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Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

• ISBN:
• 0415290430
• Authors:
• Jonathan Hill

Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism.

Perimeter Security

• ISBN:
• 0071460284
• Authors:
• Michael Arata

Perimeter Security has taken on a new level of importance since 9/11. Whether insuring the safety of government buildings, hospitals, residences, or bio-research labs, the safety of workers and materials can only be ensured by outfitting all points of entry with the appropriate alarm and surveillance equipment. This comprehensive hands-on resource focuses on designing, installing, and maintaining perimeter security for buildings.

Architects and Architecture of London

• ISBN:
• 0750683376
• Authors:
• Kenneth Allinson AADipl RIBA MAPM

Architects and Architecture of London is a visual, highly illustrated guide to London's greatest historic buildings and the lives of the architects who designed them. Read about the architectural forefathers of London, such as Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Robert Adam and John Nash, Butterfield and Street, Blomfield and Lutyens. Learn about those who, in the twentieth century, have helped to form the London we now...

Building on Knowledge: Developing Expertise, Creativity and Intellectual Capital in the Construction Professions

• ISBN:
• 1405147091
• Authors:
• David Bartholomew

This guide shows design practices and other construction professionals how to manage knowledge successfully. It explains how to develop and implement a knowledge management strategy, and how to avoid the pitfalls, focusing on the techniques of learning and knowledge sharing that are most relevant in professional practice. Expensive IT-based ‘solutions’ bought off-the-shelf rarely succeed in a practice context, so the emphasis here is on...

50 Awesome Auto Projects for the Evil Genius

• ISBN:
• 0071458239
• Authors:
• Gavin Harper

The Evil Genius format is the perfect "vehicle" for 50 incredible automotive projects that are compatible with any car, no matter what make, model, or year. Focusing on low-cost, easily obtained components, the book lists the items needed to complete each project along with a troubleshooting and repair section.

Environmental Design: An Introduction for Architects and Engineers

• ISBN:
• 0419237607
• Authors:
• Randall Thomas

Environmental Design looks at the designing of environmentally friendly buildings. This book is essential reading for architects, engineers, planners and students of these disciplines and for all those who are concerned with the built environment.

Travel, Space, Architecture (Design and the Built Environment)

• ISBN:
• 0754648273
• Authors:
• Jilly Traganou, Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Cultural theorists have, over the past few decades, examined the role of travel in spatial definition, and have noted its significance in the constant exchange and interaction between cultures. Whilst travelling has also been the subject of architectural research, particularly concerning the work of internationalist architects of the early 20th Century, deeper issues of travel, such as mapping, displacement, foreigness and otherness, have been...

Glass Construction Manual (Construction Manuals (englisch))

• ISBN:
• 3764360771
• Authors:
• Christian Schittich, Gerald Staib, Dieter Balkow, Matthias Schuler, Werner Sobek

The distinguishing feature of the construction manuals from Edition Detail and the internationally renowned journal Detail is the exceptional quality of the information it imparts. These books have set new standards and become indispensable in the daily work of planning and building. They are now being published in English for the first time. This volume shows the wide range of possibilities for using glass in construction, beginning with a...

Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations

• ISBN:
• 0124097510
• Authors:
• M.B. Kirkham

Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations combines biology and physics to show how water moves through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. This text explores the instrumentation and the methods used to measure the status of water in soil and plants. The basic methods of tensiometry, pyschrometry, stomatal porometry, as well as newer methods of tension infiltrometry; time domain reflectometry are examined. Principles are clearly presented...

Algorithmic Architecture

• ISBN:
• 0750667257
• Authors:
• Kostas Terzidis

Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This unique volume challenges the reader to tackle all these complex questions and more. Algorithmic Architecture is not a typical theory-based architectural book; it is not a computer programming or...

Google Sketchup Cookbook: Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques

• ISBN:
• 0596155115
• Authors:
• Bonnie Roskes

As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. Google SketchUp Cookbook will help you: Use SketchUp...

Specifying Buildings: A design management perspective

• ISBN:
• 075064849X
• Authors:
• David T Yeomans

Providing an overview of specifying, from selecting materials and products to writing the specification documents, Specifying Buildings is a new guide to this important part of the construction process. Where it differs from most books is in covering the management of the specification process, making sure that the design intent is transferred to the building assembly as specified. Covering a wide range of practices, Stephen Emmitt and David...

Building Design Management

• ISBN:
• 0750650702
• Authors:
• Colin Gray, Will Hughes

A practical handbook on the management of building design, this guide explains the processes, roles and responsibilities of those involved in the design of the building, as well as ways to maximise efficiency. Well structured and easy to read, the book includes useful notes and checklists on, for example, how to select a design team and how to organise and plan the design process. The authors are recognised authorities in the field of project...

The Architects' Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0632039256

The Architects' Handbook provides a comprehensive range of visual and technical information covering the great majority of building types likely to be encountered by architects, designers, building surveyors and others involved in the construction industry. It is organised by building type and concentrates very much on practical examples. Including over 300 case studies, the Handbook is organised by building type and concentrates very much on...

Gwathmey Siegel: Buildings and Projects 1965-2000 (Universe Architecture Series)

• ISBN:
• 0789304015

The international residential, commercial, and institutional work that positioned this New York firm among the world's architectural elite is featured in this volume, which takes an unprecedented look at Gwathmey Siegel's contributions over the last 35 years. More than 30 projects are documented in photographs, drawings, and descriptions. From Charles Gwathmey's design and construction of Gwathmey Studio and House to the Levitt Center for...

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success

• ISBN:
• 0750684747
• Authors:
• Jerry Yudelson

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. Completely updated, revised and expanded from the author's previous works, this book is the one resource you need to succeed in the green building marketplace. With a sound grounding in contemporary marketing theory and practice,...

Illustrated 2000: Building Code Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0070494371
• Authors:
• Terry L. Patterson

*The first book to reference the new International Building Code, making it a definitive resource for all practicing architects and engineers *The only illustrated code book in existence--dimensioned line drawings help designers and builders visualize code requirements quickly and easily, speeding along the building process *Points out differences between the newly integrated universal building code and the old Uniform, Southern, and National...

The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research: A Behind-the-Scenes View of Using Qualitative Research Methods

• ISBN:
• 0080439721

A book that goes behind the more official presentations and accounts of research methods to explore the lived experiences, joys and mistakes of a wide range of international researchers principally working in the fields of accounting and finance, but also in management, economics and other social sciences. The authors of the articles in this book address a wide range of issues and obstacles that they have confronted at various stages in their...

Really Learn 100 Phrasal Verbs P (Oxford Dictionaries)

• ISBN:
• 0194315835

A teach-yourself workbook to help learners gain a thorough understanding of the meaning and grammar of 100 essential phrasal verbs through guided practice and examples. Each page focuses on one verb and every page follows the same format for ease of use. Verbs are organized by particle so learners can see patterns and the phrasal verbs seem more logical. A "Build Your Vocabulary" section gives information about related nouns and adjectives,...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science)

• ISBN:
• 0199548471
• Authors:
• Barry R. Weingast, Donald Wittman

Over its long lifetime, "political economy" has had many different meanings: the science of managing the resources of a nation so as to provide wealth to its inhabitants for Adam Smith; the study of how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes for Marx; the study of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual...

Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

• ISBN:
• 0226902374
• Authors:
• Nicholas J. G. Winter

In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think—and vote—about a vast array of issues that don’t seem related to either category. As Nicholas Winter reveals in Dangerous Frames , politicians and leaders often frame these seemingly unrelated issues in ways that prime audiences to respond not to the policy at hand but instead to the way its...

Healing Communities in Conflict

• ISBN:
• 0231112793
• Authors:
• Kimberly A. Maynard, Kimberley A. Maynard

From Rwanda to Bosnia-Herzegovina to Kosovo and beyond, devastating human tragedies have torn apart communities -and too often, the international response has been ineffective. Here now is a wealth of pragmatic information on how the international community can help these regions rebuild their communities.

Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat

• ISBN:
• 0231129823
• Authors:
• Richard H. Shultz, Andrea J. Dew

Since the end of the Cold War, conventional militaries and their political leaders have confronted a new, brutal type of warfare in which non-state armed groups use asymmetrical tactics to successfully fight larger, technologically superior forces. In order to prevent future bloodshed and political chaos, it is crucial to understand how these unconventional armed groups think and to adapt to their methods of combat.Richard H. Shultz Jr. and...

The Coming Crisis: Nuclear Proliferation, U.S. Interests, and World Order (BCSIA Studies in International Security)

• ISBN:
• 0262210150

How will continued proliferation of nuclear weapons change the global political order? This collection of essays comes to conclusions at odds with the conventional wisdom. Stephen Rosen and Barry Posen explore how nuclear proliferation may affect U.S. incentives to confront regional aggression. Stephen Walt argues that regional allies will likely prove willing to stand with a strong and ready United States against nuclear-backed aggression....

Public Executions: The Death Penalty and the Media (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0275993078
• Authors:
• Christopher S. Kudlac

The death penalty is one of the country's most controversial issues. The fairness of its application is debated in coffeehouses, classrooms, political arenas, and the media. However, despite its representation in the media, most death cases receive surprisingly little national media attention. In fact, of the 1000 people executed in the United States since 1977, and the 3,500 inmates currently awaiting execution, only a handful of cases can be...

Military Technologies of the World (Praeger Security International)

• ISBN:
• 0275995356
• Authors:
• T.W. Lee

From the introduction of gunpowder to the reigning era of nuclear weapons, military technological advances have been at the forefront of change. These changes in weaponry have influenced the outcome of many historical events and the downfall or success of major civilizations. All nations have sought to improve military technologies in the hope of gaining the upper hand in conflict. The developments in guns, cannon technology, warships, tanks,...

Democratic Vistas

• ISBN:
• 0300102569

In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience-free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its...

America's Inadvertent Empire (Yale Nota Bene)

• ISBN:
• 0300107714
• Authors:
• Gen. William E. Odom, Robert Dujarric

The United States finds itself at the center of a historically unparalleled empire, one that is wealth-generating and voluntary rather than imperialistic, say the authors of this compelling book. William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric examine America’s unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture. They argue persuasively that the major threat to this unique empire is...

The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

• ISBN:
• 0313339961

The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key...

Holding Power to Account: Accountability in Modern Democracies

• ISBN:
• 0333987683
• Authors:
• Richard Mulgan

This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance. Richard Mulgan draws on examples and analyses from the United States and the United Kingdom as well as other 'Westminster' countries. Major topics discussed include the contrast between accountability in the public and private sectors, the effects of public management reforms on accountability, accountability for collective actions,...

Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription

• ISBN:
• 0387306676

Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription is the first book dedicated to uniting research related to signal processing algorithms and models for various aspects of music transcription such as pitch analysis, rhythm analysis, percussion transcription, source separation, instrument recognition, and music structure analysis. Following a clearly structured pattern, each chapter provides a comprehensive review of the existing methods for a...

Essentials of International Relations, Second Edition (The Norton Series in World Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0393977226
• Authors:
• Karen Mingst

Adopted at over 200 colleges and universities in the First Edition, Essentials of International Relations covers the field's central topics and offers professors the freedom to supplement their courses with additional books from The Norton Series in World Politics. The Second Edition features a new chapter on globalizing issues that addresses scarcity of resources, growing populations, and cross-cultural ethics. In addition, all of the material...

Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Cass Military Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0415376467
• Authors:
• C Giuseppe

This new book gives the reader a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. It shows how inter- and intra-disciplinary approaches have become the rule for research in the social sciences today and why this tendency applies to military and conflict-resolution studies, too, not only via the use of sociology, but to the social sciences in general, and as an approach...

India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business)

• ISBN:
• 0415401321
• Authors:
• Karsten Frey

India’s Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model, which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in India’s nuclear programme. The core argument of the book surrounds the question about India's security considerations and their impact on India's nuclear policy...

Seismic Design of Buildings to Eurocode 8

• ISBN:
• 0415447623

Practical information and training has become urgently needed for the new Eurocode 8 on the Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance, especially in relation to the underlying principles of seismic behaviour and the design of building structures. This book covers seismic design in a clear but brief manner and links the principles to the code, illustrated with design examples. Concrete and steel buildings, and their foundations, are given...

Design Quality in New Housing

• ISBN:
• 0415447690
• Authors:
• Matthew Cousins

This book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands. Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction are widely considered to be of the highest quality from which much can be learned and understood. This new guide offers architects the best practice...

Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (Routledge Malaysian Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0415482259

This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time. Going beyond existing studies – which concentrate on the politics and public aspects of multiculturalism –...

Global Institutions, Marginalization and Development (Routledge/Ripe Studies in Globalpolitical Economy)

• ISBN:
• 0415700558

For more than a century and a half, the most-powerful national governments have created institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a more inclusive world, a world serving women, working people, the colonized, the 'backward,' the destitute and the despised. This book is a study of that promise and the real impact of this world government. Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development discusses what systems of global...

Introduction to Global Politics

• ISBN:
• 0415773830
• Authors:
• Richard Mansbach, Kirsten Rafferty

This textbook introduces students to the key changes in current global politics in order to help them make sense of major trends that are shaping our world. The emphasis on change in global politics helps students to recognize that genuinely new developments require citizens to change their beliefs and that new problems may appear even as old ones disappear. It is designed to encourage students to think ahead in new, open-minded ways, even as...

Excel 2007 Formulas (Mr. Spreadsheet's Bookshelf)

• ISBN:
• 0470044020
• Authors:
• John Walkenbach

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...

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Project Managers

• ISBN:
• 0470047178
• Authors:
• Kim Heldman, William Heldman

Combine the power of Excel 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and sound project management tools to boost your skill set and maximize your productivity. You’ll walk through a project and learn how to use these powerful tools to schedule jobs, create budgets, manage processes, and share project information. Whether new to project management or a veteran, you’ll discover techniques, hints, and examples you can use immediately.

Oxford Phrasal Verbs Dictionary for Learners of English (Reference)

• ISBN:
• 0194315436

This is a clear, accessible dictionary to help students with this essential aspect of English.

Living the Policy Process

• ISBN:
• 0195335384
• Authors:
• Philip B. Heymann

Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments is necessary for good policymaking. In Living the Policy Process, Philip Heymann outlines the complex thought processes of policymakers as...

Keeping Better Company: Corporate Governance Ten Years On

• ISBN:
• 0199243190
• Authors:
• Jonathan Charkham

How should companies be organized? To whom should boards of directors be responsible--shareholders, or a wider group of stakeholders? In this fiercely competitive world we cannot judge our own system of corporate governance in isolation; it must bear comparison with the best. The second edition of this acclaimed and well-established book aims to do just that. Since publication of the first edition interest in corporate governance has greatly...

Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickProject Guide

• ISBN:
• 0321492382
• Authors:
• Maria Langer

Microsoft Excel is the world's most-popular spreadsheet program--used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they've...

Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators' Seduction

• ISBN:
• 0333801156

This unique collection of essays brings together for the first time consideration of Virginia Woolf's writing within the political context of fascism. Virginia Woolf and Fascism probes Woolf's fiction and non-fiction from Mrs. Dalloway in 1927 to Between the Acts , in 1941, for her responses not only to the growing menaces of dictators abroad, but also to mounting evidence of fascist ideology at home in England. The essays present a portrait of...

Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading & Learning Program

• ISBN:
• 0380715775
• Authors:
• Stanley D. Frank

Now you can join the millions of people of all ages who have reaped the rewards of the famous Evelyn Wood Speed Reading and Learning Program. All the secrets of this amazing system are now available to you in this book. Find out how you can: Read 50% faster in only an hourDouble your reading speed in a weekSoar beyond -- to read an amazing 1,200 to 3,000 words per minute -- and remember everything you read! DISCOVER THE SPEED-READING PATH TO...

Modern Food Microbiology (Food Science Texts Series)

• ISBN:
• 0387231803
• Authors:
• James M. Jay, Martin J. Loessner, David A. Golden

With 30 revised and updated chapters, the new edition of this classic text brings benefits to professors and students alike who will find new sections on proteobacteria, bottled water, food sanitizers (eletrolyzed oxidating water, ozone, chlorine, activin, chitosans, endolysins, etc.), bicontrol, biosensors quorum sensing, molecular genetic methods of analysis, food safety objectives, noroviruses, and prions. The book builds on the trusted and...

