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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...

Control in Robotics and Automation: Sensor Based Integration (Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0122818458
• Authors:
• Bijoy K. Ghosh, T. J. Tarn, Ning Xi

Microcomputer technology and micromechanical design have contributed to recent rapid advances in Robotics. Particular advances have been made in sensor technology that allow robotic systems to gather data and react "intelligently" in flexible manufacturing systems. The analysis and recording of the data are vital to controlling the robot. In order to solve problems in control and planning for a Robotic system it is necessary to meet the growing...

Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0126633517
• Authors:
• Ken Standfield

For the recorded history of management, the world has managed value creation according to what can be seen, touched and proven. In today's knowledge-based economy, value creation is derived primarily from how well firms manage intangibles (knowledge, service, expectations, response time, innovation, change management, etc). The large capital outlays that signified the manufacturing economy are no longer required. In fact, such 'tangibles' now...

A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0126831920
• Authors:
• Patrick T. Tam

For the engineering and scientific professional, A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, 2/e provides an updated reference guide based on the 2007 new 6.0 release, providing an organized and integrated desk reference with step by step instructions for the most often used features of the software as it applies to research in physics. For Professors teaching physics and other science courses using the Mathematica software, A Physicist's Guide to...

Engineering Digital Design: Revised Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0126912955
• Authors:
• Richard F. Tinder

Engineering Digital Design, Second Edition provides the most extensive coverage of any available textbook in digital logic and design. The new REVISED Second Edition published in September of 2002 provides 5 productivity tools free on the accompanying CD ROM. This software is also included on the Instructor's Manual CD ROM and complete instructions accompany each software program. In the REVISED Second Edition modern notation combines with...

Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)

• ISBN:
• 0195177150
• Authors:
• Mark Bosco

Much has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts. His early books are usually described as "Catholic Novels" - understood as a genre that not only uses Catholic belief to frame the issues of modernity, but also offers Catholicism's vision and doctrine as a remedy to the present crisis in Western civilization. Greene's later work, by contrast, is generally regarded as falling...

Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW (Physics)

• ISBN:
• 0198515901
• Authors:
• S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes

Only recently did mankind realize that it resides on a world of networks. The Internet and the World Wide Web are changing our life. Our physical existence is based on various biological networks. We have recently learned that the term ""network"" turns out to be a central notion in our time, and the onsequent explosion of interest in networks is a social and cultural phenomenon. The principles of the complex organization and evolution of...

Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 0199235929

While there are many books on knowledge management, knowledge governance is a concept that has not been so well explored, and is much less understood. Knowledge governance refers to choosing structures and mechanisms that can influence the processes of sharing and creating knowledge. The book argues that knowledge governance is a distinct issue in management and organization because knowledge processes differ on several dimensions from routine...

Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love's Wisdom (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

• ISBN:
• 0253219582

Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul,...

Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business

• ISBN:
• 0309101212
• Authors:
• Committee on the Review and Assessment of the NIH's Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities

In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.S. population. Health disparities are reflected by indices such as excess mortality and morbidity and shorter life expectancy. Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health is an assessment of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce...

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0321344758
• Authors:
• Steve Krug

Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day.  In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike.  Don't be surprised if it...

How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services. Book & CD

• ISBN:
• 0321369440
• Authors:
• Mike Andrews, James A. Whittaker

Since its early days as an information exchange tool limited to academe, researchers, and the military, the web has grown into a commerce engine that is now omnipresent in all facets of our lifes. More websites are created daily and more applications are developed to allow users to learn, research, and purchase online. As a result, web development is often rushed, which increases the risk of attacks from hackers. Furthermore, the need for secure...

Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web

• ISBN:
• 0321529170
• Authors:
• Gene Smith

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

Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation

• ISBN:
• 0321601351
• Authors:
• Nathan A. Curtis

User experience design teams often suffer from a decentralized, blank canvas approach to creating and documenting a design solution for each new project. As teams repeatedly reinvent screen designs, inconsistency results, and IT teams scramble to pick up the pieces. Pattern libraries only go so far, suggesting general solutions to common problems instead of offering concrete, specific design treatments. At times, documented solutions turn into a...

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

• ISBN:
• 0387313125
• Authors:
• Olaf Steinbach

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

Computational Statistics (Statistics and Computing)

• ISBN:
• 0387981438
• Authors:
• James E. Gentle

Computational inference has taken its place alongside asymptotic inference and exact techniques in the standard collection of statistical methods. Computational inference is based on an approach to statistical methods that uses modern computational power to simulate distributional properties of estimators and test statistics. This book describes computationally-intensive statistical methods in a unified presentation, emphasizing techniques, such...

Computational Genome Analysis: An Introduction (Statistics for Biology and Health)

• ISBN:
• 0387987851
• Authors:
• Richard C. Deonier, Simon Tavaré, Michael S. Waterman

Computational Genome Analysis : An Introduction presents the foundations of key problems in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. It focuses on computational and statistical principles applied to genomes, and introduces the mathematics and statistics that are crucial for understanding these applications. The book is appropriate for a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students, and it can also...

Urban Geography: A Global Perspective

• ISBN:
• 0415462029
• Authors:
• Michael Pacione

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

SPSS For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470113448
• Authors:
• Arthur Griffith

SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis software that allows users to generate solid, decision-making results by performing statistical analysis This book provides just the information needed: installing the software, entering data, setting up calculations, and analyzing data Covers computing cross tabulation, frequencies, descriptive ratios, means, bivariate and partial correlations, linear...

Catolicismo Para Dummies (Spanish Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0470170492

Explica lo que son los pecados capitales y las virtudes cardenales Enterate de lo que piensa la Iglesia Catolica sobre los temas importantes de la justicia social ?Quieres conocer mas acerca del catolicismo? El Catolicismo Para Dummies te presenta la historia y el tapiz multicolor que conforman la Iglesia Catolica -- desde sus devociones hasta sus doctrinas. Encontraras una clara descripcion de lo que es la Misa Catolica, los siete sacramentos,...

Kalman Filtering: Theory and Practice Using MATLAB

• ISBN:
• 0470173661
• Authors:
• Mohinder S. Grewal, Angus P. Andrews

This book provides readers with a solid introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of Kalman filtering. It has been updated with the latest developments in the implementation and application of Kalman filtering, including adaptations for nonlinear filtering, more robust smoothing methods, and developing applications in navigation. All software is provided in MATLAB, giving readers the opportunity to discover how the Kalman filter...

Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

• ISBN:
• 0131488740
• Authors:
• Sanjiva Weerawarana, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Tony Storey, Donald F. Ferguson

"Other books claim to present the complete Web services platform architecture, but this is the first one I've seen that really does. The authors have been intimately involved in the creation of the architecture. Who better to write this book?" --Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group "This is a very important book, providing a lot of technical detail and background that very few (if any) other books will be able to...

The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man

• ISBN:
• 0195080858
• Authors:
• Paul Morrison

Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose by Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency...

Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers

• ISBN:
• 0195159624
• Authors:
• Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka

This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters. Leading experts have contributed chapters in their fields of expertise. Each distils his or her subject in a chapter that is accessible to managers who want to learn what can be applied to their organizations without the distracting details of research methodology. Each chapter, however, is based on careful research. The...

Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

• ISBN:
• 0262062321
• Authors:
• Wolfgang Wahlster, Henry Lieberman, James Hendler

As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search engines read format languages such as HTML or SGML, search results reflect formatting tags more than actual page content, which is expressed in natural language. Spinning the Semantic Web describes an exciting new type of hierarchy and standardization that will replace the current "web of links" with a...

Fire the Phone Company: A Handy Guide to Voice Over IP

• ISBN:
• 0321384865
• Authors:
• David Field

Longing to break free from the phone company’s tethers? This is the place to start! Realizing that VoIP is still just an acronym to many (and an intimidating one at that), author Dave Field speaks squarely to you, the consumer, demonstrating that you don’t have to be a technologist to start achieving significant savings through Internet phone services. Keeping acronyms to a minimum, introducing important terms in sidebars, and using...

ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

• ISBN:
• 0321418344
• Authors:
• Alex Homer, Dave Sussman

"This book is a phenomenal start for someone new to ASP.NET, as well as a complete guide to the new features of version 2.0 for programmers familiar with an earlier version. The beginning chapters detail concepts using a hypothetical company, examining the myriad sorts of requests and situations often requested by clients. The authors deal with these in an eloquent, realistic manner. They have clearly worked in the industry and have faced...

Bulletproof Ajax

• ISBN:
• 0321472667
• Authors:
• Jeremy Keith

Step-by-step guide reveals best practices for enhancing Web sites with Ajax A step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax. Uses progressive enhancement techniques to ensure graceful degradation (which makes sites usable in all browsers).Shows readers how to write their own Ajax scripts instead of relying on third-party libraries. Web site designers love the idea of Ajax--of creating Web pages in which information can be updated without...

The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics (w/ DVD)

• ISBN:
• 0387950206
• Authors:
• Michael Trott

This comprehensive, detailed reference for symbolic computation with Mathematica provides the reader with a working knowledge of Mathematica in general and a detailed knowledge of key aspects of Mathematica needed to create the fastest, shortest and most elegant implementations to solve symbolic problems from the natural and physical sciences. The Guidebook gives the user a deeper understanding of Mathematica by instructive implementations,...

Expert Podcasting Practices For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470149264
• Authors:
• Tee Morris, Evo Terra, Ryan Williams

If you once dreamed of a broadcasting career, or if you’re passionate about a cause you want to share with the world, podcasting may be just what you’re looking for. But it’s not as simple as picking up a microphone—at least, not if you want great results. So pick up Expert Podcasting Practices For Dummies instead, and discover the secrets of producing professional podcasts! This plain-English guide shows you how to record like a pro,...

The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It

• ISBN:
• 047018387X
• Authors:
• John Gerzema, Edward Lebar

How to use brands to gain and sustain competitive advantage Companies today face a dilemma in marketing. The tried-and-true formulas to create sales and market share behind brands are becoming irrelevant and losing traction with consumers. In this book, Gerzema and LeBar offer credible evidence--drawn from a detailed analysis of a decade's worth of brand and financial data using Y&R's Brand Asset Valuator (BAV), the largest database of brands in...

Connect!: A Guide to a New Way of Working from GigaOM's Web Worker Daily

• ISBN:
• 0470223987
• Authors:
• Anne Truitt Zelenka

If you use the web to reach out beyond the confines of your office, cubicle, or home to connect and collaborate with others doing the same thing, you’re a web worker. In this book you'll learn how to use new web tools, discover sites and services you might want to try, and meet the social web where people are as important as corporations. You’ll learn how people are working in new ways because of the web, and how you can too.

Search Engine Optimization For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470262702
• Authors:
• Peter Kent

Why do some sites pop to the top when you search? How do you make yours one of them? You create sites that make search engines happy — that’s what search engine optimization is all about. Search Engine Optimization For Dummies has been the leading resource on how to make that happen, and this third edition is completely updated to cover the newest changes, standards, tips, and tricks. This handy guide shows you how to get more visitors by...

