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Windows System Programming (3rd Edition)

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

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

Python Programming on WIN32: Help for Windows Programmers

• ISBN:
• 1565926218
• Authors:
• Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson, Hammond Mark, Robinson Andy

Python is growing in popularity; based on download statistics, there are now over 450,000 people using Python, and more than 150,000 people using Python on Windows. Use of the language has been growing at about 40 percent per year since 1995, and there is every reason to believe that growth will continue. Despite Python's increasing popularity on Windows, Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious...

Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic

• ISBN:
• 1565926315
• Authors:
• Steven Roman

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

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

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

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

Windows 7: The Definitive Guide: The Essential Resource for Professionals and Power Users

• ISBN:
• 0596800975
• Authors:
• William R Stanek, Stanek William

This book provides everything you need to manage and maintain Windows 7. You'll learn all of the features and enhancements in complete detail, along with specifics for configuring the operating system to put you in full control. Bestselling author and Windows expert William Stanek doesn't just show you the steps you need to follow, he also tells you how features work, why they work, and how you can customize them to meet your needs. Learn how to...

Signal Processing for Neuroscientists: An Introduction to the Analysis of Physiological Signals

• ISBN:
• 0123708672
• Authors:
• Wim van Drongelen

Signal Processing for Neuroscientists introduces analysis techniques primarily aimed at neuroscientists and biomedical engineering students with a reasonable but modest background in mathematics, physics, and computer programming. The focus of this text is on what can be considered the 'golden trio' in the signal processing field: averaging, Fourier analysis, and filtering. Techniques such as convolution, correlation, coherence, and wavelet...

Developing Professional Applications for Windows 98 and NT Using MFC

• ISBN:
• 0130851213
• Authors:
• Marshall Brain, Lance Lovette

Designed to demonstrate how to develop professional Windows applications using MFC and tools like the AppWizard and ClassWizard. Designed to move you rapidly to the point where you can create your own rich, full-featured applications with C++ and MFC. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Whales, Candlelight, and Stuff Like That: General Extenders in English Discourse (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

• ISBN:
• 0195125746
• Authors:
• Maryann Overstreet

This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("or something," "and stuff," "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that these small phrases are not simply vague expressions, but have a powerful role in making interpersonal communication work. The audience for this book includes linguists, scholars of English,...

Socrates, Pleasure, and Value

• ISBN:
• 0195128559
• Authors:
• George Rudebusch

In this study, George Rudebusch addresses whether Socrates was a hedonist--whether he believed pleasure to be the good. In attempting to locate Socrates' position on hedonism, Rudebusch examines the passages in Plato's early dialogues that are the most disputed on the topic. He maintains that Socrates identifies pleasant activity with virtuous activity, describing Socrates' hedonism as one of activity, not sensation. This analysis allows for...

The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy (Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

• ISBN:
• 0195174615
• Authors:
• Christian Moevs

The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy." That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record - as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the...

Hormones and Brain Plasticity (Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology)

• ISBN:
• 019532661X
• Authors:
• Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura

The nervous system has a remarkable capacity for self-reorganization, and in this first systematic analysis of the interaction between hormones and brain plasticity, Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura proposes that hormones modulate metaplasticity in the brain. He covers a wide variety of hormones, brain regions, and neuroplastic events, and also provides a new theoretical background with which to interpret the interaction of hormones and brain...

Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium

• ISBN:
• 0198140363
• Authors:
• Philip Hardie

The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire, between orbis and urbs. Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer, the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry, poetic hyperbole, and the "universal...

Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory: Essays in Honour of Philippa Foot

• ISBN:
• 0198237936

Philippa Foot is one of the most original and widely respected philosophers of our time; her work has exerted a lasting influence on the development of moral philosophy. In tribute to her, twelve leading philosophers from both sides of the Atlantic have contributed essays exploring the various topics in moral philosophy to which she has made a distinctive contribution--virtue ethics, naturalism, non-cognitivism, relativism, categorical...

Pleasure, Mind, and Soul: Selected Papers in Ancient Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0199226393
• Authors:
• C. C. W. Taylor

C.C.W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists (including the Epicureans), showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates,...

Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers

• ISBN:
• 0199233128

Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits a widely shared and legally entrenched assumption about war--that combatants have equal rights and equal responsibilities irrespective of whether they are...

Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City

• ISBN:
• 0199242348
• Authors:
• Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceausescu in 1989 prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of...

Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption I (Symposia Aristotelica) (Bk. 1)

• ISBN:
• 0199242925

In this collection, a stellar team of ancient philosophers from the UK, the USA, and Europe present a systematic, chapter-by-chapter study of one of Aristotle's key texts in his science and metaphysics Contributors include Keimpe Algra, Sarah Broadie, Jacques Brunschwig, M. F. Burnyeat, David Charles, Alan Code, John M. Cooper, Michael Crubellier, Dorothea Frede, Edward Hussey, Carlo Natali, David Sedley, and Christian Wildberg.

Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome

• ISBN:
• 0199250898
• Authors:
• Brad Inwood

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most celebrated essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's important and wide-ranging thought.

Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

• ISBN:
• 0226327248
• Authors:
• Jennifer A. Herdt

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique has reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride. Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of...

Medical Ethics, Ordinary Concepts and Ordinary Lives: Ordinary Concepts, Ordinary Lives

• ISBN:
• 0230506909
• Authors:
• Chris Cowley

Mainstream philosophical discussions of ethics usually involve either a search for a problem-solving theory (such as utilitarianism), or an exploration of ontological status (of things like obligations or reasons). This book will argue that such efforts are often misplaced. Instead, the proper starting point should always be the actual words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements; for the ethical concepts in play can only derive...

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,...

Hijacking Sustainability

• ISBN:
• 0262013061
• Authors:
• Adrian Parr

The idea of "sustainability" has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has happened: how the goals of an environmental movement came to be mediated by corporate interests, government, and the military. Parr argues that the...

The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty

• ISBN:
• 0300081111
• Authors:
• David G. Myers

Never has our country been so materially well off and yet, at the same time, so spiritually impoverished. Despite our material wealth, there are record rates of depression, a divorce rate that continues to hover around fifty percent, an ever-increasing number of children in poverty, and a media that glorifies violence. THE AMERICAN PARADOX is a big-picture synopsis of the 1960 to 1990's "social recession." Other books have focused on specific...

The Five "Confucian" Classics

• ISBN:
• 0300081855
• Authors:
• Michael Nylan

The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia. Nylan begins by tracing the formation of the Five Classics canon in the pre-Han and Han periods, 206 B.C.–A.D. 220, revising standard views on the topic. She...

A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance

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

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

Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

• ISBN:
• 0300087152
• Authors:
• Professor Jonathan Glover, Jonathan Glover

This important book confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the psychological mystery of why so many atrocities occurred--the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Gulag, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and others--and how we can prevent their recurrence. Jonathan Glover finds disturbing similarities in the psychology of those involved with atrocities, yet offers hope that the development of a political and personal moral imagination...

Plato's Republic: A Study

• ISBN:
• 0300109628
• Authors:
• Professor Stanley Rosen

In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue is to grasp the author’s intention in...

The Hours: A Novel

• ISBN:
• 0312243022
• Authors:
• Michael Cunningham

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood . In The Hours , Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before...

InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows

• ISBN:
• 0321322010
• Authors:
• Sandee Cohen

You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based,...

Hormonal Carcinogenesis V (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

• ISBN:
• 0387690786
• Authors:
• Jonathan J. Li

Information gathered from cell-free systems, cell cultures, animal models, and human studies, together will (1) provide important insights to our understanding of hormonal cancer causation, development, and prevention; (2) be the primary objective of these Symposia.

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

• ISBN:
• 0415776228

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. The importance of preservation and management of cultural heritage has been realized as an increasing number of tourists are visiting heritage attractions. Although many of the issues and challenges developing...

Vasopressin and Oxytocin: From Genes to Clinical Applications, Volume 139 (Progress in Brain Research)

• ISBN:
• 0444509828

The articles comprising this volume were first presented at the World Congress on Neurohypophysial Hormones held in Bordeaux, France on September 8-12, 2001. This conference brought together more than 170 scientists from 18 countries who belong to the different fields of interest representing research in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system. Two neurohypophysial neurohormones, oxytocin and vasopressin, exert a variety of central and...

Hacking Exposed Windows: Microsoft Windows Security Secrets and Solutions, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 007149426X
• Authors:
• Joel Scambray

The latest Windows security attack and defense strategies "Securing Windows begins with reading this book." --James Costello (CISSP) IT Security Specialist, Honeywell Meet the challenges of Windows security with the exclusive Hacking Exposed "attack-countermeasure" approach. Learn how real-world malicious hackers conduct reconnaissance of targets and then exploit common misconfigurations and software flaws on both clients and servers. See...

The Leucocyte Antigen Factsbook, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0120781859
• Authors:
• A. Neil Barclay, Marion H. Brown, S. K. Alex K. Alex Law, Andrew J. McKnight, Michael G. Tomlinson, P. Anton van der Merwe

A volume in the popular FactsBook Series , the First Edition of The Leucocyte Antigen FactsBook was hugely successful. The new Second Edition has been completely revised, updated, and expanded by 65% to include new findings and up-to-date key references. The introductory chapters have also been updated, especially in terms of nomenclature, the role of the World Wide Web, and new structural data. The Leucocyte Antigen FactsBook, Second Edition...

Living the Policy Process

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

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

When Truth Gives Out

• ISBN:
• 0199239959
• Authors:
• Mark Richard

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true? Is the truth of a belief or assertion absolute, or is it only relative to human interests? Most philosophers think it incoherent to profess to believe something but not think it true, or to say that some of the things we believe are only relatively true. Common sense disagrees. It sees many opinions, such as those about matters of taste, as neither true nor false; it...

