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US News & World Report April 7 2008
PDF | English | 13 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
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Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues.
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Eminent Cornell astronomer and bestselling author Sagan debunks the paranormal and the unexplained in a study that will reassure hardcore skeptics but may leave others unsatisfied. To him, purported UFO encounters and alien abductions are products of gullibility, hallucination, misidentification, hoax and therapists' pressure; some alleged encounters, he suggests, may screen memories of sexual abuse. He labels as hoaxes the crop circles, complex pictograms that appear in southern England's wheat and barley fields, and he dismisses as a natural formation the Sphinx-like humanoid face incised on a mesa on Mars, first photographed by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976 and considered by some scientists to be the engineered artifact of an alien civilization. In a passionate plea for scientific literacy, Sagan deftly debunks the myth of Atlantis, Filipino psychic surgeons and mediums such as J.Z. Knight, who claims to be in touch with a 35,000-year-old entity called Ra Read more...
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0130464562
Paperback: 848 pages
Data: November 23, 2002
Format: CHM
Description: A hands-on guide to protecting Linux data from security risks. Introduces readers to the seven deadly sins of Linux security, showing how to set up firewalls, break in case studies, block spam, develop internal security policies, and recover from an intrusion quickly.

Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change
Oxford University Press, USA (July 20, 2006) | 344 pages | ISBN:0199284539 | 1 Mb
Gili S. Drori is a lecturer in Stanford University's programs on International Relations and International Policy Studies. She is the author of several papers and chapters on science and development, comparative science education, political discourse, and the role of policy regimes in worldwide governance. She is senior author of Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization (with John W. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer, Stanford University Press, 2003). John W. Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of many books and papers on comparative sociology, organizations, world society, and the sociology of education, including National Developments in the World System (with M. Hannan, Chicago, 1979), Institutional Environments and Organizations (with W. R. Scott, Sage, 1994), and Science in the Modern World Polity (with Gili S. Drori, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer, Stanford University Press, 2003).

Real World Aperture
Peachpit Press; 1 edition | ISBN: 0321441931 | 256 pages | July 21, 2006 | CHM | 22 Mb
Released to near universal acclaim, Apple's Aperture is an all-in-one post-production tool for professional photographers. Featuring a RAW-focused workflow, Aperture lets photographers import, edit, catalog, organize, retouch, publish, and archive images more effectively and efficiently than ever before. In this guide, best-selling author Ben Long takes Aperture users to the next level, providing them with a more in-depth understanding of Aperture's tools, as well as lots of tips and work-arounds to get the most out of the program. In addition, the coverage of fundamental raw theory and practice will help the reader master the program's high-end editing features. More than just a step-by-step tutorial, this book will help photographers develop a fundamental understanding of the philosophy and approach that underlies Aperture's design. Aperture is now available and retails at $299

Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2
Peachpit Press; 1 edition | ISBN: 0321449916 | 304 pages | July 28, 2006 | CHM | 30 Mb
It's a sad but undeniable fact of life: Whether you scan, shoot, or capture, the process of digitizing images introduces softness, and to get great-looking results, you'll need to sharpen the great majority of digital images. The softness introduced during digitizing results from the very nature of the digitizing process. To represent images digitally, we must transform them from continuous gradations of tone and color to points on a grid. In the process details gets "averaged" into the pixels, softening the overall appearance. For some types of printed output, further softness is introduced when the image pixels are converted to dots of ink or toner. As a result, just about every digital image requires sharpening. But another sad fact of digital photography is that most images are sharpened badly--either not enough, too much, or using the wrong methods--creating chunky details and harsh edges. Author, Bruce Fraser is here to teach readers all they need to know about sharpening including when to use it, why it's needed, how to use the camera's features, how to recognize an image needs sharpening, how much to use, what's bad sharpening and how to fix over sharpening.

30 OCT imaging leaps to the next generation: Noninvasive, simultaneous probing of 3-D cellular-resolution tissue morphology and depth-resolved function could signifi cantly improve early medical diagnosis. Wolfgang Drexler
MEDICAL-LASER MARKET 31 Wrinkles and unwanted hair keep sales of medical lasers in double digits: Vision correction bears the brunt of the slowdown in consumer spending in 2007. Kathy Kincade
DNA SEQUENCING 34 Manufacturers race toward the $1000 genome: Nextgeneration DNA sequencers are still pricey, but they are dramatically reducing the cost and time it takes to sequence the human genome. Michael D. O’Neill
BioOptics World Magazine - Premier Issue - January 2008
| PDF |44 Pages | 3.20 MB |

Computer Graphics World, January 2008
PDF | English | 2.7 MB
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The production team at Ubisoft Montreal used cutting-edge digital tools and techniques to bring history to life in the next-generation game Assassin's Creed.
Masters of the Game: A Crusade
In part 3 of this series on next-gen games, Ubisoft raises the bar with amazing visuals, widespread interactivity, and complex AI.
Casting Crusoe
Modelers raise a CG water horse from infancy through adulthood, and place the character in water that's part CG, part practical.
Large as Life
Digital prehistoric sea creatures rule the ancient seas in the IMAX 3D movie Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure.
Maximizing the Design Process
The latest tools are enabling file interoperability and translation.
Gutsy Effects
The Straus brothers amp up terror in their directorial debut.

PDF | 24 MB
PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services. Each month PC World runs tests on various areas of the IT world from new pre-built computers, LCD monitors, graphic cards, motherboards, PDAs, wireless network routers and many more. The magazine also includes many reviews from products across the IT board including phones and accessories, cameras, and software from a wide range of vendors as well.

Central Intelligence Agency, "The CIA World Factbook 2008 (Cia World Factbook)"
Skyhorse Publishing | 832 pages | 2007-12 | ISBN:1602390800 | PDF | 47 MB
Chock full of up-to-date coverage of countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this fascinating reference—intended for use by government officials—should be on the shelf of every school, world traveler, and journalist. For each country, you’ll find: a thorough introduction with historical background; detailed geographical facts, including current environmental issues; and a full description of the people, with information on literacy rates, HIV prevalence, and major infectious diseases. There are also details on conventional political parties, contact information for diplomatic representation, and the nation’s economic status, complete with statistics. A synopsis of transnational issues includes narcotic-related corruption. Along with multiple appendices, this attractive book features pages of beautiful, recently-updated maps, and three high quality fold-out posters.

Stephen Gosch “Premodern Travel in World History"
Routledge | 2007-11-30 | ISBN:0415229413 | PDF | 183 pages | 1,5 Mb

Missiles of the World
Ian Allan Publishing | ISBN 068416937 | 1980 | PDF | 152 p. | 98MB
| “ | This companion volume to Military Aircraft of the World and Civil Aircraft of the World contains details and photographs of all guided missiles known to be in service or under development throughout the world. | ” |
The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their web service deployments: for example, eBay processes over a billion web service requests a month! The author focuses on building 8 fully worked out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest-by integrating APIs from popular websites most people are already familiar with.

This book integrates a historical and linguistic exploration of world English, documenting the emergence of the language as a contested site of linguistic encounters. It revises the understanding of English spread during the colonial period, emphasizing the agency of non-mother-tongue English speakers. The book contends that English owes its existence as a world language in large part to the struggle against imperialism but not to imperialism alone. To explain English varieties, the book introduces a new linguistic model of second language acquisition by speech communities: macroacquisition.

US News & World Report March 10 2008
PDF | English | 10 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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