Mastering AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009

• ISBN:
• 0470287047
• Authors:
• George Omura

If you’re looking for a tutorial or stand-alone reference to AutoCAD and its latest features, Mastering AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 is a book that can serve as both. Understand the basics of interface and drafting tools, review intermediate skills like using hatches, fields and tables, and master advanced topics like attributes, dynamic blocks, drawing curves and solid fills, 3D modeling and imaging, and customization and integration....

Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010

• ISBN:
• 0470466030
• Authors:
• George Omura

An award-winning author presents a detailed tutorial covering every feature of this popular program Each year, Mastering AutoCAD appears at the top of the AutoCAD book sales charts; it's the world's all-time bestselling series on the AutoCAD design software. This revision thoroughly covers all the new features and gives you a complete education in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. Whether you're an architect or drafter, involved in another discipline that...

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...

Valuation: Setting Sound Business Goals

• ISBN:
• 0471386545
• Authors:
• George M. Norton III

A professional’s guide to assessing value, developing strategy, and achieving goals "George Norton has made the complex subject of business valuation and value creation understandable. The book is a straightforward, ‘how-to’ guide for business owners, CEO’s and other senior executives that links strategy and tactics to long-term stakeholder satisfaction. For a business book it is not only a ‘good read,’ it is a ‘must read. ’ "...

Modeling and High Performance Control of Electric Machines (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 047168449X
• Authors:
• John Chiasson

Modeling and High Performance Control of Electric Machines introduces you to both the modeling and control of electric machines. The direct current (DC) machine and the alternating current (AC) machines (induction, PM synchronous, and BLDC) are all covered in detail. The author emphasizes control techniques used for high-performance applications, specifically ones that require both rapid and precise control of position, speed, or torque. You'll...

AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0471752606
• Authors:
• David Byrnes, Lee Ambrosius

AutoCAD is the leading software tool for creating technical and architectural drawings, but it definitely doesn't lead in the "easy to master" category. That's why there's AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies— the perfect way to break a complex topic into bite-size, easy-to-understand pieces. Once you get the hang of using AutoCAD and its slightly less feature-rich cousin, AutoCAD LT, you discover that it offers...

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

• ISBN:
• 0521709164
• Authors:
• John Houghton

John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full color and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change. Written for students across a wide range of disciplines, its simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science and impacts of climate change and highlights the need for action on global warming. Is there evidence for climate changing due to human activities? How do we...

Solving ODEs with MATLAB

• ISBN:
• 0521824044
• Authors:
• L. F. Shampine, I. Gladwell, S. Thompson

This book is a text for a one-semester course for upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students in engineering, science, and mathematics. Prerequisites are a first course in the theory of ODEs and a survey course in numerical analysis, in addition to specific programming experience, preferably in MATLAB, and knowledge of elementary matrix theory. Professionals will also find that this useful concise reference contains reviews of...

Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

• ISBN:
• 0521877857
• Authors:
• Gabrielle McIntire

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, have never been paired in a book-length study. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality,...

Yahoo! Hacks: Tips & Tools for Living on the Web Frontier

• ISBN:
• 0596009453
• Authors:
• Paul Bausch

Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today's Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner...

Programming the Semantic Web

• ISBN:
• 0596153813
• Authors:
• Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor, Segaran Toby, Evans Colin, Taylor Jamie

With this book, the promise of the Semantic Web -- in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web -- is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality Programming the Semantic Web demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications, using current and emerging standards and technologies. You'll learn how to incorporate existing data sources into semantically aware applications and publish rich semantic...

SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide

• ISBN:
• 0596529589
• Authors:
• James Pyles, Christopher M Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Pyles James, Prussak Piotr, Regan Christopher, Buechler Christopher, Fox Bob, Gordon Murray, Lotter Michael, Medero Jason, Mehta Nilesh

For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is an integrated set of services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the...

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...

ASP.NET Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672320681
• Authors:
• Stephen Walther

With this valuable guide, readers learn the advanced features of ASP.NET, and how to apply them in their own Internet applications. This in-depth, code-intensive title covers a broad range of advanced ASP.NET topics. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

PHP 5 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 067232511X
• Authors:
• John Coggeshall

The PHP language is in use today at over 12 million Internet domains worldwide, and continues to grow in popularity at an astonishing rate of almost 400,000 domains a month. The latest version, PHP 5, is in beta and is expected to reach final form by Q1 2004. It is a significant new release that speeds up performance, improves XML and streams support, and includes many new functions. PHP 5 increases the appeal of PHP to serious programmers who...

Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0672326191
• Authors:
• Matt Zandstra

Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours , is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to advanced functions. The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, sections two through four shows the reader how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches how to...

Sams Teach Yourself AJAX in 10 Minutes

• ISBN:
• 0672328682
• Authors:
• Phil Ballard

Sams Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes  is a concise introduction to the basics of building Ajax applications and the architecture and operation of these applications. You will learn the techniques employed in using Ajax, introducing Ajax and explaining how it may be used to solve realistic user interface problems. You will be able to immediately begin building web applications, and will have platform from which to explore more advanced aspects...

Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672330075
• Authors:
• Adam Nathan

Full Color Code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!   Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!   Silverlight is a lightweight but powerful plug-in for multiple web browsers on multiple operating systems that makes it easier than ever to create rich web-based content, applications, and controls. With support for...

MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#(TM) .N

• ISBN:
• 0735615861
• Authors:
• Microsoft Corporation

Learn how to build XML Web services and server components with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Visual C#™ .NET?as you prepare for MCAD or MCSD certification. Includes study guide for Exams 70-310 and 70-320, evaluation software, eBook, and testing tool.

Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg-Other)

• ISBN:
• 0735619018
• Authors:
• Wayne L. Winston

Now you can apply the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to analyze and transform data into bottom line results. For more than 10 years, well-known consultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA candidates the most effective ways to use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. This practical, business-focused guide delivers the best of Winston’s...

Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting (Pro-Developer)

• ISBN:
• 0735619336
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald

Make the jump to distributed application programming using the .NET Framework—and introduce a new level of performance, scalability, and security to your network and enterprise applications. Expert .NET developer Matthew MacDonald shares proven techniques for fully exploiting .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and other .NET technologies and integrating them into your real-world solutions. MacDonald digs into key .NET building blocks and...

Microsoft ASP.NET Setup and Configuration Pocket Reference (Developers Pocket Consultants)

• ISBN:
• 0735619360
• Authors:
• James Avery

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized reference is the Web application developer s fast-answers guide to ASP.NET configuration architecture, settings, and custom settings. Zero in on key ASP.NET configuration details and techniques using quick-reference tables, lists, step-by-step instructions, and real world tips, including coding examples for version 2003 of Microsoft Visual Basic(r) .NET and Microsoft Visual C#(r) .NET. This handy, one-stop...

Migrating from Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4.0 to Windows Server(TM) 2003 (Pro-One-Offs)

• ISBN:
• 0735619409
• Authors:
• Microsoft Corporation

The essential technical guidance that system administrators need to upgrade to the Windows .NET Server 2003 operating system, direct from those who know the technology best—the Microsoft Windows Server product team.

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference

• ISBN:
• 0735621764
• Authors:
• Dino Esposito

Delve into the core topics for ASP.NET 2.0 programming, mastering the essential skills and capabilities needed to build high-performance Web applications successfully. Well-known ASP.NET author Dino Esposito deftly builds your expertise with Web forms, Microsoft Visual Studio®, core controls, master pages, data access, data binding, state management, security services, and other must-know topics—combining definitive reference with practical,...

Microsoft Windows Vista Step by Step

• ISBN:
• 0735622698
• Authors:
• Joan Preppernau

The smart way to learn the latest version of Microsoft Windows--one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with Windows Vista, including how to navigate the new user interface and how to use the new search features for finding anything on your desktop. You will learn how to manage files and folders to simplify your...

Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

• ISBN:
• 0735623929
• Authors:
• David Sterling, Michael Mainer, Ben Spain, Mark Taylor, Huw Upshall

Dive deep into the architecture of Exchange Web Services--and master the intricacies for accessing data with the new, unifying API. Exchange Web Services offers new functionality, replacing old, disparate APIs. Written by members of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Web Services product teams at Microsoft, this practical guide introduces developers to Exchange Web Services. It includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the...

Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got

• ISBN:
• 0739462865
• Authors:
• Phil McGraw

If you are sleeping single in a double bed or walking down the street thinking, How do I meet that guy?; if you're on your twentieth date and he's no more committed than when you first exchanged cell phone numbers; if everyone you know is getting married for the second time and you can't even get a first date; if you love the one you're with but the relationship needs some spark...then this book is for you. In Love Smart: Find the One You Want...

What Women Want Men to Know

• ISBN:
• 074350822X
• Authors:
• Barbara DeAngelis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know, the counterpart audiobook for both sexes that reveals everything women want men to know about loving and understanding the woman in their life. Delivered in her signature frank, provocative and down-to-earth style, What Women Want Men to Know explains everything women feel about love, communication, sex and intimacy that they've always wished men would...

Researching Violently Divided Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues

• ISBN:
• 0745318215

The late-19th century Rooseveltian perception of war as an ideal method of forging a nation's manhood has waned. The development of weapons of mass destruction, along with the increased media coverage of the consequences of war, have changed the nature of warfare. Politicians and the army are more concerned than ever to avoid casualties, at least on their own side. And with the development of communication, the horrific realities of violent...

Failing Peace: Gaza and athe Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

• ISBN:
• 0745322352
• Authors:
• Sara Roy

This book is the culmination of 20 years of research, fieldwork and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the impact of Israeli occupation. Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people -- especially in the U.S. -- understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. Roy's book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so...

Petrophysics, Second Edition: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties

• ISBN:
• 0750677112
• Authors:
• Erle C. Donaldson, Djebbar Tiab Professor

The petroleum geologist and engineer must have a working knowledge of petrophysics in order to find oil reservoirs, devise the best plan for getting it out of the ground, then start drilling. This book offers the engineer and geologist a manual to accomplish these goals, providing much-needed calculations and formulas on fluid flow, rock properties, and many other topics that are encountered every day. New updated material covers topics that...

Pumping Station Design, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750694831
• Authors:
• Robert L. Sanks PhD PE

This award-winning book is written for a variety of potential readers; the expert and the beginner in the design office, members of a design team, the city engineer or chief engineer of a water or sewerage authority (or their subordinates) who may review plans and specifications, and manufacturers and their representatives who should know how their equipment will be used in practice. Each author or contributor is an expert with many years...

Car Troubles (Transport and Society)

• ISBN:
• 0754677729
• Authors:
• Jim Conley, Arlene Tigar McLaren

Bringing together an international and multi-disciplinary team of leading transportation scholars, this book's central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematised. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic, and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies and policy-oriented analysis. With contributors primarily...