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

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

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

Advanced Windows Debugging

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

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

The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire

• ISBN:
• 0415099889
• Authors:
• Graham Anderson

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

Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars: 363-628 AD, a Narrative Sourcebook (Pt. 2)

• ISBN:
• 0415146879

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict. This book, sequel to the volume covering the years 226-363 AD, provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides, taken from a wide range of...

Fifty Key Classical Authors (Fifty Key Thinkers)

• ISBN:
• 0415165113

This brilliant collection aims to tell the story of classical literature: how it developed, flourished, and changed throughout the ages. The individual essays, which constitute the main body of the book, give for each of the fifty authors a substantial introduction to the author's life, works, and cultural and social positions. The essays collectively create an overall sense of the main periods of the flowering classical culture, and of the...

Health in Antiquity

• ISBN:
• 0415220653
• Authors:
• Helen King

How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists. Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues surrounding health in the Greco-Roman world from...

Miletos: A History

• ISBN:
• 0415238463
• Authors:
• Alan M. Greaves

Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important of the Greek poleis - a key economic power as wellas a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in the past century inaccessible in English, studying the city has not always been straightforward. Alan Greaves puts this right with a welcome survey of the origins and development of Miletos from prehistory to its...

Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify your Digital Life

• ISBN:
• 0470186259
• Authors:
• Rick Hallihan

Your home network contains vital files for your life in today's digital world — photos, records, personal correspondence, music. This guide shows you how to back up those files and access them from anywhere using Windows Home Server. It helps you define your needs and choose the right product, install and set up Windows Home Server, create and use accounts and permissions, manage automatic backups, set up a system to facilitate data storage,...

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

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

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

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Insiders Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor

• ISBN:
• 0470440961
• Authors:
• John Kelbley, Mike Sterling, Allen Stewart

Hyper-V is one of the top virtualization products, and this practical guide focuses on the essentials of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Written by the Microsoft team behind the Hyper-V product, this book shows you how to perform key virtualization scenarios, such as server consolidation, software test and development, and a dynamic data center and demonstrates how Hyper-V can be used to reduce cost and eliminate the complexity of a server...

Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470489618
• Authors:
• Greg Harvey

This handy reference covers all the must-know elements of Windows 7 The much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system brings lots of new elements to Windows, and you may have lots of questions. You'll find the answers quickly and easily in Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference - a concise, convenient reference you can keep by your PC. Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference covers all the information you need most often: tips on navigating the new...

Finite Mixture Models (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

• ISBN:
• 0471006262
• Authors:
• Geoffrey McLachlan, David Peel

An up-to-date, comprehensive account of major issues in finite mixture modeling This volume provides an up-to-date account of the theory and applications of modeling via finite mixture distributions. With an emphasis on the applications of mixture models in both mainstream analysis and other areas such as unsupervised pattern recognition, speech recognition, and medical imaging, the book describes the formulations of the finite mixture approach,...

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

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

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

Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom

• ISBN:
• 0521570328
• Authors:
• David N. Sedley

This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius. By showing how he worked from the literary model set by the Greek poet Empedocles but under the philosophical inspiration of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the book seeks to characterize Lucretius' unique poetic achivement. It is addressed to those interested both in Latin poetry and in ancient Greek and Roman...

Plato: Clitophon (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)

• ISBN:
• 0521623685
• Authors:
• Plato

The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates' role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. This is the first critical edition to be published in nearly seventy years and the first ever commentary in English. Professor Slings provides a text based on new examination of all relevant manuscripts and accompanies it with a translation. The book also contains a very extensive...

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

• ISBN:
• 0521693764
• Authors:
• Martin Hewings

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

The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues

• ISBN:
• 0521793009
• Authors:
• Ruby Blondell

This book is an interpretation of Plato in general, and several dialogues in particular, from the point of view of dramatic characterization. It thus forms part of the growing movement towards reading Plato "dramatically", as opposed to reading him as if he wrote treatises like most philosophers. At the same time, it is intended to show traditional "analytical" philosophical interpreters the significance of such "literary" features for...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts)

• ISBN:
• 0521817420
• Authors:
• Michael Pakaluk

Uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to his arguments, this introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy, offers a thorough examination of the entire work. The chapter on friendship captures Aristotle's doctrine with clarity and insight, and Michael Pakaluk develops original and compelling interpretations of the Function Argument, the Doctrine of the Mean,...

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa

• ISBN:
• 0521887240
• Authors:
• Ghislaine Lydon

This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case-study of the Wad Nun traders, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas, and interviews with retired caravaners, Lydon shows how...

VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

• ISBN:
• 0596004281
• Authors:
• Steven Roman PH.D., Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax

Millions of programmers are learning Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft's newest version of the Visual Basic language for productively developing applications. In that spirit of productivity, you don't always have the time or the ability to go back to your shelf of reference books to find the bit of information you need. Your answer is the VB.NET Language Pocket Reference . Succinct and easy to use, this handy pocket guide is a must-have quick...

ASP.NET in a Nutshell, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0596005202
• Authors:
• G Andrew Duthie, Matthew MacDonald

ASP.NET in a Nutshell is a concise, one-volume reference to everything you need to make effective use of ASP.NET. An invaluable resource that goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application, ASP.NET in a Nutshell is the definitive guide for developers of both applications and web...

C # in a Nutshell, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0596005261
• Authors:
• Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward

The heart of C# in a Nutshell is a succinct but detailed reference to the C# language and the .NET types most essential to C# programmers. Each chapter in the API reference begins with an overview of a .NET namespace and a diagram of its types, including a quick-reference entry for each type, with name, assembly, category, description, member availability, class hierarchy, and other relevant information, such as whether the type is part o the...

.NET Gotchas

• ISBN:
• 0596009097
• Authors:
• Venkat Subramaniam

Like most complex tasks, .NET programming is fraught with potential costly, and time-consuming hazards. The millions of Microsoft developers worldwide who create applications for the .NET platform can attest to that. Thankfully there's now a book that shows you how to avoid such costly and time-consuming mistakes. It's called,"NET Gotchas," The ultimate guide for efficient, pain-free coding,,"NET Gotchas" from O'Reilly contains 75 common .NET...

Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition

• ISBN:
• 059600916X
• Authors:
• Jesse Liberty; Dan Hurwitz

O'Reilly has once again updated its bestselling tutorial on ASP.NET, the world's leading web development tool from Microsoft. In Programming ASP.NET , Third Edition, authors Jesse Liberty and Dan Hurwitz give you the lowdown on the technology's latest version, ASP.NET 2.0, as well as Visual Studio 2005. Among the most significant improvements to ASP.NET 2.0 are new server controls and services that make you dramatically more productive. In fact,...

Programming Visual Basic 2005

• ISBN:
• 0596009496
• Authors:
• Jesse Liberty

This newest programming guide by bestselling author Jesse Liberty isn't your typical Visual Basic book. It's not a primer on the language, and it won't dull your brain with arguments hyping .NET either. Its goal, rather, is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. Written for VB6 and novice programmers, the book shows how Visual Basic 2005 can be used to rapidly...

ASP.Net 2.0 Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596100647
• Authors:
• Geoffrey T Leblond, Michael A Kittel

Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling "ASP.NET Cookbook" has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft's popular Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 developer tools. Written for the impatient professional, "ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook" contains more than 125 recipes for solving common and not-so-common problems you are likely to encounter when building...

Programming .NET Components, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0596102070
• Authors:
• Juval Lowy

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

Learning C# 2005: Get Started with C# 2.0 and .NET Programming (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0596102097
• Authors:
• Jesse Liberty, Brian MacDonald

If you're a novice programmer and you want to learn C#, there aren't many books that will guide you. Most C# books are written for experienced C++ and Java programmers. That's why Jesse Liberty, author of the best-selling books "Programming C#" and "Programming ASP.NET," has written an entry-level guide to C#. Written in a warm and friendly manner, "Learning C#" assumes no prior programming experience, and provides a thorough introduction to...

Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers

• ISBN:
• 0596514077
• Authors:
• Jeff Webb, Webb Jeff

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know -- Microsoft...

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

• ISBN:
• 0596514247
• Authors:
• Christian Wenz

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

C# 3.0 Cookbook

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

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

Programming C# 3.0

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

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

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596527578
• Authors:
• Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

This is a concise yet thorough reference to C# 3.0 programming as implemented in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008. C# 3.0 in a Nutshell gets right to the point, covering the essentials of language syntax and usage as well as the parts of the .NET base class libraries you need to build working applications. But unlike earlier editions, this book is now organized entirely around concepts and use cases, providing greater depth and readability. C# 3.0...

C# 3.0 Design Patterns

• ISBN:
• 059652773X
• Authors:
• Judith Bishop

If you want to speed up the development of your .NET applications, you're ready for C# design patterns -- elegant, accepted and proven ways to tackle common programming problems. This practical guide offers you a clear introduction to the classic object-oriented design patterns, and explains how to use the latest features of C# 3.0 to code them. C# Design Patterns draws on new C# 3.0 language and .NET 3.5 framework features to implement the 23...

Windows Powershell Cookbook

• ISBN:
• 0596528493
• Authors:
• Lee Holmes

This Cookbook by Windows PowerShell team developer Lee Holmes provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to get Microsoft's new tool working for you. More than 150 recipes, combined with a concise task-based introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language and environment, make it the perfect look-up guide when you encounter a thorny problem, or need a quick solution. The ideal companion to any tutorial or...

Classical Literature: A Concise History (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World)

• ISBN:
• 0631231323
• Authors:
• Richard Rutherford

This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer, around 700 bc, and Augustine, around ad 410. It highlights what is important historically and what is of continuing interest and value in the literature of classical antiquity. The author’s introduction sets out essential preliminary material concerning the history of the ancient world, the nature of literary genres and the transmission of...

