Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Parallel Algorithms for Linear Models - Numerical Methods and Estimation Problems (ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS Volume 15) (Advances in Computational Economics)

Textbook: Parallel Algorithms for Linear Models - Numerical Methods and Estimation Problems (ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS Volume 15) (Advances in Computational Economics)

Author: Erricos John Kontoghiorghes

ISBN: 0792377206


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Parallel Algorithms for Linear Models provides a complete and detailed account of the design, analysis and implementation of parallel algorithms for solving large-scale linear models. It investigates and presents efficient, numerically stable algorithms for computing the least-squares estimators and other quantities of interest on massively parallel systems. The monograph is in two parts. The first part consists of four chapters and deals with the computational aspects for solving linear models that have applicability in diverse areas. The remaining two chapters form the second part, which concentrates on numerical and computational methods for solving various problems associated with seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) and simultaneous equations models. The practical issues of the parallel algorithms and the theoretical aspects of the numerical methods will be of interest to a broad range of researchers working in the areas of numerical and computational methods in statistics and econometrics, parallel numerical algorithms, parallel computing and numerical linear algebra. The aim of this monograph is to promote research in the interface of econometrics, computational statistics, numerical linear algebra and parallelism.

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EMT Complete: A Basic Worktext

Textbook: EMT Complete: A Basic Worktext

Author: Daniel Limmer, Christopher Le Baudour and others

ISBN: 0131192655


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Brady, your partner for life, is pleased to present a new solution for your EMT course.

This new solution focuses on two ideas: 1) a combination text/workbook enables students to instantly apply knowledge learnedâ€"throughout a chapter, not just at the end; 2) understanding the perspectives of all individuals on scene makes for better judgment and decisionmaking.

Inside, the worktext, you will find that the content is well organized, easy to read and based on current EMS research and practice. Additionally, integrated elements are found throughout each chapter to challenge and encourage students to test their understanding of concepts as they are presented.



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Promise of the Wolves: A Novel

Textbook: Promise of the Wolves: A Novel

Author: Dorothy Hearst

ISBN: 1416569987


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Brilliantly weaving together original research, lovable characters and a dynamic, thoroughly engaging plot, The Wolf Chronicles is an adventure story in the tradition of Clan of the Cave Bear and Watership Down. Promise of the Wolves is the first title in The Wolf Chronicles trilogy.

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Cancer: Nutrition and Survival

Textbook: Cancer: Nutrition and Survival

Author: Steve Hickey, Hilary Roberts and others

ISBN: 141166339X


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Microevolution explains what cancer is, how it develops and how to eradicate it. Cancer occurs in multi-celled organisms when cells escape the body's controls and behave like their single-celled ancestors. Such changes, triggered by oxidative damage, result in faulty cell division. Animals and plants have developed ways to stop their cells reverting to primitive forms. Hence, anticancer substances are common throughout nature. Therapies based on these take advantage of metabolic differences between cancer cells and healthy cells, to destroy cancer while helping healthy cells. Clinical trials are needed to test such non-toxic therapies. Biological research suggests that cancer is a treatable condition. Although current data is not sufficient to indicate the degree of life extension achievable, many terminal patients might die of other causes, before the cancer kills them. Cancer patients deserve to be offered this opportunity.

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Blood Trail (Joe Pickett Novels)

Textbook: Blood Trail (Joe Pickett Novels)

Author: C. J. Box

ISBN: 0399154884


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Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

ItÂ's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains—strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk heÂ'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body.

Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose Governor Rulon is forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged antihunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?

As always, Joe Pickett is the governorÂ's go-to man, and heÂ's put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies and poker chips turn up.

Bold, fast-paced, and with a controversial hook—hunting versus antihunting activists—Blood Trail is proof that C. J. Box is an ever-rising talent.

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Techniques for optimization via simulation: an experimental study on an (s,S) inventory system.: An article from: IIE Transactions

Textbook: Techniques for optimization via simulation: an experimental study on an (s,S) inventory system.: An article from: IIE Transactions

Author: Michael C. Fu, Kevin J. Healy and others

ISBN:


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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6130 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Various methods have been proposed to conduct optimization via discrete-event simulation. Prevalent among these are gradient-based algorithms, and more recently, so-called retrospective approaches that deterministically optimize over simulated outcomes. In this paper we compare and contrast the performance of these two approaches for the optimization of a periodic review (s, S) inventory system. In practice, gradient-based methods often exhibit undesirably slow convergence, whereas the retrospective approach can be computationally burdensome. We propose a hybrid algorithm that combines aspects of both approaches to mitigate these shortcomings.

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Title: Techniques for optimization via simulation: an experimental study on an (s,S) inventory system.
Author: Michael C. Fu
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1997
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v29 Issue: n3 Page: p191(9)

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Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Enhanced Review Edition (with CD-ROM, Tools, iLrn 2-Semester, Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING)

Textbook: Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Enhanced Review Edition (with CD-ROM, Tools, iLrn 2-Semester, Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING)

Author: James Stewart

ISBN: 0495384917


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Stewart's CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, 3rd Edition focuses on major concepts and supports them with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. Margin notes clarify and expand on topics presented in the body of the text. The Tools for Enriching Calculus CD-ROM contains visualizations, interactive modules, and homework hints that enrich your learning experience. iLrn Homework helps you identify where you need additional help, and Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING gives you live, one-on-one online help from an experienced calculus tutor. In addition, the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM takes you step-by-step through examples from the book. The new Enhanced Review Edition includes new practice tests with solutions, to give you additional help with mastering the concepts needed to succeed in the course.

