness.
But by definition they couldn't be German, and they stood in his way, and so he had to kill them, stamp them out. On the one hand, thwarted ambition; on the other hand, a hatred of humanity. The combination still has the power to send a shiver down the spine.
Hitler's fate, and the mass-murder he inspired, did not put an end to the malignant appeal of his book. There are plenty of people who know themselves to be failures and blame everyone for it except themselves. They too fantasize that they have enemies who can never be anything else because they belong to another race, and the only solution is to massacre the lot. Almost 80 years after its first appearance, Mein Kampf remains an international hit.
The Bavarian state owns the copyright but whether it collects royalties is unclear. The book is banned in Germany, but for some years Random House has been marketing an English translation, defending itself with the argument that it is a historic text which has to be studied.
Communism was perhaps the most spectacular political failure in history, killing tens of millions, and wasting the lives of hundreds of millions more. These victims mostly came from societies that were still traditional, usually agricultural. How were they to explain to themselves the calamity which Communism visited upon them? The arrival of democracy in Russia and its former satellites has brought into these countries fresh editions of Mein Kampf in half a dozen languages. In Poland the initial print-run was 20,000 copies (a significant quantity there). A minority evidently believes that Communism was all a Jewish plot, and Hitler had got things right. The authorities crack down half-heartedly.
Muslim and Arab society is today a failure much as Communism used to be. Muslims and Arabs live under absolute and despotic government which prevents them from enjoying anything like the freedom and prosperity that they see in the West and wish for themselves. On the whole they realize that they have long ago taken their history and destiny into their own hands, and so are responsible for themselves. But so dire are the injustices and the poverty, and so threatening is the tyranny over their heads, that many are lost in pity for themselves, and hatred of everyone else. A slew of racists, radicals, and Islamists share a frame of mind that the West is selfishly conspiring against them, with the Jews once again secretly in charge. Catering to such people since the early '60s, editions of
Mein Kampf have been put out in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and it is reported to be a bestseller in the Palestinian Authority area. It is available in London stores selling Arabic books. As its Arabic translator Luis al-Haj expresses it in his preface, "National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds multiplied under each star."
In traditional society in the Middle East, Arabs were the masters and Jews were second-class subjects, protected though under rather demeaning conditions. European-style anti-Semitism, usually spread by missionaries and diplomats, came in during the 19th century. Zionism, another import from Europe, redefined Jews according to nationality rather than religion, and the accompanying improvement in their lowly status abruptly challenged Arab assumptions of superiority. These second-class people could surely never have done it on their own; they could only be obtaining their new power from outside — it had to be a plot. Hitler says so too in his book. He believed Zionism was "nothing but a comedy," and he could see through "this sly trick of the Jews." He wrote in Mein Kampf:
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Mario Puzo, «The Godfather»
Signet | ISBN 0451167716 | October 5, 2004 | PDF | 1,9 MB | 448 Pages
"The Godfather is the story of organized crime in the 1940's which revolves around the Corleone family. Don Vito Corleone is the head of a New York Mafia "family". Problems arise when a gangster supported by another Mafia family, Solozzo, announces his intentions to start selling drugs all over New York. Don Vito hates the idea of drugs as he is quite happy with his hotel and gambling business. Don is shot by Solozzo's men. Solozzo then kidnaps one of Don's advisors, Tom Hagen and tries to make him force Don's eldest son, Sonny to agree to sell drugs, but the plan goes wrong when Sollozzo finds out that Don Corleone is still alive.
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After the reception, Don Vito, Sonny, and Tom, meet with Virgil Sollozzo, a drug smuggler who wants them to become partners in his business. Though Sollozzo offers attractive terms, Don Vito declines the offer.
When, a few days later, the Don is cut-down and seriously wounded by a pair of assassins, the violent Sonny is tapped to take the reigns of the family and vows to avenge his father.
In the midst of the resultant gang-war, "college-boy" Michael volunteers to kill Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey, his police protection. Meeting with the two in a small restaurant, Michael slays them both with a hidden pistol.
While Michael heads to exile in Sicily, Sonny continues the gang-war, now battling both the other five New York families and the police. When Sonny dies in a hail of gunfire, Don Vito returns from his convalescence to forge a new peace with the other families and even manages to arrange for someone else to be convicted of the murders Michael committed, allowing his youngest son to come home.
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Building on the success of his Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 24seven, Jim McBee has fully updated Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Advanced Administration for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2003 R2.
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Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-293, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want mostincluding in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.
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With the success of computer viruses like Slammer, security issues are now a top priority for Windows system administrators, right alongside day-to-day tasks such as setting up accounts and managing performance. If you use Windows 2003 Server at a small to medium-sized organization, or use Microsoft's Small Business Server, this thorough yet concise tutorial offers the hands-on advice you need for securing your network. Modern network operating systems include bundled services that range from traditional file and print sharing and Internet services to authentication, directory and remote access services each a potential security vulnerability as well as a capability. Securing Windows Server 2003 shows you how to put Windows security tools to work, and how to run the server's subsystems to protect users and resources. But that's just the beginning. Network security needs to be well thought-out, not treated as a fire drill when a threat occurs. This book focuses primarily on ways to plan and implement a secure operating environment. Microsoft security veteran Mike Danseglio uses real-world examples to show you how various security concepts relate to your own system, including:
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MCSA/MCSE 70-293 Exam Cram, Second Edition is the perfect study guide if you need help passing the 70-293 exam. Among exam objectives, you must learn to use remote desktop for administration, manage IIS 6.0, revive a failed server, choose between forest and
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Northern Home & Cottage Magazine
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Design&Life Magazine
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Windows Vista Sonderheft: Spielen unter Windows 01/2008
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Marca 21 de Febrero de 2008
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FHM Magazine - January 2008 (Germany)
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FHM or For Him Magazine is an international monthly lad's mag. The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994, although the full For Him Magazine continues to be printed on the spine of each issue. Founded by Chris Astridge, the magazine was a predominantly fashion-based publication distributed through high street men's fashion outlets.
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Heimkino 03/2008
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audiovison 03/2008
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Windows Vista 03/2008
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Stern 2008.09 vom 21.02.2008
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Science Magazine - February 01, 2008
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Brazilian Magazine - Arquitetura & Urbanismo - February-2008 - Ed n. 167
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Science Magazine - February 08, 2008
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Scientific American - February 2008
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Science Magazine - February 15, 2008
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Micro Hebdo N512
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Destination Magazine
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Welcome to Destination Northern Michigan, your guide to the sights and activities that make Up North travel memorable. We’ll take you across the north—from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron, Mackinac Island to the Sleeping Bear Dunes, the Tunnel of Trees to downtown Traverse City. Along the way we introduce you to Northern Michigan’s festivals and guide you to great restaurants.
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Six Sigma for Marketing Processes: An Overview for Marketing Executives, Leaders, and Managers
Prentice Hall| February 17, 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-13-199008-1 | 304 pages | CHM| 4,5 Mb
Nearly half of the top one hundred Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma methodology in some part of their business. These companies have been among the top one hundred for five or more years and consistently report higher revenue and significantly higher profits than competitors. This underscores the impact on the cost side. Now the focus moves to revenue growth. Six Sigma consultant Clyde M. Creveling’s Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development is the standard guide for product commercialization and manufacturing support engineers who want to apply Six Sigma methodology to technology development and product commercialization. Now, in Six Sigma for Marketing Processes, Creveling joins with Lynne Hambleton and Burke McCarthy to show the ways marketing professionals can adapt and apply those same Six Sigma concepts to create a lean marketing workflow built for growth.
This book provides an overview of the way marketing professionals can utilize the value offered by Six Sigma tools, methods, and best practices, within their existing phase-gate processes, as well as the traditional Six Sigma problem-solving approach: define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC). It provides unique methods for employing Six Sigma to enhance the three marketing processes for enabling a business to attain growth: strategic, tactical, and operational. It goes further to demonstrate the way Six Sigma for marketing and Six Sigma for design can be combined into a unified Six Sigma for growth. In this book, you’ll learn how to apply Six Sigma methodology to
- Develop a lean, efficient marketing workflow designed for growth
- Enhance the three marketing arenas for growth: strategic, tactical, and operational
- Identify leading indicators of growth and become proactive about performance improvement
- Strengthen links between customers, products, and profitability
- Redesign marketing work to streamline workflow and reduce variability
- Assess and mitigate cycle-time risk in any marketing initiative or project
- Leverage DMAIC to solve specific problems and improve existing processes
- Use lean techniques to streamline repeatable processes, such as collateral development and trade-show participation
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Richard Swinburne, "The Existence of God"
Oxford University Press | English | ISBN:0199271674 | 374 pages | PDF | 1.76 MB
Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the fine-tuning of the universe; from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness; and from miracles and religious experience. He claims that while none of these arguments are deductively valid, they do give inductive support to theism and that, even when the argument from evil is weighed against them, taken together they make it overall probable that there is a God.
The original structure of the discussion and its conclusion have been retained for this new edition, but much has been changed in order to strengthen the argumentation and to take account of Swinburne's subsequent work on the nature of consciousness and the problem of evil, and of the latest philosophical and scientific writing, especially in respect of the laws of nature and the argument from fine-tuning. This is now the definitive version of a classic in the philosophy of religion.
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Review from previous edition This impressive book ... deserves the serious attention of theologians ... Anyone seriously interested in philosophy of religion or systematic theology should read it."--
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Clara Greed"Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets, First Edition"
Architectural Press | 256 pages | 2003-01-12 | ISBN:075065385X | PDF | 12.2MB
This is a unique text providing both design guidance and policy direction for the provision and design of public toilets covering city-wide, district-level and site-specific principles. It highlights the role of urban design in reversing the trend of inadequate toilet provision, and sets out guidelines for design which meets both user need and provider requirements.
Greed presents the fundamental principle that toilets should not be dealt with in isolation from mainstream urban policy, but that they should be seen as a serious core component in both strategic urban policy and local area design. She argues toilets are valuable townscape features in their own right as manifestation civic pride and good urban design - essential architectural components which add to the quality and viability of an area.
Although a range of design guidance on toilets exists there is still considerable dissatisfaction with the end product in terms of building design, levels of provision, location, safety, layout, DDA requirements and accessibility. By outlining user demands and provider constraints, Greed shows that it is essential for architects to have an informed understanding and practical knowledge of toilet issues when working with public and private sector providers.
Examples of toilet architecture from other countries, and policies from different cultural settings, are included for comparative purposes to invigorate UK perspectives.
* Brings user needs and provider considerations to the attention of urban designers and architects
* International examples of toilet architecture and policies facilitate refreshing comparisons
* The first book to deal with toilets as an integral part of urban design
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Elizabeth Burton, Lynne Mitchell "Inclusive Urban Design: Streets For Life"
Architectural Press | 224 pages | 2006-04-03 | ISBN:0750664584 | PDF | 8.3MB
This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve sustainability in their designs.
Part one examines the changing experiences of people in the outdoor environment as they age and discusses existing outdoor environments and the aspects and features that help or hinder older people from using and enjoying them. Part two presents the six design principles for streets for life and their many individual components. Using photographs and line drawings, a range of design features are presented at all scales of the outdoor environment from street layouts and building form to signs and detail. Part three expands on the concept of streets for life as the ultimate goal of inclusive urban design. These are outdoor environments that people are able to confidently understand, navigate and use, regardless of age or circumstance, and represent truly sustainable inclusive communities.
* Presents the groundbreaking idea of streets for life' - making outdoor environments useable and accessible to people of all ages
* Valuable to professionals and researchers from a number of disciplines including urban designers, planners, architects, landscape architects and gerontologists
* Illustrations, maps and key points help smooth the move from theory to practice
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Lester Packer, Midori Hiramatsu and Toshikazu Yoshikawa "Antioxidant Food Supplements in Human Health"
Academic Press | 511 | 1999-02-17 | ISBN:0125435908 | PDF | 32MB
Antioxidant Food Supplements in Human Health discusses new discoveries in the areas of oxygen and nitric oxide metabolism and pathophysiology, redox regulation and cell signaling, and the identification of natural antioxidants and their mechanisms of action on free radicals and their role in health and disease.
An essential resource for researchers, students, and professionals in food science and nutrition, gerontology, physiology, pharmacology, and related areas.
Key Features
* Health effects of antioxidant nutrients
* Nutrients of vitamins C and E, selenium, alpha-lipoic acid, coenzyme Q10, carotenoids, and flavonoids
* Natural source antioxidants, including pine bark, ginko biloba, wine, herbs,uyaku, and carica papaya
Tobacco smoking is the predominant cause of lung cancer, and it has been estimated that about 80% of lung cancers are attributed to smoking (Buiatti et al., 1996). As a complement to smoking cessation in lung cancer prevention, considerable attention has been focused on possible protective factors in the diet. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables has rather consistently
been reported to be associated with a reduced risk of lung cancer (Ziegler et al., 1996). Several plausible mechanisms have been suggested, indicating that this reduction may be due to antioxidant micronutrients (Dorgan and Schatzkin, 1991). Thus far considerable attention has been directed to/3- carotene, but intervention trials have not confirmed the presence of a protective effect (Albanes et al., 1996; Hennekens et al., 1996; Omenn et al., 1996). Some evidence also suggests that the reduced risk of lung cancer associated with the intake of fruits and vegetables may be due to some other micronutrients, such as vitamin C (Block et al., 1992), flavonoids (Knekt et al., 1997a), and selenium (Clark et al., 1996). The epidemiological evidence
is, however, not yet persuasive for any of these, while the question of whether lung cancer can be prevented or slowed down by the antioxidant vitamin E has also been addressed in a number of studies (Knekt, 1994).
The aim of this chapter is to review findings from epidemiological studies on the role of vitamin E in cancer prevention and to present some new resuits from the Finnish Mobile Clinic Health Examination Survey.
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Martin Mills "Nexus : Student's Book (English for Advanced Learners)"
Macmillan Education | ISBN:0435282050 | 1991-08 | 192 Pages | PDF | 9.8 Mb
Nexus is a course for students of English whose level is approximately equivalent to pass standard at Cambridge FCE. By the end of the course, the English of such users should be most of the way to the level required for a Cambridge Proficiency candidate. However, the course is a general one, not a specific preparation for any examination, The aims of Nexus are to broaden and enrich your English, and to help you to use it more correctly, creatively and fluently. An equally important aim is to help you to be an adult, autonomous learner of English, for whom time spent in the classroom is only a part of your studies.
Martin Mills "Nexus : Workbook (English for Advanced Learners)"
Macmillan Education | ISBN 0435282069 | 1991-08-05 | 97 Pages | PDF | 1.7 Mb
This Workbook has four main aims:
• to develop the suggestions made in your Coursebook about organising your learning
• to offer further practice of the language presented in your Coursebook
• to introduce and practise related vocabulary and grammar points
• to provide further work on writing, pronunciation, and register
The exercises can be done in class or as set homework, and a key is provided so that you can correct for yourself any exercise which you do on your own.
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Ruma Banerjee "Redox Biochemistry"
Wiley | 317 pages | 2007-12-17 | 0471786241 | PDF | 16.3MB
Redox Biochemistry provides an excellent text and useful resource for students and practicing researches on redox biochemistry in medical biochemistry, enzyme structure and catalysis, environmental biochemistry, and nutrition. Additionally, it provides a useful resource for practicing researchers in the fields, particularly those in medicine (carcinogenesis, neurology and neurodegenerative diseases, cataracts/lens biochemistry, dental studies), immunology, nutrition, environmental, and pharmaceutical sciences
Richly illustrated, with full color throughout
Includes contributions from top-notch authors and experts in the field, and is edited by the leader in redox biochemistry, Ruma Banerjee.
This book grew out of our efforts since 2001 to consolidate the area of redox biology at the University of Nebraska, in recognition of the centrality of redox reactions in the life sciences. Soon we were faced with the need to teach this subject to our students and quickly discovered the paucity of compiled information that would be more readily accessible than the primary literature to a recent inductee to the field. As one thing led to another, we decided to collectively write a textbook for our students and to invite experts in the redox biochemistry field to contribute to this project. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that the idea for this cooperative project was initially planted in my mind by Howie Gendelman (University of Nebraska Medical Center), who has since been repeatedly reminded that this project has felt like an albatross.
Had it not been for the speedy and positive response that the book proposal received from our
publisher, it is likely that the inspiration to undertake this project would have rapidly dissipated.
Redox biochemistry is an incredibly broad discipline and spans the gamut of physiological and pathological life processes. This book does not attempt to be comprehensive.
It is, instead, an introduction, targeted for the beginner. It is organized into six chapters that cover: Redox Metabolism and Life, Antioxidant Molecules and Redox Cofactors, Antioxidant Enzymes, Redox Regulation of Physiological Processes, Pathological Processes Related to Redox and Specialized Methods. Each chapter is organized into multiple sections with most being written by different authors (with the exception of Chapter 1). This superfluity of writers presented obvious challenges for achieving stylistic uniformity and we decided to sacrifice some of that in favor of the substance that came from contributions by experts in the field. Due to the strict page
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Brian Nixon, Mary Dixon "Sams Teach Yourself e-Banking Today"
Sams | 2000-03-10 | ISBN: 0672318822 | PDF | 256 pages | 3,3 Mb
Sams Teach Yourself e-Banking Today is a comprehensive tutorial of this emerging online trend. Learn the practices of online banking, how to compare services and fees, and how to determine which online bank is right for you. The book explains the security risks of online banking in clear, friendly terms. Take control of your money by employing the information available on the Internet. The book also shows you how to link popular software packages like Quicken and MS Money to your online bank.
Ever get a tour inside your bank? That’s what we bring to you in this book. No, not a look at your bank’s vault of cash or at the safe deposit box area, but at something valuable nonetheless.
We’re going to take you inside the world of online banking.
We’re able to provide this perspective because we have worked together producing a banking magazine, Community Banker, which is published by America’s Community Bankers, the
Washington, D.C. trade association for community banks. We write about banking all the time. We talk to bankers and their consultants on a daily basis.
Our lives revolve around the interests of our readers who are community bankers across the nation. They compete with megainstitutions such as Citibank and Chase Manhattan. These community banks have been racing to keep up in the technology game, including placing their products and services online.
Throughout 1999, banks have geared up for the year 2000 date change. Regulators were on them to make sure that their systems wouldn’t crash on New Year’s Day. They spent millions of dollars preparing and preparing. In doing so, many upgraded their computer systems and began gearing up for their next technological challenge—transforming themselves into online banks accessible to their customers from anywhere, at anytime, with a click and the Internet.
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Martin Webb "Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams "
Capstone | 2007-08-15 | ISBN:1841127612 | PDF | 192 pages | 1,1 Mb
Thinking of starting your own business? You've come to the right place. Thousands of people take the plunge every year for thousands of different reasons; the lifestyle, the opportunity to start over again, the chance to make serious money. No one ever got rich lining their boss's pockets. So you really want to go it alone? Here's how. Make Your First Million shows you how to set up your business the right way. It covers business plans, raising finance, financial planning, the opening days, working capital, growing your business, premises, staff, branching out, preparing for exit, and much, much more.
As presenter of Channel 4’s Risking it All, serial entrepreneur Martin Webb has guided many fledgling businesses through the start-up process. His advice, tips and insider secrets will help you transform your dream into reality. Why spend your life working for the man when you could be out there making your first million?
Between the years 1993 and 2001, Simon Kirby and I started a business that ran mainly, but not wholly, pubs and clubs. We built up a series of 30 pubs – some of them branded – and sold them in 2001for a sum of money that we could only have dreamt about in 1992.
This book is about how we did it – including the bits we got right and the bits we got wrong. By reading our story you can learn from our lack of business nous and avoid some of the pain and heartache that we experienced on the road to entrepreneurial success. The fact that
we survived the many ups and downs is a testament to our achievement and gives you the opportunity to learn from the fruits of our labour – from our triumphs and our setbacks.
It all started with a fairly spectacular failure, a massive blow to our self-esteem as well as our wallets. But we sat down and worked out what we had done so catastrophically badly and this prologue passes on some of what we learned. It also passes on the change in attitude
that the failure brought about – it’s not an exaggeration to say that it scarred us for life and strengthened our resolve never to make the same mistakes again. In 1990 I was twenty-six. I l
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John McDowell "Mind and World"
Harvard University Press | 1996-09-01 | ISBN:0674576101 | PDF | 224 pages | 8,5 Mb
Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.