Alexander the Great in his World (Blackwell Ancient Lives)

• ISBN:
• 063123246X
• Authors:
• Carol G. Thomas

Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated figures of antiquity. In this book, Carol G. Thomas places this powerful figure within the context of his time, place, culture, and ancestry in order to discover what influences shaped his life and career. The book begins with an exploration of the Macedonia that conditioned the lives of its inhabitants. It also traces such influences on Alexander's life as his royal Argead ancestry, his father,...

Windows Server 2008 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672329301
• Authors:
• Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Omar Droubi, Ross Mistry, Chris Amaris

Windows Server 2008 Unleashed covers the planning, design, prototype testing, implementation, migration, administration, and support of a Windows 2008 and Active Directory environment, based on more than three and a half years of early adopter experience in full production environments. This book addresses not only what is new with Windows 2008 compared to previous versions of the Windows Server product, but also what is different and how the...

The Ethics of Memory

• ISBN:
• 0674013786
• Authors:
• Avishai Margalit

Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns. The idea he pursues is that the past, connecting people to each other, makes possible the kinds of "thick" relations we can call truly ethical. Thick relations, he argues, are those that we have with family and friends, lovers...

Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World

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

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

Essays on the Anthropology of Reason

• ISBN:
• 0691011583
• Authors:
• Paul Rabinow

This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal, and show how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces. He has recently begun to focus on the core of Western rationality, in...

Myth and Thought Among the Greeks

• ISBN:
• 0710095449
• Authors:
• Jean-Pierre Vernant

When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays—three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first time—Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chains and reread the questions of "muthos" and "logos" within...

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

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

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

Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Terminal Services (Pro-One-Offs)

• ISBN:
• 0735619042
• Authors:
• Bernhard Tritsch

Get essential guidance on how to configure and manage thin-client application servers and centralized applications—and help reduce ownership costs—using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services.

Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET Step by Step--Version 2003 (Step By Step (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 0735619093
• Authors:
• John Sharp, Jon Jagger

Teach yourself Visual C# .NET version 2003—and start developing Microsoft .NET–connected applications—one step at a time. Master language fundamentals at your own pace and use the learn-by-doing exercises to dig in and code!

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.

MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-298): Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network

• ISBN:
• 0735619697
• Authors:
• Roberta Bragg

Announcing an all-new MCSE TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-298, one of two core MCSE design exams. Written by well-known IT security consultant, columnist, and speaker Roberta Bragg, this kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on exam content; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides practice...

Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2003 Administrator's Companion (Pro-Administrator's Companion)

• ISBN:
• 0735620202
• Authors:
• Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend

This comprehensive administrator’s reference delivers the details you need to successfully deploy, manage, and support Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003. The authors, experts in Microsoft operating systems and server technologies, provide easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. Delve into system features and capabilities—and get hands-on insights for...

Introducing WinFX(TM) The Application Programming Interface for the Next Generation of Microsoft Windows Code Name Longhorn (Pro Developer)

• ISBN:
• 0735620857
• Authors:
• Brent Rector

Get an expert, developer-focused introduction to the next generation Windows client operating system. Windows programming authority Brent Rector takes you inside the WinFX application model, explaining how its unified, managed-code environment dramatically simplifies many programmatic "housekeeping" tasks and provides application security services from the very beginning of the development process. Then you’ll jump right into compiling,...

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...

Windows Vista(TM) Resource Kit

• ISBN:
• 0735622833
• Authors:
• Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, Ralph Ramos, The Windows Vista Team

Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting Microsoft® Windows Vista(tm)--with expert insights from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and the Windows Vista Team. This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT provides more than 1,500 pages of in-depth technical guidance on automating deployment; implementing security enhancements; administering group policy, files and folders, and programs; and troubleshooting for...

3D Programming for Windows (Pro - Developer)

• ISBN:
• 0735623945
• Authors:
• Charles Petzold

Get the practical introduction to programming 3D graphics using the Windows Presentation Foundation--straight from programming legend Charles Petzold. The Windows Presentation Foundation is a key component of .NET Framework 3.0, which is a part of Windows Vista(tm) and available for Windows XP. With the Windows Presentation Foundation, 3D images can be displayed regardless of the video-display hardware on the user's machine. This practical guide...

Introducing Windows Server 2008

• ISBN:
• 0735624216
• Authors:
• Mitch Tulloch; The Microsoft Windows Server Team

Take a first look at the next generation of Windows Server with insights direct from the popular author and Microsoft MVP Mitch Tulloch and the Microsoft Windows Server team. With this insider s introduction, you will get to preview and evaluate Windows Server code name Longhorn. You will learn how to use new features that help you improve security, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency, as well as how to automate deployment and...

Windows Server 2008 Inside Out

• ISBN:
• 0735624380
• Authors:
• William R. Stanek

Learn how to conquer Windows Server 2008 from the inside out! Designed for system administrators, this definitive resource features hundreds of timesaving solutions, expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for administering Windows Server 2008 all in concise, fast-answer format. You will learn how to perform upgrades and migrations, automate deployments, implement security features, manage software updates and patches, administer...

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

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

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

Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements

• ISBN:
• 0745321127
• Authors:
• Richard J.F. Day

Gramsci and the concept of hegemony cast a long shadow over radical political theory. Yet how far has this theory got us? Is it still central to feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anarchism, and other radical social movements today? Unlike previous revolutionary movements, Day argues, most contemporary radical social movements do not strive to take control of the state. Instead, they attempt to develop new forms of self-organisation that...

Understanding Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Theory

• ISBN:
• 0748636897
• Authors:
• Torbjörn Tännsjö

How can we find true or reasonable moral principles to apply to our everyday lives? Torbjörn Tännsjö presents seven radically different moral theories, each of which provides an answer to what we ought to do and why. Tännsjö carefully describes and assesses each theory and puts them into historical perspective. He addresses utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, and...

Advances in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Volume 1, Volume 1

• ISBN:
• 0762301589

Historically the field of endocrine research has always been at the forefront of scientific endeavors. The investigators of these important breakthroughs in research have been rewarded by numerous Nobel awards. In the field of diabetes alone, Nobel prizes have been awarded to researchers who discovered insulin, characterized the protein and invented radioimmunoassays using insulin as a paradigm. Not surprisingly, biomedical researchers have...

The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook: Grow Your Business, Multiply Your Profits, Win the Talent War! (Essential Knowledge Resource)

• ISBN:
• 078798602X
• Authors:
• Robert Hargrove

Robert Hargrove shares his secrets as a masterful coach with leaders of all levels: Coaching is about realizing an impossible dream and winning at the great game of business, not just about changing attitudes and behaviors . This book describes: How to find the best talent on earth How to create an impossible future and WIN in your business How to create a winning game plan How business can be the ultimate self-development and growth experience

MCAD Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic(R) .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio(R) .NET Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 70-306)

• ISBN:
• 0789728990
• Authors:
• Kirk Hausman, Ed Tittel

This certification exam measures the ability to develop and implement Windows-based applications by using Windows Forms and the Microsoft .NET Framework. This exam counts as a core credit toward the new MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) certification as well as a core credit toward the MCSD certification for .NET candidates. This book is not intended to teach new material. Instead it assumes that you have a solid foundation of...

MCSE 70-293 Training Guide: Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

• ISBN:
• 0789730138
• Authors:
• Will Schmied, Robert Shimonski

The 70-293 exam is a core exam for the MCSE Windows 2003 certification, and tests professionals on their ability to plan and maintain a Windows 2003 network infrastructure. As of January 2003 there were over 200,000 Microsoft Certified Professionals. Not only will the majority of these be looking to upgrade to their 2003 MCSE, but the exam is expected to grow with new users. This Training Guide offers in-depth coverage of exam topics and offers...

Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista

• ISBN:
• 0789734729
• Authors:
• Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0789737817 ISBN-13: 9780789737816     Que crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Vista proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Vista, Special Edition Using Microsoft ® Windows ® Vista is the only book you need.     Tired of the constant barrage of spam, spyware, viruses and other Net nasties? We...

Logic and Existence (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 0791432327
• Authors:
• Jean Hyppolite

Logic and Existence, which originally appeared in 1952, completes the project Hyppolite began with Genesis and Structure of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit." Taking up successively the role of language, reflection, and categories in Hegel's Science of Logic, Hyppolite illuminates Hegelianism's most obscure dialectical synthesis: the relation between the phenomenology and the logic.

The King's English: Strategies Of Translation In The Old English Boethius

• ISBN:
• 0791464474
• Authors:
• Nicole Guenther Discenza

Between Transcendence And Historicism: The Ethical Nature Of The Arts In Hegelian Aesthetics (Suny Series in Hegelian Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0791466574
• Authors:
• Brian K. Etter

Argues that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel’s philosophy of art.

The Gift of the Other: Levinas And the Politics of Reproduction (Suny Series in Gender Theory)

• ISBN:
• 079146847X
• Authors:
• Lisa Guenther

A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction.

Moral Development, Self, and Identity

• ISBN:
• 0805842861

This volume examines the psychological, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the most basic moral commitments. It begins by looking at the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality have transformed the research agenda in moral psychology. This work is now the starting point of all discussion about the relationship between self and morality; the...

Aristotle And Moral Realism

• ISBN:
• 0813391040

This volume of essays brings together scholars of ancient philosophy and some of today's most distinguished moral philosophers to discuss Aristotle's ethics and the problems of moral realism. (Philosophy)

More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 New Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes

• ISBN:
• 0814473784
• Authors:
• Brian Cole Miller

Most managers, supervisors, and team leaders realize the importance of team-building, but just can’t seem to find the time in their busy schedules. More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers provides the solution! The book contains 50 all-new exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, and which require no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Each activity is presented in just a few short...