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Keeping controls cool. (Rapid Traverse).(Exair Corp.'s cooling system for electronic enclosures): An article from: Modern Machine Shop

Textbook: Keeping controls cool. (Rapid Traverse).(Exair Corp.'s cooling system for electronic enclosures): An article from: Modern Machine Shop

Author: Leo Rakowski

ISBN:


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This digital document is an article from Modern Machine Shop, published by Gardner Publications, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 580 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Keeping controls cool. (Rapid Traverse).(Exair Corp.'s cooling system for electronic enclosures)
Author: Leo Rakowski
Publication: Modern Machine Shop (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Gardner Publications, Inc.
Volume: 76 Issue: 1 Page: 68(2)

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Untouchable (Private, Book 3)

Textbook: Untouchable (Private, Book 3)

Author: Kate Brian

ISBN: 1416918752


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Cheating, partying, blackmail, and now...murder?

Can the Billings Girls remain untouchable?

Reed's boyfriend, Thomas Pearson -- the popular, easygoing, irresistibly handsome and charismatic boy she fell in love with -- is dead. No one knows how it happened, and everyone is after the truth. Or are they?

Life at Easton Academy begins to feel very different. Taylor is acting like the poster child for Prozac, Kiran is spiking her cornflakes, Noelle is being kind of...nice, and Arianna keeps floating along as if nothing has happened.

Thanksgiving break arrives and Reed and Josh find themselves alone on campus. They are forced to confront the feelings they've been hiding. Those feelings combined with an empty campus result in the hottest hookup Reed could possibly imagine. But when Reed breaks the news about Josh to the Billings Girls, there's no fun game of tell-all. Instead, Josh begins to look like suspect No. 1 in the murder of Thomas Pearson.

The perfect life Reed has constructed as a Billings Girl begins to crumble. And as everyone becomes more convinced of Josh's guilt, Reed's private suspicions lead her somewhere she doesn't want to go.



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Tintin: The Complete Companion

Textbook: Tintin: The Complete Companion

Author: Michael Farr, Herge and others

ISBN: 0867199016


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An overview of the life of Herge, Tintin's creator.

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Endonasal placement of spreader grafts in rhinoplasty.(Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic): An article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal

Textbook: Endonasal placement of spreader grafts in rhinoplasty.(Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic): An article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal

Author: Allison T. Pontius, Edwin F., III Williams and others

ISBN:


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This digital document is an article from Ear, Nose and Throat Journal, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 557 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Endonasal placement of spreader grafts in rhinoplasty.(Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic)
Author: Allison T. Pontius
Publication: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 84 Issue: 3 Page: 135(2)

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Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms

Textbook: Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms

Author: Marvin Terban

ISBN: 0590381571


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This guide to idioms provides the student with an opportunity to bring color to their speech every day. Included are idioms from Native American and African American speech as well as the Bible, Aesop, and Shakespeare.

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Osiris researchers find human adult stem cells that form body's structural and connective tissues.: An article from: Transplant News

Textbook: Osiris researchers find human adult stem cells that form body's structural and connective tissues.: An article from: Transplant News

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This digital document is an article from Transplant News, published by Transplant Communications, Inc. on April 30, 1999. The length of the article is 461 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Osiris researchers find human adult stem cells that form body's structural and connective tissues.
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: April 30, 1999
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 9 Issue: 8 Page: NA

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Problem Solving With Java

Textbook: Problem Solving With Java

Author: Elliot B. Koffman, Ursula Wolz and others

ISBN: 0201722143


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Object-Oriented Programming
This book presents a careful balance between traditional problem-solving techniques and object-oriented design. Embracing the object-oriented paradigm, the authors introduce objects early (Chapter 2) and use them throughout, introducing features as needed in a gentle manner. Chapters 4 - 7 focus on the traditional data and control structures, using objects as needed. Chapter 8 provides a more in-depth study of object-oriented design, providing detailed coverage of visibility, polymorphism, and inheritance.

Applications and Applets
Focusing on applications early, the book supports user interaction by providing a package called simpleIO. Applets are first introduced in Chapter 4 where the authors use them in an optional section on graphics to introduce the AWT and its features for drawing simple graphical patterns. They are studied extensively in Chapters 9 and 10 where the intricacies of the AWT, programming for the web, and GUI programming are covered.

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
Starting in Chapter 2, the authors integrate a GUI library that allows students to better understand concepts through visualization and have some fun. GUI concepts are always presented in the context of good problem solving and program development. Optional sections on graphics appear starting in Chapter 4, again to spur student interest and keep them motivated.

Proven Software Development Process
The book conveys the relationship between good problem-solving skills and effective software development by consistently applying a proven software development method that has been adapted to the object-oriented paradigm.

Helpful Learning Features
The authors employ several features to enhance the usefulness of this book as a teaching tool. These include syntax displays, program style displays, end-of-section exercises, examples, case studies, error discussions, and chapter reviews. Also, interviews with famous computer scientists provide glimpses into various careers in computer science.

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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved (Baseball Oral History Poject)

Textbook: We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved (Baseball Oral History Poject)

Author: Fay Vincent

ISBN: 1416553428


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Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. These were the decades when baseball expanded across the country and truly became the national pastime. The era opened, though, with the domination of the New York teams: the Yankees, Dodgers, or Giants were in every World Series of the 1950s -- but by the end of the decade the two National League teams had moved to California.

Representing those great teams in this volume are Whitey Ford, Ralph Branca, Carl Erskine, Duke Snider, and Bill Rigney. They recall the great 1951 Dodgers-Giants playoff that ended with Bobby Thomson's famous home run (served up by Branca). They remember the mighty Yankees, defeated at last in 1955 by the Dodgers, only to recover the World Series crown from their Brooklyn rivals a year later. They talk about their most feared opponents and most valued teammates, from Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle to Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella to Willie Mays.

But there were great teams and great ballplayers elsewhere in the 1950s and 1960s. Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts recalls the famous Whiz Kids Phillies of 1950 and his epic duels with Don Newcombe and other leading National League pitchers. Lew Burdette remembers his years as one-half of the dominating pitching duo (with Warren Spahn) that propelled the Braves to the World Series in 1957 and 1958.