John McDowell amply illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy--the insidious persistence of dualism--in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as we would like to conceive empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and McDowell exposes these traps by exploiting the work of contemporary philosophers from Wilfrid Sellars to Donald Davidson. These difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable--but surmountable--failure to see how we might integrate what Sellars calls the logical space of reasons" into the natural world. What underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain attractions for the modern age, a conception that McDowell proposes to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties. By returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception of experience as a rational openness to independent reality. This approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the world.
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A. van Nunen "Fiduciary Management: Blueprint for Pension Fund Excellence"
Wiley | 2007-12-04 | ISBN:0470171030 | PDF | 274 pages | 1,6 Mb
Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.
Fiduciary Management offers an in-depth explanation of every facet of this fast-growing approach to organizing the management of an institutional investment portfolio. Expert author Anton van Nunen begins by outlining the historic shift that has brought this strategy to the attention of the investment community and quickly moves on to illustrate fiduciary management in practice; giving advice in terms of asset-liability modeling and financial markets, constructing portfolios, selecting and overseeing investment managers, benchmarking and performance measurement, and reporting.
One is to assert that good governance is worth money. I’ve never seen definitive proof of that statement, either for pension funds or for corporateboards, but it hardly needs proof. Think of any hypothetical organization.
Superimpose on it either good governance (characterized by clear delegation and decision rights) or poor governance (characterized by overlappingresponsibilities and confusion as to who is responsible for what). Which do you think is more likely to be successful? It’s as obvious as that.
The other is to recall the statement that good people can make any organizational structure work. That may well be true, but why create a structure that’s an obstacle they have to jump over? Why not give thema structure that is helpful in itself? Wouldn’t that increase the chances ofsuccess in their venture?
My point is that governance, by which I mean the way in which decision rights are assigned, is a worthwhile issue to treat seriously, and an essential ingredient if success is to be achieved by plan rather than by chance. And ‘‘fiduciary management’’ is an essential feature in the governance of definedbenefit pensions.
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Gary S. May,«Fundamentals of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process Control»
Wiley-IEEE Press | ISBN:0471784060 | PDF | 4,24 Mb | 488 Pages | 2006 Year
A practical guide to semiconductor manufacturing from process control to yield modeling and experimental design
Fundamentals of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process Control covers all issues involved in manufacturing microelectronic devices and circuits, including fabrication sequences, process control, experimental design, process modeling, yield modeling, and CIM/CAM systems. Readers are introduced to both the theory and practice of all basic manufacturing concepts.
In simple terms, manufacturing can be defined as the process by which raw materials are converted into finished products. The purpose of this book is to examine in detail the methodology by which electronic materials and supplies are converted into finished integrated circuits and electronic products in a highvolume manufacturing environment. This subject of this book will be issues relevant to the industrial-level manufacture of microelectronic device and circuits, including (but not limited to) fabrication sequences, process control, experimental
design, process modeling, yield modeling, and CIM/CAM systems. The book will include theoretical and practical descriptions of basic manufacturing concepts, aswell as some case studies, sample problems, and suggested exercises.
The book is intended for graduate students and can be used conveniently in a semester-length course on semiconductor manufacturing. Such a course may ormay not be accompanied by a corequisite laboratory. The text can also serve as a reference for practicing engineers and scientists in the semiconductor industry.
Chapter 1 of the book places the manufacture of integrated circuits into its historical context, as well as provides an overview of modern semiconductor manufacturing.
In the Chapter 2, we provide a broad overview of the manufacturing technology and processes flows used to produce a variety of semiconductor products. Various process monitoring methods, including those that focus on product
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David M. Finkel "The Maui Millionaires for Business: The Five Secrets to Get on the Millionaire Fast Track"
Wiley | 2007-10-08 | ISBN:0470164956 | PDF | 304 pages | 2,2 Mb
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Listen to what these successful business leaders have to say about The Maui Millionaires for Business!
"Brilliant! David and Diane will help you to not just make money building your business, but more importantly, you'll learn to do it in a way that creates true freedom. Read this book!"
—Joseph Guerriero, Publisher, Success magazine
"David and Diane have done it again! They share the practical secrets that anyone can follow to build both a successful business and a successful life."
—Beverly Sallee, Maui Millionaire and President Premiere Training Concepts LLC
After we wrote The Maui Millionaires we realized there was more we wanted to say. This time, we wanted to write about one of the things we are most passionate about— building businesses that help create freedom. The Maui Millionaires for Business is about how to, step-by-step, create a Maui Millionaire lifestyle with a new or existing business. The best leverage comes with a highly functional team. There are a lot of people that we want to thank on our team.
This book series wouldn’t have existed without the vision of Laurie Harting and her team at John Wiley & Sons, the determination of Larry Jellen, and the in-the-trenches work of Megan Hughes and Eva Brunnette (Apex Designs). We also want to give a huge thank-you to Diana Arsenenian , the talented artist at Maui Mastermind who created the iconography you see spaced throughout this book.
We also want to thank the Maui faculty, including Elizabeth Kanna, Steve Maxwell, Blake Mitchell, Beverly Sallee, Michael Schinner, Bill Shopoff, David Bolls, Stephen and Susan Wilklow, and Morgan Smith.
You are all inspirations and friends. Next we want to thank all of the participants over the past several years at Maui Mastermind and in the Maui Millionaires community. Your commitment
to building wealth and doing good in the world has inspired us
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Long-Range Control of Gene Expression
Publisher: Academic Press | English | ISBN:0123738814 | 416 pages | Data: 2008 | PDF | 4 Mb
Description: This volume covers the current progress in understanding the mechanisms for genomic control of gene expression, which has grown considerably in the last few years as insight into genome organization and chromatin regulation has advanced. * Includes information on aspergillus genomes * Discusses sex and its role in virulence of human fungal pathogens * Covers the genomic analysis of neurospora
What constitutes long-range control is, by its nature, difficult to define. InDrosophila, cis-acting long-range elements located at a distance of a kilobase or so from the target gene’s promoter are considered to be operating at a long distance. On the other hand, in mammals the classic long-range element is the locus control region (LCR) of the beta-globin locus, sitting 50kb from the globin gene cluster. We now know that cis-regulatory elements can lie at a distance of at least a megabase, but the absolute distance that regulators are able to span to control gene expression is unknown. The properties that dictate these regulatory limits are still open to investigation. But no matter the distance, the goal is the same; that is, to convey regulatory information across an intervening stretch of DNA to control target gene expression. Although some aspects of
regulatory control have been known for three quarters of a century, the recent availability of multiple genomic sequences and high-throughput technologies has generated an emerging view of regulatory mechanisms. In this volume, we cover some of the most recent advances in this fast-moving area of genomic mechanisms involved in gene regulation.
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Sarah Maxwell "The Price is Wrong:
Understanding What Makes a Price Seem Fair and the True Cost of Unfair Pricing"
Wiley | 2008-01-02 | ISBN:0470139099 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,4 Mb
An in-depth look at fair pricing practices and their affect on our everyday lives
Certainly consumers today are concerned about the unfairness of gasoline prices. And even if these concerns subside, the focus on fair pricing will shift to other areas such as the unfair costs of health care, mobile phones, prescription drugs, a college education, real estate, or hotel rooms. In The Price Is Wrong, pricing expert Sarah Maxwell explains the psychological and sociological basis of fair pricing and reveals how this issue affects our everyday lives. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this book shows readers how unfair pricing causes an extreme emotional response. Throughout the book, Maxwell skillfully explains what makes a price seem wrong, the social norms of fair pricing, and the true cost of unfair pricing.
Dr. Sarah Maxwell (Valhalla, NY) is an expert in fair pricing, with both academic and business experience in this field. She is an associate professor at Fordham University and is Codirector of the Fordham Pricing Center. Previously, Dr. Maxwell was a vice president of marketing for Aramark and consulted with divisions in Europe and Japan.
A world-class expert in the fi eld, she has written extensively,made countless conference presentations, and conducted numerous industry seminars on the subject of fair pricing. Finally, she has sat down long enough to share her deep insights and profound understanding
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Sarah has given us a book that is packed with examples of right and wrong pricing, data from her own research in fair pricing, and contributions from all the many different fi elds that have been concerned with the subject. Although the book is carefully referenced, it is written not for academics but for the general population. It is a quick, provocative read.
Sarah addresses many questions that have not been asked before: Why is it fair for gas stations to charge an extra nine-tenths of a cent per gallon? Why is it fair to pay for blood but not for body parts? Why is it fair to tip a waiter but not your mother-in-law?
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Frederick Copleston "History of Philosophy, Volume 1"
Image | 1993-03-01 | ISBN:0385468431 | PDF | 544 pages | 8,7 Mb
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement -- and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him.
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Endorsed by the Professional Association of Resume Writers Now that 70 percent of job searches are conducted online, and resumes are processed by computers programmed to scan for keywords, knowing the right keywordsor buzzwords associated with a profession, industry, or job functionand how to use them effectively has never been a more critical job-search skill. The most comprehensive reference of its kind, this powerful resume-writing resource gives readers instant access to 2,500 indispensable keywords germane to 300 careers in nine employment categoriesfrom business, the law, and health care, to the arts, education and mediaand shows how to use them effectively. In 2,500 Keywords to Get You Hired, readers will find: Keywords for hundreds of individual careers A complete listing of critical keywords for each career Boxed examples demonstrating how keywords can be deployed strategically in a resume Sample resumes incorporating keywords
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The first edition set a standard of excellence that has eluded all followers, and I have recommended it to my clients for years. The new edition is a gift to the field and should be required reading for all managers. — Adrian J. Bowles, Ph.D., Vice President, Giga Information Group. One of the most readable introductions you will find. The new edition offers vital insights into the effective use of objects in business. — Chris Stone, President , Object Management Group. The first edition of Object Technology: A Manager's Guide is widely viewed as the classic introduction to this powerful computing concept. Object technology offers increased agility, significant time-to-market reduction, and the opportunity to exploit the potential of the World Wide Web by deploying globally distributed business systems. At a time when many of the world's largest companies are making the transition to object technology, David Taylor has updated his book to address the important issues facing the growth of object technology and to provide a glimpse into the future of this evolving paradigm. In updating this seminal work, David Taylor has retained the signature conciseness and clarity of discussion that made the first edition a best-seller. Object Technology: A Manager's Guide, Second Edition, covers the key terms, emerging concepts, and useful applications of objects. Managers, salespeople, engineers, software developers — anyone interested in understanding or implementing object technology — will find this a lucid introduction to the topic. Highlights of this new edition include: an explanation of how to use objects to create evolutionary software that rapidly adapts to changing business conditions, eliminating the need for most new application development; an introduction to Java, and an explanation of how its use of message interfaces enables a new generation of portable, mix-and-match, Internet-enabled business objects; an update on the state of object databases and extended relational databases, with guidelines for combining the two for optimal information storage; and an introduction to the new generation of object engines and how they combine storage and execution capabilities for maximum software integration.
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The Academy Award–winning Maya 3D animation and effects software is the top choice for film and video artists, game developers, and 3D design professionals. Learn to build, render, and animate your own digital models and scenes, and begin to develop professional-level Maya skills with Introducing Maya 2008.
This new edition of a perennial bestseller is the ideal initiation to 3D and Maya. Starting with the basics, it builds from the ground up, combining straightforward text with practical examples that make it fun and easy to learn Maya's core tools while introducing the latest Maya 2008 features. Follow clear-cut, step-by-step lessons while you learn by doing using a wealth of hands-on files provided on the CD. You'll also find compelling examples in the full-color insert to inspire you.
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A Guide to MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming is the first book to deliver broad coverage of the documented and undocumented object-oriented features of MATLAB??. Unlike the typical approach of other resources, this guide explains why each feature is important, demonstrates how each feature is used, and promotes an understanding of the interactions between features. Assuming an intermediate level of MATLAB programming knowledge, the book not only concentrates on MATLAB coding techniques but also discusses topics critical to general software development. It introduces fundamentals first before integrating these concepts into example applications. In the first section, the book discusses eight basic functions: constructor, subsref, subsasgn, display, struct, fieldnames, get, and set. Building on the previous section, it explores inheritance topics and presents the Class Wizard, a powerful MATLAB class generation tool. The final section delves into advanced strategies, including containers, static variables, and function fronts. With more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing object-oriented software, the expert author has developed an accessible and comprehensive book that aids readers in creating effective object-oriented software using MATLAB
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Building on the success of the first edition, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services offers extensive new and revised material based upon the latest research and industry developments. While early implementations targeted person-to-person messaging, MMS has now evolved to facilitate such requirements as the mass delivery of time-sensitive messages for content-to-person messaging. This Second Edition exploits the technical maturity of MMS as it is poised to generate a wealth of new business opportunities across the mobile communications sector. The author provides the fundamental technical background required for SMS, EMS and MMS, and supports this with industry cutting-edge developments.
● Contains a revised section on the fundamentals of MMS, including an updated section on GPRS to explain current commercial implementations such as GRX applications.
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This resource will be invaluable for application developers, manufacturers, operators and content providers involved in the design and deployment of messaging services. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in the process of standardizing telecommunications services and technologies. Postgraduate students and researchers will benefit from having access to state-of-the-art findings backed by numerous illustrative real-world examples.
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"Securing Windows begins with reading this book." –James Costello (CISSP) IT Security Specialist, Honeywell
Meet the challenges of Windows security with the exclusive Hacking Exposed "attack-countermeasure" approach. Learn how real-world malicious hackers conduct reconnaissance of targets and then exploit common misconfigurations and software flaws on both clients and servers. See leading-edge exploitation techniques demonstrated, and learn how the latest countermeasures in Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008 can mitigate these attacks. Get practical advice based on the authors' and contributors' many years as security professionals hired to break into the world's largest IT infrastructures. Dramatically improve the security of Microsoft technology deployments of all sizes when you learn to:
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"Securing Windows begins with reading this book." –James Costello (CISSP) IT Security Specialist, Honeywell
Meet the challenges of Windows security with the exclusive Hacking Exposed "attack-countermeasure" approach. Learn how real-world malicious hackers conduct reconnaissance of targets and then exploit common misconfigurations and software flaws on both clients and servers. See leading-edge exploitation techniques demonstrated, and learn how the latest countermeasures in Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008 can mitigate these attacks. Get practical advice based on the authors' and contributors' many years as security professionals hired to break into the world's largest IT infrastructures. Dramatically improve the security of Microsoft technology deployments of all sizes when you learn to:
- Establish business relevance and context for security by highlighting real-world risks
- Take a tour of the Windows security architecture from the hacker's perspective, exposing old and new vulnerabilities that can easily be avoided
- Understand how hackers use reconnaissance techniques such as footprinting, scanning, banner grabbing, DNS queries, and Google searches to locate vulnerable Windows systems
- Learn how information is extracted anonymously from Windows using simple NetBIOS, SMB, MSRPC, SNMP, and Active Directory enumeration techniques
- Prevent the latest remote network exploits such as password grinding via WMI and Terminal Server, passive Kerberos logon sniffing, rogue server/man-in-the-middle attacks, and cracking vulnerable services
- See up close how professional hackers reverse engineer and develop new Windows exploits
- Identify and eliminate rootkits, malware, and stealth software
- Fortify SQL Server against external and insider attacks
- Harden your clients and users against the latest e-mail phishing, spyware, adware, and Internet Explorer threats
- Deploy and configure the latest Windows security countermeasures, including BitLocker, Integrity Levels, User Account Control, the updated Windows Firewall, Group Policy, Vista Service Refactoring/Hardening, SafeSEH, GS, DEP, Patchguard, and Address Space Layout Randomization
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Richard V. Teschner, Eston Evans “Analyzing the Grammar of English "
Georgetown University Press; 3 edition (May 15, 2007) | ISBN: 158901166X | 232 pages | PDF | 2,2 Mb
Analyzing the Grammar of English offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes, it includes more interspersed exercises that promptly test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, greatly expanded and more diverse activities, and a new glossary of over 200 technical terms.
Analyzing the Grammar of English, Third Edition is the only English grammar to view the sentence as a strictly punctuational constuct—anything that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, an exclamation mark, or three dots—rather than a syntactic one, and to load, in consequence, all the necessary syntactic analysis onto the clause and its constituents.
It is also one of the very few English grammars to include—alongside multiple examples of canonical or "standard" language—occasional samples of stigmatized speech to illustrate grammar points.
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Richard V. Teschner, Eston Evans “Analyzing the Grammar of English "
Georgetown University Press; 3 edition (May 15, 2007) | ISBN: 158901166X | 232 pages | PDF | 2,2 Mb
Analyzing the Grammar of English offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes, it includes more interspersed exercises that promptly test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, greatly expanded and more diverse activities, and a new glossary of over 200 technical terms.
Analyzing the Grammar of English, Third Edition is the only English grammar to view the sentence as a strictly punctuational constuct—anything that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, an exclamation mark, or three dots—rather than a syntactic one, and to load, in consequence, all the necessary syntactic analysis onto the clause and its constituents.
It is also one of the very few English grammars to include—alongside multiple examples of canonical or "standard" language—occasional samples of stigmatized speech to illustrate grammar points.
Students and teachers in courses of English grammatical analysis, English teaching methods, TESOL methods, and developmental English will all benefit from this new edition.
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MCSA/MCSE 70-294 Exam Cram, Second Edition is the #1-selling quick-study guide to help you pass the 70-294 exam from Microsoft, which is one of the four core exams in the MCSE 2003 and MCSA 2003 certification programs. This new edition covers all exam objectives, including how to implement and manage an active directory service forest and domain structure, plan effective user and group administration policies, configure user environments, and troubleshoot active directory. It also incorporates two full practice exams, and has been updated against Microsoft's official courseware (MOC) that corresponds to this exam, as well as changes made to Windows Server 2003 R2. Test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, a special Cram Sheet, tips, acronyms, and memory joggers not available anywhere else comes with this, and all, Exam Cram books.
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MCSA/MCSE 70-294 Exam Cram, Second Edition is the #1-selling quick-study guide to help you pass the 70-294 exam from Microsoft, which is one of the four core exams in the MCSE 2003 and MCSA 2003 certification programs. This new edition covers all exam objectives, including how to implement and manage an active directory service forest and domain structure, plan effective user and group administration policies, configure user environments, and troubleshoot active directory. It also incorporates two full practice exams, and has been updated against Microsoft's official courseware (MOC) that corresponds to this exam, as well as changes made to Windows Server 2003 R2. Test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, a special Cram Sheet, tips, acronyms, and memory joggers not available anywhere else comes with this, and all, Exam Cram books.
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A guide to allowing Windows Server users to access applications remotely
Written for those beginning a design and those determining whether Terminal Services is right for a particular business, this book discusses what is needed to know to successfully deploy Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003.
All aspects of implementation and deployment, complete with advantages and disadvantages, are explained, as well as server architecture, sizing, and design strategies; security, printing, and licensing; application installation and configuration; and user environment customization. Also covered are techniques for accessing Terminal Services applications via customized web portals.
Written for IT professionals, this book shows that while Terminal Services has been part of the Microsoft Windows Server operating system for more than five years, Microsoft has made many improvements for Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003 that need a thorough explanation.
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Published in 2004
Author Madden, Brian S
ISBN 0971151040 Size 4.74MB
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A guide to allowing Windows Server users to access applications remotely
Written for those beginning a design and those determining whether Terminal Services is right for a particular business, this book discusses what is needed to know to successfully deploy Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003.
All aspects of implementation and deployment, complete with advantages and disadvantages, are explained, as well as server architecture, sizing, and design strategies; security, printing, and licensing; application installation and configuration; and user environment customization. Also covered are techniques for accessing Terminal Services applications via customized web portals.
Written for IT professionals, this book shows that while Terminal Services has been part of the Microsoft Windows Server operating system for more than five years, Microsoft has made many improvements for Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003 that need a thorough explanation.