Atlas of African-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)

• ISBN:
• 0816067139
• Authors:
• James Ciment

Building on the authoritative text of the first edition, "Atlas of African-American History, Revised Edition" chronicles the important cultural, historical, political, and social experiences of African Americans through the years. Completely updated and revised, this fascinating book features numerous full-color maps - 18 of which are new - that engage readers with easy-to-grasp facts, figures, and images of everyday life. Ten new...

Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England

• ISBN:
• 0816646325
• Authors:
• Daniel Juan Gil

Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In Before Intimacy , Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as “loopholes” in people’s experiences and associations.  Engaging the poems of Wyatt, Sidney’s Astrophil and...

Order and History (Volume 3): Plato and Aristotle (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 16)

• ISBN:
• 0826212506
• Authors:
• Eric Voegelin

The third and last volume of Voegelin's study of Greek culture from its earliest pre-Hellenic origins to its full maturity. This work is principally devoted to the two great thinkers who represent the high point of philosophical enquiry among the Greeks: Plato and Aristotle.

Foucault: The Art of Ethics

• ISBN:
• 0826456278
• Authors:
• Timothy O'Leary

The work of Michael Focault has been extremely influential in fields as varied as philosophy, history, cultural studies, sociology and sexualilty studies. In his later work, Focault turned to the question of ethics. Working back through history, through the Christian interrogation of desire to the origins of the self in the texts of classical Greece, Focault attempted to concieve of ethics as an art of the self, as an aesthetics of existence and...

High Temperature Air Combustion: From Energy Conservation to Pollution Reduction (Environmental & Energy Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0849310369
• Authors:
• Hiroshi Tsuji, Ashwani K. Gupta, Toshiaki Hasegawa, Masashi Katsuki, Ken Kishimoto, Mitsunobu Morita

Maximize efficiency and minimize pollution: the breakthrough technology of high temperature air combustion (HiTAC) holds the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional combustion and allow engineers to finally meet this long-standing imperative. Research has shown that HiTAC technology can provide simultaneous reduction of CO2 and nitric oxide emissions and reduce energy consumption for a specific process or requirement.High...

The Greek and Persian Wars 500-323 BC (Men-at-Arms)

• ISBN:
• 0850452716
• Authors:
• Jack Cassin-Scott

In the early 5th century BC, after the fall of the Lydian Empire, the Persian Wars began. It was an ideological conflict which pitted a proud, democratic, freedom-loving people against a tyrannical and mighty empire. The stories of the many battles fought between the Greeks and the Persians are here splendidly brought to life by Jack Cassin-Scott, who details the tactics, organisation and uniforms of the armies of both sides in a volume...

Armies of the Vietnam War 1962-75 (Men-at-Arms) (Bk.1)

• ISBN:
• 0850453607
• Authors:
• Philip Katcher

Philip Katcher provides an overview to the conflict that engulfed Vietnam following the division of the country into two along the 17th Parallel in 1954. The uniforms and insignia of the US forces, including the army, Special Forces, air force, navy and marine corps, are dealt with in detail, together with those of the ARVN, the Allied Forces (such as the Royal Thai Army and Korean troops), and also the Communist NLF (Viet Cong) and NVA forces....

Panzerkamp of Wagen Three (Vanguard Series #16)

• ISBN:
• 0850453623
• Authors:
• Bryan Perrot

Napoleon's German Allies (4) : Bavaria (Men at Arms Series, 106)

• ISBN:
• 0850453739
• Authors:
• Otto Pivka

In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle of Leipzig. They then engaged Napoleon's troops in combat at the battle of Hanua in an unsuccessful attempt to cut off their retreat to France. This book by Otto von Pivka provides an in depth...

The PzKpfw V Panther (Vanguard)

• ISBN:
• 0850453976
• Authors:
• Bryan Perrett

The Centurion Tank in Battle (Vanguard)

• ISBN:
• 0850453984
• Authors:
• Simon Dunstan

Conceived in the closing stages of the Second World War, Centurion arrived too late to see action against the German Panzers that had dominated that conflict. Although designed for warfare in Europe, it was not until 1951 that Centurions first saw combat in a completely different theatre - the rugged hills of Korea. It was not a fair proving ground for any tank but the Centurion was hugely successful. Its impressive performance under difficult...

Wellington's Infantry (Men at Arms Series, 119)

• ISBN:
• 0850454190
• Authors:
• Bryan Fosten

In 1803 Sir John Moore's policy was to produce quick-thinking, intelligent, mobile soldiers capable of attacking on their own initiative. Old-style drill manuals, which still governed the training of the mass of British infantry, were set aside; and discipline was maintained, at least to some extent, by appeals to pride in self and unit rather than by the lash. In this companion volume to Men-at-Arms 114 Wellington's Infantry 1, Bryan Fosten...

The Ancient Greeks (Elite)

• ISBN:
• 085045686X
• Authors:
• Nicholas Sekunda

The cradle of western civilisation, the ancient Greek world, consisted of a series of independent city states some of which, such as Athens and Sparta, became major world powers. This authoritative volume by Nicholas Sekunda covers Greek warfare in the Classical Period, which stretches from the Greek victories over the Persian Empire to the death of Alexander the Great at the end of the 4th century. The book includes such famous battles such as...

U.S. Military Tracked Vehicles (Crestline Series)

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

Myth and Society in Ancient Greece

• ISBN:
• 0942299175
• Authors:
• Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. In his provocative discussions of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and the city state, Vernant unveils a complex and previously...

The Anarchist Cookbook (C-066)

• ISBN:
• 0962303208
• Authors:
• William Powell

Efficiency, Justice and Care: Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

• ISBN:
• 1402052138
• Authors:
• Yvonne Denier

A Companion to Socrates (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 1405108630

This Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy and provides an in-depth discussion of the various approaches to his philosophy. Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, the volume covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to the present day. The contributors review Socrates’ life and key philosophical doctrines associated with him; they examine...

Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire

• ISBN:
• 1405112107

Containing over 800 concise biographies of individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander, this book is the only complete collection of its kind available in English. The entries range from leading commanders in Alexander’s army to the nobles and regional leaders of the Persian empire whom he encountered on his epic campaign. The most significant figures receive detailed coverage, and all entries contain...

Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: Clinical Lab Testing Manual, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 1420079328

Bottom Line Information to Effectively Diagnose Disorders The diagnosis, management, and clinical testing associated with old, traditional, and new endocrine disorders have seen numerous advances during the past 10 years since the publication of the previous edition of this bestselling resource. Updating its classic predecessor in content and format, Endocrine and Metabolic Testing Manual, Fourth Edition provides an authoritative and...

Understanding WMI Scripting: Exploiting Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation in Mission-Critical Computing Infrastructures (HP Technologies)

• ISBN:
• 1555582664
• Authors:
• Alain Lissoir

Understanding WMI Scripting explains to Windows and Exchange Administrators how they can use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scriptable technology available in these products to ease their day-to-day management tasks. Under Windows.NET and Exchange 2000 (SP2), Microsoft is making solid enhancements in WMI. This will dramatically extend the scripting and manageability capabilities of Windows and Exchange. Illustrated with more than...

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

• ISBN:
• 1567201342
• Authors:
• Macklin Fleming

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

Feng Shui for the Classroom: 101 Easy-to-Use Ideas

• ISBN:
• 1569761744
• Authors:
• Renee Heiss

For educators, working and teaching in a harmonious classroom environment not only makes sense, it can improve the quality and meaningfulness of their instruction. Feng Shui for the Classroom translates ancient Chinese interior decoration concepts to the school, providing teachers with strategies and suggestions for improving harmony and positive energy in their classrooms. The text gives suggestions for arranging the ideal classroom in such a...

Programming Windows®, Fifth Edition (Microsoft Programming Series)

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

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

Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (Dv-Mps General)

• ISBN:
• 1572319968
• Authors:
• Jeffrey Richter

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

Philosophy of Right (Great Books in Philosophy)

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

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

Handbook of Classical Mythology (World Mythology)

• ISBN:
• 1576072266
• Authors:
• William Hansen

Handbook of Classical Mythology offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the creation of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age— plus an illustrated mythological dictionary listing every...

Developing Tablet PC Applications (Programming Series)

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

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

PC Repair and Maintenance: A Practical Guide (Networking Series)

• ISBN:
• 1584502665
• Authors:
• Joel Z. Rosenthal, Kevin Jay Irwin

PC Repair and Maintenance: A Practical Guide is a reader-friendly guide to repairing computers (running either Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, or XP) through easy-to-understand language, detailed diagrams, and video tutorials. The book emphasizes that a deep understanding of "how a computer works" is not necessary to diagnose and repair problems; it concentrates on practical, "hands-on" solutions that can be implemented right away. Focusing...

A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology (Contemporary Endocrinology)

• ISBN:
• 1588298159

Written cases provide a thoughtful review of modern management and contemplation of the literature, much more so than even a case presentation without the patient. As a result, in recent years the written or prepared case has become the ideal forum for demonstrating how to manage a medical problem to the greatest benefit of the patient. In "A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology", distinguished clinicians provide stimulating instruction...

Microsoft Windows Shell Script Programming for the Absolute Beginner

• ISBN:
• 1592000851
• Authors:
• Jr., Jerry Lee Ford

This book focuses on beginner programmers, a much needed segment of this market, which makes it unique among its competition. Currently, all books in this area focus on the intermediate to advanced level and most of the competing books focus on either Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. The author uses Windows XP Professional in all examples. Readers can find creating games as a fun approach to a difficult topic. Many people do not want to have to...

