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Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8
- ISBN:
- 1590595696
- Authors:
- David Powers
In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using PHP and MySQL, the world’s most popular open source server-side language and database server combination, which are both reliable, powerful, and open source (and therefore free to use!) This latest version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for PHP and MySQL. David Powers first takes you through the latest...
Early Palaeozoic Peri-Gondwana Terranes: New Insights from Tectonics and Biogeography - Special Publication 325
- ISBN:
- 1862392862
- Authors:
- M. G. Bassett
Following the late Neoproterozoic - early Cambrian breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia, Gondwana evolved as one of the principal continental masses on Earth, embracing most of South America, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica, much of western Europe and parts of Asia. Around its margins were various other terranes that had varying tectonic and biogeographical affinities with the main continental block. This book incorporates a series of reviews...
Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms : The Ultimate Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs
- ISBN:
- 1928994679
- Authors:
- Mario Ferrari, Giulio Ferrari, Ralph Hempel
Lego robots! Mindstorms are sweeping the world and fans need to learn how to programme them Lego Mindstorms are a new generation of Lego Robots that can be manipulated using microcomputers, light and touch sensors, an infrared transmitter and CD-ROMs. Since Lego launched Lego Mindstorms in late 1998 sales have skyrocketed - with no sign of slowing down. Mindstorms have captured the imagination of adults and children alike, creating a subculture...
Network Security Principles and Practices (CCIE Professional Development)
- ISBN:
- 1587050250
- Authors:
- Saadat Malik
Expert solutions for securing network infrastructures and VPNs Build security into the network by defining zones, implementing secure routing protocol designs, and building safe LAN switching environmentsUnderstand the inner workings of the Cisco PIX Firewall and analyze in-depth Cisco PIX Firewall and Cisco IOS Firewall features and conceptsUnderstand what VPNs are and how they are implemented with protocols such as GRE, L2TP, and IPSecGain a...
Proteases in the Brain (Proteases in Biology and Disease)
- ISBN:
- 0387231005
In all organs of the body proteases have critical roles to play both in normal development and functioning and in disease states. The brain is no exception to this, with proteases having emerging roles in synaptic plasticity, memory, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer?s, Parkinson?s and prion diseases, ischemia and traumatic brain injury, inflammatory and infectious diseases, and tumour progression. Proteases in the Brain brings...
Kindling 6 (Advances in Behavioral Biology) (v. 6)
- ISBN:
- 0387243801
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Kindling. Speakers at the conference will write chapters summarizing their current cutting-edge research on the kindling of seizures and related phenomena in epilepsy. The Kindling Conferences and the books arising from them (Kindling, Kindling 2-Kindling 5) have provided valuable summaries of the ongoing research on seizure development, with an emphasis on mechanisms, consequences, and...
Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing
- ISBN:
- 0387698574
Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing is an edited volume based on DAPSYS 2006, the 6th Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems, which is dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. The workshop was held in conjunction with the 2nd Austrian Grid Symposium in Innsbruck, Austria in September 2006. Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing is designed...
Metabolism and Functions of Bioactive Ether Lipids in the Brain
- ISBN:
- 0387774009
- Authors:
- Akhlaq A. Farooqui, Tahira Farooqui, Lloyd A. Horrocks
Information on bioactive ether lipids and their involvement in neurological disorders is currently scattered throughout the literature in the form of original papers and reviews. Metabolism and Functions of Bioactive Ether Lipids in the Brain provides readers with a comprehensive description of metabolism of bioactive ether lipids in the brain, activities of enzymes involved in their metabolism, and their involvement in neurological disorders....
TEX in Practice: Volume 1: Basics (Monographs in Visual Communication)
- ISBN:
- 0387975950
- Authors:
- Stephan v. Bechtolsheim
TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PCs putting TEX on the desks of many people: writers, designers, desktop publishers, engineers, and consequently, the interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how...
