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Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure (Sas Press)

• ISBN:
• 1599941953
• Authors:
• Art Carpenter

Advanced Grammar in Use CD ROM

• ISBN:
• 0521614023
• Authors:
• Martin Hewings

A fully updated version of the highly successful Advanced Grammar in Use - extra practice is also available on a new interactive CD-ROM to accompany the book. The exciting and substantial CD-ROM offers even more practice of the grammar at this level. This CD-ROM is standalone.

Dorland's Electronic Medical Dictionary: 29th Edition

• ISBN:
• 0721694934
• Authors:
• Dorland

Boxed CD-ROM presenting the entire Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 28th edition, in digital format. Gives definitions, pronunciations, plural forms, and etymologies, as well as illustrations and tables. System requirements: Windows 95 or higher, 16MB RAM (32 recommended), 30MB free space. Mac OS 7.6.1 or later, rest same as Windows. Book w/CD also available.

The Engineering Handbook on CD-ROM

• ISBN:
• 0849385768
• Authors:
• Richard C. Dorf

A resource for all engineers in all disciplines.The Engineering Handbook CRCnetBASE provides encyclopedic coverage of all areas of engineering. Designed for the professional engineer practicing in any of the disciplines comprising the field of engineering, The Engineering Handbook CRCnetBASE is comprehensive, practical, and fully searchable, allowing quick and easy access to information in areas within, and outside, the reader's area of...

Optomechanical Engineering Handbook on CD-ROM

• ISBN:
• 0849397537
• Authors:
• Anees Ahmad

A singular resource covering cutting-edge information and research in the exploding field of optomechanical engineering! Optomechanical Engineering Handbook on CD-ROM

Requirements Modelling and Specification for Service Oriented Architecture

• ISBN:
• 0470775637
• Authors:
• Ian Graham

Many software developers often confuse requirements engineering with software specification and, as a result, build unusable systems, despite meeting specifications. Bringing together all the techniques needed by the modern software developer, here is a practical handbook to requirements engineering and systems specification for developers building systems within a service oriented architecture. It introduces the concepts of SOA and relevant...

Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

• ISBN:
• 078214439X
• Authors:
• John Paul Mueller

Be Right at Home in the World's Most Powerful Web Development Environment For large-scale web application development, Visual Studio 2005 is the most capable product around. This book shows team members and leaders how to use its power in several key dimensions. You'll master dozens of built-in features for creating a large, high-performance website based on ASP.NET 2.0. You'll work seamlessly with dynamic data, both reading from and writing to...

Web Caching (O'Reilly Internet Series)

• ISBN:
• 156592536X
• Authors:
• Duane Wessels

A properly designed web cache reduces network traffic and improves access times to popular web sites--a boon to network administrators and web users alike. Web Caching hands you all the technical information you need to design, deploy, and operate a web caching service. It spells out in practical detail how to design an effective cache solution, configure both web servers and web browsers to use a cache, set up a collection of caches that can...

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

• ISBN:
• 047017367X
• Authors:
• Chris Mosby, Ron D. Crumbaker, Christopher W. Urban

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides intermediate and advanced coverage of all aspects of the product, including planning and installation, upgrading Systems Management Server 2003, deploying software and operating systems, security, monitoring and troubleshooting, and automating and customizing SCCM 2007 with scripts. The authors take a hands-on approach by providing many real-world scenarios to show readers how to use...

Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940

• ISBN:
• 0199202850
• Authors:
• Clive Emsley

How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley attempts to address these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that...

Implementation Patterns

• ISBN:
• 0321413091
• Authors:
• Kent Beck

“Kent is a master at creating code that communicates well, is easy to understand, and is a pleasure to read. Every chapter of this book contains excellent explanations and insights into the smaller but important decisions we continuously have to make when creating quality code and classes.” – Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer   “Many teams have a master developer who makes a rapid stream of good decisions all day long. Their...

Mastering Regular Expressions

• ISBN:
• 0596528124
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Friedl

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL. If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's...

Interpolating Cubic Splines (Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic (PCS))

• ISBN:
• 0817641009
• Authors:
• Gary D. Knott

Spline functions arise in a number of fields: statistics, computer graphics, programming, computer-aided design technology, numerical analysis, and other areas of applied mathematics. Much work has focused on approximating splines such as B-splines and Bezier splines. In contrast, this book emphasizes interpolating splines. Almost always, the cubic polynomial form is treated in depth. {it Interpolating Cubic Splines} covers a wide variety of...

Software Manual for the Elementary Functions (Prentice-Hall series in computational mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0138220646
• Authors:
• Jr. William J. Cody, William Waite

Software Design (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0201722194
• Authors:
• David Budgen

This book provides a balanced view of the varied software design methodologies most widely used by practitioners. Readers become better judges of what method to adopt when working in the field through a discussion of the strengths and limitations of each method. The text provides a general overview of software design within the context of software development along with a general presentation of design issues. It examines the nature of design...

Guitar Electronics for Musicians (Guitar Reference)

• ISBN:
• 0711902321
• Authors:
• Donald Brosnac

From this book, you can learn more than you could ever have hoped to know about the design concepts and the practical details of the hardware used/made by guitar manufacturers all over the world.

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-526): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development

• ISBN:
• 0735623333
• Authors:
• Matthew A. Stoecker, Steven J. Stein, Tony Northrup

Announcing an all-new MCTS Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-526, the exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications certification. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a...

Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware

• ISBN:
• 0849310261
• Authors:
• John Y. Hsu

With the new developments in computer architecture, fairly recent publications can quickly become outdated. Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware takes a modern approach. This comprehensive, practical text provides that critical understanding of a central processor by clearly detailing fundamentals, and cutting edge design features. With its balanced software/hardware perspective and its description of Pentium processors,...

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

• ISBN:
• 0131495054
• Authors:
• Gerard Meszaros

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective testing strategy will deliver new functionality more aggressively, accelerate user feedback, and improve quality. However, for many developers, creating effective automated tests is a unique and unfamiliar challenge. xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most popular unit testing framework in use today. Agile coach and test...

Windows System Programming (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0321256190
• Authors:
• Johnson M. Hart

"If you're a systems-level 32-bit or 64-bit Windows developer, whether using the Windows API directly or via .NET interop, you'll definitely want to take a look at this update to Johnson Hart's well-respected and well-loved book. Johnson starts with Windows history and cultural issues and moves through basic and advanced system services in a thoughtful, thorough manner. If Mr. Rogers wrote a book with David Cutler, this is what they'd come up...

Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET

• ISBN:
• 032126892X
• Authors:
• Brian Noyes

"Brian Noyes' writing style easily captures your attention as he elaborates on all aspects of data binding in his book. He has a refreshingly clear and crisp delivery as he starts each chapter with a simple tour of each topic, and then leads you into practical concerns for sound practices and extensibility opportunities. Most importantly, as Brian explains approaches to data-binding architecture, patterns of usage, the value of data sets,...

Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications

• ISBN:
• 0321334612
• Authors:
• Jeff McAffer, Jean-Michel Lemieux

Eclipse, a platform for building applications, was originally aimed at Web application and image manipulation. With the release of Eclipse 3.0 there has been a shift to the use of Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform (RCP). In other words, using Eclipse as a base for everyday generic applications from media players to productivity and desktop applications. Thinking of Eclipse as not just an IDE but a platform for all application building is an...

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0470259248
• Authors:
• Patrick Cauldwell

This book is for the career developer who wants to take his or her skill set and/or project to the next level. If you are a professional software developer with 3–4 years of experience looking to bring a higher level of discipline to your project, or to learn the skills that will help you transition from software engineer to technical lead, then this book is for you. The topics covered in this book will help you focus on delivering software at...

MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-642

• ISBN:
• 0470261692
• Authors:
• William Panek, Tylor Wentworth, James Chellis

Efficiently prepare for the Windows Server 2008 certification exam with MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration: Exam 70-642 , a comprehensive study tool that will guide you through everything you need to know for the test. This study guide includes 100% coverage of the exam objectives, real world scenarios, hands-on exercises, and challenging review questions, both in the book and on the CD. With Microsoft's release of...

Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0470374950
• Authors:
• Antonio Cangiano

This definitive guide examines how to take advantage of the new Agile methodologies offered when using Ruby on Rails (RoR). You’ll quickly grasp the RoR methodology by focusing on the RoR development from the point of view of the beginner- to intermediate-level Microsoft developer. Plus, you’ll get a reliable roadmap for migrating your applications, skill set, and development processes to the newer, more agile programming platform that RoR...

Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook

• ISBN:
• 059600799X
• Authors:
• Jesse Liberty

In the three years since Microsoft made C# available, there have been lots of tweaks to the language. That's because C# is not only essential for making .NET work, it's a big way for Microsoft to attract millions of Java, C and C++ developers to the platform. And C# has definitely made some inroads. Because of its popularity among developers, the language received standardization from ECMA International, making it possible to port C#...

The Art of Concurrency: A Thread Monkey's Guide to Writing Parallel Applications

• ISBN:
• 0596521537
• Authors:
• Clay Breshears

If you're looking to take full advantage of multi-core processors with concurrent programming, this practical book provides the knowledge and hands-on experience you need. The Art of Concurrency is one of the few resources to focus on implementing algorithms in the shared-memory model of multi-core processors, rather than just theoretical models or distributed-memory architectures. The book provides detailed explanations and usable samples to...

Securing Ajax Applications: Ensuring the Safety of the Dynamic Web

• ISBN:
• 0596529317
• Authors:
• Christopher Wells Exe

Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax and web application security with an eye for dangerous gaps and offers ways that you can plug them before they become a problem. By making security part of the process from the start, you will learn how to build secure Ajax applications and discover how to respond...

Mastering Delphi 6

• ISBN:
• 0782128742
• Authors:
• Marco Cantu

--This update of our award-winning book is a must for every Delphi programmer. --Includes all updated applications, plus an in-depth discussion of COM, Corba, and ActiveX. --Excellent for all levels of Delphi knowledge; beginner to experienced programmer. Learn to stretch Delphi to the limit!

Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (Dv-Mps General)

• ISBN:
• 1572319968
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Richter

PROGRAMMING APPLICATIONS FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS is the preeminent guide to Windows programming at the API level. Now in its fourth edition, the previously titled ADVANCED WINDOWS is revised to bring software developers the latest information about Windows 98, Windows 2000, and 64-bit Windows. Its complete coverage of the Windows operating system provides an inside view of how Windows 2000 and Windows 98 work and how to use their features. Topics...

ASP .NET Kick Start

• ISBN:
• 0672324768
• Authors:
• Stephen Walther

Visual Studio .NET is the premier development environment for creating .NET applications. The environment includes specialized tools for working with databases, XML files, and XML Web services. Building applications with Visual Studio .NET is a very different experience than building ASP.NET applications with a standard text editor. Visual Studio .NET performs a lot of invisible work in the background, and the environment makes a number of...

American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)

• ISBN:
• 069112261X
• Authors:
• Heather J. Sharkey

In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American Evangelicals in Egypt follows the ongoing and often unexpected transformations initiated by missionary activities between the mid-nineteenth century...

MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-646): Windows Server Administration

• ISBN:
• 0735625107
• Authors:
• Orin Thomas, Ian McLean

Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-646, a required exam for the new Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Windows Server 2008 Administrator certification. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft® study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features that exam candidates want most including in-depth,...

Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework

• ISBN:
• 0764574833
• Authors:
• Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg, Colin Sampaleanu

The Spring Framework is a major open source application development framework that makes Java/J2EE(TM) development easier and more productive. This book shows you not only what Spring can do but why, explaining its functionality and motivation to help you use all parts of the framework to develop successful applications. You will be guided through all the Spring features and see how they form a coherent whole. In turn, this will help you...

Unlocking Android: A Developer's Guide

• ISBN:
• 1933988673
• Authors:
• Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, Robi Sen

Android is a free, open source, Java-based mobile platform developed by Google. Unlocking Android prepares the reader to embrace the Android mobile platform in easy-to-understand language and builds on this foundation with reusable Java code examples. It's ideal for corporate developers and hobbyists who have an interest, or a mandate, to deliver mobile software. The book first covers the big picture so the reader can get comfortable with the...

Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce: Deploying Windows Forms Applications with ClickOnce

• ISBN:
• 0321197690
• Authors:
• Brian Noyes

“ClickOnce demos may look simple, but those techniques only work for simple applications. Brian Noyes gives us the information we need to use ClickOnce in the real world, and he does it with a comprehensive and organized presentation. If you expect your smart client application to move very far beyond ‘Hello,World,’ you’ll want this book to help you deploy it.” — Billy Hollis, president/owner, Elysian Consulting, Microsoft Regional...

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

• ISBN:
• 0321205685
• Authors:
• Mike Cohn

The concept of user stories has its roots as one of the main tenets of Extreme Programming. In simple terms, user stories represent an effective means of gathering requirements from the customer (roughly akin to use cases). This book describes user stories and demonstrates how they can be used to properly plan, manage, and test software development projects. The book highlights both successful and unsuccessful implementations of the concept, and...

Eclipse Distilled

• ISBN:
• 0321288157
• Authors:
• David Carlson

Eclipse is an incredibly powerful platform for software development, but thispower and flexibility is often overwhelming for novice programmers andsometimes daunting for experienced professionals. The goal of this book is todistill significant features of the Eclipse platform and its Java developmentcapabilities in a way that is approachable for newbies and beneficial for seniordevelopers who are new to Eclipse. But this book is not just a...

Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools

• ISBN:
• 0321398203
• Authors:
• Steve Cook, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kent, Alan Cameron Wills

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected design aspects to be expressed in terms much closer to the system requirements than standard program code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects and product...

BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting

• ISBN:
• 0321442598
• Authors:
• Diana Peh, Alethea Hannemann, Nola Hague

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0321580273 ISBN-13: 9780321580276   The first in a two-book series about Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting introduces reporting to a broad base of users. Built on the Eclipse platform, this exciting technology makes it possible for programmers and non-programmers to build and deploy complex reports with minimal effort. BIRT: A Field Guide to...

Squid: The Definitive Guide

• ISBN:
• 0596001622
• Authors:
• Duane Wessels

Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you to get by with smaller network connections. It also protects the host...

Working with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team System (Pro-Developer)

• ISBN:
• 0735621853
• Authors:
• Richard Hundhausen

Get a pragmatic overview of the new team-based system of products that bring Visual Studio development tools to the enterprise—allowing architects, developers, testers, and project managers to collaborate in a single, extensible development environment. With insights from the Microsoft Visual Studio product team, early users, and the author's hands-on experience, readers will understand how to use this tightly integrated set of lifecycle...

Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform

• ISBN:
• 1934356174
• Authors:
• Ed Burnett, Burnette Ed

Android is a new software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. In a few years, it's expected to be found inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices. Getting started developing with Android is easy. You don't even need access to an Android phone, just a computer where you can...

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code

• ISBN:
• 193435628X
• Authors:
• Paul Butcher, Butcher Paul

If you develop software, sooner or later you're going to discover that it doesn't always behave as you intended. Working out why it's misbehaving can be hard. Sometimes very hard. Debug It! is here to help! All bugs are different: there is no silver bullet. You've got to rely upon your intellect, intuition, detective skills and yes, even a little luck. But that doesn't mean that you're completely on your own-there is much you can learn from...

ANDROID A PROGRAMMERS GUIDE

• ISBN:
• 0071599886
• Authors:
• Jerome DiMarzio

Master the Android mobile development platform Build compelling Java-based mobile applications using the Android SDK and the Eclipse open-source software development platform. Android: A Programmer's Guide shows you, step-by-step, how to download and set up all of the necessary tools, build and tune dynamic Android programs, and debug your results. Discover how to provide web and chat functions, interact with the phone dialer and GPS devices,...

Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition

• ISBN:
• 0122198034

The Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition is a definitive resource for what to eat for maximum health as detailed by medical and nutritional experts. This book makes the connection between health, disease, and the food we eat. The Encyclopedia describes more than 140 foods, providing information on their history, nutrient content, and medical uses. The Encyclopedia also describes the "fit kitchen", including the latest in food...

Paleoseismology, Volume 95, Second Edition (International Geophysics)

• ISBN:
• 0123735769

Paleoseismology (the study of "ancient" earthquakes) has become an important component of seismic risk analysis, which is mandated for nuclear power plants, dams, waste repositories, and other critical structures. This book is the first in the English language to be devoted solely to paleoseismology. It summarizes the development of the field from the 1960s to the present, encompassing material that is currently widely dispersed in journal...

Forensic Comparative Science: Qualitative Quantitative Source Determination of Unique Impressions, Images, and Objects

• ISBN:
• 0123735823
• Authors:
• John Vanderkolk

While there is no such thing as a perfect match in the field of forensic comparative science, Forensic Comparative Science: Qualitative Quantitative Source Determination of Unique Impressions, Images, and Objects provides the experience, understanding, and judgment, necessary for concluding whether two unique images share common origin from a unique and persistent source. Knowing there will be ranges of different levels of details throughout...

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 48: Skill and Strategy in Memory Use

• ISBN:
• 0123736072

Chapters in this volume discuss strategies people use in responding to memory queries- whether and how to access memory and how to translate retrieved products into responses. Coverage includes memory for ongoing events and memory for prospective events-how we remember to do future intended actions. Individual differences in memory skill is explored across people and situations, with special consideration given to the elderly population and how...

Brave New Mind: A Thoughtful Inquiry into the Nature and Meaning of Mental Life

• ISBN:
• 0195089057
• Authors:
• Peter Dodwell

How was the standard model of the mind developed? Is it adequate? And is there a place in this model for the creative genius of artists, scientists, and mathematicians? This book looks at how scientists investigate the nature of the mind and the brain, providing answers to these important questions and offering a provocative theory about the nature of consciousness.

Continental Shelf Limits: The Scientific and Legal Interface

• ISBN:
• 0195117824

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down the rules and regulations governing claims to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles for the 130 coastal States and entities that have ratified or acceded to it. This book is designed to help those coastal States implement the provisions of Article 76, covering the technical issues involved and explaining the interface between the legal concepts contained within...

Infancy to Early Childhood: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Developmental Change

• ISBN:
• 019513012X

Univ. of Colorado, Denver. Text resulting from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study, a collaboration of developmental scientists and behavioral geneticists. Explains how changes occur in different domains and how genetics and the environment influence those changes. Raises questions about the interplay between nature and nurture.

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

• ISBN:
• 0195143817
• Authors:
• Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world, we need a different, more psychologically...

The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century

• ISBN:
• 0195176839
• Authors:
• Gary Hart

Today, even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "containment of communism." In this short, sharp book, Gary Hart outlines a new grand strategy, one directing America's powers to the achievement of its large purposes. Central to this strategy is the power of American ideals, what Hart calls "the fourth power." Constitutional liberties, representative government, press freedom - these and other democratic...

Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes)

• ISBN:
• 0198237022
• Authors:
• Thomas Hobbes

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment "Questions relative to Hereditary Right," discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, the Dialogue should be essential reading for anybody interested in English political thought...

Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect

• ISBN:
• 0201748681
• Authors:
• Rex Black

Text presents twelve testing processes that are critical to success. After each process is introduced, a case study demonstrates its use in various organizational, operational, and technological contexts. For computer software test professionals. Softcover. DLC: Computer software--Testing.

Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison

• ISBN:
• 0226114635
• Authors:
• Megan Comfort

By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years...

Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View

• ISBN:
• 0226774996
• Authors:
• Peter K. B. St. Jean

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for criminals, and another proposes that neighborhood disorder—such as broken windows and boarded-up buildings—makes crime more likely. But in his innovative new study, Peter K. B. St. Jean...

The Garden of Ediacara

• ISBN:
• 0231105592
• Authors:
• Mark A. S. McMenamin

During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old -making them the oldest large body fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed to defy explanation. Representatives of marine life forms that existed in Precambrian times, as much as fifty million years before life on earth began to diversify rapidly, the...

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.

The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0240807405

*Searchable CD ROM containing the entire book (including images) *Over 450 color images, plus never before published images provided by the George Eastman House collection, as well as images from Ansel Adams, Howard Schatz, and Jerry Uelsmann to name just a few The role and value of the picture cannot be matched for accuracy or impact. This comprehensive treatise, featuring the history and historical processes of photography, contemporary...

Control Systems for Live Entertainment, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0240809378
• Authors:
• John Huntington

If you are interested in how control systems and computer networks are used in all areas of live entertainment, Control Systems for Live Entertainment is the industry standard reference. With a unique combined focus on computers, networking, art, and practice, this book offers an in-depth examination of control for lighting, lasers, sound, , stage machinery, animatronics, special effects, and pyrotechnics for concerts, theme parks, theatre,...

The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution

• ISBN:
• 024080998X

Defining photography is impossible. Revealing it is another matter, and that's what The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography does, with each turn of the page. History: The technical origins and evolution of photography are half of the story. The other half consists of the ways that cultural forces have transformed photography into a constellation of practices more diverse than any other mode of representation. Photographers can tell a more...

Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers, Volume 1 (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262026031
• Authors:
• Ned Block

This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body problem—a theme that has concerned Block since the 1960s. One paper on this topic considers the upshot for the mind-body problem of the possibility of a robot that is functionally like us but physically different—as is...

Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions

• ISBN:
• 0262032791
• Authors:
• John M. Carroll

Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today's information systems often change our activities in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John Carroll shows how a pervasive but underused element of design practice, the scenario, can transform information systems design. Traditional textbook approaches manage the complexity of the design process via abstraction, treating design problems...

From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262042231

The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between human and nonhuman primate brains. From Monkey Brain to Human Brain uses the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to look at the complex patterns of...

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)

• ISBN:
• 0262042274

Although fatigue has been actively investigated for more than 100 years, we have progressed little in either its theoretical or practical understanding. Fatigue has been considered to be both a symptom and an illness. Fatigue is a primary reason for patient visits to the physician's office, but it is difficult to measure and offers doctors little important information for diagnosis. Fatigue as a Window to the Brain gathers experts on a wide...

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

• ISBN:
• 0262062127
• Authors:
• Jerry Fodor

In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth. In fact, he claims, cognitive...

The Asymmetrical Brain (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262083094

The folk belief that the left brain hemisphere is dominant for language and the right for visuospatial functions is incomplete and even misleading. Research shows that asymmetries exist at all levels of the nervous system and apply to emotional as well as to higher cognitive processes. Going beyond their previous book, Brain Asymmetry, this book reflects the most recent thinking on functional asymmetries and their structural correlates in brain...

Representation and Behavior (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262112590
• Authors:
• Fred Keijzer

Representation is a fundamental concept within cognitive science. Most often, representations are interpreted as mental representations, theoretical entities that are the bearers of meaning and the source of intentionality. This approach views representation as the internal reflection of external circumstances--that is, as the end station of sensory processes that translate the environmental state of affairs into a set of mental representations....

Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262182475
• Authors:
• W. Teed Rockwell

In this highly original work, Teed Rockwell rejects both dualism and the mind-brain identity theory. He proposes instead that mental phenomena emerge not merely from brain activity but from an interacting nexus of brain, body, and world. The mind can be seen not as an organ within the body, but as a "behavioral field" that fluctuates within this brain-body-world nexus. If we reject the dominant form of the mind-brain identity theory—which...

Metaphor in Context (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262194392
• Authors:
• Josef Stern

The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semantic theory. In this book Josef Stern challenges these assumptions. He...

Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior

• ISBN:
• 0262194538
• Authors:
• J. E. R. Staddon

In this book J. E. R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of parsimonious real-time models for behavior. The...

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....

Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

• ISBN:
• 0262531569
• Authors:
• Andy Clark

"Clark's book is an excellent introduction to this new movement in cognitive science. It is clear, wide ranging, well informed, and full of fascinating examples. And, unusually, it manages to be both eminently sensible and highly provocative." -- Margaret A. Boden, Nature Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There , Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a...

The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies

• ISBN:
• 026257246X
• Authors:
• Vincenzo Galasso

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. Doubts about the ability of industrialized countries to continue to provide a sufficient level of retirement benefits to a growing number of retirees has fueled much recent debate and inspired a variety of recommendations for reform. Few major reforms, however, have actually been implemented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies , Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success of any...

Toward a Science of Consciousness III: The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems)

• ISBN:
• 0262581817

Can there be a science of consciousness? This issue has been the focus of three landmark conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first two conferences and books have become touchstones for the field. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the third conference. It showcases recent progress in this maturing field by researchers from philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, phenomenology, and...

Consciousness and the Computational Mind (Explorations in Cognitive Science)

• ISBN:
• 0262600196
• Authors:
• Ray S. Jackendoff

In Consciousness and the Computational Mind, Ray Jackendoff probes one of the fundamental issues in cognitive psychology: How does our conscious experience come to be the way it is? In so doing, he develops an overview of the mental representations invoked by the language, visual, and musical faculties, and describes how they are used in perception, production, imagery, and thought. He then explores how these representations determine the...

How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change

• ISBN:
• 0262620901
• Authors:
• David Lightfoot

Over the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters defined in Universal Grammar. Here David Lightfoot addresses the crucial question of what it takes to set a parameter - of what kind of experience is needed to trigger the emergence of a natural kind of grammar. Lightfoot asserts that parameter setting is not sensitive to embedded material, and that it is triggered...

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...

A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance

• ISBN:
• 0300086989
• Authors:
• Doctor Charles McKhann M.D.

An examination of the dying process as it is experienced in painful and debilitating diseases from the point of view of the sufferers and their families. The author considers the idea of assisted suicides, and also reflects on religious, moral and legal issues involved in someone's death.

Intuition: Its Powers and Perils

• ISBN:
• 0300095317
• Authors:
• David G. Myers

How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this engaging and accessible book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful-and often amazing-insights, it can also dangerously mislead us. Drawing on recent psychological research, Myers discusses the powers and...

Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

• ISBN:
• 0300102291
• Authors:
• Dr. Gerald Edelman Ph.D.

How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and speculation across the ages. In this direct and non-technical discussion of consciousness, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman draws on a lifetime of scientific inquiry into the workings of the brain to formulate...

The Aging Mind: Opportunities in Cognitive Research

• ISBN:
• 0309069408
• Authors:
• Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences Board on Behavioral, National Research Council, Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging

Exciting new research has yielded potential breakthroughs in our understanding of how the mind ages. We have learned, for example, that as we age, cognitive decline may depend less on loss of brain cells age than on changes in the health of neurons and neural networks. Not only has research shown promise of new ways to promote cognitive functioning in older people, it has also revealed the link between biology and culture as determinants of...

Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look - Summary and Background Papers

• ISBN:
• 0309100909
• Authors:
• Based on a Workshop of the Committee on Disability in America: A New Look

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

• ISBN:
• 0313336997

The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the dicovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized...

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...

Battleground: Sports

• ISBN:
• 0313340242

Mega-events like the Olympics, the World Cup of soccer, the World Series of baseball, cycling's Tour de France, and the Super Bowl draw our attention to the deep cultural significance of sport and its role in fostering social bonds. Yet when it comes to sport, there is no shortage of debate: stereotypes regarding sexuality, race, gender, and children have been hotly contested by critics for over 40 years. Even today, sport is one of the very few...

Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide

• ISBN:
• 0313340323
• Authors:
• Melody Rose

This thought-provoking reference work explores the evolution of America's heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day. The guide includes not only key laws and court cases that have determined abortion policy, but also political speeches, medical essays, theological writings, newspaper advertisements, magazine articles, and popular books that offer insight into America's changing...

Battleground: Immigration

• ISBN:
• 0313344132

Among the most tumultuous conflicts of modern America is the war over legal and undocumented immigrants currently residing within U.S. borders. Since the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, America has witnessed an unprecedented flow of immigrants onto its shores, with increased diversity of race and culture. Battleground: Immigration examines the most critical issues surrounding immigration today, including effects on the...

Global Warming 101 (Science 101)

• ISBN:
• 0313346909
• Authors:
• Bruce E. Johansen

The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide, melting permafrost, slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia and Brazil, increasing...

Why Software Sucks...and What You Can Do About It

• ISBN:
• 0321466756
• Authors:
• David S. Platt

“I’ve just finished reading the best computer book [ Why Software Sucks... ] since I last re-read one of mine and I wanted to pass along the good word. . . . Put this one on your must-have list if you have software, love software, hate programmers, or even ARE a programmer, because Mr. Platt (who teaches programming) has set out to puncture the bloated egos of all those who think that just because they can write a program, they can make it...

The Criminology of White-Collar Crime (Topics in Applied Physics; V. 36)

• ISBN:
• 0387095012

Over the last few decades, interest in white-collar crime has tended to take a back seat to 'street' offenses in terms of theory and research. In response, and reflecting the rising general interest in business and middle/ upper class lawbreaking, "The Criminology of White-Collar Crime" brings the study of white-collar offending back into the criminology mainstream, analyzing why members of higher social strata resort to criminal activity and...

Encyclopedia of Biometrics (Springer Reference)

• ISBN:
• 0387730028

Biometrics refers to automated methods of recognizing a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics. Among the features measured are face, fingerprints, hand geometry, handwriting, iris, retina, vein, and voice. With an A–Z format, the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Biometrics provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of biometrics for those seeking entry into the broad field of biometrics. The Encyclopedia is...

Understanding Consciousness: Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0415425158
• Authors:
• Max Velmans

Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the understanding of consciousness that have taken...

International Criminology

• ISBN:
• 0415431786
• Authors:
• Bessant/Watts/H

This book provides a clear, accessible yet critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the UK, the US, the USA, and Australia, think about and do research on crime. What do we mean by ideas like ‘crime’ or ‘violence’? And is measuring crime rates actually possible? This book; offers a thoughtful, comparative, historical account of how criminology has evolved into a modern social scientific discipline; provides a simple...

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...

Interpretation in Social Relationships, Social Science and Marketing (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)

• ISBN:
• 0415777585
• Authors:
• John O'shaughnessy

'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that provide the foundation for clear thinking about social phenomena. In his new book, John O’Shaughnessy familiarises the reader with the nature of interpretation and its importance in social life, decision making in social science enquiries and consumer marketing, thus offering a multidisciplinary...

Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals (The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy With Boys and Men)

• ISBN:
• 0415955475

Counseling Troubled Boys provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. This volume will provide practitioners with case examples and show considerations including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. The book creates a bridge between young men and professional helpers by providing school and mental health...

Petroleum Geology (Developments in Petroleum Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444421653
• Authors:
• R. E. Chapman

Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs, Fifteenth Edition:The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions 6 Volume Set(Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs)

• ISBN:
• 0444509984

Building on the success of the 14 previous editions, this remarkable reference has been extensively reorganized and expanded and now comprises almost 1,500 individual drug articles providing the most complete coverage of adverse reactions and interactions found anywhere. Each article contains detailed and authoritative information about the adverse effects of each drug, with comprehensive references to the primary literature making this a must...

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set, Volume 1-5

• ISBN:
• 0444520333

The groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Ecology provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the complete field of ecology, from general to applied. It includes over 500 detailed entries, structured to provide the user with complete coverage of the core knowledge, accessed as intuitively as possible, and heavily cross-referenced. Written by an international team of leading experts, this revolutionary encyclopedia will serve as a...