How to Cheat at Administering Office Communications Server 2007

• ISBN:
• 1597492124

Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 is Microsoft's latest version of Live Communications Server 2005. The product provides management for all synchronous communications that takes place in real time. This includes instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP), and audio conferencing and videoconferencing. It will work with your company's existing telecommunications systems without major hardware upgrades. This means your business...

Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Vol. 2

• ISBN:
• 1597492132
• Authors:
• Chris Hurley

Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This second volume adds over 300 new pentesting applications included with BackTrack 2 to the pen tester's toolkit. It includes the latest information...

The Best Damn Exchange, SQL and IIS Book Period

• ISBN:
• 1597492191
• Authors:
• Henrik Walther, Mark Horninger, Chris Adams

Exchange, SQL and IIS are at the core of most Microsoft enterprise servers. The 2007 releases of these products, along with the release of Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server, represents the biggest overhaul of Windows enterprise products since Windows 2000. The dramatic changes to security tools and the addition of features that support "anywhere access" present IT professionals with a steep learning curve. Making certain that these products...

The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-640 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions

• ISBN:
• 1597492353
• Authors:
• Anthony Piltzecker, Naomi Alpern, Tariq Azad, Laura Hunter, John Karnay, Jeffrery Martin, Gene Whitley

This exam is designed to validate Windows Server 2008 Active Directory skills. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist requirements of Exam 70-640. The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of...

The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC

• ISBN:
• 1841763578
• Authors:
• Philip Souza

It is a testament to the fascination of the subject that even today the events of the Peloponnesian War are studied for what they can teach about diplomacy, strategy and tactics. This book reveals the darker side of Classical Greek civilization. From the horrific effects of overcrowding and the plague on the population of Athens, to the vicious civil strife that often erupted in cities allied with Athens or Sparta, this volume offers vivid and...

US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-70: Vietnam (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 1841767182
• Authors:
• Oscar Gilbert

By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this decision, which created a political storm. The presence of the tanks became a lightning rod for accusations of an 'escalation' of the war. Nevertheless, the tanks not only proved their value in the...

Blenheim 1704: The Duke of Marlborough's masterpiece (Campaign)

• ISBN:
• 1841767719
• Authors:
• John Tincey

Combining one of history’s most audacious strategic manoeuvres with perhaps the greatest military victory ever won by a British commander, the Blenheim campaign is rightly considered the pinnacle of the career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. On 13 August 1704, Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy faced a Franco-Bavarian army threatening to knock Austria out of the War of the Spanish Succession. In a hard-fought battle Marlborough won...

Khe Sanh 1967-68: Marines battle for Vietnam's vital hilltop base (Campaign)

• ISBN:
• 1841768634
• Authors:
• Gordon Rottman

Khe Sanh was a small village in northwest South Vietnam that sat astride key North Vietnamese infiltration routes. In September 1966 a Marine battalion deployed into the area. Action gradually increased as the NVA attempted to destroy Free World Forces bases, and the siege of Khe Sanh proper began in October 1967. The bitter fight lasted into July 1968 when, with the changing strategic and tactical situation, the base was finally closed. This...

US Army Infantryman in Vietnam 1965-73 (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 1841768871
• Authors:
• Gordon Rottman

This book tells the compelling story of the average US infantryman in Vietnam. Beginning with conscription, enlistment, Basic Training, and Advanced Individual Training at the Armed Forces Induction Center at Fort Polk (the infamous “Tigerland”), it goes on to explore the day-to-day realities of service in Vietnam, from routine tasks at the firebase to search-and-destroy missions, rocket attacks, and firefights in the field. Weaponry,...

Can NGOs Make a Difference?: The Challenge of Development Alternatives

• ISBN:
• 1842778927

Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others?  Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting...

NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations

• ISBN:
• 1844073688

*NGOs are under fire for being "unaccountable" to anyone; this is the first book to tackle fully the politics, pitfalls, and benefits of NGO accountability * Offers principles and innovative solutions for assessing and developing viable accountability *Input and cases studies from NGOs such as Action Aid, and from every part of the globe including China, Indonesia, Latin America, and Africa As the fastest growing segment of civil society, as...

Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance

• ISBN:
• 1844672964
• Authors:
• Simon Critchley

Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man

• ISBN:
• 1845111613
• Authors:
• Barbara Reynolds

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds makes remarkable discoveries and unlocks previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the 'Commedia' for seven centuries. Who was the leader prophesied by Virgil and Beatrice to bring peace to the world?...

Viet Cong Fighter (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 1846031265
• Authors:
• Gordon Rottman

An enemy in the shadows, the Viet Cong was the military arm of the National Liberation Front, the Communist Party of the Republic of Vietnam. Often generally thought of as local guerrillas, they were also an important part of the North Vietnamese Army regular cadres. Packed with emotive and rare photographs, this book not only analyzes the skills and tactics of these fascinating fighters, but also takes a look at their social origins to...

Therapeutic Strategies in Lipid Disorders

• ISBN:
• 1846920345

The multi-factorial nature of cardiovascular disease has important implications for the planning of effective treatment strategies. Lifestyle factors such as diet, smoking history and exercise combine with endogenous predictors such as ethnicity and family history to give every individual a unique risk profile.A comprehensive guide to dyslipidaemias, this book will assist cardiologists, and primary care physicians in their daily task of making...

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (2 volume set)

• ISBN:
• 0028661370

Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong (P.S.)

• ISBN:
• 006078072X
• Authors:
• Marc Hauser

In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Combining his cutting-edge research with the latest findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, Hauser explores the startling...

Tuna: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution, Volume 19: Physiological Ecology and Evolution (Fish Physiology)

• ISBN:
• 0123504430

This book is a multidisciplinary volume that overviews the most recent literature covering the physiology, biomechanics, evolution, and ecology of tunas. It examines critical areas of molecular and organismal physiology, phylogeny, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Recently developed techniques for electronic tagging of fish are presented. The book covers all aspects of tuna biology, from metabolism and cardiovascular research to reproductive...

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

• ISBN:
• 0130886742
• Authors:
• Pradeep Tapadiya

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

Walking the Tightrope: Solutions for Achieving Life Balance Without a Net

• ISBN:
• 0131420240
• Authors:
• Erica Orloff, Kathy Levinson

We're more wired than ever: cell phones on our hips, laptops, email, instant messaging. The killer apps are killing us. Technology was supposed to make it easier for us, but we are more out of balance and out of touch with the things in life that are most important to us than we were a decade ago. Orloff and Levinson will help readers to find that sense of balance so they can handle the highwire act of living and working without flaming out.

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Hist Atlas)

• ISBN:
• 0140513299
• Authors:
• Chris Scarre

More than 15 centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire continues to profoundly influence world history. This atlas traces the empire's rise and fall, looking at its provinces and cities, trade and economy, armies and frontier defenses; charting its transformation into a Christian theocracy; and assessing its lasting impact. Full color.

Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192802828
• Authors:
• Tony Hope

Medical ethics is an area that has particular interest for the general public as well as for the medical practitioner, and issues concerning medical ethics seem to be constantly in the headlines. This short and accessible introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine. Tony Hope deals with thorny moral issues, including euthanasia and the morality of killing. He also...

Vietnam at War

• ISBN:
• 0192803492
• Authors:
• Mark Philip Bradley

For many Westerners, the Vietnam War summons images of American soldiers patrolling rice paddies, battling an elusive enemy as helicopters circle overhead. But there were, in fact, many Vietnam wars--an anti-colonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among southern Vietnamese, a revolutionary war of ideas over the vision that should guide Vietnamese society into the...

The Prince (Oxford World's Classics)

• ISBN:
• 019280426X
• Authors:
• Niccolo Machiavelli

When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism...

Critique of Judgement (Oxford World's Classics)

• ISBN:
• 0192806173
• Authors:
• Immanuel Kant

In the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation, and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the degree in which nature has a...

Living with Nietzsche: What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us

• ISBN:
• 0195160142
• Authors:
• Robert C. Solomon

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irreverent--never has a philosopher been appropriated, deconstructed, and scrutinized by such a disparate array of groups, movements, and schools of thought. Adored by many for his passionate ideas and iconoclastic style, he is also vilified for his lack of rigor, apparent cruelty, and disdain for moral...

Measuring Metabolic Rates: A Manual for Scientists

• ISBN:
• 0195310616
• Authors:
• John R. B. Lighton

Measuring metabolic rates is central to important questions in many areas of scientific research. Unfortunately these measurements are anything but straightforward, and numerous pitfalls await the novice and even the experienced investigator. Measuring Metabolic Rates de-mystifies the field, explaining every common variation of metabolic rate measurement, from century-old manometric methods through ingenious syringe-based techniques, direct...

Free Will and Illusion

• ISBN:
• 0198250185
• Authors:
• Saul Smilansky

Saul Smilansky presents an original new approach to the problem of free will, which lies at the heart of morality and self-understanding. He maintains that the key to the problem is the role played by illusion. Smilansky boldly claims that we could not live adequately with a complete awareness of the truth about human freedom and that illusion lies at the center of the human condition.

Begotten or Made?: Human Procreation and Medical Technique

• ISBN:
• 0198266782
• Authors:
• Oliver O'Donovan

Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation

• ISBN:
• 0199210640
• Authors:
• Mary Douglas

Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the editors, far from being a separate elite unconcerned with their congregation's troubles, cherished a political agenda, a religious protest against the government of Judah's exclusionary policies....

The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory

• ISBN:
• 0199217491

Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume II

• ISBN:
• 0199218072

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only periodical publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work on the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. OSME provides an excellent basis for...

Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics

• ISBN:
• 0199227063
• Authors:
• Filippo de Vivo

This is a unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice. De Vivo uses a rich and diverse range of sources - from council debates to leaks and spies' reports, from printed pamphlets to graffiti and rumors - to demonstrate just how closely political communication was intertwined with the wider social and economic life of the city. The...