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Published in 2004
Author Madden, Brian S
ISBN 0971151040 Size 4.74MB
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In many companies Windows servers no longer just have to be integrated in an existing security infrastructure ; they make the security infrastructure. This shift means people need better understanding of security terminology, security requirements and product integration with the non-Microsoft world. Jan, with his deep and broad knowledge of both worlds (Windows and security), again provides excellent information on these topics." --Roland Schoenauen, CISSP, Banque Gnrale du Luxembourg
"Jan De Clercq's book is of critical importance for everyone who needs to design and implement security strategies in Windows Server 2003. It contains lots of details and gives answers to the 'why' and 'how' of the OS security. Based on real-world experience, this comprehensive book is full of the practical information so important for administrators in their every day jobs." --Vladimir Kaplan, Morgan Stanley Information Technology
"Windows Server 2003 was designed with security in mind. This book is a great addition to the prescriptive security guidance for Windows Server 2003 prepared by Microsoft. It is a must for every architect that is looking after implementing Windows Server 2003-rooted security infrastructures in its enterprise I.T. environment. " -- Andreas Luther, Program Manager Directory Services, Microsoft
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"In many companies Windows servers no longer just have to be integrated in an existing security infrastructure ; they make the security infrastructure. This shift means people need better understanding of security terminology, security requirements and product integration with the non-Microsoft world. Jan, with his deep and broad knowledge of both worlds (Windows and security), again provides excellent information on these topics." --Roland Schoenauen, CISSP, Banque Générale du Luxembourg
"Jan De Clercq's book is of critical importance for everyone who needs to design and implement security strategies in Windows Server 2003. It contains lots of details and gives answers to the 'why' and 'how' of the OS security. Based on real-world experience, this comprehensive book is full of the practical information so important for administrators in their every day jobs." --Vladimir Kaplan, Morgan Stanley Information Technology
"Windows Server 2003 was designed with security in mind. This book is a great addition to the prescriptive security guidance for Windows Server 2003 prepared by Microsoft. It is a must for every architect that is looking after implementing Windows Server 2003-rooted security infrastructures in its enterprise I.T. environment. " -- Andreas Luther, Program Manager Directory Services, Microsoft
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Published in 2004
Author Jan De Clercq
ISBN 1555582834
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In many companies Windows servers no longer just have to be integrated in an existing security infrastructure ; they make the security infrastructure. This shift means people need better understanding of security terminology, security requirements and product integration with the non-Microsoft world. Jan, with his deep and broad knowledge of both worlds (Windows and security), again provides excellent information on these topics." --Roland Schoenauen, CISSP, Banque Gnrale du Luxembourg
"Jan De Clercq's book is of critical importance for everyone who needs to design and implement security strategies in Windows Server 2003. It contains lots of details and gives answers to the 'why' and 'how' of the OS security. Based on real-world experience, this comprehensive book is full of the practical information so important for administrators in their every day jobs." --Vladimir Kaplan, Morgan Stanley Information Technology
"Windows Server 2003 was designed with security in mind. This book is a great addition to the prescriptive security guidance for Windows Server 2003 prepared by Microsoft. It is a must for every architect that is looking after implementing Windows Server 2003-rooted security infrastructures in its enterprise I.T. environment. " -- Andreas Luther, Program Manager Directory Services, Microsoft
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"In many companies Windows servers no longer just have to be integrated in an existing security infrastructure ; they make the security infrastructure. This shift means people need better understanding of security terminology, security requirements and product integration with the non-Microsoft world. Jan, with his deep and broad knowledge of both worlds (Windows and security), again provides excellent information on these topics." --Roland Schoenauen, CISSP, Banque Générale du Luxembourg
"Jan De Clercq's book is of critical importance for everyone who needs to design and implement security strategies in Windows Server 2003. It contains lots of details and gives answers to the 'why' and 'how' of the OS security. Based on real-world experience, this comprehensive book is full of the practical information so important for administrators in their every day jobs." --Vladimir Kaplan, Morgan Stanley Information Technology
"Windows Server 2003 was designed with security in mind. This book is a great addition to the prescriptive security guidance for Windows Server 2003 prepared by Microsoft. It is a must for every architect that is looking after implementing Windows Server 2003-rooted security infrastructures in its enterprise I.T. environment. " -- Andreas Luther, Program Manager Directory Services, Microsoft
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Published in 2004
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ISBN 1555582834
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Guide to using Windows Server registries. Learn how to plan and implement an appropriate registry backup strategy, and monitor and modify the system registry according to administrative requirements and security policy. For Windows administrators and advanced users
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Published in 2003
Published by A-List Publishing
Author Olga Kokoreva
ISBN 1931769214 Size 28.92MB
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Guide to using Windows Server registries. Learn how to plan and implement an appropriate registry backup strategy, and monitor and modify the system registry according to administrative requirements and security policy. For Windows administrators and advanced users
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Published in 2003
Published by A-List Publishing
Author Olga Kokoreva
ISBN 1931769214 Size 28.92MB
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Design and deploy an enterprise-level server-based computing (SBC) environment on Windows Server 2003 using Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite. Authorized by Citrix Systems, Inc., this invaluable guide shows you how to maximize the suite components to enable and manage secure access to applications and data across the Internet, intranets, extranets, and WANs, LANs, and wireless networks. Get details on integration with legacy systems, migration, resource centralization, security, and more. Streamline processes, reduce costs, and increase productivity by applying the strategies in this one-of-a-kind resource.
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Windows Live is the collective name for a group of Microsoft tools whose services and user data are available anywhere–without ever having to install an application Windows Live currently consists of: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Safety Center, Windows Live Favorites, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Search, and Windows Live Local Certified Microsoft Software Developer Jon Arking shares his experience in developing for Windows Live, and teaches readers how to build applications that embrace the Windows Live platform Packed with examples, this hands-on guide offers an insightful look at the tools and technologies behind Windows Live, using the MSN Activities APIs, building mapping applications with Virtual Earth APIs, and developing Gadgets for both online and Windows Vista Also examines integrating MSN Search capabilities as well as Live services into existing sites with Live custom domains.
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Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008 one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2008 and rapidly build robust, elegant applications. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use the latest features of Visual Basic guiding you each step of the way as you create actual components and working applications for Windows. You ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics. PLUS get practice files with sample code and data sets on the companion CD.
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Webmasters and Web programmers around the world know that PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites for eCommerce and content management. In fact, PHP is used in one of every three Web sites on the Internet and MySQL has been downloaded millions of times. PHP and MySQL provide a freely downloadable and widely supported alternative to ASP.NET.
Written by the bestselling author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies, this book provides six discreet minibooks that show you not only how to program in PHP, create and administer a MySQL database, and manipulate MySQL data via a Web interface, but also shows you how to create a secure Web site, and how to code the most popular Web applications, such as login programs and shopping cart applications.
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This is the eBook version of the printed book.Most design pattern books are based on C++ and Java. But Ruby is different–and the language's unique qualities make design patterns easier to implement and use. In "Design Patterns in Ruby," Russ Olsen demonstrates how to combine Ruby's power and elegance with patterns, and write more sophisticated, effective software with far fewer lines of code.After reviewing the history, concepts, and goals of design patterns, the author offers a quick tour of the Ruby language–enough to allow any experienced software developer to immediately utilize patterns with Ruby. The book especially calls attention to Ruby features that simplify the use of patterns, including dynamic typing, code closures, and "mixins" for easier code reuse.Fourteen of the classic "Gang of Four" patterns are considered from the Ruby point of view, explaining what problems each pattern solves, discussing whether traditional implementations make sense in the Ruby environment, and introducing Ruby-specific improvements. You'll discover opportunities to implement patterns in just one or two lines of code, instead of the endlessly repeated boilerplate that conventional languages often require."Design Patterns in Ruby" also identifies innovative new patterns that have emerged from the Ruby community. These include ways to create custom objects with metaprogramming, as well as the ambitious Rails-based "Convention over Configuration" pattern, designed to help integrate entire applications and frameworks.Engaging, practical, and accessible, this book will help you build better software while making your Ruby programming experience more rewarding.
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It was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit, and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover's Leonidas, Wilkie's Epigoniad, Lamartine's Pilgrimage, Barlow's Columbiad, Tuckerman's Sicily, and Griswold's Curiosities, I am willing to confess, therefore, that I now felt a little stupid. I made effort to arouse myself by frequent aid of Lafitte, and all failing, I betook myself to a stray newspaper in despair. Having carefully perused the column of "Houses to let," and the column of "Dogs lost," and then the columns of "Wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result. I was about throwing away in disgust
This folio of four pages, happy work
Which not even critics criticise,
when I felt my attention somewhat aroused by the paragraph which follows:
"The avenues to death are numerous and strange. A London paper mentions the decease of a person from a singular cause. He was playing at 'puff the dart,' which is played with a long needle inserted in some worsted, and blown at a target through a tin tube. He placed the needle at the wrong end of the tube, and drawing his breath strongly to puff the dart forward with force, drew the needle into his throat. It entered the lungs, and in a few days killed him."
Upon seeing this I fell into a great rage, without exactly knowing why. "This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehood--a poor hoax--the lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-liner, of some wretched concocter of accidents in Cocaigne. These fellows knowing the extravagant gullibility of the age set their wits to work in the imagination of improbable possibilities, of odd accidents as they term them, but to a reflecting intellect (like mine, I added, in parenthesis, putting my forefinger unconsciously to the side of my nose), to a contemplative understanding such as I myself possess, it seems evident at once that the marvelous increase of late in these 'odd accidents' is by far the oddest accident of all. For my own part, I intend to believe nothing henceforward that has anything of the 'singular' about it."
"Mein Gott, den, vat a vool you bees for dat!" replied one of the most remarkable voices I ever heard. At first I took it for a rumbling in my ears--such as a man sometimes experiences when getting very drunk--but upon second thought, I considered the sound as more nearly resembling that which proceeds from an empty barrel beaten with a big stick; and, in fact, this I should have concluded it to be, but for the articulation of the syllables and words. I am by no means naturally nervous, and the very few glasses of Lafitte which I had sipped served to embolden me a little, so that I felt nothing of trepidation, but merely uplifted my eyes with a leisurely movement and looked carefully around the room for the intruder. I could not, however, perceive any one at all.
"Humph!" resumed the voice as I continued my survey, "you mus pe so dronk as de pig den for not zee me as I zit here at your zide."
Hereupon I bethought me of looking immediately before my nose, and there, sure enough, confronting me at the table sat a personage nondescript, although not altogether indescribable. His body was a wine-pipe or a rum puncheon, or something of that character, and had a truly Falstaffian air. In its nether extremity were inserted two kegs, which seemed to answer all the purposes of legs. For arms there dangled from the upper portion of the carcass two tolerably long bottles with the necks outward for hands. All the head that I saw the monster possessed of was one of those Hessian canteens which resemble a large snuff-box with a hole in the middle of the lid. This canteen (with a funnel on its top like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk.
"I zay," said he, "you mos pe dronk as de pig, vor zit dare and not zee me zit ere; and I zay, doo, you mos pe pigger vool as de goose, vor to dispelief vat iz print in de print. 'Tiz de troof--dat it iz--ebery vord ob it."
"Who are you, pray?" said I with much dignity, although somewhat puzzled; "how did you get here? and what is it you are talking about?"
"As vor ow I com'd ere," replied the figure, "dat iz none of your pizziness; and as vor vat I be talking apout, I be talk apout vat I tink proper; and as vor who I be, vy dat is de very ting I com'd here for to let you zee for yourself."
"You are a drunken vagabond," said I, "and I shall ring the bell and order my footman to kick you into the street."
"He! he! he!" said the fellow, "hu! hu! hu! dat you can't do."
"Can't do!" said I, "what do you mean? I can't do what?"
"Ring de pell," he replied, attempting a grin with his little villainous mouth.
Upon this I made an effort to get up in order to put my threat into execution, but the ruffian just reached across the table very deliberately, and hitting me a tap on the forehead with the neck of one of the long bottles, knocked me back into the armchair from which I had half arisen. I was utterly astounded, and for a moment was quite at a loss what to do. In the meantime he continued his talk.
"You zee," said he, "it iz te bess vor zit still; and now you shall know who I pe. Look at me! zee! I am te Angel ov te Odd."
"And odd enough, too," I ventured to reply; "but I was always under the impression that an angel had wings."
"Te wing!" he cried, highly incensed, "vat I pe do mit te wing? Mein Gott! do you take me for a shicken?"
"No--oh, no!" I replied, much alarmed; "you are no chicken--certainly not."
"Well, den, zit still and pehabe yourself, or I'll rap you again mid me vist. It iz te shicken ab te wing, und te owl ab te wing, und te imp ab te wing, und te head-teuffel ab te wing. Te angel ab not te wing, and I am te Angel ov te Odd."
"And your business with me at present is--is----"
"My pizziness!" ejaculated the thing, "vy vat a low-bred puppy you mos pe vor to ask a gentleman und an angel apout his pizziness!"
This language was rather more than I could bear, even from an angel; so, plucking up courage, I seized a salt-cellar which lay within reach, and hurled it at the head of the intruder. Either he dodged, however, or my aim was inaccurate; for all I accomplished was the demolition of the crystal which protected the dial of the clock upon the mantelpiece. As for the Angel, he evinced his sense of my assault by giving me two or three hard, consecutive raps upon the forehead as before. These reduced me at once to submission, and I am almost ashamed to confess that, either through pain or vexation, there came a few tears into my eyes.
"Mein Gott!" said the Angel of the Odd, apparently much softened at my distress; "mein Gott, te man is eder ferry dronk or ferry zorry. You mos not trink it so strong--you mos put te water in te wine. Here, trink dis, like a good veller, and don't gry now--don't!"
Hereupon the Angel of the Odd replenished my goblet (which was about a third full of port) with a colorless fluid that he poured from one of his hand-bottles. I observed that these bottles had labels about their necks, and that these labels were inscribed "Kirschenwaesser."
The considerate kindness of the Angel mollified me in no little measure; and, aided by the water with which he diluted my port more than once, I at length regained sufficient temper to listen to his very extraordinary discourse. I cannot pretend to recount all that he told me, but I gleaned from what he said that he was a genius who presided over the contretemps of mankind, and whose business it was to bring about the odd accidents which are continually astonishing the skeptic. Once or twice, upon my venturing to express my total incredulity in respect to his pretensions, he grew very angry indeed, so that at length I considered it the wiser policy to say nothing at all, and let him have his own way. He talked on, therefore, at great length, while I merely leaned back in my chair with my eyes shut, and amused myself with munching raisins and filiping the stems about the room. But, by and by, the Angel suddenly construed this behavior of mine into contempt. He arose in a terrible passion, slouched his funnel down over his eyes, swore a vast oath, uttered a threat of some character, which I did not precisely comprehend, and finally made me a low bow and departed, wishing me, in the language of the archbishop in "Gil Bias," beaucoup de bonheur et un peu plus de bon sens.
His departure afforded me relief. The very few glasses of Lafitte that I had sipped had the effect of rendering me drowsy, and I felt inclined to take a nap of some fifteen or twenty minutes, as is my custom after dinner. At six I had an appointment of consequence, which it was quite indispensable that I should keep. The policy of insurance for my dwelling-house had expired the day before; and some dispute having arisen it was agreed that, at six, I should meet the board of directors of the company and settle the terms of a renewal. Glancing upward at the clock on the mantelpiece (for I felt too drowsy to take out my watch), I had the pleasure to find that I had still twenty-five minutes to spare. It was half-past five; I could easily walk to the insurance office in five minutes; and my usual siestas had never been known to exceed five-and-twenty. I felt sufficiently safe, therefore, and composed myself to my slumbers forthwith.
Having completed them to my satisfaction, I again looked toward the timepiece, and was half inclined to believe in the possibility of odd accidents when I found that, instead of my ordinary fifteen or twenty minutes, I had been dozing only three; for it still wanted seven-and-twenty of the appointed hour. I betook myself again to my nap, and at length a second time awoke, when, to my utter amazement, it still wanted twenty-seven minutes of six. I jumped up to examine the clock, and found that it had ceased running. My watch informed me that it was half-past seven; and, of course, having slept two hours, I was too late for my appointment. "It will make no difference," I said: "I can call at the office in the morning and apologize; in the meantime what can be the matter with the clock?" Upon examining it I discovered that one of the raisin stems which I had been filiping about the room during the discourse of the Angel of the Odd had flown through the fractured crystal, and lodging, singularly enough, in the keyhole, with an end projecting outward, had thus arrested the revolution of the minute hand.
"Ah!" said I, "I see how it is. This thing speaks for itself. A natural accident, such as will happen now and then!"
I gave the matter no further consideration, and at my usual hour retired to bed. Here, having placed a candle upon a reading stand at the bed head, and having made an attempt to peruse some pages of the Omnipresence of the Deity, I unfortunately fell asleep in less than twenty seconds, leaving the light burning as it was.
My dreams were terrifically disturbed by visions of the Angel of the Odd. Methought he stood at the foot of the couch, drew aside the curtains, and in the hollow, detestable tones of a rum puncheon, menaced me with the bitterest vengeance for the contempt with which I had treated him. He concluded a long harangue by taking off his funnel-cap, inserting the tube into my gullet, and thus deluging me with an ocean of Kirschenwaesser, which he poured in a continuous flood, from one of the long-necked bottles that stood him instead of an arm. My agony was at length insufferable, and I awoke just in time to perceive that a rat had run off with the lighted candle from the stand, but not in season to prevent his making his escape with it through the hole, Very soon a strong, suffocating odor assailed my nostrils; the house, I clearly perceived, was on fire. In a few minutes the blaze broke forth with violence, and in an incredibly brief period the entire building was wrapped in flames. All egress from my chamber, except through a window, was cut off. The crowd, however, quickly procured and raised a long ladder. By means of this I was descending rapidly, and in apparent safety, when a huge hog, about whose rotund stomach, and indeed about whose whole air and physiognomy, there was something which reminded me of the Angel of the Odd--when this hog, I say, which hitherto had been quietly slumbering in the mud, took it suddenly into his head that his left shoulder needed scratching, and could find no more convenient rubbing-post than that afforded by the foot of the ladder. In an instant I was precipitated, and had the misfortune to fracture my arm.
This accident, with the loss of my insurance, and with the more serious loss of my hair, the whole of which had been singed off by the fire, predisposed me to serious impressions, so that finally I made up my mind to take a wife. There was a rich widow disconsolate for the loss of her seventh husband, and to her wounded spirit I offered the balm of my vows. She yielded a reluctant consent to my prayers. I knelt at her feet in gratitude and adoration. She blushed and bowed her luxuriant tresses into close contact with those supplied me temporarily by Grandjean. I know not how the entanglement took place but so it was. I arose with a shining pate, wigless; she in disdain and wrath, half-buried in alien hair. Thus ended my hopes of the widow by an accident which could not have been anticipated, to be sure, but which the natural sequence of events had brought about.
Without despairing, however, I undertook the siege of a less implacable heart. The fates were again propitious for a brief period, but again a trivial incident interfered. Meeting my betrothed in an avenue thronged with the elite of the city, I was hastening to greet her with one of my best considered bows, when a small particle of some foreign matter lodging in the corner of my eye rendered me for the moment completely blind. Before I could recover my sight, the lady of my love had disappeared--irreparably affronted at what she chose to consider my premeditated rudeness in passing her by ungreeted. While I stood bewildered at the suddenness of this accident (which might have happened, nevertheless, to any one under the sun), and while I still continued incapable of sight, I was accosted by the Angel of the Odd, who proffered me his aid with a civility which I had no reason to expect. He examined my disordered eye with much gentleness and skill, informed me that I had a drop in it, and (whatever a "drop" was) took it out, and afforded me relief.
I now considered it high time to die (since fortune had so determined to persecute me), and accordingly made my way to the nearest river. Here, divesting myself of my clothes (for there is no reason why we cannot die as we were born), I threw myself headlong into the current; the sole witness of my fate being a solitary crow that had been seduced into the eating of brandy-saturated corn, and so had staggered away from his fellows. No sooner had I entered the water than this bird took it into his head to fly away with the most indispensable portion of my apparel. Postponing, therefore, for the present, my suicidal design, I just slipped my nether extremities into the sleeves of my coat, and betook myself to a pursuit of the felon with all the nimbleness which the case required and its circumstances would admit. But my evil destiny attended me still. As I ran at full speed, with my nose up in the atmosphere, and intent only upon the purloiner of my property, I suddenly perceived that my feet rested no longer upon terra firma; the fact is, I had thrown myself over a precipice, and should inevitably have been dashed to pieces but for my good fortune in grasping the end of a long guide-rope, which depended from a passing balloon.
As soon as I sufficiently recovered my senses to comprehend the terrific predicament in which I stood, or rather hung, I exerted all the power of my lungs to make that predicament known to the aeronaut overhead. But for a long time I exerted myself in vain. Either the fool could not, or the villain would not perceive me. Meanwhile the machine rapidly soared, while my strength even more rapidly failed. I was soon upon the point of resigning myself to my fate, and dropping quietly into the sea, when my spirits were suddenly revived by hearing a hollow voice from above, which seemed to be lazily humming an opera air. Looking up, I perceived the Angel of the Odd. He was leaning, with his arms folded, over the rim of the car; and with a pipe in his mouth, at which he puffed leisurely, seemed to be upon excellent terms with himself and the universe. I was too much exhausted to speak, so I merely regarded him with an imploring air.
