Tuesday 22 February 2011

The Book of Sushi,1995



The Book of Sushi,1995
Kinjiro Omae, Yuzuru Tachibana | 1988-01-01 00:00:00 | Kodansha International | 132 | Cooking
Discover how to enjoy the sushi shop with savoir-faire, how to become a connoisseur, and even how to make and serve this intriguing, delightfully refreshing dish in your own home.

Sushi, that so typical Japanese food, has a history going back to prehistoric times. Over the centuries it has been refined into a surprising number of variations, from the simplest everyday fare--such as tuna wrapped in vinegared rice and crisp vitamin-rich nori seaweed--to elegant and imaginative sushi created for festive occasions. The centerpiece of this book is Edomae-zushi, the delicate, natural, fresh variety first made in Tokyo in the early nineteenth century and now popular throughout the world.

The sushi shop, with its scrubbed wooden counter and fillets of raw fish sleeping in refrigerated cases right before the diner's eyes, is a memorable experience in itself but faced with such variety--and the special vocabulary of the sushi world--how and what does one order, how does one truly appreciate it? The answers are all here. The reader of The Book of Sushi will come to understand the basics of what the sushi chef must learn during his long apprenticeship: how fish and other seafoods are carefully selected, the season when certain species are at their best, how the fish and rice and other ingredientssome fresh from the mountains rather than the sea--are prepared in the most tasteful and tasty way. Here, too, are the utensils and techniques, fully illustrated, of sushi making and an assessment of the nutritional value of this marvelous, low-calorie source of vitamins and healthy, uncontaminated protein.

The focus is always on the traditional--the best sushi--and with this beautifully illustrated book as a guide, the reader will know not only how to enjoy the sushi shop with savoir-faire, how, in fact, to become a connoisseur, but how to make and serve this intriguing, delightfully refreshing dish at home. Whether you're a near connoisseur or virtual novice, there's always more to learn about sushi. The Book of Sushi is jammed with tips on how to make these succulent morsels yourself, or order them like a veteran at a sushi bar. Learn to tell at a glance if fish is really fresh. Learn just what the sushi master's training entails. Learn just how good for you this dish really is. There's just one drawback: the more you learn about sushi, the more you'll probably start liking it. You may find sushi getting to be a habit. This is a guide for the lover of sushi, whether eating in restaurants or preparing it at home.
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Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery (Premier Reference Source)



Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery (Premier Reference Source)
Hsiao-fan Wang | 2008-07-02 00:00:00 | IGI Global | 366 | Artificial Intelligence
Pattern Recognition has a long history of applications to data analysis in business, military and social economic activities. While the aim of pattern recognition is to discover the pattern of a data set, the size of the data set is closely related to the methodology one adopts for analysis. Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery tackles those data sets and covers a variety of issues in relation to intelligent data analysis so that patterns from frequent or rare events in spatial or temporal spaces can be revealed. This book brings together current research, results, problems, and applications from both theoretical and practical approaches.

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ABC of Heart Failure (ABC Series)



ABC of Heart Failure (ABC Series)
Russell C. Davis,Michael K. Davies,Gregory Y. H. Lip | 2007-03-09 00:00:00 | BMJ Books | 72 | Dentistry
This new edition of the ABC of Heart Failure provides coherent and concise information relating to the epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical features, aiding the diagnosis and treatment of this life threatening condition.

Fully updated to cover all the latest advances, the ABC of Heart Failure is an invaluable reference for general practitioners, hospital doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals involved in the treatment and prevention of heart failure.

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Earth Alert!



Earth Alert!
Kris Neville | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Wildside Press | 150 | Fiction Other
Kris Neville (1925-1980) was an American science fiction writer. His most famous work, "Bettyann" (1970) is considered an underground classic of science fiction. Other novels include "The Unearth People," "The Mutants," "Special Delivery," and "Invaders on the Moon."
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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (The Great Hispanic Heritage)



Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (The Great Hispanic Heritage)
Dennis Abrams | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Chelsea House Publications | 128 | History
Immortalized in fashion, film, and music, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was a trained doctor, writer, military leader, and revolutionary—more than just a man emblazoned on a T-shirt. When he was a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America, where he witnessed people living in terrible poverty. After, Guevara became a radical activist, one in favor of world revolution as a way to achieve economic equality. These views led him to Fidel Castro, then a Cuban revolutionary, and the two worked with others to overthrow the U.S.-backed Cuban government under Fulgencio Batista. After this successful insurrection, Guevara went on to incite further revolutions in other countries, an occupation that would result in his death. This new biography, filled with detailed photographs and handy reference features, offers an insightful narrative tale of a man who acted upon his beliefs.
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The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy (Library of International Relations)



The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy (Library of International Relations)
Roby C. Barrett | 2007-06-15 00:00:00 | I. B. Tauris | 496 | Middle East
At the height of the Cold War, the US sought to maintain power and influence in the Greater Middle East Â- the region from Morocco to India Â-in the context of a growing threat from Russia and the decline of British imperialism.  This original and important study illuminates this tense period in international relations, offering many new insights into the global situation of the 1950s and 1960s.
 
Roby Barrett casts fresh light on US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy, drawing on extensive research in archives and document collections from Kansas to Canberra and numerous interviews with key policy makers and observers from both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.  He explores the application of the Cold War containment policy through economic development and security assistance, highlighting the fundamental similarities between the goals and application of foreign policy in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as well as the impact of British influence on the process.   And in the process this book draws some unexpected conclusions, arguing that Eisenhower's policies were ultimately more successful than Kennedy's, and offers an important and revisionist contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and the Middle East.


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How To Win Your War Against Termites



How To Win Your War Against Termites
Wings Of Success | 2009-11-12 00:00:00 | Wingas of Success | 79 | Misc
Enraged With How The Termites Have Eaten Up Your Antique Furniture? Can't Wait To Have Them Exterminated Completely From The Face Of The Earth? Fret Not! We Will Tell You How To Get Rid Of Them From Your House At Least…If Not From The Face The Earth…!