Harmon Killebrew recalls belting home runs for the hapless Washington Senators, then discovering a new world of enthusiastic fans in Minnesota when the Senators joined the westward migration and became the Twins. Brooks Robinson, on the other hand, played his entire twenty-three-year career for the Baltimore Orioles, never moving anywhere except all around third base, where he earned a record sixteen consecutive Gold Gloves. When Frank Robinson left Cincinnati to join Brooks on the Orioles in 1966, that team became a powerhouse. Frank Robinson won the MVP award that year, the first player to do so in each league. He remembers taking the momentous step to become the first African-American manager in the big leagues, the final step that Jackie Robinson had wanted to take. Like Frank Robinson, Billy Williams was one of the first African-American stars not to come out of the old Negro Leagues. He spent his greatest years with the Chicago Cubs, playing alongside Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, and later Ron Santo, but here he recalls how he nearly gave up on the game in the minor leagues.

We Would Have Played for Nothing is full of fascinating stories about how these great ballplayers broke into baseball, about the inevitable frustrations of trying to negotiate a contract with owners who always had the upper hand, and about great games and great stars-teammates and opponents-whose influence shaped these ballplayers' lives forever.

Illustrated throughout, this book is a wonderful reminiscence of two great decades in the history of baseball.

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Lab Manual for Physical Geology

Textbook: Lab Manual for Physical Geology

Author: Norris W Jones, Charles E. Jones and others

ISBN: 0077218949


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If it's important for you to incorporate the scientific method into your teaching, this lab manual is the perfect fit. In every exercise there are scientific method boxes that provide students with insight into the relevance of the scientific method to the topic at hand. The manual also includes "In Greater Depth" problems, a more challenging probe into certain issues. They are more quantitative in nature and require more in-depth, critical thinking, which is unique to this type of manual.

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Switching Power Supplies A to Z

Textbook: Switching Power Supplies A to Z

Author: Sanjaya Maniktala

ISBN: 0750679700


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The design of Switching Power Supplies has become one of the most crucial aspects of power electronics, particularly in the explosive market for portable devices. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple mechanism is actually one of the most complex and under-estimated processes in Power Electronics. Switching power conversion involves several engineering disciplines: Semiconductor Physics, Thermal Management, Control Loop theory, Magnetics etc, and all these come into play eventually, in ways hard for non-experts to grasp.

This book grows out of decades of the authors experience designing commercial power supplies. Although his formal education was in physics, he learned the hard way what it took to succeed in designing power supplies for companies like Siemens and National Semiconductor. His passion for power supplies and his empathy for the practicing or aspiring power conversion engineer is evident on every page.

* The most comprehensive study available of the theoretical and practical aspects of controlling and measuring Electromagnetic Interference in switching power supplies, including input filter instability considerations.
* Step-by-step and iterative approach for calculating high-frequency losses in forward converter transformers, including Proximity losses based on Dowell's equations.
* Thorough, yet uniquely simple design flow-chart for building DC-DC converters and their magnetic components under typical wide-input supply conditions
* Step-by-step, solved examples for stabilizing control loops of all three major topologies, using either transconductance or conventional operational amplifiers, and either current-mode or voltage-mode control.
* CD-ROM includes Visualizations based on Mathcad and Mathcad calculations, including Mathcad files, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint Seminars, and PDFs all for power supply design

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How College Affects Students: Findings and Insights from Twenty Years of Research (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

Textbook: How College Affects Students: Findings and Insights from Twenty Years of Research (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

Author: Ernest T. Pascarella, Patrick T. Terenzini and others

ISBN: 1555423388


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Foreword by Kenneth A. Feldman

Not since Feldman and Newcomb's 1969 landmark book, The Impact of College on Students has there been such a comprehensive resource available on what is known about the effect of college on students. In this book, Pascarella and Terenzini take up where Feldman and Newcomb left off, synthesizing twenty more years of empirical research and over 2,600 studies, distilling what is known about how students change and benefit as a consequence of attending college.



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Human Origins: What Bones And Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (Texas A&m University Anthropology)

Textbook: Human Origins: What Bones And Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (Texas A&m University Anthropology)

Author: Rob Desalle, Ian Tattersall and others

ISBN: 1585445673


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Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic form of human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones reveal that as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe, and finally into the New World.

Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries—Mary Leakey's Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson's Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickford's Millennium Man, to name just a few—experts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first envisioned the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7 percent of their genes with the great apes—that in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human genome has been mapped—we now know where each of the genes are located on the DNA strands that make up our chromosomes.

In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the world's foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanity's place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.

Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural History's new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.

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Essentials of Immunohematology

Textbook: Essentials of Immunohematology

Author: John C. Flynn

ISBN: 0721668127


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Here is a concise presentation of the essential knowledge and skills readers need to perform blood banking effectively. Coverage addresses blood group systems, compatibility testing, quality assurance, antiglobulin testing, blood donor selection, collection, processing and more. A second-color highlight, case studies, "real-life" clinical scenarios, learning objectives, review questions, and a glossary make the material come alive for readers.

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Windows Server 2008 Inside Out

Textbook: Windows Server 2008 Inside Out

Author: William R. Stanek

ISBN: 0735624380


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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 users and accounts, manage Active Directory® directory services, and more. With INSIDE OUT, you ll discover the best and fastest ways to perform core administrative tasks, with an award-winning format that makes it easy to find exactly the tips, troubleshooting solutions, and workarounds you need. Plus, the companion CD comes packed with a fully searchable eBook and more than 100 timesaving tools and scripts. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

Key Book Benefits

Drills into the features and functions in Microsoft Office Word, delivering comprehensive details but no fluff in a single volume

Includes a companion CD packed with tools, scripts, and a fully searchable eBook

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A+ Troubleshooting Scenarios

Textbook: A+ Troubleshooting Scenarios

Author: Jean Andrews

ISBN: 1428320458


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Gain the skills and knowledge needed to successfully prepare for the three new A+ advanced certification exams from CompTIA: A+ 220-602 (IT Technician Exam), A+ 220-603 (Remote Support Technician Exam), and A+ 220-604 (Depot Technician Exam). A+ Troubleshooting Scenarios presents typical scenarios that confront PC repair professionals. Complete the labs in this book to troubleshoot and solve these advanced computer problems. When you're finished, you'll have the skills to succeed on the job, and the knowledge to successfully complete any of the A+ advanced certification exams.