For several minutes, although he looked me full in the face, he said nothing. At length, removing carefully his meerschaum from the right to the left corner of his mouth, he condescended to speak.
"Who pe you," he asked, "und what der teuffel you pe do dare?"
To this piece of impudence, cruelty, and affectation, I could reply only by ejaculating the monosyllable "Help!"
"Elp!" echoed the ruffian, "not I. Dare iz te pottle--elp yourself, und pe tam'd!"
With these words he let fall a heavy bottle of Kirschenwaesser, which, dropping precisely upon the crown of my head, caused me to imagine that my brains were entirely knocked out. Impressed with this idea I was about to relinquish my hold and give up the ghost with a good grace, when I was arrested by the cry of the Angel, who bade me hold on.
"'Old on!" he said: "don't pe in te 'urry--don't. Will you pe take de odder pottle, or 'ave you pe got zober yet, and come to your zenzes?"
I made haste, hereupon, to nod my head twice--once in the negative, meaning thereby that I would prefer not taking the other bottle at present; and once in the affirmative, intending thus to imply that I was sober and had positively come to my senses. By these means I somewhat softened the Angel.
"Und you pelief, ten," he inquired, "at te last? You pelief, ten, in te possibility of te odd?"
I again nodded my head in assent.
"Und you ave pelief in me, te Angel of te Odd?"
I nodded again.
"Und you acknowledge tat you pe te blind dronk und te vool?"
I nodded once more.
"Put your right hand into your left preeches pocket, ten, in token ov your vull zubmizzion unto te Angel ov te Odd."
This thing, for very obvious reasons, I found it quite impossible to do. In the first place, my left arm had been broken in my fall from the ladder, and therefore, had I let go my hold with the right hand I must have let go altogether. In the second place, I could have no breeches until I came across the crow. I was therefore obliged, much to my regret, to shake my head in the negative, intending thus to give the Angel to understand that I found it inconvenient, just at that moment, to comply with his very reasonable demand! No sooner, however, had I ceased shaking my head than--
"Go to der teuffel, ten!" roared the Angel of the Odd.
In pronouncing these words he drew a sharp knife across the guide-rope by which I was suspended, and as we then happened to be precisely over my own house (which, during my peregrinations, had been handsomely rebuilt), it so occurred that I tumbled headlong down the ample chimney and alit upon the dining-room hearth.
Upon coming to my senses (for the fall had very thoroughly stunned me) I found it about four o'clock in the morning. I lay outstretched where I had fallen from the balloon. My head groveled in the ashes of an extinguished fire, while my feet reposed upon the wreck of a small table, overthrown, and amid the fragments of a miscellaneous dessert, intermingled with a newspaper, some broken glasses and shattered bottles, and an empty jug of the Schiedam Kirschenwaesser. Thus revenged himself the Angel of the Odd.
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This comprehensive reference provides what you need to plan, install, configure, and maintain a Windows Server 2003 R2, SP1, operating system. Covering critical new SP1 security features, the new Windows Update service, and expanded Active Directory management tools, the latest edition of this guide is packed with information, including key changes that alter the way the powerful Windows Server 2003 operating system is installed, configured, and maintained. Improve security, extend your corporate network, optimize e-mail, chat, and other communications, and more - this book will show you how.
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Author Jim Boyce
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Working with Microsoft's network directory service for the first time can be a headache for system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers alike. This authoritative guide is meant to relieve that pain. Instead of going through the graphical user interface screen by screen, O'Reilly's bestselling Active Directory tells you how to design, manage, and maintain a small, medium, or enterprise Active Directory infrastructure.
Fully updated to cover Active Directory for Windows Server 2003 SP1 and R2, this third edition is full of important updates and corrections. It's perfect for all Active Directory administrators, whether you manage a single server or a global multinational with thousands of servers.
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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.
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Published in 2006
Published by O'Reilly
Author Hassell, Jonathan
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Nearly three years in the making, Exchange Server 2003 is the most reliable and secure messaging solution that Microsoft has ever produced. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled is a practical, hands-on guide designed to bring readers quickly up to speed on the latest changes and enhancements to the leading e-mail server.
Drawing on his involvement in Microsofts Exchange Server 2003 Joint Development Program, author Scott Schnoll offers the detailed technical information that Exchange administrators need to know. He has a clear and concise style, and focuses on whats new, whats improved, and whats been removed from Exchange Server 2003. Throughout the book Scott illustrates key points with real-world scenarios, and provides best practices drawn from his years of experience working with Exchange
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 allows a single server to be divided into several "virtual machines," each running its own environment and operating system, which can even be virtually networked together
* Written by a key member of M$'s Virtual Server product team, this guide shows programmers how they can use these virtual machines to keep their development environment separate from their computing environment, test software on a variety of platforms from a single machine, and test networking applications
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One of the secrets to the ever-increasing popularity of Windows Server can be found in the simplicity its administration. The easy-to-use GUI, consistent set of tools, and wizards that walk you through complex tasks allow you to install, configure and maintain Windows servers without any knowledge of programming or scripting languages or learning complicated command-line syntax. It's possible, in fact, to accomplish about 90% of all Windows administration without ever opening a command prompt or running a script! But what about the other ten percent of the time? While it's true that most common, day-to-day tasks of Windows administration can be performed from the GUI, it's not always the best way, especially with complex or repetitive tasks Scripts and command-line tools often provide a faster, more flexible approach. Windows Server Hacks reveals techniques that go well beyond basic management tasks found in most handbooks to help busy system administrators master the more powerful features of Windows Server. Windows Server Hacks focuses on scripts and other tools that will make your life as an administrator much easier. These tools, or hacks--quick and dirty solutions to problems, or clever ways of doing things--were created by other professionals who've also had to struggle to find solutions to administering Windows environments. You'll save valuable time using their scripts, tools, tips, and advice. Plus, you can easily learn to customize the scripts to create even more powerful tools for your own, specific needs. The book includes secrets of the masters in such areas as Active Directory, User Management, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP, File and Print, IIS, performance and security. The hundred, industrial strength hacks in the book range from those that deal with general administration to more esoteric hacks in the areas of network deployment, patch management, and backup and recovery. No matter which Windows server you use--NT, IIS, 2000, or 2003--this book will put the knowledge and expertise of veteran system administrators and hackers to work for you. Windows Server Hacks will make your life easier while expanding your understanding of the capabilities of Windows Server.
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Published in 2004
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Gas Well Testing Handbook
by Amanat Chaudhry
This title deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity. A highly practical edition, this book is written for graduate students, reservoir/simulation engineers, technologists, geologists, geophysicists, and technical managers. The author draws from his extensive experience in reservoir/simulation, well testing, PVT analysis basics, and production operations from around the world and provides the reader with a thorough understanding of gas well test analysis basics. The main emphasis is on practical field application, where over 100 field examples are resented to illustrate basic methods for analysis. Simple solutions to the diffusivity equation are discussed and their physical meanings examined. Each chapter focuses in how to use the information gained in well testing to make engineering and economic decisions, and an overview of the current research models and their equations are discussed in relation to gas wells, homogenous, heterogeneous, naturally and hydraulically fractured reservoirs.
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Geologic Analysis of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
by Ronald Nelson
Geologists, engineers, and petrophysicists concerned with hydrocarbon production from naturally fractured reservoirs will find this book a valuable tool for obtaining pertinent rock data to evaluate reserves and optimize well location and performance. Nelson emphasizes geological, petrophysical, and rock mechanics to complement other studies of the subject that use well logging and classical engineering approaches.
This well organized, updated edition contains a wealth of field and laboratory data, case histories, and practical advice.
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Drilling Fluids Processing Handbook
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Written by the Shale Shaker Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, originally of the American Association of Drilling Engineers, the authors of this book are some of the most well-respected names in the world for drilling. The first edition, Shale Shakers and Drilling Fluid Systems, was only on shale shakers, a very important piece of machinery on a drilling rig that removes drill cuttings. The original book has been much expanded to include many other aspects of drilling solids control, including chapters on drilling fluids, cut-point curves, mud cleaners, and many other pieces of equipment that were not covered in the original book.
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Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites.
Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
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Interested in becoming a master of the PHP language and MySQL database but don’t know where to begin? This best-selling book ranks among the most thorough and practical guides in print, covering all of the key concepts and features, and showing you how to effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to build powerful web sites.
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This book provides detailed instructions on how to customize and reconfigure consoles to a wide variety of ends--from the cosmetic case modifications to the ambitious porting of Linux to the Nintendo GameCube.
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In keeping with past trends, full migration to this latest Microsoft Server Operating System will begin in earnest 12 months after its release, in mid-to-late 2004. This book hits the market just as large enterprises begin the process of moving from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003. The title says everything you need to know about this book. No other book on the market combines this breadth and depth of coverage with the kind of product expertise and quality standard expected from Syngress. Every aspect of Planning, Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2003 network is distilled and documented, with plenty of examples and illustrations. And unlike its competition, this is a book that was written from the ground up for Windows Server 2003. It doesn't rely on hackneyed computer geek stereotypes; its tone, coverage and examples reflect the realities of TODAY'S enterprise network professional.
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This comprehensive administrators reference delivers the details you need
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The definitive technical reference covering core TCP/IP protocols, physical protocols, and application protocols for the Windows Server 2003 operating system
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This is the only book that covers all the topics that any budding security manager needs to know! This book is written for managers responsible for IT/Security departments from mall office environments up to enterprise networks. These individuals do not need to know about every last bit and byte, but they need to have a solid understanding of all major, IT security issues to effectively manage their departments. This book is designed to cover both the basic concepts of security, non-technical principle and practices of security and provides basic information about the technical details of many of the products - real products, not just theory. Written by a well known Chief Information Security Officer, this book gives the information security manager all the working knowledge needed to:
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This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.
Drawing on two decades of Windows server experience, Jeffrey Shapiro and Marcin Policht have written the most realistic, comprehensive, and independent Windows high availability guide ever published. One step at, a time, they help you plan, implement, and manage clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and much more. Along the way, they address crucial high availability topics that are virtually ignored by most books, such as disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and operations management.
Shapiro and Policht offer a clear, concise roadmap for keeping Windows servers running 24x7 and delivering on even the most challenging service-level agreements. They provide real-world case studies and easy-to-use instructions designed to help readers make better decisions more rapidly.
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Microsoft's Internet Information Server 6 is an Internet server program that works with the Windows Server 2003 operating system. IIS is Microsoft's answer in the Internet server market to Apache, the open source and #1 Internet server in use. In the US 9.7 million servers run IIS (28 percent of the market) powering 5.3 million .com domains. Delivered as a fee add-on for the Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6 is a major upgrade from version 5 with increased security, better .NET programming integration, and stronger abilities to work with non-Microsoft languages and servers. Companies using IIS Server as part of their backend systems include: Krispy Kreme,
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This exam (70294) is an MCSE core requirement and an MCSA elective Thoroughly revised to cover the new version of the exam, which includes questions on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows XP Professional SP2 Offers improved troubleshooting coverage and more scenarios and case studies The CD-ROM features the state-of-the-art WinSim program that enables readers to practice on simulation questions, plus an advanced testing engine, hundreds of sample questions, an e-version of the book, and flashcards
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The team of Microsoft-certified experts who collaborated on this book have done great work. Configuring Windows 2000 Server Security takes on a single, vital feature of Windows 2000 Server operations and does a fantastic job of explaining its many aspects, both conceptually and practically.
The prose style of this book frequently strays from the elegant, but it expertly documents processes and explains complicated architectures through experience and research. Where it's appropriate to do so, the authors include directions on how to use security services, including Kerberos and the Encrypting File System (EFS).
Most of the coverage examines behind-the-interface operations, relying on flow diagrams and uncluttered conceptual drawings to illustrate processes like smart-card authentication and the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Question-and-answer sections at the end of each chapter are particularly strong. The questions are well chosen (a typical one asks about using 128-bit encryption across an international network) with clear, carefully supported answers.
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Get the ideal one-volume guide for the IT professional who administers Windows Server 2003. Now fully updated for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2003 R2, this ADMINISTRATORS COMPANION offers up-to-date information on core system administration topics for Microsoft Windows, including Microsoft Active Directory directory service, security issues, disaster planning and recovery, and interoperability with Novell NetWare and UNIX. It includes all-new sections on SP1 security updates and new features for R2. Featuring easy-to-use procedures and handy workarounds, this book provides ready answers, practical solutions, and clear procedures for on-the-job results
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Published by MS Press
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Get essential guidance on how to configure and manage thin-client application servers and centralized applications-and help reduce ownership costs-using Microsoft Windows Server 2003Terminal Services.
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Why should new versions of mission-critical technologies mean starting from scratch? If you already know how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2000, leverage those skills to quickly become an expert on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide skips the basics and moves straight to what's new and what's changed. The result? You save time and money while preparing yourself for the next generation of Microsoft's server operating system!
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* Access bonus online material covering core concepts you might have missed in the prior version.
* Learn about changes to Active Directory replication, architecture, and maintenance.
* See important security changes that can affect server upgrades.
* Master new techniques for installing, administering, and securing servers.
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Published by Sams
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Whether you support 50 users or 5000, this indispensable guide provides immediate answers for the day-to-day administration of the Windows Server 2003 family. This pocket-sized resource zeroes in on core support procedures and everyday tasks for maximizing Windows productivity - delivering critical details through quick-reference tables, step-by-step instructions, and lists. It's the precise, streamlined information you need to solve problems and get the job done - at your desk or in the field! Get fast facts to: * Manage and troubleshoot workstations and servers * Administer Active Directory domains, roles, and OUs * Use Group Policy to automate administrative tasks * Control system access through user and group accounts * Install, configure, and test TCP/IP networking * Enable remote connectivity through Terminal Services * Manage file systems, drives, volume sets, and RAID * Monitor - and tune - PC health and network performance * Configure and optimize DHCP, WINS, and DNS * Troubleshoot network printers and print services * Implement EFS, Shadow Copy, Windows Time, and other services
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* Delivers information in concise tables, easy-to-scan lists, and step-by-step instructions
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In your daily maintenance routine of your company's Microsoft Exchange Server, you probably run into bumps along the way. Sams Teach Yourself Exchange Server 2003 in 10 Minutes is a great, quick-reference guide to the most common tasks you perform as an Exchange Server administrator. Use this guide as a basis for practical knowledge and solutions to problems with managing mailboxes, performing database maintenance, Outlook Web access, performance optimization and group policy management. When all you need is a quick-hit of information so you can quickly get back to work, Sams Teach Yourself Exchange Server 2003 in 10 Minutes is your best option.
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While computers and other devices identify each other on
networks or the Internet by using unique addresses made up of numbers, humans rely on the Domain Name System (DNS), the distributed
database that allows us to identify machines by name. DNS does the work of translating
domain names into numerical IP addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services, so that users require little or no knowledge of the
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DNS zones can be a formidable challenge. And now, with Windows Server 2003, an understanding of the workings of DNS is even more critical. DNS on Windows Server 20003 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND, updated to document the many changes to DNS, large and small, found in Windows Server 2003. Veteran O'Reilly authors, Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, and Robbie Allen explain the whole system in terms of the new Windows Server 2003, from starting and stopping a
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DNS Server from the command line and development using the WMI DNS provider to manage the name server programmatically. The book also documents new features of the Microsoft DNS Server in Windows Server 2003, including conditional forwarding and zone storage in Active Directory (AD) application partitions. DNS on Windows Server 2003 provides grounding in:
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* Planning for growth
If you're a Windows administrator, DNS on Windows Server 2003 is the operations manual you need for working with DNS every day. If you're a Windows user who simply wants to take the mystery out of the Internet, this book is a readable introduction to the Internet's architecture and inner workings.
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Published by O'Reilly
Author Cricket Liu
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Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, 2nd Edition, shows Windows XP and 2003 users and administrators how to perform Windows management and administrative tasks using powerful scripts for just about every important task imaginable. It covers techniques for working with files, input/output, text files, and performing various network administrative tasks through scripting. It explains the concept and necessity of logon scripts, the backbone structure of a good logon script, and how to implement these scripts in an everyday environment to automate repetitive tasks such as inventory, file modifications, installations, and system updates. It also provides an in-depth look into the registry and registry editing tools including locating the important registry keys and values, and modifying them. The book features example scripts on every new topic covered to reinforce what the reader has just learned. Key scripting topics include manipulating the Windows XP file system, using powerful third-party scripting tools, creating scripts for installing service packs and new applications, automating applications from the command line, and performing Windows XP and 2003 administrative tasks. Everything is included in this book, and users can easily modify or combine the scripts to perform myriad tasks. A bonus introduction chapter is provided showing users how to select the best scripting language and how to get the most out of scripting resources.
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Those of you who run networks on Windows 2000 know the benefits of using Active Directory for managing user information and permissions. You also know what a bear it can be. The newer version included with Windows Server 2003 has over 100 new and updated features to simplify deployment, but once it's in place many system administrators still find Active Directory challenging. If you're among those looking for practical hands-on support, help is here with our new Active Directory Cookbook, a unique problem-solving guide that offers quick answers for both versions of the directory. The book contains hundreds of step-by-step solutions for both common and uncommon problems that you might encounter with Active Directory on a daily basis--including recipes to deal with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features.
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Published in 2003
Published by O'Reilly
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Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-294, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want mostincluding in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job. Focusing on Windows Server 2003 Active Directory infrastructure, this official study guide covers topics such as planning, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Active Directory infrastructure; planning user, computer, and group strategies; and more.
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Published in 2006
Author Anthony Steven
ISBN 0735622868 Size 12.80MB
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# Publisher: McGraw-Hill
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0879837888
# ISBN-13: 978-0879837884
Book Description:At least one-third of Americans use alternative medicines to heal and maintain health--75% of those consumers are women. Today, women are demanding their doctors have a willingness to explore and combine complementary and conventional medical practices in their approach to female health. The result is a bridge between the two schools of thought commonly known as integrated medicine which requires women to become proactive in their role as patient and provides a safe, effective approach to maintaining and healing their bodies.
Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine covers in depth the whole range of women's health concerns including menstrual difficulties, menopause, endometriosis, osteoporosis and others and explains how integrated medicine can be used to treat these conditions.
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition
O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 4 edition | ISBN: 0596009771 | 1198 pages | August 22, 2005 | CHM | 3 Mb
For the past ten years, O'Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL Programming has been the bestselling book on PL/SQL, Oracle's powerful procedural language. Packed with examples and helpful recommendations, the book has helped everyone--from novices to experienced developers, and from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators--make the most of PL/SQL.
The fourth edition is a comprehensive update, adding significant new content and extending coverage to include the very latest Oracle version, Oracle Database 10g Release 2. It describes such new features as the PL/SQL optimizing compiler, conditional compilation, compile-time warnings, regular expressions, set operators for nested tables, nonsequential collections in FORALL, the programmer-defined quoting mechanism, the ability to backtrace an exception to a line number, a variety of new built-in packages, and support for IEEE 754 compliant floating-point numbers.
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PHP|Architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns
Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. | ISBN: 0973589825 | 340 pages | July 1, 2005 | PDF | 2 Mb
You have probably heard a lot about Design Patterns—a technique that helps you design rock-solid solutions to practical problems that programmers everywhere encounter in their day-to-day work.
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Author Jason E. Sweat's book php|architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns is the first, comprehensive guide to design patterns designed specifically for the PHP developer. This book includes coverage of 16 design patterns with a specific eye to their applications in PHP when building complex web applications, both in PHP 4 and PHP 5 (where appropriate, sample code for both versions of the language is provided). With a thorough, test-driven approach, this book represents the definitive guide to design patterns for the PHP developer.
As you can expect from a php|architect book, this Guide is very focused on its topic, with none of the fluff that accompanies the large, expensive titles you sometimes find at the bookstore. Naturally, this doesn't come at the expense of depth of coverage or clarity: the book contains tens of scripts that give you a practical overview of every topic covered, from top to bottom.
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Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most–clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy to find a specific task fast and get it done in a flash Tasks covered include adjusting system preferences, creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, using the Dashboard, networking wirelessly with AirPort, using iTunes and iPods, connecting to a Windows network, watching videos and DVDs, viewing and organizing pictures with iPhoto, making movies with iMovie, blogging and Web designing with iWeb, and using a .Mac account Published to coincide with Apple’s release of Leopard.