Finally! Discover Some Of The Most Effective And Time-Proven Methods To Get Rid Of Termites! Learn Some Mean Ways To Really Get Rid Of These Pests From Every Nook And Corner Of Your Home… And Save A Lot Of Time And Money… And Yes, Your Beautiful Antique Furniture Too!
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Therapeutic Lipidology (Contemporary Cardiology)



Therapeutic Lipidology (Contemporary Cardiology)
Michael Davidson,Peter P. Toth,Kevin C Maki | 2007-11-30 00:00:00 | Humana Press | 492 | Internal Medicine
Since the creation of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology, many clinicians have wanted an up-to-date, comprehensive reference on lipidology. Now, for the first time, clinicians can find such a reference in Therapeutic Lipidology. This volume will provide practicing clinicians with a focused and intensive but useable source of information on the identification and management of dyslipidemias. Among the topics discussed in this groundbreaking text are lipoprotein metabolism, pharmacological therapy for cardiovascular disease, thiazolidinediones on serum lipoproteins, hypertriglyceridemia, dyslipidemia and obesity, dyslipidemia in children, and much more. The pace of scientific and clinical advances in lipidology is astounding. This reference will serve as a lifelong stimulus to the reader to continue to learn about the ever changing and fascinating field of therapeutic lipidology. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, Therapeutic Lipidology will empower readers to improve and extend the lives of the patients they so conscientiously serve.

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Free Choice Petri Nets (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science)



Free Choice Petri Nets (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science)
Jorg Desel,Javier Esparza | 2005-09-08 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press | 256 | Methodology
Petri nets are a popular and powerful formal model for the analysis and modelling of concurrent systems, and a rich theory has developed around them. Petri nets are taught to undergraduates, and also used by industrial practitioners. This book focuses on a particular class of petri nets, free choice petri nets, which play a central role in the theory. The text is very clearly organised, with every notion carefully explained and every result proved. Clear exposition is given for place invariants, siphons, traps and many other important analysis techniques. The material is organised along the lines of a course book, and each chapter contains numerous exercises, making this book ideal for graduate students and research workers alike.
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A very informative book with a good balance of concepts and proofs that should get one going with free choice Petri nets.

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Biology and Pathology of Trophoblast



Biology and Pathology of Trophoblast
Ashley Moffett,Charlie Loke,Anne McLaren | 2006-05-29 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press | 292 | Internal Medicine
This is the first dedicated, in-depth account of trophoblast: the tissue derived from the fertilized egg that nourishes and protects the developing fetus. The cells of the trophoblast have many unique qualities, and exhibit great variability across different species. It has a fascinating role in the development of the placenta and as a regulator during early growth of the embryo. These aspects are all fully covered as well as studies on why it is not rejected by the mother as 'foreign' tissue. This volume provides an up-to-date summary of the state of current knowledge and offers some glimpses as to future development on the scientific and clinical front.

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The Mathematical Beauty of Physics: A Memorial Volume for Claude Itzykson Saclay, France 5-7 June 1996 (Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics)



The Mathematical Beauty of Physics: A Memorial Volume for Claude Itzykson Saclay, France 5-7 June 1996 (Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics)
Claude Itzykson,Jean Bernard Zuber,Jean-Michel Drouffe | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc | 366 | Mathematics
This volume gathers contributions to the conference in memory of Claude Itzykson held in Saclay in June 1996. As an hommage to the great variety of interests of this distinguished scientist, latest developments in topics of current activity are covered, in various branches of mathematical physics and mathematics-conformal field theory, strings and topology, disorder systems, chaos and number theory.

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Amedeo Challenge



Amedeo Challenge
Attilio Baghino | 2007-01-01 00:00:00 | Flying Publisher | 67 | Medicine
Who is Amedeo? What are the driving forces behind the project? What is Free Medical Information? How can free medical textbooks such as HIV Medicine generate money? And what the hell is Amedeo Challenge, creating awards, motivating physicians to publish, calling for donations?
Attilio Baghino has been the official biographer of the Amedeo project since 1999 and answers all these questions and many more: How Amedeo was born and where it will eventually take us. We are in the middle of a hurricane, which is approaching medical publishing territory. The Amedeo Challenge describes some of the players and forces involved.
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Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book)



Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book)
| 2006-02-13 00:00:00 | | 0 | Adobe After Effects


The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects 7!

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe After Effects, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an After Effects artist. You'll get thorough training in digital video effects and production as well as learn about After Effects 7.0's new features, including motion tracking, powerful animation and keyframing controls, HDR color support, network rendering, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.




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Great for learning After Effects 7.0
I recently made the financial plunge and bought Adobe's Production Studio Premium which includes After Effects 7.0 - a motion graphics and compositing program I feel necessary for any serious production company. Though quite good at Premiere Pro, and decent at Photoshop and 3ds Max, I did not know how to use After Effects at all so I bought a couple books to try to learn - this being one of them.


At first glance the lesson projects appear un-impressive, particularly if only looking at the pictures in the book. However, as you work through them and watch the finished videos you realize that you are learning valuable techniques and skills that you can apply to your own work. They have you import and work with photoshop, illustrator, and video files (included on DVD) so you get used to working with a variety of media just like in a production environment. The book really helps you step by step learn to work with this program in a variety of ways and is exactly what a new AE user needs.

It covers quite a bit of stuff including things new to version 7.

It's well worth the money and I recommend it to anyone who needs help getting started with this program.


I guess my only complaint was that it didn't do a lesson on some of the motion graphics like I see on national network commercials (loopy, ribbon, bubbly graphics) they always fling onto the screen, but to be fair this program can do so very much there's probably no way to have a book so inclusive that it goes from the very beginning to that level all in a single book. Also, the .mp3 file that you are supposed to use with the lesson 1 project will not import into my After Effects without crashing it.

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Errors on the accompanying DVD make it difficult to learn
In all fairness, I've only gone through the first lesson and already I'm enraged at Adobe. You're given several files to import from the accompanying DVD, and one of them is 3 seconds long. The book refers to it as 3 seconds long. Strugle struggle struggle and you can't make it work like the sample movie. Now I open up the adobe finished example and lo and behold, the file is supposed to be THIRTY seconds long. I have a little experience and was able to create a new file of approriate length but real beginners will tear their hair out over something like this. Problem 2- a supplied mp3 file won't load (though all my other mp3 files will). Had to convert it to wav to import it. These kinds of defects just shouldn't happen in a teach your-self environment.


Bottom line is at least the first lesson is not a lesson in how to use After Effects 7 but how to get totally frustrated. Can't wait to see lesson 2. If you are looking for a smooth, easy way to learn After Effects 7, look elsewhere.