Kama Sutra for 21st Century Lovers

• ISBN:
• 0756631661
• Authors:
• Anne Hooper

This revision of the bestselling Kama Sutra for 21st-Century Lovers reveals how to submit to unashamed pleasures, shows the fundamentals of successful lovemaking, and includes an exotic listing of over 100 positions from the world's most ancient sex manuals, including the Kama Sutra, Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and Tao. AUTHOR BIO: Anne Hooper is the world's bestselling author of illustrated sex manuals with sales of over 6 million books....

50 Fast Dreamweaver MX Techniques

• ISBN:
• 0764538942
• Authors:
• Janine Warner, Yanier Gonzalez, Ivonne Berkowitz

* Includes techniques for building rollovers, embedding Flash movies, creating dynamic tables, adding cool animations, and much more. * Features 50 fast and easy, but powerful, effects that creative professionals and amateurs alike can achieve almost instantly. * Each technique is fully-illustrated with "before" and "after" shots, and carefully described in step-by-step detail. * The CD-ROM includes work files and finished effects from the book.

AutoCAD 2004 for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764540459
• Authors:
• Mark Middlebrook

Meet AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT® and find out where to draw the line Tour AutoCAD’s new features, make CAD standards rule, and find the friendlier xref Once upon a time, architectural drawings were created with – gasp –pencils, paper, and T-squares. Then came AutoCAD, with all its capabilities and complications. While this book won’t turn back the clock, it will make it easy to explore AutoCAD 2004’s new interface, conform with CAD...

Value Investing for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764554107
• Authors:
• Peter J. Sander, Peter Sander

Value Investing For Dummies guides anyone from rookie to savvy investor through the often confusingmaze of value investments and value investing techniques. Turn here for clear explanations and solid advice on: Types of value investments -- from mutual funds and real estate to precious metals and commoditiesHow to become a value investor -- from making your picks to developing your investment styleInvesting for the long term vs. the short...

AutoCAD 2005 For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764571389
• Authors:
• Mark Middlebrook

* Shows how to use the leading technical drawing software-AutoCAD-and its less-expensive sister product, AutoCAD LT, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style * Shows first-time AutoCAD users how to create precise and efficient 2-D technical drawings and get started with 3-D technical drawings * Topics covered include creating a basic layout; drawing and editing; writing text in drawings; plotting, creating, and editing external...

Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource - Corals, Jellyfish, Sponges and Other Simple Animals

• ISBN:
• 0787694126
• Authors:
• Madeline S. Harris, Neil Schlager, Jayne Weisblatt, Bernhard Grzimek

Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource: Corals, Jellyfish, Sponges and Other Simple Animals offers readers comprehensive and easy-to-use information on Earth's animals. Entries are arranged by taxonomy, the science through which living things are classified into related groups. Each entry includes sections on physical characteristics; geographic range; habitat; diet; behavior and reproduction; animals and people; and conservation status. Family...

Special Edition Using Asp.Net

• ISBN:
• 0789725606
• Authors:
• Richard C. Leinecker

This book introduces the reader to ASP.NET. Though ASP has been used for years in Web development, the new version provides users with better and faster operability. Because an ASP guru has written this book the information will be immediately applicable. Special Edition Using ASP.NET also serves as a comprehensive reference to both experienced and new developers. This book outshines any competing titles by providing real-world examples and...

ASP.NET by Example

• ISBN:
• 0789725622
• Authors:
• Steven A. Smith

ASP developers need to understand how ASP.NET can help them solve business problems better than any prior product. ASP.NET by Example is designed to provide a "crash course" on ASP.NET and quickly help the reader start using this new technology. As part of the By Example series, this book approaches ASP.NET in an easy-to-use tutorial way, giving the reader a much faster and more interactive learning experience than the traditional reference...

The Netherlands (Modern World Nations)

• ISBN:
• 0791074765
• Authors:
• James F. Marran

These information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture

Italy (Modern World Nations)

• ISBN:
• 0791076083
• Authors:
• Zoran Pavlovic

Japanese Immigrants (Immigration to the United States)

• ISBN:
• 0816056889
• Authors:
• W. Scott Ingram, Scott Ingram, Robert Asher

The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a "nation of nations." Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new "Immigration to the United States" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set written by general editor Robert Asher that discusses some of the broad reasons why people came to...

Dino-Hockey (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

• ISBN:
• 0822561913
• Authors:
• Lisa Wheeler

Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press (Pivotal Moments in History)

• ISBN:
• 0822575205
• Authors:
• Diana Childress

Can one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning remained a privilege of the wealthy--until Johannes Gutenberg developed a machine called the printing press. Gutenberg, a German metalworker, began in the 1440s by making movable type--small metal letters that were arranged to form words and sentences, replacing handwritten letters. Movable...

The Thing on the Wing Can Sing: A Short Vowel Sounds Book With Consonant Digraphs (Sounds Like Reading)

• ISBN:
• 0822576392
• Authors:
• Brian P. Cleary

Come along with me and learn all about reading! Brian P.

Engineering Analysis: Interactive Methods and Programs with FORTRAN, QuickBASIC, MATLAB, and Mathematica

• ISBN:
• 084932016X
• Authors:
• Yen-Ching Pao

This book provides a concise introduction to numerical concepts in engineering analysis, using FORTRAN, QuickBASIC, MATLAB, and Mathematica to illustrate the examples. Discussions include:omatrix algebra and analysisosolution of matrix equationsomethods of curve fitomethods for finding the roots of polynomials and transcendental equationsofinite differences and methods for interpolation and numerical differentiationonumerical computation of...

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...

Practical Controls: A Guide to Mechanical Systems

• ISBN:
• 0881734470
• Authors:
• Steve Calabrese

Geared toward the HVAC professional, Practical Controls: A Guide to Mechanical Systems provides a solid foundation and well-rounded understanding of the role of controls in mechanical systems design and installation. This book takes a concise look at HVAC controls and controls methods - including electrical, electronic, and microprocessor-based controls and control systems. Using "real world" examples, it explores how various mechanical systems...

Linear Programming with MATLAB (MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization)

• ISBN:
• 0898716438
• Authors:
• Michael C. Ferris, Olvi L. Mangasarian, Stephen J. Wright

This textbook provides a self-contained introduction to linear programming using MATLAB® software to elucidate the development of algorithms and theory. Early chapters cover linear algebra basics, the simplex method, duality, the solving of large linear problems, sensitivity analysis, and parametric linear programming. In later chapters, the authors discuss quadratic programming, linear complementarity, interior-point methods, and selected...

PHP|Architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns

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

You have probably heard a lot about Design Patterns—a technique that helps you design rock-solid solutions to practical problems that programmers everywhere encounter in their day-to-day work. Even though there has been a lot of buzz, however, no-one has yet come up with a comprehensive resource on design patterns for PHP developers—until today. Author Jason E. Sweat's book php|architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns is the first,...

php|architect's Guide to PHP Security|

• ISBN:
• 0973862106
• Authors:
• Ilia Alshanetsky

Security is a hot topic these days, with new exploits and patches released on a daily basis for all sorts of operating systems and applications. Recently, the security bubble has expanded to touch the PHP world, and several well-known applications have been the target of a great number of attacks. Despite all the negative publicity, however, PHP is and remains a very stable--and very secure--programming environment. php|architect's Guide to PHP...

Models of Mechanics (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

• ISBN:
• 1402048343
• Authors:
• A. Klarbring

This is a textbook on models and modeling in mechanics. It introduces a new unifying approach to applied mechanics: through the concept of the open scheme, a step-by-step approach to modeling evolves. The unifying approach enables a very large scope on relatively few pages: the book treats theories of mass points and rigid bodies, continuum models of solids and fluids, as well as traditional engineering mechanics of beams, cables, pipe flow and...

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

• ISBN:
• 1405112247

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers. Engages its readers in an informed and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thought Embraces the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, and a broad range of institutions and...

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...

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 Automation, Systems, and Instrumentation Dictionary

• ISBN:
• 155617778X
• Authors:
• Theodore G. Dimon

No technical library is complete without this comprehensive dictionary covering the entire vocabulary of automation, systems, and instrumentation. Now in its 4th edition, this authoritative dictionary has been revised and expanded to reflect the latest trends in industrial instrumentation and automation. References to relevant ISA and IEC standards are now included throughout, along with illustrations to enhance the definitions of more difficult...

Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites: Managing Change, Content, Customer Relationships, and Site Measurement (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

• ISBN:
• 1558608303
• Authors:
• Ashley Friedlein

Ashley Friedlein's first book, Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites , became a bestseller and an essential reference for Web professionals developing new sites. Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites addresses the realities of successful sites today, namely the notion that maintaining and evolving a site is actually a bigger commitment than launching it. Management wants to maximize returns and...

Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra

• ISBN:
• 1564586499
• Authors:
• Anne Hooper

Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra updates and reinterprets the 2,000 year--old sexual text in a fully illustrated guide that features specially commissioned photographs and information on ways to enrich and diversify one's sex life. In this classic volume of sexual learning, Anne Hooper brings together the best of the eastern sexual teaching, the Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao to create a new classic that encourages an...

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...

Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

• ISBN:
• 156592567X
• Authors:
• Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern

Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C shows how to extend the capabilities of the Apache web server. It explains the design of Apache, mod_perl, and the Apache API, then demonstrates how to use them for: Rewriting CGI scripts as Apache modules to vastly improve performanceServer-side filtering of HTML documents to embed special markup or code (much like SSI)Enhancing server log functionalityConverting file formats on the flyImplementing dynamic...

Environmental Sampling and Analysis for Metals

• ISBN:
• 156670572X
• Authors:
• Maria Csuros, Csaba Csuros

Determination of metals is a major part of the work of environmental testing laboratories. EPA and DEP methodology releases provide information only for selected areas of metals sampling and analysis, and their language makes them unsuitable for teaching and training purposes. Environmental Sampling and Analysis for Metals is a comprehensive and easy-to-read text for laboratory technicians and analytical chemists who need a guide for analyzing...

Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software

• ISBN:
• 1580256007
• Authors:
• Ronald P. Cody

The key to ensuring accurate data is having clean data. This book develops and describes data cleaning programs and macros. You can use many of the programs and macros that are provided, as is, or you can modify them for your own special data cleaning tasks. Ron has carefully explained and documented each of the programs and macros, thus providing you with SAS programming instruction on an intermediate-to-advanced level. Topics presented include...

Visualizing Categorical Data

• ISBN:
• 1580256600
• Authors:
• Michael Friendly

This book offers many new and more easily accessible graphical methods for representing categorical data using SAS software. Graphical methods for quantitative data are well developed and widely used. However, until now with this comprehensive treatment, few graphical methods existed for categorical data. In this innovative book, Friendly presents many aspects of the relationships among variables, the adequacy of a fitted model, and possibly...

Security Technologies for the World Wide Web, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1580533485
• Authors:
• Rolf Oppliger

This newly revised edition of the Artech House bestseller brings you the most, up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the current trends in WWW security available, with brand new chapters on authentication and authorization infrastructures, server-side security, and risk management. You also find coverage of entirely new topics such as Microsoft.NET Passport. From HTTP security, firewalls and proxy servers, cryptographic security protocols,...