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Two Eyes, A Nose And A Mouth

Textbook: Two Eyes, A Nose And A Mouth

Author: Roberta Intrater

ISBN: 0439116805


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More than 100 vibrant, full-color photographs eloquently illustrate a wide variety of eyes, noses, and mouths on multi-generational, multi-cultural faces. A simple, rhyming text explores and celebrates our similarities and differences.

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3:16: The Numbers of Hope

Textbook: 3:16: The Numbers of Hope

Author: Max Lucado

ISBN: 0849901936


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If 9/11 are the numbers of terror and despair, then 3:16 are the numbers of hope. Best-selling author Max Lucado leads readers through a word-by-word study of John 3:16, the passage that he calls the "Hope Diamond" of Scripture.

3:16 will have a large, multi-faceted campaign, including:

  • Multiple licensed products to further extend 3:16 at retail. Partners thus far include Hallmark, Dayspring, Kerusso, and Bob Siemon Designs
  • 3:16 curriculum and church musical in development
  • 3:16 consumer music CD featuring top Christian music artists
  • 3:16 as the centerpiece of a global ministry initiative launched worldwide via simulcast on Palm Sunday, 3/16/08
  • Unprecedented release in several languages, including Spanish, German, Swedish, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese
  • Multiple ancillary publishing products to include evangelism booklet, DVD priced for giveaway, children's product, and gift book


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Network Security with OpenSSL

Textbook: Network Security with OpenSSL

Author: John Viega, Matt Messier and others

ISBN: 059600270X


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Most applications these days are at least somewhat network aware, but how do you protect those applications against common network security threats? Many developers are turning to OpenSSL, an open source version of SSL/TLS, which is the most widely used protocol for secure network communications. The OpenSSL library is seeing widespread adoption for web sites that require cryptographic functions to protect a broad range of sensitive information, such as credit card numbers and other financial transactions. The library is the only free, full-featured SSL implementation for C and C++, and it can be used programmatically or from the command line to secure most TCP-based network protocols. Network Security with OpenSSL enables developers to use this protocol much more effectively. Traditionally, getting something simple done in OpenSSL could easily take weeks. This concise book gives you the guidance you need to avoid pitfalls, while allowing you to take advantage of the library?s advanced features. And, instead of bogging you down in the technical details of how SSL works under the hood, this book provides only the information that is necessary to use OpenSSL safely and effectively. In step-by-step fashion, the book details the challenges in securing network communications, and shows you how to use OpenSSL tools to best meet those challenges. As a system or network administrator, you will benefit from the thorough treatment of the OpenSSL command-line interface, as well as from step-by-step directions for obtaining certificates and setting up your own certification authority. As a developer, you will further benefit from the in-depth discussions and examples of how to use OpenSSL in your own programs. Although OpenSSL is written in C, information on how to use OpenSSL with Perl, Python and PHP is also included. OpenSSL may well answer your need to protect sensitive data. If that?s the case, Network Security with OpenSSL is the only guide available on the subject.

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La liposucción no adelgaza, esculpe.(TT: Liposuction doesn't make slim, it shapes the body): An article from: Siempre!

Textbook: La liposucción no adelgaza, esculpe.(TT: Liposuction doesn't make slim, it shapes the body): An article from: Siempre!

Author: Gala Verde

ISBN:


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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on October 3, 1996. The length of the article is 474 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: La liposucción no adelgaza, esculpe.(TT: Liposuction doesn't make slim, it shapes the body)
Author: Gala Verde
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: October 3, 1996
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Issue: n2259 Page: p80(1)

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The American Political Family

Textbook: The American Political Family

Author: Donn M. Kurtz

ISBN: 0819190012


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Every election provides additional evidence of the continuity of families in American politics. Donn M. Kurtz compiled this collection of articles while conducting research on political families, also hoping to synthesize the body of literature on this subject. The book considers political families as a national, rather than a regional, phenomenon, looking at situations such as children with greater political efficacy and involvement in politics at a younger age. The selections are of an interdisciplinary nature and draw upon several outlets: history, sociology, political science, genealogy, and economics. Contents: Introduction: The Family in Politics, Donn M. Kurtz; Continuity Across Generation: The Adams Family Myth, David F. Musto; Making of a Myth: Abraham Lincoln's Family Background in the Perspective of Jacksonian Politics, Thomas L. Purvis; Theodore Roosevelt's Ancestry: A Study in Heredity, Howard K. Beale; The First Family: Presidential Kinship and Its Theoretical Implications, Michael P. Merlie and Edward T. Silva; Family Relationships, Congressional Recruitment, and Political Modernization, Alfred B. Clubok, Norman M. Wilensky, and Forrest J. Berghorn; Favorite Sons: Intergenerational Wealth Transfers Among Politicians, David N. Laband and Bernard F. Lentz; Political Families in Louisiana, Donn M. Kurtz; Index.

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How To Talk So Kids Can Learn

Textbook: How To Talk So Kids Can Learn

Author: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish and others

ISBN: 0684824728


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The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.

Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish show parents and teachers how to help children handle the everyday problems that interfere with learning.

This breakthrough book demonstrates how parents and teachers can join forces to inspire kids to be self-directed, self-disciplined, and responsive to the wonders of learning.