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good intro, one flaw
good, basic intro to a professional tool. while it might not `be for beginners` as some have said, neither is after effects. the one problem i have with the book is that several of the lessons require effects that only come bundled with the Pro edition of AE7. given that the title of the book does not mention Pro, the authors should probably have taken more care to avoid using features limited to the Pro edition.

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Average Tutorial from Adobe
Actually this is about what I expected from Adobe. It's a basic instruction book for After Effects 7 that shows a beginner some of the mechanics of the program. The lessons pull the reader through the steps needed to produce the required results without much explanation.


As another reviewer noted, the examples aren't that good. Watching the sample movies before doing the lessons, you find yourself saying `And why would I want to produce something like that?` Or maybe `It takes over an hour just for that 10 second cheezy cartoon?`


After Effects is an extremely powerful program that's used by many professionals in countless video applications. Watch any TV program and you'll surely see the results of what After Effects can do. Much additional instruction beyond this official training book from Adobe, that you have to pay extra for, is obviously required to get the most out of After Effects.


I just got 2 more books,`After Effects` by Fahs & Weinman and `Creative After Effects` by Taylor. I'll see how they compare with Adobe's book.


Update: After reading `Creative After Effects` by Angie Taylor, this Adobe Classroom in a Book looks like a Pulitzer prize winner in comparison. Don't even think about wasting your time on Taylor's so-called `book`.



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A must-have if you own After Effects!!!!
I sat for a solid week trying to make sense out of the confusing owner's manual for After Effects, and never got anywhere. After just the first `lesson` in this book, I already knew my way around in AE smoothly, and then with each lesson, I was accelerating rapidly with knowledge. The official AE owner's manual will definitely be tossed into a dark corner for a long time,,,, this Classroom In A Book should be listed as a manditory requirement for learning how to use AE. It is very easy to understand and takes you through some very cool steps to help you create videos like the pros. Without this book, I would still have no clue as to how to function inside AE,,,,.If you want to learn how to use AE in a flash, then you HAVE to buy this book!!!!! I recommend it 100%!!!!!


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Between the Rule of Power and the Power of Rule (International Relations Studies Series)



Between the Rule of Power and the Power of Rule (International Relations Studies Series)
Staden,A. | 2007-05-30 00:00:00 | MNP | 252 | Politics
The book discusses different models of world order, traditional and modern. Any practical application of the concept at issue will be affected by the prevailing power structure, and to some degree, reflect it. The reality of American preeminence in the world today needs to be reconciled with the demand for international legitimacy.

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Exposure and Risk Assessment of Chemical Pollution - Contemporary Methodology (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)



Exposure and Risk Assessment of Chemical Pollution - Contemporary Methodology (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)
Lubomir I. Simeonov | 2009-04-09 00:00:00 | Springer | 526 | Conservation

The main objective of the book is to contribute to the existing knowledge and practical application of modern technologies for exposure and risk assessment of chemical environmental pollution with emphasis on methodologies and the models used for environmental security. Particular attention is paid to models useful for the quantitative and qualitative identification, estimation of exposure and risk. Stress is given to the computational modelling technology achievements for environmental fate, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment of chemical pollutants in air, water, soil and biota; to the estimation of the screening level risk assessment modelling to assess and prioritize chemicals; to the evaluation of the probabilistic risk assessment methods for intentional pollution to help the risk managers in uncontrollable processes; to the review of the approaches for modelling of adverse health and environmental effects; to the comparative evaluation of currently used models on the criteria of sensitivity, variability and uncertainty; to the evaluation of the additional criteria as predictive value, advantages, validations and limitations of models. Research needs in this complex scientific field are identified and the strategy for prediction and prevention of chemical threats originating from intentional pollution are outlined.



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Pulsed Power (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)



Pulsed Power (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)
Gennady A. Mesyats | 2004-12-21 00:00:00 | Springer | 568 | Engineering
Mesyats' Pulsed Power provides in-depth coverage of the generation of pulsed electric power, electron and ion beams, and various types of pulsed electromagnetic radiation. The electric power that can be produced by the methods described ranges from 106 to 1014W for pulse durations of 10-10-10-7s. The book consists of nine parts containing 28 chapters, which deal with various aspects of pulsed power and high-power electronics and cover a concise theory of electric circuits as applied to nanosecond pulse technology; physics of fast processes occurring in electrical discharges in vacuum, gases, and liquids; phenomena in long lines; mechanisms of operation and designs of high-power gas-discharge, plasma, and semiconductor closing and opening switches as well as of high-power electric pulse generators using these switches; solid-state (semiconductor and magnetic) methods of production and transformation of nanosecond high-power pulses; and methods of production of high-power pulsed electron and ion beams. The closing part describes methods applied to produce high-power nanosecond pulsed X-rays, laser beams, microwaves, and ultrawideband electromagnetic radiation. This all-embracing book covers gas, laser, semiconductor, and magnetic circuit elements, the phenomenon of explosive electron emission discovered by the author, diodes of various types, including semiconductor diodes based on the SOS effect discovered with participation of the author, and methods of production of various types of high-power pulsed radiation.

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Coeliac Disease: Nursing Care and Management (Wiley Series in Nursing)



Coeliac Disease: Nursing Care and Management (Wiley Series in Nursing)
Helen Griffiths | 2008-12-31 00:00:00 | Wiley | 214 | Nutrition
Coeliac Disease: Nursing Care and Management provides nurses with the knowledge and evidence base to understand the impact of the diagnosis of Coeliac disease, and examine the long term treatment and management of the condition. The authors take the reader through an investigative journey from the history of the disease through its pathology, characteristics, diagnosis, treatment and management. Clinical case studies bring to life both the physical and psychosocial aspects of care of patients making this an ideal text for clinical nurse specialists, Gastroenterology nurses and Endoscopy nurses.