MATLAB Simulations for Radar Systems Design

• ISBN:
• 1584883928
• Authors:
• Bassem R. Mahafza, Atef Elsherbeni

Simulation is integral to the successful design of modern radar systems, and there is arguably no better software for this purpose than MATLAB. But software and the ability to use it does not guarantee success. One must also:ÖUnderstand radar operations and design philosophyÖKnow how to select the radar parameters to meet the design requirementsÖBe able to perform detailed trade-off analysis in the context of radar sizing, modes of operation,...

Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications

• ISBN:
• 1590590724
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Hasan, Kenneth Tu

The technical book market today is flooded with a slew of titles on how to build applications with the .NET technology, and many are undoubtedly very good. But the majority of these titles simply take a "how-to" approach on programming with the .NET Framework. They often pay little more than cursory attention to the real-world issues and challenges that developers face. Performance is one of those challenges. This book is for intermediate to...

Foundations of Atlas: Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0

• ISBN:
• 1590596471
• Authors:
• Laurence Moroney

I enjoyed reading this book. It really covers the fundamentals of the technology but also answer the why-questions of some implementations. — David Boschmans Weblog This book introduces a fast-track path to understanding Atlas, and how this technology can increase the power and functionality of your code while conserving time and effort. The book begins with a bare-bones introduction that explains how Atlas relates to Ajax. Microsoft Atlas is...

Pro Ajax and the .NET 2.0 Platform

• ISBN:
• 1590596706
• Authors:
• Daniel Woolston

Pro Ajax and the .NET 2.0 Platform gets high marks from me because it is concise, informative and easy to follow. After reading the first three chapters I had a clear understanding of what Ajax really is. — Cameron Scholtz, ASU Blog There are a few class libraries recently distributed that open the Ajax door to the .NET Framework 2.0. This book examines how the Ajax technology and the .NET Framework can work in tandem. It thoroughly covers...

Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# 2005, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 159059701X
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Hasan, Mauricio Duran

Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# 2005, Second Edition will immerse you in updated code and reference material specifically architected for Visual Studio 2005 and Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0. With this book, you can get a head start on building SOA applications using the clear, conceptual discussions and practical examples provided by SOA experts Jeffrey Hasan and Mauricio Duran. The authors give fair treatment to difficult...

Pro XML Development with Java Technology

• ISBN:
• 1590597060
• Authors:
• Ajay Vohra, Deepak Vohra

Pro XML Development with Java Technology has been written to help you, the professional Java developer who needs a practical hands-on guide to marrying these technologies together effectively. There are a lot of books out there, but none really explore the combination deeply, and they are largely theoretical. The main objective here was to consolidate the theory and practice of XML and Java technologies in a single, up-to-date source, that is...

Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

• ISBN:
• 1590597079
• Authors:
• Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner

There is much to like about this book. The explanations are straightforward, the code is readable, the examples are relevant, and the writing style is approachable. — Michael J. Ross, Web developer/Slashdot contributor Until recently, building interactive web-based mapping applications has been a cumbersome affair. This changed when Google released its powerful Maps API. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax was written to help...

Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

• ISBN:
• 1590597346
• Authors:
• Christian Gross

Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach will serve all of your Ajax needs, by providing adaptable solutions for common tasks you'll want to implement on web sites using the next generation of Ajax and REST techniques. As a JavaScript developer, your time is precious, so you'll want to solve problems that present themselves in your work as quickly as possible. You can pick up the code provided in this book, adapt it, or plug it...

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...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Juicing

• ISBN:
• 1592575684
• Authors:
• Ellen Brown

Get the fruit your body needs—in a glass. This creative collection from an award-winning author includes tasty juicing recipes that can be made using a juicer or a blender/food processor. The simple recipes come with suggestions for substitutions for even more variety—for happier, healthier readers! --Written by an award-winning food and beverage author who is also the founding food editor of USA Today --Accessible to everyone: recipes come...

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 Complete Idiot's Guide to Decluttering

• ISBN:
• 1592576281
• Authors:
• Regina Leeds

Do you own your stuff—or does it own you? Whether someone lives in a mansion or a studio, drives an SUV or a MiniCooper—stuff often builds up into an endless stream of clutter, taking over living spaces and complicating lives. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience organizing living and work spaces, renowned organizing expert Regina Leeds has the solution for conquering clutter in every room of one’s house, along with in one’s...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fast and Fresh Meals

• ISBN:
• 159257632X
• Authors:
• Ellen Brown

Don’t sacrifice taste for time! Designed for cooks who want to eat great, healthy meals without spending all their time in the kitchen, this book is a must-have for every kitchen. With more than 300 recipes, and plenty of time-saving, shopping, and storage tips, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Fast and Fresh Meals provides everything from quick hors d’oeuvres and appetizers to dessert—all made fresh in record time! —Recipes can be made...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles

• ISBN:
• 1592576354
• Authors:
• Jack R. Nerad

New hope for motorists. With the rise in gasoline costs, the hybrid car has exploded into the fastest-growing segment of the American car industry. This book sorts out the dizzying array of choices faced by American motorists. In clear, jargon-free language, Nerad explains the nature of each kind of car and their advantages and disadvantages, so consumers can make a practical choice. —The only book that includes all alternative fuel vehicles,...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Home Repair

• ISBN:
• 1592576656
• Authors:
• Judy Ostrow

How many readers does it take to change a light bulb? Only one … if he or she is armed with this book! Rather than focus on the big projects that most homeowners would wisely leave to professionals, it concentrates on the common repairs that everyone encounters and anyone can do—with the right instruction—including repairing holes and dents in drywall; fixing popped nails in walls; checking and replacing fuses; unclogging drains; replacing...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a College Major (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))

• ISBN:
• 1592576850
• Authors:
• Ph.D., Randall S. Hansen

How to figure out what you want out of college—and life. Choosing a college major is the biggest decision of one’s college experience, and there are many factors to consider. Here, you will discover which majors will give the best chances of finding employment, which majors are most likely to lead to the highest-paying jobs, what major best suits each personality, and what skills and background you need to realize your goals.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, 4th Edition

• ISBN:
• 1592577199
• Authors:
• Ph.D., Christopher De Pree, Ph.D., Alan Axelrod

Look to the stars. Although Astronomy has been around for more than 5,500 years, astronomers say that we’ve learned more than 90% of what we know about the universe in just the last 50—and much of that in the last decade! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Astronomy, Fourth Edition , continues to be the most comprehensive introduction to the topic, covering all the latest advances and discoveries, including: • The demotion of Pluto and...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rumi Meditations

• ISBN:
• 1592577369
• Authors:
• Yahiya Emerick

Discover moving meditation with one of today’s top-selling poets. Rumi was a 13th-century Sufi theologian and poet who spoke of love, unity with God, and spiritual growth. Rumi and his followers, known as the Whirling Dervishes, employed music, poetry, and dance to become closer to God. This guide brings the unique practice of moving meditation to American readers, offering more than 40 meditations based on Rumi’s poems. • Includes a...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Financial Aid for College, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 1592577466
• Authors:
• M.B.A., David Rye

Most futures depend on it. This comprehensive, fully updated edition shows readers how to get scholarships, find the best financial aid packages for academic or sports skills, improve one’s chances of receiving financial aid, take advantage of the new tax laws to build a college savings plan, and much more. Also includes a newly updated yellow-pages directory with names, addresses, and information on where to inquire and how to apply for...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fighting Fatigue

• ISBN:
• 1592577733
• Authors:
• R.N., B.S.N., Nadine Saubers

A boost of energy for your customers (and your sales). Exhaustion is rampant nowadays—for both medical and lifestyle reasons. In this helpful guide, a healthcare professional and scientific researcher explains the common causes of fatigue, both physical and emotional—and the most effective ways to prevent and combat it. Readers will be able to recognize the warning signs of systemic fatigue; figure out when medical treatment is required;...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Out of Debt

• ISBN:
• 1592578470
• Authors:
• Ken Clark

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul? The American economy is dragging, with unemployment rates rising and consumer debt hitting $2.5 trillion. Many people are in deep and need help. Here, a Certified Financial Planner explains the mathematics of debt; strategies to deal with credit card, mortgage, student, and other loans; why debt consolidation and taking loans from a 401(k) can lead to problems; truths about bankruptcy; and how to use debt while...

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...

Nagios: System and Network Monitoring

• ISBN:
• 1593270704
• Authors:
• Wolfgang Barth

Nagios: System and Network Monitoring shows how to configure and use Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool. Nagios makes it possible to continuously monitor network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.), host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.), and environmental factors (such as temperature). When Nagios detects a problem, it communicates the information to the sys...

How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It

• ISBN:
• 159327176X
• Authors:
• Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates

Myxomatosis. The Order of Canada. Noble gas. Catherine de' Medici. The History of Superman? Whether you're doing serious research on the Web or just settling an argument, it's easy to get caught up in Wikipedia's two million articles. And that's not such a bad thing. But how'd all the information get there in the first place? And how can you tell if it's reliable? Or say you want to become a part of Wikipedia and make your own contributions....

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,...

Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions

• ISBN:
• 1593392664

Religious faith takes many forms. Throughout the centuries and around the globe, the human response to the divine has given rise to a large number of important religions. The "Britannica's Encyclopedia of World Religions" provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them. In addition to more than 3,500 detailed entries, discover 30 in-depth...

Cover Letter Magic: Trade Secrets of Professional Resume Writers

• ISBN:
• 1593573642
• Authors:
• Wendy S. Enelow, Louise Kursmark

This new second edition includes more than 150 winning cover letters for every profession and situation. Readers get great tips from before and after transformations that turn boring letters into knockouts. Plus, there are tips on resumes, e-mail and scannable cover letters, thank-you letters, and dozens of sample opening paragraphs. Also provides proven first paragraphs to start the cover letter with strength.

Handbook of Research in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

• ISBN:
• 1593850565

Bringing together leading researchers, this book integrates current knowledge on emotional and behavioral disorders in the school setting. Reviewed are a range of evidence-based approaches to identifying, assessing, and intervening with this difficult-to-teach population. School practitioners and educators gain essential tools for developing and evaluating programs to improve student behavior, boost self-control and social skills, and maximize...

Field Methods in Remote Sensing

• ISBN:
• 1593850794
• Authors:
• Roger M. McCoy PhD

This concise, much-needed guide takes readers step by step through planning and executing field work associated with many different types of remote sensing projects. Remote sensing texts and research reports typically focus on data-analytic techniques while offering a dearth of information on procedures followed in the field. In contrast, this book provides clear recommendations for defining field work objectives, devising a valid sampling plan,...

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...

Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Typical Development

• ISBN:
• 1593851367

This state-of-the-science volume brings together leading authorities from multiple disciplines to examine the relationship between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. Presented are innovative cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that shed light on brain-behavior connections in infancy and toddlerhood through adolescence. Chapters explore the complex interplay of neurobiological and environmental influences in the...

