Book:
Life Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural ApproachAuthor:
Michael NeenanPages:
224Format:
DjvuLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1583911383This book shows how to tackle self-defeating thinking and replace it with a problem-solving outlook.The way we think profoundly influences the way we feel, so learning to think differently can enable us to feel and act differently. Derived from the methods of cognitive behaviour therapy, this book shows how to tackle self-defeating thinking and replace it with a problem-solving outlook. Giving clear and helpful advice on dealing with troublesome emotions, overcoming procrastination, becoming assertive, tackling poor time management, persisting at problem solving, handling criticism constructively and taking risks, this book will be invaluable to all those who are interested in becoming more personally effective in their everyday lives. 
Book:
Handbook of Finance: Financial Markets and InstrumentsAuthor:
Frank J. Fabozzi CFAPages:
852Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0470078146"Volume I: Financial Markets and Instruments skillfully covers the general characteristics of different asset classes, derivative instruments, the markets in which financial instruments trade, and the players in those markets. It also addresses the role of financial markets in an economy, the structure and organization of financial markets, the efficiency of markets, and the determinants of asset pricing and interest rates.Incorporating timely research and in-depth analysis, the Handbook of Finance is a comprehensive 3-Volume Set that covers both established and cutting-edge theories and developments in finance and investing. Other volumes in the set: Handbook of Finance Volume II: Investment Management and Financial Management and Handbook of Finance Volume III: Valuation, Financial Modeling, and Quantitative Tools."
Book:
Bringing Math Home: A Parent's Guide to Elementary School Math: Games, Activities, ProjectsAuthor:
Suzanne L. ChurchmanPages:
240Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1569762031This ultimate parents' guide to elementary school math features projects, games, and activities children and parents can do together to increase their understanding of basic math concepts. Fun activities such as mapping a child's bedroom for practice in measurements or keeping a diary of numeric items like vacation mileage and expenses reinforce the math skills outlined in each lesson. Using the standards issued by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as a foundation, this book covers both content and process standards for areas such as algebra, geometry, measurement, problem solving, and reasoning/proofs. It also includes a glossary of math terms and dozens of suggestions for additional children's reading to further math understanding.
Book:
Environmental Risks and the MediaAuthor:
Barbara AdamPages:
278Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0415214475Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, "natural" world with which humanity interferes are becoming increasingly contested, the media's methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks--from the "mad cow" crisis to global warming--are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters as well as "everyday" hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. The issues explored include: how the media frame "expert," "counter-expert" and "lay public" definitions of environmental risk; the role played by environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace in shaping media coverage; and the media's emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting.
Book:
About Death PenaltyAuthor:
OshoPages:
noneFormat:
AviLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0000000000Osho – About Death Penalty“Please don’t try to understand me intellectually. I am not an intellectual, in fact I am anti-intellectual. I am not a philosopher, I am very anti-philosophic. Try to comprehend me. Listen silently with no inner chattering, with no inner talk, without evaluating. I am not saying believe what I say, I am not saying accept what I say. I am saying there is no need to be in a hurry to accept or reject. First at least listen – why be in such a hurry? When you see a roseflower, do you accept or reject it? When you see a beautiful sunset, do you accept or reject it? You simply see it, and in that very seeing is a meeting. If what I am saying has anything of truth in it, it will be understood by your heart. But the mind has to give way. And then you will not need to change your life according to it, it will be changed of its own accord.”by OSHOVideo: 720?544 (4:3); 887 kbps; 25 fps; MPEG-4 (DivX 5)
Audio: 192 kbps; 48.0 KHz; 2 Channels; MP3Description:
This is a discourse from Osho. More information can be viewed on the following web-site – oshodvds.ru.
Please note that the web-site is in Russian. I couldn’t find the same DVD on English web-site – oshodvd.comAs other discourses it has Russian subtitles, but the language Osho speaks is English.
Book:
How Electronic Things Work... And What to do When They Don'tAuthor:
Bob GodmanPages:
426Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0071387455A guide to understanding and repairing electronics equipment written for people who would ordinarily call the shop. Fully illustrated, simple to use guide, you will get a grasp of the workings of the electronics world that surrounds you, and even learn to make your own repairs.