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The Other Side of Despair: Jews and Arabs in the Promised Land



The Other Side of Despair: Jews and Arabs in the Promised Land
Daniel Gavron | 2003-11-19 00:00:00 | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | 272 | Israel
This compelling book takes the reader behind the headlines of the confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, examining its human dimension and setting it in a balanced historical context. In his search for understanding, Daniel Gavron talks to Israelis and Palestinians of all backgrounds and shades of opinion. Politicians and economists, entrepreneurs and writers, psychologists and teachers, men and women, veterans and youngsters, fervent militants and pragmatic realists all speak in these pages. We hear the Palestinian fighter and the Israeli soldier, the Jewish settler and the Arab Israeli, the negotiators from the opposite sides of the table, the bereaved parents. Reflecting the excruciating agony of both societies, these diverse voices emphasize the basic humanity of both peoples.
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Daniel Gavron is a veteran reporter in Israel who has a great knowledge of the local scene. This book is an effort at finding a solution to the Arab- Israeli conflict, or as Gavron prefers to define and confine it here, the conflict of two peoples over one land. Gavron makes an effort to grope toward a solution by sympathetically interviewing people from both sides, people who seem closest to the idea of accomodation and peace. Gavron's fundamental idea is that the basic plan for solution of the 'peace camp' has been mistaken. He believes that it is impossible given the present mix- up of populations- over two hundred thousand Jews within ' the West Bank' and over a million Arabs within Israel to divide the land. He advocates instead one unified state that would presently have a small Jewish majority.

Gavron has good - intentions and has a real capacity to listen to others and hear their stories. However his whole enterprise is undermined by the false symmetry he works to apply between the traditional Jewish and traditional Arab stances to the problems. i.e. the great majority of Jews have always sought a peaceful answer, and have made generous offers to that effect throughout the course of the conflict while the Arabs have said ' leh' repeatedly and continue to do so. Gavron also does a serious injustice to the Jewish citizens of Judaea and Samaria in indicting them as principal cause of the absence of peace. He makes a very serious moral error in not seeing that there is a world of difference between the deliberate murders of civilians the Palestinian Arabs have been engaged in, and the civilian casualties inadvertently caused by Israeli preventitive acts against terror.

Aside from the fundamental misreading of the conflict in this sense Gavron also fails to flesh out his ' one- state - plan'. There is of course no sign whatsoever that the Arabs would agree to such a plan. And there is too no reason the Jews should accept a plan which would mean that in a fairly short number of years the Jewish state would be transformed into an Arab- majority one. For anyone who cares for the historical struggle of the Jewish people to return to their land and establish a state of their own this book's program is a non- starter.


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Gavron is to be commended for trying to find a solution to the long conflict between Arabs and Jews over Israel. And he has some good points to make. But I still think he fails to come up with any ideas that will prove useful as they stand.



The author starts by saying that there are four ways to resolve the conflict. One is to expel the Jews from the area. Two is to expel the Arabs. Three is to divide the area into two states, one for each side. Four is to have a single-state solution.



Gavron dismisses the first two solutions. I agree with him on that. Not only do I think these would be immoral and unjust, I think they would fail to achieve peace.



The next issue is the "two-state" solution. That might make sense if a few things were true. If there really were two nations that needed states there to defend their people and their rights, and if both of these nations really wanted a state, then I think we'd try to figure out how much land each side had, how much land each side could propose to purchase, and so forth. That is, we could try to accomodate each of them. If they were willing to keep their side of a bargain, they could get what they needed.



Gavron sees part of the problem here. Right now, neither side wants any part of a two-state solution. Israel wants one only if it can thereby have peace. The Arabs want one only if they can keep fighting Israel. And he concludes that the only way a two-state solution will work is if it is totally unnecessary.



That is a very useful point. And the author then states that we do not really need a border between two states, so a one-state solution is the right answer.



Still, Gavron says that we also need to get rid of the Israeli Law of Return. In exchange, the Arabs could drop the demand to give millions of Arabs a right to move into Israel.



I think this latter idea misses the point, and it is a serious error. In fact, many Zionists in the period between World War One and World War Two did not demand a Jewish state. All this changed when Jewish immigration to Israel was curtailed by the 1939 White Paper. At that point, it became clear that to protect human rights, Jews needed a state. That is why Israel exists today. A solution to the present conflict that curtails immigration takes us back to the pre-state problem.



Moreover, the problem is an Arab problem as well. Arabs are going to need to live in peace with their neighbors. And that means that one day, they will need to demand rights for both themselves and their neighbors, rather than for neither. Unless they do that, they'll wind up in wars with all their neighbors, not merely in a war with the Jews.



All sorts of peoples have states. The French do. The Germans do. I see no reason to deny the Hebrews a state. But let's suppose that for some reason, our species needed to deny statehood to the Jews and only to the Jews. Well, in that case, I think as a minimum, we'd need to make such a state unnecessary by making sure that Jews would have rights to life, liberty, and property in the region. And a right to immigrate into it. That's why I think Gavron's idea is so bad. By asking to get rid of the Law of Return, he's showing us that we really need to find a solution in which the Jews themselves have control over Jewish immigration.



What we need is a serious discussion of a proposal that would permit all this. After all, there are over five million Jews in Israel. They live on less than ten thousand square miles of land. If one wants peace, why not simply make peace with them? Why not let them live on this rather small amount of land and enjoy human rights there? It's unlikely that the Jews would refuse such an offer! More important, peace would benefit the Arabs as well. Solutions such as the one Gavron proposes will not contribute to peace or to human rights.
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As a fresh perspective on the world's most intractible (and dangerous) conflict, this book has to be worth more than 3 stars so I'm giving it 5 (unread - but see Arnold Wesker's review in the Guardian Online) - but why has no-one else reviewed this? Do those spectators most involved in the conflict, Jewish or Moslem, want to see it resolved - or perpetuated?
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Although I find it hard to be as optimistic as the author is, I feel that the mood of this book gives an excellent feel for what's going on here today. The 12 people interviewed in the book are not major players in the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs in Israel, but their views provide insight into what the issues are.

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New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects of Bipolar Disorders: 3rd Stanley Symposium, Andechs, November 2001 (Neuropsychobiology)



New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects of Bipolar Disorders: 3rd Stanley Symposium, Andechs, November 2001 (Neuropsychobiology)
J. Walden,H. Grunze | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | Not Avail | 36 | Manic Depression
Considering many aspects of bipolar disorder, this volume includes updates on the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network's naturalistic follow-up study after two and a half years in the German centres. It also covers neuropsychological performance in depressed and euthymic bipolar patients.