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...

The Human Frontal Lobes, Second Edition: Functions and Disorders (The Science and Practice of Neuropsychology)

• ISBN:
• 1593853297

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this authoritative work synthesizes the rapidly growing knowledge base on the human frontal lobes and their central role in behavior, cognition, health, and disease. Leading contributors address neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and normal neuropsychological functioning, and describe the nature and consequences of frontal lobe dysfunction in specific neurological and psychiatric conditions. Second...

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...

The First Interview, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 1593856369
• Authors:
• James Morrison MD

This indispensable clinical guidebook, now in a revised and expanded third edition, describes and illustrates how to conduct a successful diagnostic mental health interview. James Morrison details effective methods for posing clinical questions; what the clinician should ask to obtain complete, accurate information; and how to select the best strategy to meet any clinical situation. Throughout the book, Morrison interweaves the latest research...

The Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (Guides to Individualized Evidence-Based Treatment)

• ISBN:
• 1593858752
• Authors:
• Jacqueline B. Persons PhD

This eagerly awaited book shows how skillful case formulation addresses a critical challenge in psychotherapy today: how to use empirically supported therapies (ESTs) in real-world clinical contexts. The author explains the basic theories of cognition, learning, and emotion that underlie available ESTs and shows how the theories also guide systematic case formulation. By crafting a sound formulation and continually refining and monitoring it as...

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...

Assessing Performance: Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks

• ISBN:
• 1593859899
• Authors:
• Robert L. Johnson PhD, James A. Penny PhD, Belita Gordon PhD

A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the assessment and how to develop scoring tools, train raters, reduce rater bias, review scores and report results, and use item-level and test-level...

Cooking for Children: No Mess, No Fuss, No Problem (Quick & Easy) (Quick & Easy (Silverback))

• ISBN:
• 1596370408
• Authors:
• Dagmar V. Cramm

Cooking healthy food that children like to eat almost sounds like an oxymoron. This book takes the difficulty out of cooking for children with great-tasting recipes that are (shhh!) good for you. Make cooking for the family a treat, rather than a chore! These quick, no-fuss recipes easily incorporate healthy ingredients with kid-friendly tastes. Fun, imaginative, and easy-to-prepare recipes such as Berry Yogurt Smoothies, Carrot Corn Salad and...

The First Time Manager

• ISBN:
• 1596591706
• Authors:
• Loren B. Belker, Gary S. Topchik

Since its original publication, The First-Time Manager has helped many thousands of rookie managers handle their new responsibilities...and now it can help you! Clear and concise, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals the listener needs for success, with indispensable advice on topics including hiring and firing, leadership, motivation, and managing time and stress. In addition, the completely updated fifth edition shows him how to build...

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...

SAS Add-In 2.1 for Microsoft Office: Getting Started with Data Analysis

• ISBN:
• 1599940868
• Authors:
• SAS Publishing

Provides step-by-step instructions for analyzing data in Microsoft Excel. You will be guided through several SAS tasks and shown how you can harness the power of SAS in Microsoft Excel. The scenarios in the book use sample data that is provided with Base SAS software, so you can follow the instructions to perform this analysis

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

• ISBN:
• 1599941953
• Authors:
• Art Carpenter

I've Got a Domain Name--Now What???: A Practical Guide to Building a Website and Web Presence

• ISBN:
• 160005109X
• Authors:
• Jean Bedord

Setting up your own domain and website without a readily available office expert can be challenging, even for the technically savvy. You have to choose from multiple options, from simple to complex, to configure web technology to meet your needs. Individually, each software component is not difficult. It's the oh-so-important details involved in putting them together that can be problematic. This book is your guide to the many technology tools...

Designing Complex Web Information Systems: Integrating Evolutionary Process Engineering (Premier Reference Source)

• ISBN:
• 160566300X
• Authors:
• Roberto Paiano, Anna Lisa Guido, Andrea Pandurino

Corporations across the globe are increasingly considering the importance of user experience and business process design in creation of Web information systems. Designing Complex Web Information Systems: Integrating Evolutionary Process Engineering provides an overview of modern Web application technologies useful to business designers. Containing advanced findings from across the globe, this Premier Reference Source presents cutting-edge...

Integrated Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering: Advancing Organizational Knowledge Sharing (Advances in Information Technology and Web Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 1605664189
• Authors:
• Ghazi Alkhatib

With the increasing proliferation of information technology and Web-based approaches to the implementation of systems and services, researchers, educators, and practitioners worldwide are experiencing a rising need for authoritative references to enhance their understanding of the most current and effective engineering practices leading to robust and successful solutions. Integrated Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering:...

Dealing with Depression: A Commonsense Guide to Mood Disorders

• ISBN:
• 1741142148
• Authors:
• Gordon Parker

Covering both traditional and alternative approaches to treating depression, this fully revised and updated guide outlines the many different types of depression, including mood swings, clinical depression, and bipolar disorders. Each type of depression is explained fully and is accompanied by suggestions for the most appropriate treatments. Simple descriptions and a user-friendly layout make this guide accessible for those suffering from mood...

British Light Infantryman of the Seven Year's War: North America 1757-63

• ISBN:
• 1841767336
• Authors:
• Ian Macpherson Mcculloch

The British Light Infantryman of the Seven Years War was a "chosen man", proficient at scouting and skirmishing, and more than a match for the French and their ruthless Indian allies. Shooting rapids in canoes and whaleboats, traversing swamps or jungles and snowshoeing through endless tracts of forest, British redcoats earned a reputation for resilience and resourcefulness as they adapted to the wilderness conditions of North America. Their...

Fortifications of the Incas (Fortress)

• ISBN:
• 1841769398
• Authors:
• H. W. Kaufmann, J. E. Kaufmann

The greatest period of Inca expansion occurred during the reigns of Pachacuti (1438–71), Tupa Inca (1471–93), and Huayna Capac (1493–1527). From the mountain stronghold of Cuzco, they subjugated the surrounding kingdoms and territories, absorbing their civilizations and their peoples. By 1525, they dominated much of the west of the continent, relying on fortified strongholds, an extensive system of roads an bridges, and obligatory military...

Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice: Better Water Management for Development

• ISBN:
• 1844076490

Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got

• ISBN:
• 0739462865
• Authors:
• Phil McGraw

If you are sleeping single in a double bed or walking down the street thinking, How do I meet that guy?; if you're on your twentieth date and he's no more committed than when you first exchanged cell phone numbers; if everyone you know is getting married for the second time and you can't even get a first date; if you love the one you're with but the relationship needs some spark...then this book is for you. In Love Smart: Find the One You Want...

US Marine in Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 1841769827
• Authors:
• Richard S. Lowry

Operation Iraqi Freedom officially began on March 20, 2003 and has become one of the most controversial conflicts of modern warfare. Thousands of US Marines were deployed into Iraq in order to topple the dictatorship government and liberate the Iraqi people. This book examines the experience of those "ordinary" Marines who fought on the frontline of one of the major battles in the operation, the battle for An Nasiriyah. This title details the...

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

• ISBN:
• 0060195916
• Authors:
• Seymour M. Hersh

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World...

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

• ISBN:
• 0060773340
• Authors:
• Fred Kaplan

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

The Art of Loving

• ISBN:
• 0061129739
• Authors:
• Erich Fromm

The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life. Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts––a love that is compounded of maturity,...

Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story

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

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

Modern Lens Design: A Resource Manual

• ISBN:
• 0070591784
• Authors:
• Warren J. Smith, Inc. Genesee Optics Software

Published in 1964 and long out of print, copies of Cox's A System of Optical Design are covered by experienced lens designers simply because a small section of the book features lens design examples. Such examples are notoriously difficult to find and the hundred-odd pages of Cox's book that include them are widely photocopied and constantly referred to by designers in the know. Finally, lens designers have a better place to turn. The most...

Schaum's Outline of Mathematica

• ISBN:
• 007135719X
• Authors:
• Eugene Don

Each chapter in Schaum's Outline of Mathematica focuses on a specific application of Mathematica to provide students with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to understanding the #1 selling programming language. Numerous solved problems and examples demonstrate and reinforce ideas discussed in each chapter. Mathematica commands with examples are clearly classified according to type. Index of Mathematica commands and an easy index of...

50 Awesome Auto Projects for the Evil Genius

• ISBN:
• 0071458239
• Authors:
• Gavin Harper

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

MATLAB Demystified

• ISBN:
• 0071485511
• Authors:
• David McMahon

Need to Learn MATLAB? Problem SOLVED! Get started using MATLAB right away with help from this hands-on guide. MATLAB Demystified offers an effective and enlightening method for learning how to get the most out this powerful computational mathematics tool.  Using an easy-to-follow format, this book explains the basics of MATLAB up front. You'll find out how to plot functions, solve algebraic equations, and compute integrals. You'll also learn...

Perfect Phrases in Spanish For Household Maintenance and Childcare: 500 + Essential Words and Phrases for Communicating with Spanish-Speakers

• ISBN:
• 0071494766
• Authors:
• Jean Yates

Talk with your Spanish-speaking employees--no prior knowledge of Spanish needed! Perfect Phrases in Spanish for Household Maintenance and Child Care gives you more than 500 vital words and phrases specific to working in the home, with translations spelled out phonetically so you can say what you need to say immediately. For example: Give the baby a bath. Dale un baño al/(a la) bebé (DAH-leh oon BAHN-yoh ahl/(ah lah) beh-BEH) Put the newspapers...

Property Condition Assessments

• ISBN:
• 0071498419
• Authors:
• Sam Kubba

Accurately Assess the Physical Condition of Property for Commercial Real Estate Transactions! Turn to Property Condition Assessments for comprehensive guidance on accurately collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on the physical condition of property for commercial real estate transactions. This definitive resource provides expert information for evaluating the quality of construction, integrity of building systems, and other critical...

Mathematica DeMYSTiFied

• ISBN:
• 0071591443
• Authors:
• Jim Hoste

Need to learn MATHEMATICA? Problem SOLVED! Take full advantage of all the powerful capabilities of Mathematica with help from this hands-on guide. Filled with examples and step-by-step explanations, Mathematica Demystified takes you from your very first calculation all the way to plotting complex fractals. Using an intuitive format, this book explains the fundamentals of Mathematica up front. Learn how to define functions, create 2-D graphs of...

Web Services Security

• ISBN:
• 0072224711
• Authors:
• Mark O'Neill

Explains how to implement secure Web services and includes coverage of trust, confidentiality, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and Kerberos. You'll also find details on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), XML Key Management Specification (XKMS), XML Encryption, Hypertext Transfer Protocol-Reliability (HTTP-R) and more.

Handbook of Medical Imaging: Processing and Analysis Management (Biomedical Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0120777908

In recent years, the remarkable advances in medical imaging instruments have increased their use considerably for diagnostics as well as planning and follow-up of treatment. Emerging from the fields of radiology, medical physics and engineering, medical imaging no longer simply deals with the technology and interpretation of radiographic images. The limitless possibilities presented by computer science and technology, coupled with engineering...

