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C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3
- ISBN:
- 0131240722
- Authors:
- Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield
Many companies are facing problems with Windows development using traditional Windows tools such as Visual Studio. When they write applications, even just "single platform" applications for Windows, they often have to account for differences between different Windows versions, which adds hassle to development and maintenance. Qt works no matter the Windows versions. This book provides all the information needed to become a professional Qt...
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...
Heidegger: A Beginner's Guide (Headway Guides for Beginners)
- ISBN:
- 034080324X
- Authors:
- Michael Watts
This handy series from Headway offers brief yet lucid introductions to the world’s cultural icons. Each book examines the life, the work, and the legends surrounding its subject, and key terms and concepts are highlighted and clearly explained. Additionally, each chapter ends with a review section for easy reference and to help consolidate the reader’s understanding of the text.
Atonement: A Novel
- ISBN:
- 0385503954
- Authors:
- Ian McEwan
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will...
Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm
- ISBN:
- 0387229906
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an integrating technology for supporting a pervasive and transparent infrastructure for implementing smart environments. Such technology is used to enable environments for detecting events and behaviors of people and for responding in a contextually relevant fashion. AmI proposes a multi-disciplinary approach for enhancing human machine interaction. Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm is a compilation of edited...
Alternative Breast Imaging: Four Model-Based Approaches (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
- ISBN:
- 0387233636
Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques. An enabling force behind this progress has been the (so far) exponentially increasing power of computers, which has made it practical to explore fundamentally new approaches. In particular, what our group terms
Memory and Brain Dynamics: Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning, and Memory
- ISBN:
- 0415308364
- Authors:
- Erol Basar
Memory itself is inseparable from all other brain functions and involves distributed dynamic neural processes. This book bridges the disciplines of neurophysiology, cognitive psychology and EEG-brain dynamics to understand how the brain represents mental events that are interwoven with memory. The text presents a new study-framework that links oscillatory brain activity with the concept of dynamic memory, leading to dynamic-APLR alliance and all...
Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0415977614
- Authors:
- Heidi Breuer
How did the witch become wicked? This is the central question of Crafting the Witch, which documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures that occurred in Arthurian romance as it developed from its earliest continental manifestations in the twelfth century to its flowering in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. In particular, while wizard-figures remained repositories of privileged knowledge throughout these periods,...
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.
Interlaboratory Studies and Certified Reference Materials for Environmental Analysis, Volume 22: The BCR Approach (Techniques and Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry)
- ISBN:
- 0444823891
- Authors:
- E.A. Maier, Ph. Quevauviller
The participation in interlaboratory studies and the use of Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) are widely recognised tools for the verification of the accuracy of analytical measurements and they form an integral part of quality control systems used by many laboratories, e.g. in accreditation schemes. As a response to the need to improve the quality of environmental analysis, the European Commission has been active in the past fifteen years,...
NMR Spectroscopy and its Application to Biomedical Research
- ISBN:
- 0444894101
NMR has become the most diverse spectroscopic tool available to date in biomedical research. It is now routinely used to study biomolecular structure and dynamics particularly as a result of recent developments of a cascade of highly sophisticated multidimensional NMR pulse sequences, and of advances in genetic engineering to produce biomolecules, uniformly or selectively enriched with 13C, 15N and 2H. Features of this book: • Provides an...
SolidWorks 2009 Bible
- ISBN:
- 047025825X
SolidWorks Bible is a comprehensive reference-tutorial that covers the basics, but then quickly ramps up to more advanced level topics. Every feature is thoroughly covered yet written in a way that makes learning this robust program seem non-threatening and uncomplicated. In a market full of books for beginners this is the one book that goes into extensive detail, not just on "how" the software works, but in many cases "why" it works the way it...
Photoshop Elements 7 All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
- ISBN:
- 0470434139
- Authors:
- Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova
Photoshop Elements 7 is a sophisticated image-editing program for hobbyists, amateur photographers, and professionals alike. Whether you’re new to Elements or looking for the details on the newest version, Photoshop Elements 7 All-in-One For Dummies gets you up to speed and offers a handy, full-color reference. Nine convenient minibooks cover everything you need to know about image editing, sharing files, and creating projects with Elements 7....
George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0521808456
- Authors:
- Nancy Henry
In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book...
Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
- ISBN:
- 0521898773
- Authors:
- David Simpson
This new reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labor and urbanization; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and...
Google Sketchup Cookbook: Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques
- ISBN:
- 0596155115
- Authors:
- Bonnie Roskes
As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. Google SketchUp Cookbook will help you: Use SketchUp...
Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors: A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers
- ISBN:
- 0596500092
- Authors:
- Tania Shiminski-Maher, Patsy McGuire Cullen, Maria Sansalone
Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors , the most complete parent guide available, includes detailed and precise medical information about both benign and malignant brain and spinal cord tumors that strike children and adolescents. In addition, it offers day-to-day practical advice on how to cope with procedures, hospitalization, family and friends, school, social and financial issues, communication, feelings and, if therapy is not successful, the...
Multiculturalism in Global Society
- ISBN:
- 063122193X
- Authors:
- Peter Kivisto
Explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects of the advanced industrial nations of the world. Softcover available.
