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The 6th TargetAuthor:
James PattersonPages:
416Format:
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0446198951When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.
And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.
And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success. 
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Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems: An IntroductionAuthor:
Philippe Lacomme, Jean-Philippe Hardange, Jean-Claude Marchais, Eric NormantPages:
640Format:
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0852969813For over half a century, radar has been a permanent feature of surveillance activities. Practically unaffected by meteorological conditions, it operates independently of sunlight, while its detection ranges and the angular domain it covers make it an essential tool for continuous surveillance of a very wide area. Over the last fifty years, radar operational capability and performance have continued to improve, and one can safely assume that this will hold true for the coming decades. This book, devoted to airborne and spaceborne radar, avoids a purely theoretical approach and is certainly not intended for an “elite” group of specialists. Rather, it is a practical tool that we hope will be of major help to technicians, student engineers, and engineers working in radar research and development. The many users of radar, as well as systems engineers and designers, should also find it of interest.
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Activities for Pair Work 1Author:
Peter Watcyn-Jones and Deirdre Howard-WilliamsPages:
96Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
000000000040 stimulating pair-work activities in each book including role-plays, simulations and problem-solving. Intensive conversation practice based around practical, contemporary topics. Ideal to introduce or supplement a lesson--each activity can be completed in 15-30 minutes.
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Flight Control Systems: Practical Issues in Design and ImplementationAuthor:
Roger W. PrattPages:
416Format:
PDFLanguage:
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0852967667A complete reference on modern flight control methods for fixed wing aircraft.
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The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting NorthAuthor:
Ed StruzikPages:
288Format:
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0470157283Ed Struzik, one of those rare journalists who can paddle a canoe and enjoy a meal of whale blubber, has written an important and shocking book that reads like some new genre of adventure and horror story. As the Arctic melts and unravels faster than the global banking system, The Big Thaw raises some stark questions: just what will Canada be without ice and snow? And what is a nation without its dreams?
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MCSE Windows 2000 Directory Services Design Exam Notes (Exam 70-219)Author:
Robert R. King, Gary GovanusPages:
363Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0782127657Approach the new MCSE 2000 exam with added confidence by reviewing with MCSE Exam Notes: Windows 2000 Directory Services Design. Not a cram guide or cheat sheet, this innovative review guide provides objective-by-objective coverage of all the material you need to know for the exam, singling out critical information, outlining necessary procedures, identifying exam essentials, and providing sample questions. It's the perfect companion piece to the MCSE: Windows 2000 Directory Services Design Study Guide.
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Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing ManualAuthor:
Matthew MacDonaldPages:
352Format:
CHMLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0596528329Fast-paced and easy to use, this new book teaches you the basics of Excel 2007 so you can start using the program right away. This concise guide shows readers how to work with Excel's most useful features and its completely redesigned interface. With clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, lots of illustrations, and plenty of timesaving advice, Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual will quickly teach you to:* Build spreadsheets
* Add and format information
* Print reports
* Create charts and graphics
* Use basic formulas and functions
* and moreThe new Excel is radically different from previous versions. Over the years, Excel has grown in power, sophistication and capability, but its once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features that not even the pros could find them all. For Excel 2007, Microsoft redesigned the user interface completely, adding a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate.Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so even if you find the features you need, you still may not know what to do with them. But with this book, you can breeze through the new user interface and its timesaving features in no time. Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual is the perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to, as well as those who want to organize household and office information.
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing PianoAuthor:
Brad HillPages:
233Format:
HTMLLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0028649257Learn to play the piano with this easy-to-follow guide Ever wanted to play the piano but thought it looked too hard? This book will open the door to your musical side, introducing the basics of playing all variety of pianos and electronic keyboards. Using simple exercises and a sampling of popular songs in a range of styles, this book teaches the beginner who has never played or read music how to do both with proficiency. Witty sidebars and abundant illustrations make this book a fun read and the perfect "user-friendly" reference for the child or adult beginning keyboard player. Z Features examples in all styles of playing, from classical to rock and jazz Z Includes checklists of popular books, instructional material, and piano makers Brad Hill is a well-known music author and keyboardist. His books include The Virtual Musician, Going Digital (Schirmer Books) and Internet for Dummies. As a pianist, he has worked as a lounge player and has made two CDs of his own music, written for film and radio, and has performed as a soloist.