A Matlab Companion for Multivariable Calculus

• ISBN:
• 012187625X
• Authors:
• Jeffery Cooper

Offering a concise collection of MatLab programs and exercises to accompany a third semester course in multivariable calculus, A MatLab Companion for Multivariable Calculus introduces simple numerical procedures such as numerical differentiation, numerical integration and Newton's method in several variables, thereby allowing students to tackle realistic problems. The many examples show students how to use MatLab effectively and easily in many...

Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

• ISBN:
• 0122268105

This book is the most authoritative encyclopedia ever prepared on dinosaurs and dinosaur science. In addition to entries on specific animals such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops , and Velociraptor , the Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs covers reproduction, behavior, physiology, and extinction. The book is generously illustrated with many detailed drawings and photographs, and includes color pictures and illustrations that feature interpretations of the...

Visualization in Medicine: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

• ISBN:
• 0123705967
• Authors:
• Bernhard Preim, Dirk Bartz

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the applications and their validation (how reliable are the results?), and the clinical evaluation of the applications (are the techniques useful?). It discusses visualization techniques from research literature as well as the compromises required to solve practical...

Fuzzy Logic: A Practical Approach

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

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

A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica

• ISBN:
• 0126831904
• Authors:
• Patrick T. Tam

A Physicists Guide to Mathematica (r) teaches students and professional physicists how to master Mathematica using examples and approaches that will appeal to them. The book illustrates the usefulness of Mathematica in learning, teaching, and carrying out research in physics. Part One gives a practical, physics-oriented, and self-contained introduction to the program. Part Two covers the application of Mathematica to mechanics, electricityand...

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 91, Second Edition (International Geophysics)

• ISBN:
• 0127519661
• Authors:
• Daniel S. Wilks

Praise for the First Edition: "I recommend this book, without hesitation, as either a reference or course text...Wilks' excellent book provides a thorough base in applied statistical methods for atmospheric sciences."--BAMS (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) Fundamentally, statistics is concerned with managing data and making inferences and forecasts in the face of uncertainty. It should not be surprising, therefore, that...

Understanding Mastercam

• ISBN:
• 0130205818
• Authors:
• Jon Stenerson, Kelly Curran

Once again Curran and Stenerson have succeeded in delivering a practical text that is easier to understand and follow than reference manuals. This textbook is reader friendly, offering plenty of exercises as well as step-by-step procedures with clear explanations. The exercises are designed to reinforce the skills for programming and operating CNC equipment using Mastercam, the leading software program in the machine tool industry. Features of...

Optimal, Predictive and Adaptive Control

• ISBN:
• 0138476098
• Authors:
• Edoardo Mosca

Its purpose is to provide a systematic access to the main topics of linear quadratic control, predictive control, and adaptive predictive control. DLC: Automatic control.

Blogwars: The New Political Battleground

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

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

Thiele: Pioneer in Statistics

• ISBN:
• 0198509723
• Authors:
• Steffen L. Lauritzen

This book is about a brilliant Danish 19th Century astronomer, TN Thiele who made important contributions to statistics, actuarial science,astronomy and mathematics. In this book the most important of these contributions in statistics are translated into English for the first time, and the text includes comments that set his achievements in a modern and historical perspective.

Making Social Sciences More Scientific: The Need for Predictive Models

• ISBN:
• 0199534667
• Authors:
• Rein Taagepera

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

Semiclassical Physics (Frontiers in Physics)

• ISBN:
• 0201483513
• Authors:
• Matthias Brack, Rajat Bhaduri

Semiclassical Physics emphasizes the close connection between the shorter classical periodic orbits, and the partially resolved quantum fluctuations in the level density and response of an autonomous finite quantum system. Particular care is taken to present a detailed derivation of Gutzwiller's trace formula, and its extensions to continuous symmetries, zeta function techniques, and diffractive orbits.

Modern Control Systems Analysis and Design Using Matlab

• ISBN:
• 0201596571
• Authors:
• Robert H. Bishop

This is a companion text to "Modern Control Systems", by Richard C. Dorf. Designed to demonstrate the software approach to the analysis and design of control systems, this work covers MATLAB and the Control System Toolbox. Robert Bishop explains design approaches to control systems synthesis using MATLAB scripts. Additionally, Bishop includes extensive examples, that are taken directly from Dorf's book, to illustrate theoretical systems...

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...

BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672324873
• Authors:
• Mark Artiges, Gurpreet Singh Bhasin, Bernard Ciconte, Malcolm Garland, Saranathan Govindarajan, James Huang, Subramanian Kovilmadam, Kunal Mittal, Paul J. Perrone, Tom Schwenk, Steve Steffen

BEA WebLogic Server Unleashed is the definitive reference work for the WebLogic developer, offering an in-depth look at the capabilities provided by WebLogic Server and illustrating the best development practices. The book covers WebLogic's role in every aspect of a J2EE application: from working with Servlets, JavaServer Pages and Enterprise JavaBeans, to managing distributed systems including transactions with JTA, directory services with...

ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start

• ISBN:
• 0672325012
• Authors:
• Scott Mitchell

Utilizing the more advanced features of the Data Web Controls has many developers stumped. These controls are fairly simple to use when it comes to simple data display. However, they can do much more than merely present data. For example, the DataGrid Web Control allows for sorting, paging, and editing of data. In addition, these controls allow for templating of data, which can be used to provide more complex views. The DataGrid, DataList, and...

ASP.NET Unleashed (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 067232542X
• Authors:
• Stephen Walther

A well-known expert in the ASP development community, best-selling author Stephen Walther brings his experience as an ASP.NET trainer to the new edition of ASP.NET Unleashed . With this update to the highly regarded ASP.NET book, readers learn the advanced features of ASP.NET 1.1, and how to apply them in their own Internet applications. This in-depth, code-intensive title covers a broad range of advanced ASP.NET topics with samples now...

Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours: Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

• ISBN:
• 0672330008
• Authors:
• Mike Walsh

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the ground up.   Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions,...

Advanced Control Engineering

• ISBN:
• 0750651008
• Authors:
• Roland Burns

Advanced Control Engineering provides a complete course in control engineering for undergraduates of all technical disciplines. Starting with a basic overview of elementary control theory this text quickly moves on to a rigorous examination of more advanced and cutting edge date aspects such as robust and intelligent control, including neural networks and genetic algorithms. With examples from aeronautical, marine and many other types of...

Electric Wiring: Domestic, Twelfth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750659157
• Authors:
• Brian Scaddan IEng; MIIE (elec)

Electric Wiring Domestic is the definitive guide to home wiring to professional standards. This makes it ideal for serious DIY work, especially for letting or resale, and essential reading for professionals who are not trained electricians, undertaking the wiring work involved in plumbing, central heating, security alarms, television and aerial installation, and telephone installation. The handy format and clear, straightforward text have also...

Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design: An Introduction for Engineers and Architects

• ISBN:
• 0750681497
• Authors:
• Daniel L. Schodek, Paulo Ferreira, Michael F. Ashby

How could nanotechnology not perk the interest of any designer, engineer or architect? Exploring the intriguing new approaches to design that nanotechnologies offer, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Design is set against the sometimes fantastic sounding potential of this technology. Nanotechnology offers product engineers, designers, architects and consumers a vastly enhanced palette of materials and properties, ranging from the profound to...

Introduction to AutoCAD 2009: 2D and 3D Design

• ISBN:
• 0750689838
• Authors:
• Alf Yarwood

Alf Yarwood provides a practical, structured course of work matched to the latest release of AutoCAD. After introducing first principles and the creation of 2D technical drawings, he goes on to demonstrate the construction of 3D solid and surface model drawings and rendering. All the new features of the 2009 software release are taken into account and the increasing emphasis on 3D solid modelling in the software is reflected in the book. The 2D...

Visio 2003 Bible

• ISBN:
• 0764557246
• Authors:
• Bonnie Biafore

* Providing comprehensive coverage of Visio's large feature set for technical and engineering professionals, the book begins with a quick introduction to the intuitive interface * This book quickly moves into the specialized stencils, shapes, and templates used in software and network design and documentation, engineering disciplines, and project management * Features strong coverage of Visio's tight integration with other Microsoft Office...

Athletic Scholarships For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

• ISBN:
• 076459804X
• Authors:
• Pat Britz, Alexandra Powe Allred

Get insider tips on navigating the recruitment process Find the right school, the right program, the right coach, and the most money You're prepared for challenges on the athletic field. But are you prepared for the challenges of winning an athletic scholarship? Let this friendly guide be your coach. It explains what kind of scholarships are out there, how to promote yourself and deal with recruiters, and how to survive possible snags after...

.NET Programming 10-Minute Solutions

• ISBN:
• 0782142532
• Authors:
• Russell A. Jones

If you are new to .NET, or in need of solutions to pesky problems, this handy book can assist you. Published in partnership with DevX, the most popular IT development community on the Internet, .NET Programming 10-Minute Solutions communicates hard-won secrets and shortcuts to resolving universal programming challenges. Written by a respected Sybex and DevX author, this practical book contains 36 short projects grouped into five categories:...

DK Guide to Dinosaurs

• ISBN:
• 0789452375
• Authors:
• David Lambert

All about dinosaurs-all in Dorling Kindersley style. Using the most accurate models ever produced, DK Guide to Dinosaurs blends lifelike dinosaurs replicas with photorealistic scenery. The resulting images bring dinosaurs and their strange world back to life in astonishing detail. Visit the dank swamps, moving seascapes, and sun-scorched deserts that marked and molded the lives and ultimate demise of the dinosaurs. Packed with mind-boggling...

Absolute Beginner's Guide to eBay (Absolute Beginner's Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0789729288
• Authors:
• Michael Miller

At the end of its last fiscal quarter, ebay had 49.7 million registered users, more than double the number of users just two years previous. It is estimated that $9.3 billion worth of merchandise, in more than 423 million individual auctions, was traded over eBay during the year 2002. To an absolute beginner, using eBay can be an intimidating experience. What do you need to do to participate? How do you place a bid? What do you do when the...

Blogosphere: Best of Blogs

• ISBN:
• 0789735261
• Authors:
• Peter Kuhns, Adrienne Crew

You probably have your favorite blogs to visit each day, but there are countless other blogs that you could never find on your own and that could potentially be added to the top of your favorites!  Blogosphere: Best of Blogs is a collection of the blogs you’ve heard about and the ones still waiting to be discovered. Organized into sections based on interests and moods, you’ll find a listing of the best blogs out there, along with the...

Norway (Modern World Nations)

• ISBN:
• 079107479X
• Authors:
• Erin Hogan Fouberg, Edward Patrick Hogan

Suicide (Psychological Disorders)

• ISBN:
• 0791090078
• Authors:
• Ron, M.D. Salomon

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people and the 11th leading cause of death for people of all ages. Family conflicts, legal or work problems, difficulty in school or social situations, and other stressful life events can all contribute to someone's choice to commit suicide. Physical or mental illnesses can also be significant factors. But the reasons behind suicide never justify the act. With treatment and help, all these...