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Applications in Finance, Management Science and Economics (Advances in Computational Management Science)

• ISBN:
• 0387258043

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games has been edited to honor the outstanding contributions of Professor Suresh Sethi in the fields of Applied Optimal Control. Professor Sethi is internationally one of the foremost experts in this field. He is, among others, co-author of the popular textbook "Sethi and Thompson: Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics". The book consists of a collection of essays by some of the best...

From European Community to European Union: An Historical and Political Survey

• ISBN:
• 0415142652
• Authors:
• R. Mcallister

The evolution of the European Community has not followed a smooth path on the way to European Union. Richard McAllister's comprehensive history considers a number of key episodes and periods that have had a long-term impact in shaping the European Community, providing a reminder of key battles to date. Community institutions, member states and non-members have all sought to mold the European Community according to their individal wishes....

The New Navy, 1883-1922 (U.S. Navy Warships)

• ISBN:
• 0415978718
• Authors:
• Paul H. Silverstone

The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the New Navy and ordered removal of all obsolete ships. All US Navy ships since that time have stemmed from these first three cruisers. The numbering system in effect since 1920 was effectively begun in 1886. The ships built during the next few years fought in the Spanish-American War. The success and...

Excel 2007 PivotTables and PivotCharts (Mr. Spreadsheet's Bookshelf)

• ISBN:
• 0470104872
• Authors:
• Peter G. Aitken

Devoted entirely to PivotTables and PivotCharts, this book shows you how to take full advantage of these powerful tools, which enable you to pull meaningful information from masses of seemingly meaningless data. Loaded with illustrations and real-world examples, it takes you step by step through creating a PivotTable; formatting, filtering, and grouping data; creating PivotCharts from those data; and more. You’ll learn to work with...

Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition: Large Margin and Kernel Methods

• ISBN:
• 0470696834

This book discusses large margin and kernel methods for speech and speaker recognition Speech and Speaker Recognition: Large Margin and Kernel Methods is a collation of research in the recent advances in large margin and kernel methods, as applied to the field of speech and speaker recognition. It presents theoretical and practical foundations of these methods, from support vector machines to large margin methods for structured learning. It also...

The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton

• ISBN:
• 0472068385

In an age when world affairs are powerfully driven by personality, politics require an understanding of what motivates political leaders such as Hussein, Bush, Blair, and bin Laden. Through exacting case studies and the careful sifting of evidence, Jerrold Post and his team of contributors lay out an effective system of at-a-distance evaluation. Observations from political psychology, psycholinguistics and a range of other disciplines join...

Expert Card Technique: Close-Up Table Magic

• ISBN:
• 0486217558
• Authors:
• Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue

Scores of methods—previously known only to card experts—include passes, palming, false shuffles, false cuts, changes, crimps, jogs, reverses, rear palms and more. Altogether, 341 sleights and tricks. 318 illustrations show exact position of fingers and hands.

Self-Working Card Tricks (Cards, Coins, and Other Magic)

• ISBN:
• 0486233340
• Authors:
• Karl Fulves

spectacular and entertaining tricks: card locations, coincidence tricks, mental magic with cards, tricks with double endings, tricks with two decks, predictions, tricks with borrowed decks, trick poker deals. Easy-to-learn, clearly illustrated, these tricks produce spectacular effects with a minimum of practice.

More Self-Working Card Tricks: 88 Foolproof Card Miracles for the Amateur Magician

• ISBN:
• 0486245802
• Authors:
• Karl Fulves

new tricks (no duplication with Self-Working Card Tricks): impromptu card tricks, telephone tricks, shuffle setups, telepathy with cards, gambling secrets, tricks with torn and folded cards, card-forcing secrets, card tricks with props, vanishing cards, tricks with aces only, card deck that operates like a calculator, more. 96 illustrations.

Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat

• ISBN:
• 0521683696
• Authors:
• Ornit Shani

Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by recurring communal violence between Hindus and Muslims, has become a compelling force in Indian politics over the last two decades. Ornit Shani's book examines the rise of Hindu nationalism, asking why distinct groups of Hindus, deeply divided by caste, mobilised on the basis of unitary Hindu nationalism, and why the Hindu nationalist rhetoric about the threat of the impoverished Muslim minority was...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England

• ISBN:
• 0521833612
• Authors:
• Vickie B. Sullivan

Certain English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whom scholars often associate with classical republicanism, were not, in fact, hostile to liberalism. Indeed, these thinkers contributed to a synthesis of liberalism and modern republicanism. As this book argues, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Henry Neville, Algernon Sidney, and John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the co-authors of a series of editorials entitled...

Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0521834678
• Authors:
• Jose Antonio Cheibub

This book addresses the following question: why are presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones? Conventional wisdom among political scientists pointS to the incentives generated by the form of government itself; the independence of the executive and legislature that defines presidentialism generates incentives that are not conducive to the consolidation of democracy. On the basis of a data set that covers all...

Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (Contemporary South Asia)

• ISBN:
• 0521834791
• Authors:
• Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava, René Véron

Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state? This book considers the Indian example where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by encounters staged at the local level, and are also informed by ideas circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on fieldwork conducted in eastern India, the authors review a series of key...

Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly (Theories of Institutional Design)

• ISBN:
• 0521885078

Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power...

Get More Laughs From Your Laughs: How to Be Funny

• ISBN:
• 0595373739
• Authors:
• Robert Klamm

“ Get More Laughs From Your Laughs is worth more than all of the 30 other comedy books in my library. Great innovations, all very usable and adaptable!”—Barron Stringfellow “Your little book contains more practical information than the excellent books I already have by Eastman and Vorhaus. Thanks!”—Bill Ligon “I was a basket case when it came to doing comedy, until I discovered these techniques and put them together in Get More...

Integrating Excel and Access

• ISBN:
• 0596009739
• Authors:
• Michael Schmalz

In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now. Introducing "Integrating Excel and Access," the unique reference that shows you how to combine the strengths of Microsoft Excel with those of Microsoft...

Excel 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual

• ISBN:
• 0596101546
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald

The dominant spreadsheet program and one of the most widely used software applications in the world, Microsoft Excel is unbelievably powerful--and can be downright intimidating. If you're new to Excel or among the many existing Excel users who are dazed and confused by all that the program can do (and by how little it has actually done for you), "Excel for Starter: The Missing Manual" is your ideal resource. For everyone who wants to quickly get...

A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

• ISBN:
• 0631186530
• Authors:
• Janet Coleman

Janet Coleman's two-volume history of European political theorizing, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction that many have been waiting for. It treats some of the most influential writers who have been considered by educated Europeans down the centuries to have helped to construct their identity, their shared "languages of politics" about the principles and practices of good government, and the history of European...

The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

• ISBN:
• 0631210504

The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology brings together 38 original essays covering the wide interdisciplinary field of political sociology. Contributors consider how concepts, theories, and case studies are being used to investigate contemporary social and political life in recent scholarship. The book explores both standard and emerging topics in the field, such as power, the state, violence, governance, identity, and citizenship. The...

A History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to Early Christianity

• ISBN:
• 063121822X
• Authors:
• Janet Coleman

Janet Coleman's two volume history of European political theorising, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction which many have been waiting for. In this volume, Coleman discusses the acknowledged great works of Greek, Roman, and early Christian writers to show how the historical contexts in which certain ideas about ethics and politics became dominant or fell from dominance, help to explain the ideas themselves. Throughout...

Architectures: Modernism and After (New Interventions in Art History)

• ISBN:
• 0631229434

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. The collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded...

Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World

• ISBN:
• 067448777X
• Authors:
• Peter Schäfer

Taking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schäfer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world. Judeophobia firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt's pre-Hellenistic history. A pattern of ingrained hostility toward an alien culture emerges when Schäfer surveys an illuminating spectrum of comments on Jews and...

Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities (Joint Center for Urban Studies Publicati)

• ISBN:
• 0674932110
• Authors:
• James Q. Wilson

The patrolman has the most difficult, complex, and least understood task in the police department. Much less is known of him than of his better publicized colleague, the detective. In this important and timely book, James Q. Wilson describes the patrolman and the problems he faces that arise out of constraints imposed by law, politics, public opinion, and the expectations of superiors. The study considers how the uniformed officer in eight...

New Governance, New Democracy?: Post Devolution in Wales (University of Wales Press - Politics and Society in Wales)

• ISBN:
• 0708316786

The creation of the National Assembly for Wales has altered the democratic landscape in Wales. In assuming many policy and administrative responsibilities previously held by central government, the Assembly promises innovation in governance and there are high expectations that devolution will bring about significant improvements in Welsh life. This book questions whether these expectations are likely to be fulfilled.

British Foreign Secretaries Since 1974 (British and Foreign and Colonial Policy)

• ISBN:
• 0714656569
• Authors:
• K. Theakston

This book analyses the changing role of the British Foreign Secretary and presents biographical case studies of all the individual holders of that post, the policies they persued and the issues they faced, since 1974. The work of the British Foreign Secretaries from James Callaghan to Robin Cook is examined in the context of the foreign policy-making machinery, the changing environment of British foreign policy, and the internal and external...

Sweden and Ecological Governance: Straddling the Fence (Issues in Environmental Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0719069025
• Authors:
• Lennart J. Lundqvist

This book examines policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance, and uses the Swedish case study to ask if it is possible to move from a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the "Sustainable Sweden" program. The study begins by looking at the spatial dimensions of ecological governance, and goes on to consider the integration and effectiveness of...

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 073562304X
• Authors:
• Curtis Frye

Excel provides an easy-to-use, powerful spreadsheet environment that helps you handle calculations and data more effectively - with simple ways to enter and edit data, work with formulas and functions for complex calculations, format worksheets and work with colorful charts, and publish documents to the Web. With MICROSOFT EXCEL 2007 STEP BY STEP, you'll learn all the ins and outs of working with Excel features, including the exciting new...

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

• ISBN:
• 073562321X
• Authors:
• Mark Dodge, Craig Stinson

Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Office Excel 2007--from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using Office Excel 2007--all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, you'll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Office Excel 2007 experience to the next level. This...

When Did Jesus Become Republican?: Rescuing Our Country and Our Values from the Right-- Strategies for a Post-Bush America

• ISBN:
• 0742552241
• Authors:
• Mark Ellingsen

When Did Jesus Become Republican critically examines how modern American politics relate to Jesus' vision of love and peace, questioning how right wing Republican policies fit with the Christian values they espouse. He shows how Democrats can embrace true Christian essentials in a way that authentically appeals not only to liberals, but to mainstream and conservative Christians.

Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0745317553
• Authors:
• Suman Gupta

This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today.Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based,...

Marxism And Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (Marxism and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0745319149
• Authors:
• Mike Wayne

Although media studies is a popular academic discipline, there are remarkably few books that analyse it from a specifically Marxist perspective. Mike Wayne's book is ideal for all students of media studies who are interested in bringing a radical political methodology to bear on their work. He presents an accessible guide to key Marxist concepts and shows how to apply them to contemporary cultural analysis.Drawing on Marx, Lukacs, Gramsci,...

Democracy and Regulation: How the Public can Govern Essential Services

• ISBN:
• 0745319432
• Authors:
• Greg Palast, Jerrold Oppenheim, Theo MacGregor

Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high quality public services. Uniquely in the world,...

The Replication of Violence: Thoughts on International Terrorism after September 11th 2001 (Critical Studies on Islam)

• ISBN:
• 074531953X
• Authors:
• Suman Gupta

An immense amount of media space has been devoted to the catastrophic terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. George Bush was quick to declare a 'war on terrorism' that may engulf many countries in addition to Afghanistan. But what does this say about Western perceptions of violence -- what does 'war on terrorism' mean?This book does not attempt to explain the momentous events of September 11th 2001. Instead it attempts to sharpen our...

Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0745319599
• Authors:
• Brewster Kneen

* No hold's barred exposé of the world's largest food company * Uncovers predatory activities and unfettered monopoly that effect every American consumer Transnational corporations straddle the globe, largely unseen by the public. Cargill, with its headquarters in the US, is the largest private corporation in North America, and possibly in the world. Cargill trades in food commodities and produces a great many of them: grains, flour, malt,...

Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent

• ISBN:
• 0745319637
• Authors:
• Phil Scraton

The unprecedented and tragic events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania left an indelible mark on world politics. Civilian deaths in horrific circumstances triggered an uncompromising response from the US administration and its allies: an open-ended "war on terrorism". This anthology includes some of the world's leading commentators - Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Naomi Klein, John Pilger and A. Sivanandan. This book presents accessible,...

Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments (Critical Studies on Islam)

• ISBN:
• 0745320996
• Authors:
• Gary R. Bunt

The Internet is an increasingly important source of information for many people in the Muslim world. Many Muslims in majority and minority contexts rely on the Internet -- including websites and e-mail -- as a primary source of news, information and communication about Islam. As a result, a new media culture is emerging which is having a significant impact on areas of global Muslim consciousness. Post-September 11th, this phenomena has grown...

The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom

• ISBN:
• 0745321402
• Authors:
• Saul Landau

Saul Landau is an internationally known scholar, author, journalist, poet and activist. An Emmy-award-winning film maker, he does frequent radio and TV shows, and his work on human rights and Latin America have won him acclaim the world over. This, his latest book, is a scathing account of George W. Bush's world before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that will appeal to anyone who is disenchanted with the cynicism of Bush's government, and...

How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity

• ISBN:
• 0745321526
• Authors:
• Michael Mandel

* How impartial are war crimes tribunals? * Are all crimes against humanity treated equally? The trial of Slobodan Milosevic has raised the prospect of many former political leaders being tried for crimes against humanity. War crimes tribunals and the international criminal courts are supposedly independent mechanisms through which we can administer international justice, and through which tyrants and errant regimes can be brought to account....

From Bevan To Blair: Fifty Years Reporting from the Political Frontline

• ISBN:
• 074532178X
• Authors:
• Geoffrey Goodman

For more than half a century Geoffrey Goodman was one of Fleet Street's foremost political and industrial reporters. This book is his record of what it was like to work at the heart of British politics. Taking us through the years that followed the end of World War II right up to the beginning of the 21st century, he offers stories of the characters and events that shaped British political history. Goodman's unique portraits include many of the...

The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century

• ISBN:
• 0745321984
• Authors:
• Scott Lucas

Since his death in 1950, George Orwell has been canonised as England's foremost political writer, and the standard-bearer of honesty and decency for the honourable 'Left'. In this controversial polemic, Scott Lucas argues that the exaltation of Orwell, far from upholding dissent against the State, has sought to quash such opposition. Indeed, Orwell has become the icon of those who, in the pose of the contrarian, try to silence public opposition...

The European Union: A Critical Guide

• ISBN:
• 0745325068
• Authors:
• Steven P. McGiffen

Praise for the first edition:'A clear and compact overview of the different policy areas of the European Union.' Dusnieuws'McGiffen writes with great clarity and an accessible prose style. He includes the key facts, but is concise enough to ensure that he is never boring. ... This is an invaluable book.'These Tides'For those that want a concise guide to the Brussels maze, written as though people matter, McGiffen's book is a unique starting...

Easier English Intermediate Dictionary: Over 28,000 Terms Clearly Defined

• ISBN:
• 0747569894
• Authors:
• Peter Collin

It includes the vocabulary needed to understand and study written and spoken English at this level, and is particularly useful for students working towards intermediate or lower-intermediate level examinations such as the IELTS (International English Language Testing System), FCE (First Certificate in English), and TOEFL(r)(Test of English as a Foreign Language) exams.Example sentences show how words are used in context. There are also clear...

The The Equal Opportunities Handbook: How to Recognise Diversity, Encourage Fairness and Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice

• ISBN:
• 0749452978
• Authors:
• Phillip Edward Clements, Tony Spinks, Phil Clements

The Equal Opportunities Handbook is a guide to identifying and eradicating workplace discrimination through training and guidance.  Though founded on British legislation, this guide sets out straightforward procedures, relevant to all types of situation, and demonstrates how simple it is to behave with fairness, courtesy and sensitivity to all.  The revised edition of this text has been updated to reflect changes in British legislation and...