Well Completion Design, Volume 56 (Developments in Petroleum Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444532102
• Authors:
• Jonathan Bellarby

Completions are the conduit between hydrocarbon reservoirs and surface facilities. They are a fundamental part of any hydrocarbon field development project. The have to be designed for safely maximising the hydrocarbon recovery from the well and may have to last for many years under ever changing conditions. Issues include: connection with the reservoir rock, avoiding sand production, selecting the correct interval, pumps and other forms of...

Applied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers (Developments in Petroleum Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444828877
• Authors:
• I.M. Kutasov

The purpose of Applied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers is to present in a clear and concise form methods of utilizing the data of temperature surveys in deep boreholes as well as the results of field, laboratory and analytical investigations in geothermics to a wide audience. Although some aspects of the subject of this book have been discussed in several previous books and numerous papers, A pplied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers is the...

Life, Brain and Consciousness: New Perceptions through Targeted Systems Analysis (Advances in Psychology)

• ISBN:
• 044488436X
• Authors:
• G. Sommerhoff

The relation between mind and brain can never be understood by science until the nature of consciousness and self-consciousness is clearly perceived as specific system-properties. In this volume the author tackles this problem in a rigorous analysis which begins with the general dynamics of living systems and leads the reader step-by-step towards firm conclusions about the physical processes of consciousness and the main categories of mental...

Morphometry of Drainage Basins (Developments in Water Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444995870
• Authors:
• I. Zavoianu

The book describes the drainage basin as a system unit resulting from the interaction between runoff and topography - a lengthy process of evolution that occurs according to well-defined laws. It aims not to quantify the agents which created the present forms, but to analyse the forms themselves in order to establish the laws according to which they develop, and to define a series of inter-relationships between morphometrical parameters and...

AdWords For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470152524
• Authors:
• Howie Jacobson

AdWords lets every business-from eBay PowerSellers to Fortune 500 companies-create targeted, cost-efficient advertising campaigns on the Web, and accounts for the bulk of Google's $6 billion in annual revenues This all-new guide helps advertisers get a handle on AdWords complexities and nuances, adopt AdWords best practices, and turn clicks into ka-ching! Topics covered include conducting quick and cheap market research, crafting a message that...

Encyclopedia of Insects

• ISBN:
• 0125869908

The Encyclopedia of Insects is a comprehensive work devoted to all aspects of insects, including their anatomy, physiology, evolution, behavior, reproduction, ecology, and disease, as well as issues of exploitation, conservation, and management. Articles provide definitive facts about all insects from aphids, beetles and butterflies to weevils and yellowjackets. Insects are beautiful and dreadful, ravenous pests and devastating disease vectors,...

Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development)

• ISBN:
• 0132354187
• Authors:
• Mark Summerfield

The Insider's Best-Practice Guide to Rapid PyQt 4 GUI Development Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development. With Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt you'll learn how to build efficient GUI applications that run on all...

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...

Simple Speaking Activities (Oxford Basics)

• ISBN:
• 0194421694
• Authors:
• Jill and Charles Hadfield

This book contains 30 activities at elementary level, complete with ideas for boardwork and pictures teachers can copy. All the activities are simple and adaptable. They are particularly well-suited to classrooms where there are few resources apart from a board, paper, and pens - and of course the teacher and the learners themselves.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

• ISBN:
• 0198662440

When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as "a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse of a book." Now comes the new Sixth Edition, thoroughly updated and greatly expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, who include Salmon Rushdie, Brian Aldiss,...

Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262161990
• Authors:
• John Perry

Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part, the slow victory of physical monism over various forms of dualism. Each new version of dualism claims...

Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge (Acting with Technology)

• ISBN:
• 0262195399
• Authors:
• Gerry Stahl

Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible. In Group Cognition Gerry Stahl explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to achieve computer-supported collaborative knowledge building—group cognition that transcends the limits of individual cognition. Computers can provide active media for social group cognition where ideas grow...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales

• ISBN:
• 0313334412
• Authors:
• Donald Haase

Folk and fairy tales exist in all cultures and are at the heart of civilization. This massive Encyclopedia gives students and general readers a broad, multicultural survey of folk and fairy tales from around the world. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries written by numerous expert contributors. Entries cover themes and motifs, individuals, characters and character types, national traditions, genres, and a range of other...

Real Time UML: Advances in the UML for Real-Time Systems (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0321160762
• Authors:
• Bruce Powel Douglass

Praise for Real Time UML, Third Edition "I found Real Time UML, Third Edition, to provide an informative and practical application of UML 2.0 to the development of real-time systems, and well worth the read by systems and software engineers. It is written in plain English and provides the right balance of depth and breadth." --Sanford Friedenthal, Deputy, Corporate Systems Engineering, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Chair: OMG Systems Engineering,...

Advanced Windows Debugging

• ISBN:
• 0321374460
• Authors:
• Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat

&> -- Bob Wilton, Escalation Engineer, Critical Problem Resolution Team, Microsoft   “An excellent reference for both intermediate and advanced debuggers: highly practical, and filled with tricks and strategies. This book stands out from all other Win32 debugging literature, thanks to its in-depth examples–including resolving intricate problems like stack and heap corruptions.” -- Kinshuman, Development Lead, Windows Core OS Division,...

Encyclopedia of Algorithms (Springer Reference)

• ISBN:
• 0387307702

The Encyclopedia of Algorithms will provide a comprehensive set of solutions to important algorithmic problems for students and researchers interested in quickly locating useful information. The first edition of the reference will focus on high-impact solutions from the most recent decade; later editions will widen the scope of the work. Nearly 500 entries will be organized alphabetically by problem, with subentries allowing for distinct...

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective (Springer Series in Statistics)

• ISBN:
• 0387775005
• Authors:
• Richard A. Berk

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response. As a first approximation, this is can be seen as an extension of nonparametric regression. Among the statistical learning procedures examined are bagging,...

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 Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (3 Volume Set)

• ISBN:
• 0415943426

This Encyclopedia on American history and law is the first devoted to examining the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties. Coverage includes the traditional civil liberties: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. In addition, it also covers concerns such as privacy, the rights of the...

Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0470277750
• Authors:
• Jonathan Swift, Salvador Alvarez Patuel, Chris Barker, Dan Wahlin

Our overarching goal in writing this book was to give ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create visually stunning Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. Silverlight gives you everything you need to do just this, and in serious style! As well as taking you through each feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will make sure you’re able to debug,...

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0470384611
• Authors:
• Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie

This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You'll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you’ll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing,...

The Fertilizer Encyclopedia

• ISBN:
• 0470410345
• Authors:
• Vasant Gowariker, V. N. Krishnamurthy, Sudha Gowariker, Manik Dhanorkar, Kalyani Paranjape

Fertilizers are key for meeting the world s demands for food, fiber, and fuel. Featuring nearly 4,500 terms of interest to all scientists and researchers dealing with fertilizers, The Fertilizer Encyclopedia compiles a wealth of information on the chemical composition of fertilizers, and includes information on everything from manufacturing and applications to economical and environmental considerations. It covers behavior in soil, chemical and...

Semantic Web Programming

• ISBN:
• 047041801X
• Authors:
• John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez

The next major advance in the WebWeb 3.0will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate...

Power System Dynamics: Stability and Control

• ISBN:
• 0470725583
• Authors:
• Jan Machowski, Janusz Bialek, Dr Jim Bumby

This book is the fully revised and updated second edition of Power System Dynamics and Stability published in 1997 . The modified title Power System Dynamics: Stability and Control reflects a slight shift in focus from solely describing power system dynamics to the means of dealing with them. The book has been expanded by about a third to include: a new chapter on wind power generation; a new section on wide-area measurement systems (WAMS) and...

Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology, 4 Volume Set

• ISBN:
• 0471192856

Now in a thoroughly-updated and expanded second edition, Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology covers fundamental concepts and practical requirements in food science, as well as cutting-edge technological and industry information. The encyclopedia features A-to-Z coverage of all aspects of food science, including: the properties, analysis, and processing of foods; genetic engineering of new food products; and nutrition. In addition,...

Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, 6-Volume Set

• ISBN:
• 047124967X

Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, 6-Volume Set is a living and evolving repository of the biomedical engineering (BME) knowledge base. To represent the vast diversity of the field and its multi-and cross-disciplinary nature and serve the BME community, the scope and content is comprehensive. As a peer reviewed primer, educational material, technical reference, research and development resource, the project encompasses the "best" in...

The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases

• ISBN:
• 0471648795
• Authors:
• E. J. Wagner

Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes "Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, whether dabbling with poisons, tobacco ash, or tire marks. Wagner explores this fascinating aspect of his career by showing how his investigations were grounded in the cutting-edge science of his day, especially the emerging field of forensics.... Utterly compelling." —Otto Penzler, member of the Baker Street...

Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement

• ISBN:
• 0471713457
• Authors:
• Jeff Tian

The one resource needed to create reliable software This text offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. By following the author's clear guidance, readers learn how to master the techniques to produce high-quality, reliable software, regardless of the software system's level of complexity. The first part of the publication introduces major topics in software quality engineering and presents quality planning...

Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge: New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis

• ISBN:
• 0471716448

This title brings forensic scientists and chemists up-to-date on the latest instrumental methods for analysing trace evidence, including mass spectrometry, image analysis, DIOS-MS, ELISA characterization, statistical validation, and others. Illustrates comparative analysis of trace evidence by both old and new methods. Explains why some newer methods are superior to older, established methods. Includes chapters on analysis of DNA, ink, dyes,...

The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air (Dover Books on Earth Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 0486201961
• Authors:
• M. Minnaert

A highly engaging study of mirages, illusions of multiple moons, the fata morgana, colored shadows and scores of other phenomena in a book praised as "a great depository of projects, science fair ventures, experiments, and always pure pleasure" — Science and Math Weekly. 202 illustrations.

Inverse Modeling of the Ocean and Atmosphere

• ISBN:
• 052102157X
• Authors:
• Andrew F. Bennett

Inverse Modeling of the Ocean and Atmosphere is a graduate-level textbook for students of oceanography and meteorology, and anyone interested in combining computer models and observations of the hydrosphere or solid earth. A step-by-step development of maximally-efficient inversion algorithms, using ideal models, is complemented by computer codes and comprehensive details for realistic models. Variational tools and statistical concepts are...

Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory

• ISBN:
• 0521223849
• Authors:
• Nigel Cutland

What can computers do in principle? What are their inherent theoretical limitations? These are questions to which computer scientists must address themselves. The theoretical framework which enables such questions to be answered has been developed over the last fifty years from the idea of a computable function: intuitively a function whose values can be calculated in an effective or automatic way. This book is an introduction to computability...

Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and Taste

• ISBN:
• 052148068X
• Authors:
• Tristram D. Wyatt

The importance of chemical communication is illustrated in this study with examples from a diverse range of animals including humans, marine copepods, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, moths, snakes, goldfish, elephants and mice. For students of ecology, evolution and behavior, Tristram Wyatt provides an introduction to the rapid progress in the understanding of olfaction at the molecular and neurological level. In addition, he offers...

English Pronunciation in Use Advanced with Answers

• ISBN:
• 0521619564
• Authors:
• Martin Hewings

The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and...

English Pronunciation in Use Advanced Book with Answers, 5 Audio CDs and CD-ROM (Win 2000/XP)

• ISBN:
• 0521693764
• Authors:
• Martin Hewings

The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the...

Memory in Mind and Culture

• ISBN:
• 0521758920

This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organized around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective,...

Creep and Fracture of Ice

• ISBN:
• 0521806208
• Authors:
• Erland M. Schulson, Paul Duval

This is the first complete account of the physics of the creep and fracture of ice, and their interconnectivity. It investigates the deformation of low-pressure ice, which is fundamental to glaciers, polar ice sheets and the uppermost region of icy moons of the outer Solar System. The book discusses ice structure and its defects, and describes the relationship between structure and mechanical properties. It reviews observations and measurements,...

International Handbook of Intelligence

• ISBN:
• 0521808154

This first international handbook of intelligence ever published provides a truly international perspective on the nature of intelligence. It covers intelligence theory, research, and practice from all over the globe. Areas include Great Britain, Australia, French-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, Spanish-speaking countries, India, Japan, Israel, Turkey, and China. The authors, internationally recognized experts in the field of...

Environmental Applications of Geochemical Modeling

• ISBN:
• 052180907X
• Authors:
• Chen Zhu, Greg Anderson

This book discusses the application of geochemical models to environmental practice and studies, through the use of numerous case studies of real-world environmental problems, such as acid mine drainage, pit lake chemistry, nuclear waste disposal, and landfill leachates. In each example the authors clearly define the environmental threat in question; explain how geochemical modeling may help solve the problem posed; and advise the reader how to...

Mind, Brain and Education in Reading Disorders (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development)

• ISBN:
• 0521854792

One of the key topics for establishing meaningful links between brain sciences and education is the development of reading. How does biology constrain learning to read? How does experience shape the development of reading skills? How does research on biology and behaviour connect to the ways that schools, teachers and parents help children learn to read, particularly in the face of disabilities that interfere with learning? This book addresses...

Application of Cathodoluminescence Imaging to the Study of Sedimentary Rocks

• ISBN:
• 052185878X
• Authors:
• Sam Boggs Jr, David Krinsley

Minerals in sedimentary rocks emit characteristic visible luminescence called cathodoluminescence (CL) when bombarded by high energy electrons. CL emissions can be displayed as colour images in a cathodoluminescence microscope or as high-resolution monochromatic images in a scanning electron microscope. This provides information not available by other techniques on the provenance of the mineral grains in sedimentary rocks, and insights into...

Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications

• ISBN:
• 0521860857
• Authors:
• Geoff Dougherty

Image processing is a hands-on discipline, and the best way to learn is by doing. This text takes its motivation from medical applications and uses real medical images and situations to illustrate and clarify concepts and to build intuition, insight and understanding. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who will become end-users of digital image processing, it covers the basics of the major clinical imaging modalities,...

European Union Public Law: Text and Materials

• ISBN:
• 0521882370
• Authors:
• Damian Chalmers, Adam Tomkins

Since its publication in 2006, European Union Law has quickly established itself as one of the leading textbooks in the field, providing the student with both a comprehensive text and collection of materials. European Union Public Law brings together those sections of the title which look at the constitutional and institutional law of the EU, making it ideal for students undertaking a more focused study of the Union. Its proven successful...

Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook

• ISBN:
• 0596007264
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald, MacDonald Matthew

When Microsoft introduced the Visual Basic .NET programming language, as part of its move to the .NET Framework two years ago, many developers willingly made the switch. Millions of others, however, continued to stick with Visual Basic 6. They weren't ready for such a radical change, which included an object-oriented environment similar to Java. They liked the old Visual Basic just fine. In an effort to win over those diehard VB6 developers, the...

Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

• ISBN:
• 0596007590
• Authors:
• Karl Franz Fogel

The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous developers who volunteer their time and energy to create better software. The truth is, however, that the overwhelming majority of free software projects fail. To help you beat the odds,...

C++ Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596007612
• Authors:
• D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, Jeff Cogswell

Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information with amazing efficiency and quickness. The "C++ Cookbook" will make your path to mastery much shorter. This practical, problem-solving guide is ideal if you're an engineer, programmer, or researcher writing an application for one of the legions of platforms...

UML 2.0 in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596007957
• Authors:
• Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman

System developers have used modeling languages for decades to specify, visualize, construct, and document systems. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of those languages. UML makes it possible for team members to collaborate by providing a common language that applies to a multitude of different systems. Essentially, it enables you to communicate solutions in a consistent, tool-supported language. Today, UML has become the standard method...