George W. Bush (Modern World Leaders)

• ISBN:
• 0791092178
• Authors:
• Veda Boyd-jones, Veda Boyd Jones

A biography of the forty-third president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.

PsychNotes: Clinical Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0803618530
• Authors:
• Darlene D. Pedersen

The psychiatric rotation can be among the shortest (yet most intimidating) clinical rotation. This handy pocket guide delivers quick access to need-to-know information on basic behavioral theories, key aspects of psychiatric and crisis interventions, mental status assessments and exams, mental health history and assessment tools, and more.The 1st Edition was an AJN Book of the Year award winner. Completely revised and thoroughly updated, the 2nd...

SPSS for Introductory Statistics: Use and Interpretation

• ISBN:
• 0805860274
• Authors:
• et al George A. Morgan

This book distinguishes itself from other SPSS resources through its unique integration of the research process (including design) and the use and interpretation of the statistics. Designed to help students analyze and interpret research data, the authors demonstrate how to: choose the appropriate statistic based on the research design, interpret SPSS output, and write about the output in a research paper. The authors describe the use and...

The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq

• ISBN:
• 0807061476
• Authors:
• Helen Benedict

More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military’s deep-seated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their...

Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing

• ISBN:
• 1844074064
• Authors:
• Karl Ochsner

* Introduces basic theory and reviews a wide variety of available heat pump models * Will put any installer, engineer or architect in the position to design, select and install a domestic geothermal heat pump system Geothermal Heat Pumps is the most comprehensive guide to the selection, design and installation of geothermal heat pumps available. This leading manual presents the most recent information and market developments in order to put any...

Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (International Library of Human Geography)

• ISBN:
• 1845113055
• Authors:
• Allen G. Noble

Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, Traditional Buildings presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, the Bohio houses of the Arawak indians of the...

Engaging Anthropology

• ISBN:
• 1845200640
• Authors:
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century.While showcasing the intellectual power of discipline, Eriksen takes the anthropological community to task for its unwillingness to engage more proactively with the media in a wide range of current debates, from immigrant issues to biotechnology. Eriksen argues that anthropology needs to...

Adobe® Acrobat® and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

• ISBN:
• 1846280206
• Authors:
• Tom Carson, Donna L. Baker

Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is a $3.4 trillion industry in which documentation is the basis for the delivery of products and services. Such documentation is the currency of AEC projects and can be a complex mixture of drawings and specifications. Sharing and archiving documents requires a safe, small and smart format, a role for which Adobe’s portable document format (PDF) is ideally suited. PDF has become the de facto...

Practical Grey-box Process Identification: Theory and Applications (Advances in Industrial Control)

• ISBN:
• 1846284023
• Authors:
• Torsten Bohlin

In process modelling, knowledge of the process under consideration is typically partial with significant unknown inputs (disturbances) to the model. Disturbances militate against the desirable trait of model reproducibility. "Grey-box" identification can assist, in these circumstances, by taking advantage of the two sources of information that may be available: any invariant prior knowledge and response data from experiments. Practical Grey-box...

Modelling in Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics: Towards Autonomous Intelligent Software Models

• ISBN:
• 1846289084
• Authors:
• Nikolay Avgoustinov

Modelling is an activity that is found in every domain of research and science, and takes place even when we are not aware of it. The role of modelling and the quality of models are extremely important not only in engineering but for science in general. Modelling in Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics presents a model-centred approach focusing on distributed development and use of autonomous intelligent software models, particularly the...

Designing with Video: Focusing the user-centred design process

• ISBN:
• 1846289602
• Authors:
• Salu Ylirisku, Jacob Buur

Digital video for user-centred co-design is an emerging field of design, gaining increasing interest in both industry and academia. It merges the traditions of design ethnography, participatory design, interaction analysis, scenario-based design, and usability studies into an integrated approach, which values the designer’s capacity to study and change the world creatively. Designing with Video: Focusing the User-centred Design Process...

Surgical Scene Generation for Virtual Reality-Based Training in Medicine

• ISBN:
• 1848001061
• Authors:
• Matthias Harders

One of the most important elements needed for effective training in Virtual Reality (VR) is the generation of variable scenarios. Without this, trainees quickly become familiar with a scene and the natural variations encountered in real-life situations cannot be reproduced. Generating such models in VR-based applications is difficult, but with the increase in computational power (allowing for larger and more finely-detailed virtual environments)...

Religion and the Law in America: An Encyclopedia of Personal Belief and Public Policy

• ISBN:
• 185109864X
• Authors:
• Scott A. Merriman

The relationship between church and state was contentious long before the framers of the Constitution undertook the bold experiment of separating the two, sparking a debate that would rage for centuries: What is the role of religion in government—and vice versa? Religion and the Law in America explores the many facets of this question, from prayer in public schools to the addition of the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, from...

Ghazali (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 185168414X
• Authors:
• Eric Ormsby

This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period. Appointed head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad, he attracted interested audiences from across the Islamic world. Due to a spiritual crisis, he went into self-imposed exile, during which he wrote the Sufi masterpiece, Revival of the Sciences of Religion. This is a stimulating introduction to the great man's life...

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There

• ISBN:
• 1857885023
• Authors:
• David Viney

From one of the United Kingdom's leading search engine optimization (S.E.O) experts who has worked with major companies like Amazon.com, the most comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date guide to S.E.O available. Written in a readable style for the beginner, but at the same time comprehensive enough for the skilled marketer, Get to the Top on Google will show businesses, both large and small, how to improve their search engine rankings, leads...

Structure and Emplacement of High-Level Magmatic Systems - Special Publication no 302 (Geological Society)

• ISBN:
• 1862392560
• Authors:
• K. Thomson, N. Petford

There are continual rounds of annual conferences, special sessions and other symposia that provide ample opportunity for researchers to convene and discuss igneous processes. However, the origin of laccoliths and sills continue to inspire and confound geologists. In one sense, this is surprising. After all, don t we know all we need to know about these rocks by now? As testified by the diverse range of topics covered in this volume, the answer...

Implementing SugarCRM: 'A step-by-step guide to using this powerful Open Source application in your business.'

• ISBN:
• 190481168X
• Authors:
• Michael J.R. Whitehead

A step-by-step guide to using this powerful Open Source application in your business. Your complete guide to SugarCRM implementation - assess your needs, install the software, start using it, train users, integrate with existing systems Covers both the free and commercial versions of SugarCRM - get maximum benefit from the free version before paying for add ons "SugarCRM is one of the most exciting open source products around today, and Michael...

WordPress Complete: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress

• ISBN:
• 1904811892
• Authors:
• Hasin Hayder

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress Clear practical coverage of all aspects of WordPress Concise, clear, and easy to follow, rich with examples In-depth coverage of installation, themes, syndication, and podcasting In Detail WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and...

Analysis and Control of Linear Systems (Control Systems, Robotics & Manufacturing Series (ISTE-CAM))

• ISBN:
• 1905209355

Automation of linear systems is a fundamental and essential theory. This book deals with the theory of continuous-state automated systems.

Efficient Numerical Methods and Information-Processing Techniques for Modeling Hydro- and Environmental Systems (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics)

• ISBN:
• 3540241469
• Authors:
• Reinhard Hinkelmann

Numerical simulation models have become indispensable in hydro- and environmental sciences and engineering. This monograph presents a general introduction to numerical simulation in environment water, the basic equations for groundwater flow and transport processes, for multiphase and multicomponent flow and transport processes in the subsurface as well as for flow and transport processes in surface waters. It displays the state of the art of...

Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge : Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting, Beijing, China, 18 - 21 August 2005

• ISBN:
• 3540279458

The proceedings volume (incl. CD-ROM) is a compilation of approximately 400 extended abstracts (up to 4 pages long) of presentations given at the 8th Biennial SGA Meeting. The papers are grouped according to the thematic sessions within which they were presented, including Tectonics, lithospheric, and deep mantle controls on global metallogenic provinces and giant ore deposits; Base and precious metal mineralization in sediments during basin...

Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing)

• ISBN:
• 3540316493

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9), September 20th - October 08th, 2004, held on the World Wide Web. It contains plenary lectures, original papers and tutorials presented during the conference. The book brings together outstanding research and developments in the field of soft computing (evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and their...

Algorithms for Approximation: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference, Chester, July 2005

• ISBN:
• 3540332839

Approximation methods are vital in many challenging applications of computational science and engineering. This is a collection of papers from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications, including pattern recognition, machine learning, multiscale modelling of fluid flow, metrology, geometric modelling, tomography, signal and image processing. It documents recent theoretical developments which have lead to new trends in...

Quality Measures in Data Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

• ISBN:
• 3540449116
• Authors:
• Fabrice Guillet

Data mining analyzes large amounts of data to discover knowledge relevant to decision making. Typically, numerous pieces of knowledge are extracted by a data mining system and presented to a human user, who may be a decision-maker or a data-analyst. The user is confronted with the task of selecting the pieces of knowledge that are of the highest quality or interest according to his or her preferences. Since this selection is sometimes a daunting...

Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning

• ISBN:
• 0865715483
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Hollender, Geoff Davis, Meika Hollender

Compelling evidence links the chemicals in household products to cancer, asthma, allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome-also known as environmental illness-hormonal disruption, reproductive and developmental disorders, and other conditions. Yet cleaning products are exempt from the full ingredient disclosure on product labels as required for food and personal care products and enter the marketplace with little or no testing for...

The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo

• ISBN:
• 0880993405
• Authors:
• Michelle Miller-Adams

A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection

• ISBN:
• 0953451305
• Authors:
• Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

Widely used for centuries in Sufi circles, the prayer known as "The Most Elevated Cycle" ( al-Dawr al-a’la ) or "The Prayer of Protection" ( Hizb al-wiqaya ), written by the great Sufi master Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, has never before been available in English. This book provides a lucid English translation and an edited Arabic text of this beautiful and powerful prayer. It includes a transliteration for those unable to read Arabic, who wish to...

Advances in Fractional Calculus: Theoretical Developments and Applications in Physics and Engineering

• ISBN:
• 1402060416
• Authors:
• J. Sabatier

In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) differentiation has played a very important role in various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, economics, control theory and signal and image processing. For example, in the last three fields, some important considerations such as modelling, curve fitting, filtering, pattern recognition, edge detection, identification, stability, controllability, observability and...

AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide (Wordware Applications Library)

• ISBN:
• 1556228589
• Authors:
• Ralph Grabowski

AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide introduces the newest version of AutoCAD LT and guides the reader through tutorials for creating landscape drawings and electrical schematics. The tutorials demonstrate setting up new drawings and using basic drawing and editing commands, and then progress to intermediate concepts such as dimensioning, block creation, and attribute extraction. Parts III and IV provide advanced information about CAD...

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

• ISBN:
• 1556527772
• Authors:
• Matthew Algeo

On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he’d just received to write his memoirs....

Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq

• ISBN:
• 1586485571
• Authors:
• Charles Duelfer

Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War. His 2004 CIA report is widely renowned as the most authoritative account on how the world was led to believe that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. But until now, Duelfer has never publicly shared his unrivaled expertise on just how the U.S.-Iraq relationship spiraled into a...

Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management, Volume 2 (Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 1591400627
• Authors:
• Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management features the latest research findings dealing with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology organizations. Volume two aims to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management while educating organizations on how they can benefit...

Hide & Seek: How I Laughed at Depression, Conquered My Fears and Found Happiness

• ISBN:
• 1601641583
• Authors:
• Wendy Aron

Hilarious and refreshingly honest, this chronicle of a year-long journey of self-exploration and self-help offers solace and solidarity to the myriad sufferers of clinical depression and anxiety disorders. A far cry from the typical self-help manual, this wry and subversive account is leavened with a healthy dose of humble pie and a keen sense of the absurd. As the author navigates a series of self-help classes designed to raise her...

Identification of Continuous-time Models from Sampled Data (Advances in Industrial Control)

• ISBN:
• 1848001606

System identification is an established field in the area of system analysis and control. It aims to determine particular models for dynamical systems based on observed inputs and outputs. Although dynamical systems in the physical world are naturally described in the continuous-time domain, most system identification schemes have been based on discrete-time models without concern for the merits of natural continuous-time model descriptions. The...

Constrained Control and Estimation: An Optimisation Approach (Communications and Control Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 1852335483
• Authors:
• Graham C. Goodwin, María M Seron, José A. De Doná

Recent developments in constrained control and estimation have created a need for this comprehensive introduction to the underlying fundamental principles. These advances have significantly broadened the realm of application of constrained control. - Using principle tools of prediction and optimisation, examples of how to deal with constraints are given, placing emphasis on Model Predictive Control. - New results combine a number of methods in a...

Booby Trapped: Men Beware! The Dirty Seven Sisters: A Dating Guide for the 21st Century

• ISBN:
• 1893798283
• Authors:
• June Marshall

The author teaches men to use their brains first to recognize the unsuitable mates who make up the Dirty Seven Sisters. To better illustrate each type, she includes celebrity examples, such as Angelina Jolie, Anna Nicole Smith, Brooke Shields, Cher, Dr. Laura, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Crawford, Julia Roberts, Kate Moss, Kathy Lee Gifford, Lorena Bobbit, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Marilyn Monroe, Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith, Mia Farrow, Monica Lewinsky,...

Beshara and Ibn 'Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World

• ISBN:
• 1905937008
• Authors:
• Suha Taji-Farouki

Investigating sufi-inspired spirituality in the modern world, this multi-faceted and interdisciplinary volume focuses on Beshara, a spiritual movement that applies the teachings of Ibn ‘Arabi in a non-Muslim context. It traces the movement’s emergence in sixties Britain and analyses its major teachings and practices, exploring through this case-study the interface between sufism and the New Age, and the encounter between Islam and the West....

Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries: The Mashahid al-asrar of Ibn 'Arabi

• ISBN:
• 1905937024
• Authors:
• Ibn 'Arabi

A major work of mystical literature, this account focuses on 14 visions in the form of dramatic conversations with the divine, interspersed with dazzling visionary episodes regarding the nature of existence, humans' relationship with reality, and the way to achieve true happiness. The introduction presents a resume of Ibn 'Arabi's life and examines in detail the style and symbolism of the contemplations. Presented for the first time in English,...

Advances in Material Forming: Esaform 10 years on

• ISBN:
• 2287721428
• Authors:
• Francisco Chinesta, Elias Cueto

This book groups the main advances in material forming,considering different processes (conventional and non-conventional) focusing in polymers,composites and metals,that are analyzed from the state of the art, describing the most significant recent advances and identifying the present challenges from the experimental, modeling and numerical points of view. Chapters include a large list of references and have been written by recognized...

Linear Systems Control: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods

• ISBN:
• 3540784853
• Authors:
• Elbert Hendricks, Ole Jannerup, Paul Haase Sørensen

Modern control theory and in particular state space or state variable methods can be adapted to the description of many different systems because it depends strongly on physical modeling and physical intuition. The laws of physics are in the form of differential equations and for this reason, this book concentrates on system descriptions in this form. This means coupled systems of linear or nonlinear differential equations. The physical approach...

Principles And Advanced Methods In Medical Imaging And Image Analysis

• ISBN:
• 9812705341
• Authors:
• Atam P. Dhawan, H K Huang

Computerized medical imaging and image analysis have been the central focus in diagnostic radiology. They provide revolutionalizing tools for the visualization of physiology as well as the understanding and quantitative measurement of physiological parameters. This book offers in-depth knowledge of medical imaging instrumentation and techniques as well as multidimensional image analysis and classification methods for research, education, and...

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation: An Integrated Market-Based Approach (Graphics Series)

• ISBN:
• 0126860408
• Authors:
• Joseph Tham, Ignacio Vélez-Pareja

The valuation of assets, both tangible and intangible, is an important element of corporate finance. Putting a price tag on ideas is almost impossible, and in the new economy, where companies grow dependent on intangible assets all the time, market volatility can be attributed in large part to our collective ignorance of their value. There are two basic approaches to valuation: from financial statements to cash flows, and from cash flows to...

A History of the Popes 1830-1914 (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

• ISBN:
• 0198269226
• Authors:
• Owen Chadwick

Could a Pope ever consent to be the subject of a political power? Owen Chadwick presents an analysis of the causes and consquences of the end of the historic Papal State, and the psychological pressures upon old Rome as it came under attack from the Italian Risorgimento and liberal movements in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and Tsarist Russia.

Sensorless Vector and Direct Torque Control (Monographs in Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0198564651
• Authors:
• Peter Vas

In recent years vector-controlled a.c. drives have taken over from more conventional d.c. drives. Applications are found everywhere including machine tools, robotics, electric traction, and computer peripherals. This book examines sensorless vector-controlled drives and direct torque controlled drives. It builds on the author's popular Vector Control of AC Drives and brings the subject fully up to date.

Fuzzy Control

• ISBN:
• 020118074X
• Authors:
• Kevin M. Passino, Stephan Yurkovich

Fuzzy control is emerging as a practical alternative to conventional methods of solving challenging control problems. Written by two authors who have been involved in creating theoretical foundations for the field and who have helped assess the value of this new technology relative to conventional approches, Fuzzy Control is filled with a wealth of examples and case studies on design and implementation. Computer code and MATLAB files can be...

Computer Visualization for the Theatre: 3D Modelling for Designers

• ISBN:
• 0240516176
• Authors:
• Gavin Carver, Christine White

Theatre designers using 3D software for computer visualisation in the theatre will find this book both a guide to the creative design process as well as an introduction to the use of computers in live performance. Covering the main software packages in use: Strata Studio Base, 3D Studio Max and 3D Studio Viz, the book provides techniques for 3D modelling alongside creative ideas and concepts for working in 3D space. Projects are provided to...

Analyzing Companies and Valuing Shares: How to Make the Right Investment Decision (Investor's Guide) (Investor's Guide) (Investor's Guide) (Investor's Guide)

• ISBN:
• 0273663631
• Authors:
• Michael Cahill

Getting to the real value of a business and assessing what are its shares really worth suddenly looks less clear cut. In an investment environment that is extremely challenging even for experienced City professionals, doing your homework has never been more important. And with the current accounting scandals rocking confidence and the markets being able to accurately value companies, stock has just taken on a whole new dimension. The book goes...

Executive Corporate Finance: The Business of enhancing shareholder value

• ISBN:
• 0273675494
• Authors:
• Samir Asaf

If you need to know the answer to the question, "what are the latest corporate finance concepts and models currently being used by top corporations, to improve their business planning and execution, achieve superior returns, and manage business risks optimally?", then this book is for you. New developments in applied corporate financial techniques are helping many companies better understand and manage business risks, improve execution...

Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

• ISBN:
• 0300118406
• Authors:
• Dr. Thomas M. Truxes

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long...

Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness

• ISBN:
• 0300120109
• Authors:
• Joshua David Hawley

Often dismissed by scholars as an opportunistic politician whose ideas lacked historical import, Theodore Roosevelt has been underestimated as a thinker. But to disdain Roosevelt’s politics is to overlook his important and lasting contributions to the shape of modern America, says the author of this compelling new study of the 26th president of the United States. Joshua Hawley examines Roosevelt’s political thought more deeply than ever...

Introduction to GUI with Swing

• ISBN:
• 0321220706
• Authors:
• Paul Fischer

Designing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) is a key component in developing attractive, user friendly software. This book is an introduction to programming GUIs using the Java Swing library for students who have a basic/introductory knowledge of programming in Java. Swing is gaining in popularity and is becoming the main Java library for programming GUIs. The author takes a step-by-step approach, introducing the basics of Swing to begin with and...

Design for Manufacturability and Statistical Design: A Constructive Approach (Integrated Circuits and Systems)

• ISBN:
• 0387309284
• Authors:
• Michael Orshansky, Sani R. Nassif, Duane Boning

Design for Manufacturability and Statistical Design: A Constructive Approach provides a thorough treatment of the causes of variability, methods for statistical data characterization, and techniques for modeling, analysis, and optimization of integrated circuits to improve yield. The objective of the constructive approach developed in this book is to formulate a consistent set of methods and principles necessary for rigorous statistical design...

Norma Vally's Bathroom Fix-Ups: More than 50 Projects for Every Skill Level

• ISBN:
• 0470251565
• Authors:
• Norma Vally

The DIY vibe for women involves more than knitting and quilting: today more women are tending to their homes, and they're not just sewing curtains and arranging flowers. They're installing new toilets, adding ceramic floors to the kitchen, and drywalling the den. With 23 percent of all power tool purchases in 2004 made by women, and the number of unmarried females owning homes climbing by nearly 4 million owners from 1994 to 2002, when it comes...

SolidWorks 2009 Bible

• ISBN:
• 047025825X

SolidWorks Bible is a comprehensive reference-tutorial that covers the basics, but then quickly ramps up to more advanced level topics. Every feature is thoroughly covered yet written in a way that makes learning this robust program seem non-threatening and uncomplicated. In a market full of books for beginners this is the one book that goes into extensive detail, not just on "how" the software works, but in many cases "why" it works the way it...

Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

• ISBN:
• 0470850191
• Authors:
• John T. Hardy

This book addresses civilization’s most important environmental challenge: climate change. Burning of fossil fuels has greatly increased the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, trapping more of the sun’s energy near the Earth’s surface. In response, our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and ecosystems are already changing. Modern industrialized economies depend largely on the combustion of coal, oil and gas. However,...

Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript

• ISBN:
• 0521839211
• Authors:
• Bill Casselman

This practical introduction to the techniques needed to produce high-quality mathematical illustrations is suitable for anyone with basic knowledge of coordinate geometry. Bill Casselman combines a completely self-contained step-by-step introduction to the graphics programming language PostScrip