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Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
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Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
MacMillan | April 2003 | ISBN: 0028657047 | 1050 pages | PDF | 5,4 MB
The 400-plus alphabetically arranged entries range from broad essays on topics such as Biotechnology, Causation, and Sociobiology to shorter pieces on terms such as Cybernetics, Eco-feminism, and entropy. There are also 20 biographies of important figures in the dialogue between science and religion, from Aristotle to Stephen Jay Gould. The fore matter includes an alphabetical list of all articles as well as a synoptic outline, which enables one to see all of the articles related to, for example, physical sciences or Chinese religions. The historical and contemporary relationships between the realm of science and the major religious groups--Judaism, Islam, Christian traditions, Chinese religions, Buddhism, and Hinduism--are treated individually. Major scientific and academic fields are examined in the context of the encyclopedia's focus. Close to 70 articles on the physical sciences, for example, include entries on all the major arenas of the field: chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics, etc., each providing an overview of early research, contemporary developments and lessons, or applications to religious thought. All of the articles are signed and have bibliographies, some extensive. In addition, a nine-page annotated bibliography serves as a guide for further reading (and collection development) in various topics such as the human sciences and religion. A detailed index makes the wealth of material even more accessible.
The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 2000) covers much of the same ground. Both are reference works of very high quality with scholarly contributors, several of them in common. But the approach of the earlier work is to treat fewer topics in broader essays. Some of the treatments are more substantial in the Garland work: medicine is covered in seven pages as opposed to two and a half. The Macmillan work does have a more global scope, including non-Western religions or belief systems. The references and bibliography of the set under review are much more up-to-date.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:13
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde"
PDF | ISBN not applicable | Year 1886 | 73 pages | English | 1.2MB The work is known for its vivid portrayal of the psychopathology of a split personality; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who may show a distinctly different character, or profoundly different behaviour, from one situation to the next, as if almost another person, possibly because of the rate disorder "multiple personality disorder".
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:17
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Printed Circuit Assembly Design
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Leonard Marks, James Caterina "Printed Circuit Assembly Design"
McGraw-Hill Professionall Number Of Pages: 368 | 2000-07-27 | ISBN: 0070411077 | PDF | 5 Mb
Nuts-and-bolts guide to designing printed circuit assemblies. Want to build circuit boards for today's smaller, faster electronics applications? This how-to tutorial puts a PCA design roadmap at your fingertips--valuable whether you're neophyte just starting out or an experienced designer, engineer or a manager associated with the electronics industry, as printed circuit assemblies are key building blocks in almost every commodity made today with any electronics content.
In this unique one-stop design guide you'll find complete coverage of electrical and mechanical design considerations as you explore: design process flow; the latest design methods and tools; circuit board layout; documentation; more.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:30
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Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP by Jim Bumgardner
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Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP by Jim Bumgardner
ISBN-10: 0596527942 | May 2006 | 48 Pages | CHM | 1,4 Mb
Tag clouds are everywhere on the web these days. First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us, these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of web sites as visual evidence of their membership in the elite corps of \"Web 2.0.\" This PDF analyzes what is and isn\'t a tag cloud, offers design tips for using them effectively, and then goes on to show how to collect tags and display them in the tag cloud format. Scripts are provided in Perl and PHP.
Yes, some have said tag clouds are a fad. But as you will see, tag clouds, when used properly, have real merits. More importantly, the skills you learn in making your own tag clouds enable you to make other interesting kinds of interfaces that will outlast the mercurial fads of this year or the next.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:34
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The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
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The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Gale Cengage | May 2003 | ISBN: 0787653829 | 900 pages | PDF | 7,3 MB
The Steigers, prolific writers on the paranormal, have written an encyclopedia for believers. The volumes are meant to "explore and describe the research of those who take such phenomena seriously." Almost everything from mediumship to crop circles is taken at face value. Even Houdini's attacks on phony mediums are interpreted to suggest he was taking on frauds and not real mediums. Fraud does not appear in the index, nor are alternate suggestions of how phenomena could have occurred presented. Only in a few instances is some skepticism applied.
The work covers material of interest to a large segment of the public in a way that is clear and readable. Many works in the "Delving Deeper" sections will provide the beginning student of the paranormal with good starting points. Recommended for medium-size to large public libraries and for academic libraries with comparative religion, folklore, and popular culture collections.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:41
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
ABC-Clio | 2001-06-01 | ISBN: 157607076X | 294 pages | CHM | 3,4 MB
If you remember the point in your cognitive development where you discovered that a true tale and a tale that is not true sound pretty much the same, then you can understand the power of your standard urban legend. The one that goes farthest back in my own mental file cabinet would be "The Kentucky Fried Rat," which was told with regards to a particular fast food restaurant in Albuquerque when I was in high school. Of course, some of these go way back, such as "The Bullet Baby," the one set in the Civil War where a bullet goes through the scrotum of a Union soldier and lodges in the reproductive tract of a young woman who gives birth to a healthy baby nine months later. That hoax was first published in an 1874 medical journal. You can see the basic principle involved, in terms of taking things that "could" be true, even if it requires a hefty grain of salt, and spinning a tale. I can imagine somebody trying to come up with alternative methods of accomplishing a virgin birth and throwing out this whopper.