Open Sources 2

• ISBN:
• 0596008023
• Authors:
• Chris Dibona, Danese Cooper, Mark Stone

"Open Sources 2.0" is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book "Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution" . These essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a broad audience: the software...

Applied Software Project Management

• ISBN:
• 0596009488
• Authors:
• Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene PSE, Stellman Andrew, Greene Jennifer

"If you're looking for solid, easy-to-follow advice on estimation, requirements gathering, managing change, and more, you can stop now: this is the book for you." --Scott Berkun, Author of The Art of Project Management What makes software projects succeed? It takes more than a good idea and a team of talented programmers. A project manager needs to know how to guide the team through the entire software project. There are common pitfalls that...

Learning UML 2.0

• ISBN:
• 0596009828
• Authors:
• Russ Miles, Kim Hamilton

"Since its original introduction in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language has revolutionized software development. Every integrated software development environment in the world--open-source, standards-based, and proprietary--now supports UML and, more importantly, the model-driven approach to software development. This makes learning the newest UML standard, UML 2.0, critical for all software developers--and there isn't a better choice than this...

Programming .NET Components, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0596102070
• Authors:
• Juval Lowy

Brilliantly compiled by author Juval Lowy, "Programming .NET Components," Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework--the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines, readers will learn how to use the .NET Framework to program reusable, maintainable, and robust components. Following in the footsteps of its best-selling predecessor, "Programming...

Learning Python, 3rd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0596513984
• Authors:
• Mark Lutz, Lutz Mark

Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is ideal for both standalone programs and scripting applications. With this hands-on book, you can master the fundamentals of the core Python language quickly and efficiently, whether you're new to programming or just new to Python. Once you finish, you will know enough about the language to use it in any application domain you choose. Learning Python is based on material from author Mark Lutz's...

Programming ASP.NET AJAX: Build rich, Web 2.0-style UI with ASP.NET AJAX

• ISBN:
• 0596514247
• Authors:
• Christian Wenz

Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time. Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects...

C# 3.0 Cookbook

• ISBN:
• 059651610X
• Authors:
• Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet

Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your...

Programming C# 3.0

• ISBN:
• 0596527438
• Authors:
• Jesse Liberty, Donald Xie

Written by popular author and .NET expert Jesse Liberty, this thoroughly updated tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers covers the latest release of Microsoft's popular C# language (C# 3.0) and the newest .NET platform for developing Windows and web applications. Our bestselling Programming C# 3.0, now in its fifth edition, is a world-class tutorial that goes well beyond the documentation otherwise available. Liberty doesn't just...

Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System

• ISBN:
• 059652918X
• Authors:
• Jason Cole, Helen Foster

Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Moodle gives teachers and trainers a...

Adding Ajax

• ISBN:
• 0596529368
• Authors:
• Shelley Powers

Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than replace, the way your application works. For instance, if you have a traditional web application based on submitting a form to update a table, you can enhance it by adding the capability to update the table with changes to the form fields, without actually having to submit the...

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

• ISBN:
• 0631228969

The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and political commitments, creating the first truly global overview of the field. Examines the relationship between law and social interactions in...

Archaeologies of Memory

• ISBN:
• 0631235841

As in the present, past peoples commemorated, constructed, and manipulated their past for their own social and political ends. Archaeologists can use a variety of evidence to study social memory and to recover past ideas about what the more distant past was like. Archaeologies of Memory is a groundbreaking text that presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. This unique collection of new essays brings together...

An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration

• ISBN:
• 0632049294
• Authors:
• Philip Kearey, Michael Brooks, Ian Hill

This new edition of the well-established Kearey and Brooks text is fully updated to reflect the important developments in geophysical methods since the production of the previous edition. The broad scope of previous editions is maintained, with even greater clarity of explanations from the revised text and extensively revised figures. Each of the major geophysical methods is treated systematically developing the theory behind the method and...

Vertebrate Palaeontology

• ISBN:
• 0632056371
• Authors:
• Michael J. Benton

Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research, including new material from North and South America, Australia, Europe, China, Africa and Russia. Highlights astonishing new discoveries including new dinosaurs and Mesozoic birds from China features a new chapter on how to study fossil vertebrates...

Covert Java: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering

• ISBN:
• 0672326388
• Authors:
• Alex Kalinovsky

Developers face problems created by others every day - when asked to maintain someone else's code, or when forced to use a third-party library without documentation. They might come across exactly the feature they need to implement but can't get hold of the source code. They might spend frustrating hours trying different solutions that don't work. Instead, the techniques in this book will teach developers to decompile, patch, and...

Mastering Unreal Technology: The Art of Level Design

• ISBN:
• 0672326922
• Authors:
• Jason Busby, Zak Parrish, Joel VanEenwyk

Let your imagination run wild in the world of Unreal Technology. Mastering Unreal Technology: The Art of Level Design knows no boundaries as it shows you how to build custom mods, maps and levels with the Unreal engine. Its tutorial format will give you immediate results through the tips and demos provided from the industry's top level designers. Learn to create your own characters, weapons and gaming environments, as well as how to go beyond...

Software Testing (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0672327988
• Authors:
• Ron Patton

Software Testing, Second Edition provides practical insight into the world of software testing and quality assurance. Learn how to find problems in any computer program, how to plan an effective test approach and how to tell when software is ready for release. Updated from the previous edition in 2000 to include a chapter that specifically deals with testing software for security bugs, the processes and techniques used throughout the book are...

MySQL Administrator's Guide and Language Reference (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0672328704
• Authors:
• MySQL AB

Written by the creators of MySQL and edited by one of the most highly respected MySQL authors, the MySQL Administrator's Guide and Language Reference is the official guide to installing MySQL, to setting up and administering MySQL databases, and to storing and retrieving data in these databases. This new edition combines into one book the MySQL Language Reference (on CD) with the practical information of the MySQL Administrator's Guide book. ...

openSUSE Linux Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 067232945X
• Authors:
• Michael McCallister

DVD Includes openSUSE 10.3   openSUSE Linux Unleashed presents comprehensive coverage of the community version of SUSE Linux, one of the most popular and most complete Linux distributions in the world.   This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering openSUSE. You’ll learn how to unleash the vast array of software products included in openSUSE so that you can use it as a desktop computer, as a professional...

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...

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...

Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)

• ISBN:
• 070071197X
• Authors:
• C. Moseley

Knowledge of the world's languages has never been more comprehensive than it is today; yet never have so many been threatened by extinction. Defining as endangered those languages in which older speakers are failing--for whatever reason--to pass on their native speech to younger generations, this encyclopedia is the first to catalog and describe them in-depth. Each regional section in this work explores the problems of language preservation in...

Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming (Pro-Developer)

• ISBN:
• 0735614229
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Richter

This title takes advanced developers and software designers under the covers of .NET to provide them with an in-depth understanding of its structure, functions, and operational components so they can create high-performance applications for .NET more easily and efficiently. Developers learn to program .NET applications while gaining a solid understanding of fundamental .NET design tenets. This title not only covers the infrastructure and...

Microsoft® Encyclopedia of Security

• ISBN:
• 0735618771
• Authors:
• Mitch Tulloch

Get the single resource that defines and illustrates the rapidly evolving world of computer and network security. The MICROSOFT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SECURITY delivers more than 1000 cross-referenced entries detailing the latest security-related technologies, standards, products, services, and issues including sources and types of attacks, countermeasures, policies, and more. You get clear, concise explanations and case scenarios that deftly take you...

Microsoft® Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator's Companion (Administrators Companion)

• ISBN:
• 0735618887
• Authors:
• Steven D. Kaczmarek

Deliver mission-critical software and updates—and help maximize your organization’s productivity—with the essential administrator’s reference to planning, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Companion (Administrators Companion)

• ISBN:
• 0735619794
• Authors:
• Walter J. Glenn, Bill English

This comprehensive, daily-operations guide provides the hands-on information you need to install, configure, and manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

Customizing the Microsoft® .NET Framework Common Language Runtime

• ISBN:
• 0735619883
• Authors:
• Steven Pratschner

Get advanced programming techniques and guidelines to exploit the flexibility of the common language runtime (CLR), the managed code programming model used with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft developer Steven Pratschner shows you how to customize the CLR for use in a wide variety of applications, from database servers to cell phones.

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-561): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 ADO.NET Application Development (Self-Paced Training Kits)

• ISBN:
• 0735625638
• Authors:
• Shawn Wildermuth, Jim Wightman, Mark Blomsma

EXAM PREP GUIDE Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-561 and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time. Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:...

The Insanity Defense the World Over

• ISBN:
• 0739115928
• Authors:
• Heather Ahn-Redding

The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the tenth in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries.

The Video Activist Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0745317715
• Authors:
• Thomas Harding

This second edition of the highly popular VIDEO ACTIVIST HANDBOOK includes numerous examples of contemporary video activism from around the world. The first book to provde the basic skills and know-how required for beginning activism, it also offers a wealth of ideas on video startegies to those with some prior experience. Wheher you are involved in campaigning, nonviolent direct action, or simply want to know how to make use of video as a...

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...

International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors (3 Volume Set)

• ISBN:
• 0748408479

The first encyclopaedic source in this interdisciplinary field. A unique professional reference available in either 3 hardback volumes or CDROM. Pre-publication offer availabe.

Shared Earth Modeling: Methodologies for Integrated Reservoir Simulations

• ISBN:
• 0750675225
• Authors:
• John R. Fanchi PhD

Shared Earth Modeling introduces the reader to the processes and concepts needed to develop shared earth models. Shared earth modeling is a cutting-edge methodology that offers a synthesis of modeling paradigms to the geoscientist and petroleum engineer to increase reservoir output and profitability and decrease guesswork. Topics range from geology, petrophysics, and geophysics to reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, and reservoir...

Natural Gas Hydrates, Second Edition: A Guide for Engineers

• ISBN:
• 0750684909
• Authors:
• John Carroll

The petroleum industry spends millions of dollars every year to combat the formation of hydrates - the solid, crystalline compounds that form from water and small molecules - that cause problems by plugging transmission lines and damaging equipment. They are a problem in the production, transmission and processing of natural gas and it is even possible for them to form in the reservoir itself if the conditions are favorable. Natural Gas Hydrates...

Managing Software Projects

• ISBN:
• 0763725463
• Authors:
• Frank Tsui

Managing Software Projects is a book for software engineering students and project management professionals in the IT and software industry. It focuses on and tailors the 4 phases of management, planning, organizing, monitoring, and adjusting (POMA), to application on software projects. The tasks and techniques utilized in each of the POMA management phases are discussed with specific software engineering and IT related examples. Drawing from...

Beginning Programming for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764549979
• Authors:
• Wallace Wang

Discover the latest programming tips and techniques Start writing programs for Windows®, Linux®, Macintosh®, Palms, and PocketPCs Ready to take control of your computer by writing your own programs? Mixing concepts with humor, author Wallace Wang shows you how to begin programming as simply and quickly as possible. In no time, you’ll find out how to create and debug programs in Liberty BASIC, use algorithms, build interactive Web pages, and...

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases Beta Preview

• ISBN:
• 0764570811
• Authors:
• John Kauffman

With help from Microsoft ASP.NET insider Bradley Millington, this book will be the first book available on ASP.NET Databases when the first beta is put into wide distribution in 2004. The book covers both VB.NET and C# coding for ASP.NET databases so readers don't have to decide up front which language they want more and retailers no longer have to manage inventory on separate language versions. By returning to a single lead author (John...

Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

• ISBN:
• 0764574817
• Authors:
• Eldad Eilam

Beginning with a basic primer on reverse engineering-including computer internals, operating systems, and assembly language-and then discussing the various applications of reverse engineering, this book provides readers with practical, in-depth techniques for software reverse engineering. The book is broken into two parts, the first deals with security-related reverse engineering and the second explores the more practical aspects of reverse...

ASP.NET 2 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 076457907X
• Authors:
• Bill Hatfield

More than one million developers now use ASP.NET, the Microsoft technology for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites Published day and date with the new Visual Studio 2005 release, this revision of our bestselling book covers new language features as well as the much-anticipated Visual Web Developer tool Requiring no previous Visual Basic or C# experience, the author walks complete beginners through ASP.NET 2 basics, from working with objects,...

I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews With 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television

• ISBN:
• 0786441186
• Authors:
• Tom Weaver

"I talked with a zombie"-it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for over 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many other vintage movie monsters, along with the screenwriters, producers, directors and actors responsible for bringing them to life. In this newest compilation of interviews, 23 more veterans share their stories-strange, frightening and even a little funny-this time with an increased emphasis on genre TV series...

How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters (w/CD) (The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Guidebook Series)

• ISBN:
• 0787999083
• Authors:
• Mal Warwick

Write with confidence and reach your donors You'll learn all the essential components of writing for success from this go-to book for writing for fundraising! Mal Warwick, the nation's premier letter-writing tutor and direct mail expert, shows you the essential tools for making your direct marketing program a success. He gives you both general advice about the most effective direct mail strategies and specific guidance. Learn his step-by-step...

Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self: Developmental and Cultural Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 0805837566

It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation. Scholars from multiple disciplines, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have begun theorizing and writing about the ways in which autobiographical memory is organized, the role that narratives play in the development of autobiographical memory,...

Detection Theory: A User's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0805842306
• Authors:
• Neil A. Macmillan, C. Douglas Creelman

Detection Theory is an introduction to one of the most important tools for analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect. Originally developed for evaluation of electronic detection, detection theory was adopted by psychologists as a way to understand sensory decision making, then embraced by students of human memory. It has since been utilized in areas as diverse as animal behavior and X-ray diagnosis. This book...

Statistical Misconceptions

• ISBN:
• 0805859047
• Authors:
• Schuyler W. Huck

Brief and inexpensive, this engaging book helps readers identify and then discard 52 misconceptions about data and statistical summaries. The focus is on major concepts contained in typical undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, research methods, or quantitative analysis. Fun interactive Internet exercises that further promote undoing the misconceptions are found on the book's website. The author’s accessible discussion of each...

On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way

• ISBN:
• 0809325934
• Authors:
• Professor Steven Adler

At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway—and, by extension, of American theatre itself—former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle the recent past and glimpse the near future of the Great White Way. From marquee names to behind-the-scenes power brokers, Adler has assembled a distinctly knowledgeable cast of theatre’s elite, including...

Process: An Improviser's Journey

• ISBN:
• 0810124726
• Authors:
• Mary Scruggs, Michael J. Gellman

  Author, teacher, and improviser Michael Gellman was given a mission by Del Close himself: “[T]o create improvised one-act plays of literary quality from scratch.” Already steeped in the world of improvisation, he took it upon himself to do this, in the form of a class for other improvisers in which they would build the skills necessary to execute such a seemingly tall order. Scruggs and Gellman’s book, modeled after Stanislavski’s...

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology

• ISBN:
• 0810385708

Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture

• ISBN:
• 0813819474
• Authors:
• C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala

A study of the sociology of conservation tillage in the United States and Australia, answering questions about the surprising trends, including what led up to the changes. Discusses only the sociological aspects of these agricultural trends, leaving other important aspects to other studies. DLC: Conservation tillage.

Gender Myths v. Working Realities: Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law

• ISBN:
• 0814799175
• Authors:
• Theresa Beiner

Both the courts and the public seem confused about sexual harassmentâ€"what it is, how it functions, and what sorts of behaviors are actionable in court. Theresa M. Beiner contrasts perspectives from social scientists on the realities of workplace sexual harassment with the current legal standard. When it comes to sexual harassment law, all too often courts (and employers) are left in the difficult position of grappling with vague legal...

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...

Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire (Facts on File Library of World History)

• ISBN:
• 0816045623
• Authors:
• Matthew Bunson

Known for its extraordinarily rich cultural legacy, the Roman Empire is one of the most studied periods of all history. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, Revised Edition provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary coverage of the people, place,s events, and ideas of this remarkable period. Spanning almost 500 years of turmoil and triumph, each of the nearly 2,000 entries has been reviewed and updated to fully reflect the most recent advances in...

Encyclopedia of American Business (Facts on File Library of American History)

• ISBN:
• 0816046433

Designed for the non-specialist, students and general readers, this encyclopedia will help any novice understand the complex and sometimes confusing concepts and terms that are used in the world of business. Five general areas of business are covered: accounting, banking, finance, marketing, and management. Encyclopedia of American Business contains entries on topics such as annual report, balanced budget, capital, deflation, exchange rate,...

Encyclopedia of Public Administration & Public Policy (Facts on File Library of American History)

• ISBN:
• 0816047995

This text provides A-Z entries on critical concepts, personalities, events and topics in public administration. It is aimed at students of political science, government and civics as well as a general audience desiring basic knowledge of public administration.

Encyclopedia of Earth Science (Science Encyclopedia)

• ISBN:
• 0816049734
• Authors:
• Timothy M. Kusky

Encyclopedia of Earth Science provides a broad scope of important subjects in the field of Earth science - hydrology, structural geology, petrology, isotope geology, geochemistry, geomorphology, and oceanography. Containing approximately 700 entries, 19 prose essays, 110 line illustrations, and 100 black-and-white photographs, this comprehensive encyclopedia is perfect for high school and early college students. Hundreds of entries on concepts,...

Encyclopedia Of Space And Astronomy (Science Encyclopedia)

• ISBN:
• 0816053308
• Authors:
• Joseph A. Angelo

Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy covers this timely and popular topic in a clear, comprehensive manner. Offering a complete presentation of the main concepts, terms, facilities, and people in astronomy, the encyclopedia pays special attention to space-based astronomy and space exploration. Broad coverage includes terms such as astrophysics, planetary science, and cosmology, as well as both American and international astronomy and space...

The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories (Facts on File Crime Library)

• ISBN:
• 0816055408
• Authors:
• Michael Newton

Does the CIA covertly utilize "mind control" drugs and techniques? Are satanic messages subliminally hidden in popular music? Were Freemasons behind London's Jack the Ripper murders? Does your vote really count or is the U.S. president chosen by secretive societies such as the Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati? In an objective, fact-based manner, "The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories" thoroughly documents and explores these...

Earthquakes: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Hazards (The Hazardous Earth)

• ISBN:
• 0816064628
• Authors:
• Timothy, Ph.D. Kusky

Every day parts of the surface of the Earth are rattled by earthquake tremors, and occasionally, some regions are shaken violently during earthquakes, resulting in widespread damage and destruction. Earthquakes in Iran, Turkey, and Japan have demonstrated how the motion of the Earth's tectonic plates can suddenly make apparently safe environments dangerous and even deadly."Earthquakes" focuses on the furious power of nature unleashed and the...

The Gilded Age: 1870 to 1900 (Handbook to Life in America)

• ISBN:
• 0816071772

Often referred to as the 'Gilded Age', the period spanning from 1870 to 1900 encompassed both extravagant wealth and dire poverty in America. Due to this disparity, political agitators and reformists armed with socialist and anarchist manifestos flourished and the distinction between urban life and rural life grew increasingly sharper, creating an entirely new set of living conditions and social customs. Technological advancements such as the...

Tae Kwon Do, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0816073996
• Authors:
• Yeon Hwan Park, Jon Gerrard

The only book of its kind sanctioned by the World Taekwondo Federation and written by world-renowned Tae Kwon Do masters, "Tae Kwon Do, Third Edition" is the most comprehensive one-stop guide to the world's most popular martial art. More than 750 all-new, full-color photographs illustrate detailed instructions on the practices and techniques of this ancient Korean fighting system. Key features include a concise history of Tae Kwon Do; important...

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis (Disaster Risk Management)

• ISBN:
• 0821359304
• Authors:
• Maxx Dilley, Robert S. Chen, Uwe Deichmann, Arthur L. Lerner-Lam, Margaret Arnold

Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus...

The International Encyclopedia of Depression

• ISBN:
• 0826137938

Depression is the second most disabling disorder in the world. On a daily basis, virtually all practicing psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers confront patients with primary or secondary depression. The wealth of information available globally on depression is enormous, but has not been summarized into a comprehensive encyclopedia-until now. Experts from around the globe have been selected to present interdisciplinary coverage of all...

Forensic Science Glossary

• ISBN:
• 0849311969
• Authors:
• John C. Brenner

In forensics, there is often a difficulty conveying critical scientific terms to investigators, attorneys, juries, and even court reporters. Forensic Science Glossary is a single source reference that contains the spelling and definitions of commonly used terms found in forensic environments. This glossary of words and their meanings covers important areas of forensic science, including the relevant toxicology, documents, drug chemistry,...

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...

Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0849323916
• Authors:
• Michael J. Kennish

As a practicing professional in the field of marine science you need easily accessible, accurate and up-to-date information at your fingertips. Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Third Edition provides a comprehensive reference containing the critical information necessary to meet the multidisciplinary research needs of all marine scientists, researchers, and anyone involved in managing marine resources. Consisting of a user-friendly...

Grid Application Systems Design

• ISBN:
• 0849329973
• Authors:
• April J. Wells

Grid computing is an emerging technology designed for high-powered applications. Grid Application Systems Design shows how to unleash the high performance of Grid technology. It begins by delving into the history and theory of grid computing, providing background on the concepts, terminology, and issues surrounding it. The book then examines design issues inherent in using Grid technology and a highly distributed computing model. These issues...

Systems, Controls, Embedded Systems, Energy, and Machines (The Electrical Engineering Handbook; Third Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0849373476

In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our knowledge continues to grow, and so does the Handbook. For the third edition, it has expanded into a set of six books carefully focused on a specialized area or field of study. Each book represents a concise yet definitive collection of key concepts, models, and...

An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structure

• ISBN:
• 0865420785
• Authors:
• Seth Stein, Michael Wysession

Designed for advanced undergraduate and first year graduate seismology courses. Softcover.

FREEDOM AND THE LAW

• ISBN:
• 0865970971
• Authors:
• BRUNO LEONI

The greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time, contends the author of this thought-provoking work, is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies are increasingly usurping functions that were and should be exercised by individuals or groups rather than government. The result is an unwieldy surfeit of laws and regulations that by their sheer volume stifle individual freedom.

TWO BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSAL JURISPRUDENCE (Natural Law Cloth)

• ISBN:
• 0865976198
• Authors:
• SAMUEL PUFENDORF

"Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence" was Pufendorf's first work, published in 1660. Its appearance effectively inaugurated the modern natural-law movement in the German-speaking world. The work also established Pufendorf as a key figure and laid the foundations for his major works, which were to sweep across Europe and North America. 'Elements of Universal Jurisprudence' established Pufendorf's political theory, which, when...

Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 087337830X

How do I get a collection agency to stop harassing me? What exactly is a limited liability company? Do I need a living trust? If I work 50 hours a week shouldn't I be getting overtime? What can I do if my ex won't pay child support? Like it or not, the law affects practically every aspect of our lives, and legal questions come up daily. Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, a handy, information-packed resource, has the answers. Written by Nolo's...

Tactical Advantage: A Definitive Study Of Personal Small-Arms Tactics

• ISBN:
• 0873649753
• Authors:
• Gabriel Suarez

Read this book and learn the combat-proven techniques big-city cops use to stay alive and effective when the bullets start flying. Maintain the tactical advantage in any situation by knowing how to search buildings for armed intruders, use cover and concealment, maintain proper distance intervals and much more.

Reactivity and Transport of Heavy Metals in Soils

• ISBN:
• 0873714733
• Authors:
• H. Magdi Selim, Michael C. Amacher

The fate of heavy metal particles in the environment is important because they tend to be reactive, mobile, and highly toxic. Reactivity and Transport of Heavy Metals in Soils examines the sometimes complex interactions that occur between metals and the soil they occupy. It discusses basic kinetic concepts and covers the predictability and consequences of metal-soil interactions.This practical guide presents and explains heavy metal issues...

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...

All New Tricks for Trainers: 57 Tricks and Techniques to Grab and Hold the Attention of Any Audience...and Get Magical Results

• ISBN:
• 0874254485
• Authors:
• Dave Arch

This collection of new training tricks from master magician and trainer of trainers Dave Arch contains proven magic tricks, brainteasers and puzzlers that will amaze your audience, get and hold your audience's attention, energize, retain learning, and much more. Covers: teamwork, quality, customer service, goal-setting, leadership, motivation, and creative problem-solving.

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Emotional Intelligence (The Manager's Pocket Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0874255996
• Authors:
• Emily A. Sterrett

One of the keys to becoming a true leader is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence quotient (or EQ) encompasses qualities that go beyond general intellectual intelligence and technical competency. EQ includes self-awareness, self-control, self-confidence, motivation, empathy, and competencies in the social environment. These hallmarks of a true leader can be learned. The activities in this guide will help strengthen the reader’s EQ...

89 Learning Points for Coaching Call Center CSR's

• ISBN:
• 0874259460
• Authors:
• Peter Garber

The traditional role of the call center supervisor is a thing of the past. Being an effective coach is fast becoming the most valuable asset you can offer your employees, call center and organization. This interactive training guide is designed for those responsible for the ultimate success of the call center. It is packed with tips and strategies that will help you do your job better and continuously coach your CSR s to improve their skills and...

On Real Relation: (Disputatio Metaphysica XLVII) : A Translation from the Latin, with an Introduction and Notes (Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation)

• ISBN:
• 087462245X
• Authors:
• John P. Doyle

The Trinity: Retrieving The Western Tradition (Marquette Studies in Theology)

• ISBN:
• 0874627257
• Authors:
• Neil Ormerod

Hypnosis (Llewellyn's Self-Improvement)

• ISBN:
• 0875423000
• Authors:
• William W. Hewitt

Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Llewellyn's Sourcebook)

• ISBN:
• 0875428320
• Authors:
• Henry Cornelius Agrippa, James Freake, Donald Tyson

Now you can learn from the original, most important source for magic in the Western world that has ever been published, when you get Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. This massive volume was originally published in 1531, and occultists have been drawing on it ever since. Now, Llewellyn is proud to produce the first complete reprint of the original English translation in the last 500 years. Donald Tyson edited this work and removed the...

Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend

• ISBN:
• 0875652921
• Authors:
• Robert DeArment

Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort...

Dearest Virginia: Love Letters from a Cavalry Officer in the South Pacific

• ISBN:
• 0875653111
• Authors:
• Sam Hunnicutt

A day-to-day account of the enduring passion of a man for his wife, the frustrations of separation caused by the war and the plans for a future in a saner but unknown world. Sixty years later, Lloyd and Virginia's tender memoir will touch the hearts of every generation.

Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe: Archetypes of the Corporate Culture

• ISBN:
• 0875862500
• Authors:
• Keith Wilcock

"The theory that corporations are evolved tribes opens entirely new ways of thinking about and analyzing modern business organizations. Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe shows how to apply the new field of corporate anthropology to the every day challenges of operating a business. Watch out. This book will shift your paradigm." - Dr. Marvin Dunnette, past President and Fellow of SIOP (The Society of Industrial and Organizational...

Ecce Homo, and the Antichrist: How One Becomes What One is/a curse on Christianity

• ISBN:
• 0875862810
• Authors:
• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

American Narcissism: The Myth of National Superiority

• ISBN:
• 0875864678
• Authors:
• Wilber W. Caldwell

Nationalism is not unique to America: it was invented with the birth of modern nations. But nationalism is unique in America. Americans conceive themselves and their nation to be incontrovertibly superior to the other peoples and nations of the earth. When does national pride cross the invisible boundary that separates benign patriotism and malignant nationalism? Americans have much to be proud of, but national pride can cross the invisible...

Adversarial Justice: America's Court System on Trial

• ISBN:
• 0875865275
• Authors:
• Theodore L. Kubicek

Oh, those lawyers! The legal profession in fact, the legal system certainly has a poor reputation in the United States. Proposed remedies, however, rarely go as deep as the ethics of the system. America's judicial system should not be a game that anyone can win, regardless of actual guilt or liability. Ted Kubicek, JD, describes the problems and proposes solutions. Above all, he condemns the adversary system of justice which is used to evade the...

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...

Crimes of Punishment: America's Culture of Violence

• ISBN:
• 0875865631
• Authors:
• Theodore L. Dorpat

This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture. Written at the culmination of the author s fifty-year career as a psychoanalyst, forensic psychologist and scholar, this wide-ranging work identifies the origins of violence...

Rodale's Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works

• ISBN:
• 0875967965
• Authors:
• Bill Hylton

Design and construct furniture that works. A visual source of information ranging from furniture styles and dimensions to joinery. 100 classic furniture pieces are captured in highly detailed, exploded drawings.

Book of Lies

• ISBN:
• 0877285160
• Authors:
• Aleister Crowley

An admirable collection of Crowley's aphorisms-- Witty, subtle, and instructive paradoxes that challenge and exhilarate.

No Such Country: Essays toward Home (Sightline Books)

• ISBN:
• 0877457964
• Authors:
• Elmar Lueth

No Such Country explores the idea of home—but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth...

Guitar Player Repair Guide

• ISBN:
• 0879302917
• Authors:
• Dan Erlewine

Whether you simply want to maintain your guitar or hot-rod it into a radical new incarnation, this book is the ideal guide. By the columnist of Guitar PlayerÕs popular Repairs & Modifications column, this comprehensive book is a must for any guitarist who needs information on beginning repairs through advance enhancements. 8-1/2 inch. x 11 inch..

U.S. Military Tracked Vehicles (Crestline Series)

• ISBN:
• 087938672X
• Authors:
• Fred Crismon

P-51 Mustang Nose Art Gallery

• ISBN:
• 0879387823
• Authors:
• John M. Campbell, Donna Campbell

U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles (Crestline Series)

• ISBN:
• 0879389079
• Authors:
• Fred Crismon

A timeless classic vehicle history book, over 2100+ photos of US military vehicles - 1900 to 1983. Covers everything from bicycles, jeeps, 4X4's, 6X6's, 8X8's, 1/4 ton's to 50 ton trucks. A must for military vehicle enthusiasts and collectors.

Wild Edible Plants of the Western North America

• ISBN:
• 0879610379
• Authors:
• Donald R. Kirk

Nearly 2000 species of wild edible plants found in the western United States and in southwestern Canada and northwestern Mexico are covered. Excellent identifying illustrations by Janice Kirk.

Sidney Hook: Philosopher of Democracy and Humanism

• ISBN:
• 0879751916

Sidney Hook is considered by many to be America's most influential philosopher. An earlier defender of Marxism, he became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary manifestations. A student of John Dewey's pragmatism, Sidney Hook has written extensively about most of the live moral, social and political issues of the day. He has known and debated many of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, such as...

Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment

• ISBN:
• 088010046X
• Authors:
• Rudolf Steiner

Discover true self-confidence. This book is a manual for the attainment of spiritual knowledge. It opens new perspectives on the essential tasks of life. This is a classic, tried and true edition of one of Rudolf Steiner's most essential works. In it Steiner spells out the necessary steps for what he calls the most appropriate inner path for modern Western seekers. Steiner begins by describing the necessary conditions we must strive for as we...

Brain Circuitry and Signaling in Psychiatry: Basic Science and Clinical Implications (Progress in Psychiatry)

• ISBN:
• 088048957X
• Authors:
• Gary B. Kaplan, Ronald P. Hammer Jr.