A Person of Interest: A Novel
- ISBN:
- 0670018465
- Authors:
- Susan Choi
From an acclaimed novelist, an emotionally complex and riveting story of suspicion, innocence, and regret When a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest, comes under suspicion. The authorities believe he may be the infamous “brain bomber,” an elusive terrorist whose primary targets are prominent scientists and mathematicians. In the midst of campus...
Marxism and Form
- ISBN:
- 069101311X
- Authors:
- Fredric Jameson
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking...
Sex as a Second Language: A Novel
- ISBN:
- 0743268903
- Authors:
- Alisa Kwitney
A teacher of English as a second language, forty-year-old Katherine Miner is an expert on idiomatic phrases and subtle verbal cues. When it comes to the opposite sex, however, she's baffled enough to choose early retirement from the dating game. It's not that she hates men, it's just that she doesn't trust them. After all, her soon-to-be ex-husband has dropped all contact with their son, and her own father disappeared from her life thirty years...
Introduction to Plasma Physics
- ISBN:
- 0750303255
- Authors:
- Robert J. Goldston, Paul H. Rutherford
Based on a course taught at Princeton University, this textbook offers undergraduate students a detailed introduction to the field. It assumes no previous knowledge of plasma physics, and is based on the authors' years of research in the laboratory.
The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices (Series on Plasma Physics)
- ISBN:
- 0750305592
- Authors:
- P.C Stangeby
The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices introduces the physics of the plasma boundary region, including plasma-surface interactions, with an emphasis on those occurring in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The book covers plasma-surface interaction, Debye sheaths, sputtering, scrape-off layers, plasma impurities, recycling and control, 1D and 2D fluid and kinetic modeling of particle transport, plasma properties at the edge, diverter...
Christianity (DK Eyewitness Books)
- ISBN:
- 0756622468
- Authors:
- Philip Wilkinson, Michael Tambini
Discover some of the most fascinating and controversial developments in the Christian world with this re-launched edition of a classic DK book.
ICTs and Indian Economic Development: Economy, Work, Regulation
- ISBN:
- 0761933395
ICTs and Indian Economic Development evaluates the recent phenomenon of Information technology communication (ICT) development in India, and discusses such questions as: Can the growth be sustained? How far can an ICT revolution go towards modernising India's economy? What could be the capacity of ICTs to induce rapid social transformation and change? Can India navigate all the pitfalls and hazards and retain its current comparative advantage in...
Advances in Computer Science and Engineering: 13th International CSI Computer Conference, CSICC 2008 Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008 Revised Selected ... in Computer and Information Science)
- ISBN:
- 3540899847
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference, CSICC 2008 held on Kish Island, Iran, in March 2008. The 84 regular papers presented together with 68 poster presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 426 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning/soft computing, algorithm theory, SoC and NoC, wireless/sensor networks, video processing and...
Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. (Cross/Cultures)
- ISBN:
- 9042025638
What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, 'transcultural' terminology has unobtrusively but powerfully edged its way into contemporary theoretical and critical discourse. The four...
De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference. (European Joyce Studies)
- ISBN:
- 9042025700
Unlike many recent Joyce studies, De-familiarizing Readings eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its eight outstanding Joyce scholars share a love of the "stuff" of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Their inductive approaches - whether to Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses , or...
The Man Who Ran Away And Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s And 1930s
- ISBN:
- 976640173X
- Authors:
- Alfred Hubert Mendes
Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940. "The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short...
Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
- ISBN:
- 9774161467
- Authors:
- Radwa Ashour, Ferial Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-mekdashi
This book is an invaluable new reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth.Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study - first published in Arabic in 2004 - looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab...
The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes
- ISBN:
- 0060934972
- Authors:
- Christopher Bram
Christopher Bram tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. Spanning the years between the Civil War and the early 1920's, this riveting and ambitious historical novel displays the immense talents of a prodigious, highly esteemed author working at the...
So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?: A Literary Quizbook (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 019280443X
- Authors:
- John Sutherland
How well do you really know your favourite author? Ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland challenges the reader to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quiz progresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What really motivates the characters, and what is going on beneath the surface of the story? From...
Persian Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192806351
- Authors:
- Montesquieu
Persian Letters is a classic of European literature by Baron de Montesquieu, the brilliant thinker who had a huge influence on the Enlightenment. Through the astute observations of his two fictional Persian travelers in Europe--Usbek and Rica--Montesquieu asks fundamental questions about human nature, the manners and flirtations of polite society, the structures of power, and the hypocrisy of religion-all in a witty, inventive satire that...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192807293
- Authors:
- Oscar Wilde
Since its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. After having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary friend, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wished to stay young forever and pledges his...
Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology)
- ISBN:
- 0195067975
- Authors:
- Lindley Darden
This innovative book focuses on the development of the gene theory as a case study in scientific creativity.
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture
- ISBN:
- 019507775X
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus...
The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora
- ISBN:
- 0195086198
- Authors:
- F. Abiola Irele
This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampate Ba, and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing...
The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem
- ISBN:
- 0195371186
- Authors:
- Shira Wolosky
A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice.In fourteen engaging, eloquently written chapters, Wolosky explores in depth how poetry works while offering brilliant readings of some of the finest lyric poetry in the English and American traditions. Both readers new to poetry and poetry...
Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- ISBN:
- 0198294263
- Authors:
- R. D. Grillo
This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
- ISBN:
- 0199205205
- Authors:
- Isobel Armstrong
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material...