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The Art of Weapons
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The Art of Weapons
Weatherhill | ISBN 9780834805408 | September 2003 | PDF | 211 Pages | 61 MB
This unique work outlines the essential principles and techniques that define armed and unarmed self-defense involving common weapons. More than 1,400 outstanding photographs introduce over 350 practical techniques spanning seven basic classes of weapons—knife, short-stick, staff, cane, rope, common objects, and defense against handguns-the mastery of which provides practitioners with a range of skills that will allow them to wield almost anything as a weapon.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:12
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Twisted Conditioning
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Twisted Conditioning
No Publisher | No Identification Code | 2001 | PDF | 146 Pages | 40 MB
Twisted Conditioning is a course about how to combine barbells, strongman and bodyweight exercises. To our knowledge it is one of the only courses written about this subject and specifically about how to combine these styles for effective training measures.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:14
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1001 Street Fighting Secrets
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1001 Street Fighting Secrets
Paladin Press | ISBN 0873648870 | March 1997 | PDF | 214 Pages | 60 MB
This exhaustive collection of streetfighting secrets covers every aspect of author Sammy Franco's eclectic, no-nonsense system of self-defense, from training and conditioning, the attributes of combat, and tactics and strategies to specialized areas such as grappling, stick fighting, knives and firearms.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:15
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Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges
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Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges
The World Bank | 2003 | ISBN 0821357123 | English |124Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
In 1996, the World Bank made a commitment to become a global knowledge bank. The Bank’s stated intention was to develop a world-class knowledge management system and to improve and expand the sharing of development knowledge with clients and partners. The objectives of this commitment were to improve the quality of Bank operations and enhance the capacity of clients to achieve development results.
Since FY97, the Bank has spent some US$220 million for corporate, network, and Regional knowledge-sharing activities and more than US$60 million for its three main global knowledge initiatives, the Development Gateway, the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), and the Global Development Network (GDN). These programs and activities have sparked a lot of innovation, with potentially significant benefits for the scaling up of effective Bank interventions and for empowering clients to improve development outcomes. But new knowledge-sharing programs and activities need to be much better integrated into the Bank’s core business processes to achieve the initiative’s broad objectives. For this, senior management must provide greater strategic direction and oversight to corporate, network, and Regional units.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:17
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Customs Modernization Handbook
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Customs Modernization Handbook
The World Bank | 2005 | ISBN 0821357514 | English | 356 pages | PDF | 3.38 MB
This handbook aims to make a positive contribution to the efforts that many countries are undertaking to modernize their customs administrations. The handbook views a competent and well-organized customs service as one that successfully balances its various responsibilities to ensure a high level of compliance with revenue objectives and regulatory requirements while at the same time intervening as little as possible in the legitimate movement of goods and people across borders.
The handbook recognizes that conditions differ greatly across countries, so that each customs administration will need to tailor its modernization efforts to national objectives, implementation capacities, and resource availability.
Nevertheless, meeting the modernization objectives will most likely require the adoption of the core principles discussed in this handbook: adequate use of intelligence and reliance on risk management; optimal use of information and communications technology (ICT); effective partnership with the private sector, including programs to improve compliance; increased cooperation with other border control agencies; and transparency through information on laws, regulations, and administrative guidelines.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:19
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Five for the Future: Roadmap for Competitiveness in the 21st Century
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Five for the Future: Roadmap for Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Council on Competitiveness | 2007 | ISBN 1889866369 | English | 34 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Five for the Future is a Call to Action. In this hyper-competitive, rapidly changing environment, it is only prudent to glance in the rear view mirror from time to time. But America needs more than rear view mirror policies. The United States needs a roadmap for success in the global economy—one that charts a strategic direction between complacency and panic. And the time to act is now, when the U.S. margin of leadership is strong.
Our success will, in large measure, be built on our ability to understand how the game has changed and respond with a new set of strategies and capabilities:
* Lead in research discoveries that promise to create whole new industries and markets
* Build on knowledge and technology fusions that have the capacity to transform products and services
* Provide every American with the tools to compete in the global economy
* Develop risk intelligence and resilience in an age of turbulence
* Extract value by being a first mover in addressing global challenges
This demands an environment that supports innovation in all its forms and anticipates the new dynamics that create competitive advantages for robust risk management and productivity-enhancing approaches to sustainability. It offers a framework for policy makers, presidential candidates, private sector decision makers and others to move forward decisively to secure America’s competitive future.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:20
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The Name of the Number
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Michael A.B. Deakin “The Name of the Number" Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | 2007-02-01 | ISBN: 0864317573 | 120 pages | PDF | 3,3 Mb
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:21
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Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
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Martin Cohen “Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments "
Wiley-Blackwell | 2004-11-10 | ISBN: 1405121920 | 152 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb
Wittgenstein’s Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments invites readers to participate actively in discovering the surprisingly powerful and fruitful tradition of "thought experiments."
Gives a lively presentation of an "A to Z" of 26 fascinating and influential thought experiments from philosophy and science
Presents vivid and often humorous discussion of the experiments, including strengths and weaknesses, historical context, and contemporary uses
Provides a "how to" section for engaging in thought experiments
Includes illustrations, mini-biographies, and suggestions for further reading.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:23
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Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate
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Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate by Joseph Walnes (Author), Ara Abrahamian (Author), Mike Cannon-Brookes (Author), Patrick A. Lightbody (Author)
Publisher: Wiley (November 28, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0471463620 | PDF | 2 Mb | 480 pages
The Java language itself is not strictly open-source (Sun has held onto control, albeit with lots of public input). There is, however, a large open-source development community around this highly capable language. Java Open Source Programming describes and provides tutorials on some of the most interesting public Java projects, and is designed to enable a Java programmer (who\'s worked through the basic language\'s initial learning curve) to take on more ambitious assignments.