The French Revolution, 1789-1799

• ISBN:
• 0199244146
• Authors:
• Peter McPhee

This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians. The book has two main aims. One aim is to consider the origins and nature of the Revolution of 1789-99. Why was there a Revolution in France in 1789? Why did the Revolution...

Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics

• ISBN:
• 0199251436
• Authors:
• Christopher Bobonich

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

Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0199258651

The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. While there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of...

Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication

• ISBN:
• 0199268444
• Authors:
• Rachel Cohon

Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the moral philosophy of David Hume, focusing on two areas. Firstly, his metaethics. Cohon reinterprets Hume's claim that moral distinctions are not derived from reason and explains why he makes it. She finds that Hume did not actually hold three "Humean" claims: 1) that beliefs alone cannot move us to act, 2) that evaluative propositions cannot be validly inferred from purely factual...

Catullus (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0199280347

Oxford Readings in Catullus is a collection of articles that represent a sampling of the most interesting and important work on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three very short pieces from the Renaissance. The readings, selected for their intrinsic interest and importance, are intended to be thought-provoking (and in some cases provocative) and to challenge readers to look at Catullus in different ways. They demonstrate a number...

Indo-European Poetry and Myth

• ISBN:
• 0199280754
• Authors:
• M. L. West

The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was...

Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium

• ISBN:
• 0199281319

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds...

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English

• ISBN:
• 019928766X

These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary 'companions,' these essays aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Although 'major authors' such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many...

The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics

• ISBN:
• 019929240X
• Authors:
• A. P. David

This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and decisive in the interpretation of its meaning. David offers a thoroughgoing treatment of Homeric poetics: here some remarkable discoveries in the harmonic movement of epic...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume III

• ISBN:
• 0199542074

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersection of ethical theory and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis...

The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study Volume II: From Suarez to Rousseau

• ISBN:
• 0199543275
• Authors:
• Terence Irwin

The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connections; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and...

Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10 (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (Bk. 10)

• ISBN:
• 0199557624
• Authors:
• J. E. Atkinson

This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his death. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius Rufus (quite probably a Roman Senator of the first...

The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0230002463
• Authors:
• Stephen Boulter

This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense broadly in the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore. It breaks new ground by drawing on the work of Aristotle, contemporary evolutionary biology and psychology, and historical studies on the origins of early modern philosophy. Part One offers new answers to the questions: What counts as a common sense belief? Why should common sense beliefs be considered default positions?, and Why is it...

Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion (Crime Files)

• ISBN:
• 0230525016
• Authors:
• Richard York

How cozy are Agatha Christie's novels? They may seem to depict a stable world of respect for tradition, shared culture, settled gender and class roles, political conservatism and unambiguous morality, in which reason suffices to control disorder. But this world is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics, moral liberalization. Prominent citizens may be criminals, detectives are not wholly unlike...

Green: Your Place in the New Energy Revolution

• ISBN:
• 0230605443
• Authors:
• Jane Hoffman, Michael J. Hoffman

Green illustrates and sheds new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every temperature record-setting year. Jane and Michael Hoffman use their years of experience to explain the technological and economic future of this ecologically significant issue. They incisively explain its politics: what countries are doing right now and, most importantly, what the U.S. should...

Hellenistic Civilization

• ISBN:
• 0631222413
• Authors:
• Francois Chamoux

Spanning the period from Alexander the Great's accession to the throne in 336 BC to the defeat by Octavian of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, this volume provides a vivid account of the innovative civilization of the Hellenistic world.

Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Interpreting Ancient History)

• ISBN:
• 0631233938

Democracy is one of the greatest inventions of the ancient Greeks. This book invites readers to investigate the phenomenon of ancient Greek democracy for themselves, from its earliest roots in the archaic period to its appearance and development in Athens. The book is comprised of six chapters, presenting questions of continuing interest and controversy. Each one encourages readers to engage with ancient texts in translation and to see how...

Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus

• ISBN:
• 0672313618
• Authors:
• Andre Lamothe

Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus takes game programmers to the next level of programming, teaching them the latest techniques and tools: DirectX, 3D acceleration, Artificial Intelligence and explains, in detail, 3D algorithms including texture mapping and lighting.

Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours

• ISBN:
• 0672320908
• Authors:
• Joe Estes, Kathryn Hunt, Neil FitzGerald, Ryan Marples, Steve Lucas

Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports X in 24 Hours will guide the Crystal Reports users through conceptual topics, such as understanding data sources, to creating simple reports using the provided report wizards to custom reporting creation, modification and design techniques. This book will cover the latest version of Crystal Reports. The newest release includes unprecedented technological advances and user interface design improvements - making...

Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672328941
• Authors:
• Paul McFedries

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 067233013X ISBN-13: 9780672330131     Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed   Paul McFedries   Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed is a book for people, like you, who don’t consider themselves to be “average users.” It’s a book for anyone who finds that doing things the official way is slower, less efficient, and less powerful because Windows Vista was designed from the...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672329204
• Authors:
• Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris, Mark Weinhardt

This is the ultimate guide to the design, migration, implementation, administration, management, and support of an Exchange Server 2007 environment. The recommendations, tips, and tricks covered are based on more than two years of early adopter implementations of Exchange 2007. The authors highlight the features and functions that organizations both large and small have found to be the important components in Exchange 2007, including the new...

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

• ISBN:
• 0672329859
• Authors:
• Rob Eisenberg, Christopher Bennage

Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio.   In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be able to begin effectively using WPF to solve real-world problems, developing rich user interfaces in less time than you thought possible.   Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on a real-world foundation forged in both technology and...

Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography

• ISBN:
• 0691138125
• Authors:
• Maria DiBattista

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?-- Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or...

Network Programming for Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Professional Series)

• ISBN:
• 0735605602
• Authors:
• Anthony Jones, Jim Ohlund

To support the expansive community of developers distributing their Windows-based solutions over networks, this book provides critical-and, until now, distinctly underdocumented-information on Microsoft's networking APIs. Produced by windows netwroking insiders, this guide provides definitive reference to the network programming interfaces available on the Windows 98, Windows NT(r)/2000, and Windows CE platforms. Developers get clear, detailed,...

Microsoft Windows XP Step by Step (Cpg-Other)

• ISBN:
• 0735613834
• Authors:
• Online Training Solutions Inc.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP STEP BY STEP offers self-paced instruction to the beginning-to-intermediate user who wants to get the most out of Windows XP. This personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons full of clear objectives, a wealth of task-oriented procedures, and dozens of real-world business scenarios. MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP STEP BY STEP consists of friendly, straightforward instruction with dozens of full-color screenshots and...

Microsoft Windows Security Inside Out for Windows XP and Windows 2000 (Bpg--Inside Out)

• ISBN:
• 0735616329
• Authors:
• Ed Bott, Carl Siechert

Hey, you know your way around a desktop-so now dig into the Windows operating system and really put its security features to work! Covering Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional, this supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, checklists, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds-all in concise, fast-answers format. Learn the essential tools and techniques for tightening up...

MCSA/MCSE Managing a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Network Environment Readiness Review; Exam 70-218 (MCSE Readiness Review)

• ISBN:
• 0735616361
• Authors:
• Microsoft Corporation

MCSA exam 70-218 measures the ability to manage a Microsoft Windows 2000-based network environment. Designed to help certification candidates prepare for this exam, READINESS REVIEW electronic exam simulation delivers practice tests covering actual MCSA exam objectives. It also allows testing and re-testing with different question sets each time. After completing practice sessions, users can consult the companion text for explanations for all...

Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft® Windows®

• ISBN:
• 0735619395
• Authors:
• Joseph Davies

Learn how to deploy security-enhanced 802.11b wireless networks across the Windows platform with information direct from the Microsoft experts who know Windows-based wireless networking best.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Resource Kit

• ISBN:
• 0735625158
• Authors:
• Stan Riemer, Conan Kezema, Mike Mulcare, Byron Wright

Get the definitive, in-depth resource for designing, deploying, and maintaining Windows Server 2008 Active Directory in an enterprise environment. Written by experts on directory services and the Active Directory team at Microsoft, this technical resource is packed with concrete, real-world design and implementation guidance. You ll get in-depth guidance on installation, Active Directory components, replication, security, administration, and...

Understanding Ethics

• ISBN:
• 0748616381
• Authors:
• Professor Torbjörn Tännsjö, Tä, nnsjö, Torbjö , rn

This non-technical introduction to ethics explores how we find true or reasonable moral principles, applicable to current concerns and issues. The reader is presented with seven radically different basic moral theories. Each theory attempts to provide an ultimate answer to the question of what ought to be done and why. Each theory is carefully described, put into historical perspective and critically assessed. The theories covered are:...

Advances in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Volume 2, Volume 2

• ISBN:
• 0762302925

Volume 2 has focused on aspects of the pituitary gland both anterior (growth hormone and prolactin receptors, and GH action) and posterior (vasopressin) pituitary. In addition, thyroid cancer and steroidogenic enzymes and precocious puberty are covered. Finally, the "hot topics" include leptin and growth factor signaling.

Osteoporosis: A Guide for Clinicians

• ISBN:
• 0781786193
• Authors:
• Pauline M Camacho, Paul D Miller

This handbook is a practical and comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis. The book covers all aspects of osteoporosis, from pathophysiology to diagnostic tests and therapies, and includes actual case studies with teaching points. Separate chapters focus on vitamin D deficiency and workup and recognition of secondary causes of bone loss. Coverage of treatment includes tailoring therapy to individual patients,...

E-Health Care Information Systems: An Introduction for Students and Professionals

• ISBN:
• 0787966185

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems,...

Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP

• ISBN:
• 0789727900
• Authors:
• Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel

While most Windows books concentrate on a ground floor approach, Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP takes an entirely different approach - one that assumes the reader is a bona fide Windows black belt who wants or needs to manage multiple users in a networked environment, turbocharge a Windows installation with registry tweaks or stop hackers in their tracks. This book doesn't waste time telling the reader how to simply live with...

Easy Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (2nd Edition) (Que's Easy Series)

• ISBN:
• 0789730367
• Authors:
• Shelley O'Hara, Kate Welsh

Easy Windows XP, Home Edition 2nd Edition covers more than 150 of the most important tasks, ranging from the simple features such as opening a folder to more advanced topics such as installing new hardware or restoring a system. This book uses visual learning to appeal to the most common users of Windows XP - the home user.

Microsoft Windows Vista On Demand (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0789737868
• Authors:
• Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc.

Microsoft Windows Vista On Demand , Second Edition FOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER BE SHOWN HOW THAN TOLD HOW SEE HOW TO • Master the Windows Vista user experience, including Windows Aero • Manage files and information using Windows Vista programs and Sidebar gadgets • Create your own movies, slides shows, and DVDs • Rip, manage, and play digital music and videos • Protect your computer from Internet or network intruders • Explore...

Xerxes (Ancient World Leaders)

• ISBN:
• 0791096025
• Authors:
• Dennis Abrams

In the year 486 BCE, upon the death of his father, Darius I, Xerxes I became king of the Persian Empire. His kingdom, extending from present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east to Egypt and Libya in the west, was the largest empire of the classical age. However, all was not well within the Persian Empire, with the provinces of Egypt and Babylon in a state of rebellion and the tiny city-states of Greece refusing Xerxes' rule. Set nearly...

A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies)

• ISBN:
• 079145259X
• Authors:
• David R. Loy

A Buddhist interpretation of Western history that shows civilization shaped by the self's desire for groundedness.

Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

• ISBN:
• 0791476111
• Authors:
• Brett Buchanan

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.

Global Values 101: A Short Course

• ISBN:
• 0807003050

Global Values 101 grew out of one of the most popular courses ever offered at Harvard University, in which some of the most original thinkers of our day sat down with students and explored how ideas have made them—and can make us—more engaged, involved, and compassionate citizens. They addressed the topics of war, religion, the global economy, and social change: Amy Goodman, host of the popular radio program Democracy Now as well as the...

Ancient Greek Warship: 500-322 BC (New Vanguard)

• ISBN:
• 1846030749
• Authors:
• Nic Fields

Formidable and sophisticated, triremes were the deadliest battleship of the ancient world, and at the height of their success, the Athenians were the dominant exponents of their devastating power. Primarily longships designed to fight under oar power, the trireme was built for lightness and strength; ship-timber was mostly softwoods such as poplar, pine and fir, while the oars and mast were made out of fir. Their main weapon was a bronze-plated...

Innovations and the Environment

• ISBN:
• 1848001967
• Authors:
• Yoram Krozer

There are various technologies which enable organizations to achieve large reductions in their emissions by employing resource saving, using new resources or following pollution controls. Companies which undertake environmental innovations and adaptations can reduce their emissions down to levels that do not preclude sustainable environmental qualities, without increasing their costs and in many cases even enjoying cost savings. The first book...

Sa'di: The Poet of Life, Love and Compassion (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851684735
• Authors:
• Homa Katouzian

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa'di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion. Filled with extracts of the poet's melodious and insightful writing, and critical analysis thereof, this revealing biography examines why he was so idolized until the 1950s, and why since then he has fallen into relative obscurity.

Living And Studying Abroad: Research And Practice (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education)

• ISBN:
• 1853599115

Presents studies of students who travel to other countries for study. This work includes students travelling within Europe, from Europe and America to East Asia and China and vice versa. It includes articles that report the results of research and also give detailed accounts of the research methods used. It is of interest to other researchers.

Theoretical Criminology : From Modernity to Post-Modernism

• ISBN:
• 1859412203
• Authors:
• Morrison

This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. It sets out a new project for criminology, a criminology of modernity, and offers a sustained critique of theorising without a concern for social totalities. It reviews the history and present state of criminology and identifies a range of social problems and large scale social processes...

Military Model Showcase (Europa Militaria)

• ISBN:
• 1872004288
• Authors:
• Bill Horan

The English Civil War Recreated in Colour Photographs (Europa Militaria)

• ISBN:
• 1872004547
• Authors:
• Chris Honeywell, Gill Spear

The hobby of historical re-enactment and "living history" in Britain owes its birth to the "Sealed Knot", the largest historical re-enactment society in Europe, founded in 1968 on the initiative of the late Brigadier Peter Young. In this book, two professional photographers record the English Civil War re-enactment scene - the often eerily convincing clashes on the battlefield, with blocks of hundreds of infantry, cavalry charges, muskateers and...

Listen to Me: The Voices of Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (Lucky Duck Books)

• ISBN:
• 1873942133
• Authors:
• Dr Sue Wise

`This book is an essential tool if schools are to achieve effective ways forward with those students who are unhappy; disaffected and therefore unable to cope with the present system' - SNIP `This is a valuable and well-written book which deserves to be widely read' - Support for Learning `The structure of the book is well organized and the use of marginal summaries is particularly use for those wishing an overview of the key themes from the...

Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

• ISBN:
• 1877741094
• Authors:
• Ray Bradbury

The third edition of Bradbury's much-loved classic adds three new exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the 20th century--an author who truly enjoys his craft and tells you why and how.

Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners (The Interact Series)

• ISBN:
• 1877864153
• Authors:
• Margaret K. Nydell

From the rise of fundamentalism to the historically uneasy relationship between the Arab World and the West, Margaret Nydell has expanded her highly respected book to bring today's complex issues into clearer focus. This third edition of "Understanding Arabs" introduces the complexities of Arab culture and Islam in an evenhanded, unbiased style. The book covers such topics as beliefs and values, religion and society, the role of the family,...

The Yin and Yang of American Culture: A Paradox

• ISBN:
• 1877864854
• Authors:
• Eun Y. Kim

This title uses the unique Asian concept of yin and yang to explain how American virtues and vices are opposite sides of the same coin. Unlike the dualism characteristic of the West, in much of Asia the forces of yin and yang are seen to co-exist in everything, and to complete each other to maintain cosmic harmony. Culture amd entity regarded as yin in one light can be regarded as yang in another. Eun Y. Kim begins by looking at America in the...

God's Generals: Why They Succeeded and Why Some Failed

• ISBN:
• 1880089475
• Authors:
• Roberts Liardon

Robert Liardon provides us with short biographies of a dozen leaders of the Pentecostal, Divine Healing, and Charismatic movements, chronicling their lives, teachings, and spiritual insights.

Beading with Brick Stitch (Beadwork How-To)

• ISBN:
• 1883010721
• Authors:
• Diane Fitzgerald

Focusing solely on brick stitch, this unique guide presents 10 exciting beading projects-from tassels to necklaces-along with detailed, illustrated instructions. The history of this elegant stitch-in tribal Africa, during the Victorian era, and its use by Native Americans-includes a look at brick stitch beadwork by contemporary artists. Descriptions of necessary tools and techniques including increasing, decreasing, and finishing offer beaders...

The Real Easy Book: Tunes for Beginning Improvisers Volume 1 (C Version)

• ISBN:
• 1883217156
• Authors:
• Stanford Jazz Workshop

The only fake book specifically designed for middle school or high school classroom use. It contains over 40 simple, but classic, jazz tunes by Miles, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, etc. Each song is on a left-hand page, and all the information that a band director would have to write out for his/her students is on the corresponding right-hand page - sample piano voicings, bass lines, guitar diagrams, scales for soloing, etc. Saves the teacher...

Graphics File Formats

• ISBN:
• 1884777007
• Authors:
• C Wayne Brown

The first comprehensive guide to graphical file formats that spans typical industry boundaries and graphical data types. It discusses and explains in clear English the key issues related to the implementation and design of file formats that store graphical data. This guide will be in demand because there is no universal standard for storage and transmission of graphical data.

Dynamic Programming & Optimal Control, Vol. I

• ISBN:
• 1886529264
• Authors:
• Dimitri P. Bertsekas

The first of the two volumes of the leading and most up-to-date textbook on the far-ranging algorithmic methododogy of Dynamic Programming, which can be used for optimal control, Markovian decision problems, planning and sequential decision making under uncertainty, and discrete/combinatorial optimization. The treatment focuses on basic unifying themes, and conceptual foundations. It illustrates the versatility, power, and generality of the...

Ultimate Review for the Neurology Boards

• ISBN:
• 1888799919
• Authors:
• Hubert H. Fernandez, Stephan Eisenschenk, Anthony T. Yachnis, Michael S. Okun

Preparing for the Neurology Boards and the Neurology Recertification Exam can be daunting - years of study and training and volumes of information to be processed, organized and distilled for ready access when the moment arrives. It may seem impossible to retain so much information. This unique, easy-to-use guide gives you the tools to “tie it all together.” Weighted for the written boards, the book also gives you important test-taking hints...

Language, Proof, and Logic

• ISBN:
• 1889119083
• Authors:
• Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy, Gerard Allwein, Dave Barker-Plummer, Albert Liu

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for first and second courses in logic. The unique on-line grading services instantly grades solutions to hundred of computer exercises. It is specially devised to be used by philosophy instructors in a way that is useful to undergraduates of philosophy, computer science, mathematics, and linguistics. The book is a completely rewritten and much improved version of...