The 1990s, appropriately termed "the decade of the brain," witnessed unprecedented advances in our knowledge of psychiatric neuroscience. Yet with every advance, we realized afresh that we were still in the beginning stages of a much longer journey. This text chronicles the next step of that journey. Structured around a proven teaching methodology that uniquely integrates the clinical aspects of psychiatric disorders with their neurobiology,...

From Atlantis to the Sphinx

• ISBN:
• 0880641762
• Authors:
• Colin Wilson

Recent discoveries by Boston University geologist Robert Schoch of ancient water damage to the Sphinx have thrown the scientific world into tizzy, for they suggest that Egypt's legendary monument might be thousands of years older than previously believed. In his astonishing new bestseller exploring the implications of these explosive new findings, Colin Wilson takes us on a grand tour of the knowledge amassed by researchers over the centuries to...

Energy Management Handbook: By Wayne C. Turner

• ISBN:
• 0881734608
• Authors:
• Wayne C. Turner

Guide to Energy Management

• ISBN:
• 0881734772
• Authors:
• Barney L. Capehart, Wayne C. Turner, William J. Kennedy

Manager's guide to the most important areas of energy cost cutting. Basic objectives of energy management are insightfully. Examines the most effective techniques and tools for achieving results. DLC: Energy conservation

Afro-Latin Rhythm Dictionary

• ISBN:
• 0882841513
• Authors:
• Thomas A. Brown

A valuable resource for percussionists, arrangers and classroom music teachers who want to explore Latin, Afro, Cuban, rock and jazz styles. 48 pages.

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...

German Armored Trains Vol.I: (Schiffer Military, Vol 17) (v. 1)

• ISBN:
• 0887401988
• Authors:
• Wolfgang Sawodny

This book gives a detailed account of the types and employment of German armored trains during WWII.

German Armored Trains in World War II (Schiffer Military History) (v. 2)

• ISBN:
• 0887402887
• Authors:
• Wolfgang Sawodny

This is the second volume describing the various German armored trains used during WWII.

The Kettenkrad: (Schiffer Military History)

• ISBN:
• 0887403158
• Authors:
• Friedhelm Abel

This book offers numerous photographs and detailed text concerning one of the more unique German vehicles to be developed.

Vw at War: Kubelwagen, Schwimmwagen : Book 2 : Development, Testing, Production (Schiffer Military Hi)

• ISBN:
• 0887404014
• Authors:
• Bernd Wiersch

The seventh volume of trucks and cars used by Germany during WWII.

Trucks of the Wehrmacht: A Photo Chronicle (German Vehicles in World War II)

• ISBN:
• 0887406866
• Authors:
• Reinhard Frank

This book covers the design and types of various trucks employed by the Wehrmacht.

How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem (Journal of Consciousness Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0907845088
• Authors:
• Nicholas Humphrey

How does the water of the brain yield the wine of conscious experience? What is the link between bodily activity and our inner feeling of what its like to be ourselves? In this highly readable yet scholarly essay Nicholas Humphrey takes a fresh look at the so called hard problem of consciousness and, in the light of evolutionary history, proposes a radically new solution. His controversial ideas are discussed and challenged by leading figures in...

Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities)

• ISBN:
• 0907845231

There is a traditional scepticism about whether the world "out there" really is as we perceive it. A new breed of hyper-sceptics now challenges whether we even have the perceptual experience we think we have. According to these writers, perceptual consciousness is a kind of false consciousness. This view grows out of the discovery of such phenomena as change blindness and inattentional blindness, which show that we can all be quite blind to...

Quantitative Seismology

• ISBN:
• 0935702962
• Authors:
• Keiiti Aki, Paul G. Richards

This new edition of the classic text by Aki and Richards has at last been updated throughout to systematically explain key concepts in seismology. Now in one volume, the book provides a unified treatment of seismological methods that will be of use to advanced students, seismologists, and scientists and engineers working in all areas of seismology.

Customer Once, Client Forever: 12 Tools for Building Lifetime Business Relationships

• ISBN:
• 0938721828
• Authors:
• Richard A. Buckingham

(Kiplinger Books) A presentation of all of the necessary steps businesses should take in order to ensure that their clients keep coming back. A guide to being the best at customer service, with an emphasis on fostering repeat business and customer referrals. Twelve tools for maintaining and strengthening customer relationships. DLC: Customer services--United States.

Yellow 10: The Story of Fw 190 D-13/R11 W.Nr. 836017 (Library of Eagles 2)

• ISBN:
• 0966070631
• Authors:
• Jerry Crandall

EagleFiles #2 examines in extreme detail, the entire life of this exotic, one of a kind aircraft the Fw 190 D-13 now showcased at Champlin's Fighter Museum in Mesa Arizona. Featuring over 70 rare photos most never before published, plus full color profiles, top, bottom and scrap views by Tom Tullis, the fascinating story of the original discovery, journey and ultimate destination is presented. Measuring 8 1/2" X 11", 12 pages in color, the book...

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (2 Volume Set)

• ISBN:
• 0974309125
• Authors:
• William Sims Bainbridge

HCI (Human-Computer Interation) is everywhere. With a team of 200 experts, the "Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interation" is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of HCI. The work covers the field's history, breakthroughs, current research, and future direction. An ideal reference for students, educators, professionals, and business leaders, the encyclopedia is full of lively sidebars, more than 75 photos, charts, tables and figures,...

GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications

• ISBN:
• 0974514098
• Authors:
• Scott Davis

There is a hidden revolution going on: geography is moving from niche to the mainstream. News reports routinely include maps and satellite images. More and more pieces of equipment cell phones, cars, computers now contain Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Many of the major database vendors have made geographic data types standard in their flagship products. "GIS for Web Developers" introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in...

Simply Rails 2

• ISBN:
• 0980455200
• Authors:
• Patrick Lenz

Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails 2.0, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world? The second edition of this practical, hands on book will: show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Windows, Mac, or Linux walk you, step by step, through the development of a Web 2.0 social news application, just like digg.com show you how to test, debug, benchmark, and deploy your Rails application Unlike other Rails books,...

Coming to Our Senses: HEALING OURSELVES AND THE WORLD THROUGH MINDFULNESS

• ISBN:
• 1401399495
• Authors:
• Jon Kabat-zinn

From the bestselling author and renowned mindfulness teacher, scientist, and educator. . .a guide to living a meaningful life.This follow-up to the widely praised national bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are is yet another revolutionary offering from Jon Kabat-Zinn, showing readers how the power of mindfulness can bring radical change to their lives.In the national bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn struck a chord in...

Rock Mechanics

• ISBN:
• 1402020643
• Authors:
• Barry H.G. Brady, E.T. Brown, B.H.G. Brady

Although Rock Mechanics addresses many of the rock mechanics issues which arise in underground mining engineering, it is not a text exclusively for mining applications. It consists of five categories of topics on the science and practice of rock engineering: basic engineering principles relevant to rock mechanics; mechanical properties of rock and rock masses; design of underground excavations in various rock mass conditions; mining methods and...

The Developer's Guide to Debugging

• ISBN:
• 1402055390
• Authors:
• Thorsten Grötker, Ulrich Holtmann, Holger Keding, Markus Wloka

Software has bugs. Period. That's true, unfortunately. Even the good old "hello, world" program, known to virtually every C and C++ programmer in the world, can be considered to be buggy. Developing software means having to deal with defects; old ones, new ones, ones you created yourself, and those that others brought to life. Software developers debug programs for a living. Hence, good debugging skills are a must-have. That said, it is...

Moment Analysis for Subsurface Hydrologic Applications (Water Science and Technology Library)

• ISBN:
• 1402057512
• Authors:
• Rao S. Govindaraju, Bhabani S. Das

This book deals with the concept of moments, and how they find application in subsurface hydrologic problems-particularly those dealing with solute transport. This book will be very valuable to researchers who are beginning to learn about moment analysis, and will also be of interest to advanced researchers as well. Both temporal and spatial moments are dealt with in some detail for a wide variety of problems. Several examples using experimental...

International Handbook on Giftedness

• ISBN:
• 1402061617

This Handbook is the most comprehensive account available on what giftedness is, how it is measured, how it develops, and how it affects individuals and societies. It analyzes, integrates, and presents research on giftedness that has not been considered elsewhere, discusses the latest advances in the fast-developing areas of practice, and introduces fresh ideas, which will galvanize the study of giftedness for the future. "This definitive...

Armed Forces and Society in Europe (Palgrave Texts in International Relations)

• ISBN:
• 1403903646
• Authors:
• Anthony Forster

The end of the Cold War brought about dramatic changes in the militaries across Europe. The armed forces of former Communist European countries have undergone a double transition: the move to market-based liberal democracies and a rapid movement towards a radically different relationship with the civilian population. NATO has also played a leading role in the change process for the former Eastern Bloc. This book aims to give students a broad...

Social Work and Empowerment, Third Edition (Practical Social Work)

• ISBN:
• 1403905517
• Authors:
• Robert Adams

First published well over ten years ago, Social Work and Empowerment offers a succinct and clear account of the literature on empowerment and a thorough examination of its relevance to social work. This timely third edition offers a fuller and more thoroughly updated overview of theories, models, and methods associated with empowerment. It covers self-empowerment and empowering work with individuals, groups, communities, and organizations,...

Social Work Process and Practice: Approaches, Knowledge and Skill

• ISBN:
• 1403905851
• Authors:
• David Watson, Janice West, Jo Campling

This important new textbook examines the knowledge, skills, and values that underpin current social work. It emphasizes the need for workers to consider their approach to practice and how this may impact on the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of their work with service users. With its clear focus on skills, social work processes, and the suitability of different methods, this text offers students a toolkit for applying theoretical...

Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

• ISBN:
• 140397215X
• Authors:
• Mark Pizzato

Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the "mind's eye," as Hamlet says). It explores the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through distinctive cultural expressions in stage and screen technologies. Even-numbered chapters look at specific dramas with ghost characters from the ancient Egyptians,...

Introduction to Mineral Exploration

• ISBN:
• 1405113170

This new, updated edition of Introduction to Mineral Exploration provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of mineral exploration. Successful mineral exploration requires excellence in geology as well as integration with a range of other scientific, engineering, and financial techniques. This book covers not only the nature of mineral exploration but also considers other factors essential to successful exploration, from target evaluation...

The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change (Environmental Systems and Global Change Series)

• ISBN:
• 140512976X
• Authors:
• Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly

This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere – ice sheets, glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea ice and snow – in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscape transition which...

Involuntary Memory (New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology)

• ISBN:
• 1405136375
• Authors:
• John H. Mace

Involuntary memory was identified by the pioneering memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a century ago, but it was not until very recently that cognitive psychologists began to study this memory phenomenon. This book is the first to examine key topics and cutting-edge research in involuntary memory. Discusses topics such as involuntary memories in everyday life, across the life-span, and in the laboratory; the special ways in which...

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

• ISBN:
• 1405140399
• Authors:
• David Archer

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global warming. Written in an accessible style, this important book examines the processes of climate change and climate stability, from the distant past to the distant future. Examining the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, and what the future may hold for global climate, this text draws on a wide range of disciplines, and summarizes not only...

Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology

• ISBN:
• 1405160675

Man’s complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets, philosophers, novelists, historians, and sociologists as well. A unique collection that bridges the gap between science and humanities Contains writings by scientists, artists,...

Encyclopedia of Global Health (4 Vol. Set )

• ISBN:
• 1412941865

"A general reference for topics related to health worlwide, this encyclopedia is ambitious in its scope, with entries for specific diseases and conditions, geographical areas, health issues, biographical information, and organizations related to world health policy." - CHOICE "A useful, one-stop reference for health professionals and the general population alike that speaks to important changes and issues in global health; a foundation of...

Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society (Colditz, Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society)

• ISBN:
• 1412949890

The Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society is the first multivolume resource to define the issues that surround cancer and its effects on society. With more than 750 entries, these three volumes help students, practitioners, and researchers navigate through the terminology and concepts to better understand how cancer affects us way beyond the medical conditions that are regrettably more than obvious. The scope of the Encyclopedia encompasses the...

Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research (2 Vol.Set)

• ISBN:
• 141295908X

What is a stem cell? We have a basic working definition, but the way we observe a stem cell function in a dish may not represent how it functions in a living organism. Only this is clear: Stem cells are the engine room of multicelluar organisms-both plants and animals. However, controversies, breakthroughs, and frustration continue to swirl in eternal storms through this rapidly moving area of research. But what does the average person make of...

The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 142004382X

Today’s embedded devices and sensor networks are becoming more and more sophisticated, requiring more efficient and highly flexible compilers. Engineers are discovering that many of the compilers in use today are ill-suited to meet the demands of more advanced computer architectures. Updated to include the latest techniques , The Compiler Design Handbook, Second Edition offers a unique opportunity for designers and researchers to update their...

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness

• ISBN:
• 1420060872

The swine flu emergency needn’t become a crisis. This critically acclaimed work provides public health officials, doctors, responders, and emergency planners with accurate current information that will help them understand the nature of an outbreak, assess risk, answer public concerns, and develop informed strategies. Devoid of sensationalism and agenda, this CRC Press resource provides all the information needed to understand pandemic...

Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement and Policing

• ISBN:
• 1420072153

Rising terrorism and advances in technology, along with new organizational strategies and investigative techniques, have stretched the traditional role of the police officer. Calls for strong, intelligence-driven, paramilitary policing juxtaposed with a demand for “softer” community policing, leave officers under increased pressure to be tough and resolute, yet compassionate, accountable, and adaptable. A measured analysis of these concerns...

Facebook API Developers Guide (Firstpress)

• ISBN:
• 1430209690
• Authors:
• Wayne Graham

The Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. Facebook API Developers Guide covers the use and implementation of the Facebook API—what the key features are and how you can access them. You will learn, through practical examples, the main features of the Facebook API including an introduction to the API–specific languages FQL and FBML. These examples are further...

Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

• ISBN:
• 1430209798
• Authors:
• James Silva, John Sedlak

Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development is written by James Silva , who recently won the prestigious Microsoft Dream Build Play game competition with his award–winning title, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai . Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development is an in–depth and exclusive look into the entire XNA game development process and includes the creation of a software game...

Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition (Beginning)

• ISBN:
• 1430209895
• Authors:
• John K. VanDyk

Widely praised for its in–depth coverage of Drupal internals, bestselling Pro Drupal Development has been completely updated for Drupal 6 in this latest edition, and there are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer. Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard installation online, John K. VanDyk gives you everything else you need to customize your Drupal installation...

The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle® Service Bus, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1430210575
• Authors:
• Jeff Davies, David Schorow, Samrat Ray, David Rieber

The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle® Service Bus, Second Edition targets professional software developers and architects who know enterprise development but are new to enterprise service buses (ESBs) and service–oriented architecture (SOA) development. This is the first book to cover a practical approach to SOA using the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool. And it’s written from the “source”—BEA Systems AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies ....

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 1430215674
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta

ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 raises the bar for high–quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution. This new edition is updated with everything you need to integrate Silverlight 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 into your ASP.NET applications. You...

Learn C on the Mac (Learn Series)

• ISBN:
• 1430218096
• Authors:
• Dave Mark

Considered a classic by an entire generation of Mac programmers, this popular guide has been completely updated for Mac OS X. Don’t know anything about programming? No problem! Acclaimed author Dave Mark starts out with the basics and takes you through a complete course in programming C using Apple’s free Xcode tools. This book is perfect for beginners learning to program. It includes all–new Mac OS X examples! Provides best practices for...

Pro Flex on Spring (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

• ISBN:
• 1430218355
• Authors:
• Chris Giametta

This book is well suited for those with some experience with Flex and Spring who are looking for development design patterns and practical RIA architecture integration techniques. What you’ll learn Explore best practices on architecting enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Spring. Discover how Flex applications interface with Spring services. Understand how to persist data, end–to–end, using Flex data communication protocols...

Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 (Expert's Voice in BizTalk)

• ISBN:
• 1430218576
• Authors:
• Jim Dawson, John Wainwright

Learn good map design techniques for BizTalk Server and you will make huge differences to the processing speed of your implementation, as well as to the scalability and maintainability of your code. Regardless of your experience, expert authors Jim Dawson and John Wainwright ensure you make the right choices to reap the rewards and avoid the potential penalties of poor design. Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 provides in–depth coverage of...

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)

• ISBN:
• 1430219025
• Authors:
• Grant Fritchey, Sajal Dam

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled presents a direct trouble–shooting methodology for identifying poorly performing stored procedures and queries, isolating the causes of that poor performance, and fixing the underlying problems. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the top causes of poorly performing queries and shows methods for identifying and dealing with the problems in that chapter’s domain. Emphasis is always put upon...

The Definitive Guide to CentOS

• ISBN:
• 1430219300
• Authors:
• Peter Membrey, Tim Verhoeven, Ralph Angenendt

CentOS is just like Red Hat, but without the price tag and with the virtuous license. When belts have to be tightened, we want to read about an OS with all the features of a commercial Linux variety, but without the pain. The Definitive Guide to CentOS is the first definitive reference for CentOS and focuses on CentOS alone, the workhorse Linux distro, that does the heavy lifting in small and medium-size enterprises without drawing too much...

The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extensible, Scalable and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications

• ISBN:
• 1430223650
• Authors:
• Kieren Diment, Matt Trout

Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8, which will be released in 2009. This book contains Training materials for new and experience programmers. Worked examples and cookbook–style recipes of common web...

Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK

• ISBN:
• 1430224592
• Authors:
• Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche

Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your very own iPhone app make your heart race and your pulse quicken? If so, Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK is just the book for you. Updated and revised for iPhone SDK 3, many of the discussions in the original book have been clarified to make some of the more complex topics easier to understand. In addition, all of the projects have been...

Embedded System Design: Modeling, Synthesis and Verification

• ISBN:
• 1441905030
• Authors:
• Daniel D. Gajski, Samar Abdi, Andreas Gerstlauer, Gunar Schirner

Embedded System Design: Modeling, Synthesis and Verification introduces a model-based approach to system level design. It presents modeling techniques for both computation and communication at different levels of abstraction, such as specification, transaction level and cycle-accurate level. It discusses synthesis methods for system level architectures, embedded software and hardware components. Using these methods, designers can develop...

Embedded Software Development with C

• ISBN:
• 1441906053
• Authors:
• Kai Qian, David den Haring, Li Cao

Embedded Software Development With C Kai Qian About this textbook: Intelligible presentation of the fundamentals of embedded systems design and development using the C programming language and the 8051 microcontroller. Examines the longevity and relevancy of the 8051 microcontroller for designing embedded systems in present applications. Includes extensive appendices for reference work. Encourages a hands-on, incremental learning...

Winning with the Customer from Hell: A Survival Guide (Winning with the . . . from Hell series)

• ISBN:
• 1550226304
• Authors:
• Shaun Belding

Realistic, practical, and compelling anecdotal solutions are offered here for countering belligerent, abusive, and condescending customers. This book captures the essence of the skills required for helping retailers deal with problem customers and improve employee efficiency. A six-pronged approach known as LESTER is detailed, which involves listening to customers, echoing the issue, sympathizing with the customer's emotional state, thanking the...

Mastering Business Analysis with Crystal Reports 9 (Wordware Applications Library)

• ISBN:
• 1556222939
• Authors:
• Chris Tull

Database management systems allow businesses to organize and manage their operations effectively. However, it’s not always easy to view and understand data using these systems. Crystal Reports’ flexible and innovative features provide the ability to extract and format data, allowing users to make informed business decisions. Mastering Business Analysis with Crystal Reports 9 focuses on providing context and reference useful to mainstream...

Cultural Shaping of Violence: International Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 1557533733
• Authors:
• Editor, Myrdene Anderson

Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. The book's 27 chapters, researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities, document violence in 22 distinct cultural settings...

Distributed Systems Architecture: A Middleware Approach (The MK/OMG Press)

• ISBN:
• 1558606483
• Authors:
• Arno Puder, Kay Römer, Frank Pilhofer

Middleware is the bridge that connects distributed applications across different physical locations, with different hardware platforms, network technologies, operating systems, and programming languages. This book describes middleware from two different perspectives: from the viewpoint of the systems programmer and from the viewpoint of the applications programmer. It focuses on the use of open source solutions for creating middleware and the...

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

• ISBN:
• 1558624007
• Authors:
• Sara Pendergast

Build Your Own Home Office Furniture (Popular Woodworking)

• ISBN:
• 1558705619
• Authors:
• Danny Proulx

Setting up a home office involves time, money and careful planning. For the creative woodworker, it can also mean the satisfaction of building each piece yourself. With designs ranging from weekend projects to a fully-realized computer desk, all of the plans in this book are fresh, functional and fun to build, including a stand-up desk recalling the unique work habits of Ernest Hemingway. Everything in this book is accessible, even for beginning...

Taking Care of Yourself

• ISBN:
• 1564559920
• Authors:
• Andrew Weil

Since the beginning of the "natural health" revolution decades ago, Dr. Andrew Weil's groundbreaking books have helped millions to feel better, live longer, and avoid illness by integrating the best of modern medicine and natural healing practices. Now, with TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF, this pioneering Harvard-trained physician invites you to join him in a comprehensive one-on-one audio learning course. With Dr. Weil, you will learn the most current...

Manual of Occultism

• ISBN:
• 1564598152
• Authors:
• Sepharial

Contents: The Occult Sciences; Astrology; Palmistry; Thaumaturgic Art; Hypnotism and Mesmerism; Divination; The Tarot; Cartomancy; Crystal Gazing; Visions; Geomancy; Casting; Psychometry; Dreams; Alchemy.

Programming Embedded Systems in C and C ++

• ISBN:
• 1565923545
• Authors:
• Michael Barr

Embedded software is in almost every electronic device designed today. Yet because each embedded system is unique and highly customized to its application, it can be a difficult field to master. However, if you have some programming experience and are familiar with C or C++, you're ready to learn how to write embedded software. The hands-on, no-nonsense style of this book will help you get started by offering practical advice from someone who's...

Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic

• ISBN:
• 1565926315
• Authors:
• Steven Roman

The Win32 API, or Application Programming Interface, allows Visual Basic programmers far greater access to the inner workings of the Windows operating system without having to suffer through the steep learning curve associated with Visual C++ style Windows programming. The book is designed for users with an intermediate-level (or higher) knowledge of Visual Basic version 4 or later and a desire to stretch VB into the realm of Windows system...

Lawyers, Money, and Success: The Consequences of Dollar Obsession

• ISBN:
• 1567201342
• Authors:
• Macklin Fleming

Retired Justice Macklin Fleming argues that in its quest for money, the legal profession has lost sight of its true tasks and responsibilities, with the result that the profession is rife with client dissatisfaction, public distrust, and individual lawyer discontent. Money is now the measure of success, he says, and honesty has been diluted, while fiduciary responsibility has eroded. Fleming elaborates his case with unusual rigor. "In the quest...

The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence

• ISBN:
• 1572307854

Emotional intelligence has emerged as an area of intense interest in both scientific and lay circles. Yet while much attention has been given to the measurement of an "EQ," little has been written about the psychological underpinnings of emotional intelligence. This book fills an important gap in the literature, linking the ideas embodied in the emotional intelligence concept to ongoing research and theoretical work in the field of affect...

Programming Windows®, Fifth Edition (Microsoft Programming Series)

• ISBN:
• 157231995X
• Authors:
• Charles Petzold

"Look it up in Petzold" remains the decisive last word in answering questions about Windows development. And in PROGRAMMING WINDOWS, FIFTH EDITION, the esteemed Windows Pioneer Award winner revises his classic text with authoritative coverage of the latest versions of the Windows operating system—once again drilling down to the essential API heart of Win32 programming. Topics include:• The basics—input, output, dialog boxes• An...

Turning the Mind into an Ally

• ISBN:
• 1573222062
• Authors:
• Sakyong Mipham

We need a strong, stable mind that can be relied upon as one's closest ally, and Sakyong Mipham delivers a way to achieve one. Having grown up American with a Tibetan influence, he speaks to Westerners as no one can: relating stories and wisdom from American culture and the great Buddhist teachers in idiomatic English. Strengthening, calming, and stabilizing the mind is the essential first step in accomplishing nearly any goal. Turning the Mind...

Philosophy of Right (Great Books in Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 157392105X
• Authors:
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Among the most influential parts of the philosophy of G W F Hegel (1770-1831) were his ethics, his theory of the state, and his philosophy of history. "The Philosophy of Right" (1821), the last work published in Hegel's lifetime, is a combined system of moral and political philosophy, or a sociology dominated by the idea of the state. Here Hegel repudiates his earlier assessment of the French Revolution as "a marvellous sunrise" in the...

Acquiring, Processing, and Deploying: Voice of the Customer

• ISBN:
• 1574442902
• Authors:
• M. Larry Shillito

Do you want a better understanding of who your customers are? Do you want to learn how to acquire the customer voice? The next decade will be the decade of the customer. Meeting their wants, needs, and desires better than anyone else will be paramount to your organization's success. Acquiring, Processing, and Deploying Voice of the Customer gives you the tools you need to develop a Voice of the Customer (VOC) plan from beginning to end.Shillito...

World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia - 2 Volume set

• ISBN:
• 1576079406

From the followers of Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolf Hitler in November 1942 to the murderous death squads of the Croatian Ustasha to certain members of the British Establishment, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and revolutionary violence has attracted followers from across all religions, races, and classes. Now widely reviled, fascism became an immensely powerful political force in Western Europe...

Meditations for Creating True Prosperity

• ISBN:
• 1577310330
• Authors:
• Shakti Gawain

This audio workshop provides guided meditations and exercises which illuminate the seven steps to true prosperity at any level of income.

The Four Levels of Healing: A Guide to Balancing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical Aspects of Life (Gawain, Shakti)

• ISBN:
• 1577310993
• Authors:
• Shakti Gawain

In this profoundly exciting and challenging time, individuals may find they are involved in a difficult yet fascinating learning process -- both their personal evolution and the evolution of human consciousness. In this book, best-selling author Shakti Gawain describes the four levels of human existence -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical -- and explains the importance of developing all four. She also provides the meditations and...

Stress Reduction and Creative Meditations

• ISBN:
• 1577315235

For many people, getting started with relaxation techniques, for health or other reasons, can present a real challenge. This recording introduces easy and effective guided meditations to help change the way people respond to anxiety. Thousands of people have found these simple techniques helpful in achieving a more balanced lifestyle. Stress Reduction and Creative Meditations offers self-care for anyone coping with the demands of an overbooked...

Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena

• ISBN:
• 1578590701
• Authors:
• Jerome Clark

The truth is out there, but looking for it is the real fun. Now, countless X-Philes and other fans of the supernatural, occult, and UFOs can join Jerome Clark, as he journeys once again to the outer limits of science and nature in an updated and expanded edition of his popular work. 150 photos.

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...

Encyclopedia of Kitchen History

• ISBN:
• 1579583806
• Authors:
• Mary Snodgrass

This encyclopedia provides an overview of the evolution of foods and cooking styles, food storage, utensils, and equipment from pre-history to the present day. The Encyclopedia of Kitchen History presents an A-to-Z overview of some 400 topics ranging from inventors like Alfred Fuller and Nils Dalen and such authors as Isabella Beeton and Charles Elme Francatelli, to baking, convenience foods, vermin, Roman cookery, Bakelite, ramadas, dumas, and...

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

• ISBN:
• 1579583903

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other...

A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design

• ISBN:
• 158053791X
• Authors:
• Lee Copeland

Here’s a comprehensive, up-to-date and practical introduction to software test design. This invaluable book presents all the important test design techniques in a single place and in a consistent, and easy-to-digest format. An immediately useful handbook for test engineers, developers, quality assurance professionals, and requirements and systems analysts, it enables you to: choose the best test case design, find software defects in less time...

The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book: From Chords to Scales and Licks to Tricks, All You Need to Play Like the Greats (Everything Series)

• ISBN:
• 1580628834
• Authors:
• Marc Schonbrun

Have you ever dreamed of playing lead guitar like John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Slash, and Eric Clapton? Perhaps you took a few lessons, but became frustrated and gave up. If so, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD is for you. With easy-to-understand text and audio instruction, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD provides you with everything you need to play all your favorite songs. You will learn the...

Developing Tablet PC Applications (Programming Series)

• ISBN:
• 1584502525
• Authors:
• Clayton E Crooks II

The new Tablet PC combines the latest incarnation of previous notebook computing technologies (i.e., digital ink and voice commands) with the power and reliability of Windows® XP, possibly making it the most versatile PC ever. Developing Tablet PC Applications teaches programmers how to create applications for this exciting new platform using the SDK developed for it. It begins by explaining how to install and use the SDK, and then delves into...

AI Application Programming (Programming Series)

• ISBN:
• 1584502789
• Authors:
• M. Tim Jones

The popularity of artificial intelligence continues to grow as more and more uses are found for the technology. AI Application Programming Second Edition is completely updated to supply both the conceptual background and the real-world examples needed to begin using AI in software projects. Each technology is illustrated with a model implementation and application, and complete source code for each example is provided on the companion CD-ROM....

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP

• ISBN:
• 1590590961
• Authors:
• Matt Stephens, Doug Rosenberg

...from my experience, most teams that say they're doing XP don't actually do the practices. — Alistair Cockburn, Xp And The Cmm Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos ) takes a satirical look at the increasingly hyped Extreme Programming methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach&emdash; quotes such as, "XPers are not afraid of oral...

Applied .NET Attributes

• ISBN:
• 1590591364
• Authors:
• Tom Barnaby, Jason Bock

Attributes are used to modify the runtime behavior of code in the .NET Framework. Applied .NET Attributes explores the application of .NET attributes and how developers can write custom attributes that provide the maximum level of code reuse and flexibility. Attributed programming is a feature of .NET that is still relatively unexplored and unknown. Because attributes are used to modify the runtime behavior of code in the .NET Framework, their...

Pro VS 2005 Reporting using SQL Server and Crystal Reports

• ISBN:
• 1590596889
• Authors:
• Kevin Goff, Rod Paddock

Pro VS 2005 Reporting Using SQL Server and Crystal Reports offers a proven methodology for building reporting solutions. The authors focus on SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports, but also cover other popular technologies like Oracle and ActiveReports, to give you a thorough grounding in the reporting field. The book presents the requirements for a real-world reporting application in a distributed environment, and covers all the phases of...

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

• ISBN:
• 1590597664
• Authors:
• Peter Cooper

Ruby is perhaps best known as the engine powering the hugely popular Ruby on Rails web framework. However, it is an extremely powerful and versatile programming language in its own right. It focuses on simplicity and offers a fully object-oriented environment. Beginning Ruby is a thoroughly contemporary guide for every type of reader wanting to learn Ruby, from novice programmers to web developers to Ruby newcomers. It starts by explaining the...

Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice)

• ISBN:
• 1590597702
• Authors:
• W. Jason Gilmore, Bob Bryla

Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional offers comprehensive information on using the PHP scripting language in conjunction with Oracles database platform. PHP is one of the most prominent open source technologies in the area of web development, while Oracle is one of the most widely deployed and used database products. Youll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic,...

