eBooks List For Item Software Development & Engineering - General
Network programming in .NET: C# & Visual Basic .NET
- ISBN:
- 1555583156
- Authors:
- Fiach Reid
The purpose of this book is to provide tools to design and implement network-orientated applications in .NET. It is also a guide for software designers to choose the best and most efficient way to implement mission critical solutions. The book addresses real-world issues facing professional developers, such as using third-party components as opposed in-house development. It differentiates itself from existing .NET publications because it is...
Getting StartED with Windows 7
- ISBN:
- 1430225033
- Authors:
- Joseph Moran, Kevin Otnes
Welcome to the new world of Windows 7. Whether this is your first time with Windows, you're switching from another operating system, or you're upgrading from Windows XP or Vista, you’ll find a wealth of new ideas and innovations in Windows 7. The mission with this release was to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and in Getting StartED with Windows 7 we’ll highlight those features to make your time in Windows more productive and more...
Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)
- ISBN:
- 0195370678
- Authors:
- Joscha Bach
From the Foreword: "In this book Joscha Bach introduces Dietrich Dörner's PSI architecture and Joscha's implementation of the MicroPSI architecture. These architectures and their implementation have several lessons for other architectures and models. Most notably, the PSI architecture includes drives and thus directly addresses questions of emotional behavior. An architecture including drives helps clarify how emotions could arise. It also...
Early Palaeozoic Peri-Gondwana Terranes: New Insights from Tectonics and Biogeography - Special Publication 325
- ISBN:
- 1862392862
- Authors:
- M. G. Bassett
Following the late Neoproterozoic - early Cambrian breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia, Gondwana evolved as one of the principal continental masses on Earth, embracing most of South America, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica, much of western Europe and parts of Asia. Around its margins were various other terranes that had varying tectonic and biogeographical affinities with the main continental block. This book incorporates a series of reviews...
Caring for Your Aging Parents: An Emotional Guide to Nurturing Your Loved Ones while Taking Care of Yourself
- ISBN:
- 1402218613
- Authors:
- Raeann Berman, Bernard Shulman MD
The fastest-growing segment of our population is people 85 and older, and many of them are now cared for by their children. This comforting and poignant guide bridges the gap between elderly parents and the adult children who care for them, with trusted answers to questions most asked by caregivers in this challenging situation. Covering health, finances, living arrangements, communication, and emotional struggles, Caring for Your Aging Parents...
Understanding Motivation and Emotion
- ISBN:
- 0470392231
- Authors:
- Johnmarshall Reeve
This book walks psychologists through the study of motivation, exploring all conditions that exist within the person and within the environment and culture that explain why we want what we want and why we do what we do. The fifth edition expands on theoretical ideas further into practical applications, especially in the areas of education, work, therapy, sports, and the home. Each chapter features a chapter box that addresses a specific concern....
Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Suny Series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues)
- ISBN:
- 079145441X
- Authors:
- Laura Janara
The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America.
Practical WPF Charts and Graphics (Expert's Voice in .Net)
- ISBN:
- 1430224819
- Authors:
- Jack Xu
Creating 2D and 3D charts is one of the most common uses of computer graphics. Such charts can have wide applications in representing mathematical, physical, and economic functions in your daily life. Whether you are an engineer, a quantitative analyst, a teacher, or a student, you will end up dealing with charting applications to some degree. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation graphics platform that enables you to build...
A Mind of its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
- ISBN:
- 0393062139
- Authors:
- Cordelia Fine
A delightfully unsparing look into what your brain is doing behind your back. In recent years, we've heard a lot about the extraordinary workings of our hundred-billion-celled brain: its amazing capacities to regulate all sensation, perception, thinking, and feeling; the power to shape all experience and define our identity. Indeed, the brain's power is being confirmed every day in new studies and research. But there is a brain we don't...
The Origin of Mountains
- ISBN:
- 0415198909
- Authors:
- Cliff Ollier
This book is a ground breaking and highly illustrated study challenging existing plate tectonics theory. It describes mountains from all over the world, analysing their rocks, structure and age to ascertain what led to their formation.
Psychiatry in Law / Law in Psychiatry
- ISBN:
- 0415994918
- Authors:
- Ralph Slovenko
Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry, 2nd Edition , is a sweeping, up-to-date examination of the infiltration of psychiatry into law and the growing intervention of law into psychiatry. Unmatched in breadth and coverage, and thoroughly updated from the first editon, this comprehensive text and reference is an essential resource for psychiatry residents, law students, and practitioners alike.
High Pressure Geochemistry & Mineral Physics, Volume 9: Basics for Planetology and Geo-Material Science (Developments in Geochemistry)
- ISBN:
- 0444512667
- Authors:
- S. Mitra
Significant achievements have been made at the cross-roads of physics and planetary science. In the second half of the twentieth century, the discipline of planetary sciences has witnessed three major episodes which have revolutionized its approach and content: (i) the plate-tectonic theory, (ii) human landing and discoveries in planetary astronomy and (iii) the extraordinary technical advancement in high P-T studies, which have been abetted by...