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Romantic Poets and the Culture of PosterityAuthor:
Andrew BennettPages:
288Format:
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052102689XThis original book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the poetry and poetics of the Romantic period. He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience, engaging with issues such as the commercialization of poetry, the gendering of the canon, and the construction of poetic identity. Bennett goes on to discuss the strangely compelling effects which this new reception theory produces in the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, who have come to embody, for posterity, the figure of the Romantic poet.
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Sources of Value: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of ValuationAuthor:
Simon WoolleyPages:
642Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0521737311Sources of Value is a comprehensive guide to financial decision making suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. It treats financial decision making as both an art and a science and proposes a comprehensive approach through which companies can maximise their value. Beginners will benefit from its initial financial foundation section which builds strong basic skills. Practitioners will enjoy the new insights which the eponymous Sources of Value technique offers - where values come from and why some companies can expect to create it while others cannot. The book also introduces several other techniques which, together, spell out how to combine strategy with valuation and an understanding of accounts to make a fundamental improvement in the quality of corporate financial decision taking. Sources of Value is written in a readable conversational style and will appeal to those already working in companies as well as those studying on a business course.
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A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of AddressAuthor:
Leslie DunklingPages:
272Format:
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0415007615This first of its kind descriptive dictionary, a serious work of lexicography which will have wide popular appeal, deals as comprehensively as possible with the terms of address--names, words, terms of endearment and epithets--used in English around the world.
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Husbands and Wives: Par ThreeAuthor:
Anne DouglasPages:
85Format:
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1596326323Aaron Howell is certain his wonderfully curvy, intelligent and sexy wife is considering having an affair. They haven't had sex for months, and his worries about his marriage failing have grown so big even his golf game's affected.Their friend Silas Worth is finally finding his feet after losing his wife, Joan, to cancer -- although he's not yet ready for another relationship. Pity no one told his libido that. Might his and Joan's explorations into the swinging scene provide the answer for all three of them?
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Rhetoric: An Historical IntroductionAuthor:
Wendy OlmstedPages:
184Format:
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1405117729This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts.An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialistsTexts range from Cicero's De oratore and Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt’s Marvellous PossessionsTexts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric worksEngages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues.
Summary: A straightforward introduction to the art, skill, and history of rhetoric
Rating: 5Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction is a straightforward introduction to the art, skill, and history of rhetoric. Author Wendy Olmsted (Associate Professor, University of Chicago) discusses classical traditions of rhetoric, classical rhetoric and literary interpretation, and the role rhetoric has to play in contemporary disciplines. The place rhetoric has in specific great works of literature, such as Machiavelli's "The Prince", Augustine's "On Christian Doctrine", and much more is discussed at especial length. A scholarly resource especially for college students seeking to acclimate themselves to principles of persuasiveness.
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The Political Origins of Religious LibertyAuthor:
Anthony GillPages:
280Format:
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052161273XThroughout history, governments have attempted to control religious organizations and limit religious freedom. However, over the past two hundred years the world has witnessed an expansion of religious liberty. What explains this rise in religious freedom? Anthony Gill argues that political leaders are more likely to allow religious freedom when such laws affect their ability to stay in power, and/or when religious freedoms are seen to enhance the economic well-being of their country.