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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health , Volume 3 (Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures)



Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health , Volume 3 (Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures)
Suad Joseph | 2005-11-30 00:00:00 | Brill Academic Publishers | 588 | World
Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health¸ holds 196 articles on 56 topics. It includes articles on aging; the body; breastfeeding; celibacy; child marriage; childhood; courtship; disabilities; food preparation; funerary practices; genital cutting; health policies, practices, and education; poverty; HIV and AIDS; reproduction; incest; love; marriage discourses and practices; reproduction; science; sexual harassment; discourses, education and practices related to sexualities; sports; suicide; and virginity. The articles are organized alphabetically by topic and within topics alphabetically by region. In addition, Volume III includes an extensive bibliography and analysis of over 1,000 doctoral dissertations written on women and Islamic cultures.

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The Dynamics of Cities: Ecological Determinism, Dualism and Chaos



The Dynamics of Cities: Ecological Determinism, Dualism and Chaos
Dimitrios Dendrinos | 1992-11-10 00:00:00 | Routledge | 416 | Social Sciences
Drawing on recorded evidence of a global scale and scanning the past quarter century years, Dimitrios Dendrinos argues that the dynamics of the world's largest cities exhibit patterns in seeming chaos, but nonetheless ordered dualism. In this informative and original study, Dendrinos arrives at an aggregate macro-ecological determinism governing the rise and fall of cities, industries, regions, and nations alike. He synthesizes a speculative theory of human behavior and hypothesizes that a broad range of socioeconomic dualisms and spatial disparities signify a dynamic instability in the evolution of societies and human settlements. The author's highly original approach suggests that simple macrodynamic processes guide the growth and decline of contemporary megacities, just as they have determined the space-time of cities of the past.

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Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America



Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Paul Freston | 2001-04-02 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press | 360 | Politics
Paul Freston's book is a pioneering comparative study of the political aspects of the new mass evangelical Protestantism of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. The book examines twenty-seven countries from the three major continents of the Third World, burrowing deep into the specificities of each country's religious and political fields. The conclusion looks at the implications of evangelical politics for democracy, nationalism and globalization. This unique account of the politics of global evangelicalism will be of interest across disciplines and in many different parts of the world.
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Freston gives a dramatic overview of popular Christian movements across the world's southern continents. He describes people little-known in the North, but who are making enormous differences in shaping the future of Christianity. These include activists for democracy, female church leaders in Shanghai, prophet-founders of African "new religions", and preachers of the worldwide Pentacostalist movement. Many of these leaders have unique versions of the Christian message. Some are reactionaries for Christian theocracy. Many blend ancient beliefs with a passion for justice. In Brazil, Freston shows a rising evangelical movement coming up the middle between the old camps of conservatives and progressives. One preacher he cites calls for a "spiritual warfare" against evil spirits, for the sake of compassion toward the poor:



"Demons must be expelled from social life in the name of the vote, justice, organization, and democracy, by the power of the name of Jesus. ... We desire Brazil free from spiritual oppression such as hunger, misery, unemployment, inflation, corruption, organized crime ... No demons can stand against our faith." (p.39-40)



As Freston shows, the political implications of these movements will be important.



-author of Correcting Jesus



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Practice Tests for the BEC Preliminary. Students's Book with Answers



Practice Tests for the BEC Preliminary. Students's Book with Answers
Mark Twain | 2005-01-31 00:00:00 | Hueber Verlag GmbH & Co K | 136 | English
Practice Tests for the BEC Preliminary is a set of five complete practice tests written in accordance with the specifications for the BEC examination. This set of tests, written by an experienced EFL author, provides comprehensive coverage of the language points and skills targeted in the examination. Taken together, the tests offer thorough practice in the types of task required for each of the four papers. There are two versions of the test book, one with an answer key for home study and one without an answer key suitable for use in class.



Key Features

* Five full practice tests
* Introductory section providing a comprehensive overview of each of the three papers
* Wide range of authentic texts drawn from a variety of sources
* Thorough coverage of discrete language and skills targeted in the examination across the five tests
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Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))



Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))
Keith L. Moore,Anne M.R. Agur | 2006-03-21 00:00:00 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | 691 | Alternative Medicine

Essential Clinical Anatomy, Third Edition presents the core anatomical concepts found in Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fifth Edition in a concise, easy-to-read, and student-friendly format. This streamlined book is an excellent review for the larger text and an ideal primary text for health professions courses with brief coverage of anatomy.

This edition features new full-color surface anatomy photographs and new diagnostic images. A new design makes the book visually appealing and easier to navigate.

Accompanying the book is an Online Student Resource Center, which includes interactive clinical cases, USMLE-style review questions, and more.


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This book was recommended by our professors and is a basis of much of our work in my Medical School Anatomy Class. There is plenty of information inside, and it can be used to delve more in depth on any particular topic. Also, it contains clinically relevant correlations. I know that it would be an asset to a medical student.
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book was in perfect condition upon arrival. still wrapped in plastic and smells like new. right edition and everything. love it.
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This is just the right level of detail...and it has the added benefit of being able to actually be carried around because of it's thoughtful layout and organization. Have your local printer put a spiral binding on it and along with FA4S1 (First Aid for Step One) carry it everywhere...

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Chemically Induced Birth Defects



Chemically Induced Birth Defects
James Schardein | 2000-04-15 00:00:00 | Informa Healthcare | 1109 | Internal Medicine
WIL Research Laboratories, Inc., Ashland, OH. This volume's purpose is to catalog the available data on drugs and chemicals with respect to their potential teratogenicity in animals and humans. Extensive references. Expanded-outline format. Graphs and charts throughout. For medical students, researchers, and clinicians.

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Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)



Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Christian Jacob | 2001-02-12 00:00:00 | Morgan Kaufmann | 578 | Others


An essential capacity of intelligence is the ability to learn. An artificially intelligent system that could learn would not have to be programmed for every eventuality; it could adapt to its changing environment and conditions just as biological systems do. Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica introduces evolutionary computation to the technically savvy reader who wishes to explore this fascinating and increasingly important field. Unique among books on evolutionary computation, the book also explores the application of evolution to developmental processes in nature, such as the growth processes in cells and plants. If you are a newcomer to the evolutionary computation field, an engineer, a programmer, or even a biologist wanting to learn how to model the evolution and coevolution of plants, this book will provide you with a visually rich and engaging account of this complex subject.