Complex Dynamics (Universitext / Universitext: Tracts in Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 0387979425
- Authors:
- Lennart Carleson, Theodore W. Gamelin
Complex Dynamics discusses the properties of conformal mappings in the complex plane, a subject that is closely connected to the study of fractals and chaos. Indeed the culmination of the book is a detailed study of the famous Mandelbrot set, which describes very general properties of such mappings. The book focuses on the analytic side of this contemporary subject. The text was developed out of a course taught over several semesters; its focus...
An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry
- ISBN:
- 0387989803
- Authors:
- Karen E. Smith, Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen, William Traves
The aim of this book is to describe the underlying principles of algebraic geometry, some of its important developments in the twentieth century, and some of the problems that occupy its practitioners today. It is intended for the working or the aspiring mathematician who is unfamiliar with algebraic geometry but wishes to gain an appreciation of its foundations and its goals with a minimum of prerequisites. Few algebraic prerequisites are...
Global IT Management: A Practical Approach
- ISBN:
- 0470854332
- Authors:
- Robert Barton
Global IT Management presents a practical approach for initiating and reinforcing global IT, focusing on the mechanisms that need to be put in place to effectively manage IT architecture, strategy, standards, and control across sites in a multinational firm. Key considerations are explained for each domain together with concrete recommendations for core organisation, processes and deliverables. The approach fits cleanly into established best...
Quantum Fields in Curved Space (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
- ISBN:
- 0521233852
- Authors:
- N. D. Birrell, P. C. W. Davies
This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast literature that has contributed to this development....
Advanced Grammar in Use CD ROM
- ISBN:
- 0521614023
- Authors:
- Martin Hewings
A fully updated version of the highly successful Advanced Grammar in Use - extra practice is also available on a new interactive CD-ROM to accompany the book. The exciting and substantial CD-ROM offers even more practice of the grammar at this level. This CD-ROM is standalone.
Touchstone: Student's Book with Audio CD/CD-ROM, Level 2
- ISBN:
- 0521666058
- Authors:
- Michael J. McCarthy, Jeanne McCarten, Helen Sandiford
Touchstone Student's Book 2 is the second level of the innovative Touchstone series. Drawing on research into the Cambridge International Corpus, a large database of language that includes everyday conversations and texts from newspapers and books, Student's Book 2 presents the vocabulary, grammar, and functions students encounter most often in real life. It makes learning fun by maximizing the time students spend on interactive, personalized...
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 PostScript with an analysis of the requirements of good mathematical illustrations. The many small simple graphics projects can also be used in courses in...
Acute Pain Management (Cambridge Medicine)
- ISBN:
- 0521874912
This textbook is written as a comprehensive overview of acute pain management. It is designed to guide clinicians through an impressive array of different options available to them and to patients. In the last decade there has been a flurry of interest in the extent to which acute pain can become chronic pain, and how we might reduce the incidence of such chronicity. This overview covers a wide range of treatments for pain management, including...
Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks
- ISBN:
- 0521884381
- Authors:
- Adnan Darwiche
This book provides a thorough introduction to the formal foundations and practical applications of Bayesian networks. It provides an extensive discussion of techniques for building Bayesian networks that model real-world situations, including techniques for synthesizing models from design, learning models from data, and debugging models using sensitivity analysis. It also treats exact and approximate inference algorithms at both theoretical and...
How To Teach Pronunciation (Book with Audio CD)
- ISBN:
- 0582429757
- Authors:
- Gerald Kelly
*Provides detailed analyses of key topics such as vowels, consonants, stress and intonation, with a variety of sample lessons for each topic *Includes a photocopiable Learner's Reference Chart of English Sounds, a breakdown of common pronunciation errors, and pronunciation and spelling tables *An audio CD with spoken examples of sounds, words and phrases from the book puts the theories examined into a clear context
ERLANG Programming
- ISBN:
- 0596518188
- Authors:
- Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, Cesarini Francesco, Thompson Simon
This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming background or experience. Written by leaders...
