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Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform: Bringing Rich Client to the Web (Firstpress)

2010-08-29 08:51:16

Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform: Bringing Rich Client to the Web (Firstpress)
Publisher: Apress
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2008-12-29
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430218835
ISBN-13: 9781430218838

Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) is an innovative toolkit for developing applications that will run as rich clients as well as web applications. Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform is the first book on the new Eclipse RAP, and it introduces the required RCP and OSG/i concepts used by Eclipse RAP. This firstPress title demonstrates the functionality and benefits of Eclipse RAP as well as shows the sweet spots of RAP, especially focusing on single sourcing RCP and web applications, which can be a huge cost saver. This book also covers possible issues that might prevent you from successfull...

Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

2010-08-29 08:51:00

Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology
Publisher: Routledge
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-02-21
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415302102
ISBN-13: 9780415302104

This book provides a comprehensive collection of influential essays that present a balanced survey of the major ideas that have come out of this area of study in the last two decades. Each article has been carefully chosen to enable any student of political philosophy to grasp the main debates within the topic. Clearly divided into two parts, Part One deals with fundamental philosophical issues: the nature of social explanation; distributive justice and liberalism and communitarianism. Part Two contains seminal papers in more specific areas: citizenship and multiculturalism; nationalism; de...

Real Sex for Real Women

2010-08-29 08:50:50

Real Sex for Real Women
Publisher: DK ADULT
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-11-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0756639808
ISBN-13: 9780756639808

Covering new ground, bestselling author and expert Dr. Laura Berman shows how it is possible to combine the reality of everyday life with fantastic sex. Sex in real life is not the sex we see in the media, and this book’s images and advice reflect life and sex naturally. This book helps the reader to connect with her own sexuality, looking at physical and emotional health, and how she feels about herself and sex. Dr. Laura then provides information on techniques and tips on how to maximize your sex life, including how to express your needs and explore new positions. AUTHOR BIO: Best-sel...

Discharge Planning Handbook for Healthcare: Top 10 Secrets to Unlocking a New Revenue Pipeline

2010-08-29 08:49:57

Discharge Planning Handbook for Healthcare: Top 10 Secrets to Unlocking a New Revenue Pipeline
Publisher: Productivity Press
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-08-07
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 1563273926
ISBN-13: 9781563273926

Hidden opportunities to improve profits in the healthcare industry abound in the area of discharge planning. Based on 25 years of experience, Birjandi and Bragg show hospital administrators and directors how they can tap into new revenue using the Six Sigma DMAIC model (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control). The book’s step-by-step implementation strategy highlights five concepts: redefining the whole idea of discharge planning, focusing on the right metrics, augmenting re-design with lean concepts, applying a practical approach to improvement, and creating a results-oriented cultu...

Hydrodynamic Lubrication

2010-08-29 08:49:48

Hydrodynamic Lubrication
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2005-12-19
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 4431278982
ISBN-13: 9784431278986

Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view. The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several most important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author’s own researches. Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surface...

Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio

2010-08-29 08:49:32

Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio
Publisher: Temple University Press
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1998-12-18
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1566396670
ISBN-13: 9781566396677

In "Voice Over", a celebration and history, William Barlow explores the entire landscape of black radio from the early days--when the white public accepted the black-face buffoonery of "The Amos and Andy Show" and "Beluh" as a fair depiction of African-American life--to the rise of personality jocks and the contemporary scene of corporate buyouts....

Mathematics of Digital Images: Creation, Compression, Restoration, Recognition

2010-08-23 10:55:03

Mathematics of Digital Images: Creation, Compression, Restoration, Recognition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 854
Published: 2006-09-18
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 0521780292
ISBN-13: 9780521780292

This is a major revision of the author’s successful book Mathematics of Computer Graphics. It still focuses on foundations and proofs, but now exhibits a shift towards digital image compression, restoration, and recognition. Topology is replaced by Probability and Information Theory (with Shannon’s source and channel encoding Theorems) which are used throughout. Several fractal methods are given in the service of Compression, along with linear transforms (hence FFT, DCT, JPEG, wavelets etc), recent neural methods, and the ubiquitous vector quantisation. Optimising for the Human Vi...

The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century

2010-08-23 10:54:22

The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2005-03-14
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521844177
ISBN-13: 9780521844178

What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. Jerrold Seigel combines theoretical and contextual approaches to explore the ways key figures have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of inner tensions and external pressures. Clarifying that recent "post-modernist" accounts belong firmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to supercede, Seigel provides a persuasive alternative to claims that th...

Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

2010-08-23 10:53:06

Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Wrox
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0470565527
ISBN-13: 9780470565520

Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android’s new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you’ll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with...

Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

2010-08-23 10:52:14

Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-05-08
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0521884055
ISBN-13: 9780521884051

Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African American and Caribbean authors. Works by Whitman, Poe, Eliot, Pound and their avant-garde contemporaries served as a heritage for black poets in the US and elsewhere in the New World. In tracing these connections, Patterson argues for a renewed focus on intercultural and transnational dialogue in m...