Book:
Beginning Programming For Dummies, 3rd EditionAuthor:
Wallace WangPages:
430Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0764549979I have to deal with computers for my work at the hospital, which like many such institutions has become more and more computerized with every passing year. I would find the fact far less irritating if those who have charge of the process would stop tinkering with it long enough for me to use it with the "efficiency" that was originally intended, but such is never the case. To help me get a feeling for what the IMS people are doing so that I can better understand the entire process, I decided to take a mini-course on beginning programming. Wallace Wang's Beginning Programming for Dummies was the suggested course text, and although I started out convinced that I could never understand even a fraction of the information, I was pleasantly surprised. As advertised the fundamentals of programming presented in the text were understandable and doable. I was completely surprised to discover that my home computer already had a QBASIC program available on it and that I could use it to make simple programs. By following the book step by step, I was able to accomplish the tasks as designed and was amazed at the types of things the programs I wrote could do. I'm not sure that I have anything earth shaking to design for computers or that I'll be so taken with programming that I will give up surgical ICU to take it up, but I feel far more aware of computers and their inner workings now than I ever was and maybe a little more patient with them. Maybe.
Book:
Dark Lover: Black Dagger Brotherhood: Book 01Author:
J.R. WardPages:
416Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0451216954Beth has been noticing changes in her body but has been largely ignoring them as she goes about her business as writer for a local newspaper. But one night she thinks she dreams about a dark, large man who has fangs and it scares her. When she realizes it was not a dream but reality she at first wants to freak out...but then she also can't get over how sexy he is. When she finds out the truth about herself and Wrath will Beth be willing to accept what fate has in store or will the Lessers get to her first?Ms. Ward's new vampire world is a delicious addition to the sub-genre of vampire fiction. Her story is a little dark, and little erotic, and a whole lot entertaining. She has taken the vampire legend and has made it her own. With an eclectic group of secondary characters, her own creatively drawn bad guys the reader will not roll their eyes with boredom. I highly look forward to the next in the series.
Book:
High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the PosthumanAuthor:
R.L. RutskyPages:
208Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
081663355XFrom Baudelaire's confrontation with the specter of art photography to the present age of mirror shades, Pentium-envy and ambient dance tracks, Rutsky provides a fairly comprehensive, though sometimes fluidly categorized, overview of the development of the modern "aesthetic of technology." For Rutsky, technology, once clearly defined as "other" than what is human, has perhaps replaced religion and psychology as the main source of metaphors for how the mind (and soul) work. Citing a range of modern philosophers and thinkers from Heidegger, Benjamin and Duchamp to the inevitable William Gibson and the doyenne of cyber-aesthetics, Donna Haraway, the book covers a lot of ground--Shelley's Frankenstein, the constructivist films of Vertov, a reading of William Gibson via Frederic Jameson, a long section on Fritz Lang's film Metropolis and a detour into a theory of Nazism and Hitler fascination as the fervid fetishizing of an androgynous leader. Rutsky falters a bit when it comes to contemporary art and cultural practices, where some fieldwork and reportage would have given his examples more punch. Like George Landow's paean to cyberculture, Hypertext, the book is best on how thinking about technology helps resolve certain philosophical conundrums--organic vs. mechanic; rational vs. irrational; masculine vs. feminine--that have plagued the West, perhaps even providing the ground for a total unified field theory. Lucid and cogent in its presentation of highly complicated issues, this study will reward those interested in the fatal attraction of art and culture.
Book:
Vascular Disease: A Handbook for NursesAuthor:
Haytham Al-KhaffafPages:
270Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0521674514Caring for Patients with Vascular Disease: A Practical Approach for Medical and Nursing Staff offers a step-by-step guide to caring for patients in a variety of clinical settings. It follows a patient's path of care from management in the outpatient clinic, through to the hospital ward, theatre, recovery room and back to the follow-up outpatient clinic. A clear, concise format is used throughout the book, with reference to evidence-based interventions and the physiology underpinning them, and the use of simple line diagrams and treatment flow charts to illustrate the essential aspects of care. Edited by a vascular nurse and vascular surgeon, with contributions from a group of invited authors, the book reflects the multidisciplinary nature of patient care and will be a valuable resource for nurses, surgeons and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for this patient group.