Design and Construction: Building in Value (Building Value)

• ISBN:
• 0750651490

The design and construction of buildings is a lengthy and expensive process, and those who commission buildings are continually looking for ways to improve the efficiency of the process. In this book, the second in the Building in Value series, a broad range of topics related to the processes of design and construction are explored by an international group of experts. The overall aim of the book is to look at ways that clients can improve the...

Daylighting, Architecture and Health: Building Design Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0750667249
• Authors:
• Mohamed Boubekri

Daylighting, Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in buildings and human health, considering both psychological and physiological issues and bringing together a range of research in the field. As we are becoming increasingly conscious of global warming and pushing towards energy efficiency in buildings, the book examines the question of daylighting from the perspective of the health of building occupants. It...

Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival

• ISBN:
• 0750669853
• Authors:
• Thomas Fisher

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves - in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the...

Architecture In Detail

• ISBN:
• 0750685859
• Authors:
• Graham Bizley

This book is a collection of detailed studies of recent construction projects that will help all architects learn and expand the possibilities of their own work. Projects have been selected for their use of innovative techniques, and these insights could help overcome problems, reduce a project's cost, speed up work on site or help with an idea that is hard to achieve. Each project within the book consists of striking detailed drawings,...

Lighting by Design, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750687681
• Authors:
• Christopher Cuttle MA FCIBSE FIESANZ FIESNA LC

Lighting by Design provides guidance on where to find inspiration for lighting ideas, how to plan the technical detail and how to execute the plan to create safe, effective and beautiful schemes. Christopher Cuttle's unique three level approach uses Observation, Visualisation and Realisation as the means to achieve these aims. Cuttle is a well known figure in the UK, US and Australia and New Zealand, with a wealth of experience of both teaching...

15-minute Italian (EW TRAVEL 15-MINUTE LANGUAGE)

• ISBN:
• 0756609240
• Authors:
• DK Publishing

With an innovative, visual approach the Eyewitness Travel 15-Minute language guides are the ideal tools for people who need to learn a language fast.

Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

• ISBN:
• 0761954694
• Authors:
• Professor Stephen Turner

Text highlights the crisis in knowledge in liberal democracies: that most citizens cannot understand, much less judge, the claims scientists make. Central argument is that in a 'knowledge society' in which specialized knowledge is increasingly so important to politics, the position of democratic discussion becomes weakened. Softcover, hardcover available.

Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA (Excel Power Programming With Vba)

• ISBN:
• 0764540726
• Authors:
• John Walkenbach

"Today, no accomplished Excel programmer can afford to be without John’s book. The value of Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is double most other books–simultaneously the premier reference and best learning tool for Excel VBA." —Loren Abdulezer, Author of Excel Best Practices for Business Everything you need to know about: Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives Working with VBA subprocedures and function...

Excel VBA Programming For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0764574124
• Authors:
• John Walkenbach

* Shows ordinary users how to harness the power of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and create custom Excel applications * This book introduces people to a wide array of new Excel options, including creating new worksheet functions, automating tasks and operations, creating new toolbars and menus, designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins, and much more * Begins with the most important tools and operations for the Visual Basic Editor, then...

Kofi Annan (Modern Peacemakers)

• ISBN:
• 0791089967
• Authors:
• Rachel A. Koestler-Grack

In December 2001, Kofi A. Annan and the United Nations organization received the Nobel Peace Prize; Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, was recognized for his work "for a better organized and more peaceful world." Kofi Annan focuses on this leader's efforts to strengthen and revitalize the United Nations and bring it into the 21st century. In bestowing the Prize, the Nobel Committee said Mr. Annan "had been pre-eminent in...

Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World (Suny Series in Global Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0791454592

Applies the concept of space to international relations to arrive at novel interpretations.

For Better or Worse?: How Political Consultants Are Changing Elections in the United States

• ISBN:
• 0791460444
• Authors:
• David A. Dulio

Investigates the effects of political consultants on American democracy.

United We Stand?: Divide-And-Conquer Politics and the Logic of International Hostility (Suny Series in Global Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0791463435
• Authors:
• Aaron Belkin

American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power (John MacRae Books)

• ISBN:
• 0805072101
• Authors:
• Thomas Reppetto

Organized crime-the Italian American kind-has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now, Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise-from the 1880s to the post-WWII era-that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and...

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

• ISBN:
• 0807059099
• Authors:
• Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, Mahadev H. Desai

Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface The only authorized American edition Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century. In a new foreword, noted peace expert and...

The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy (The New Cold War History)

• ISBN:
• 0807854115
• Authors:
• Matthew J. Ouimet

Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled. The recent release of extensive archival documentation in Moscow and the appearance of an increasing number of Soviet political memoirs now offer a greater perspective on this historic process and permit a much deeper look into its causes. The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev...

India: Emerging Power

• ISBN:
• 0195660358
• Authors:
• Stephen P. Cohen

For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia. Its pluralist, secular democracy has allowed the rise of hitherto deprived castes and ethnic communities. Economic liberalization is gathering steam, with six percent annual growth and annual exports in excess of $30 billion....

Owning Up: Poverty, Assets and the American Dream

• ISBN:
• 0815706200
• Authors:
• Michelle Miller-Adams

Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets. Even when they are getting by, they lack many of the resources—tangible and intangible—that provide middle-class Americans with a sense of security, stability, and a stake in the future. In Owning Up, Michelle Miller-Adams demonstrates how...

Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America

• ISBN:
• 081663310X
• Authors:
• William Chaloupka

A witty take on what's wrong-and right-with cynicism today. We are now living in the midst of the most cynical era in American history. Disaffection from government institutions is at an all-time high. Ordinary citizens perceive political leaders to be more manipulative and jaded than ever. Skepticism pervades our cultural and social attitudes and interactions, and is prominently featured in the films we see, the books we read, and the media we...

Local Budgeting (Public Sector Governance and Accountability)

• ISBN:
• 0821369458
• Authors:
• Anwar Shah

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of local budgeting needed to develop sound fiscal administration such as setting priorities, planning, financial control over inputs, management of operations and accountability to citizens. Topics covered include fiscal administration, forecasting, fiscal discipline, fiscal transparency, integrity of revenue administration, budget formats, and processes including performance budgeting,...

Truck of Fools: A Testimonio of Torture and Recovery

• ISBN:
• 0826514642
• Authors:
• Carlos Liscano

The testimonio of one of Latin America’s leading writers, Truck of Fools is a searing personal account of incarceration and torture. It recalls the author’s thirteen years as a political prisoner of Uruguay’s neofascist regime during the 1970s and 1980s. An acutely perceptive poet-novelist, Carlos Liscano offers unique insight into not only the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner but also the mindset of his tormentors. ...

Countering the New Terrorism

• ISBN:
• 0833026674
• Authors:
• Ian O. Lesser

The contours of terrorism are changing, and the new terrorism has more diverse sources, motivations, and tactics than the old. It is more lethal, global in reach, and characterized by network forms of organization. Terrorist sponsorship is becoming hazier and "privatized." The August 1998 terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania fit in many ways the new mold. The chapters in this book trace the evolution of international...

Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols

• ISBN:
• 0849318238
• Authors:
• Edgar H. Callaway Jr.

Because they provide practical machine-to-machine communication at a very low cost, the popularity of wireless sensor networks is expected to skyrocket in the next few years, duplicating the recent explosion of wireless LANs. Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols describes how to build these networks, from the layers of the communication protocol through the design of network nodes. This overview summarizes the multiple...

Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design

• ISBN:
• 0849372348

Many important advances in designing earthquake-resistant structures have occurred over the last several years. Civil engineers need an authoritative source of information that reflects the issues that are unique to the field. Comprising chapters selected from the second edition of the best-selling Handbook of Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design provides a tightly focused, concise, and valuable guide to the...

Women and the U.S. Budget: Where the Money Goes and What You Can Do About It

• ISBN:
• 0865715254
• Authors:
• Jane Midgley

The national budget represents the common resources of the people of the United States. Yet only a handful of experts understand the full impact of budget policy on the American people. Since women comprise just a fraction of national decision-makers, women's needs and perspectives are largely left out of budget policy-a critical absence during our current era of rising deficits, increasing military and security budgets, and cutbacks in public...

The 20-Gun Ship Blandford (Anatomy of the Ship)

• ISBN:
• 0870210580
• Authors:
• Peter Goodwin

Secrets Of Lock Picking

• ISBN:
• 0873644239
• Authors:
• Steven Hampton

Master locksmith Steven Hampton reveals here the tricks and tools for bypassing keyed and combination locks from pin tumbler locks, mushroom and spool pin tumbler locks, wafer tumbler locks, warded locks and disk tumbler locks to tubular cylinder locks, magnetic locks, door locks, padlocks and automobile locks. Find the key to "seeing" into every lock and discovering its simplicity.

25 Doctrines of Law You Should Know

• ISBN:
• 0875865364
• Authors:
• Philip Chase Tobin

"I'll sue you!)" In this litigious society, everyone needs to know a few basics to avoid being snowed, cowed and generally abused. Even those who can afford to hire lawyers need to know what they are up to. In a non-jargon format, this book explains 25 doctrines of law that are most important for Americans on a day-to-day basis. When a conflict arises, what are the main doctrines of law that give one side an advantage? What do they mean, and how...

The German Battleship Scharnhorst (Schiffer Military History)

• ISBN:
• 0887402917
• Authors:
• Siegfried Breyer

Covers the activities and design specifics of the battleship Scharnhorst.

Sturmgeschütz III - Short Gun Versions:

• ISBN:
• 0887403506
• Authors:
• Horst Scheibert

This book covers the short gun versions of the armored fighting vehicles known as the Sturmgeschütz.

PHP|Architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns

• ISBN:
• 0973589825
• Authors:
• Jason E. Sweat

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. Even though there has been a lot of buzz, however, no-one has yet come up with a comprehensive resource on design patterns for PHP developers—until today. Author Jason E. Sweat's book php|architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns is the first,...

Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader

• ISBN:
• 1403969655
• Authors:
• Anne E. Fernald

From her girlhood in her father’s library to the end of her life, Virginia Woolf read widely and with passion. Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader shows how Virginia Woolf’s reading affected her feminism and how her feminism affected her opinions of her reading. This new work looks at the impact of that intense reading on Woolf’s writing and on her feminism. Each chapter looks at an aspect of her thinking--her attitude towards the...

Wine Production: Vine to Bottle (Food Industry Briefing)

• ISBN:
• 1405113650
• Authors:
• Keith Grainger, Hazel Tattersall

The standard of wines made today is arguably higher than any time in the six thousand years of vinous history. The level of knowledge of producers and the ability to control the processes in wine production is also greatly improved.Authors Keith Grainger and Hazel Tattersall detail these processes, from vine to bottle, looking at key factors such as geography, winemaking techniques, the impact of decisions made upon style and quality, and...

Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics

• ISBN:
• 1412903777
• Authors:
• Dr Paul Pennings, Dr. Hans Keman, Dr Jan Kleinnijenhuis

Instructors: Please click here to request a review copy of this title for adoption consideration. Desk copies are available by calling 1-800-818-7243. This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research… an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process - Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering the...

Hybrid Warship: The Amalgamation of Big Guns and Aircraft

• ISBN:
• 1557503745
• Authors:
• R. D. Layman, Stephen McLaughlin

The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy

• ISBN:
• 1568582544
• Authors:
• James S. Henry

From 1970 to 2003, over three trillion dollars—$3,000,000,000,000—were loaned to developing countries by the West. Yet the gap between rich and poor is worse than ever. What happened? Where did all that money go? A financial insider, Jim Henry looks unsparingly at the snarl of transactions, often legal but usually immoral, that resulted in the rich getting richer and the poor, poorer. Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand...

The New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons

• ISBN:
• 1576600807
• Authors:
• Robert Mankoff, Robert Mankoff

110 of the very best cartoons on politics from the New Yorker.

Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision

• ISBN:
• 1576756270
• Authors:
• Thom Hartmann

Millions of working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the megawealthy, global corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and largely subconscious aspects of political communication. It's not an escalation in Iraq, it's a surge; it's not the inheritance tax,...

Accent Reduction Made Easy

• ISBN:
• 1591253179
• Authors:
• Inc. Penton Overseas

A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection. Designed for professionals and non-professionals, from teenagers to adults, or anyone who wants to be able to speak Standard American English whether overcoming a regional or foreign accent.

Digital Economy:: Impacts, Influences and Challenges

• ISBN:
• 1591403634

Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the Digital Economy. This set of 18 essays covers the effects of Digital Economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of Internet. The chapters review best practices from concept to development, through...

Union Monitor 1861-65 (New Vanguard)

• ISBN:
• 1841763063
• Authors:
• Angus Konstam

The first seagoing ironclad was the USS Monitor, and its profile has made it one of the most easily recognised warships of all time. Following her inconclusive battle with the Confederate ironclad Virginia on March 9, 1862, the production of Union monitors was accelerated. By the end of the year a powerful squadron of monitor vessels protected the blockading squadrons off the Southern coastline, and were able to challenge Confederate control of...

Food: The Key Concepts

• ISBN:
• 184520672X
• Authors:
• Warren Belasco

This book offers an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to the study of food studies for the beginning reader. Food choices, the author argues, are the result of a complex negotiation among three competing considerations: the consumers' identity; matters of convenience, including price; and an awareness of the consequences of what is consumed. The book concludes with an examination of two very different future scenarios for...

7 Ways to Build Your Pension

• ISBN:
• 1845280822
• Authors:
• Anthony Vice

Is there a pensions crisis? Yes! 16m people (half the UK workforce) are facing retirement poverty i.e. surviving on less than 40 per cent of their pre-retirement income. Government reports that 3m people are seriously under-saving, and up to 10m are not saving enough. Currently 2.75m pensioners (mainly women) are already at poverty level. By 2050, 75 per cent of pensioners will face means testing for state benefits.

Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics

• ISBN:
• 1859737110
• Authors:
• Vangelis Calotychos

The glorious, classical legacy of Greece is universally revered. But this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever relinquish its ties with the past? Is there such a thing as "modern" Greece? This groundbreaking book brings together a fascinating mix of literary texts, maps and aspects of material culture to uncover the identity of modern Greece, from the compositional process of the first National Poet to the first feminist text, the...

Excel for the CEO (Excel for Professionals series)

• ISBN:
• 1932802177
• Authors:
• P. K. Hari

Presenting innovative Microsoft Excel techniques for top management professionals, this reference for company leaders who do not have the time to attend courses or read bulky books on the program provides basics, special shortcuts, and tips that cover the special features of Excel. Useful facts, trivia, and insider secrets about Excel are interspersed throughout the text, and readers have the choice of jumping directly to the section of...

An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: An Outline of Theories, Implementation, and Application with Special Consideration of English, French, and German (Cognitive Technologies)

• ISBN:
• 354025031X
• Authors:
• Pierre M. Nugues

The areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics have continued to grow in recent years, driven by the demand to automatically process text and spoken data. With the processing power and techniques now available, research is scaling up from lab prototypes to real-world, proven applications. This book teaches the principles of natural language processing, first covering linguistics issues such as encoding, entropy, and...

India: Emerging Power

• ISBN:
• 0195660358
• Authors:
• Stephen P. Cohen

For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia. Its pluralist, secular democracy has allowed the rise of hitherto deprived castes and ethnic communities. Economic liberalization is gathering steam, with six percent annual growth and annual exports in excess of $30 billion....

Text, Speech and Dialogue: 7th International Conference, TSD 2004, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-11, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

• ISBN:
• 3540230491

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2004, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004. The 78 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and...

Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion

• ISBN:
• 0060191449
• Authors:
• Alan Flusser

Dressing the Man is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and look stylish without becoming fashion victims. Alan Flusser's name is synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of men's clothes with his signature wit and elegance to address the fundamental paradox of modern men's fashion: Why, after men today have spent more money on clothes than in any other period of...

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

• ISBN:
• 0060773340
• Authors:
• Fred Kaplan

For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln , acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's sixteenth president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment. Like the other great canonical writers of American literature—a status he is gradually attaining—Lincoln...

Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story

• ISBN:
• 0061562424
• Authors:
• Ricardo S. Sanchez, Donald T. Phillips

Amid all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent—until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle , Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global war on terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling exploration of America's historic military and foreign policy blunder. With unflinching candor, Sanchez...

You Already Know Italian: Learn the Easiest 5,000 Italian Words and Phrases That Are Nearly Identico to English

• ISBN:
• 0071464891
• Authors:
• Raymond Lowry

That's right, you already know Italian--even if you never took a language course in your life! Many of the words you know in English are similar and often the same in Italian, such as arte and delizioso . And pizza , bambino , and diva have been part of our lexicon for so long you forget they were ever "foreign." You Already Know Italian is the easiest and fastest way to build your Italian vocabulary by using your prior knowledge as the...

Italian Demystified: A Self Teaching Guide

• ISBN:
• 0071476598
• Authors:
• Marcel Danesi

You can learn to speak Italian in no time-- capisci ? It's time to say arrivederci to your fears of learning a new language. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll have no problema speaking and understanding Italian. Presto ! Before you know it, you'll get past ciao and really be able to converse. Beginning with everyday Italian expressions and a review of basic pronunciation, Italian Demystified covers key grammar fundamentals such as common...

The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk: Foreword by Martha Sears, RN (Breastfeeding Mothers Guide)

• ISBN:
• 007159857X
• Authors:
• Diana West, Lisa Marasco

Concerned about making enough milk for your baby? Wondering how to make more? Two lactation experts are here to help. Separate fact from fiction with help from this comprehensive book about improving low milk supply. Written by two leading experts who have been there themselves and officially recommended by La Leche League International, The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk incorporates the latest research and discoveries about...

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 QuickSteps

• ISBN:
• 0072232285
• Authors:
• John Cronan

Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on Excel 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don't break the flow of the quick steps themselves.

Betting on America: Why the US Can Be Stronger After September 11

• ISBN:
• 0130460788
• Authors:
• James W. Cortada, Edward Wakin

Authors examine the long-term impact of 9-11 at every level, from our most private personal relationships to the choices we make as a society, as we seek to respond to new threats without compromising our most cherished values. Shows us how the lessons of history can help us act more wisely, more realistically, and with greater confidence.

Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192801562
• Authors:
• Marc Mulholland

This highly readable exploration of the central issues and debates about Northern Ireland sets these in the historical context of hundreds of years of conflict. It tackles many questions, such as: What accounts for the perpetuation of ethnic and religious conflict in Ireland? Why has armed violence proven so hard to control? Who are the major figures and issues in the conflict? Can we expect more "Northern Irelands" in the future?

Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192801686
• Authors:
• Charles Townshend

This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism represents, how far media publicity sustains terrorism,...

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192802186
• Authors:
• James Fulcher

This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the crisis tendencies of capitalism--including the S.E. Asian banking crisis, the collapse of the Russian economy, and the 1997-1998 global financial...

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 019280510X
• Authors:
• Margaret Walters

This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries. Walters examines the difficulties and inequities that women still face, more than forty years after the "new wave" of 1960s feminism--difficulties, particularly, in...

Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence (Elt)

• ISBN:
• 0194572137
• Authors:
• A. Ashley

The essential reference guide to writing effective business correspondence now revised and updated.

They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

• ISBN:
• 0195064690
• Authors:
• Paul F. Boller Jr., John George

Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical...

Cardiac Development

• ISBN:
• 019517819X
• Authors:
• Margaret L. Kirby

This is the only in-depth, single author survey of heart development. It will provide a more systematic, up-to-date synthesis of the subject than any other volume, spanning the range from classical anatomical studies to recent findings in molecular biology. It also covers topics that are often omitted from discussions of heart development, such as myocardial function, cardiac innervation, and conduction development and clinical correlates will...

World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security

• ISBN:
• 0195179951
• Authors:
• Thomas F. Farr

Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component. One need only consider Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and Palestine, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Russia, and China, to name but a few. Looming behind national issues, of course, is the problem of regional Islamist extremism and transnational Islamist terrorism. In all of these sectors, religious tensions, ideas and actors are of great geo-political importance to...

Blogwars: The New Political Battleground

• ISBN:
• 0195305574
• Authors:
• David D. Perlmutter

Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have? In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life....

Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham

• ISBN:
• 0199230811
• Authors:
• Blair Worden

In this book the pre-eminent history of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile and dramatic changes of public mood and circumstance. Two figures are shown to have been prominent in...

Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union

• ISBN:
• 0199231869
• Authors:
• Jan Zielonka

This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution. Its prime focus is the last wave of enlargement that has profoundly transformed the EU. Although there are many parallels between the European integration process and state building processes, the Union is nothing like a Westphalian super state. The new emerging polity resembles a kind of...

Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics

• ISBN:
• 0199251436
• Authors:
• Christopher Bobonich

Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich examines later dialogues, with a special emphasis upon the Laws, and argues that in these late works, Plato both rethinks and revises the basic ethical and poltical positions that he held in his better-known earlier works, such as the Republic. This book will change our understanding...

The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

• ISBN:
• 0199289646
• Authors:
• Dr Geoff Mulgan

The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money,...

Making Social Sciences More Scientific: The Need for Predictive Models

• ISBN:
• 0199534667
• Authors:
• Rein Taagepera

In his challenging new book Rein Taagepera argues that society needs more from social sciences than they have delivered. One reason for falling short is that social sciences have depended excessively on regression and other statistical approaches, neglecting logical model building. Science is not only about the empirical 'What is?' but also very much about the conceptual 'How should it be on logical grounds?' Statistical approaches are...

Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy (Oxford Political Theory)

• ISBN:
• 0199550212
• Authors:
• Cecile Laborde

The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political theory and defends a progressive republican solution to so-called multicultural conflicts in contemporary societies. It critically assesses the official republican philosophy of laicite which purported to justify the 2004 ban on religious signs in...

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

• ISBN:
• 0226502597
• Authors:
• Saree Makdisi

Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many...

Same Sex, Different Politics: Success and Failure in the Struggles over Gay Rights (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0226544095
• Authors:
• Gary Mucciaroni

Why is it so much harder for American same-sex couples to get married than it is for them to adopt children? And why does our military prevent gays from serving openly even though jurisdictions nationwide continue to render such discrimination illegal? Illuminating the conditions that engender these contradictory policies, Same Sex, Different Politics explains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from...

Inside Al Qaeda

• ISBN:
• 0231126921
• Authors:
• Rohan Gunaratna

examines the leadership, ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics of the most violent politico-religious organization the world has ever seen. The definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, including extensive interviews with its members; field research in Al Qaeda-supported conflict zones in Central, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East; and monitoring Al Qaeda infiltration of diaspora and migrant...

Constitutional Patriotism

• ISBN:
• 0691118590
• Authors:
• Jan-Werner Muller

Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a novel approach to thinking about political belonging and the...

Democratic Faith (New Forum Books)

• ISBN:
• 069111871X
• Authors:
• Patrick Deneen

The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to...

Candle Power: Using Candlelight For Ritual, Magic & Self-Discovery

• ISBN:
• 0713727675
• Authors:
• Cassandra Eason

Use the ancient power of candles to carry out rituals, cheer festivities, celebrate rites of passage, and much more. Begin the candle enchantment by matching the color to the work you want to do; link candles to astrology; recall past lives; perform healing ceremonies; and overcome fears. Perfume the air with scented candles--each aroma has a special significance. Inscribe a candle with your deepest wishes. Captivating photographs and...

The History of Jamaica: From its Discovery by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1872 (Cass Library of West Indian Studies, No. 17)

• ISBN:
• 0714619388
• Authors:
• William Gardner

This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and the mass of pamphlet literature which had been published over the years.

The History of Aden

• ISBN:
• 0714631019
• Authors:
• Dr Z H Kour

The Power of Verbal Intelligence: 10 Ways to Tap into Your Verbal Genius

• ISBN:
• 0722540493
• Authors:
• Tony Buzan

Simple techniques to help improve your recall How to be brilliant with words -- reading, speaking, remembering and understanding them! Includes the best of Buzan's world-famous techniques for improving recall and understanding. Increase your vocabulary. Learn to speed read.

Microsoft® Excel Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 0735612811
• Authors:
• Mark Dodge, Craig Stinson

MICROSOFT EXCEL Version 2002 INSIDE OUT is the foremost reference to Excel version 2002 for PC "super users". Complete in one volume, this book provides a thorough overview of the most-used features and functions of Microsoft's popular spreadsheet program. The book provides the information advanced users really need. It delivers comprehensive information about each major Excel tool and task, including using worksheets, analyzing data,...

Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications

• ISBN:
• 0738703990
• Authors:
• Raymond Buckland

Buckland's Book of Spirit Communication is for anyone who wishes to communicate with spirits, as well as for the less adventurous who simply want to satisfy their curiosity about the subject. Explore the nature of the physical body and learn how to prepare yourself to become a medium. Experience for yourself the trance state, clairvoyance, psychometry, table tipping, levitation, talking boards, automatic writing, spiritual photography, spiritual...

So you want to be a Medium: A Down to Earth Guide

• ISBN:
• 0738708569
• Authors:
• Rose Vanden Eynden

Are you fascinated by the spirit world? Wish you could communicate with loved ones on the Other Side? According to Spiritualist minister Rose Vanden Eynden, everyone possesses innate capabilities for spirit communication. Emphasizing the principles of modern Spiritualism, So You Want to Be a Medium? demonstrates how to enhance one's spiritual senses for working between worlds. Through exercises involving meditation, breathing, dream work,...

Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares (Globalization (Lanham, MD.).)

• ISBN:
• 0742525031
• Authors:
• Jamal R. Nassar

Globalization and terrorism are both fraught concepts; people use them loosely without regard for exactitude and often to further political ends. This book carefully defines these concepts, puts them in historical as well as political context, and then amplifies the basics with an exploration of the way in which the dreams inspired by globalization can translate all too easily into the nightmare of terrorism.

The Company Secretary's Handbook: A Guide to Duties and Responsibilities

• ISBN:
• 0749447559
• Authors:
• Helen Ashton

All public and private limited companies are required by law to appoint a company secretary. This is a practical handbook designed to help newly appointed company secretaries do their job efficiently and comply with Company Law. The secretary, as an officer of the company, may be criminally liable for defaults, and errors can lead to civil penalties. This invaluable desk top companion will help anyone get to grips with all the basic aspects of...

Engineering Contracts

• ISBN:
• 0750624981
• Authors:
• ROBERT RIBEIRO

Engineering Contracts is intended for those who wish to acquire skills in drafting, negotiating and working with commercial and engineering contracts. It aims to bring a different approach to the subject; combining the traditional legal perspective of the law of contract with the needs of the commercial manager or engineer who is seeking solutions to technical and commercial problems. The context within which these matters are examined is as...

History of Architectural Conservation (CONSERVATION AND MUSEOLOGY)

• ISBN:
• 0750655119
• Authors:
• Jukka Jokilehto

A History of Architectural Conservation expands knowledge about the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. It includes the origins of the interest in conservation within the European context, and the development of the concepts from Antiquity and the Renaissance to the present day. Jokilehto illustrates how this development has influenced international collaboration in the protection and conservation of cultural...

Architect's Guide to Feng Shui: Exploding the Myth

• ISBN:
• 0750656069
• Authors:
• Cate Bramble

Cate Bramble has devoted her career to highlighting the differences between 'feng shui-lite' as a fashionable pursuit in contrast to the original intentions of the Chinese masters. Here she presents the authentic principles in a technical, no-nonsense pocket book specifically for architects. As clients become more demanding and the competition for projects heats up, the architect is well advised to have many strings to their bow. This practical...

American Government and Politics: A Concise Introduction

• ISBN:
• 0761940936
• Authors:
• Dr. Robert P. Singh

Textbook designed to provide an introduction for students of politics coming to the subject for the first time. Overviews main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex political systems in the world. Includes glossary of key terms, discussion and summary, extensive Web links, and guides to further reading. Hardcover, softcover available.

Understanding Democratic Politics: An Introduction

• ISBN:
• 0761971831

Text provides an ideal introduction and survey to the key themes and issues central to the study and understanding of democratic politics today. Structured around three major parts: concepts, institutions and political behavior, and ideologies and movements. Includes tutorial questions. Softcover, hardcover available.

German Headgear in World War II: Army/Luftwaffe/Kriegsmarine: A Photographic Study of German Hats and Helmets

• ISBN:
• 0764301764
• Authors:
• Pat Moran, Jon Maguire

This two volume set by Pat Moran and Jon Maguire illustrates, in full color, over 240 visor hats and helmets of the German: Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, SS, NSDAP, Police, Civilian, and miscellaneous formations. Each peaked hat is shown from four angles, including interior, and insignia detail. These volumes are a must for collectors of German headgear and militaria, as well as modelers and students of military uniforms.

The One-Hour Activist: The 15 Most Powerful Actions You Can Take to Fight for the Issues and Candidates You Care About

• ISBN:
• 0787973009
• Authors:
• Christopher Kush

No matter what your political persuasion, The One-Hour Activist is your guide to influencing lawmakers, candidates, and reporters.  The One-Hour Activist reveals fifteen powerful, proven grassroots actions that persuade lawmakers and candidates to see things your way.  Each action is designed to grab the attention of your representatives and build relationships that serve your issues over the long run.  And each action takes less than an...

Special Edition Using Microsoft(R) Office Excel 2007

• ISBN:
• 078973611X
• Authors:
• Bill Jelen

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 will ease the upgrade path to the lastest version of Microsoft best-selling spreadsheet program. The author, "Mr. Excel "  introduces you to the new interface, allowing  you to quickly get back up-to-speed in performing your job, and will then introduce the powerful new features available in Excel 2007. Among other skills, you will learn how to create amazing data visualizations using...

Oscar Arias Sanchez (Modern Peacemakers)

• ISBN:
• 0791089991
• Authors:
• Vicki Cox

Oscar Arias Sanchez was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the civil unrest raging in several Central American countries at that time. Then the president of Costa Rica, Sanchez was the main architect of the Esquipulas II Accords, a plan to promote democracy and peace in the region during a time of great turmoil and outside influence in the midst of the cold war. This in-depth biography, which traces Oscar Arias Sanchez's...

Desmond Tutu (Modern Peacemakers)

• ISBN:
• 0791092216
• Authors:
• Samuel Willard Crompton

Cleric and civil rights activist Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. The Nobel Committee called Tutu "a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa...the Committee wishes to direct attention to the non-violent struggle for liberation to which Desmond Tutu belongs, a struggle in which black and white South Africans unite to bring their country out of conflict and crisis." Born in...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964: An End to Racial Segregation (Milestones in American History)

• ISBN:
• 0791093557
• Authors:
• Judy L. Hasday

Considered the most important U.S. civil rights law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and passed by his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, the following year. The landmark law prohibiting discrimination in public facilities, government, and employment based on race, color, religion, or national origin is brought to life in this meticulously researched and excitingly illustrated volume from the new...

Child Abduction and Kidnapping (Criminal Investigations)

• ISBN:
• 0791094030
• Authors:
• Susan O'Brien

According to the U.S Department of Justice, more than 250,000 children are abducted each year. Most are family abductions, in which a child is taken by a family member or a person known to them. Others are non-family abductions, in which a child is taken for motives ranging from ransom to stealing a child to start a family. "Child Abduction and Kidnapping" explains the types of kidnappings, details government and law enforcement efforts to...

Organized Crime (Criminal Investigations)

• ISBN:
• 0791094103
• Authors:
• Michael Benson

Organized crime has long posed one of the greatest criminal challenges to law enforcement. Considered a different type of crime than those committed by individuals or small groups of criminals, these are crimes committed by an organized mob that work together and share in the profits. From the criminal gangs in early American history, to the outlaw gangs of the Old West, to the bootleggers of Prohibition, organized crime has a long history in...

Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work With Them (S U N Y Series in Dream Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0791452573
• Authors:
• Stanley Krippner, Fariba Bogzaran, Andre Percia De Carvalho

Discusses the various types of extraordinary dreams and offers suggestions to readers for interpreting and appreciating their own extraordinary dreams.

Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion (Suny Series in Dream Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0791457877

Anthropological perspectives on dreams around the world.