Soil Water Repellency: Occurrence, Consequences, and Amelioration
- ISBN:
- 0444512691
It has become clear that soil water repellency is much more wide-spread than formerly thought. Water repellency has been reported in most continents of the world for varying land uses and climatic conditions. Soil water repellency often leads to severe runoff and erosion, rapid leaching of surface-applied agrichemicals, and losses of water and nutrient availability for crops. At present, no optimum management strategies exist for water repellent...
Understanding Emotions, Volume 156 (Progress in Brain Research)
- ISBN:
- 0444521828
Emotions shape all aspects of our thinking and behavior, particularly when we communicate with others. How does our brain respond to emotions conveyed by picture media, human faces, voices, and written language? How do we integrate this information in social interaction? What goes wrong in the brains of people suffering from emotional disorders? This book reviews modern neuroscientific and psychological research providing answers to these...
Hydrocarbon Exploration & Production, Volume 55, Second Edition (Developments in Petroleum Science)
- ISBN:
- 0444532366
- Authors:
- Frank Jahn, Mark Cook, Mark Graham
Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, Second Edition is a comprehensive and current introduction to the upstream industry, drawing together the many inter-disciplinary links within the industry. It presents all the major stages in the life of an oil or gas field, from gaining access to opportunity, through exploration, appraisal, development planning, production, and finally to decommissioning. It also explains the fiscal and commercial...
Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia
- ISBN:
- 0470026928
Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia, 3rd Edition discusses the factors that contribute to the potential difficulties many dyslexic learners may have with mathematics, and suggests ways of addressing these difficulties. The first chapters consider the theoretical background. The later chapters look at practical methods, which may help dyslexic learners. The book is designed to be comprehensive and to help teachers, support...
Managing Customers Profitably
- ISBN:
- 0470060638
- Authors:
- Lynette Ryals
This book is a response to a need in the market place in the fast-growing field of customer profitability analysis and the profitable management of customer relationships. It combines innovative approaches to calculating the value of customers, with the management strategies necessary to make and keep customers profitable. It includes easy-to-follow instructions on how to calculate customer profitability, including worked examples...
Outpacing the Competition: Patent-Based Business Strategy
- ISBN:
- 0470390859
- Authors:
- Robert L. Cantrell
Praise for Outpacing the Competition Patent-Based Business Strategy "Outpacing the Competition provides a useful IP management framework for rapidly evolving and inherently unpredictable R&D environments where companies are partners, customers, and competitors at the same time." –Marshall Phelps, Corporate Vice President for IP Policy & Strategy, Microsoft "Robert Cantrell's book Outpacing the Competition: Patent-Based Business Strategy?should...
Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings
- ISBN:
- 047069744X
- Authors:
- Ursula Eicker
This long-awaited reference guide provides a complete overview of low energy cooling systems for buildings, covering a wide range of existing and emerging sustainable energy technologies in one comprehensive volume. An excellent data source on cooling performance, such as building loads or solar thermal chiller efficiencies, it is essential reading for building services and renewable energy engineers and researchers covering sustainable design....
Pinball: The Making of a Canadian Hero
- ISBN:
- 0470836903
- Authors:
- Perry Lefko
In 2004, Michael "Pinball" Clemons became the first black coach in the history of the CFL to hoist the Grey Cup in victory, the culmination of an experience that began when he came to Canada in 1989 as an unheralded American football player deemed too small to make it in the National Football League. Not only did Clemons make it big—literally and figuratively—in the Canadian Football League in a career that spanned 11½ seasons, but he...
Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
- ISBN:
- 0470850191
- Authors:
- John T. Hardy
This book addresses civilization’s most important environmental challenge: climate change. Burning of fossil fuels has greatly increased the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, trapping more of the sun’s energy near the Earth’s surface. In response, our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and ecosystems are already changing. Modern industrialized economies depend largely on the combustion of coal, oil and gas. However,...
Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism
- ISBN:
- 0521844940
The book focuses on the developmental analysis of brain-culture-environment dynamics and argues that this dynamic is interactive and reciprocal. Brain and culture co-determine each other. As a whole, this book refutes any unidirectional conception of the brain-culture dynamic. Each is influenced by and modifies the other. To capture the ubiquitous reach and significance of the mutually dependent brain-culture system, the metaphor of biocultural...
The Unauthorised Agent: Perspectives from European and Comparative Law
- ISBN:
- 0521863880
The focus of this book, the legal situation created when an agent acts without authority, is one of the most important issues in agency law. The analysis is divided into three sections: apparent authority, ratification and the liability of the falsus procurator. Adopting a unique comparative perspective, the contributions are drawn from many different legal systems, providing the opportunity for analysis of the European common law/civil law...
How To Teach Pronunciation (Book with Audio CD)
- ISBN:
- 0582429757
- Authors:
- Gerald Kelly
*Provides detailed analyses of key topics such as vowels, consonants, stress and intonation, with a variety of sample lessons for each topic *Includes a photocopiable Learner's Reference Chart of English Sounds, a breakdown of common pronunciation errors, and pronunciation and spelling tables *An audio CD with spoken examples of sounds, words and phrases from the book puts the theories examined into a clear context
Squid: The Definitive Guide
- ISBN:
- 0596001622
- Authors:
- Duane Wessels
Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you to get by with smaller network connections. It also protects the host...