Book:
The toxicology of fishesAuthor:
Richard T.Di Giulio, David E.HintonPages:
1101Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
041524868XToxicology, the study of the adverse effects of chemicals, has a rich history, the bulk of which revolves around understanding the effects of poisons on humans. Michael Gallo (2001) provided an excellent and lively historical perspective on human health-oriented toxicology, including historical and literary examples of inquiry from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Age of Enlightenment. As he noted, modern toxicology draws upon many fields of basic science; these include molecular biology, chemistry and biochemistry, genetics, organismal biology, ecology, and mathematics. Indeed, the solution to most important toxicological questions requires interdisciplinary approaches drawing on multiple forms of expertise. A distinction that has been used to categorize toxicology is biomedical vs. environmental (or ecotoxicology ), the former focusing on human health and the latter on free-living flora and fauna and their populations, communities, and supporting ecosystems.
Book:
Lynda.com Excel For Mac 2011 Essential Training,2 editionAuthor:
Bahaa E. A. SalehPages:
1200Format:
DJVULanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0471358320Now in a new full-color edition, Fundamentals of Photonics, Second Edition is a self-contained and up-to-date introductory-level textbook that thoroughly surveys this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of photons and atoms, and semiconductor optics. Presented at increasing levels of complexity, preliminary sections build toward more advanced topics,
such as Fourier optics and holography, guided-wave and fiber optics, semiconductor sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, optical interconnects and switches, and optical fiber communications.Each of the twenty-two chapters of the first edition has been thoroughly updated. The Second Edition also features entirely new chapters on photonic-crystal optics (including multilayer and periodic media, waveguides, holey fibers, and resonators) and ultrafast optics (including femtosecond optical pulses, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and optical solitons). The chapters on optical interconnects and switches and optical fiber communications have been completely rewritten to accommodate current technology.Each chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, exercises, problems, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest.
Book:
The Post-American WorldAuthor:
F ZakariaPages:
304Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
039306235XOne of the most interesting parts of the book is when Zakaria dismisses that Islamic extremism constitutes a serious rival to the West. This is a sharp departure from most American literature on radical Islam. He states that sluggish growth in Muslim countries, and frictions over women's roles in the economy place them at a disadvantage. Also, he believes that Al Qaeda is rapidly losing influence. At one point he mocks them as being little more than a video production company. Indeed, their war in Iraq was meant to unite all Muslims behind their anti-American message. Instead, all Al Qaeda in Iraq have done is kill other Muslims (Shia), and drive away Muslim support.All in all, the book is light reading. It is an interesting view of how the 21st century may pan out, and anyone with an interest in international relations should consider reading it.
Book:
Three Psychologies: Perspectives from Freud, Skinner, and RogersAuthor:
Robert D. NyePages:
194Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
053436845XRobert D. Nye's THREE PSYCHOLOGIES clearly and succinctly presents the essential ideas of Freud, Skinner, and Rogers, three of the most important contributors to contemporary psychological thought. A brief introductory chapter gives an overview of each perspective and points out some basic differences among the theories. Chapters Two, Three, and Four discuss the basic ideas of the three psychologists, including practical examples, real-world applications, and commentaries. Chapter Five compares the theories on specific topics, also offering critical evaluations, and Nye's personal comments. An Epilogue includes concise information about cognitive psychology and Albert Ellis's rational-emotive behavior therapy, so that readers can compare these currently popular approaches with those of Freud, Skinner, and Rogers.
Book:
Egyptian Woodworking and FurnitureAuthor:
Geoffrey KillenPages:
64Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0747802394This book gives a comprehensive description of Egyptian woodworking from the earliest times to the Late Period. It examines the sources of wood and other materials used by Egyptian carpenters. The techniques used to embellish timber and the complex joints employed in carcase construction are also explained and woodworking tools and processes throughout the Dynastic period are described. Some of the important sources which illustrate the development of furniture styles and the use of tools come from wall paintings and relief in tombs. The story of furniture is traced through an examination of surviving pieces that are now preserved in museums, including First Dynasty bedframes from Tarkhan and the furniture of the Fourth Dynasty queen Hetepheres, as well as the highly developed cabinet making and turned stool legs of the Late and Graeco-Roman periods.