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The cell phone elephant is still manageable--for how long?(politics & media): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review

Textbook: The cell phone elephant is still manageable--for how long?(politics & media): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review

Author: Terry Jones

ISBN:


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Title: The cell phone elephant is still manageable--for how long?(politics & media)
Author: Terry Jones
Publication: St. Louis Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37 Issue: 298 Page: 7(1)

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Cree centre a mature leader for his Merritt squad. (Sports).(Merritt Centennials' Ryan Johnson): An article from: Wind Speaker

Textbook: Cree centre a mature leader for his Merritt squad. (Sports).(Merritt Centennials' Ryan Johnson): An article from: Wind Speaker

Author: Sam Laskaris

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Title: Cree centre a mature leader for his Merritt squad. (Sports).(Merritt Centennials' Ryan Johnson)
Author: Sam Laskaris
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 20 Issue: 10 Page: 27(1)

Article Type: Biography

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Financial Statement Analysis

Textbook: Financial Statement Analysis

Author: John J Wild, K. R. Subramanyam and others

ISBN: 0073100234


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Financial Statement Analysis, 9e, emphasizes effective business analysis and decision making by analysts, investors, managers, and other stakeholders of the company. It continues to set the standard (over 8 prior editions and hundreds of thousands in unit book sales) in showing students the keys to effective financial statement analysis. It begins with an overview (chapters 1-2), followed by accounting analysis (chapters 3-6) and then financial analysis (chapters 7-11). The book presents a balanced view of analysis, including both equity and credit analysis, and both cash-based and earnings-based valuation models. The book is aimed at accounting and finance classes, and the professional audience as it shows the relevance of financial statement analysis to all business decision makers. The authors:
1. Use numerous and timely “real world” examples and cases
2. Draw heavily on actual excerpts from financial reports and footnotes
3. Focus on analysis and interpretation of financial reports and their footnotes
4. Illustrate debt and equity valuation that uses results of financial statement analysis
5. Have a concise writing style to make the material accessible.

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The Splendour of the Law: Allan McEachern, A Tribute to a Life in the Law. (book review): An article from: The Advocate

Textbook: The Splendour of the Law: Allan McEachern, A Tribute to a Life in the Law. (book review): An article from: The Advocate

Author: Allen M. Linden

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Title: The Splendour of the Law: Allan McEachern, A Tribute to a Life in the Law. (book review)
Author: Allen M. Linden
Publication: The Advocate (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Vancouver Bar Association (Canada)
Volume: 60 Issue: 5 Page: 763(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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Industrial Control Handbook

Textbook: Industrial Control Handbook

Author: E Parr

ISBN: 0831130857


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  • The author writes with the assurance and practical know-how of an engineer who has implemented control systems of high complexity in the challenging environment of an advanced modern steel plant.
  • Theoretical structures and mathematics are strictly part of the engineer's toolkit-not an end in themselves.
  • Offers a fascinating compendium of engineering wisdom and techniques.
  • This third edition includes new chapters on the increasingly important topic of industrial safety and the emergent subject of mechatronics.


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Income Elasticity and Economic Development: Methods and Applications (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics)

Textbook: Income Elasticity and Economic Development: Methods and Applications (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics)

Author: M. Ohidul Haque

ISBN: 0387242929


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Income Elasticity and Economic Development: Methods and Applications is mainly concerned with methods of estimating income elasticity. This field is connected with economic development that can be achieved by reducing income inequality. This is highly relevant in today's world, where the gap between rich and poor is widening with the growth of economic development. Income Elasticity and Economic Development: Methods and Applications provides a good example in showing how to calculate income elasticity, using a number of methods from widely available grouped data. Some of the techniques presented here can be used in a wide range of policy areas in all developed, developing and under-developed countries. Policy analysts, economists, business analysts and market researchers will find this book very useful.



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The Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly: Automatic Pistols (Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly)

Textbook: The Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly: Automatic Pistols (Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly)

Author: J. B. Wood

ISBN: 0873417836


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The increasing cost of gunsmithing services has caused enthusiasts to perform minor repairs, refinishing, and deep cleaning on their own firearms. This updated edition shows how to easily diassemble and reassemble centerfire rifles and the correct tools needed. Sixty-six popular guns are taken apart and individually photographed. The cross reference index identifies more than 400 similar or identical rifle patterns that also follow these disassembly and reassembly directions. It covers the Argentine Mauser to Marlin Model 9 to Russian AK-47 to US M-1 Garand to Winchester Model 1894.

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ADHD- Living Without Brakes

Textbook: ADHD- Living Without Brakes

Author: Martin L., M.D. Kutscher

ISBN: 1843108739


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This concise and highly accessible book contains everything that parents and busy professionals need to know about ADHD.

The author describes the spectrum of ADHD, the co-occurring symptoms, and common difficulties that parents face. The rest of the book focuses on solutions, based around four rules. Rule number one is keeping it positive: punishments can change behavior, but only positive approaches can improve attitude. Rule number two is keeping it calm: it's difficult thinking clearly enough to solve problems logically if you are feeling overwhelmed. Rule number three is keeping it organized: this rule relates particularly to the child's school life. Rule number four is to keep doing rules one to three..Finally, Dr. Kutscher discusses the role of medication for treating ADHD. The concluding chapter summarizes the information covered and can also be read as a complete, freestanding text. Useful checklists and further reading recommendations are also included.

Realistic and optimistic, this book is the ideal source of information and advice for parents and professionals who are trying to keep up with children who are living without brakes.

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The Everything Labrador Retriever Book: A Complete Guide to Raising, Training, and Caring for Your Lab (Everything Series)

Textbook: The Everything Labrador Retriever Book: A Complete Guide to Raising, Training, and Caring for Your Lab (Everything Series)

Author: Kim Campbell Thornton

ISBN: 1593370482


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According to the American Kennel Club, the Labrador retriever has been rated as the most popular purebred dog in America for thirteen consecutive years. In fact, nearly three times as many Labs were registered in 2002 than any other breed. What is it that makes the Labrador retriever so popular?