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
- ISBN:
- 0596527349
- Authors:
- Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, Morville Peter, Rosenfeld Louis
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are appealing and easy to navigate. The new edition is thoroughly...
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)
- ISBN:
- 0596528469
- Authors:
- William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge, Sanders William, Cumaranatunge Chandima
Now that ActionScript is reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash and Flex applications. If you're an experienced Flash or Flex developer ready to tackle sophisticated programming techniques with ActionScript 3.0, this hands-on introduction to design patterns is the book you need. ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns takes you...
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (2nd Edition)
- ISBN:
- 0672324679
- Authors:
- Ray Rankins, Paul Jensen, Paul Bertucci
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, 2E offers a variety of topics for system and database administrators to help them learn new features of the product and to solve problems they face on a daily basis. It shows them how to build upon their working knowledge of the product and take their experience and knowledge to a higher level. This new edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed covers the latest updates and service packs to SQL Server...
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- ISBN:
- 0688172172
- Authors:
- V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have...
Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture
- ISBN:
- 0750650648
- Authors:
- Graham R Wilson
The author has taught the design and use of microprocessor systems to undergraduate and technician level students for over 25 years. *A core text for academic modules on microprocessors, embedded systems and computer architecture *A practical design-orientated approach *FREE CD-ROM features a unique microprocessor simulator, and accompanying website contains solutions, FAQs and updates to software
Pink Floyd Echoes The Best of Pink Floyd
- ISBN:
- 0757908039
- Authors:
- Warner Bros. Publications
Titles Include Astronomy Domine. See Emily Play. The Happiest Days of Our Lives. Another Brick in the wall (part 2). Echoes. Hey You. Marooned. The Great Gig in the sky. Set the Controls for the heart of the Sun. Money. Keep Talking. Sheep. Sorrow. Shine On you Crazy Diamond (parts 1-7. Time. The Fletcher Memorial Home. Comfortably Numb. When The Tigers Broke Free. One Of the Days. Us and them. Learning to Fly. Arnold Layne. Wish you were here....
504 Absolutely Essential Words
- ISBN:
- 0764128159
- Authors:
- Murray Bromberg, Julius Liebb, Arthur Traiger
This carefully selected vocabulary collection is the essential core of words that need to be known and correctly used by middle schoolers, ESL students, and other adults for whom English is a second language. It presents 42 brief but effective word-building lessons. Each lesson introduces twelve new words contained in sample sentences and short articles. Fill-in-the-blanks exercises help students gauge their word-building progress.
XML Bible
- ISBN:
- 0764532367
- Authors:
- Elliotte Rusty Harold
XML is revolutionizing Web-site development by making difficult tasks easier -- and many new tasks possible. Based on the latest W3C standards, this thorough tutorial-plus-reference takes you step by step through everything you need to know to put XML to work, from the fundamentals of the XML language to document construction and simple XML-based solutions for specialized markup problems. Numerous examples, specifications, and addresses for...
VBScript: Programmer's Reference
- ISBN:
- 0764543679
- Authors:
- Susanne Clark, Antonio De Donatis, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie Kingsley-Hughes, Brian Matsik, Erick Nelson, Piotr Prussak, Daniel Read, Carsten Thomsen, Stuart Updegrave, Paul Wilton
This description refers to a previous edition of VBScript Programmer's Reference. For the most recent edition of this book, look for ISBN 0-7645-5993-1. What is this book about? VBScript is one of Microsoft's scripting languages, which can be employed in a variety of ways — from client-side scripting in Internet Explorer to server-side programming in ASP and the new Microsoft Windows Script Host. The language itself has been gradually...
Rexx Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764579967
- Authors:
- Howard Fosdick
Originally developed for mainframes but highly portable across platforms-from servers to desktops to handhelds-Rexx is an easy yet powerful scripting language that's widely used for rapid application development. Covers Rexx interpreters for specialized functions-object-oriented, mainframe, and handheld. There are 8 different free Rexx interpreters optimized for different platforms and uses. This book shows how to use them all. Shows how to...