Defining NASA: The Historical Debate Over The Agency's Mission

• ISBN:
• 0791463826
• Authors:
• W. D. Kay

Contemporary American Federalism: The Growth of National Power

• ISBN:
• 0791475956
• Authors:
• Joseph F. Zimmerman

Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.

Robust Speech Recognition in Embedded Systems and PC Applications (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

• ISBN:
• 0792378733
• Authors:
• Jean-Claude Junqua

Robust Speech Recognition in Embedded Systems and PC Applications provides a link between the technology and the application worlds. As speech recognition technology is now good enough for a number of applications and the core technology is well established around hidden Markov models many of the differences between systems found in the field are related to implementation variants. We distinguish between embedded systems and PC-based...

Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe

• ISBN:
• 0801885051
• Authors:
• Zachary Shore

While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe's Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic alliance.Europe's failure to integrate its Muslim millions, combined with America's battered image in the Muslim world, have...

Ventilation and Airflow in Buildings: Methods for Diagnosis and Evaluation (Buildings, Energy and Solar Technology Series)

• ISBN:
• 184407451X
• Authors:
• Claude-Alain Roulet

Energy efficiency in buildings requires, among other things, that ventilation be appropriately dimensioned: too much ventilation wastes energy, and insufficient ventilation leads to poor indoor air quality and low comfort. Studies have shown that ventilation systems seldom function according to their commissioned design. They have also shown that airflow measurement results are essential in improving a ventilation system. This key handbook...

The Tenant Survival Guide: Essential Reading for Prospective Tenants and Those Already in Rented Accomodation

• ISBN:
• 1845282310
• Authors:
• Lesley Henderson

The Tenant's Survival Guide is the definitive guide to renting accommodation, containing clear and concise information unobtainable from any other single source. It includes: what to look for during viewings; how to protect your deposit; inventories - the practical essentials; what happens if you decide to leave or the landlord gives you notice to quit; checklist of essentials; useful standard letters; and, how to live within the legally defined...

Unfunding Terror: The Legal Response to the Financing of Global Terrorism

• ISBN:
• 1845429621
• Authors:
• Jimmy Gurule

`Jimmy Gurulé knows how to bankrupt terrorists like few others do. As Undersecretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, he spearheaded the fight against al-Qaeda's global bank accounts, helping to earn the highest grade awarded on the 9/11 Commissioners' report card. As an author, he performs once again. Unfunding Terror provides policymakers and laymen alike a clear roadmap on how to keep terrorists out of the global financial system.' - Timothy...

Is There Hope for Uncle Sam?

• ISBN:
• 1848130228
• Authors:
• Jan Nederveen Pieterse

For over a century now, America has dominated global politics and the global imagination. Yet as the dollar declines, inequality increases, rates of consumption are unprecedented and American unilateralism comes under fire, such hegemony is increasingly unsustainable. In this provocative new book, leading sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse asks whether it’s possible for America to chart a different course. In this book, he argues that...

Pink Icing and Other Stories

• ISBN:
• 1897178328
• Authors:
• Pamela Mordecai

Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal. Mordecai turns a sharp ear to the nuances of everyday speech, exposing the currents beneath the calm exterior and producing complex tales that will challenge and entertain her readers. Pamela...

The End of Politics: New Labour and the Folly of Managerialism

• ISBN:
• 1905641176
• Authors:
• Chris Dillow

New Labour's distinctive idea is that equality and efficiency are partners, not enemies. This, the book argues, is an example of managerialist ideology - the belief that trade-offs between conflicting values can be managed away by clever policies, that management can replace politics. This is not true. New Labour's main economic policies - tax credits, the minimum wage, expanding higher education and promoting macroeconomic stability - have not...

Excel for Marketing Managers (Excel for Professionals series)

• ISBN:
• 1932802134
• Authors:
• Ivana Taylor, Bill Jelen

The most powerful Microsoft Excel features that can be used to sort through data to produce meaningful marketing analyses are outlined in this manual. Marketing managers will learn the math functions to produce budgets and forecasts, and how to use survey analysis to quickly spot trends using pivot tables and other analysis tools. Ideas for launch schedules, life cycle management, and other date-related information are also presented.

Learn Excel 97 Through Excel 2007 from Mr. Excel: 377 Excel Mysteries Solved!

• ISBN:
• 1932802274
• Authors:
• Bill Jelen

Updating the previous edition's tips to make them compatible with Excel 2007, and featuring new tips that are only available in Excel 2007, this new edition of Mr. Excel's popular software guide even incorporates suggestions sent in by readers. Each featured topic has a problem statement and description, followed by a broad strategy for solving the problem. Mr. Excel then walks readers through through the specific steps to solve the...

Information Structure and its Interfaces (Interface Explorations)

• ISBN:
• 3110208776
• Authors:
• Mereu, Lunella

The volume presents recent results in the field of Information Structure based on research on Italian and Italian dialects, and on further studies on several typologically different languages. The central idea is that Information Structure is not an exclusive matter of syntax but an interface issue which involves the interplay of at least the phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic-pragmatic levels of analysis. In addition, the volume is...

Heat and Mass Transfer

• ISBN:
• 3540295267
• Authors:
• Hans Dieter Baehr, Karl Stephan

This comprehensive presentation of the whole field of heat and mass transfer makes the reader familar with the fundamentals and enables him to solve practical problems. The basic theory is developed systematically, and the solution methods to all important problems are covered in detail. Therefore, this book will be useful not only to students, but likewise to scientists and practising engineers. All areas of heat and mass transfer are dealt...

Costs of Air Pollution Control

• ISBN:
• 354043934X
• Authors:
• Stefan Reis

The author starts with an introduction in the situation of air pollution in Europe in the late 1990s and puts the impact of photooxidant concentrations into perspective. From there, emmission sources are analysed in detail and a scenario for a business-as-usual development is introduced. Indicating the importance of cost assessment and the need for cost-effective abatement strategies, the book then brings together measures and costs and...

Springer Handbook of Speech Processing

• ISBN:
• 3540491252
• Authors:
• Jacob Benesty

From common consumer products such as cell phones and MP3 players to more sophisticated projects such as human-machine interfaces and responsive robots, speech technologies are now everywhere. Many think that it is just a matter of time before more applications of the science of speech become inescapable in our daily life. This handbook is meant to play a fundamental role for sustainable progress in speech research and development. Springer...

Food Microbiology

• ISBN:
• 0854046119
• Authors:
• M.R. Adams, M.O. Moss

This widely acclaimed text covers the whole field of modern food microbiology. Now in its second edition, it has been revised and updated throughout and includes new sections on stress response, Mycobacterium spp., risk analysis and new foodborne health problems such as BSE. Food Microbiology covers the three main aspects of interaction between micro-organisms and food - spoilage, foodborne illness and fermentation - and the positive and...

Aircraft Carrier: Graf Zeppelin (Schiffer Military History)

• ISBN:
• 0887402429
• Authors:
• Siegfried Breyer

This book presents an account of the use and actions of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, one of the primary pieces of the German navy in WWII.

Crop Biosecurity: Assuring our Global Food Supply (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)

• ISBN:
• 1402084757
• Authors:
• Maria Lodovica Gullino

Agriculture is a key sector for the economy of many countries and it can be potentially exposed to deliberate attacks which can have dramatic economic consequences in the food, feed, and fibre sectors. Intentional introduction of certain microbes may have serious rebounds even on human health when food results contaminated after harvesting of crops and processing of raw materials. Programmes aimed at attacks against agriculture and the agro-food...

Citizenship and Political Education Today

• ISBN:
• 140393553X

Citizenship and Political Education Today brings together essays from leading researchers around the world including discussion of politics and education in England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Norway and the wider European Union. The contributors examine vital issues surrounding the engagement of citizens in politics and political institutions, particularly the role of education in encouraging active citizenship.

The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis

• ISBN:
• 1557989354
• Authors:
• G. William Domhoff

Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. Presents a neurocognitive model of dreams, drawing from empirical research to explain the process of dreaming and the nature of dream content. Explains the neural and cognitive bases for dreaming, how dreams express conceptions and concerns, and the limits to understanding dream content.

Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration (Public Administration and Public Policy)

• ISBN:
• 1574445650

In the past few decades, the field of transportation has changed dramatically. Deregulation and greater reliance on markets and the private sector has helped to reconfigure the transport industries, while the rise of intermodal goods and global commerce has produced efficiencies of operation and a greater interdependence among transport modes. In addition, security issues have moved to the forefront as officials struggle with the challenge of...

Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, And the U.S. House of Representatives (Religion and Politics Series)

• ISBN:
• 1589010728
• Authors:
• Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon

Cultural factions are an intrinsic part of the fabric of American politics. But does this mean that there is no room for compromise when groups hold radically different viewpoints on major issues? Not necessarily. For example, in a June 2003 Time/CNN poll, 49 per cent of respondents identified themselves as pro-choice and 46 per cent identified as pro-life. But in the same poll, 81 per cent indicated that abortion should be "always legal" or...

Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital

• ISBN:
• 1842774786
• Authors:
• Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J. Hinkelammert

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. The authors describe the historically specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. They trace this history from earliest historical times and show how, in the hands of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in...

Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital And Control In A Colonial Economy

• ISBN:
• 9766401659
• Authors:
• B. W. Higman

Plantation Jamaica analyses the important but neglected role of the attorneys who managed estates, chiefly for absentee proprietors, and assesses their efficiency and impact on Jamaica during slavery and freedom. Meticulous research based on a variety of sources, including the attorneys' letters, plantation papers and slave registration records, provides rich quantitative and literary data describing the attorneys' role, status, range of...

Make Your Own Working Paper Clock

• ISBN:
• 0060910666
• Authors:
• James Smith Rudolph

Cut this book into 160 pieces, glue them together, and have a paper clock operated by weights that keeps perfect time and can be rewound and regulated.

For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism

• ISBN:
• 0198279523
• Authors:
• Maurizio Viroli

Reconstructing the historical meaning of the terms nationalism and patriotism, Viroli shows how the two concepts have been used within specific cultural and ideological contexts. He reviews the political thought of modern and early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on France, Italy, England, and Germany, and comes up with a fundamental difference between patriotism and nationalism. Viroli argues that patriotism and nationalism are two...

Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Institutional Engineering (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

• ISBN:
• 0199241678

This volume--the first in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe--examines the constraints and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe. The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. Avoiding complex debates about definitions, methods, and the uses and misuses of comparative research, this book instead tries to...

Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

• ISBN:
• 0199241686

This second volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe analyzes the external parameters of such a consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries. It explores how different international actors and various economic, cultural, and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region, especially over the last decade.

Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland 1910-1916

• ISBN:
• 019927357X
• Authors:
• Michael Wheatley

John Redmond's constitutional, parliamentary, Irish Party went from dominating Irish politics to oblivion in just four years from 1914-1918. The goal of limited Home Rule, peacefully achieved, appeared to die with it. Given the speed of the party's collapse, its death has been seen as inevitable. Though such views have been challenged, there has been no detailed study of the Irish Party in the last years of union with Britain, before the world...

No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog

• ISBN:
• 032144972X
• Authors:
• Margaret Mason

Tired of filling up your blog with boring posts? Take the next step and get inspired to create something unique. Author Margaret Mason shows you the way with this fun collection of inspirational ideas for your blog. Nobody Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog is a unique idea-book for bloggers seeking fun, creative inspiration. Margaret gives writers the prompts they need to describe, imagine, investigate and generate clever...

Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers: Theory, Design and Application

• ISBN:
• 0415471745
• Authors:
• Trevor Cox, Peter D'antonio

Absorbers and diffusers are two of the main design tools for altering the acoustic conditions of rooms, semi-enclosed spaces and the outdoor environment. Their correct use is important for delivering high quality acoustics. Unique and authoritative, this book decribes how to effectively measure, model, design and apply diffusers and absorbers. It is a resource for new and experienced acousticians, seeking an understanding of the evolution,...

Instrumental Methods in Food Analysis (Techniques and Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry)

• ISBN:
• 0444818685

Instrumental Methods in Food Analysis is aimed at graduate students in the science, technology and engineering of food and nutrition who have completed an advanced course in food analysis. The book is designed to fit in with one or more such courses, as it covers the whole range of methods applied to food analysis, including chromatographic techniques (HPLC and GC), spectroscopic techniques (AA and ICP), electroanalytical and electrophoresis...

The IT Girl's Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva

• ISBN:
• 0470149167
• Authors:
• Ani Babaian

Apply Excel daily and smooth out life's wrinkles Who knew a spreadsheet could do as much for you as your favorite moisturizer? Become a Microsoft Excel Diva with this sassy guide and discover what hip IT Girls already know: smart is beautiful. Impress the heck out of everyone at work with your stylish reports. Do a budget and see exactly what you can spend on shoes. Get better organized. Who has time for dull technical manuals? Learn all of...

Beating Low Cost Competition: How Premium Brands can respond to Cut-Price Rivals

• ISBN:
• 0470742976
• Authors:
• Adrian Ryans

Low cost competitors, who offer “good enough” products and services at very attractive prices, are currently significantly impacting the businesses of many leading companies, and some are starting to “move up” to challenge the traditional companies in their core markets. It’s only a matter of time before most companies will feel the pressure from these aggressive, cut-price competitors. Beating Low Cost Competition   offers a...

The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations

• ISBN:
• 0521515890
• Authors:
• John A. Booth, Mitchell A. Seligson

Political scientists for more than two decades have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the "legitimacy puzzle," which this book addresses by examining political legitimacy's structure, sources, and effects. With exhaustive empirical analysis of high-quality survey data from eight...

Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law

• ISBN:
• 0521678056

In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and...

Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (Ideas in Context)

• ISBN:
• 0521792657
• Authors:
• Ian Hunter

Rival Enlightenments is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideia, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant's supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This landmark study argues that the marginalization of civil philosophy in...

The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School

• ISBN:
• 0521854970
• Authors:
• Douglas Moggach

The period leading up to the Revolutions of 1848 is a seminal moment in the history of political thought, demarcating the ideological currents and defining the problems of freedom and social cohesion, which are among the key issues of modern politics. This anthology offers new research on Hegel's followers in the 1830s and 1840s. Including essays by well-known philosophers, political scientists, and historians from Europe and North America, it...

Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations

• ISBN:
• 0674017617
• Authors:
• Peter D. Feaver

How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not...

Seismic Design for Architects

• ISBN:
• 0750685506
• Authors:
• Andrew Charleson

Seismic Design for Architects shows how structural requirements for seismic resistance can become an integral part of the design process. Structural integrity does not have to be at the expense of innovative, high standard design in seismically active zones. * By emphasizing design and discussing key concepts with accompanying visual material, architects are given the background knowledge and practical tools needed to deal with aspects of...

Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Suny Series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues)

• ISBN:
• 079145441X
• Authors:
• Laura Janara

The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America.

Exam Classes (Resource Books for Teachers)

• ISBN:
• 0194372081
• Authors:
• Peter May

This resource book contains 90 practical activities for teaching exam classes. It includes sections on the four skills, plus "grammar" and "integrated skills". There is an exam-type index to help teachers select activities appropriate for their particular class. The book also provides information about the main public ELT examinations set by the British, European and American boards.

Animal Architecture (Oxford Animal Biology)

• ISBN:
• 0198507518
• Authors:
• Mike Hansell

Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the animal kingdom and affects the survival of both builders and other organisms associated with them. "Animal Architecture" provides a comprehensive overview of the biology of animal building. The book recognizes three broad categories of built structure - homes, traps, and courtship displays. Even though some of these structures are complex and very large, the behaviour required to...

The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion

• ISBN:
• 0199557020

Over the last two decades, scientific accounts of religion have received a great deal of scholarly and popular attention both because of their intrinsic interest and because they are widely as constituting a threat to the religion they analyse. The Believing Primate aims to describe and discuss these scientific accounts as well as to assess their implications. The volume begins with essays by leading scientists in the field, describing these...

One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

• ISBN:
• 0262112655
• Authors:
• Miwon Kwon

Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent...

Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography

• ISBN:
• 0262122308
• Authors:
• David Leatherbarrow

Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground , David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris...

Designing Interactions

• ISBN:
• 0262134748
• Authors:
• Bill Moggridge

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions , award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology....

Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life

• ISBN:
• 0262232111
• Authors:
• Volker M. Welter

The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning. At the turn of the twentieth century, he was one of the strongest advocates of town planning and an active participant in debates about the future of the city. He was arguably the first planner to recognize the importance of historic city centers, and his renewal work in Edinburgh’s Old Town...

Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy (Writing Architecture)

• ISBN:
• 0262561336
• Authors:
• Luis Fernández-Galiano

In Fire and Memory , Luis Fernández-Galiano reconstructs the movement from cold to warm architecture, from building fire to building a building with and for fire, through what he calls a "metaphorical plundering" of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and economics, and in particular of ecology and thermodynamics. Beginning with the mythical fire in the origins of architecture and moving to its symbolic representation in the twentieth...

A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture)

• ISBN:
• 0262720345
• Authors:
• Paul Virilio

introduction by Bernard Tschumi In A Landscape of Events , the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's...

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Managing Information Technology

• ISBN:
• 0275995453
• Authors:
• CJ Rhoads

Software. Hardware. Networks. Wireless. Entrepreneurs face a bewildering array of choices and decisions when it comes to incorporating technology into the fabric of their businesses. Yet nothing could be more important these days. Aligning information technology (IT) with business strategy is essential to meet and beat the competition. As business strategy and technology expert CJ Rhoads shows, managing information technology effectively is an...

Implementing SOA : Total Architecture in Practice

• ISBN:
• 0321504720
• Authors:
• Paul C. Brown

Putting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) into Practice “This book is a must-have for enterprise architects implementing SOA. Through practical examples, it explains the relationship between business requirements, business process design, and service architecture. By tying the SOA implementation directly to business value, it reveals the key to ongoing success and funding.”         —Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect,...

Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web

• ISBN:
• 0321529170
• Authors:
• Gene Smith

Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and manage digital information. Tagging complements traditional organizational tools like folders and search on users desktops as well as on the web. These developments mean that tagging has broad implications for information management, information architecture and interface design. And its reach extends beyond these technical domains to our culture at large. We can imagine, for...

Numerical Approximation Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems: Finite and Boundary Elements (Texts in Applied Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0387313125
• Authors:
• Olaf Steinbach

The book contains chapter summaries and excercises at the end of each chapter.

The Mathematical Experience

• ISBN:
• 0395929687
• Authors:
• Phillip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

This is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and personalities.

Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection

• ISBN:
• 0415086027
• Authors:
• Peter Munz

Philosophical Darwinism brings an entirely new perspective to contemporary debates. It has far-reaching implications for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and questions attempts from the field of biology to reduce mental events to neural processes. Most importantly, it provides a rational postmodern alternative to what the author views as the unreasonable postmodern theories of Kuhn, Lyotard, and Rorty.

European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

• ISBN:
• 0415307368
• Authors:
• Thompson/Dam/Je

Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details. Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making through all stages of the design process. The book includes the study of the choice of materials and...

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

• ISBN:
• 0415325188
• Authors:
• Simon Bell

In Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape the author explains a range of design principles using tangible, relevant examples covering all types of landscape.

'Whole-Brain' Behaviour Management in the Classroom: Every Piece of the Puzzle

• ISBN:
• 0415411807
• Authors:
• Chri Derrington

Representing a brave and insightful shift away from narrow perspectives on behaviour management, this book draws practitioners towards a more holistic understanding of ourselves and how we impact on children’s learning and behaviour. The authors’ brilliant new conceptual model of ‘whole-brain’ behaviour management challenges existing theories about the management of children’s behavioural issues. Their pioneering ‘whole-brain’...

Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings: .

• ISBN:
• 0415441242
• Authors:
• David Highfield, Christopher Gorse

A detailed guide to the technical aspects of refurbishing and upgrading buildings, this book provides solutions to a range of problems, challenges and issues and is essential reading for all students studying building refurbishment at all levels. Includes: existing floor and wall strengthening facade retention introduction of new floors timber decay problems fire-resistance prevention of moisture and damp upgrading thermal and acoustic...

Urban Geography: A Global Perspective

• ISBN:
• 0415462029
• Authors:
• Michael Pacione

This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.

Engineering Noise Control: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 0415487072
• Authors:
• David Bies, Colin Hansen

This book should be of interest to intermediate and advanced undergraduate mechanical engineering students; accoustical and noise-control consultants, practising engineers, architects and all other professionals concerned with noise abatement and control.

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes

• ISBN:
• 0419256806
• Authors:
• Simon Bell: Dea

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as well as providing practical guidance on methods and tools. Including a variety of international case studies the book focuses on ecosystem regeneration, the management of natural forests and the management of plantation forests. Using visualisation techniques, design processes and...

Knitting Patterns For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

• ISBN:
• 0470045566
• Authors:
• Kristi Porter

Have you always wanted to knit? Know the basics, but you’re looking to stretch your knitting skills? Knitting Patterns For Dummies is chock-full of simple instructions and easy-to-follow patterns to help you create a wide range of classic, beautiful knits for the whole family, from clothing to household items to gift ideas. This fun, friendly guide gives you scores of new ways to have fun with needles and yarn, with great projects such as...

Knitting VISUAL Quick Tips

• ISBN:
• 0470077824
• Authors:
• Sharon Turner

Solutions to common knitting quandaries are at your fingertips--anywhere you go Knitting VISUAL Quick Tips has the answers you need--fast. With detailed color photos and concise instructions, plus time-saving tips, it covers: Selecting tools and yarn Casting on and binding off Knitting and purling: English and Continental Working cables and bobbles Knitting in the round Shaping Color Knitting Correcting mistakes Finishing Adding decorative...

Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors

• ISBN:
• 0071381910
• Authors:
• Sam Kubba

An essential underpinning for every subsequent decision in interior design, effective space planning sets the stage for successful interiors. Discover a complete set of tools to help the design professional.

Implementing ITIL Configuration Management

• ISBN:
• 0132425939
• Authors:
• Larry Klosterboer

Pra ctical, Real-World ITIL Configuration Management–From Start to Finish   The IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL) places the “best practices” in IT operations at your command. ITIL helps you make better technology choices, manages IT more effectively, and drives greater business value from all your IT investments. The core of ITIL is configuration management: the discipline of identifying, tracking, and controlling your IT...

How to Read the Bible: History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference, and What It Means for Faith Today

• ISBN:
• 0195161491
• Authors:
• Steven L. McKenzie

More people read the Bible than any other book. Indeed, many try to live their lives according to its words. The question is, do they understand what they're reading? As Steven McKenzie shows in this provocative book, quite often the answer is, "No." McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible we must grasp the intentions of the biblical authors themselves--what sort of texts they thought they were writing and how they would have been...

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Gender and Culture Series)

• ISBN:
• 0231133049
• Authors:
• Victoria Rosner

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class...

Woman: An Intimate Geography

• ISBN:
• 0395691303
• Authors:
• Natalie Angier

A Pulitzer Prize-winner offers a book about femaleness --- in body and mind --- that could prove as important as The Second Sex or Our Bodies, Our Selves and as fresh as Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. With the clarity, insight, and sheer joy of language that has secured her reputation as one of the New York Times's premier stylists, Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body,...

The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire

• ISBN:
• 0415099889
• Authors:
• Graham Anderson

Graham Anderson provides a comprehensive view of the Second Sophistic, the single most important movement in 2nd century literature. Texts from this period, unlike most contemporaneous prose, came to be written as entertainment literature rather than being confined to historical subjects.Anderson describes the cultural aspirations sought by Greek sophists in the Roman Empire as well as their skills in public speaking which enabled them to...

The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol (Material Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 041510095X
• Authors:
• Malcolm Quinn

Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a...

Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World

• ISBN:
• 0415235782
• Authors:
• Suzanne Dixon

Experts assess ault to hear the voices of Roman children, vast range of evidence-inscriptions, burial data, domesticof architecture, sculpture, and the law, as well as Christianhe and dream-interpretation literature-to give a voice to Roman children, women and slaves.

Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War

• ISBN:
• 0415261473
• Authors:
• Gregory Daly

On a hot, dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Hannibal slaughtered the much larger Roman army. It was the high point of his military career. Massively outnumbered, they nevertheless won an astonishing victory-one that left more than 50,000 Romans dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling narrative recreates the infamous battle and provides a compelling...

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The 'Fascist' Style of Rule (Historical Connections)

• ISBN:
• 0415336317
• Authors:
• De Alexander

'The book is perfectly pitched...It is an impressive and clear presentation of a very complex and central historical phenomenon...It offers a provocative and approachable thesis and argument for students to debate.' Marla Stone, Occidental College 'An incredibly concise and manageable comparative analysis...Its combination of compression and comprehensiveness make it ideal for students.' Philip Morgan, University of Hull Fascist Italy and Nazi...

Curriculum Development in Nursing

• ISBN:
• 0415346304
• Authors:
• Leana Uys

Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas. Curriculum Development in Nursing offers nurse educators a single text that covers curriculum development processes, and highlights case study examples of innovation in approaches to nurse education. The book has been written by internationally well-known authors based in South Africa, who take a truly international perspective looking...

Everything You Need to Know about American History Homework: 4th to 6th Grades

• ISBN:
• 0439625203
• Authors:
• Anne Zeman, Kate Kelly

The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About series provide kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource. Researched according to middle-grade curriculum and current textbooks, and created in conjunction with subject experts, these titles answer kids' most frequently asked homework...

German For Dummies Audio Set

• ISBN:
• 0470222565
• Authors:
• Edward Swick

If you need to start speaking German Fast, but you don’t have a lot of time to study the language, German For Dummies Audio Set is the quick-learning solution for you. These three sixty-minute CDs feature fast, focused instruction that gets you quickly up to speed on essential vocabulary and language structure. This practical, portable audio set is designed to help you learn to speak German in a hurry and with no fuss, whether you’re at home...

Genealogy Online For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

• ISBN:
• 0470240571
• Authors:
• Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm

Researching your genealogy online is like being a kid in a candy store. So many neat things catch your eye that it’s difficult to decide which one to try. That’s where Genealogy Online For Dummies, 5th Edition comes in. This completely practical handbook helps you become a smart, discriminating researcher from the moment you start your investigation. Unlike other genealogy books, this easy-to-use guide does more than show you how to access...

Knitting For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

• ISBN:
• 0470287470
• Authors:
• Pam Allen, Tracy Barr, Shannon Okey

Whether you’re just picking up knitting needles for the first time or you’ve been knitting for years, Knitting For Dummies, 2nd Edition , will be your pattern for knitting success. Have you always wanted to knit, but are just not sure how or where to start? Have you been knitting for years and want to perfect your stitches? As a beginner you will learn… the tools of the trade the basics how to read a pattern the fundamentals basic stitches...

Heathrow's Terminal 5: History in the Making

• ISBN:
• 0470754354
• Authors:
• Sharon Doherty

This book reveals the inside track on the making of Terminal 5: the courage, the ground-breaking management thinking and the many lessons learnt from the leaders, the client and integrated supply chain teams, - involving over 50,000 people from 20,000 companies - which led to the successful delivery of this mega project on time, on budget, and safely. Love or hate Heathrow we can’t ignore it! An economic power house for the UK, 155,000 earn...

Design of Seismic Isolated Structures: From Theory to Practice

• ISBN:
• 0471149217
• Authors:
• Farzad Naeim, James M. Kelly

Complete, practical coverage of the evaluation, analysis, and design and code requirements of seismic isolation systems. Based on the concept of reducing seismic demand rather than increasing the earthquake resistance capacity of structures, seismic isolation is a surprisingly simple approach to earthquake protection. However, proper application of this technology within complex seismic design code requirements is both complicated and difficult....

Professional Practice for Interior Designers, 3rd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0471384011
• Authors:
• Christine M. Piotrowski ASID IIDA

The tools needed to create and manage a thriving interior design practice This essential sourcebook provides all of the information needed to establish and manage a productive, profitable interior design firm. Filled with savvy business and career advice, Professional Practice for Interior Designers, Third Edition delivers updated and expanded coverage of the full range of legal, financial, management, marketing, administrative, and ethical...

Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems

• ISBN:
• 0471496669
• Authors:
• Jean Donea, Antonio Huerta

Taking an engineering, rather than a mathematical, approach, Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems presents the fundamentals of stabilized finite element methods of the Petrov–Galerkin type developed as an alternative to the standard Galerkin method for the analysis of steady and time-dependent problems. The material presented here epitomizes the forefront of current research in several areas of computational fluid dynamics and combines...

Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method (Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts)

• ISBN:
• 0471720704
• Authors:
• Pavel olín

A systematic introduction to partial differential equations and modern finite element methods for their efficient numerical solution Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method provides a much-needed, clear, and systematic introduction to modern theory of partial differential equations (PDEs) and finite element methods (FEM). Both nodal and hierachic concepts of the FEM are examined. Reflecting the growing complexity and...

University Builders

• ISBN:
• 0471988340
• Authors:
• Martin Pearce

The building of a university campus is an extremely challenging you an extensive study of a variety of styles of universities from around the world. This excellent reference portrays expert architects and their work in designing outstanding educational establishments. Full of impressive colour and black and white images Features the most influential architects of this century The range of styles and philosophies covered in this book will prove...

Celtic Charted Designs (Dover Needlework Series)

• ISBN:
• 0486254119
• Authors:
• Co Spinhoven

Now the enduring beauty of this ancient art form is available in a collection specially designed for those who love to do embroidery and needlepoint. Dutch artist and designer Co Spinhoven has adapted over 300 unique designs from the Book of Kells, the Tara Brooch, the Petrie Crown and many other authentic Celtic sources. An easy-to-follow text includes explanatory notes on designs, many of which are presented here for the first time in charted...

The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)

• ISBN:
• 0486447308
• Authors:
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

This influential survey synthesizes ancient documents and physical evidence to build an account of religious, family, and civic life of Periclean Athens and Rome during the time of Cicero. In bypassing the body of often-glorified post-Classical histories, it builds an accurate and detailed depiction of Hellenic and Latin urban culture.

Grammar Practice Activities: A Practical Guide for Teachers

• ISBN:
• 0521338476
• Authors:
• Penny Ur

A detailed guide containing nearly two-hundred imaginalive and useful communicative grammar practice activities. The first part provides a general introduction to grammar teaching in the foreign language classroom, with particular reference to grammar practice. It suggests guidelines for the design of activities and includes a section of practical hints on effective classroom presentation. The second part provides nearly two-hundred...

The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History

• ISBN:
• 0521516994
• Authors:
• Fred H. Previc

What does it mean to be human? There are many theories of the evolution of human behavior which seek to explain how our brains evolved to support our unique abilities and personalities. Most of these have focused on the role of brain size or specific genetic adaptations of the brain. In contrast, Fred Previc presents a provocative theory that high levels of dopamine, the most widely studied neurotransmitter, account for all major aspects of...

Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews

• ISBN:
• 0521838770
• Authors:
• Shlomo Aronson

This book offers a new analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, of its origins, and of its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. Developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils. Each and one of them working according to the logic created by the Nazis and by other reasons described here , which dictated the behavior of third and fourth...

Hacking the Human

• ISBN:
• 0566087731
• Authors:
• Ian Mann

Information security is about people, yet in most organizations protection remains focused on technical countermeasures. The human element is crucial in the majority of successful attacks on systems and attackers are rarely required to find technical vulnerabilities, hacking the human is usually sufficient.Ian Mann turns the black art of social engineering into an information security risk that can be understood, measured and managed...

Timber Designers' Manual

• ISBN:
• 0632039787
• Authors:
• E. C. Ozelton, J. A. Baird

This major reference manual covers both overall and detail design of structural timber, including aspects such as shear deflection, creep, dynamic and lateral stability considerations for flexural members. It has been substantially revised to take account of changes since the last edition, nearly 20 years ago, and to include the latest revision of British Standard BS 5268-2 : 2002, which has brought design concepts closer to European practice...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672329700
• Authors:
• Marc J. Wolenik, Damian Sinay

Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 4.0 Unleashed presents start-to-finish guidance for planning, customizing, deploying, integrating, and managing Dynamics CRM in your unique business and technical environment. Authored by two leading Microsoft Dynamics implementers, this book systematically explains how the system works, why it works that way, and how you can leverage it to its fullest advantage.   The authors present clear examples, proven best...

Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Essays in Art and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0674809661
• Authors:
• Richard Wendorf

That Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) became the most fashionable painter of his time was not simply due to his artistic gifts or good fortune. The art of pleasing, Richard Wendorf contends, was as much a part of Reynolds's success--in his life and in his work--as the art of painting. The author's examination of Reynolds's life and career illuminates the nature of eighteenth-century English society in relation to the enterprise of...

Designing for Scalability with Microsoft Windows DNA (Dv-Mps Designing)

• ISBN:
• 0735609683
• Authors:
• Per Sundblad, Sten Sundblad

Microsoft Windows DNA is Microsoft's platform for building and deploying Web-based applications. DESIGNING FOR SCALABILITY WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS DNA describes major technologies associated with using the DNA model to develop scalable enterprise applications. The book shows how to use Microsoft tools such as the Visual Basic development system and the Windows 2000 operating system with Windows DNA to reduce your time to market, secure great...

Weather Scientists: Earth and Space Science (Science Readers)

• ISBN:
• 0743905520
• Authors:
• Debra J. Housel, M.S. Ed.

Connect content-area literacy and science with differentiated readers featuring lab activities and profiles of related scientitists

The Portfolio: An Architecture Student's Handbook (Architectural Students Handbooks)

• ISBN:
• 0750657642
• Authors:
• Katerina Ruedi Ray PhD in Architecture, Lesley Lokko Dip Arch, Igor Marjanovic

The portfolio is the single most important part of every architectural student's education. This book proides a complete guide to preparing, compiling and presenting this crucial element of the architecture course. The experienced author team gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues of size, storage, layout and order. They go on to guide the student through the various forms a portfolio can take: the Electronic...

Shopping Environments: Evolution, Planning and Design

• ISBN:
• 0750660015
• Authors:
• Peter Coleman

Shopping centers have become the most common of shopping environments and have influenced the make-up of cities around the world. However, in recent years, the enclosed "mall" has evolved and diversified with new types of retail environments that were developed to better suit their locale and meet public expectation. This design guide has over 600 illustrations that present the core values and considerations that make a successful retail center:...

Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies

• ISBN:
• 0750666285
• Authors:
• Jon Lang

Urban Design provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, presenting a 3 dimensional model with which to categorise the processes and products involved. It not only defines the subject, but also considers the future direction of the field and what can be learned from the past. 50 international case studies demonstrate the variety of urban design efforts that have occurred in recent history. * Enables students and...

Tropical Sustainable Architecture: Social and Environmental Dimensions

• ISBN:
• 0750667974

The tropical belt - where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located - forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions shares common problems, the most easily identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and natural environment. The context for architecture here is fraught with...

Professional Practice for Landscape Architects, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750669020
• Authors:
• Nicola Garmory, Clare Winsch, Rachel Tennant

This book, organised in an extremely-user friendly manner, equips the landscape architect with all of the required knowledge in business and law. It is of great value to Landscape architects throughout their academic and professional life. Landscape architecture students will find this book vital to their education and it will also be useful for landscape students on non-professional programmes who wish to understand the regulatory and planning...

Materials for Architects and Builders, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750669403
• Authors:
• Arthur Lyons

Materials for Architects and Builders provides an introduction to a wide range of building materials. It explains in detail the manufacture, key physical properties, specification and uses of the standard building products, everything a student would need to know. The book also describes many recent technological innovations and rediscovered materials, reflecting an increased concern for environmental issues within the Industry. This new edition...

The Conductive Organization: Building Beyond Sustainability

• ISBN:
• 075067735X
• Authors:
• Hubert Saint-Onge, Charles Armstrong

An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this book, Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, two corporate leaders who have been in the forefront of using knowledge management to gain strategic...

FileNet: A Consultant's Guide to Enterprise Content Management

• ISBN:
• 075067816X
• Authors:
• Todd R. Groff, Thomas P. Jones

FileNet is the world's leading enterprise content management system. Established in 1982, FileNet practically invented the field of Enterprise Office Document Imaging Systems. FileNet's Image Services is the industry's leading provider of high-volume systems for storing, retrieving, and managing document images, transactional content, workflows, web contents, and other business objects. More than 3,700 organizations worldwide have implemented...

Desert (DK 24 HOURS)

• ISBN:
• 075661984X
• Authors:
• DK Publishing

From morning to midnight, these beautifully illustrated guides invite readers to spend a day with the animals and plants that inhabit the world's most fascinating environments.

Castle (DK Eyewitness Books)

• ISBN:
• 0756637694
• Authors:
• Christopher Gravett

The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures. DK's classic look at the history and structure of castles, now reissued with a CD and wall chart!

Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers

• ISBN:
• 0761948546
• Authors:
• Dr Sue Dymoke

Drafting and Assessing Poetry offers a range of teaching strategies for developing students' poetry writing skills, and guidance about assessment approaches. Critical commentaries combine with illustrations of successful classroom practice to consider this essential but under-explored aspect of English teaching. Based on theory but with a practical dimension, the book engages readers in current critical debates about poetry teaching and its...

Planning for Information Systems (Advances in Management Information Systems)

• ISBN:
• 0765619504

Edited by one of the best-known and most widely respected figures in the field, "Planning for Information Systems" is a comprehensive, single source overview of the myriad ideas and processes that are identified with IS planning. While many chapters deal with high level strategic planning, the book gives equal attention to on-the-ground planning issues.Part I, 'Key Concepts of IS Planning', focuses on how IS planning has evolved over the years;...

Emotional Intelligence In Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers

• ISBN:
• 0787978434
• Authors:
• Marcia Hughes, L. Bonita Patterson, James Bradford Terrell

Emotional Intelligence in Action shows how to tap the power of EI through forty-six exercises that can be used to build effective emotional skills and create real change. The workouts are designed to align with the four leading emotional intelligence measures—EQ-I® or EQ-360™, ECI 360, MSCEIT™, and EQ Map®, —or can be used independently or as part of a wider leadership and management development program. All of the book’s forty-six...

Trauma and the Teaching of Writing

• ISBN:
• 0791462773

Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.

Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

• ISBN:
• 0803216084
• Authors:
• Prof. Annette Stott PhD

As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the “Wild West,” cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together...

Work Motivation in the Context of A Globalizing Economy

• ISBN:
• 0805828141

Work Motivation in the Context of a Globalizing Economy evolved from a work motivation conference held in Israel, attended by a group of internationally renowned scholars. These scholars were given the charge of creating a vision of motivation research for the 21st century. Coming from different parts of the world, the scholars represent a wide range of perspectives from the very micro focus on the individual level of motivation, through the...

Gender Development

• ISBN:
• 0805841709
• Authors:
• Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben

This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes about children’s everyday experiences. The book’s accessibility is further enhanced with the use of bold face to highlight key terms when first...

Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education

• ISBN:
• 0805849718

The Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education marks a milestone in the field of art education. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art educators, this 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the remarkable progress that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly emerging...

Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century

• ISBN:
• 0807830259
• Authors:
• Ryan K. Smith

Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be surprised to learn, however, that at one time these features were viewed as suspicious, foreign implements associated strictly with the Roman Catholic Church. Blending history with the study of material culture, Ryan K. Smith sheds light...

Evolution: The History of Life on Earth (Genetics & Evolution)

• ISBN:
• 0816066795
• Authors:
• Russ Hodge

The theory of evolution can be observed anywhere - from exotic tropical rain forests to our own backyards - and is based on three main principles: heredity, variation, and selection. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace sought to explain how these processes work together to produce new species. Evolution provided the first scientific system to investigate the origins and relationships of living creatures, and today it...

Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0816651140
• Authors:
• Annmarie Adams

In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.   At the center of this work is Montreal’s landmark Royal Victoria...

Sexuation: SIC 3 ([sic] Series)

• ISBN:
• 0822324377

Contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference are described and analyzed. On the one hand, much current thinking suggests that sexual identity is fluid--socially constructed and/or performatively enacted. This discourse is often invoked in the act of overcoming an earlier patriarchal era of fixed and naturalized identities. On the other hand, some modern discourses of sexual identity seem to...

Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids

• ISBN:
• 084930749X
• Authors:
• David W. Nicholson

Finite element modeling has developed into one of the most important tools at an engineer's disposal, especially in applications involving nonlinearity. While engineers coping with such applications may have access to powerful computers and finite element codes, too often they lack the strong foundation in finite element analysis (FEA) that nonlinear problems require.Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids builds that foundation. It...

The Dynamic Synapse: Molecular Methods in Ionotropic Receptor Biology (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

• ISBN:
• 0849318912

Bringing together the latest information into one easily accessible resource, The Dynamic Synapse: Molecular Methods in Ionotropic Receptor Biology explores the diverse tools and technologies used to study synaptic processes. Written by world-renowned leaders in the field, the book delineates newly developed techniques, methods, and conceptual advances used for studying neurotransmitter receptors and other synaptic proteins. A broad array of...

Lightweight Enterprise Architectures

• ISBN:
• 084932114X
• Authors:
• Fenix Theuerkorn

Based on the author's 20 years of experience in IT, Lightweight Enterprise Architectures explains an architectural approach that enables a quick alignment of technology to business strategy. The author begins by taking readers through the typical enterprise and its challenges, then presents a framework that facilitates the adoption of enterprise architecture and provides methods to implement the framework. The book presents a lightweight...

Medieval Heraldry (Men-at-Arms)

• ISBN:
• 0850453488
• Authors:
• Terence Wise

Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople and the peasantry. From the mundane to the fantastic, from simple geometric patterns to elaborate mythological beasts, this fascinating work by...

European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

• ISBN:
• 0851157890
• Authors:
• Ewart Oakeshott

Both a work of scholarship, and a treasury of information, for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The author...

Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village (Natural Building Series)

• ISBN:
• 0865714819

Building Without Borders describes pioneering efforts to create sustainable shelter for billions currently under-housed. It surveys projects around the world that are housing the homeless without destroying natural habitats to do so, by drawing upon local traditions such as bamboo, straw bale and earthen construction. Highly illustrated and popular in style, it includes case studies, technical information, and the latest thinking on truly...

More Straw Bale Building: A Complete Guide to Designing and Building with Straw (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

• ISBN:
• 0865715181
• Authors:
• Chris Magwood, Peter Mack

Straw bale houses are easy to build, affordable, super energy efficient, environmentally friendly, attractive, and can be designed to match the builder's personal space needs, esthetics and budget. Despite mushrooming interest in the technique, however, most straw bale books focus on "selling" the dream of straw bale building, but don't adequately address the most critical issues faced by bale house builders. Moreover, since many developments in...

Meeting the Needs of Second Language Learners: An Educator's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0871207591
• Authors:
• Judith Lessow-Hurley

Today's public schools are increasingly characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity. Studies show that about 4.4 million students nationwide lack the English skills needed to succeed academically. To help second language learners keep up in the classroom, educators must understand the challenges that bilingual students and schools face. In this concise guide, former bilingual teacher Judith Lessow-Hurley dives right into the language...

Process This: Undergraduate Writing in Composition Studies

• ISBN:
• 0874215951
• Authors:
• Nancy Dejoy

The modern process movement made great strides toward centering student discourses in composition classrooms, but the places for student discourses in the field of composition studies were left largely unexplored. In Process This, Nancy DeJoy argues that even recent revisions to composition studies—cultural studies, service learning, and social process movements—continue to repress the subjects and methodologies that should be central,...

Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice

• ISBN:
• 0874216567
• Authors:
• Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, Elizabeth Boquet

In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community of practice" into an ethos of a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. They...

Sink or Float? Thought Problems in Math & Physics (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

• ISBN:
• 0883853396
• Authors:
• Keith Kendig

Sink or Float: Thought Problems in Math and Physics is a collection of problems drawn from mathematics and the real world. Its multiple-choice format forces the reader to become actively involved in deciding upon the answer. The book s aim is to show just how much can be learned by using everyday common sense. The problems are all concrete and understandable by nearly anyone, meaning that not only will students become caught up in some of the...

Byzantine Garden Culture (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Garden History)

• ISBN:
• 0884022803
• Authors:
• Antony Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

Numerical Methods for Problems With Moving Fronts

• ISBN:
• 0963176501
• Authors:
• Bruce A. Finlayson

Motivate and Reward: Performance Appraisal and Incentive Systems for Business Success

• ISBN:
• 1403903786
• Authors:
• Herwig Kressler

Motivation, ability, and potential for development are crucial for performance and the achievement of objectives. The author, from his extensive management experience at Unilever, the leading multinational corporation, demonstrates the importance of the link between motivation, assessment of performance, and potential, and reward and incentive strategies. It is only by getting this relationship right that the company can achieve business success.

Learning and Leading With Habits of Mind: 16 Essential Characteristics for Success

• ISBN:
• 1416607412

Bringing together all four books in the ASCD ground-breaking Habits of Mind series, this volume presents a compelling case for why it's more relevant than ever to align the missions of schools and classrooms to teaching students how to think and behave intelligently when they encounter problems and challenges in learning and in life. Drawing on their research and experience in applying the habits of mind in all kinds of schools, the authors...

The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model: Foundation of the Spatial Data Infrastructure

• ISBN:
• 1420063014
• Authors:
• Earl F. Burkholder

Traditional methods for handling spatial data are encumbered by the assumption of separate origins for horizontal and vertical measurements. Modern measurement systems operate in a 3-D spatial environment. The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model: Foundation of the Spatial Data Infrastructure offers a new model for handling digital spatial data, the global spatial data model or GSDM. The GSDM preserves the integrity of three-dimensional spatial data...

Knowledge Retention: Strategies and Solutions

• ISBN:
• 1420064657
• Authors:
• Jay Liebowitz

As the baby boomer generation approaches retirement age, many organizations are facing the potential crisis of lost knowledge . Devised to help those organizations who are dependent on the accumulated knowledge of stakeholders, this book details a proactive approach to knowledge retention. Written by Jay Liebowitz, one of the most sought after knowledge management experts, this text explains how to identify at risk knowledge areas, and then...

Improving Student Writing Skills (Professional Development for Successful Classrooms)

• ISBN:
• 1425803776
• Authors:
• Garth Sundem

Just what you were looking for-books especially designed for new teachers, pre-service educators, or anyone who is interested in current educational theory and practice. Up-to-date, research-based theory and practical applications make these an invaluable learning tool as well as a perfect quick reference. Perfect for staff development sessions!

Teaching a Psychology of People: Resources for Gender and Sociocultural Awareness

• ISBN:
• 155798039X
• Authors:
• Phyllis Bronstein

100 Ways To Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

• ISBN:
• 1564147711
• Authors:
• Steve Chandler, Scott Richardson

100 Ways to Motivate Others is the culmination of many years of successful leadership coaching and training by best-selling author Steve Chandler and attorney Scott Richardson, and the natural follow-up to Steve's two previous best-sellers-100 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Reinventing Yourself. Chandler and Richardson have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers, and professionals...and those aspiring to...

The Knitters Book of Finishing Techniques

• ISBN:
• 156477452X
• Authors:
• Nancie M. Wiseman

Knitted one too many sweaters that scream "homemade"? Help is here! Finishing techniques are the key to turning out professional-looking projects. This comprehensive reference gives you the know-how you need to get gorgeous, polished results every time. o More than 50 expert techniques cover increases, decreases, seams, blocking, decorative finishes, and more o Master each method with step-by-step illustrations, easy-to-read text, and dozens of...

Information Technology, Corporate Productivity, and the New Economy

• ISBN:
• 1567204201
• Authors:
• Stephan Kudyba, Romesh Diwan

The authors bring a dual perspective--that of a practicing consultant and that of a professor of economics--to the complex strategic questions facing managers and corporate leaders who want their firms to get the most out of their investments in information technology. The information economy is built upon the myriad and sometimes unforeseen ways in which information technologies have become engines of productivity in themselves, rather than...

Writing Through the Tween Years: Supporting Writers, Grades 3-6

• ISBN:
• 1571104062
• Authors:
• Bruce Morgan, Deb Odom

It's not easy being a tween. A lot of us are either in a tunnel or a bridge. A lot of us don't know who we are. Instead of following Barney's advice, we end up doing what popstars do. —Kelley, age 10 No longer little children, but not yet teenagers, tweens are beginning to see themselves as autonomous while still struggling to understand where they fit in. It can also be an awkward time for teachers who cherish the hilarious and poignant...