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The deep integration of IIS 7 and ASP.NET provides both IIS 7 administrators and ASP.NET developers with new and exciting programming tools, techniques, and approaches that were not possible with earlier versions of IIS. With this book, Dr. Shahram Khosravi presents you with the only resource to focus exclusively on the key features of this exciting integration.
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Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mental ray rendering once and for all. This must-have guide is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on mental ray in Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI, and it's packed with techniques and insights you can't get anywhere else. Best of all, the book's advanced rendering concepts apply to other rendering software as well, including V-Ray, Brazil, Maxwell and RenderMan.
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This earnest guide to career transition periods-when a new job or promotion puts an employee in an unfamiliar role-asserts, reassuringly, that navigating the all-important first 90 days is a "teachable skill." Business professor Watkins, co-author of Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role, lays out a "standard framework" for leadership transitions, based on "five fundamental propositions," "ten key challenges," and a four-fold typology of situations that new managers find themselves in. Fortunately, Watkins balances the theorizing with practical steps managers can take to get on top of things and initiate changes, including elaborate self-assessment checklists, planning exercises and meticulous guidelines on how to have conversations with underlings and bosses. His advice, if not very original, is sound. He warns managers not to assume that their existing skills will suffice for new roles, advises them to pursue small-scale "early wins" to boost credibility, and admonishes workplace Machiavellis to "avoid pressing for closure until you are confident the balance of forces acting on key people is tipping your way." Watkins's penchant for cut-and-dried schematizations sometimes goes overboard, especially in the book's plethora of elementary graphs, tables, diagrams and matrices (novice orators are informed that "classic values invoked to convince others to embrace potentially painful change are summarized in table 8-1," while the oceanic topic of "Intersecting Cultural Dimensions" gets boiled down to a three-ring Venn diagram). But if the content of Watkins's counsel is not always obviously helpful, his systematized approach to thinking will at least help panicky executives keep their wits about them.
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Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.
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PHP by Example
Que | ISBN: 0789725681 | 432 pages | November 7, 2001 | PDF | 2 Mb
PHP By Example will provide web-publishing oriented individuals the opportunity to learn a new, flexible Internet scripting language, PHP. This book will take the reader through step-by-step examples that will help them gain an understanding of PHP. PHP By Example will:
Explain concepts in simple, understandable tasks with multiple approaches to concepts that need clarification.
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Geoffrey Leech , Jan Svartvik " A Communicative Grammar of English"
Addison Wesley Longman (September 1994) | ISBN:058208573X | PDF | 423 pages | 12,3 Mb
A Communicative Grammar of English by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, first published in 1975, has established itself as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. It is one of the best books on grammar ever written and still provides an up-to-date and accessible resource for teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English.
A Communicative Grammar of English employs a communicative rather than a structural approach to the learning of English grammar. This edition is divided into three parts. Part One: Varieties of English , looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, for example 'formal' and 'informal', 'spoken' and 'written'. Part Two: Intonation. Part Three: Grammar in use - the central and largest part of the book, presents grammar through the eyes of the communicator and focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure. Part Four: Grammatical Compendium - provides a useful and alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar.
A Communicative Grammar of English by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, first published in 1975, has established itself as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. Now this fully revised and redesigned third edition provides an up-to-date and accessible resource for teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Accompanying this third edition, there is a completely new Workbook co-authored by ELT specialists Edward Woods and Rudy Coppieters, which will help students to 'internalise' the contents of the grammar. A Communicative Grammar of English employs a communicative rather than a structural approach to the learning of English grammar. This edition is divided into three parts. Part One: A guide to the use of this book - looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, for example 'formal' and 'informal', 'spoken' and 'written'. Part Two: Grammar in use - the central and largest part of the book, presents grammar through the eyes of the communicator and focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure. Part Three: A-Z in English grammar - provides a useful and alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar. This new edition includes more real examples taken from corpus data. Increased emphasis is given to grammar in spoken language, providing a better balance between written and spoken English. Explanations and examples have been made simpler in order to make the grammar more accessible to students. GEOFFREY LEECH is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University, UK, and JAN SVARTVIK is Emeritus Professor of English at Lund University, Sweden.
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How to Have Multiple Orgasms
HarperCollins Publishers | 2006 | English | ISBN: 0380769387 | 230 pages | PDF | 9.3 MB
A guide to achieving multiple orgasms offers seven steps that tell readers how to help their partners learn to please them, the ways to heighten sexual enjoyment for their partners, how to prolong lovemaking, and more...
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Michigan English Language Institute “English Sentence Structure (An Intensive Course in English) + English Structure Practices"
University of Michigan Press/ESL (April 1, 1971) | ISBN:0472083074 | PDF | 320 + 402 pages | 24,3 Mb
Part of the classic Michigan Rainbow series.
English Sentence Structure presents and clarifies all facets of the sentence for beginning and intermediate students. Oral drills, examples, and written exercises form a pattern of regular review and self-evaluation. Each lesson is coordinated with English Pattern Practices.
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Luke Prodromou " Grammar and Vocabulary FULL WORK BOOK for First Certificate: With Key"
Longman (13 Sep 1999) | ISBN:9812569162 | 320 pages | PDF | 56,5 Mb
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*Designed for Upper Intermediate students. An innovative approach particularly relevant to the Cambridge First Certificate Exam (FCE) *Thorough grammar review. Detailed information concentrating on points tested in the exam, and a wealth of examples based on the Longman corpus. *A focus on vocabulary. Concentration on word formation, confusable words, and on common words and phrases that are useful in numerous situations *Lots of opportunity to practise. A wide variety of exercises to confirm understanding and prepare for the FCE exam, particularly Paper 3. *Continuous testing in exam format. A diagnostic test for each Unit and regular tests in exam format to check progress. *A flexible approach. Can be used in many different ways; clear cross-references point you in the direction of related grammar or vocabulary areas.
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Microsoft ASP.NET Fast & Easy Web Development
Course Technology PTR; 1 edition | ISBN: 1931841462 | 416 pages | May 2, 2002 | PDF | 13 Mb
Don't spend your time wading through manuals to learn ASP .NET. Spend it doing what you do best--creating Web pages! Begin with an introduction to the .NET initiative, and then work your way through the concepts of ASP .NET, Visual Basic .NET, and ADO .NET. By the time you finish, you'll be using ASP .NET to create custom applications. Combining easy-to-understand instructions with visual examples, Microsoft ASP .NET Fast & Easy Web Development offers a unique, hands-on approach to ASP .NET that you won't find anywhere else!
Book DescriptionDon't spend your time wading through manuals to learn ASP .NET. Spend it doing what you do best--creating Web pages! Begin with an introduction to the .NET initiative, and then work your way through the concepts of ASP .NET, Visual Basic .NET, and ADO .NET. By the time you finish, you'll be using ASP .NET to create custom applications. Combining easy-to-understand instructions with visual examples, Microsoft ASP .NET Fast & Easy Web Development offers a unique, hands-on approach to ASP .NET that you won't find anywhere else!
Book InfoBegins with an introduction to the .NET initiative. Offers a unique, hands-on approach to ASP.net that you won't find anywhere else. Less time, less effort, more results! Softcover. CD-ROM included.
About the AuthorNitin Pandey works as a consultant with NIIT. He has authored several books, including Commerce Server 2000 Configuration and Administration, Visual Studio .NET for Dummies, and C# Professional Projects.
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Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities
IRM Press | ISBN: 159140570X | 398 pages | April 2005 | PDF | 4 Mb
Mobile and Wireless Systems beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities explores new business opportunities and critical issue related to mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. This book identifies motivations and barriers to the adoption of 3G mobile
Professor Raymond A. Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK"The holistic coverage within the book includes all aspects expected to be explained within a text on mobile wireless systems."
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book DescriptionMobile and Wireless Systems beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities explores new business opportunities and critical issue related to mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. This book identifies motivations and barriers to the adoption of 3G mobile
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. About the AuthorMargherita Pagani is a Researcher at the I-LAB Research Center on Digital Economy at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where she coordinates New Media & TV-Lab. She is an Adjunct Professor in Management at the Bocconi University, Italy. Dr. Pagani has written two books on digital interactive television and several papers on interactive television, digital convergence, and content management which have been discussed in many academic conferences in Europe and USA. She has worked with RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana and as a Member of the Workgroup "Digital Terrestrial" (Permanent Forum of Communications) for the Ministry of Communications in Italy.
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Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems
CRC | 2008-01-17 | ISBN: 1420054910 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In the hopes of initiating critical thinking and encouraging a systems response to problems, the book provides pragmatic mechanisms to understand and address co-evolving systems problems and solutions. It uses several contemporary and complex societal issues, such as the Iraq war, the Google phenomenon, and the C2 Constellation, to illustrate the concepts, methods, and tools of a system as well as the meaning of togetherness in a system. The text also interweaves the meanings of complexity, paradox, and system to promote the improvement of difficult situations.
Featuring a holistic, nonlinear way of looking at systems, this book helps readers better organize and structure their thinking of systems in order to solve complex, real-world problems.
By examining the links and interactions between elements of a system, systems thinking is becoming increasingly relevant when dealing with global challenges, from terrorism to energy to healthcare. Addressing these seemingly intractable systems problems in our society,
Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems focuses on the inherent opportunities and difficulties of a systems approach. Taking an engineering systems view toward systems thinking, the authors place a high value on the thinking process and the things applied to this process.
In the hopes of initiating critical thinking and encouraging a systems response to problems, the book provides pragmatic mechanisms to understand and address co-evolving systems problems and solutions. It uses several contemporary and complex societal issues, such as the Iraq war, the Google phenomenon, and the C2 Constellation, to illustrate the concepts, methods, and tools of a system as well as the meaning of togetherness in a system. The text also interweaves the meanings of complexity, paradox, and system to promote the improvement of difficult situations.
Featuring a holistic, nonlinear way of looking at systems, this book helps readers better organize and structure their thinking of systems in order to solve complex, real-world problems.
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Mechatronics in Engineering Design and Product Development
CRC | 1998-09-01 | ISBN: 0824702263 | 632 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The authors address the core technologies needed for the design and development of the mechatronic product, cover design approaches, discuss related mechatronic product design aspects, and detail mechatronic product application examples.
This work presents a systematic and comprehensive overview to the theory and applications of mechatronic processes, emphasizing the adaptation and incorporation of this important tool in fulfilling desired performance and quality requirements.
The authors address the core technologies needed for the design and development of the mechatronic product, cover design approaches, discuss related mechatronic product design aspects, and detail mechatronic product application examples.
Deploys a cross-disciplinary approach to engineering & product development, presenting advancements in transducers, microsensors, microactuators, & microelectromechanical systems, with special emphasis on their implantation in mechatronic systems. Covers how to design - smart - devices by means of mechatronics. DLC: Mechatronics.
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Create Your Own Future : How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.| 2002 | English | ISBN 0471251070 | 287 pages | PDF | RS | 1.3 MB
Here in one book is a complete blueprint for success, achievement, increased income, rapid promotion, and better results in every area of your life. Buy it now and read every word!
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Jeremy Colls, "Air Pollution (Clay's Library of Health and the Environment)"
Taylor & Francis | 600 pages | 2002-09-13 | 0415255651 | PDF | 15.5MB
Every section of this new edition of Air Pollution has been updated, with particular emphasis on indoor air quality, and a new chapter on Air Pollution Control and Measurement of Industrial Emissions has been added. This new edition continues to cover the wide range of air quality issues in an accessible style. Each topic has a historical introduction, reviews the range of accepted literature, and highlights areas in which developments are currently taking place. Topics covered include the sources and sinks of gaseous and particulate air pollutants, dispersion measurement, mobile sources, indoor air pollutants, and the effects on plants, materials, humans and animals. Local case studies are referred to demonstrating the application of theory to practice. The recommended reading lists from the first edition have also been updated. Air Pollution is recommonded for undergraduate and postgraduate students specializing in air pollution. It will also be of interest to air pollution specialists in government and industry.
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Advanced Photoshop #40
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Everyday Practical Electronic March 2008
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The Economist 16th February 2008
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The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication owned by “The Economist Newspaper Ltd” and edited in London, UK. It has been in continuous publication since September 1843. Altough printed in London, in the USA (where it is largely sold) this publication is reputed to be the best in its field.
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Stern Magazine 2008 08 vom 14.02.2008
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Furniture World Vol. 138, No. 1
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Operation Getafix
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Asterix and the Big Fight is a 1989 animated movie directed by Philippe Grimond and produced in France by Yannick Piel as Astérix et le coup du menhir. It is based on the Asterix comic book series. The movie has a different plot from the book of the same name. It combines plot elements from Asterix and the Big Fight and Asterix and the Soothsayer. Interestingly, although there is plenty of fighting — as usual for an Asterix story — the actual fight that the story is named for is not part of the movie's plot. The novelization was titled "Operation Getafix" (the German translation of the film was Operation Hinkelstein, a hinkelstein being a menhir).
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Asterix Conquers America
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Asterix Conquers America is a 1994 animated movie directed by Gerhard Hahn. It was produced in Germany as Asterix in Amerika by Gerhard Hahn and Jürgen Wohlrabe, and is the only Asterix film produced outside of France (where it is known as Astérix et les Indiens). It is loosely based on the comic Asterix and the Great Crossing but has a numerous significant variations on the plot.
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Asterix Versus Caesar
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Asterix Versus Caesar (Astérix et la surprise de César, 1985) is the first of the 1980s Asterix films, based on the Asterix comic books, and is often considered as one of the best Asterix-films by fans of the comics and the movies. The movie is a great departure from the early movies, not only introducing a new and very 1980s-sounding Asterix Theme Song, but also better animation and more dramatic deliverance of the plot. The plot was adapted primarily from the books Asterix the Legionary and Asterix the Gladiator by Pierre Tchernia.
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Les Douze travaux d'Astérix) is an animated feature film based on the Asterix comic book series. The screenplay was written by Pierre Tchernia, a friend of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, and produced at the Idefix Studios. Unlike the other Asterix animated movies, it was not based on a published comic book, although later it was made into a book.
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Asterix and The Falling Sky
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Asterix and the Falling Sky is the thirty-third volume of the Asterix comic book series, by Albert Uderzo (story and illustrations). It is the newest book, having come out on October 14, 2005 around the world.
The album is explained by Uderzo as a tribute to Walt Disney, who inspired him to become an artist. It is generally disliked by fans, mostly because Asterix albums tend to be classical, and this album has aliens from outer space and a different, far less detailed drawing style.
Uderzo has been adamant this will not be the last Asterix album, saying in a Financial Times interview, "No, no, no, it is not the last. Certain journalists believed this because the cover was the mirror image of the first Asterix album. That is indeed the case but it was not at all my intention to suggest it would be the last album."
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Asterix and The Class Act
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Asterix and the Class Act (French: Astérix et la rentrée gauloise) is officially the thirty-second album of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations and some stories), published in 2003. Unlike the other Asterix books it is a compilation of short stories, rather than one long story. Each story has an introductory page giving some of its original history.
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Animation Magazine - March 2008
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In the Age of Enlightenment the German philosopher Immanuel Kant encouraged people to use their own mind as the basis for reasoning instead of following dogmatic religious rules - Sapere aude! (dare to know!) - Today wireless communication networks are increasingly becoming aware of the conditions of its their component parts and surrounding environment. Cognition, a continuous process involving sensing, reasoning, understanding and reacting, can be applied to wireless networks in order to adapt the system to the highly dynamic wireless ecosystem. The ultimate goals are to enhance the efficiency in the use of radio resources as well as to improve both link and network performance. This book presents a detailed overview of a rapidly emerging topic in modern communications: cognitive wireless networks. The key aspects of cognitive and cooperative principles in wireless networks are discussed in this book. Furthermore, Cognitive Wireless Networks advocates the concept of breaking up the cellular communication architecture by introducing cooperative strategies among wireless devices. Cognitive wireless networking is the key to success in handling the upcoming dynamic network configurations and exploiting this cross-over to the fullest extent. As wireless networks become pervasive, highly populated and increasingly complex, the essential preconditions for exploiting rich interactions among mobile devices are better fulfilled. Today, these trends are giving rise to new communications paradigms making use of cooperation and cognition as the main underlying principles. Cognition, together with its complementary principle cooperation, confer to the wireless networks some degree of consciousness or understanding about their own existence, such as internal structure, capabilities, relationships to the outside world, limitations, current use of radio resources and many more. Current wireless networks are aware of their surrounding environment to a very limited extent, but in future wireless networks this capability will be highly developed, as a consequence of exploiting jointly cooperative and cognitive principles. Especially for cooperative wireless networks, where the communication scenario is highly dynamic, the mobile devices need to adapt their capabilities in a flexible manner, taking advantage of cognitive principles.
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Understanding network performance and effectiveness is now crucial to business success. To ensure user satisfaction, both service providers and enterprise IT teams must provide service-level agreements (SLA) to the users of their networks–and then consistently deliver on those commitments. Now, two of the Cisco® leading network performance and accounting experts bring ogether all the knowledge network professionals need to do so.
Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies imparts a deep understanding of Cisco IOS® embedded management for monitoring and optimizing performance, together with proven best strategies for both accounting and performance management.
Benoit Claise and Ralf Wolter begin by introducing the role of accounting and performance management in today’s large-scale data and voice networks. They present widely accepted performance standards and definitions, along with today’s best practice methodologies for data collection.
Next, they turn to Cisco devices and the Cisco IOS Software, illuminating embedded management and device instrumentation features that enable you to thoroughly characterize performance, plan network enhancements, and anticipate potential problems and prevent them. Network standards, technologies, and Cisco solutions covered in depth include Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Management Information Bases (MIB), Remote Monitoring (RMON), IP accounting, NetFlow, BGP policy accounting, AAA Accounting, Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), and IP SLA (formerly known as SAA). For each, the authors present practical examples and hands-on techniques.
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Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies will be indispensable to every professional concerned with network performance, effectiveness, or profitability, especially NMS/OSS architects, network and service designers, network administrators, and anyone responsible for network accounting or billing.
Benoit Claise, CCIE® No. 2868, is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer working as an architect for embedded management and device instrumentation. His area of expertise includes accounting, performance, and fault management. Claise is a contributor to the NetFlow standardization at the IETF in the IPFIX and PSAMP Working Groups. He joined Cisco in 1996 as a customer support engineer in the Technical Assistance Center network management team and became an escalation engineer before joining the engineering team.
Ralf Wolter is a senior manager, consulting engineering at Cisco. He leads the Cisco Core and NMS/OSS consulting team for Europe, works closely with corporate engineering, and supports large-scale customer projects. He specializes in device instrumentation related to accounting and performance management.
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Walk through hands-on case studies that address monitoring, capacity planning, billing, security, and voice networks
Understand Cisco network performance, deliver on your SLAs, and improve accounting and billing
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.
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The deep integration of IIS7 and ASP.NET provides both IIS7 administrators and ASP.NET developers with new and exciting programming tools, techniques, and approaches that were not possible with earlier versions of IIS. With this book, Dr. Shahram Khosravi presents you with the only resource to focus exclusively on the key features of this exciting integration.
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How to manage the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated configuration system from IIS7 Manager, appcmd.exe, and managed code
Tips for using the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated declarative schema extension markup language (, , , , and so on) to implement custom configuration sections
Techniques for using and extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated managed code system (ConfigurationElement, ConfigurationElementCollectionBase, ConfigurationSection, ApplicationPool, Site, Application, ServerManager and so on) to add support for custom managed classes
Tips for extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated graphical management system (ModuleServiceProxy, ModuleDialogPage, ModuleListPage, TaskForm, Module, ModuleService, ModuleProvider, TextTaskItem, MethodTaskItem, and so on) to add new graphical components to IIS7 Manager
Techniques for using and extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated providers system (ProviderConfigurationFeature, ProviderConfigurationSettings, IProviderConfigurationService, ConfigurationModuleProvider, and so on) and ways to implement and to plug custom provider-based services into this system and IIS7 Manager
Ways to use the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated tracing and diagnostics - TraceSource, SourceSwitch, IisTraceListener, EventTypeFilter, RSCA, Request, WorkerProcess, Failed Request Tracing, and so on
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CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is a best-of-breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the topics for the DESGN exam. Senior networking consultants Anthony Bruno and Steve Jordan expertly cover the latest exam content, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve your knowledge of Cisco network design. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.
CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and concise Foundation Summary information make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it. Challenging chapter-ending review questions help you assess your knowledge and reinforce key concepts.
The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a topic-by-topic basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text.
Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this book helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.
CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.
A. Anthony Bruno, CCIE® No. 2738, is a senior principal consultant with British Telecom with more than 17 years experience in the internetworking field. He has consulted for many enterprise and service-provider customers in the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale data and IP telephony networks.
Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293, is a senior consultant with British Telecom with more than 11 years of experience in internetworking. He has extensive experience with large-scale data-center environments and has designed and implemented various network solutions in the manufacturing, telecommunication, and transportation industries.
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Network design methodology
Network structure models
Enterprise LAN design
Wireless LAN design
Enterprise edge module design
WAN design
IPv4 and IPv6
Routing protocol selection
RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS
BGP, route manipulation, and IP multicast
Security management, technologies, and design
Voice architectures and IP telephony design
Network management protocols
Companion CD-ROM
The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 200 practice questions for the DESGN exam, all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.
This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.
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Covers: CCDA® DESGN exam 640-863
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Webmasters and Web programmers around the world know that PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites for eCommerce and content management. In fact, PHP is used in one of every three Web sites on the Internet and MySQL has been downloaded millions of times. PHP and MySQL provide a freely downloadable and widely supported alternative to ASP.NET.
Written by the bestselling author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies, this book provides six discreet minibooks that show you not only how to program in PHP, create and administer a MySQL database, and manipulate MySQL data via a Web interface, but also shows you how to create a secure Web site, and how to code the most popular Web applications, such as login programs and shopping cart applications.
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Book I: PHP Programming - Setting Up Your PHP Environment, PHP Basics, Building PHP Scripts, PHP and Your Operating System, Object-Oriented Programming.
Book II: Using MySQL - Setting Up MySQL, Administering MySQL, Building a Database, Other Administrative Tasks, Using MySQL Administrator, Using MySQL Query, Using phpMyAdmin.
Book III: Using PHP with MySQL - Communicating with the Database; Creating and Modifying Database Structure; Adding, Updating, and Removing Data; Retrieving Data from the Database; Advanced Features.
Book IV: Security - Server Security, Apache Security, Programming Securely in PHP, Using SSL.
Book V: PHP Extensions - Introducing Extensions, Working with Packages Using PEAR, Using the XML Extension, Generating Graphics with the GD Extension.
Book VI: PHP Web Applications - Building and Processing Dynamic Forms, Making Information Available on Multiple Web Pages, Building a Login Application, Building an Online Catalog, Building a Shopping Cart, Building a Content Management System.
Book VII: Installation Appendixes - Installing PHP, Installing MySQL, Installing Apache.
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Author(s) : IMCA
ISBN : 0-471-06412-2
Print Date : July 15, 2002
Pages : 496
Before starting any investment, the risk of that venture must be measured. The Handbook of Risk provides full coverage of risk from every possible angle and illuminates the subject by covering the quantitative and and behavioral issues faced by investment pros on a day-to-day basis. This helpful reference offers a prescriptive and descriptive treatment of risk management for those seeking to control, contain, and minimize their investement risk.
The Handbook of Risk is also a good companion for professionals looking to complete IMCA certification.
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Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine | March 2008 | PDF | 34 Mb
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World Trade Magazine
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Magazine for world trades, international trades, logistics and etc.
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Taste of Home - February & March, 2008
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Asterix and The Laurel Wreath
PDF | 14.05 MB | English
Asterix and the Laurel Wreath is the eighteenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 621-642 in 1971 and translated in to English in 1974.
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Asterix and The Roman Agent
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Asterix and the Roman Agent is the fifteenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It first appeared as a serial in Pilote issues 531-552 in 1970 and was translated into English in 1972.
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Asterix in Spain
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Asterix in Spain is the fourteenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 498-519 in 1969 and translated into English in 1971.
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The Mansions of The Gods
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The Mansions of the Gods is the seventeenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 591-612 in 1971 and translated into English in 1973.
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Asterix in Switzerland
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Asterix in Switzerland is the sixteenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 557-578 in 1970 and translated into English in 1973.
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Digital Software - 2007 December
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Computer Graphics World - 2007 November
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Motor - 2007 December issue
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"Hunting & Fishing Cookbook"
Taste of Home Magazine | English | PDF | 196 pages | 22,2 Mb
Whether you’re an avid hunter or fisherman or someone who cooks for one, this must-have game and fish cookbook is for you!
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Phase Magazine
PDF | 13 MB | 66 Pages | English | RS | Vol.03
Phase Magazine is the quarterly(ish) digital publication of the Phase Collective,
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Nett Magazine Feb 08
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Asterix in Belgium
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Asterix in Belgium is the twenty-fourth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It is noted as the last Asterix story Goscinny worked on. The rainy atmosphere in the second half of the adventure, from when Asterix and Obelix set off to meet Caesar, is a reflection on the mourning of his passing.
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Obelix and Co.
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Obelix and Co. is the twenty-third volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). The book's main focus is on the attempts by the Gaul-occupying Romans to corrupt the one remaining village that still holds out against them by instilling capitalism.
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Asterix and The Great Crossing
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Asterix and the Great Crossing is the twenty-second volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations).
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Asterix and Caesar's Gift
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Asterix and Caesar's Gift is the twenty-first volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations).
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Asterix in Corsica
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Asterix in Corsica is the twentieth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 687-708 in 1973. It is the best-selling title in the history of the series, owing to its sales in the French market, but is one of the lowest-selling titles in the English language.
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Asterix and The Soothsayer
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Asterix and the Soothsayer is the nineteenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). The story revolves around the superstitions of the people at the time (Gauls and Romans alike) and parodies the general gullibility of humanity. It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 652-673 in 1972.
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Brazilian Magazine - Sexy Best of the Year
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Paperback: 398 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (March 24, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071410708
ISBN-13: 978-0071410700
This book/CD-ROM package is THE definitive reference to the benefits, pitfalls, set-up, troubleshooting, and repair of wireless networks. The author covers the entire range of wireless networks and explains the specific needs of each individual application.
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Paperback: 758 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2 edition (May 5, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558608028
ISBN-13: 978-1558608023
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“Clif’s book is both a pleasure to read and a useful reference…I’m sure you’ll find it a necessary addition to your professional toolkit.“Marshall T. Rose
“The best computer programmers are astonishingly more productive than average. One reason is that they use good tools, and they use them well. Clif Flynt helps you improve your effectiveness as a developer in both of these ways. Want to take your programming to the next level? Get Tcl/Tk: A Developer’s Guide, Second Edition.“Cameron Laird, vice president, Phaseit, Inc., and author of the “Regular Expressions” online column.
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“The best computer programmers are astonishingly more productive than average. One reason is that they use good tools, and they use them well. Clif Flynt helps you improve your effectiveness as a developer in both of these ways. Want to take your programming to the next level? Get Tcl/Tk: A Developer’s Guide, Second Edition.”—Cameron Laird, vice president, Phaseit, Inc., and author of the “Regular Expressions” online column.
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Paperback: 55 pages
Publisher: Wetfeet (September 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1582073287
ISBN-13: 978-1582073286
At its broadest definition, “information technology” is an umbrella term that describes all fields that relate to the organization and dissemination of information: from the worker who lays cable wires to the telephone switchboard operator to the engineer who designs the circuits in your computer. However, keep in mind that just because IT is computer-related, it doesn’t mean that a job in the field is necessarily with a computer-intensive company. In fact, the majority of the IT services jobs today are in fields that have little to do with high tech. What this means for you, the job seeker, is that opportunities are not limited to one industry but cross a wide variety of industries. Interested in taking on an IT role? Learn more by reading this brand new guide.
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Publisher: World Bank Publications (February 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821356879
ISBN-13: 978-0821356876
HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Central Asia: Country Profiles is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank’s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The countries of Central Asia are still at the earliest stage of an HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, the region is experiencing: steep growth of new HIV cases; related epidemics of injected drug use, sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis; a high percentage of youth in the total population; and low levels of knowledge about the epidemics. HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis may have devastating effects on human capital, economic development, and health system reform. To address this impending crisis, the World Bank has initiated the study of HIV/AIDS, STIs, and TB in Central Asia. This study presents country profiles that were developed to inform Bank management and other stakeholders about the main characteristics of the epidemics. The profiles cover epidemiology; strategic and regulatory frameworks; surveillance; preventive, diagnostic, and treatment activities; non-governmental and partner activities; and resources available. This report summarizes the main issues identified by this initial assessment and recommends further study and action.
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- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Apress (December 10, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 159059911X
Want to take to the limit? Looking for new, powerful, and creative ideas that will take Ruby beyond Rails and ? If you’re comfortable with Ruby, you’ll be itching to go further&emdash;apply Practical Ruby Projects: Fresh Ideas with Ruby and become a master of advanced Ruby techniques.
Rubyist Topher Cyll brings several imaginative projects to this book, ranging from making generative music, animations, and turn-based games to implementing simulations, algorithms, and even an implementation of Lisp!
Art, music, theory, and games&emdash;this book has it all. Best of all, it’s all done with Ruby.
Each chapter, in addition to making you say “Cool&emdash;I hadn’t thought of that before,” looks at solving tricky development problems, enforces best practices, and encourages creative thinking. You’ll be building your own exciting, imaginative Ruby Projects in no time.
- Create imaginative and innovative Ruby programming projects.
- Learn how to solve tricky development problems, be guided by best practices, and be inspired to think creatively.
- Don’t waste time on the basics&emdash;it’s assumed you know the fundamentals of Ruby already.
What you’ll learn
- How to set up Ruby on Windows, Mac OSX, and
- How to create UIs with RubyCocoa
- How to create a Lisp implementation in Ruby
- How to create generative music and turn-based adventure games in Ruby
- How to model things and create algorithms in Ruby
- Several more Ruby best practices and programming techniques that will save you hours of programming time
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who has mastered the basics of Ruby and wants to learn advanced Ruby techniques.
About the Apress Practical Series
The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project-motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real-world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.
Related Titles from Apress
- Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
- Beginning Ruby on Rails: From Novice to Professional
- Practical Ruby on Rails Projects
About the Author
Topher Cyll is a software engineer and writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Williams College and works for a small Boston-area startup.
In reverse alphabetical order, he finds programming languages, music, , education, bioengineering, and beer terribly exciting.
Topher loves Ruby not only for the language itself, but also the light-hearted and intellectually curious community that surrounds it.
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Palmistry, or Cheiromancy (pronounced “kei-ro-mansy” is a very popular and accurate way of divining. The famous nineteenth century palmist, Leic de Hamon (Louis Hamon) was named “Cheiro” after it.
The art of Palmistry can be traced back as far as the Stone Ages.Pictures of human hands are frequently found in cave drawings,indicating their special interest in this part of the body. These paintings can be seen in the Lascaux Caves in France, the remarkable Santander caves in Spain and in several caves in Africa.
The ancient Vedic scriptures contained an abundance of information on palmistry. K.C. Sen, an eminent Indian palmist, says the earliest writings on palmistry were ancient Sanskrit. These verses have been preserved and are still guarded from the public eye. Cheiro, the famous palmist, claimed to have seen one of these manuscripts in the early 1900’s.
Before the birth of Buddha in 563 B.C., leading seers of the time gathered at the royal palace. They were drawn by extraordinary indications revealed in the stars. They were ecstatic to find the mark of the wheel on Buddha’s hands and feet, indicating his future greatness. Palmists in India still look for this special mark in the palms of babies.
Gypsies came into the picture around the eleventh century, though they had been practising palmistry for centuries before. Sigismund, the Holy Roman Emperor, enlisted the gypsies as spies.
Word of this soon spread and when Gypsies arrived at the gates of Paris in 1427 they were not allowed inside. However, the citizens of the city, intrigued and excited by these romantic strangers, rushed outside to have their fortunes told. The tradition of crossing a Gypsy’s palm with silver, dates back to this era.
The church claimed the Gypsies were in league with the Devil. To counter this, the Gypsies explained that the Devil was afraid of both silver and the sign of the cross. Therefore, if you made a sign of the cross over a Gypsy’s hand with silver you would be protected.
Needless to say, the gypsies kept the silver. Interest in using palmistry for psychological analysis is a product of the last century. The first major work on this subject was Julius Spier’s The Hands of Children, which appeared in 1944. Not surprisingly, the introduction was written by Carl Jung. This was quickly followed by works from Noel Jaquin, Charlotte Wolf, and in 1990, by Andrew Fizherbert.
Since the Second World War, research on palm patterns has been going on at the Kennedy Galton Centre near London. This research has lead scientists to confirm that health factors can be determined in the hand.
The current research into dermatoglyphics (the study of skin patterns)is potentially the most exciting development in the history of palmistry.
Although palmistry dates back to the Stone Ages, its greatest period is just beginning.
The future of palmistry is assured now that scientists are proving its validity!
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How do the arts stack up as a major discipline? What is their effect on the brain, learning, and human development? How might schools best implement and assess an arts program?? Eric Jensen answers these questions C and more C in this book. To push for higher standards of learning, many policymakers are eliminating arts programs. To Jensen, that's a mistake.
This book presents the definitive case, based on what we know about the brain and learning, for making arts a core part of the basic curriculum and thoughtfully integrating them into every subject. Separate chapters address musical, visual, and kinesthetic arts in ways that reveal their influence on learning.
What are the effects of a fully implemented arts program? The evidence points to the following:
$ Fewer dropouts $ Higher attendance $ Better team players $ An increased love of learning $ Greater student dignity $ Enhanced creativity $ A more prepared citizen for the workplace of tomorrow $ Greater cultural awareness as a bonus
To Jensen, it's not a matter of choosing, say, the musical arts over the kinesthetic. Rather, ask what kind of art makes sense for what purposes. How much time per day? What kind of music? Should the arts be required? How do we assess arts programs? In answering these real-world questions, Jensen provides dozens of practical, detailed suggestions for incorporating the arts into every classroom.
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Animation Magazine, January, 2008
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Computer Graphics World January 2008
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Taste of Home - Prize Winning Recipes 2007
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PC Magazine 2008 No.04
True PDF | 140 pages | 11 MB | RS.com
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Taste of Home (Special Edition)
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Tips for perfect grilling, appetizers & snacks, chilled beverages, grilled specialties (sandwiches, beef, chicken, pork, fish & seafood, fruit & vegetables, super sides & salads, take-along treats and cool & creamy desserts.
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Taste of Home, February/March 2007
English | PDF | 68 pages | 8 Mb
Valentine Desserts, Easter Butter Lamb, Car Race Theme Party, St. Pat’s Dinner for Two, and more.
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Macworld UK 2008 February
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Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Published since 1984, the magazine has the largest audited circulation (both total and newsstand) of Macintosh-focused magazines in North America, more than double its nearest competitor, Mac|Life (formerly MacAddict). Macworld was founded by David Bunnell (publisher) and Andrew Fluegelman (editor).
The magazine is published in many countries, either by other IDG subsidiaries or by outside publishers who have licensed the brand name and its content. These editions include Australia, Germany (Macwelt), Italy, Spain, Sweden (MacWorld), Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Its content is also incorporated into a number of other IDG publications.
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Architectural Record 2008 February
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Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design, published by McGraw-Hill Construction in New York City. It is over 110 years old. While the magazine is aimed at professional architects and engineers with news, commentary, criticism and continuing education sections, it features numerous articles exploring cutting edge designs by leading architects with glossy photos and articles that are accessible to non-experts. The magazine holds a close relationship with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), notably through AIA Continuing Education sections offered in the magazine and on its website.
The current Editor-in-Chief is Robert Ivy, FAIA.
In May 1910 the Architectural Record published an important painting of Pablo Picasso's, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, in Gelett Burgess's article "The Wild Men of Paris". This article was one the first mentions of the co-founders of cubism, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, to appear in the American press.
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Asterix and The Secret Weapon
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Asterix and the Secret Weapon is the twenty-ninth volume of the Asterix comic book series, the fifth by Albert Uderzo alone. It parodies feminism and military secrets.
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Asterix and The Magic Carpet
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Asterix and Son
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Asterix and Son is the twenty-seventh volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations).
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Asterix and The Black Gold
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Asterix and the Black Gold (original name: L'Odyssée d'Astérix) is the twenty-sixth volume of Asterix comic book series, originally published in 1981. It is the second book to be published after the death of René Goscinny and is thus both written and drawn by Albert Uderzo.
The book describes Asterix's and Obelix's voyage to Mesopotamia. It is mainly inspired by two completely different things: James Bond movies and biblical tales.
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Superhero satire had appeared previously in comic books, notably in occasional stories in EC's 1950s Mad comic book, prior to its becoming a black-and-white magazine. Later issues would parody films and TV shows (including Bonnie and Clyde and the 1960s The Green Hornet) as well as comics. Typical stories and name transpositions included Ironed Man (Iron Man) vs. Magnut, Robot Biter (Gold Key Comics' Magnus, Robot Fighter); "Best Side Story", with Dr. Deranged (Dr. Strange in West Side Story pastiche); "The Origin of...Stuporman", a Superman takeoff recalling Wally Wood's influential "Superduperman" in Mad #4 (April-May 1952); The Ecchs-Men in "If Magneat-O Should Clobber Us", parodying not only the X-Men and Magneto but also the high melodrama of 1960s Marvel titles; and Marvel characters visually standing-in for the baseball-player protagonists of the otherwise faithfully rendered famous poem "Casey at the Bat". In a more topical reference of the time, Gary Friedrich, writer of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, and cartoonist/Marvel production manager John Verpoorten contributed a Marvel-character version of the Beatles' famed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band record album art. Events took place in the "Marble Universe", a play on the Marvel Universe. Not Brand Echh gave rein to creators not normally associated with humor, and offered rare teams of penciler and inker. Cartoony artist Tom Sutton — who along with Marie Severin was the series' most ubiquitous illustrator — might ink the grand, polar-opposite pencils of Jack Kirby, over even Marie Severin pencils over Kirby layouts, a combination seen nowhere else. Writer Friedrich did layouts completed by artist Herb Trimpe. Warren Publishing editor Bill DuBay drew and co-wrote one story in his only Marvel appearance.
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Not Brand Echh was a satiric comic-book series from Marvel Comics that parodied its own superhero stories as well as those of other comics publishers. Running 13 issues (Aug. 1967 to May 1969), it included among its contributors such notable writers and artists as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Bill Everett, John and Marie Severin, and Roy Thomas. With issue #9, it became a 25¢ "giant", relative to the typical 12¢ comics of the times. Its mascot, Forbush Man, introduced in the first issue, was a superhero wannabe with no superpowers and a costume comprised of red long johns emblazoned with the letter F and a cooking pot, with eye-holes, covering his never-revealed head. His secret identity was eventually revealed in issue #5 (Dec. 1967) as Irving Forbush, Marvel's fictitious office gofer. The name was a play on an advertising convention of the time, in which a competitor's product was not referred to by name but simply as "Brand X"; DC was sometimes playfully called "Brand Echh" in Marvel "Bullpen Bulletins" and letters pages, hence this comic was "Not Brand Echh". The official title in its postal indicia was Brand Echh for its first four issues, and afterward Not Brand Echh, the cover title from the start.
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Joe Camel was conceived in the 1950s by Billy Coulton, art director on Long Island working on a T-shirt promotion for the brand in Europe. The R. J. Reynolds U.S. marketing team, looking for an idea to promote Camel's 75th anniversary, re-discovered Joe in the company's archives in the late 1980s.
Quote from the New York Times:"Joe Camel was actually born in Europe. The caricatured camel was created in 1974 by a British artist, Nicholas Price, for a French advertising campaign that subsequently ran in other countries in the 1970's. Indeed, Mr. O'Toole recalled a visit to France many years ago during which he glimpsed Joe Camel wearing a Foreign Legion cap. The inspiration behind Mr. Price's cartoon was the camel, named Old Joe, that has appeared on all Camel packages since the brand's initial appearance in 1913.
Joe Camel first appeared in the U.S. in 1988, in materials created for the 75th anniversary of the Camel brand by Trone Advertising. Trone is a mid-size agency in Greensboro, N.C., that Reynolds used on various advertising and promotional projects.