Arithmetic on Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 3540097430
- Authors:
- B.H. Gross
Antisocial acts by children and teens are on the rise – from verbal abuse to physical bullying to cyber-threats to weapons in schools. Strictly punitive responses to aggressive behaviour may even escalate a situation, leaving peers, parents, and teachers feeling helpless. This unique volume conceptualizes aggression as a symptom of underlying behavioural and emotional problems and examines the psychology of perpetrators and the power dynamics...
Abstract Computing Machines
- ISBN:
- 3540211462
- Authors:
- W. Kluge, Werner Kluge
This book takes a Lambda-calculus approach to organizing computations. It sets out with a brief introduction to Lambda-calculus, describes a variant of the classical secd-machine as a basic interpreter for the Lambda-calculus, and in the main part continues with strongly normalizing abstract Lambda-calculus machines, of which some are interpreting and some execute compiled code. The classical functional abstract machines are introduced as their...
Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry: Proceedings of the International Workshop held in Luminy, France, June 17-21, 1991 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 3540556516
About ten years ago, V.D. Goppa found a surprising connection between the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field and error-correcting codes. The aim of the meeting "Algebraic Geometry and Coding Theory" was to give a survey on the present state of research in this field and related topics. The proceedings contain research papers on several aspects of the theory, among them: Codes constructed from special curves and from...
Champs algébriques (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics) (French Edition)
- ISBN:
- 3540657614
- Authors:
- Gerard Laumon, L. Moret-Bailly
Provides mathematicians with the first systematic account of the general theory of algebraic stacks over an arbitrary base scheme. Covers the techniques for scheme-theoretic notions to stacks, Artin's representability theorems, and topics on 'lisse-etale' topology. DLC: Algebraic fields.
Das Zweite - kompakt (Springer-Lehrbuch)
- ISBN:
- 3540695583
Das Zweite - kompakt: die erste Hilfe vor dem "Hammerexamen" Nur keine Panik! Zur effizienten Vorbereitung auf das 2. Staatsexamen gibt es jetzt die neue Prüfungsrepetitorienreihe aus dem Hause Springer. Von Studenten für Studenten: die knappe, einprägsame Information ist studenten- und prüfungsgerecht aufbereitet und nicht überladen. Fachliche Verlässlichkeit durch "Facharztcheck": jedes von Studenten geschriebene Kapitel wurde von...
Complex Sciences: First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes of the Institute ... and Telecommunications Engineering)
- ISBN:
- 3642024653
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences, Complex 2009, held in Shanghai, China, in February 2009. The 227 revised full papers presented together with 23 papers from five collated workshops (COART, ComplexCCS, ComplexEN, MANDYN, SPA) were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers address the following topics: theory of art and music, causality in complex...
Brain Dynamics and the Striatal Complex (Conceptual Advances in Brain Research, Volume 1)
- ISBN:
- 9057024780
- Authors:
- Robert Miller, Jeffrey Wickens
Brain Dynamics and the Striatal Complex, the first volume in the Conceptual Advances in Brain Research book series, aims to relate dynamic function to cellular structure and synaptic organization in the basal ganglia. The striatum is the largest nucleus within the basal ganglia and therefore plays an important role in understanding structure/function relationships. Areas covered include dopaminergic input to the striatum, organization of the...
Time and the Brain (Conceptual Advances in Brain Research, Vol 3)
- ISBN:
- 9058230600
Since the days of Galileo, time has been a fundamental variable in scientific attempts to understand the natural world. Once the first recordings of electrical activity in the brain had been made, it became clear that electrical signals from the brain consist of very complex temporal patterns. This can now be demonstrated by recordings at the single unit level and by electroencephalography (EEG). Time and the Brain explores modern approaches to...