A Room with a View (Bantam Classics)

2010-08-23 10:50:43

A Room with a View (Bantam Classics)
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0553213237
ISBN-13: 9780553213232

A classic tale of British middle-class love, this novel displays Forster’s skill in contrasting British sensibilities with those of foreign cultures, as he portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. One of Forster’s earliest and most celebrated works....

Dynamic Logic (Foundations of Computing)

2010-08-15 05:58:48

Dynamic Logic (Foundations of Computing)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2000-10-02
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0262082896
ISBN-13: 9780262082891

Among the many approaches to formal reasoning about programs, Dynamic Logic enjoys the singular advantage of being strongly related to classical logic. Its variants constitute natural generalizations and extensions of classical formalisms. For example, Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) can be described as a blend of three complementary classical ingredients: propositional calculus, modal logic, and the algebra of regular events. In First-Order Dynamic Logic (DL), the propositional calculus is replaced by classical first-order predicate calculus. Dynamic Logic is a system of remarkable unity th...

Geometric Description of Images as Topographic Maps (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

2010-08-15 05:58:35

Geometric Description of Images as Topographic Maps (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-12-10
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 364204610X
ISBN-13: 9783642046100

This volume discusses the basic geometric contents of an image and presents a tree data structure to handle those contents efficiently. The nodes of the tree are derived from connected components of level sets of the intensity, while the edges represent inclusion information. Grain filters, morphological operators simplifying these geometric contents, are analyzed and several applications to image comparison and registration, and to edge and corner detection, are presented.The mathematically inclined reader may be most interested in Chapters 2 to 6, which generalize the topological Morse descr...

Restoration of Breath. Consciousness and Performance. (Consciousness Literature & the Arts)

2010-08-15 05:58:05

Restoration of Breath. Consciousness and Performance. (Consciousness Literature & the Arts)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 9042023066
ISBN-13: 9789042023062

Breath is the flow of air between life and death. Breathing is an involuntary action that functions as the basis of all human activities, intellectual, artistic, emotional and physical. Breathing is the first autonomous individual action that brings life into being and the end of breathing is the definitive sign of disappearance. Starting from the question how breathing affects the body, levels of consciousness, perception and meaning, this book, for the first time, investigates through a variety of philosophical, critical and practical models, directly and indirectly related to breath, aiming...

Multiresolution Methods in Scattered Data Modelling

2010-08-15 05:57:38

Multiresolution Methods in Scattered Data Modelling
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540204792
ISBN-13: 9783540204794

This application-oriented work is concerned with the design of efficient, robust and reliable methods for modelling multiscale phenomena. To this end, various modern techniques from scattered data modelling are used, such as triangulation methods and radial basis functions. The new methods, proposed in this work, are thinning algorithms, multilevel approximation schemes, and meshless methods for transport equations. The utility of the algorithmic approach taken in this research is supported by the wide range of relevant applications, including digital image compression, hierarchical surfac...

Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement (Studies in Productivity and Efficiency)

2010-08-15 05:56:03

Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement (Studies in Productivity and Efficiency)
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387369481
ISBN-13: 9780387369488

Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers that highlights the tradeoff between the synergy of the merger and the problem of managerial oversight in the now larger firm. An empirical look at productivity growth of states uses a tripartite decomposition of labor productivity into ...

Reconsidering Conceptual Change: Issues in Theory and Practice

2010-08-15 05:55:39

Reconsidering Conceptual Change: Issues in Theory and Practice
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2002-03-31
List price: $269.00
ISBN-10: 140200494X
ISBN-13: 9781402004940

This book is an important account of the state of the art of both theoretical and practical issues in the present-day research on conceptual change. It is divided into four parts and each of them is commented on by an invited discussant. The two first parts deal with theoretical perspectives on conceptual change. The last two focus more on implications that can be drawn from research and practical aspects to foster knowledge construction and re-construction in the classroom. Compared with the few other books in the field, the outstanding feature of this volume is its complete treatment of th...

All I Need Is Money: How To Finance Your Invention

2010-08-09 10:20:45

All I Need Is Money: How To Finance Your Invention
Publisher: NOLO
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-06-16
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1413301908
ISBN-13: 9781413301908

Find the money you need to bring your invention to life! You have a great idea - but unless you find the right financing, your inventions may never get beyond the notebook. With All I Need Is Money, you’ll find out how to secure the funding you need to make your invention a reality. Thousands of potential investors are looking for a great idea to get behind -- and All I Need Is Money helps you find them. In particular, the book shows you how to: identify sources of personal funding locate "big league" sources for financing understand why banks loan money ...

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

2010-08-09 10:16:40

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
Publisher: Routledge
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415957524
ISBN-13: 9780415957526

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Topics are structured in four parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell’s Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan’s distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle’s cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meani...

Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy

2010-08-09 10:16:02

Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-07-13
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0325001790
ISBN-13: 9780325001791

Essential for the aspiring comic or the working comedian interested in updating his or her comedy routine, Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy is the most comprehensive and useful book ever written on the art of the stand-up comedian....