The Everything® Labrador Retriever Book is the perfect introduction to America's most popular pet. Written by dog expert Kim Campbell Thornton, The Everything® Labrador Retriever Book is packed with professional, breed-specific advice that helps readers raise, care for, and train their Lab safely and successfully.

The Everything® Labrador Retriever shows readers how to:
·Choose the right Lab for their family
·Socialize their new Lab
·Instill good manners
·Find the proper diet and exercise regimen for their Lab
·Deal with common health problems

Packed full of photos showing Labs in action, The Everything® Labrador Retriever Book is perfect for new and seasoned dog owners!

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Gerrard: My Autobiography

Textbook: Gerrard: My Autobiography

Author: Steven Gerrard

ISBN: 0553817337


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Liverpool Football Club’s team captain lets down his guard and speaks for the first time about the Chelsea rumours. He also talks about his cousin who died at Hillsborough. And of course, there’ll be a blow-by-blow account of England’s World Cup campaign.

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Little Book Of Money Spells

Textbook: Little Book Of Money Spells

Author: Sophia

ISBN: 0740714228


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"Money come in, money go out. Money come in and please stay in my house!" So begins one of the enchanting formulas professional psychic Sophia learned at her grandparents' knees-charms to lure fast cash, spells to bring in money for new shoes, incantations for building a nest egg. With only a few uncomplicated words and actions, readers of the exciting Little Book of Money Spells will learn how to lure both monetary and inner wealth to their doorstep.Throughout the pages of this magically entertaining book, Sophia offers ways to charm the cash right out of the universe. Will they work? Who knows? But as billionaire tycoon J. P. Morgan once said, "Millionaires do not use psychics, billionaires do."

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The road from good to great: now is the time to plan for success.(The Last Word): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing

Textbook: The road from good to great: now is the time to plan for success.(The Last Word): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing

Author: Kevin M. Hohman

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Title: The road from good to great: now is the time to plan for success.(The Last Word)
Author: Kevin M. Hohman
Publication: Do-It-Yourself Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
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Leonard Berstein Song Album

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81 PP 1988 SONG FOR VOICE & PIANO SHEET MUSIC INCL CANDIDE, MASS, PETER PAN

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How to Become an Alpha Male

Textbook: How to Become an Alpha Male

Author: John Alexander

ISBN: 1411636600


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Dubbed "The lazy man's way to easy sex and romance with 20 or more women a month," How to Become an Alpha Male is the no-risk, never-fail blueprint on how to 'magnetically' attract an endless flow of horny, ready-for-sex women to you... without ever having to play their games or deal with rejection. Sold as an ebook at AlphaMaleSystem.com, John Alexander's guide is now available, for the first time ever, as a hardcopy book. You see, once you have these secrets all the 'work' of meeting women will be done for you... automatically! You can just 'flip on' your magnetic powers of attraction... so to speak... and instantly bring sex, romance and more roaring into your life! Why does the Alpha Male Method work so well? Because it's based on the same hush-hush psychological tactics advertisers have used for centuries to get filthy rich. They work for anyone, anywhere and at any time (no matter how desperate your situation is right now).

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What is Tantric Practice?

Textbook: What is Tantric Practice?

Author: Barnaby B., PhD, DHS Barratt

ISBN: 1425711499


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"Dr. Barratt is an intellectual giant and spiritual dedicate who advances tantric practice for westerners, even while debunking some of the myths that have accumulated around its popularization. This wonderful book is a lofty endeavor to make sense of the immeasurably deep and subtle truths that define genuine tantric practice."
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"Wow! This is such a cool book. Barnaby pulls together and integrates the spiritual essence of tantra, without avoiding its erotic nature. This book explains the common features of authentic tantric practice, drawing from Indian and Tibetan spiritual teachings as well as other related traditions. I would recommend What is Tantric Practice? to anyone curious about tantra, as well as to those who have already experienced some of the benefits of its sacred journey. This book gets two thumbs up!"
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Understanding Street Gangs

Textbook: Understanding Street Gangs

Author: Robert K. Jackson, Wesley D. McBride and others

ISBN: 0942728173


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UNDERSTANDING STREET GANGS offers a unique and pioneering approach to the street and prison gang dilemma and provides both local and national perspective. This popular book is used by colleges, universities, and academies, and also for advanced officer training throughout the country. The authors are leading authorities on gang activities. No other book offers such insight or understanding into this escalating threat. It covers causative factors, family structure and profiles, socioeconomic pressures, and drugs. It also defines gangs, membership, structure and organization, communication, and measurements of gang violence, offers perspective on gang activity, and suggests possible solutions.

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Multiscale Potential Theory

Textbook: Multiscale Potential Theory

Author: Willi Freeden, Volker Michel and others

ISBN: 081764105X


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This self-contained book provides a basic foundation for students, practitioners, and researchers interested in some of the diverse new areas of multiscale (geo)potential theory. New mathematical methods are developed enabling the gravitational potential of a planetary body to be modeled and analyzed using a continuous flow of observations from land or satellite devices. Harmonic wavelet methods are introduced, as well as fast computational schemes and various numerical test examples.

The work is divided into two main parts: Part I treats well-posed boundary-value problems of potential theory and elasticity; Part II examines ill-posed problems such as satellite-to-satellite tracking, satellite gravity gradiometry, and gravimetry. Both sections demonstrate how multiresolution representations yield Rungeâ€Â"Walsh type solutions that are both accurate in approximation and tractable in computation.

Topic and key features:

* Comprehensive coverage of topics which, thus far, are only scattered in journal articles and conference proceedings

* Important applications and developments for future satellite scenarios; new modelling techniques involving low-orbiting satellites

* Multiscale approaches for numerous geoscientific problems, including geoidal determination, magnetic field reconstruction, deformation analysis, and density variation modelling

* Multilevel stabilization procedures for regularization

* Treatment of the real Earth’s shape as well as a spherical Earth model

* Modern methods of constructive approximation

* Exercises at the end of each chapter and an appendix with hints to their solutions

Models and methods presented show how various large- and small-scale processes may be addressed by a single geoscientific modelling framework for potential determination. Multiscale Potential Theory may be used as a textbook for graduate-level courses in geomathematics, applied mathematics, and geophysics. The book is also an up-to-date reference text for geoscientists, applied mathematicians, and engineers.