Textpattern Solutions: PHP-Based Content Management Made Easy

• ISBN:
• 1590598326
• Authors:
• Kevin Potts, Robert Sable, Nathan Smith, Cody Lindley, Mary Fredborg

Textpattern is a powerful, PHP-based content management system that allows you to build pretty much any kind of data-driven website quickly and easily. It is very popular among designers and developers alike, and has an active community of users. Sound good? Well, you're in luck—this book shows you how to use every aspect of Textpattern to a professional standard. Textpattern (and this book) appeals to two main groups of people: Firstly, the...

Client-Side Reporting with Visual Studio in C#

• ISBN:
• 1590598547
• Authors:
• Asif Sayed

Client-Side Reporting with Visual Studio in C# shows how to design and create stunning professional reports with SQL Server 2005 and with Visual Studio versions 2005 and 2008. The only comprehensive guide to client-side Reporting Services Covers Visual Studio versions 2005 and 2008 Practical, step-by-step instruction on designing, developing, and deploying real-world reports Quickly turns beginners into sophisticated report writers Gives expert...

Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed

• ISBN:
• 159059939X
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald

Microsoft Silverlight allows you to create rich multimedia interfaces with the power and flexibility of Flash, but with the extensibility and the great tools that .NET offers. With Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed, you’ll learn to use Microsoft’s Silverlight technology in conjunction with ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas). You will ultimately incorporate Silverlight into an ASP.NET web site and use the ASP.NET controls that...

Practical DWR 2 Projects (Expert's Voice in Java)

• ISBN:
• 1590599411
• Authors:
• Frank Zammetti

The Ajax craze is sweeping the world, and there is no shortage of libraries from which to choose to make it all easier to develop. One of those libraries has risen near the top in the Java space, and that library is DWR. DWR, or Direct Web Remoting, allows you to treat your Java classes running on the server as if they were local objects running in the browser, bringing the full power of your server–side business logic to the client without...

Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

• ISBN:
• 1590599853
• Authors:
• Jeff Dwyer

The main focus of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT is a case study of a real Web 2.0 application called ToCollege.net. What you’ll learn: You’ll take a full tour of a modern Web 2.0 startup’s codebase. That’s 15,000 lines of source code that includes everything from Google Gears integration to Acegi OpenID, Lucene full–text search, and Google Maps, all of it integrated with GWT 1.5. Leveraging this book’s available...

Mantra: Sacred Words of Power

• ISBN:
• 1591791472
• Authors:
• Thomas Ashley-Farrand

In 1978, Thomas Ashley-Farrand traveled to India for the first time, where he astonished the spiritual community there with his perfect command of mantra, the practice of using specific "sacred sound syllables" for spiritual and material transformation. Now, 20 years later, he shares for the first time his mastery of this ancient spiritual art on Mantra: Sacred Words of Power. Here is the first English language audio curriculum that teaches you...

Game Interface Design

• ISBN:
• 1592005934
• Authors:
• Brent Fox

The interface is the heart and soul of a video game: it is the integral piece that allows a player to interact with the game. In order to create a great interface, you must carefully plan every detail. "Game Interface Design" helps you outline each step and define the goals for your interface. It covers the interface from the first image that appears onscreen to the information displayed during game-play. YouÂ’ll cover basic design and art...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Video (Complete Idiot's Guide to...(Computer))

• ISBN:
• 1592576133
• Authors:
• Karl Bardosh

Join the digital revolution. With the availability and affordability of digital movie-making equipment, it’s now easier than ever for aspiring filmmakers to create the great movie they’ve always wanted to make. From information on creating mini-films on a PDA to making low-budget, full-length digital movies, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Digital Video provides all the information you need to turn your idea into reality. —A must-read...

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

• ISBN:
• 159315481X
• Authors:
• Vincent Bugliosi

Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder , Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. Bugliosi...

Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers

• ISBN:
• 1593271832
• Authors:
• Louis Testa

As the technology leader at a small software company, you need to focus on people, products, processes, and technology as you bring your software to market, while doing your best to put out fires and minimize headaches. "Growing Software" is your guide to juggling the day-to-day challenges of running a software company while managing those long-term problems and making sure that your business continues to grow. With practical, hands-on advice,...

Interpersonal Cognition

• ISBN:
• 159385112X

Presenting state-of-the-art research from leading investigators, this volume examines the processes by which people understand their interpersonal experiences. Provided are fresh perspectives on how individuals glean social knowledge from past relationships and apply it in the here and now. Also explored are the effects of biases and expectancies about significant others on relationship satisfaction and personal well-being. Broad in scope, the...

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

• ISBN:
• 1593851286
• Authors:
• Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you’ve ever struggled with depression, take heart. Mindfulness, a simple yet powerful way of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and life experiences, can help you break the cycle of chronic unhappiness once and for all. In The Mindful Way through Depression , four uniquely qualified experts explain why our usual attempts to “think” our way out of a bad mood or just “snap out of it” lead us deeper into the downward...

Multiple Case Study Analysis

• ISBN:
• 1593852495
• Authors:
• Robert E. Stake PhD

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Readers learn...

Foundations of Behavioral Statistics: An Insight-Based Approach

• ISBN:
• 1593852851
• Authors:
• Bruce Thompson EdD

With humor, extraordinary clarity, and carefully paced explanations and examples, Bruce Thompson shows readers how to use the latest techniques for interpreting research outcomes as well as how to make statistical decisions that result in better research. Utilizing the general linear model to demonstrate how different statistical methods are related to each other, Thompson integrates a broad array of methods involving only a single dependent...

Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It's Just Regression! (Methodology In The Social Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 1593854293
• Authors:
• Robert Bickel PhD

This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual-level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical techniques they already know, Robert Bickel emphasizes the parallels with more familiar regression...

Fundamental Issues in Evaluation

• ISBN:
• 1593856040

Providing state-of-the-art perspectives on what evaluation is, its purpose, and how to ensure it is done well, this book brings together major evaluation researchers from a variety of social and behavioral science disciplines. Each chapter identifies a fundamental issue facing the field today; considers its implications for theory, method, practice, or the profession; and explores one or more approaches to dealing with the issue. Among the...

Transformative Research and Evaluation

• ISBN:
• 1593859856
• Authors:
• Donna M. Mertens PhD

From distinguished scholar Donna M. Mertens, this book provides a framework for making methodological decisions and conducting research and evaluations that promote social justice. The transformative paradigm has emerged from?and guides?a broad range of social and behavioral science research projects with communities that have been pushed to the margins, such as ethnic, racial, and sexual minority group members and children and adults with...

Handbook of Software Quality Assurance

• ISBN:
• 1596931868

SQA (software quality assurance) is a critical factor that all software engineers and developers need to master, and this thoroughly revised fourth edition of the popular book, "Handbook of Software Quality Assurance", serves as a one-stop resource for complete and current SQA knowledge. Emphasizing the importance of CMMI[registered] and key ISO requirements, this unique book discusses a wide spectrum of real-world experiences and key issues...

Cryptography for Developers

• ISBN:
• 1597491047
• Authors:
• Tom St Denis

The only guide for software developers who must learn and implement cryptography safely and cost effectively. The book begins with a chapter that introduces the subject of cryptography to the reader. The second chapter discusses how to implement large integer arithmetic as required by RSA and ECC public key algorithms The subsequent chapters discuss the implementation of symmetric ciphers, one-way hashes, message authentication codes, combined...

Who Needs to Know? The State of Public Access to Federal Government Information

• ISBN:
• 1598883070
• Authors:
• Patrice McDermott

Despite intense media scrutiny, only a small percentage of the American government s most essential information reaches the average person. This withholding of information is dangerous in a democratic society, where openness is a cherished value. Here s a sample of the topics included in Who Needs to Know?: -The history, use, and abuse of national security classification -The state of the Freedom of Information Act in the Bush Administration...

Integrating Security And Software Engineering: Advances And Future Vision

• ISBN:
• 1599041480

"Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Vision" provides the first step towards narrowing the gap between security and software engineering. This book introduces the field of secure software engineering, which is a branch of research investigating the integration of security concerns into software engineering practices. "Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Vision" discusses problems and...

Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Enterprises: Techniques and Case Studies (Premier Reference Source)

• ISBN:
• 1599049066
• Authors:
• Hanna Oktaba

Software engineering is of major importance to all enterprises; however, the key areas of software quality and software process improvement standards and models are currently geared toward large organizations, where most software organizations are small and medium enterprises. Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Enterprises: Techniques and Case Studies offers practical and useful guidelines, models, and techniques for improving...

Happy About Customer Service?: Creating a Culture of Customer Service Excellence

• ISBN:
• 160005093X
• Authors:
• Ken Welsh

We live in an affluent world. A world with a multitude of choices and innumerable companies selling virtually every imaginable commodity. Where once price was the sole determinant for purchase, modern man now values our recognition as an individual. We take enormous pleasure in being treated well and are prepared to pay for it. Quality Customer Service is now a key determinant for the buyer - most other aspects being equal. 'Happy About...

Good Faith in the Jurisprudence of the Wto: The Protection of Legitimate Expectations, Good Faith Interpretation and Fair Dispute Settlement (Studies in International Trade Law)

• ISBN:
• 1841136204
• Authors:
• Marion Panizzon

What does the concept of good faith express? This book is the first to discuss what good faith means in international trade law. As a reference guide for scholars and practitioners it analyses the case law of WTO dispute settlement practice. The book describes how, why and when the concept of good faith links the WTO Agreements with other public international norms. The concept of good faith appears frequently in treaties and customary rules,...

The Research Companion: A Practical Guide for the Social and Health Sciences

• ISBN:
• 1841693057
• Authors:
• Petra Boynton

Social science research has traditionally focused on the historical study of research methods, frequently overlooking the practical skills needed to undertake a research project. The Research Companion recognises this need for instruction in the practice of research and offers clear, honest advice to help avoid typical problems and improve the standards. The whole research process is covered in detail, from setting up a study through to...

Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience (Advances in Behavioural Brain Science)

• ISBN:
• 1841693545
• Authors:
• Glyn Humphreys

Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human performance. Attention in Action provides state-of-the-art discussion of the role of attention in action and of action in constraining attention. The research...

Modelling Soft-Skinned Military Vehicles (Osprey Modelling Manuals 11)

• ISBN:
• 1841761397

WWII saw the development of a huge range of armed and unarmed military vehicles - anti-aircraft gun platforms, ambulances, artillery tractors, fuel bowsers, jeeps, trucks and troop carriers – these are essential for use in many dioramas and vignettes.

Second Manassas 1862: Robert E Lee's greatest victory (Campaign)

• ISBN:
• 184176230X
• Authors:
• John Langellier

"There never was such a campaign, not even by Napoleon" wrote Confederate General Pender of the Second Manassas campaign in which the gray-bearded Virginian, Robert E Lee, came as close as he ever would to exterminating his Northern enemies. In so doing, Lee established himself as the South's pre-eminent military commander and the Army of Northern Virginia as it's most powerful weapon. The fighting in northern Virginia left Union General John...

Tito's Partisans 1941-45 (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 1841766755
• Authors:
• Velimir Vuksic

The civil war that raged in Yugoslavia following the German invasion in 1941 was brutal, uncompromising and complex, pitting royalists, fascists communists, ethnic groups, and the Axis powers against one another in a shifting and bloody theatre of war. The Partisan forces under the command of Josip Broz Tito were a constant thorn in the side of the Wehrmacht divisions in the Balkans, prompting numerous anti-partisan operations. Using primary...

US Marine Rifleman 1939-45: Pacific Theater (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 184176972X
• Authors:
• Gordon Rottman

These is sometimes a basic assumption that a World War II United States Marine Corps rifleman was essentially trained, uniformed, equipped, and armed much the same as a US Army rifleman. While there were of course similarities, the Marines conducted their own unique training programs, wore mostly different uniforms and equipment, and possessed some unique weapons, although they also used many of the same weapons as the Army. The Marine Corps was...

Listening and Speaking Skills for Revised Cpe: 1

• ISBN:
• 1843255405
• Authors:
• V. Evans, S. Scott

Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs: Mysterious Creatures, Lost Worlds and Amazing Inventions

• ISBN:
• 1845117565
• Authors:
• Gregory L. Reece

Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri-La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who - or what - is responsible for the implacable monoliths which tower over Easter Island? The obsession that so many now have with the uncanny and...

Social work, politics and society: From Radicalism to Orthodoxy

• ISBN:
• 1847420451
• Authors:
• Kenneth McLaughlin

This original and stimulating book examines contemporary issues in social work, particularly exploring the politicisation of the profession from the 1970s onwards. Detailing the wider social and political influences on the development of social work, the book argues that underlying much social theory and practice is a pessimistic and degraded view of humanity. The author discusses different areas of social work in relation to this diminished...

Power Up Your Mind: Learn Faster, Work Smarter

• ISBN:
• 185788275X
• Authors:
• Bill Lucas

From one of the leading international experts on life-long learning, POWER UP YOUR MIND will revolutionize our understanding of how our brains are pre-wired to learn and the practical steps we can take to prepare ourselves (emotionally and physically) to participate fully in the process. Diagnostic tools, activities, and stories demonstrate the power of esteem, confidence, and motivation on effective learning, describe the role creativity,...

Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America and the West

• ISBN:
• 1899798048
• Authors:
• Joseph D. Douglass, Christopher Story, Ray S. Cline

Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces (Pragmatic Programmers)

• ISBN:
• 1934356107
• Authors:
• Bill Dudney

Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces much easier. We'll explore this new technology by starting with the familiar concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits. Then we'll see how they apply to the new frameworks and APIs. We'll build on your existing knowledge of Cocoa and bring you efficiently up to speed on what Core Animation is...

Object-Oriented Technology.ECOOP 2006 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2006 Workshops, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006, Final Reports (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Programming and Software Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 3540717722

This book contains the final reports of 19 workshops held during the 20th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2006, held in Nantes, France in July 2006. The 19 reports cover the entire range of object technology and related topics. Their contents was provided by the respective workshops organizers and picked out in a twofold selection process. Thus the reports present a coherent and highly representative snapshot of the...

Counselling the Person Beyond the Alcohol Problem: Intersubjective and Self Psychological Pathways to Human Understanding

• ISBN:
• 1843100029
• Authors:
• Richard Bryant-Jefferies

Through his work with problem drinkers, Richard Bryant-Jefferies has developed a unique person-centered approach to counseling that encourages a change of lifestyle by engaging with the client as an individual. This practical book shows how such client-focused counseling can support problematic drinkers who are seeking to develop and sustain a less alcohol-centered way of life. Demonstrating how the client-counselor relationship can be harnessed...

Gene Cartels: Biotech Patents in the Age of Free Trade

• ISBN:
• 1847208363
• Authors:
• Luigi Palombi

`Gene Cartels is a valuable book for the scientist providing, in an elegantly scholarly style, deep insights into the origins, history, evolution and current status of patent systems. It also discloses features that can lead, in effect, to a misuse of power.' - From the foreword by Baruch S. Blumberg, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, US and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 Starting...

Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft

• ISBN:
• 0028639456
• Authors:
• Denise Zimmermann, Katherine Gleason

This guide offers a beginner's look at the history of paganism, Wicca, and witchcraft, from the Druids and Celts to the witches of today who practice an earth-based religion, cast spells, and perform natural magic. The book, written by a practicing witch, reveals details of the witches' Sabbaths, ceremonies, and altars.

Encyclopedia of Sociology (5 Volume Set)

• ISBN:
• 0028648536

Plant Sciences (Macmillan Science Library)

• ISBN:
• 002865434X

Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East & North Africa

• ISBN:
• 0028657691

Encyclopedia of Business & Finance 2 VOL SET(Encyclopedia of Business and Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0028660617

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (2 volume set)

• ISBN:
• 0028661370

The Shaolin Way: 10 Modern Secrets of Survival from a Shaolin Grandmaster

• ISBN:
• 0060574569
• Authors:
• Steve DeMasco, Alli Joseph