The authors generally treat the covered open-source packages as resources to be used, rather than projects to be contributed to, and so it\'s fair to think of this volume as the \"missing manual\" for downloaded code. In that spirit, the authors devote many sections to \"how to\" subjects (addressing, for example, a good way to retrieve stored objects from a database and the procedure for calling an action in XWork).
Java Open Source Programming takes a bit of a risk by devoting a lot of space to the development of a complex application (an online pet shop), as such a didactic strategy can be hard to follow. The authors pull it off, though, and manage to show that their covered technologies can be used to create a feature-rich and robust application that uses the versatile model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. This book will suit you well if you\'re planning an MVC Java project and want to take advantage of open-source packages. --David Wall
Topics covered: The most popular open-source Java packages, particularly those concerned with Web applications and the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. Specific packages covered include JUnit and Mocks (code testing), Hibernate (persistent storage of objects in databases), WebWork (MVC), SiteMesh (Web page layout), Lucene (site searching), and WebDoclet (configuration file generation).
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:24
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Solar Technologies for Buildings
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Ursula Eicker “Solar Technologies for Buildings"
Wiley | 2005-04-15 | ISBN: 047148637X | 336 pages | PDF | 5,7 Mb
A complete overview of solar technologies relevant to the built environment, including solar thermal energy for heating and cooling, passive solar energy for daylighting and heating supply, and photovoltaics for electricity production
Provides practical examples and calculations to enable component and system simulation e.g. Calculation of U-values, I-V curve parameters and radiance distribution modelling
Discusses the new trends in thermal energy use, including the architectural integration of collector systems, integrated ventilation photovoltaics facades and solar powered absorption cooling systems
Coverage of cutting-edge applications such as active and passive cooling techniques and results from ongoing research projects
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:25
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Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API
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Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API by John Paul Mueller (Author), Sybex (Author)
Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (April 23, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0782143334 | PDF | 16 Mb | 384 pages
Virtually everyone sees Google as, hands down, the best online search tool. Now you can use and improve on Google technology in your own applications.
Mining Google Web Services teaches you dozens of techniques for tapping the power of the Google API. Google already gives you fine-grained control over your search criteria, and this book shows you how to exert the same control in your own focused search and analysis applications.
With just a little knowledge of JavaScript, VBA, Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, or Java, you will get better (and more relevant) search results--faster and more easily. Here\'s a little of what you\'ll find covered inside:
— Improving the speed and accuracy of searches — Performing data mining across the Internet — Using Google Web Services to search a single website — Building search applications for mobile devices — Using caching techniques to improve application performance and reliability — Analyzing Google data — Creating searches for users with special needs — Discovering new uses for Google — Obtaining historical data using cached pages — Performing spelling checks on any text — Reducing the number of false search hits
Whether your goal is to improve your own searches or share specialized search capabilities with others, this is the one resource that will see you through the job from start to finish.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:27
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A Passion for Discovery
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Peter Freund “A Passion for Discovery"
World Scientific Publishing Company | 2007-08-14 | ISBN: 9812706461 | 240 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the impact of historic events such as the advent of fascism and communism in the twentieth century on scientists behavior. Briefly, but lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists together in the first place is explained.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:28
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Morality Matters
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Roger Trigg “Morality Matters"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2004-08-20 | ISBN: 0631235949 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,19 Mb
Morality still matters, argues philosopher Roger Trigg, in this accessible introduction to moral thinking. Written for general readers with no background in philosophy. Argues that we need a shared moral vision in order to live together, both nationally and internationally. Considers the need for a shared morality in relation to subjects of vital importance such as human rights. Stresses that private behaviour cannot be kept separate from public choices. Discusses matters of topical debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:30
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Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx
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Gail Stein “Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx"
Tom Rockmore | 2002-05-15 | ISBN: 0631231897 | 248 pages | PDF | 1 Mb
Marx After Marxism encourages readers to understand Karl Marx in new ways, unencumbered by political Marxist interpretations that have long dominated the discussions of both Marxists and non-Marxists. This volume gives a broad and accessible account of Marx's philosophy and emphasizes his relationship to Hegel.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:32
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Marek's Disease: An Evolving Problem (2004)
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Marek's Disease: An Evolving Problem
Publisher: Academic Press | English | ISBN: 0120883791 | 208 pages | 2004 | PDF | 20 Mb
Description: Mareks disease is a form of cancer of poultry caused by an important herpesvirus (MDV). It continues to be a threat to poultry health and welfare and worldwide losses are estimated to be US$ 1 billion annually. This book provides a timely review of the problems of Marek's disease with descriptions of the complex viral life cycle, how MDV targets different types of white blood cells, and details of the virus structure, its genes and proteins.
* The multiplicity of factors contributing to susceptibility is explored in detail
* Vaccination - the problems arising from current vaccination strategies and how these can be improved and made sustainable in future
* The lessons learned in the control of MD over the past 30 years, and how we can use MD as a model for other animal and human diseases is discussed
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Posted in books by bahalaka on Apr. 12, 2008 // 01:33
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