Book:
Wonders of the World Coloring BookAuthor:
A. G. SmithPages:
132Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0486430448Detailed, ready-to-color images of India's lovely Taj Mahal, the hanging gardens of ancient Babylon, the Mayan temples of Tikal in Guatemala, the magnificent sanctuary of Abu Simbel in Egypt, England's awesome Stonehenge, and 22 other amazing structures. Captions.
Book:
Our Town for Junior A: Workbook Teacher's EditionAuthor:
Iro PolizouPages:
68Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
9963480753Bring your Junior A and B pupils to Our Town!
Our Town is based on a carefully structured syllabus which develops the four skills. The stories, listening tasks, songs and wide variety of activities make English lessons a positive and enjoyable learning experience.
30 lessons
holiday activitiesTeacher's Edition with answers overprinted are available for the Workbooks
Book:
Electricity Market Reforms: Economics and Policy ChallengesAuthor:
Lev S. BelyaevPages:
252Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1441956115With the global demand for energy skyrocketing, over the past twenty years many countries have restructured their electric power industries, typically moving from a regulated monopoly to a competitive market structure. The results of these reforms vary significantly from country to country depending on the market organization model and national conditions. This book examines the restructuring in both developed and developing nations, with particular focus on the United States, Great Britain, China, and Russia, and addresses the problems arising from these transitions. The book also contains a comprehensive analysis of different electricity market models and their compatibility with the properties of electric power systems and country conditions. As the most thorough and up to date analysis of the theory and practical experience of electricity deregulation, this book is a must-read for academics, students and researchers with an interest in electric power industry restructuring. It also has direct relevance for engineers, regulators and other decision makers in companies and governmental agencies concerned with energy issues.
Book:
The Great Financial Crisis in Finland and Sweden: The Nordic Experience of Financial LiberalizationAuthor:
Lars Jonung, Jaakko Kiander, and Pentti VartiaPages:
337Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1848443056`The Nordic financial crisis had it all: a botched liberalization, a huge boom followed by an even bigger bust, massive taxpayer-financed bailouts and, finally, deep long-run gains. The first-class team of scholars mobilized in this book convincingly tell a story that should be carefully studied by economists, bankers and policy-makers. After this book, no one should be able to say: "If we only knew"!'
- Charles Wyplosz, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland`The financial crisis in Scandinavia in the early 1990s was a forerunner of the later world-wide crisis in 2007/8. Although the initial causation was different, the impact on their banks, though more localised, was just as severe. So we can benefit, and already policy makers have done so, from learning the lessons in this book on how to restore shattered banking systems to health. For this we owe a debt of gratitude to the editors, who have put together a series of key papers that emerged from a much larger exercise on the crisis that was earlier reported in four volumes in Swedish and Finnish. Amongst the many studies on current and past financial crises, this is a classic "must-read".'
- Charles A.E. Goodhart, London School of Economics, UK`The Nordic experience with financial crisis resolution could not be more timely. Everyone cites it as an example of "how it should be done", but rarely does one find careful and detailed analysis. Now policy makers and others searching for guidance will know where to look.'
- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, USFollowing World War II, Nordic countries were commonly regarded as successful and stable economies. This perception was, however, shattered in the early 1990s when Finland and Sweden encountered severe financial crises. Here, the authors explore the symptoms of financial crisis - decreasing real income, soaring unemployment and exploding public deficits - and their devastating effects.The book compares and contrasts the experiences of Finland and Sweden, then adopts an international perspective, encompassing the experiences of Asia, Latin America, Denmark and Norway. Lessons from the 1990s crisis are drawn, and possible solutions prescribed. The conclusion is that long-term effects of financial crises - financial liberalization and integration - are not as dramatic as the short-term effects, but may prove to be of greater importance over time. Only the future will show whether these long-term benefits will balance or even outweigh the enormous short-term costs of the crises.Highly relevant to the current international financial crisis currently afflicting the world economy, this timely book will prove invaluable to economists and other social scientists with a general interest in financial crises, and to those with a more specific interest in the evolution and models of Scandinavian economies.