* Introduces the major mechanisms of biological evolution.
* Demonstrates many fascinating aspects of evolution in nature with simple, yet illustrative examples.
* Explains each of the major branches of evolutionary computation: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, and evolution strategies.
* Demonstrates the programming of computers by evolutionary principles using Evolvica, a genetic programming system designed by the author.
* Shows in detail how to evolve developmental programs modeled by cellular automata and Lindenmayer systems.
* Provides Mathematica notebooks on the Web that include all the programs in the book and supporting animations, movies, and graphics.
Living organisms manage to solve all kinds of deviously complex problems with a natural simplicity that leaves programmers speechless. Incorporating techniques based on principles elaborated by Darwin and his intellectual descendents, a new generation of hackers has tackled hairy challenges with surprising success. Christian Jacob introduces interested programmers and scientists to these tools in Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica, translated from German by the author. The basics of biological evolution through mutation and adaptation are covered quickly before they are adapted themselves to the purposes of computer-aided problem solving. Jacob then explores the fundamentals of evolutionary computing through well-illustrated examples and a good balance of text, formulae, and code. Genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, and finite state automata each get their share of attention and integration with Evolvica, Jacob's Mathematica-based genetic programming system. The system and Web enhancements to the book are available through the University of Calgary's site and are essential for getting the most from the text. The last few chapters cover advanced applications like the classic "hungry ants" programs, cellular automata, and artificial plant evolution, suggesting further possibilities for this programming frontier. Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica is an excellent introduction and handbook for those wishing to harness the power of this vigorous new hybrid. --Rob Lightner
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This book is poorly structured and lacks depth. It trivialises aspects of EAs, especially representational issues. I understand the emphasis is on teaching the reader how to program GAs using mathematica but I would not recommend this book as an introduction to GAs. The visualisation aspects of Mathematica applied to EAs are useful, but I would definitely recommend Melanie Mitchell's Introduction to Genetic Algorithms or one of Koza's books for those interested in GP.
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As a Mechanical Engineer with just a side interest in AI, I find most books in this field need heavy attention after the first few pages. Not so with this one. Its a great piece of work. I was kind of skeptical at first since this is billed as a translation from German, but it reads really well... and once you get the notebooks in Mathematica...its almost imposible to get anything else done, youll be hooked. Looking forward to more titles in this field from Jacob.
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I am quite satisified with what I am reading. As a non-scientist, I can see how this evolutionary theory and this particular theory relates to life in general and its applications and conditions. The introduction is quite important and explains how the theory of evolution (correct or not is not necessary) is used to help with mathematical computations and solve mathematical problems.

What is implied in Christian Jacob's book is quite broad and revolutionary. In color plate 2, page 288, "independent populations climbing peaks" reminds me of the recent findings of a particular species of parrot (thought extinct in South America since 1910)living currently on some Volcano in South America by residents there by accident. Yet, through evolutionary models, one can track species and perhaps any existence.

What is most interesting is what is implied--that tracking can be used to oppress or cause extinctions (such as poaching) and so it could be implied that randomness would occur by species under these conditions to avoid tracking such as avoiding evolutionary tracking. Randomness would therefore be an evolutionary process to survive. Finding randomness could suggest a species or whatever is possibly trying to avoid being tracked through evolutionary tracking. Evolutionary tracking is relatively new and so this is why there is perhaps little randomness (or maybe none has been discovered yet), but randomness is a possibility that seems to be a probable result and not clearly an original play--since so far, not much randomness if any has been found.

If one turns Color Plate 3 on page 289 upside down, one is perhaps presented with an ocean. Recently, life that does not need oxygen to exist has been found living deep in an ocean. The life was most likely dicovered without using evolutionary tracking models, though the models would suggest something is there though what has evolved or not is not clear and would need more elaborate formulas and charts of various sorts. That ocean life found uses other sources as reported by this science news wire:
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So, Color Plate 3 is quite interesting as it would suggest that in addition to the findings of the scientists, there are at least two other entities there they have not discovered...

It is as though the models and formulas can be applied in a variety of instances due to lack of randomness and that evolutionary tracking has so far not been avoided with randomness...

This suggests early birth of Earth and evolution of all or most species and things on Earth, evolutionary tracking not done until recently by Earthlings or others, or that evolutionary tracking so far is used for good and not to cause extinction or disruption...

I would say the book is written for scientists mainly and there are a number of formulas, but they do apply to the humanities.
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Like the previous reader, I must applaud this book. While I know Mathematica well, I am no mathematician and I have no patience for books that do not explain the foundations of their programs or functions.

The author here, Jacob, does an excellent job of introducing the reader gradually to the different concepts of simulating evolution. As you can download the Mathematica notebooks and run them on your own computer, this quickly becomes a fun and interactive book.

The book starts with simple selection processes for reproduction. Select shapes, colors or features and see a next generation evolve! This can be a fun game. See breeding and mutation be used to search for an optimum of a three-dimensional function, where the reader knows the global optimum, while different "populations" try to find it by evolutionary methods-mutating or breeding to a different spot, which they evaluate and according to its height be successful in the passing of their genes or not. Other fun chapters include evolutionary production of mobiles and flowers. The culmination is in the evolution of algorithms. This evolves small programs for searching for food in a maze. The successful programs "breed," "mutate," and reproduce, while the unsuccessful ones starve and die. The result is a complex path toward better algorithms for searching for food.

Part of the value of this book for me is that it really shows the limits of evolutionary analysis. You can simulate the successes--the butterflies that do manage to change colors to avoid falling easy prey when the environment changes; the evolutionary mechanisms that find the global optimum of a function-but there is no concrete way to determine or describe their efficiency ex ante. This is a major failure of evolutionary analysis generally, rather than a drawback of the book. If anything, the book deserves credit for making this failure understandable, although Jacob does not spend time exploring or solving the problem of determining evolutionary fitness.

[To put it in an example, suppose there are two evolutionary mechanisms. An organism can evolve by mutation or by reproduction. Mutation is the random change of some individuals in the population, and the change makes them either more or less successful in their environment. Reproduction means parents producing an offspring by mixing their features, and the different offspring will have different degrees of success in their environment. We can simulate their operation in a hypothetical environment, by for example, saying that the background foliage changes color and organisms have different probabilities of being eaten by predators depending on their color. We run the simulation and see which evolutionary mechanism adapts to the new environment faster and better. Nevertheless, we cannot conclude that the evolutionary mechanism that won this test will win every test. Needless to say, when designing evolutionary systems this conclusion is crucially necessary. If we are designing a computer search program, should we have it "mutate" or "reproduce"? Since we do not know the challenges it will face (the changes in the environment that it must overcome) we cannot evaluate its success ex ante.]