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)
- ISBN:
- 0596528469
- Authors:
- William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge, Sanders William, Cumaranatunge Chandima
Now that ActionScript is reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash and Flex applications. If you're an experienced Flash or Flex developer ready to tackle sophisticated programming techniques with ActionScript 3.0, this hands-on introduction to design patterns is the book you need. ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns takes you...
The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth
- ISBN:
- 0631234926
- Authors:
- Norman M. Ford
This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies. Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues. Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts. Explains how different metaphysical frameworks...
Palaeobiology II (Paleobiology)
- ISBN:
- 0632051493
Palaeobiology: A Synthesis was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality. Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther have once again brought together over 150 leading authorities from around the world to produce Palaeobiology II. Using the same successful formula, the content is arranged as a series of concise articles, taking a thematic approach to the subject, rather than treating the various fossil groups systematically....
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)
- ISBN:
- 067400793X
- Authors:
- Philip Lieberman
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought Philip Lieberman This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more...
MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-299): Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network (Pro-Certification)
- ISBN:
- 073562061X
- Authors:
- Anthony Northrup, Orin Thomas
Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-299, one of two core exams for the MCSE: Security specialization and an elective for MCSA and MCSE. 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 real-world scenarios, case...
MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework Application Development Foundation, Second edition
- ISBN:
- 0735626197
- Authors:
- Tony Northrup
Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you’ll 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. Maximize your performance on the exam by...
Building Design Management
- ISBN:
- 0750650702
- Authors:
- Colin Gray, Will Hughes
A practical handbook on the management of building design, this guide explains the processes, roles and responsibilities of those involved in the design of the building, as well as ways to maximise efficiency. Well structured and easy to read, the book includes useful notes and checklists on, for example, how to select a design team and how to organise and plan the design process. The authors are recognised authorities in the field of project...
Sport Management: Principles and Application
- ISBN:
- 0750666765
- Authors:
- Russell Hoye, Aaron Smith, Hans Westerbeek, Bob Stewart, Matthew Nicholson
Sport Management: principles and application provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice and what research evidence tells us about the application of a range of management principles and practices in...
Security Operations Management
- ISBN:
- 0750670878
- Authors:
- Robert McCrie Professor and Chair Law Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York
Security Operations Management takes concepts from business administration and criminal justice schools and incorporates them into the world of security management. It is comprehensive text focused on theoretical and research-oriented overviews of the core principles of security management. The book includes critical issues faced by real-life security practitioners and explores how they were resolved. The book is written for practitioners,...
Managing Legal and Ethical Principles: Management Extra
- ISBN:
- 0750680210
- Authors:
- Elearn
Evidence suggests that a values based approach to management positively impacts employee engagement and motivation. As well as reducing an organisation's susceptibility to fraud and misconduct, ultimately, we all want to be proud of the organisation for which we work. Leadership organisations are recognising that this means moving beyond the simple goals of profit, and thinking about how they operate in relation to staff, customers, investors...
Customer-Driven Services Management (Response Books)
- ISBN:
- 0761932550
- Authors:
- S Balachandran
Intense competition in the rapidly growing global market has given rise to a need for superiority in services. Indian customers now demand world-class quality and efficiency, and companies that can provide this consistently will gain competitive advantage. The growing service industry forms a significant part of India's economy, on its own and as a support to the manufacturing industry. This Second Edition has been substantially revised keeping...
Social Justice and Labour Jurisprudence: Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer's Contributions
- ISBN:
- 0761935231
- Authors:
- Sharath Babu; Rashmi Shetty
Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer is one of the most prominent judges in the Supreme Court of India and his contributions to labour jurisprudence are legendary. This book analyzes the most important judgements delivered by Justice Iyer from the perspective of social justice. Arranging the judgements contextually and in accordance with the subject and within the framework of prevailing industrial laws, the authors examine key aspects of industrial...
Theory of Program Structures: Schemes, Semantics, Verification (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
- ISBN:
- 3540074155
- Authors:
- Sheila A. Greibach
Web Engineering
- ISBN:
- 3540281967
Since its original inception back in 1989 the Web has changed into an environment where Web applications range from small-scale information dissemination applications, often developed by non-IT professionals, to large-scale, commercial, enterprise-planning and scheduling applications, developed by multidisciplinary teams of people with diverse skills and backgrounds and using cutting-edge, diverse technologies. As an engineering discipline, Web...
Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences
- ISBN:
- 3540773053
- Authors:
- Jibamitra Ganguly
This book provides exposition of a large spectrum of geological, geochemical and geophysical problems that are amenable to thermodynamic analysis. It also includes selected problems in planetary sciences, relationships between thermodynamics and microscopic properties, particle size effects, methods of approximation of thermodynamic properties of minerals, and some kinetic ramifications of entropy production. Many of these features are...