Book:
Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age MediterraneanAuthor:
Andrew BevanPages:
310Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0521880807The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age produced the most prolific and diverse range of stone vessel traditions known at any time or anywhere in the world. Stone vessels are therefore a key class of artifact in the early history of this region. In this book, Andrew Bevan considers individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers a highly comparative and value-led perspective on production, consumption and exchange logics throughout the eastern Mediterranean over a period of two millennia during the Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BC).
Book:
Indistinguishability Operators: Modelling Fuzzy Equalities and Fuzzy Equivalence RelationsAuthor:
Jordi RecasensPages:
262Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
3642162215Indistinguishability operators are essential tools in fuzzy logic since they fuzzify the concepts of equivalence relation and crisp equality. This book collects all the main aspects of these operators in a single volume for the first time. The stress is put on the study of their structure and the monograph starts presenting the different ways in which indistinguishability operators can be generated and represented. Special attention is paid to the Representation Theorem and the Sup-T product. Extensionality of fuzzy subsets is studied in detail and is related to their observability and to the granularity. The metric behaviour of indistinguishability operators and their connection with cluster analysis and hierarchical trees is established. Different ways to aggregate such operators are given as well as a number of methods to obtain transitive approximations of a fuzzy relation. Applications to approximate reasoning and to the study of fuzzy subgroups are also provided. The book ends with a chapter on finite-valued indistinguishability operators.
Book:
Health Law and the European UnionAuthor:
Tamara K. HerveyPages:
540Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0521605245How does the law of the European Union affect health law and policy? At first sight, it seems limited. However, despite its restricted formal competence, the EU has recently become increasingly involved in the health field. Litigation based on EU law has resulted in a 'right to receive health care services' across national boundaries which may have huge practical implications for national health systems. The EU has promulgated legislation regulating clinical research, and the marketing of pharmaceuticals; patients' rights are affected by EU legislation on data protection and product liability; the qualifications of health care professionals are legally recognised across the EU; and the EU has acted to promote public health. This book explores the various impacts of measures of EU law on national health law and policy. Through elaboration of selected examples, the authors show that, within the EU, health law cannot be regarded as a purely national affair.
Book:
Quilt As You GoAuthor:
Arlene SachitanoPages:
264Format:
pdf,html,rtf,epub,lit,lrf,mobiLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1934841587I really enjoyed this book. A quick read and great mystery that kind of made you want to put down the book and go do some quilting.
Can't wait to read the next two.This author has many great quilting mystery books to her credit. All involve various quilting clubs and groups and, being women, there is lots of gossip and some bickering with one another along with a mystery plot. Lots of quilting tips throughout the book. A good read!
Book:
Families and the European Union: Law, Politics and PluralismAuthor:
Clare McGlynnPages:
262Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0521613353In the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of family law in the European Union, McGlynn argues that a traditional concept of 'family' which has many adverse effects - on individuals, on families (in all their diverse forms), and indeed on the economic ambitions of the EU is forming the basis for the little-recognised and under-researched field of EU family law. This book examines three different aspects of family life - childhood, parenthood and partnerships - and critically analyses existing EU law in relation to each. It examines the emerging field of EU family law, providing a highly sceptical account of recent developments and a robust challenge to the arguments in favour of the codification of European civil law, including family law.
Book:
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit MissionsAuthor:
Luke ClosseyPages:
339Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0000000000This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional missions rather than as a single world-encompassing example of religious globalization. Luke Clossey shows how the vast distances separating missions led to logistical problems of transportation and communication incompatible with traditional views of the Society as a tightly centralized military machine. In fact, connections unmediated by Rome sprung up between the missions throughout the seventeenth century. He follows trails of personnel, money, relics and information between missions in seventeenth-century China, Germany and Mexico, and explores how Jesuits understood space and time and visualized universal mission and salvation. This pioneering study demonstrates that a global perspective is essential to understanding the Jesuits and will be required reading for historians of Catholicism and the early-modern world.