With the caveat of not exploring measurements of the success (fitness) of different evolutionary mechanisms, this is a spectacular book. It is worth comparing it with the books of the various biologists, who simply offer examples of evolutionary changes from the past or hypotheses of evolutionary explanations for various phenomena. Those are speculations of amateurs compared to the experimentation and verification that Jacob's approach offers. That the field is not ready for rigorous conclusions is unfortunate, but something that is no fault of this author.
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This book provides a thorough survey of evolutionary computation techniques, including genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, and evolution strategies. The author uses mathematica to illustrate the examples. If you know mathematica, you'll find this unique angle to be invaluable, but even if you don't know mathematica, if you're familiar with any programming languages, or matlab, maple, etc., you should be able to make the connections. The figures in this book have to be the most illustrative examples offered in any evolutionary computation text to date. The text is easy to read and very informative.

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Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision



Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision
Henrik I. Christensen,Jonathon Phillips | 2002-07-15 00:00:00 | World Scientific Publishing Company | 170 | Artificial Intelligence
Provides comprehensive coverage of methods for the empirical evaluation of computer vision techniques.

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Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance 2006



Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance 2006
William T. Ziemba,Raymond G. Vickson | 2006-09-11 00:00:00 | World Scientific Publishing Company | 756 | Finance
A reprint of one of the classic volumes on portfolio theory and investment, this book has been used by the leading professors at universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie-Mellon. It contains five parts, each with a review of the literature and about 150 pages of computational and review exercises and further in-depth, challenging problems. Frequently referenced and highly usable, the material remains as fresh and relevant for a portfolio theory course as ever.

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HANDBOOK OF COMBINATORICS VOLUME 1, Volume Volume I



HANDBOOK OF COMBINATORICS VOLUME 1, Volume Volume I
Jeffrey M. Lemm | 1995-12-25 00:00:00 | North Holland | 1120 | Information Theory
Hardbound.
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An handbook is usually a little fact book with just the facts

presented in as understandable a fashion as possible.

You have to look at this book from a price to benefit point of view.

Most of these research / survey papers are just not presented in a teaching mode: more of a theorem and proof mode with references.

The price tag per volume is over 200 dollars.

My bet is that libraries and the authors are the main market,

with most poor graduate students and post grads not being able to afford

the volumes at a price for both at of $400.

The material is dense and not presented in enough detail that

the result is very useful to a student.

Here we have more ego than scholarship as a result?
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This is a collection of survey articles by various top class mathematicians about combinatorics, and the links the subject has with other branches of knowledge, from topology to biology. I have only read a couple of chapters in any detail and they were very useful. If you are in combinatorics, you must have access to this. The expense is worth it.

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Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory



Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
Nigel Cutland | 1980-01-01 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press | 1 | Computer Science
What can computers do in principle? What are their inherent theoretical limitations? These are questions to which computer scientists must address themselves. The theoretical framework which enables such questions to be answered has been developed over the last fifty years from the idea of a computable function: intuitively a function whose values can be calculated in an effective or automatic way. This book is an introduction to computability theory (or recursion theory as it is traditionally known to mathematicians). Dr Cutland begins with a mathematical characterisation of computable functions using a simple idealised computer (a register machine); after some comparison with other characterisations, he develops the mathematical theory, including a full discussion of non-computability and undecidability, and the theory of recursive and recursively enumerable sets. The later chapters provide an introduction to more advanced topics such as Gildel's incompleteness theorem, degrees of unsolvability, the Recursion theorems and the theory of complexity of computation. Computability is thus a branch of mathematics which is of relevance also to computer scientists and philosophers. Mathematics students with no prior knowledge of the subject and computer science students who wish to supplement their practical expertise with some theoretical background will find this book of use and interest.
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Construction waterproofing handbook, 2nd edition



Construction waterproofing handbook, 2nd edition
Michael T.Kubal | 2008-01-01 00:00:00 | McGraw Hill | 656 | Civil Engineering
The basic waterproofing principles presented in Chapter 1—the 90%/1% principle and the 99% principle—are recognized as the most important guides in designing, constructing, and maintaining a waterproof structure. Evidence found in construction failures and presented in lawsuits related to leakage and damage caused by leakage continually reinforces these two founding principles of waterproofing building science. Waterproofing is finally being defined not as an individual system but as a construction process that involves all the exterior building cladding components—not as the responsibility of one individual subcontractor, the waterproofer, but of the entire construction team, from the designer to the contractor to all subcontractors and material suppliers. This new edition includes a new chapter on residential waterproofing, which emphasizes the necessity of treating a home’s exterior as an integrated system acting to prevent water inflation. As in all other types of construction, successful residential construction also must follow the practices set forth throughout this book.
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Dépannage PC



Dépannage PC
| 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | | 0 | Others
Xavier Creuset, Laurent Tixier, Eric Viègnes, "Dépannage PC"
Micro Application | 2009 | ISBN: 2300022060 | 399 pages | PDF | 11,6 MB
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Resumes for the 50+ Job Hunter


Resumes for the 50+ Job Hunter
| 2003-01-01 00:00:00 | McGrow-Hill | 162 | Interview and Resume
Resumes for the 50+ Job Hunter
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Interorganisational Standards: Managing Web Services Specifications for Flexible Supply Chains (Contributions to Management Science)



Interorganisational Standards: Managing Web Services Specifications for Flexible Supply Chains (Contributions to Management Science)
Ulrich M. Loewer | 2005-01-01 00:00:00 | Physica-Verlag Heidelberg | 294 | Web Design
Standards play crucial roles in many different aspects of today’s economy. They can define meanings of semantics, product interfaces, process steps, or performance levels. Interorganisational standards are specifications that define business-related semantics and processes, which are made accessible to other organisations’ information systems. While modular organisation forms such as supply chain networks demand such standards for higher flexibility, XML-based Web Services offer a relatively new technological platform to develop such standards. The development of comprehensive interorganisational standards, however, is far from being completed. This book thus answers the questions, how interorganisational standards are developed and how different actors should get involved in it. The author uses actor-network theory to conduct two in-depth case studies on ebXML and RosettaNet. While researchers will find new explanations for the development of interorganisational standards, managers and executives will benefit from the strategic implications this book discusses
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Self-diffusion and Impurity Diffusion in Pure Metals, Volume 14: Handbook of Experimental Data (Pergamon Materials Series)



Self-diffusion and Impurity Diffusion in Pure Metals, Volume 14: Handbook of Experimental Data (Pergamon Materials Series)
Gerhard Neumann,Cornelis Tuijn | 2008-10-24 00:00:00 | Pergamon | 360 | Engineering
Diffusion in metals is an important phenomenon, which has many applications, for example in all kinds of steel and aluminum production, in alloy formation (technical applications e.g. in superconductivity and semiconductor science). In this book the data on diffusion in metals are shown, both in graphs and in equations.