Totally Integrated Enterprises: A Framework and Methodology for Business and Technology Improvement

• ISBN:
• 1574443038
• Authors:
• Thomas E. Miller, Daryle W. Berger

At the foundation of today's leading-edge manufacturing companies is a common vision for virtual, distributed enterprise in an agile environment where organizations can swiftly and cost-effectively bring products from concept to production - and respond dynamically to changes in customer and market requirements. Totally Integrated Enterprises: A Framework and Methodology for Business and Technology Improvement provides a framework and a...

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture

• ISBN:
• 1579582435
• Authors:
• R. Sennott

Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and...

The Art & Elegance of Beadweaving: New Jewelry Designs with Classic Stitches

• ISBN:
• 1579905331
• Authors:
• Carol Wilcox Wells

“Elegant contemporary jewelry....What artist-author Wells and her 30 colleagues conjure up in more than 30 bracelets, earrings, and necklaces is nothing short of breathtaking. All the projects can be readily mastered by beginners....One hundred percent of the fundamentals, from graphic illustrations and charts to accompanying text and great color photographs.” — Booklist.

Knitting Classic Style: 35 Modern Designs Inspired by Fashion's Archives

• ISBN:
• 158479576X
• Authors:
• Veronik Avery

Classic projects that will maintain their appeal for many years instead of just one or two fashion seasons Elegant yet retro-cool projects In fashion, one day you’re in, the next day you’re out . . . and the day after that, you’re back in again. Designers are always referring to fashion’s rich history as they imagine its present and future, and retro looks remain ever-fresh as they are renewed—and restyled—for the next generation of...

Good Green Homes

• ISBN:
• 1586851799
• Authors:
• Jennifer Roberts

Green. It conjures images of a meadow in spring for some, and the color of money for others. What does "green" have to do with our homes? In essence, green building-or sustainable building-means being smart about how we use energy, water, and building materials so that we can live well without needlessly damaging the environment. Creating a good green home isn't just about conservation, about using less or saving more-although that's certainly...

Mark Twain Speaking

• ISBN:
• 1587294680

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.

Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age

• ISBN:
• 1591403189

This book introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations, extended enterprises, and trans-enterprise systems. This book begins with the introduction to IOIS which provide readers with a bird's-eye view with extensive bibliographies including definitions, concepts, incentives for IOIS development, managerial and technological issues, etc. This is a collection of more...

Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications

• ISBN:
• 1591405270

Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. This book not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures) is addressed as well.

Video Data Management and Information Retrieval

• ISBN:
• 1591405718

Video Data Management and Information Retrieval combines the two important areas of research within computer technology and presents them in comprehensive, easy to understand manner. This book is ideal for graduates and under-graduates, as well as researchers working in either video data management or information retrieval. This book takes an in depth look at many relevant topics within both video data management and information retrieval. In...

Project Management for Modern Information Systems

• ISBN:
• 1591406943
• Authors:
• Dan Brandon

In the past, project success has been defined too narrowly as simply meeting time and cost constraints for a given scope of work. However, in order for an IT project to be completely successful that basic definition of success needs to be extended to include meeting return on investment expectations, product quality, stakeholder satisfaction, security, maintainability and adaptability. Also, the formal methods and tools of the project management...

Challenges of Managing Information Quality in Service Organizations

• ISBN:
• 159904420X
• Authors:
• Latif Al-Hakim

Poor quality of data and information can have a harmful impact on decision-making and therefore on the overall effectiveness of an enterprise. Incorrect and misleading information associated with an enterprises production and service provision jeopardize both customer relationships and customer satisfaction, and ultimately have a negative effect on revenue. Challenges of Managing Information Quality in Service Organizations presents cases and...

CIO And Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO

• ISBN:
• 1599044234
• Authors:
• Petter Gottschalk

The CIO position and importance depend on information technology maturity in the organization, value configuration, strategic IT resources, e-business approach, and IT governance structure. CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO holds key information in improving a CIO's role, which would then advance his or her chances of moving up into a CEO role. CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO...

Selected Readings on Information Technology and Business Systems Management (Premier Reference Source)

• ISBN:
• 1605660868
• Authors:
• In Lee

Education and research in the field of information technology and business systems management can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements. Selected Readings on Information Technology and Business Systems Management supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused on key issues concerning technology in business. Containing over 30 chapters...

Selected Readings on Strategic Information Systems (Premier Reference Source)

• ISBN:
• 1605660906
• Authors:
• M. Gordon Hunter

Education and research in the field of strategic information technology can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements. Selected Readings on Strategic Information Systems supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused on key issues concerning information technology in support of the strategic management of organizations. Containing over 30...

Global Implications of Modern Enterprise Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (Advances in Enterprise Information Systems)

• ISBN:
• 1605661465
• Authors:
• Angappa Gunasekaran

Many companies have encountered pitfalls in their attempts to successfully implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) that have proven nearly insurmountable. Global Implications of Modern Enterprise Information Systems: Technologies and Applications presents useful strategies, techniques, and tools for the successful design, development, and implementation of enterprise information systems (EIS). Through an international collaboration of...

Samurai Heraldry (Elite)

• ISBN:
• 1841763047
• Authors:
• Stephen Turnbull

The dazzling spectacle presented by the armies of medieval Japan owed much to the highly developed family and personal heraldry of samurai society. From simple personal banners, this evolved over centuries of warfare into a complex system of flags worn or carried into battle, together with the striking 'great standards' of leading warlords. While not regulated in the Western sense, Japanese heraldry developed as a series of widely followed...

US World War II and Korean War Field Fortifications 1941-53 (Fortress)

• ISBN:
• 184176812X
• Authors:
• Gordon Rottman

The US Army and Marine Corps in World War II considered themselves highly mobile, offensive forces. Their mobile-warfare doctrine envisioned field fortifications and obstacles as temporary in nature. As a result, their design was simple and made use of local materials, and they could be constructed comparatively quickly, whilst still providing adequate protection. By the time of the Korean War, only minor changes had been made to field...

Russian Fortresses 1480-1682

• ISBN:
• 1841769169
• Authors:
• Konstantin Nossov

In 1462 the throne of the Principality of Moscow passed to the Ivan III (1462â€"1505), who succeeded in throwing off the Tatar yoke. For the next 200 years this new state struggled to maintain her borders against a series of attacks from the Lithuanians, Swedes and Poles to the west, as well as the Tatars to the south. They achieved this through the development of a network of fortified sites and a series of linear defensive systems. This...

Financial Systems, Corporate Investment in Innovation, and Venture Capital

• ISBN:
• 1843763923

The conditions for successful manufacturing have changed considerably in recent years. New technologies such as information technology and biotechnology are considered important players in eradicating poverty in developing countries, but the risky nature of projects based on new technologies forces firms to raise investment capital by means other than conventional capital markets. This book examines the role of venture capital institutions in...

Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 1 - Strategies and Solutions

• ISBN:
• 1844077993

Volume 1 of this two-volume set presents strategies and solutions for sustainable solar housing, offering the reader a solid platform for assessing environmental and economic concerns for housing projects, and offers guidance for implementing the most appropriate course of action in a variety of contexts. Topics include energy, economics, ecology and marketing. The Sustainable Solar Housing set examines a range of potential solutions for...

The Forts of the Meuse in World War I (Fortress)

• ISBN:
• 1846031141
• Authors:
• Clayton Donnell

On October 29, 1891, the new forts built around the cities of Li¿ge and Namur, known as the "Forts of the Meuse," were turned over to the Belgian Army. The huge project, which had begun in 1888 and cost 71.6 million Belgian Francs, required over 9,000 workers to complete. It produced 21 modern forts that could defend the strategic rail, river, and road arteries passing through narrow gaps to the flat, open plains of Flanders. The Forts of the...

Third or Additional Language Acquisition (Second Language Acquisition)

• ISBN:
• 1847690041
• Authors:
• Gessica De Angelis

Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/multilingualism on cognitive development.

Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture

• ISBN:
• 1860646913
• Authors:
• Valerie Gonzalez

Five essays explore aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic with examples ranging from the Qur'an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers. Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen...

100 Top Houses From Down Under (100 of the Worlds Best)

• ISBN:
• 1864701412
• Authors:
• Robyn Beaver

100 Top Houses from Down Under is a collection of 100 projects from the best architects and interior designers in Australia and New Zealand. Included are; beach bachs, city apartments, country retreats, suburban homes with a twist, holiday shacks, and much more. This book is guaranteed to delight even the most jaded architectural palate. "Down Under" architecture is indeed unique, whether due to the astonishing ocean, mountain or landscape...

100 More of the World's Best Houses (100 World's Best Houses, Vol. 3) (Architecture)

• ISBN:
• 1920744983
• Authors:
• Robyn Beaver

Popular demand has led IMAGES' team of researchers to scour the world for yet another stunning collection of homes. The 100 fabulous homes carefully selected for this volume represent contemporary residential architecture in all its myriad forms. Vast differences in location, climate, culture, style, materials, interiors, and even furniture result in a collection that showcases, with full-colour photographs, plans and drawings, the best in...

Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology

• ISBN:
• 3540291695
• Authors:
• Jan L.G. Dietz

If one thing catches the eye in almost all literature about (re)designing or (re)engineering of enterprises, it is the lack of a well-founded theory about their construction and operation. Often even the most basic notions like "action" or "process" are not precisely defined. Next, in order to master the diversity and the complexity of contemporary enterprises, theories are needed that separate the stable essence of an enterprise from the...

Advanced Data Mining Techniques

• ISBN:
• 3540769161
• Authors:
• David L. Olson, Dursun Delen

This book covers the fundamental concepts of data mining, to demonstrate the potential of gathering large sets of data, and analyzing these data sets to gain useful business understanding. The book is organized in three parts. Part I introduces concepts. Part II describes and demonstrates basic data mining algorithms. It also contains chapters on a number of different techniques often used in data mining. Part III focuses on business...

New Forms: The Last 10 Years in Architecture (World Architecture)

• ISBN:
• 3822885797
• Authors:
• Philip Jodidio

This illustrated volume presents an interpretation of contemporary architecture, featuring some of the most impressive constructions of the 1990s. The interplay between architecture and art is featured, as well as the increasing influence of economic, environmental and technological change.

Glamour, Interrupted: How I Became the Best-Dressed Patient in Hollywood

• ISBN:
• 0060791365
• Authors:
• Steven Cojocaru

Before Steven Cojocaru was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, he could never have imagined himself living anything other than a high-glam Hollywood lifestyle. A bon vivant on two coasts, he held jobs as both the red carpet guru for Entertainment Tonight and the fashion correspondent for the Today show, hauling his suitcase full of flat irons and designer boots from New York to Los Angeles and back again, every week. He was Cojo,...

Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice

• ISBN:
• 0071361634
• Authors:
• Cindy Coleman, Interior Design Magazine

Everything you need to know about the practice and business of interior design -- from McGraw-Hill and Interior Design magazine Let today's most admired design professionals share with you their priceless insights, step-by-step guidelines, and real-life examples drawn from their own highly successful practices. Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice packs fresh new ways of thinking and profitable ways of working -- quality information...

Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees : Tools and Techniques for Inspiring Outstanding Performance from Your Frontline Staff

• ISBN:
• 0071388885
• Authors:
• Malcolm Carlaw, Peggy Carlaw, Vasudha Kathleen Deming, Kurt Friedmann

Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees reveals how to boost morale, streamline business processes, and inspire outstanding performance from frontline sales and service staff. This creative and practical book gives instant help to anyone who knows the difficulties of managing in the diverse and dynamic contact center environment.

CPM in Construction Management (Pro Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0071457690
• Authors:
• James O'Brien, Fredric Plotnick

This title is perfect for PSP certification on the CD-ROM. The CPM software updates new case studies, on CD and in text. It provides added in-depth coverage of Primavera[trademark]. Accelerate with CPM - and this leading guide to construction planning and scheduling. Widely used to network schedules effectively, critical path management (CPM) has become a powerful catalyst for fail-safe construction project design and management. And when it...

Construction Site Security

• ISBN:
• 0071460292
• Authors:
• Michael Arata

In order to meet insurance requirements or earn incentives, construction companies must now put a security plan in place for every construction site. This comprehensive resource covers all the essentials of planning, prioritizing, and implementing construction site security.

Construction Superintendent Operations Manual

• ISBN:
• 0071502416
• Authors:
• Sidney Levy

Complete Any Construction Job On Time, within Budget, and According to Specifications Turn to the updated Second Edition of Construction Superintendent's Operations Manual for step-by-step guidance on managing every aspect of complex construction jobs. From handling construction contracts to managing construction components and technology, this hands-on resource will help you ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget, and...

Fuzzy Logic: A Practical Approach

• ISBN:
• 0124859658
• Authors:
• F. Martin McNeill, Ellen Thro

Fuzzy Logic provides a complete overview of fuzzy logic and outlines how it can be applied to real-world problems in industry and business. The book focuses on how the main concepts of fuzzy logic can be put to use in a practical way, and includes illustrative programs on an accompanying disk to provide hands-on experience in fuzzy applications.

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0130178160
• Authors:
• H. Douglas Brown

How do people learn a second language? For almost two decades, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching has been recognized as an exceptional guide to the theoretical foundations of language teaching. This new fourth edition offers an overview of the study of Second Language Acquisition, while acting as a reference for the growing storehouse of research, subfields, and specialization of SLA.

There's No Business That's Not Show Business: Marketing in an Experience Culture

• ISBN:
• 0130471194
• Authors:
• Bernd H. Schmitt, David L. Rogers, Karen Vrotsos

Say goodbye to "business as usual"--to succeed today you need show business! How do you market in today's "experience culture"--as conventional advertising grows increasingly ineffective, and customers grow increasingly independent? Companies and brands from Altoids to Volkswagen have discovered the answer: bring show business into your business! There's No Business That's Not Show Business demonstrates how to use "show biz" techniques to cut...

COM+ Programming: A Practical Guide Using Visual C++ and ATL

• ISBN:
• 0130886742
• Authors:
• Pradeep Tapadiya

*Maximizing COM/COM+ software reusability and scalability: practical solutions! *Developing robust enterprise COM+ applications: Proven guidelines and sample code *In-depth coverage: IDL interface design, COM+ synchronization, transactions, queuing, security, events, and more *Techniques for administering distributed component environments Maximizing COM/COM+ reuse and scalability: practical, enterprise-class solutions! If you're ready to...

Fame and Fortune: How Successful Companies Build Winning Reputations

• ISBN:
• 0130937371
• Authors:
• Charles J. Fombrun, Cees B. M. Van Riel

Companies build reputations in the market place. Some do it well, others don't. Even well-managed, profitable, quality companies don't. The how and why of successful reputation building is what this book is about. What specific actions must companies take to build a positive reputation in the market place? How can a company measure the success of its attempts to build a positive reputation in the market place as well.

Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined

• ISBN:
• 0131857770
• Authors:
• Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel

SWOTed by strategy models? Crunched by analysis? Strategy doesn't have to be this way. Strategy is really all about being different. Thinking about it shouldn't make you reach for the snooze button, but in the world of strategy everybody has become so serious. If that gets us better strategies, fine. But it doesn't; we get worse ones--predictable, generic, uninspiring, dull. Strategy doesn't only have to position; it also has to inspire. So an...

Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy

• ISBN:
• 0131888633
• Authors:
• Oren Harari

Everywhere, products are being commoditized, services are being imitated, and traditional barriers to market entry are collapsing. To sustain competitive advantage in today's Copycat Economy, companies must break from the pack. This book will show how. Oren Harari starts by touring "Commodity Hell," and identifying 10 common mistakes that keep companies trapped in the pack. Next, Harari introduces six strategies for propelling your organization...

Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution

• ISBN:
• 0195154703
• Authors:
• Edward J. Larson

Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common and not controversial in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the debates between evolutionists and creationists, those who argue that the Biblical theory of origins deserves equal treatment, have flared throughout the twentieth...

Tenochtitlan (Digging for the Past)

• ISBN:
• 0195178513
• Authors:
• Leonardo Lopez Lujan, Judy Levin