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MS Excel for Professionals

Textbook: MS Excel for Professionals

Author: Tukur Ya'u Kazaure

ISBN: 1412063655


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At last, here is a good book on MS Excel.

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Business Plans For Dummies

Textbook: Business Plans For Dummies

Author: Paul Tiffany, Steven D., PhD Peterson and others

ISBN: 0764576526


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Would you take off on a road trip to a new destination without a map or good directions? Probably not. Yet, sometimes business owners go full speed ahead without even having a destination in mind, much less a map on how to get there. That’s why so many businesses never make it. In today’s competitive marketplace, 3/4 of all new businesses fail within two to three years. Whether you’re launching a new business or working to strengthen or expand an established one, a business plan is your road map to success.

Business Plans For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you keep your businesses on track and reach your goals. Written by Paul Tiffany, PhD, professor at UC Berkley Haas Business School and the Wharton School of Business and Steven Peterson, PhD, Professor at UC Berkeley Haas Business School and CEO of Strategic Play, it helps you

  • Realistically determine where your business is and where you want to go
  • Create a detailed business plan and put it into action instead of in a drawer
  • Use the plan to secure financing
  • Prepare for opportunities avoid common pitfalls

In short, Business Plans for Dummies helps you determine where you want your business to go and create a map for getting there. You’ll discover how to:

  • Identify and approach potential financial backers, including venture capital firms, angels, bankers, and others
  • Clarify and crystallize your company’s mission, vision, and values
  • Analyze your industry and your competition
  • Identify your customers, including their needs, habits, purchase triggers, and decision-making processes
  • Objectively analyze your company’s strengths and weaknesses
  • Analyze your financial situation in order to do realistic forecasts and budgets
  • Recognize trends and anticipate changes, both in the overall economy and in your industry
  • Plan for growth, considering the product life cycle, new products, or new markets
  • Structure your organization and nurture leadership

Complete with diverse techniques and approaches plus a sample business plan, Business Plans For Dummies gives you detailed how-to for designing a dynamic, business plan that will keep you on course in spite of the inevitable curves and detours in today’s marketplace. It’s a plantastic resource for business owners and entrepreneurs.

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In the Time of Assignments

Textbook: In the Time of Assignments

Author: Douglas A. Martin

ISBN: 0979663601


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In the Time of Assignments transforms a decade’s worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martin’s work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator’s evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragmentary narrative exhibited in Martin’s novels takes hold here in long, poetic sequences and angled interludes; lyric is the steady underpinning.


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Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)

Textbook: Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)

Author: John Updike

ISBN: 0679444599


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When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels—the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life.

Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature, Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs, the longuers, the loves and frenzies, the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story.

This Rabbit Angstrom volume is comprised of the following novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.

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Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective (with Thomson One Access Code)

Textbook: Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective (with Thomson One Access Code)

Author: Clyde P. Stickney, Paul Brown and others

ISBN: 0324302959


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Stickney/Brown/Wahlen is a balanced, flexible, and complete Financial Statement Analysis book that is written with the premise that students learn financial statement analysis most effectively by performing the analysis on actual companies. Students learn to integrate the concepts from economics, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines through the integration of a unique six-step process.

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Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion

Textbook: Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion

Author: James Arthur

ISBN: 1585091510


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For thousands of years, humanity has been involved in a symbiotic relationship with plants. Not only have plants supplied mankind with a never-ending food source, but have also served us in another way. This book uncovers the natural link between man, consciousness, and God. This discovery may at first seem abstract, wishful thinking, or even impossible; yet as evidence presented on these pages unfolds, one may find that its understanding does not require as much of a leap of faith as first thought. The author believes this to be the most significant discovery in the entire field of religious knowledge ever to happen in the history of mankind. Should people explore this knowledge, it may allow many to put aside their differences, and join in the understanding that each and every one of us may now experience that which has been, until this time, hidden away in the recesses of our spiritual history. According to the author, we may at last be able to open ourselves to an entirely new and valuable consciousness.

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Medical Language Instant Translator (Chabner, Medical Language Instant Translator)

Textbook: Medical Language Instant Translator (Chabner, Medical Language Instant Translator)

Author: Davi-Ellen Chabner

ISBN: 1416034854


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This pocket-sized reference equips students and health care professionals with the tools needed to analyze medical terms, form medical plurals, and identify the leading prescription drugs. It also provides quick access to common clinical tests, diagnoses, and procedures.

  • Provides portable, convenient access to key medical language information.
  • Easy-to-use format helps readers quickly decipher complicated medical terms through recognizing and finding the meanings of individual word parts.
  • Information on medical abbreviations, symbols, acronyms and professional designations is ideal for any fast-paced setting.
  • A visual orientation and review of the body systems is presented through vibrant, full-color illustrations.
  • Definitions of commonly used diagnostic tests and procedures help users understand the clinical context for words and phrases.
  • Common medical terminology mistakes (i.e. ureter vs. urethra, or para vs. peri) alert users to potential errors.


  • This edition provides practical information such as nutrition guides, the recommended immunization schedule, and a list of controlled substances.
  • A medical records quick-reference is included.
  • Surgical instruments are included for easy identification.
  • Complementary and alternative medicine glossary lets users quickly look up unfamiliar terms associated with this area of medicine.