Brunvand, a professor emeritus at the University of Utah, has written several books on the subject of urban legends, such as "Too Good to Be True," "The Vanishing Hitchhiker," and "Curses! Broiled Again!" In this collection he is interested in looking at these urban legends as examples of modern folk narrative. There are hundreds of individual urban legends included here, along with their variations, and most entries are cross-referenced and include bibliographical citations. Whenever possible he traces the evolution of particular legends and their connections to other fields including film, literature, comic books, music, etc. He also points out how the Internet has speeded up the dissemination of urban legends to an extent never before imagined.
There are even some entries that explain how to collect, classify, and analyze texts and performances for those who want to research the subject further. Throughout the book what Brunvand calls "legend themes" are explored and he often touches on the scholarly approaches to the genre. But for most readers the fun is going to be finding out where some of the stories they have heard about or even believed in the past really came from. In my defense I want to point out that I really did not care if the story about the "Neiman Marcus Cookies" was true; I really liked the recipe because these are super rich cookies and you can only eat one at a time, which, for me, would be a good thing.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:46
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CCNA Exam Cram (Exam 640-802)
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Michael Hayes Valentine, Andrew John Whitaker “CCNA Exam Cram (Exam 640-802) (3rd Edition)"
Que | 2008-01-08 | ISBN: 0789737124 | 552 pages | CHM | 11 Mb
Exam 640-802
The Smart Way to Study™
“The CCNA exam is difficult and I would not have passed it if I did not have this book with me. The CCNA Exam Cram is an indispensable resource that guided me from the introduction of networking fundamentals to the application of networking theories. Whether you need to learn from scratch or just need a quick reference, this book is an excellent guide that will definitely reinforce your knowledge of Cisco networking and prepare you for the CCNA.” –Vincent Gov, CCNA
In this book, you learn how to:
Develop perfect fluency in subnetting
Connect Cisco® equipment, make initial configurations, and connect to other devices to build a network
Configure Cisco routers and back up and restore your Cisco IOS® Software configurations
Explain the functions of Ethernet switching and the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
Configure PPP and Frame Relay for WAN connectivity
Understand and apply wireless LAN concepts
Mitigate network security threats and secure network devices
Build scalable routed systems using dynamic routing protocols including RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF
Create VLANs and distribute VLAN information using the VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Filter traffic from one network to another with access control lists (ACL)
Understand and implement IPv6
Deploy Network Address Translation (NAT)
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:50
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Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies, Vol. 2
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Marty Hall, Larry Brown, Yaakov Chaikin “Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies, Vol. 2 (2nd Edition)"
Prentice Hall PTR | 2007-12-01 | ISBN: 0131482602 | 736 pages | PDF |6,8 Mb
Java EE is the technology of choice for e-commerce applications, interactive Web sites, and Web-enabled services. Servlet and JSP technology provides the link between Web clients and server-side applications on this platform. Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Volume 2: Advanced Technologies, Second Edition, is the definitive guide to the advanced features and capabilities provided by servlets and JSP.
Volume 2 presents advanced capabilities like custom tag libraries, filters, declarative security, JSTL, and Struts. Like the first volume, it teaches state-of-the-art techniques and best practices illustrated with complete, working, fully documented programs.
Volume 2 explains in detail the advanced tools and techniques needed to build robust, enterprise-class applications. You'll learn how to control application behavior through the web.xml deployment descriptor file, how to enhance application security through both declarative and programmatic methods, and how to use servlet and JSP filters to encapsulate common behavior. You'll also learn how to control major application lifecycle events, best practices for using JSTL, and how to build custom tag libraries. Volume 2 concludes with an in-depth introduction to the Jakarta Struts framework.
Complete source code for all examples is available free for unrestricted use at www.volume2.coreservlets.com. For information on Java training from Marty Hall, go to courses.coreservlets.com.
Volume 1 presents comprehensive coverage of the servlets and JSP specifications, including HTTP headers, cookies, session tracking, JSP scripting elements, file inclusion, the MVC architecture, and the JSP expression language. It also covers HTML forms, JDBC, and best practices for design and implementation.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:55
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Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications
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Michael Morrison “Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications"
Prentice Hall PTR | 2007-07-09 | ISBN: 0132350084 | 312 pages | CHM | 22,2 Mb
Supercharge Your Sites with Ajax Right Now...No Scripting Expertise Needed!
You’ve heard how great Ajax is--how it can help make your Web sites more usable, more interactive, more responsive, more successful. Ajax Construction Kit lets you put Ajax to work right now, even if you’ve never written a script! Just learn a few essentials, check out a few examples, then run the live CD and discover all the plug-and-play code you need to hit the ground running. Ajax Construction Kit’s built-in applications work right out of the box. And with easy guidance from Michael Morrison, you’ll gradually deepen your understanding--learn how to customize, extend, and reuse these applications---and even build skills for creating new ones. Walk away an expert.