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The Power of Stars: How Celestial Observations Have Shaped CivilizationAuthor:
Bryan E. PenprasePages:
348Format:
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1441968024What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been established? And how have people all around the world and throughout time reacted to the night sky, the sun and moon, in their poetry, mythology, rituals, and temples? This book explores the influence of the sky on both ancient and modern civilization, by pring a clear overview of the many ways in which humans have used the stars as an ordering principle in their cultures, and which today still inspire us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. The book explores constellation lore from around the world, celestial alignments of monuments and temples, both from ancient and modern civilizations, and the role the sky has played in the cultures of the Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Native American, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, and Inca. Models of the universe from each of these cultures are described clearly, and each culture’s explanation of the stars, planets, and other celestial objects are described. The roots of astronomy and astrology are presented with original imagery and reproductions of ancient manuscripts that portray the structure of the physical universe as conceived by a diverse array of human cultures over the centuries. Our own scientific Big Bang cosmology and the origin of stars and elements are discussed in a philosophical context, to explore how we as modern people learn about the Universe, and incorporate the findings of science into our world views. A concluding chapter pres a summary of modern science's effort to unlock the celestial secrets from the sky and from past civilizations, and what these answers mean for us today.
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Ionic Compounds: Applications of Chemistry to MineralogyAuthor:
Claude H.YoderPages:
207Format:
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0471740462This introduction to ionic compounds is designed for the reader who wants a better understanding of the concepts that are used by the chemist and mineralogist in their attempts to unravel the mysteries of nature. The emphasis on the relationship of structure at the atomic level to the symmetry and properties of crystals will be of particular interest to those interested in mineralogy. The book requires no knowledge of chemistry or mineralogy beyond that obtained in a typical secondary school curriculum. It is designed to appeal to the mineralogy student who wants to delve more deeply into the relationships between structure and bonding at the atomic level and the macroscopic properties of minerals. It should also appeal to the serious mineral collector who wants to learn more about the chemical and crystallographic properties of his collection. Finally, the author hopes that the book will be of value to those students of geology who want to bolster their understanding of chemistry.
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Fundamentals of Irrigation and On-farm Water Management, Volume 1Author:
M. H. AliPages:
315Format:
PDFLanguage:
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1441963340The comprehensive and compact presentation in this book is the perfect format for a resource/textbook for undergraduate students in the areas of Agricultural Engineering, Biological Systems Engineering, Bio-Science Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering. This book will also serve as a reference manual for researchers and extension workers in such diverse fields as agricultural engineering, agronomy, ecology, hydrology, and meteorology.
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Seven Wonders of Green Building TechnologyAuthor:
Karen SirvaitisPages:
84Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0761342427This book examines seven amazing wonders of green technology: BedZED; Earthships, IBM Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Reichstag, the design of the new 7 World Trade Center in New York City, J. M. Tjibaou Cultural Centre Sams in Denmark.
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Analysis of EvidenceAuthor:
Terence AndersonPages:
436Format:
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052167316XThis extensively revised second edition is a rigorous introduction to the construction and criticism of arguments about questions of fact, and to the marshalling and evaluation of evidence at all stages of litigation. Most of the chapters in this new edition have been rewritten; the treatment of fact investigation, probabilities and narrative has been extended; and new examples and exercises have been added. Undergraduate and postgraduate courses of evidence and proof, practitioners and teachers alike will find this book challenging but rewarding.
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Structure Property Correlations for Nanoporous MaterialsAuthor:
Abhijit ChatterjeePages:
354Format:
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1420082744Nanoporous materials are critical to various fields of research, including ion exchange, separation, catalysis, sensor applications, biological molecular isolation, and purification. In addition, they offer new opportunities in such areas as inclusion chemistry, guest-host synthesis, and molecular manipulations and reactions at the nanoscale. In Structure Property Correlations for Nanoporous Materials, pioneering researcher Abhijit Chatterjee guides experimentalists in their design of nanoporous material using computer simulation methodologies.The book begins with a comprehensive overview of nanoporous materials. It describes their function, examines their fundamental properties, including catalytic effects and adsorption, demonstrates their importance, explores their applications based on theoretical and experimental studies, and highlights the challenges they pose as well as their future prospects.Explores simulation methodologiesNext, the book moves on to molecular modeling, placing a heavy focus on Monte Carlo simulation. It examines density functional theory (DFT) and local reactivity descriptors. It also discusses the synthesis of nanoporous materials, the structural characterization of materials in terms of chemical composition, spectroscopic analysis, mechanical stability, and porosity; and the design of new nanoporous materials. Dr. Chatterjee explores projected applications and concludes with a discussion of the catalytic activity of nanoporous materials and reaction mechanisms.The text is supplemented with experiments and simulation instructions to clarify the theoretical analysis. Conveying the significance of the combination of traditional experimental work and molecular simulation, the book enables experimentalists to achieve better results with less effort.