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Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Eighth Edition (Chemical Engineers Handbook)

Textbook: Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Eighth Edition (Chemical Engineers Handbook)

Author: Don W. Green, Robert H. Perry and others

ISBN: 0071422943


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Get Cutting-Edge Coverage of All Chemical Engineering Topics— from Fundamentals to the Latest Computer Applications

First published in 1934, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook has equipped generations of engineers and chemists with an expert source of chemical engineering information and data. Now updated to reflect the latest technology and processes of the new millennium, the Eighth Edition of this classic guide provides unsurpassed coverage of every aspect of chemical engineering-from fundamental principles to chemical processes and equipment to new computer applications.

Filled with over 700 detailed illustrations, the Eighth Edition of Perry's Chemcial Engineering Handbook features:

  • Comprehensive tables and charts for unit conversion
  • A greatly expanded section on physical and chemical data
  • New to this edition: the latest advances in distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, reactor modeling, biological processes, biochemical and membrane separation processes, and chemical plant safety practices with accident case histories

Inside This Updated Chemical Engineering Guide

- Conversion Factors and Mathematical Symbols • Physical and Chemical Data • Mathematics • Thermodynamics • Heat and Mass Transfer • Fluid and Particle Dynamics Reaction Kinetics • Process Control • Process Economics • Transport and Storage of Fluids • Heat Transfer Equipment • Psychrometry, Evaporative Cooling, and Solids Drying • Distillation • Gas Absorption and Gas-Liquid System Design • Liquid-Liquid Extraction Operations and Equipment • Adsorption and Ion Exchange • Gas-Solid Operations and Equipment • Liquid-Solid Operations and Equipment • Solid-Solid Operations and Equipment • Size Reduction and Size Enlargement • Handling of Bulk Solids and Packaging of Solids and Liquids • Alternative Separation Processes • And Many Other Topics!

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Master the EMT Basic Certification Exam, 3rd edition (Emt Basic Certification Exam)

Textbook: Master the EMT Basic Certification Exam, 3rd edition (Emt Basic Certification Exam)

Author: Santa Maria

ISBN: 076891986X


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More than a study guide, this bestseller presents tips on physical and mental preparation, licensure and continuing education requirements, and score-raising strategies for candidates who want to make helping others their career. Features and benefits include: * In-depth review for every section of the test * A full length practice test with detailed answer explanations * Job search tips and an updated list of EMT agencies, organizations, and journals

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Advanced Video Coding: Principles and Techniques (Advances in Image Communication)

Textbook: Advanced Video Coding: Principles and Techniques (Advances in Image Communication)

Author: K.N. Ngan, T. Meier and others

ISBN: 044482667X


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In recent years, the paradigm of video coding has shifted from that of a frame-based approach to a content-based approach, particularly with the finalization of the ISO multimedia coding standard, MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is the emerging standard for the coding of multimedia content. It defines a syntax for a set of content-based functionalities, namely, content-based interactivity, compression and universal access. However, it does not specify how the video content is to be generated. To generate the video content, video has to be segmented into video objects and tracked as they transverse across the video frames. This book addresses the difficult problem of video segmentation, and the extraction and tracking of video object planes as defined in MPEG-4. It then focuses on the specific issue of face segmentation and coding as applied to videoconferencing in order to improve the quality of videoconferencing images especially in the facial region.

Modal-based coding is a content-based coding technique used to code synthetic objects that have become an important part of video content. It results in extremely low bit rates because only the parameters needed to represent the modal are transmitted. Model-based coding is included to provide background information for the synthetic object coding in MPEG-4. Lastly, MPEG-4, the first coding standard for multimedia content is described in detail. The topics covered include the coding of audio objects, the coding of natural and synthetic video objects, and error resilience.

Advanced Video Coding is one of the first books on content-based coding and MPEG-4 coding standard. It serves as an excellent information source and reference for both researchers and practicing engineers.

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Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia

Textbook: Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia

Author: Charles Hodgson

ISBN: 0312371217


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From head to toe to breast to behind, Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully intoxicating tour of the words we use to describe our bodies. Did you know: - eye is one of the oldest written words in the English language?- callipygian means having beautiful buttocks?- gam, a slang word for leg, comes from the French word jambe? A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal Knowledge is also the perfect gift for anyone interested in the human body and the many (many, many) ways its been described. Delight your friends (or lose them rapidly) with this fabulous new knowledge presented with deftness and wit.---Lynn Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Talk to the Hand Master etymologist Charles Hodgson offers a passionate lesson...illuminates how just about every part of the amazing human chassis got its name.---Richard Lederer, author of Word Wizard A near-perfect body of work that will not only entertain your brain but tickle your funny bone, too.---Erin McKean, editor in chief, The New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed.) And you thought you knew your own body! A captivating trove of facts and history that will amuse and fascinate.--- Jane Farrow, Wanted Words, CBC Radio

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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

Textbook: The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

Author: Edward L. Ayers

ISBN: 0195326881


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At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a
lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century.
Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the
legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the
importance of each in the emerging New South. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages.
When this book first appeared in 1992, it won a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National Book Award declared Promise of the New South a vivid and masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society.
The Atlantic called it "one of the broadest and most original interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years.

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Planning and Budgeting for the Agile Enterprise: A driver-based budgeting toolkit

Textbook: Planning and Budgeting for the Agile Enterprise: A driver-based budgeting toolkit

Author: Richard Barrett

ISBN: 0750683279


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Planning and Budgeting is one of the hottest topics in accounting; global spending on budgeting software is booming and is predicted to continue to grow throughout this decade. It's big business.

This book focuses on 'Driver-Based' budgeting (ie using external and internal non-financial drivers to predict live item expenses). The book shows the benefits that Driver-Based Budgeting brings and as such is a 'tool kit for change'. Case studies and worked examples are used throughout to ensure understanding, as well as checklists on implementation issues.

Transform the process of implementing new budgeting software with Driver-Based Budgeting
Shows how organisations can slash the time and cost involved in preparing their annual budget
Accountants learn how to manage uncertainty and quickly assess the impact of both internal and external changes

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