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This book is a single reference that’s indispensable for Excel beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users everywhere
Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques readers won’t find anywhere else
John Walkenbach, aka "Mr. Spreadsheet," is one of the world’s leading authorities on Excel
Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and upgraded collaboration features
Includes a valuable CD-ROM with templates and worksheets from the book
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* Paperback: 960 pages
* Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 21, 2002)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0471232823
* ISBN-13: 978-0471232827
The much-anticipated second edition of the bestselling book that details network security through the hacker’s eye
Since the first edition of Hack Attacks Revealed was published, many new attacks have been made on all operating systems, including UNIX, Windows XP, Mac OS, and Linux, and on firewalls, proxies, and gateways. Security expert John Chirillo is ready to tackle these attacks with you again. He has packed the Second Edition of his all-in-one reference with forty percent new material.
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This authoritative official history deals with the early years of the Air Force's effort to build and maintain a strategic striking force, from 1945 through 1953. It discusses the period of reorganization in national defense in the years after the end of the Second World War, as the Army Air Forces dealt with questions of structure, doctrine, strategy, atomic weapons, and technology.
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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
By John E. Sarno - 208 pages
Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain--Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)--and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs--and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the mind's effort to repress emotions.
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Begun in 1989, Max Cannon's Red Meat is a popular independent comic strip. It appears in over 75 alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries. As of 1996, it has been available for reading on the web.Bizarre, often tasteless, twisted, cheerfully dark, but funny, the strip features a cast of characters who are at times lovable, at times repulsive, with personalities firmly set at an oblique angle to the canons of normality. A visual hallmark of the strip is the almost total lack of movement of the characters from panel to panel and a Featureless Void of no background.
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The Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test iBt 2007 Edition - Interactive CD-ROM
Author: Bruce Rogers | Publisher: Thomson | ISBN: 1413023037 | Ed. 2007 | CDROM iso | language: english | 48mb+48mb+48mb + 48mb
The instruction and practice in the Complete Guide to the TOEFL iBT closely mirrors the actual test, helping students to master the skills necessary to achieve the best possible score on the TOEFL iBT test and prepare them for success in an academic setting.
Written by Bruce Rogers, an internationally recognized authority on English language standardized test preparation. The interactive CD-ROM delivers electronic practice through two complete TOEFL practice tests.
Double click on setup.exe, then, to start the program, double-click on the Complete Guide icon.
Minimum system requirements:
Windows:
* Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
* 64MB RAM, 128MB recommended
* 200MB free hard disk space
* 800 x 600 minimum display, 1024 x 768 recommended
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* Microphone
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* PowerPC G4 or G5
* 64MB RAM, 128MB recommended
* 200MB free hard disk space
* 800 x 600 minimum display, 1024 x 768 recommended
* Sound card and headset
* Microphone
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PDF | 7 MB | 243 Pages
Author: Keith Underdahl | ISBN: 978-0-470-10967-0
Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most-clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks.
An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy to find a specific task fast and get it done in a flash.
Tasks covered include adjusting system preferences, creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, using the Dashboard, networking wirelessly with AirPort, using iTunes and iPods, connecting to a Windows network, watching videos and DVDs, viewing and organizing pictures with iPhoto, making movies with iMovie, blogging and Web designing with iWeb, and using a .Mac account
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George Orwell, «1984»
Signet Book | ISBN 0451524934 | July 1995 | PDF | 153 Pages |
"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance
1984 is a fictional novel by George Orwell. The book is a story of Orwell's prediction of the world in the future (1984). In this story, we are taken to a society that is governed by an oppressive force known as "The Party," and an intangable ruler known only as "Big Brother." The main character, Winston Smith, spends his time throughout the novel trying to overthrow The Party and Big Brother, while running from the "Thought Police," a justice department that monitors the thoughts of citizens of Oceana, the predicted future state of London, England. Winston fails in his attempts. He is captured, set up by people whom he believed to be on his side, and is later brainwashed into loving and following Big Brother. Great attitude George. I truly believe that Orwell's sole purpose for writing this novel was to encourage anarchy, and to convince his readers to be subordinate to authority. Though society and government are not perfect, they are not as evil and as oppressive as Orwell made them out to be. He creates a negative Utopia in hopes to make people hate their leaders and to disagree with any form of government. It is because of people like Orwell that our nation, as well as other nations, are so dramatically torn by the opinions of citizens towards their leaders, and their leader's decisions. Also, at the end of this novel, Orwell leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness, by allowing his main character to be manipulated, tortured, and brainwashed into following what Orwell inderectly refers to as government. Let's try to be a little more optomistic, and work on a happier ending, shall we?
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Thierry Van de Velde “Value-Added Services for Next Generation Networks "
AUERBACH | 2007-12-13 | ISBN:0849373182 | 176 pages | PDF | 1,9 Mb
In the NGN world, no truer words are spoken than "the future is now." And the competition in the information networking arena will only intensify in the next 5-10 years. Choosing the correct NGN-VAS strategy now will set your company apart. Value Added Services for Next Generation Networks examines the quest for the real added value in modern communication systems. The author covers more than just the technology itself, but also examines how it is being used and how it could be used to gain a strategic advantage. The book starts with a SOTW analysis for PSTN/GSM operators and new entrants and the threats they will undoubtedly face. The author examines the fundamentals of genuine communication services and the service providers' starting position, then takes you on a tour through the landscape of NGN standards, contrasting the 3GPP IMS architecture with that of IETF, UMA, and OMA. He discusses practical ways to build an NGN SDP and the essential business aspects involved in this enterprise. The book highlights how, technically, the NGN can be interconnected, or glued, to the existing GSM/PSTN infrastructure, justifying the choice of protocols and network architecture. It also describes general concepts, architectural requirements, and technologies in modern VAS platform and new VAS for the NGN in terms of network implementation, end user experience, business scope, and cost/revenue projections. But is NGN just a game of investments in equipment, of CAPEX and OPEX savings? Is the so-called triple play just a matter of marketing, partnerships, and mergers? How will the market play out? Where will the NGN and VAS ultimately go? And more importantly, what is your NGN-VAS strategy? By addressing these questions and more, this book prepares you for success in the emerging telecommunications environment.
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Astral Travel, 8 and 9 week course !
A nine week course to help you astral travel, and an 8 week course.
One is by Belzebuub, the other from Mark Pritchard
- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Absolute Publishing, LLC (May 1, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0974056006
- ISBN-13: 978-0974056005
- Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
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A complete, no nonsense program for anyone wanting to experience Astral Travel or out-of-body-experiences as they are commonly known.
A unique feature of this book is that it comes with Mysticweb’s free online course in Astral Travel! This allows readers to follow the course in the book and online at the same time and get live answers to questions as they progress from week to week. This provides a valuable opportunity to explore the subject in depth simultaneously with thousands of other students.
This course makes out-of-body-experiences easy to understand and simple to experience. Readers will be taken step-by-step through exercises that teach how to develop concentration and conscious awareness, leave the physical body naturally and safely, navigate freely through the astral plane, protect oneself from negative influences, interpret astral and dream symbols, overcome obstacles that hinder success, and search into the hidden side of life.
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Dr. Math Presents More Geometry: Learning Geometry is Easy!
Dr. Math Presents More Geometry: Learning Geometry is Easy!
By Jossey-Bass | 112 pages | PDF | 2.1 Mb You, too, can understand geometry—— just ask Dr. Math ® !
Are things starting to get tougher in geometry class? Don't panic. Dr. Math—the popular online math resource—is here to help you figure out even the trickiest of your geometry problems.
Students just like you have been turning to Dr. Math for years asking questions about math problems, and the math doctors at The Math Forum have helped them find the answers with lots of clear explanations and helpful hints. Now, with Dr. Math Presents More Geometry, you'll learn just what it takes to succeed in this subject. You'll find the answers to dozens of real questions from students in a typical geometry class. You'll also find plenty of hints and shortcuts for using coordinate geometry, finding angle relationships, and working with circles. Pretty soon, everything from the Pythagorean theorem to logic and proofs will make more sense. Plus, you'll get plenty of tips for working with all kinds of real-life problems.
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Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives
Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 1402062052 | 160 pages | PDF | 972 KB
GENETIC DEMOCRACY involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern genetic research and gene technology. The aim of the book is to introduce systematic research on the social and ethical impacts of the use and development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as well as the acquisition, use and storage of human genetic information (HGI). The book contributes into enhancing public discussion and reaching fair and democratic decision-making practices in GMO and HGI use and development both on local and global level.
There are currently few European texts which address the issues involved in a theoretical and systematical manner. GENETIC DEMOCRACY have been written from the viewpoint of social and political philosophy rather than that of traditional bioethics. There is a clear need for a throughout and authoritative philosophical and ethical analysis of the issues involved in genetic research and gene technology. The book will appeal to philosophers, social scientists, genetics professionals, policy makers, academics, industrial organisations and human rights organisations as well as university students and legal scholars. The book will have a broad appeal across Europe, Asia and America since many states are currently considering policy responses to many of the practices discussed in the books (e.g., human biobanks).
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Tony Thorne “Dictionary of Contemporary Slang "
A & C Black Publishers Ltd | 2006-12-20 | ISBN:0713675292 | 512 pages | PDF | 5,2 Mb
This book is absolutely the best about "slang" that I have ever seen. Every "slang" word that I can think of is in here. If you need books for an interesting read or to help with teaching English then this is one of those you must have.
Slang derives much of its power from the fact that it is clandestine, forbidden or generally disapproved of. So what happens once it is accepted, even in some cases embraced and promoted by ‘mainstream’ society? Not long ago the Oxford English Dictionary characterised slang as ‘low and disreputable’; in the late 1970s the pioneering sociolinguist Michael Halliday used the phrase
‘anti-language’ in his study of the speech of criminals and marginals. For him, theirs was an interestingly ‘pathological’ form of language. The first description now sounds quaintly outmoded, while the second could be applied to street gangs – today’s posses, massives or sets – and their secret codes. Both, however, involve Value judgements which are essentially social and not linguistic.
Attitudes to the use of language have changed profoundly over the last three decades, and the perceived boundaries between ‘standard’ and ‘unorthodox’ are becoming increasingly ‘fuzzy’.
Today, tabloid newspapers in the UK such as the Sun, the Star and the Sport regularly use slang in headlines and articles, while the quality press use slang sparingly – usually for special effect –
but the assumption remains that readers have a working knowledge of common slang terms.
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TIME Magazine January 28, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 4 DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 13 + 1.7 + 26.3 MB
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COVER: The Science of Romance: Why We Love - Breeding is easy, but survival requires romance too. How our brains, bodies and senses help us find it
• Why We Flirt - That smile! That glance! That rapt attention! We flirt even when we don't need to. And that can be good
• SCIENCE: A New Blueprint for Levittown - It was America's original suburb. Now it is aiming to become a model of environmental innovation
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Woody Allen - He's brilliant at portraying neurotics of all kinds. But the multitalented director, whose new movie is Cassandra's Dream, swears he's actually quite normal. Woody Allen will now take your questions
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Introduction to C++ Programming and Graphics
Springer; 1 edition | ISBN: 0387689923 | 372 pages | June 6, 2007 | PDF | 2 Mb
C++ has grown rapidly in response to the practical need for a programming language that is able to efficiently handle composite and diverse data types. Today, C++ dominates the commercial market and is favored among application developers. Introduction to C++ Programming and Graphics offers a venue for rapidly learning the language by concisely revealing its grammar, syntax and main features, and by explaining the key ideas behind object oriented programming (OOP), with emphasis on scientific computing.
The book reviews elemental concepts of computers and computing, describes the primary features of C++, illustrates the use of pointers and user-defined functions, and analyzes the construction of classes. Distinctive features include:
An effective selection and presentation of topics and supporting examples
A tutorial on the usage of MATLAB® functions in C++ code
Tables for translating MATLAB® and Fortran 77 into C++ code, illustrating syntactic differences between these languages
Chapters on graphics and GUI programming based on the VOGLE library and the GLUT, GLUI and GTK+ utility toolboxes
This invaluable resource provides a basic, concise introduction to C++ for the novice, allowing the reader to easily grasp the necessary concepts, rather than trying to absorb an extensive reference book. Scientists, engineers, professionals and students familiar with the general principles of computer programming and proficient in an easy programming language will find this volume an ideal entry point into C++.
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TIME Magazine January 28, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 4 DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 13 + 1.7 + 26.3 MB
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• Why We Flirt - That smile! That glance! That rapt attention! We flirt even when we don't need to. And that can be good
• SCIENCE: A New Blueprint for Levittown - It was America's original suburb. Now it is aiming to become a model of environmental innovation
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Woody Allen - He's brilliant at portraying neurotics of all kinds. But the multitalented director, whose new movie is Cassandra's Dream, swears he's actually quite normal. Woody Allen will now take your questions
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Barry M. Farber "How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own"
Citadel (2001-04-01) | ISBN 0806512717 | 184 Pages | PDF | ~1 Mb
This book belongs to a category of books that that tell you things that, if you thought about it for a few minutes, you could have figured out yourself. A type of book that is very popular in America. Much of the book chronicles Mr. Farber's exploits in learning to speak different languages. Some will find this interesting and inspiring. For others (judging by some posts here) it may seem like too much of an ego trip. I enjoyed it, but I was already doing virtually everything he talks about when it comes to learning languages.
This may be the most frequently told joke in the world – it’s repeated every day in almost every language:
“What do you call a person who speaks two languages?”
“Bilingual.”
“What do you call a person who speaks three languages?”
“Trilingual.”
“What do you call a person who speaks four languages?”
“Quadrilingual.”
“What do you call a person who speaks only one language?”
“An American!”
With your help this book can wipe that smile off the world’s face.
The reason Americans have been such notoriously poor language learners up to now is twofold:
1. We’ve never really had to learn other peoples’ languages before, and
2. Almost all foreign language instruction available to the average American has been until now (one hates to be cruel) worthless. “I took two years of high school French and four more years in college and I couldn’t even order orange juice in Marseilles” is more than a self effacing exaggeration. It’s a fact, a shameful, culturally impoverishing, economically dangerous, self defeating fact!
Modern commerce and communications have erased reason 1.
You and the method laid out in this book, working together, will erase reason 2.
It started for me when I learned that the Norwegian word for “squirrel” was acorn. It may have been spelled ekorn, but it was pronounced acorn. Then I learned that “Mickey Mouse” in Swedish is Mussie Pig. Again, the Swedish spelling varied, but so
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Hughes-Warringt “Fifty Key Thinkers on History, 2nd edition "
Routledge | 2007-12-14 | ISBN: 0415366518 | PDF | 442 pages | 2,4 Mb
Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia; from Bede to Braudel; Marx to Michelet; Ranke to Rowbotham; Foucault to Fukuyama. Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information, a summary and discussion of the subjects approach to history and how others have engaged with it, a list of their major works and a guide to diverse resources for further study, including books, articles, films and websites.
As with other works in Routledge’s Fifty Key series, each entry includes a short essay outlining biographical information and the key ideas of the thinker in focus. Each essay, I hope, will give you a taste of the thinker’s interests and approach to the past and how others (myself included) have engaged with it. That I say ‘taste’ accords with my belief that this book offers points of departure, not points of arrival. Having read what I have to say, I hope that you will explore
discussions on and by these thinkers in more depth for yourself. I have included details of each writer’s major works and further resources. I call the latter further ‘resources’ rather than ‘reading’ because they include audiovisual as well as printed materials.
These reflections, and my selection, are unlikely to satisfy either diehard defenders or bitter critics of canons, and I expect that people will ask me, ‘Why didn’t you include so-and-so?’ for the rest of my life. If this work encourages more people to engage with historiography, however, then it will have been worth it.
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Stephen T. Beckett, "The Science of Chocolate"
Royal Society of Chemistry | ISBN:0854049703 | 2nd edition | PDF | 234 pages | 6Mb
The second edition of this international best seller has been fully revised and updated describing the complete chocolate making process, from the growing of the beans to the sale in the shops. The reader will discover how confectionery is made and how basic science plays a vital role. There is discussion of the monitoring and controlling of the production process, and the importance of the packaging. A series of experiments, which can be adapted to suit students, are included to demonstrate the physical, chemical or mathematical principles involved. This book is ideal for those studying food sciences, working in the confectionery industry or just with a general interest in chocolate!
As a result of this I received letters from both pupils and teachers requesting more information or new experiments to try. Subsequently I was contacted by Chris Butlin, who was then
developing a food option for the Salters’ Physics Advanced Level course. This resulted in some of the science of chocolate being included in this option. The numerous talks given by my colleagues
and myself to junior schools, societies and universities also convinced me that there was a genuine interest in this topic and that people were not just coming for the free samples.
When, therefore, the Royal Society of Chemistry asked me if I would write a full book on this topic, aimed at schools and universities, I agreed to do so, without realising the amount of
work involved. It was very gratifying, however, to learn in 2006 that the sales were such that a second edition of the book was required. Several people had commented that they wished to know more about the health and nutrition aspects of chocolate and, as a lot of research has recently been carried out in the area, this seemed the ideal subject for a new chapter. In addition, in 2005 New Scientist published a book entitled Does Anything Eat Wasps? in
which the question was asked about how are bubbles put into Aeros. Possible solutions are given here as part of a second new chapter.
Having graduated in physics, the book is naturally biased in this direction, although I have tried to include a substantial amount of chemistry and even some mathematics in the project work
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Roger L. Huard “Plato's Political Philosophy: The Cave "
Algora Publishing | 2006-11-01 | ISBN: 0875865305 | PDF | 196 pages | 1,2 Mb
Roger Huard invites readers to explore Plato s myth of the Cave, which is central to his magnum opus on political philosophy, The Republic. Using The Cave as a key, Huard debunks conventional interpretations of to Plato s political thought (conservative and progressive interpretations alike), and unfolds Plato's notions about the structure of the world, his ideas about justice and human well being, challenging many of our conceptions of the cosmos and political beliefs.
The primary goal of this exploration is to arrive at an understanding of Plato s political ideas -- an understanding that is not saddled with the misconceptions that plague contemporary interpretations of his thinking, conservative and progressive alike. The author argues further that this re-examination provides a way to look at the human condition that is significantly different from most available perspectives on the matter and that, by virtue of this difference, challenges both our conceptions of the cosmos and many of our deeply held political beliefs.
The author provides a reinterpretation of the cave myth that discusses specifically the structure of knowledge that is imbedded in the myth as well as the concept of philosophy and the philosopher that it details especially in terms of the relationship of the philosopher to the greater social order.
An examination follows of the structure of the world that Plato s myth rests upon. This is important because this structure is fundamentally different from current scientific and religious conceptions of the cosmos. It is also significant because Plato s notions about the structure of the world are linked to his ideas about justice and human well being, a link that is forged (albeit implicitly) in his Myth of the Cave.
The author then proceeds to a discussion of four topics that separate contemporary political thinking from Plato s:
freedom,
equality,
truth, and
art
A two-part examination of these topics demonstrates, first, that Plato s thoughts on these matters are not as we conventionally think them to be; and second, turns a critical gaze on how contemporary political thought may be mistaken about its own ideas concerning freedom, equality, truth and art. A key feature in this re-examination is the differing conceptions we have from Plato s on the private and public realms and how these realms are connected to our ideas about economics and politics.
The book concludes with a discussion on the importance of Plato s political philosophy and how it is linked at a fundamental level to some of our cherished political beliefs about justice, human well-being and community.
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Stephen Denning “The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative"
Jossey-Bass | 2007-10-12 | ISBN:0787987891 | PDF | 304 pages | 1,4 Mb
The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence—an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it. The book’s lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips are essential reading for CEOs, managers, change agents, marketers, salespersons, brand managers, politicians, teachers, parents—anyone who is setting out to the change the world.
The World Bank is an international lending organization located in Washington, D.C., and aimed at relieving global poverty. For several decades, I had held a number of positions and functions, including programming and budgeting, the West Africa riverblindness program, population, health and nutrition programs, and the quality control of operations. In the early 1990s, I had been director of the Southern Africa Department, where I had overseen the work of several hundred people working in ten countries. Now, as director of the Africa Region, I was responsible for the operations of more than a thousand staff working in forty-three countries. After that much experience as an executive, I believed that I understood management, although I was about to discover that I had much to learn about leadership.
Large organizations may look stable, but appearances are deceptive. In the past year, the president had unexpectedly died. Last month, my boss had decided to retire. Now someone else had just been named to my post.
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Irene Oh “The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics "
Georgetown University Press | 2007-11-15 | ISBN:1589011848 | 158 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb
Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is fraught with difficulties. Many advocates of human rights readily point out the numerous examples of humanitarian failures carried out in the name of Islam: the Taliban in Afghanistan, female genital mutilation in Africa, the penal
code in Saudi Arabia, genocide in Darfur, and the September 11 attacks in the United States. As a result, human rights proponents are often tempted to blame Islam, if not religion generally, for human rights violations.