Find It Online, Fourth Edition: The Complete Guide to Online Research (Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research)

• ISBN:
• 1889150452
• Authors:
• Alan M. Schlein

Sharpen Your Online Research Skills! Find it Online 4th ed. is your field guide that helps you zoom past "meaningless hits" to find what you’re looking for... quickly and easily. This comprehensive reference details more than 2,000 reliable Web resources, and also provides the strategies and mechanics to move you up to the next level in your online research capabilities. With Find it Online as your desktop companion you’ll be able to: •...

Opticks (Italian Edition)

• ISBN:
• 1891788043
• Authors:
• Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton can be seen as a Renaissance colossus, a polymath straddling his age with one foot confidently planted in the Enlightenment and the other still mired in the Middle Ages. A firm believer in reason and the ability of human beings to understand how the universe worked ("the inward frame of bodies is not yet known to us," he writes in one place, with apparent confidence that eventually it would be), he also held some surprisingly...

The Secret History of the Sword: Adventures in Ancient Martial Arts

• ISBN:
• 1892515040
• Authors:
• J Christopher Amberger

Taming Java Threads

• ISBN:
• 1893115100
• Authors:
• Allen Holub

Learning how to write multithreaded applications is the key to taking full advantage of the Java platform. In Taming Java Threads , well-known columnist and Java expert Allen Holub provides Java programmers with the information they need to write real multithreaded programs&emdash;programs with real code. Holub provides an in-depth explanation of how threads work along with information about how to solve common problems such as deadlocks and...

Examkrackers MCAT Physics

• ISBN:
• 1893858456
• Authors:
• Jonathan Orsay

This book reviews all the physics tested by the MCAT. It includes eight 30 minute exams in the MCAT format, and 120 additional stand alone questions. All 304 questions are in MCAT form and fully annotated. This book is expensive because it is the best MCAT physics review available.

Seven Rays (Spirit Books)

• ISBN:
• 1894663497
• Authors:
• Samantha Stevens

Want to talk to angels? The Seven Rays: A Universal Guide to the Archangels, the first title in the Spirit Books Series, teaches you how to develop a relationship with the Archangels (known as the Seven Rays) using prayer, affirmations, candle burning, visualizations and meditation. Samantha Stevens takes you through the origins and energies of the Seven Archangels: Michael (protection), Zadkiel (joy), Uriel (peace), Chamuel (love), Gabriel...

King of Egypt, King of Dreams (Insomniac Library)

• ISBN:
• 1894663608
• Authors:
• Gwendolyn MacEwen

The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen’s second novel, more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1971. The novel bears important resemblances to MacEwen’s earlier Julian the Magician. Writing to poet Al Purdy, MacEwen confessed she wanted her second novel to be "bulky, readable, and not overly mysterious." Unlike in Julian, however, here MacEwen sets out to write a deeply serious novel that also functions...

Meet Me in the Parking Lot

• ISBN:
• 1894663616
• Authors:
• Alexandra Leggat

Meet Me in the Parking Lot—Alexandra Leggat’s stylish successor to her acclaimed collection of short fiction Pull Gently, Tear Here (Insomniac, 2001)—is a foray into the rocky terrain of the troubled mind. In more than fulfilling the promise of her first collection, Leggat ups the ante to explore all aspects of the ambulatory: the vehicle that brings us into the world, the vehicle we get around in while here, and the vehicle that often...

Happy Pilgrims

• ISBN:
• 1895837596
• Authors:
• Stephen Finucan

A remarkable debut from a truly promising young writer. In twelve rich short stories that move from small-town life to old-time Hollywood, from devotion in a tiny Irish parish to the three-ring piety of Lourdes, Stephen Finucan makes a startling appearance in American literature. His vibrant characters face poignant battles with religion, courage and daily life. In these worlds, subtle gestures and minor events can suddenly turn lives in exactly...

Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed: Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots They Carried to Canada, 1774-1855

• ISBN:
• 1896219314
• Authors:
• Lucille H. Campey

The days when Aberdeen's 'fast sailing and copper-bottomed' ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during the sailing ship era. Taking readers through new and little-used documentary sources, Lucille H. Campey finds convincing evidence of good ships, sailed by experienced captains and managed by reputable people, thus challenging head on the perceived imagery of...

Why I Didn't Say Anything: The Sheldon Kennedy Story

• ISBN:
• 1897178077
• Authors:
• Sheldon Kennedy, James Grainger

In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked the insular world of Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor league coach, Graham James-the Hockey News 1989 Man of the Year-had sexually abused him more than three hundred times. The media portrayed Kennedy as a hero for breaking the code of silence in professional hockey and bringing James to justice. The heroic myth intensified in 1998 when Kennedy announced that he was going to in-line skate from...

Pink Icing and Other Stories

• ISBN:
• 1897178328
• Authors:
• Pamela Mordecai

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

Udon's Art of Capcom

• ISBN:
• 1897376995
• Authors:
• UDON, Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang, Jo Chen, Omar Dogan

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise, Udon Entertainment is proud to present this special volume commemorating the studio's involvement with legendary video game company Capcom. Beautifully reproduced images from Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, Mega Man, Devil May Cry and more are showcased in this lush 300-page art book. Included are rare book covers, pin-ups, sketches, and merchandising artwork by...

A Sexual Odyssey

• ISBN:
• 1898998264
• Authors:
• Lyn Paula Russell

Sabina, Part 2 (Pt. 2)

• ISBN:
• 1898998876
• Authors:
• Lynn Paula Russell

Painful Pleasures: The Erotic Art of Lynn Paula Russell

• ISBN:
• 1898998957
• Authors:
• Lynn Paula Russell

Discover a world of Painful Pleasures vividly captured and portrayed in some of Lynn Paula Russell's most outstanding work. Many of the illustrations collected here were commissioned by corporal punishment magazines, Februs and Janus. Paula’s drawings are unashamedly erotic and full of the energies and emotions of sex. Her extraordinary imagination and realistic style carry you effortlessly into a realm of fantasy that is as rare as it is...

Principles and Practice of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology

• ISBN:
• 1899066063

Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK. Text provides a broad, comprehensive, and balanced view of current approaches to the management of head and neck tumors. Covers squamous and non-squamous neoplasms, basic principles of management, and rehabilitation and reconstruction. Color and halftone illustrations. For residents, otolaryngologists, and oncologists.

Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Practical Guide to Invasive EP Studies and Catheter Ablation

• ISBN:
• 1901346374
• Authors:
• Francis Murgatroyd, Andrew D. Krahn, Raymond Yee, Allan Skanes

Outline: The Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology provides a comprehensive introductory-level guide to invasive cardiac EP studies. Its focus is to enable the reader to understand and interpret the recording and stimulation techniques used during an EP study. The primary emphasis is on tachyarrhythmia diagnosis, but the book also includes bradycardias, the principles of catheter ablation and new mapping techniques. The main concepts are...

Recrafting the Rule of Law: The Limits of Legal Order

• ISBN:
• 1901362310

This collection of essays on the rule of law focuses on the traditional question whether the rule of law is necessarily the rule of moral principles, the question of the legitimacy of law. Essays by lawyers, philosophers, and political theorists illuminate and take forward both that question and debate about issues to do with the reach of the rule of law which complicate its answer. The essays are divided into sections which deal, first, with...

100 Word Exercise Book: Arabic (The 100 word exercise book)

• ISBN:
• 1903103002
• Authors:
• Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar

100 key items of vocabulary covering 8 everyday topics: at home; around town; clothes; parts of the body; the countryside; animals; opposites; useful expressions. Modern teaching methods: flashcards; matching games; memory games; joining exercises; word searches; etc. Review, round-up and tests: a final revision of all the 100 words together. 100 tear-out flashcards: help with whole word recognition.

Analysis of Composite Structures

• ISBN:
• 1903996023
• Authors:
• Christian Decolon

This book provides the basis for calculations of composite structures, using continuum mechanics to facilitate the treatment of more elaborate theories. A composite structure combines traditional materials (such as concrete) with new materials (such as high performance fibres) to explore and develop new structures. The author deals with individual layers in laminate composites, discussing the basic laws that govern mixtures. · Recommended for...

Scaling of Structural Strength

• ISBN:
• 1903996082
• Authors:
• Zdenek P. Bazant

This book is concerned with a leading-edge topic of great interest and importance, exemplifying the relationship between experimental research, material modeling, structural analysis and design. It focuses on the effect of structure size on structural strength and failure behaviour. Bazant's theory has recently found wide application to all quasibrittle materials, including rocks, ice, modern fiber composites and tough ceramics The topic of...

Millimeter Waves in Communication Systems (Innovative Technology Series)

• ISBN:
• 1903996171

The creation of new components, devices, and systems the millimetre-wave range due to increasing demand for faster systems in the telecommunications area is discussed in this technological analysis.

Turbo Codes: Error-Correcting Codes of Widening Application (Innovative Technology Series)

• ISBN:
• 1903996260

Three leading areas of information about turbo codes, a new type of correction code, are examined: the construction of concatenated codes and their properties, the problems of decoding, and the extension of turbo codes to other applications.

Intelligent Agent-Based Operations Management (Innovative Technology Series)

• ISBN:
• 1903996430

Text describes the application range of intelligent agents to practical industrial problems, including: a concurrent engineering approach in new product development, and the formalization of knowledge and product information in intelligent systems. For researchers and practitioners. DLC: Production management.

Recent Trends in Mechatronics

• ISBN:
• 1903996465

The range of recent developments in the field of ‘mechatronics’—devices that combine mechanical structures with electronic controls—is demonstrated in these descriptions of fingertip manipulation, obstacle detection, micromanipulation of biological objects, ultra-high precision microrobotics, and an insect-like robot.

Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity (Critical Approaches to Law)

• ISBN:
• 1904385850
• Authors:
• Hunter & Cowan

This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory. Written by an international cast of contributors, offering different cultural perspectives as well as doctrinal and theo