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Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2003Author:
Jerry HoneycuttPages:
464Format:
CHMLanguage:
FrenchISBN10:
0735615705This official first-look guide shows exactly what's new and improved in Windows- Server 2003, with all the information and tools you need to understand, evaluate, and begin deployment planning.
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Ghostfire: Outcast: Book 03Author:
Christopher GoldenPages:
240Format:
pdf,txtLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0689873034The bad guys are back with a vengeance in this installment. Arcanum is not only propelled by magic, but by power and politics as well. When a brownout weakens everyone else's magic, Timothy must figure out who is truly on his side - and who will be the thorn in his side instead.There are twists and turns aplenty here. Fantasy enthusiasts will enjoy the mystery of just what or who is keeping the Ghostfire lit. If you and your family enjoyed the first two novels in the OutCast series, you will not be disappointed by this story.
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Computer Vision: A Unified, Biologically-Inspired ApproachAuthor:
Ian OveringtonPages:
423Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0444889728This volume provides comprehensive, self-consistent coverage of one approach to computer vision, with many direct or implied links to human vision. The book is the result of many years of research into the limits of human visual performance and the interactions between the observer and his environment. A wide-ranging approach to computer vision is described. The treatment starts with a summary account of important aspects of human visual function. This is then followed by a progressive development of the computer image processing, from sub-pixel fragmentary edge determination to optical flow field analysis, local and global stereo analysis, colour imagery, edge-based region segmentation, perceptual texture segmentation and high fidelity contour form analysis. This treatment is considerably different from other more publicized approaches, and is recommended for those seeking a dynamic approach to computer vision.
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Netlab (plus code)Author:
Ian T. NabneyPages:
438Format:
DjvuLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1852334401This volume provides students, researchers and application developers with the knowledge and tools to get the most out of using neural networks and related data modelling techniques to solve pattern recognition problems. Each chapter covers a group of related pattern recognition techniques and includes a range of examples to show how these techniques can be applied to solve practical problems."...provides a unique collection of many of the most important pattern recognition algorithms. With its use of compact and easily modified MATLAB scripts, the book is ideally suited to both teaching and research." Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK "...a welcome addition to the literature on neural networks and how to train and use them to solve many of the statistical problems that occur in data analysis and data mining" Jack Cowan, Mathematics Department, University of Chicago, US "If you have a pattern recognition problem, you should consider NETLAB; if you use NETLAB you must have this book." Keith Worden, University of Sheffield, UK
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Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want)Author:
Jeremy PoteetPages:
256Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0672326396Bad things can come in small packages. Have you ever innocently opened a vicious email? Have you ever wondered how some spammers have acquired your email address? And who are the people behind these messages? We've all been victims at one time or another. Canning Spam - You've Got Mail that You Don't Want is a book for all of us who use email. The author demystifies viruses and spam, explaining how spammers gain access to email addresses, how attackers can trick users into opening messages, how email clients can help and hurt, and how spammers can use corporate email servers as a front for their unwanted messages. The book contains stories about spam, viruses, and hackers that make for entertaining and informative reading. Each chapter includes practical advice for administrators setting policy and installing filters to block spam, as well as tips for users to help them avoid becoming part of the problem.