The avoidance of Islam and religion in human rights dialogue presents a serious problem for the advancement of universal human rights, however.
Separating religious belief from human rights requires that we undertake the impossible task of distinguishing an important source of our ethical values from ethical norms themselves. For many people, the validity of human rights stems from a foundational belief in God and the
dignity that God imparts to every human being. Although the foundations of human rights may be debated, human rights scholars cannot easily dismiss the potential that foundational beliefs, including Islam, hold in advancing human rights agendas. After all, approximately one billion
inhabitants of this earth identify themselves as Muslim. To ignore the values of Islam would be to deny the voices of one-fifth of the world’s population in determining what should be “universal” human rights.
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Joseph Benning " Trading Strategies for Capital Markets"
McGraw-Hill | 2007-08-07 | ISBN:0071464964 | 356 pages | PDF | 2,1 Mb
In order to succeed in the capital markets, professional traders and investors must understand that markets aren't mathematical abstractions, but dynamic, real-time reflectors of the world we live in. You need to know how the capital markets work in practice, what the drivers are, how to recognize them, and how to develop and implement effective trading strategies.
Written by Joseph Benning, a Moody's Vice President and former Senior Economist at the Chicago Board of Trade, this vital financial resource provides examples of successful trading strategies, guidance on when and why to use them, and revealing discussions of trading psychology and risk management.
With his trademark lively and engaging style, Dr. Benning cuts through the complexities of the capital markets, making them accessible, practical, interesting, and easy to understand. He also organizes Trading Strategies for Capital Markets into three sections for maximum depth and clarity that cover
The historical development of capital markets, the modern market, and drivers such as pricing, policy, and volatility
Main instruments of capital markets, including debt, treasury and federal securities, corporate and municipal bonds, equity securities, hybrid securities, and options. This part also covers trading strategies such as Carry Trade, Tactical Yield Curve Trading, Treasury Basis, and Synthetic Yield Curve--and offers expert accounts of ETFs and equity indexes
Insightful information on risk management, behavioral finance, trading psychology, and position risk
Trading Strategies for Capital Markets equips professional traders and investors with a complete, one-stop reference for all aspects of today's complex capital markets that includes winning trading strategies for taking advantage of current market realities.
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Google Web Toolkit Solutions
Prentice Hall PTR publisher | November 17, 2007 | ISBN:0132344815 | PDF | 10.4 Mb
Google Web Toolkit is an open source Java development framework for building Ajax-enabled web applications. Instead of the hodgepodge of technologies that developers typically use for Ajax-JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and XMLHttpRequest-GWT lets developers implement rich client applications with pure Java, using familiar idioms from the AWT, Swing, and SWT.
GWT goes beyond most Ajax frameworks by making it easy to build desktop-like applications that run in the ubiquitous browser, where the richness of the user interface is limited only by the developer’s imagination.
Google Web Toolkit is an open source Java development framework for building Ajax-enabled web applications. Instead of the hodgepodge of technologies that developers typically use for Ajax-JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and XMLHttpRequest-GWT lets developers implement rich client applications with pure Java, using familiar idioms from the AWT, Swing, and SWT. GWT goes beyond most Ajax frameworks by making it easy to build desktop-like applications that run in the ubiquitous browser, where the richness of the user interface is limited only by the developer’s imagination.
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- Paperback: 340 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 5, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071496076
Build and manage a scalable storage infrastructure with Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Streamline data management and provisioning using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and the detailed information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press resource. Written by a team of database experts, Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide explains how to build and maintain a dynamic, highly available Oracle database storage environment. Inside, you’ll learn how to configure storage for Oracle ASM, build disk groups, use data striping and mirroring, and optimize performance. You’ll also learn how to ensure consistency across server and storage platforms, maximize data redundancy, and administer Oracle ASM from the command line.
- Manage Oracle ASM Instances and configure Oracle RDBMS instances to leverage Oracle ASM
- Define, discover, and manage disk storage under Oracle ASM
- Create external, normal-redundancy, and high-redundancy disk groups
- Add and remove Oracle ASM storage without affecting RDMS instance availability
- Learn how Oracle ASM provides even I/O distribution
- Work with Oracle ASM directories, files, templates, and aliases
- Improve storage performance and integrity using the ASMLIB API
- Simplify system administration with the Oracle ASM command line interface
- Understand key internal Oracle ASM structures and algorithms
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Nitin Vengurlekar works at Oracle in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group, with specific emphasis on ASM. Nitin is a popular conference presenter on this topic.
Murali Vallath is an Oracle Certified Database Administrator and is president of the Oracle RAC Special Interest Group.
Rich Long is Director of Development for Automatic Storage Management at Oracle and has managed ASM development since the project’s inception.
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- Paperback: 164 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (August 27, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071494545
In this book you’ll discover:
The 7 Deadly Referral Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
12 Ways to Get Great Prospects Calling You
10 Social Prospecting Ideas That Generate Referrals
6 Tactics for Stronger Introductions
How to Ask for Referrals Without Begging or Pushing
About the Author
Bill Cates is the president of Referral Coach International, creator of The Unlimited Referrals Marketing System, and a well-known author, speaker, and consultant. For more information, visit his Web site at ReferralCoach.com.
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- Hardcover: 219 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (August 28, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071497021
Acquire the Design Information, Methods, and Skills Needed to Master the New VLIW Architecture!
VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design offers you a complete guide to VLIW hardware design—providing state-of-the-art coverage of microarchitectures, RTL coding, ASIC flow, and FPGA flow of design. The book also contains a wide range of skills-building examples, all worked using Verilog, that equip you with a practical, hands-on tutorial for understanding each step in the VLIW microprocessor design process.
Written by Weng Fook Lee, an internationally renowned expert in the field of microprocessor design, this cutting-edge hardware design tool presents unsurpassed coverage of the latests in VLIW microprocessing. Authoritative and comprehensive, VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design features:
- Step-by-step information on the VLIW hardware design process
- A wealth of Verilog-based designs
- ASIC and FPGA implementations
- Expert guidance on the best-known methods for RTL coding
- Over 75 detailed illustrations that clarify each aspect of VLIW design
Inside this Complete VLIW Microprocessor Toolkit
• Introduction • Design Methodology • RTL Coding, Testbenching, and Simulation • FPGA Implementation • Testbenches and Simulation Results • Synthesis Results and Gate Level Netlist
About the Author
Weng Fook Lee is a distinguished Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Emerald Systems Design Center. He holds fourteen design patents and is the author of a previous VHDL book.
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- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (September 1, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072261412
The fast and easy way to learn ASP.NET 2.0
Get up to speed on ASP.NET 2.0 in no time using this easy-to-follow guide. ASP.NET 2.0 Demystified shows you how to write server-side components for dynamic, interactive web pages and powerful web-based applications. Step-by-step instructions with lots of examples help you learn quickly.
First, you’ll find out how web applications and programming languages work, then you’ll learn the fundamentals of ASP.NET 2.0, including forms, objects, and variables. Next, it’s on to generating dynamic web pages, using databases, managing sessions, handling errors, and debugging programs. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will have you programming in ASP.NET 2.0 right away.
Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, ASP.NET 2.0 Demystified is your shortcut to mastering this powerful web development tool.
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- A quiz at the end of each chapter
- A final exam at the end of the book
- No unnecessary technical jargon
- A time-saving approach
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- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (November 3, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0123706092
In the eye-blink that has elapsed since the turn of the millennium, the lives of those of us who work with information have been utterly transformed. Pretty well all we need to know is on the web; if not today, then tomorrow. It’s where we learn and play, shop and do business, keep up with old friends and meet new ones. What makes it possible for us to find the stuff we need to know? Search engines.
Search engines - “web dragons” - are the portals through which we access society’s treasure trove of information. How do they stack up against librarians, the gatekeepers over centuries past? What role will libraries play in a world whose information is ruled by the web? How is the web organized? Who controls its contents, and how do they do it? How do search engines work? How can web visibility be exploited by those who want to sell us their wares? What’s coming tomorrow, and can we influence it? We are witnessing the dawn of a new era, starting right now - and this book shows you what it will look like and how it will change your world.
Do you use search engines every day? Are you a developer or a librarian, helping others with their information needs? A researcher or journalist for whom the web has changed the very way you work? An online marketer or site designer, whose career exists because of the web? Whoever you are: if you care about information, this book will open your eyes - and make you blink.
About the authors:
Ian H. Witten is professor of computer science at the University of Waikato, where he directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography. A fellow of the ACM, he has written several books, including How to Build a Digital Library (2002) and Data Mining (2005), both from Morgan Kaufmann.
Marco Gori is professor of computer science at the University of Siena, where he leads the artificial intelligence research group. He is the Chairman of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, a fellow of the IEEE and of the ECCAI, and former President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Teresa Numerico teaches network theory and communication studies at the University of Rome 3, and is a researcher in Philosophy of Science at the University of Salerno. Previously she was employed as a business development and marketing manager for various media companies, including the Italian branch of Turner Broadcasting System (CNN and Cartoon Network).
* Presents a critical view of the idea of funneling information access through a small handful of gateways and the notion of a centralized index–and the problems that may cause.
* Provides promising approaches for addressing the problems, such as the personalization of web services.
* Presented by authorities in the field of digital libraries, web history, machine learning, and web and data mining.
* Find more information at the author’s site: webdragons.net.
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Book Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (01 February, 1991)
ISBN: 0446392308
Book author: John E. Sarno
Amazon Rating: 4.5
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Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain–Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)–and isn’t really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don’t work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs–and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the mind’s effort to repress emotions. He’s not saying that your pain is all in your head; rather, he’s saying that the battle going on in your mind results in a real physical disorder that may affect muscles, nerves, tendons, or ligaments. An injury may have triggered the disorder, but is not the cause of the amount or intensity of the resulting pain. According to Sarno, the mind tricks you into not facing repressed emotion by making you focus on pain in the body. When this realization sinks in (”and it must sink in, for mere intellectual appreciation of the process is not enough”), the trick doesn’t work any more, and there’s no need for the pain. (Healing Back Pain should not be used for self-diagnosis. Always consult a physician for chronic or acute back pain.) –Joan Price
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The Insider’s Best-Practice Guide to Rapid PyQt 4 GUI Development
Whether you’re building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development.
With Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt you’ll learn how to build efficient GUI applications that run on all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many versions of Unix, using the same source code for all of them. Summerfield systematically introduces every core GUI development technique: from dialogs and windows to data handling; from events to printing; and more. Through the book’s realistic examples you’ll discover a completely new PyQt 4-based programming approach, as well as coverage of many new topics, from PyQt 4’s rich text engine to advanced model/view and graphics/view programming. Every key concept is illuminated with realistic, downloadable examples—all tested on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with Python 2.5, Qt 4.2, and PyQt 4.2, and on Windows and Linux with Qt 4.3 and PyQt 4.3.
Coverge includes
Python basics for every PyQt developer: data types, data structures, control structures, classes, modules, and more
Core PyQt GUI programming techniques: dialogs, main windows, and custom file formats
Using Qt Designer to design user interfaces, and to implement and test dialogs, events, the Clipboard, and drag-and-drop
Building custom widgets: Widget Style Sheets, composite widgets, subclassing, and more
Making the most of Qt 4.2’s new graphics/view architecture
Connecting to databases, executing SQL queries, and using form and table views
Advanced model/view programming: custom views, generic delegates, and more
Implementing online help, internationalizing applications, and using PyQt’s networking and multithreading facilities
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002), signed into law on 30 July 2002 by President Bush, is considered the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal. It came in the wake of a series of corporate financial scandals, including those affecting Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom. The law is named after Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael G. Oxley. It was approved by the House by a vote of 423-3 and by the Senate 99-0.
This book illustrates the many Open Source cost-saving opportunities that public companies can explore in their IT enterprise to meet mandatory compliance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. This book will also demonstrate by example and technical reference both the infrastructure components for Open Source that can be made compliant, and the Open Source tools that can aid in the journey of compliance. Although many books and reference material have been authored on the financial and business side of Sox compliance, very little material is available that directly address the information technology considerations, even less so on how Open Source fits into that discussion.
The format of the book will begin each chapter with the IT business and executive considerations of Open Source and SOX compliance. The remaining chapter verbiage will include specific examinations of Open Source applications and tools which relate to the given subject matter, and last a bootable ?live? CD will have fully configured running demonstrations of Open Source tools as a valuable technical reference for implementation of the concepts provided in the book
* Only book that shows companies how to use Open Source tools to achieve SOX compliance, which dramatically lowers the cost of using proprietary, commercial applications.
* Only SOX book with a bootable-Linux CD containing countless applications, forms, and checklists to assist companies in achieving SOX compliance.
* Only SOX compliance book specifically detailing steps to achieve SOX compliance for IT Professionals.
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Create believable CG character models with this unique book and DVD package. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them.
Every technique and tip is backed up with practical tutorials, using the models, textures and video on the companion DVD to offer a crash course to this vital skill. Jason Patnode takes you from low to high-resolution modeling - helping you span the gap between game and film industry skills. Based on Maya 2008 and ZBrush 3.0.
Youll learn: Pipeline and modeling guidelines Overview of Maya Introduction to ZBrush modeling Concept art Anatomy Creating a video game character Creating a hyper-real character Creating a photo-real character UVs and texturing How to create a demo reel
* Master professional techniques and workflow processes with clear, easy to follow tutorials
* Companion DVD contains video tutorials, plug-ins, models and texture maps as well as high quality art from participating artists
* Interviews with professionals connect the concepts to real world workflow and applications
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Learning Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008 | Foundation is your shortcut to learning 3ds Max quickly and effectively. Youll get hands-on experience with the key tools and techniques through easy-to-follow, step-by-step project-based lessons, while learning to model, animate, apply materials and render in both the games & design visualization pipelines. By the end of the book youll have a sense of the entire production process as you work on real-life production examples.
Whether youre a game artist or a graphic artist, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008 has the tools you need to succeed.
Game Artists will gain in-depth knowledge of the world-class Biped character animation toolset, unparalleled polygon modeling and texturing workflow.
Design Visualization Specialists such as architects, designers, and graphic artists, will gain the power to visually inform the design process through conceptual exploration, design validation and visual communication.
Bonus features included on DVD:
Link to a 30-day trial of Autodesk® 3ds Max® software
Bonus short films and new software feature demos
Autodesk 3ds Max hotkeys reference guide
Free models from Turbo Squid worth $160
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008
* An all-access pass to the production and teaching experience of Autodesks training experts
* Concept-driven lessons, fully illustrated in color, teach you the essentials of using 3ds Max 2008 so you can master the techniques of animation, modeling, materials, lighting and rendering
* DVD includes instructor led videos, support files and movies as well as interviews with contributing artists and FREE models from Turbo Squid worth US $160!
With this official Autodesk training guide, you will also:
Learn about the user interface (UI) and work in 3D space
Learn about animation basics and key frame animation
Character modeling with editable poly
Create rigs with biped
Make morph targets with paint tools
Learn about unwrapping UVs
Learn about motion mixer workflow
Understand & animate cameras
Learn about light types and advanced lighting techniques
Rendering Techniques & Tools (mental ray & Render Effect)
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Eliminates lengthy introductions, detailed explanations, and sidebars, focusing on what new Mac OS X users want most-clear instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks
An easy-to-navigate landscape layout featuring a two-column design and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy to find a specific task fast and get it done in a flash
Tasks covered include adjusting system preferences, creating and managing user accounts, managing files and folders, using the Dashboard, networking wirelessly with AirPort, using iTunes and iPods, connecting to a Windows network, watching videos and DVDs, viewing and organizing pictures with iPhoto, making movies with iMovie, blogging and Web designing with iWeb, and using a .Mac account
Published to coincide with Apple’s release of Leopard
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Looking for the inside scoop on producing professional-level podcasts? Then this is the book for you! Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies helps you discover how to produce podcasts that appeal to a large audience, sound top-notch, communicate a message, and can even generate revenue. Two podcasting pioneers who have turned podcasting into a career teach you the tricks of the trade with projects that are designed for less reading and more doing! This easy-to-follow guide shows producers, talent, and marketers how to:
Build your professional-level toolbox
Staff your podcast for success
Select the best equipment and set up a professional studio
Narrow your focus and select the right topics for a podcast
Add video and special effects
Reduce mic pops and background noise
Save time and preserve spontaneity with one-take podcasting
Record in multi-track mode
Create a targeted distribution, marketing, and promotion campaign
A value-packed bonus CD-ROM includes:
25 lessons on recording techniques used by professional podcasters
Trial versions of software discussed in the book
PDFs of audio hardware and various podcast directories
Samples of independent musicians on Podsafe Music Network and Magnatude
Samples of favorite podcasts
All “first session” episodes of the Podcasting for Dummies companion podcast
If you’re looking to take your podcasting passion to the next level, Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies is your roadmap to discovering and implementing the best practices necessary to earn large audiences and attract sponsors.
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Learn the basics of Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) and gain advanced configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting skills through examples Learn the fundamentals of Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) Study configuration models and real-world examples that you can use in your own networks Practice troubleshooting scenarios and management exercise to gain a deeper understanding of CEF How does a router switch a packet? What is the difference between routing a packet and switching a packet? What is this CEF feature that is referred to in Cisco documentation and commonly found in Cisco IOS commands? "Cisco Express Forwarding" addresses these questions through comprehensive discussions of Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF). CEF is a term used to describe one of the mechanisms used by Cisco IOS routers and Cisco Catalyst switches to forward packets. CEF offers the benefits of improved performance, scalability, and resilience. CEF is found in almost all Cisco IOS routers and Catalyst switches, however documentation of the topic is very scarce. This book addresses common misconceptions about CEF and packet switching across various platforms. It will help you understand CEF and how to troubleshoot whether there is a CEF or another problem occurring in the network. The book guides you through CEF basics, supplying exercises and troubleshooting scenarios that enhance their ability to recognize common mistakes, as well as to provide them with some models for configurations that they can follow in their own networks.
Guidance Software's EnCase product is the premier computer forensics tool on the market, used in law enforcement labs for digital evidence collection; in commercial settings for incident response and information assurance; and by the FBI and Department of Defense to detect domestic and international threats This guide prepares readers for both the CBT and practical phases of the exam that validates mastery of EnCase Written by two law enforcement professionals who are computer forensics specialists and EnCase trainers Includes the EnCase Legal Journal, essential for forensics investigators who need to be sure they are operating within the law and able to give expert testimony The CD includes tools to help readers prepare for Phase II of the certification, which requires candidates to examine computer evidence, as well as a searchable PDF of the text.
* Django and Turbogears are the two leading MVC frameworks for Python programmers today; MVC frameworks allow programmers to develop and launch Web sites in a fraction of the time required by traditional techniques .
When firms need to fill management positions, when experienced managers want a new challenge, or when MBA graduates are looking for their first senior management role, they often turn to headhunters, or, more formally, executive search consultants. This guide provides a clear overview of the executive search market, with specific guidelines on using headhunters effectively, both for individuals looking for a job and organizations looking to fill a role. Headhunters offers advice on what's important in the selection of an executive search firm and provides invaluable networking tips on getting the best search consultants interested in you as a candidate. With the global job market more uncertain than ever, the need for quality career guidance has grown considerably. This new addition to The Economist series helps fill the void for all of those looking for a new job–or a new employee.
Well-known options strategist and instructor George Fontanills has fully updated his time-trusted and bestselling book, The Options Course. Presenting a comprehensive options trading curriculum for traders of all kinds, Fontanills has improved and expanded upon all the invaluable information and advice offered in the original. This book really does act as an all-inclusive course, proceeding from introductory concepts to the more sophisticated strategies for the intermediate-level trader.Options trading continues to capture the mind of the sophisticated individual investor. In these heady markets even more investors have been bitten by the options bug. However, many lose money because they either don’t understand the fundamentals of the options market, lack a strategic plan, or fail to manage risk effectively. The Options Course, Second Editon is an invaluable tool sure to help investors avert bad decisions and gain a competitive edge.
A comprehensive guide that lets you play the options game with confidence.
To become a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), you must learn the hundreds of IOS commands used by Cisco routers and switches. This handy reference from Cisco networking authority Todd Lammle is just what you need to master those commands. From a thorough introduction to Cisco’s basic operating system to making the transition to IPv6, Todd Lammle walks you through hundreds of commands with short, to-the-point explanations and plenty of figures and real-world examples.