Reliable data on diffusion in metals are required by researchers who try to make sense of results from all kinds of metallurgical experiments, and they are equally needed by theorists and computer modellers. The previous compilation dates from 1990, and measurements relying on the electron microprobe and the recent Rutherford backscattering technique were hardly taken into account there.

This reference book, containing all results on self-diffusion and impurity diffusion in pure metals with an indication of their reliability, will be useful to everyone in this field for the theory, fundamental research and industrial applications covered.

. Up-to-date and complete (including EPMA and RBS investigations)
. Indication of reliability of the measurements
. Reassessment of many early results
. Data can easily be extracted from Tables and Graphs

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Stock Valuation: An Essential Guide to Wall Street's Most Popular Valuation Models (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)



Stock Valuation: An Essential Guide to Wall Street's Most Popular Valuation Models (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)
Scott Hoover | 2005-12-15 00:00:00 | McGraw-Hill | 400 | Investing

A practical look at the valuation models used by Wall Street

Veteran consultant and educator Scott Hoover analyzes the limitations and idiosyncrasies of major valuation models. He examines the time value of money, cash flow analysis, discount rates, and other tools, and describes how money managers and bankers apply them to valuation.


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This book does a very good job in covering the main concepts and procedures in stock valuation. It is very readable and very informative. The background required from the reader is quite basic. The reader needs only basic knowledge of finance and accounting and basic math.



The book presents a good introduction to financial statement analysis, discounted cash flow, relative valuation, and accounting for stock options in the valuation process.



I believe investors will find this book very useful, very informative, and very practical.




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Hoover writes for a reader interesting in deciphering financial statements, and who is willing to indulge in some simple analysis. This is really an introductory book to its field. But quite adequate for a layperson. The maths requirement is rudimentary. Summation of a finite series for estimating the time value of cash flow is a typical formule in the book. The maths is not emphasised. Instead, there is more of a general education in qualitative or semi-quantitative forecasting of a firm's future earnings. This is often quite adequate, without the need for more sophisticated modelling. Mostly because earnings can be so volatile.



One topical issue is how to value employee stock options. This has been a point of contention since at least the early 90s. When a bunch of Silicon Valley companies successfully nixed an attempt by the SEC to force companies to write a cost of issued options. Now, after the dot com and telecom implosions, it is mandatory. And the book shows easy ways to get reasonable estimates.

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On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)



On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)
Darren Sheppard,Simon Sparks,Colin Thomas | 1997-07-22 00:00:00 | Routledge | 232 | Philosophy
On Jean-Luc Nancy presents, for the first time in English, some of the key issues at the heart of Philippe Lacoue-Labar the and Jean-Luc Nancy's work. We see some of the key motifs that have characterized their work: their debt to a Heideggerian pre-understanding of philosophy, the centrality of the "figure" in western philosophy and the totalitarianism of both politics and the political. Through contemporary readings of the political in Freud, Heidegger and Marx they reveal how philosophy relies on the political for its reinvention and representation and how it has done so since Socrates' meditation on the polis.

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Molecular Biology: A Project Approach



Molecular Biology: A Project Approach
Susan J. Karcher | 1995-11-29 00:00:00 | Academic Press | 280 | Medical Technology
This course manual instructs students in recombinant DNA techniques and other essential molecular biology techniques in the context of projects. The project approach inspires and captivates students; it involves them in the scientific experience, providing continuity to laboratory bench time and an understanding of the principles underlying the techniques presented.
Molecular Biology is a must for any department, operating under budgetary constraints that offers or plans to offer a course in molecular cloning.

Key Features
* Includes a glossary of over 200 terms important for understanding molecular biology
* Uses an inexpensive source of eukaryotic cells - great for schools on a budget
* Includes Methods Locator that provides instant access to the latest methods
* Contain clearly written, easy-to-follow, student-tested instructions:
* Sterile techniques
* Phage titration
* Gel electrophoresis of DNA
* Restriction enzyme digestion
* Plasmid isolation
* Transformation of E. Coli
* Recombinant DNA cloning
* Nick translation labeling
* Nonradioactive primer labelling
* Nonradioactive DNA detection
* Southern blotting
* Colony hybridization
* Purification of plant DNA
* RNA purification
* Northern blotting
* Purification of poly A+ RNA
* Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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This text was used in an undergraduate molecular biology lab course which i took, and it contained detailed information and suggestions which were extremely useful for beginning students. This text has continued to be useful, however, as a reference for commonly used protocols and for troubleshooting experiments.

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Fundamentals of Semiconductor Physics and Devices



Fundamentals of Semiconductor Physics and Devices
Rolf Enderlein,Norman J. M. Horing | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | World Scientific Publishing Company | 771 | Engineering
Exposes readers to device principles and recent developments and offers a thorough grounding in the physical principles of semiconductors. Covers electronic structure of ideal crystals, and electronic system in thermodynamic equilibrium.

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Dictionary of Nursing: Over 11,000 Terms Clearly Defined



Dictionary of Nursing: Over 11,000 Terms Clearly Defined
A&C Black | 2008-04-01 00:00:00 | A&C Black; 2nd edition | 352 | Medicine
This fully updated edition offers over 11,000 entries, each providing clear, up-to-date coverage of specialist nursing terms, including diseases, symptoms, anatomy, instruments, common drugs, and biological terms. It covers both everyday vocabulary relating to patient care, and terms from medical specializations such as psychiatry.
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A Concise Introduction to Logic - Patrick J. Hurley



A Concise Introduction to Logic - Patrick J. Hurley
Patrick J. Hurley | 2003-01-01 00:00:00 | Wadsworth | 681 | Mathematics
This work covers all the standard topics for any introductory logic course in neatly-packaged learning units. Known for its concise, direct style that emphasizes clarity, this text aims to avoid the peculiar quirks, technicalities and wordiness of others.
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