Use Ajax Construction Kit’s ten complete applications to
Dynamically load Web data
Dynamically populate lists
Tap into RSS news feeds
Use AutoComplete to reduce input errors
Create more responsive GUIs with real-time validation
Build a killer interface for viewing images
Present information or advertising with slick pop-ups
Provide an up-to-the-minute weather forecast
Build an e-commerce product shipping calculator
Add ratings tools to your site
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 01:59
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AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers
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Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel “AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers"
Prentice Hall PTR | 2008-02-08 | ISBN: 0131587382 | 1040 pages | PDF | 23,7 Mb
The practicing programmer's DEITEL® guide to AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and web-application development
This book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching Web 2.0 application development. The book presents concepts in the context of more than 180 fully tested programs (18,000+ lines of code), complete with syntax shading, detailed descriptions, and sample outputs. It features hundreds of tips that will help you build robust applications.
Start with a concise introduction to XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript before rapidly moving on to more advanced client-side development with DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, and other RIA technologies. Then proceed to server-side development with web servers, databases, PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, JavaServer Faces, and web services. When you're finished, you'll have everything you need to build Web 2.0 applications.
The DEITEL Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, JavaTM, web services, Internet and web development, and more.
Practical, example-rich coverage of:
Web 2.0
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
DOM, XML, RSS
AJAX-Enabled Rich Internet Applications
JSON, Dojo, Script.aculo.us
Adobe® Flash CS3 and Flex
Web Servers (IIS and Apache)
Database (SQL, MySQL, ADO.NET and Java DB)
PHP, Ruby on Rails
ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
SOAP-Based Web Services in Java
REST-Based Web Services in ASP.NET
Mashups
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 02:10
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Handbook of Motivational Counseling
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Handbook of Motivational Counseling (US$68)
Stationary Office | Pages: 538 | 2003-10-17 | ISBN: 0470845171 | 2 MB | Rapidshare and Megaupload
Motivation is a pervasive force that can affect well-being in a variety of life situations, from the more minor through to the ability to overcome addictions and other serious psychological problems. This book presents empirically supported theories (featuring current concerns theory), questionnaires based on these theories (highlighting the Motivational Structure Questionnaire) and varied interventions based on these, with special emphasis on Systematic Motivational Counselling but also including chapters on such approaches as Personality Systems Interaction Theory, expectancy-based approaches, Motivational Interviewing, logotherapy and several others.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 02:18
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Essentials of Group Therapy
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Essentials of Group Therapy
Stationary Office | Pages: 326 | 2004-04-21 | ISBN: 0471244392 | 2 MB |
The ideal resource for setting up and working with therapy groups
Group therapy is an increasingly popular treatment modality for a variety of disorders and client populations. Essentials of Group Therapy provides both professionals and students with a clear overview of the group therapy process, its history and development, and the critical skills required for working effectively with groups. This valuable guide presents several models and techniques for setting up and leading a number of different types of groups, explained with a distinct practitioner focus.
As part of the Essentials of Mental Health Practice series, this book provides information mental health professionals need to practice knowledgeably, efficiently, and ethically in today’s behavioral healthcare environment. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as "Test Yourself" questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.
Essentials of Group Therapy focuses on the practical aspects of deciding when and for whom group therapy is effective, building groups for long- and short-term therapy, as well as support and self-help groups, and managing the issues that can arise as groups develop. The authors provide examples of how to handle leadership, training, and diversity, as well as ethical and legal issues in an effective and compassionate manner. Essentials of Group Therapy provides an invaluable reference for mental health students and professionals studying or working in any practice.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 02:24
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The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy
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Christopher Shields “The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy"
Blackwell Publishers | 2003-02 | ISBN: 0631222146 | 400 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 02:33
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Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
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Peter Kivy “Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics"
Wiley | 2004-02-23 | ISBN: 0631221301 | 368 pages | PDF | 14,2 Mb
The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music.
Provides a guide to the central traditional and cutting edge issues in aesthetics today.
Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, including Peter Kivy, George Dickie, Noël Carroll, Paul Guyer, Ted Cohen, Marcia Eaton, Joseph Margolis, Berys Gaut, Nicholas Wolterstrorff, Susan Feagin, Peter Lamarque, Stein Olsen, Francis Sparshott, Alan Goldman, Jenefer Robinson, Mary Mothersill, Donald Crawford, Philip Alperson, Laurent Stern and Amie Thomasson.
Functions as the ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in aesthetics, art theory, and philosophy of art.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 02:36
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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
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Max Velmans, Susan L Schneider “The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2007-01-05 | ISBN: 1405120193 | 768 pages | PDF | 6,5 Mb
With fifty-five peer reviewed chapters written by the leading authors in the field, The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness is the most extensive and comprehensive survey of the study of consciousness available today.
Provides a variety of philosophical and scientific perspectives that create a breadth of understanding of the topic
Topics include the origins and extent of consciousness, different consciousness experiences, such as meditation and drug-induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 09, 2008 // 02:42
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