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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Third Edition presents the key features of SQL (Structured Query Language) in an easy to understand format with updated code examples, notes, diagrams, exercises, and quizzes. New material covers more information on transactions, constructs, embedded databases, and object-oriented programming. In this edition, the authors include examples based on a database like MySQL, a very popular open source database.

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The age of the faceless corporation is over. In the new business era of the twenty first century, great brands and products must evoke a dynamic personality in order to attract passionate customers. Although many organizations hide their personality behind layers of packaged messaging and advertising, social media guru and influencer Rohit Bhargava counters that philosophy and illustrates how successful businesses have redefined themselves in the new customer universe.
Personality Not Included is a powerhouse resource packed with bold new insights that show you how to shed the lifeless armor of your business and rediscover the soul of your brand. Sharing stories from the ethos of the world's weirdest city, to how Manga has taken the comic book industry by storm, to showcasing brands like Intel, Boeing, ING, and Dyson, Bhargava shows you why personality matters from the inside out.
In Part One, you'll be introduced to the key components to building a personality and learn how to:
Recognize the greatest myth that most marketers blindly follow, and how to get past it
Use the “UAT Filter” to understand the personality of your organization and products in order to develop a communication strategy that drives your marketing
Create your company's “marketing backstory” using techniques pioneered by Hollywood screenwriters
Harness the influence of “accidental spokespeople” and use it to your advantage
Navigate the roadblocks of using personality that come from bosses, peers, investors, and lawyers, without getting fired or flamed
Pinpoint and capitalize on the moments where personality can make a difference

Part Two is packed with guides, tools, and techniques to help you flawlessly implement your plan. It features practical, step-by-step lessons that help you effectively move from theory to action, and includes a valuable collection of guides, checklists, question forms, printable resources, and more.

Don't be another faceless company-learn the new rules for succeeding in the social media era with Personality Not Included.

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The vulnerabilities of men have received limited attention in development research and programming. In Liberia, men’s lack of access to employment and land and their loss of traditional power and authority lay at the heart of the violence and conflict that led to the near destruction of the country. It is thus important that men’s concerns, in addition to women’s, be brought into focus in the development literature and practice.This book by the World Bank makes an important contribution to this end.

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Catholicism and Science (Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion)
Greenwood Press | 2008-03-30 | ISBN: 0313331901 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 Mb

When most people think about Catholicism and science, they will automatically think of one of the famous events in the history of science - the condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church. But the interaction of Catholics with science has been - and is - far more complex and positive than that depicted in the legend of the Galileo affair. Understanding the natural world has always been a strength of Catholic thought and research - from the great theologians of the Middle Ages to the present day - and science has been a hallmark of Catholic education for centuries. Catholicism and Science, a volume in the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series, covers all aspects of the relationship of science and the Church:
# How Catholics interacted with the profound changes in the physical sciences ("natural philosophy") and biological sciences ("natural history") during the Scientific Revolution.
# How Catholic scientists reacted to the theory of evolution and their attempts to make evolution compatible with Catholic theology
# The implications of Roman Catholic doctrinal and moral teachings for neuroscientific research, and for investigation into genetics and cloning. The volume includes primary source documents, a glossary and timeline of important events, and an annotated bibliography of the most useful works for further research

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Prostate cancer continues to be a major threat to men's health, the second most common cancer in men, in many countries. Therefore it is increasingly important that those faced with difficult clinical questions make the right decisions. Since the first volume was published in 2000, many debates persist but new controversies have also emerged, reflected in the chapters of this new volume. New authors have been recruited to give their insight into newer areas of this controversial topic.

Challenges in prostate cancer provides a series of state-of-the-art review articles, each of which addresses and answers a contentious question. It includes chapters on medical and surgical management of all stages of prostate cancer, clinical investigation, epidemiology, clinical trials and basic scientific research and covers issues such as the genetic basis of cancer, clinical economics and influence.

The authors have used their expertise to distil the available evidence into practical advice to be used by busy urologists in their day-to-day practice. And as well as being an overview of current practice many chapters attempt to give insights into the future direction of prostate cancer research and clinical management.

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Dietrich Schindler, Jiri Toman "Laws of Armed Conflicts: A Collection of Conventions, Resolutions & Other Documents"
Brill Academic Publishers | Pages:1493 | 2004-06 | ISBN: 9004138188 | PDF | 5 Mb

The current decade has been characterized by a resurgence of interest in the law of public international organizations. This fourth, revised edition of International Institutional Law covers the most recent developments in the field. Although public international organizations such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Union have broadly diverging objectives, powers, fields of activity and numbers of member states, they share a wide variety of institutional problems. In this study, the law of individual organizations is not described separately. Instead the book offers a comparative analysis of the institutional law of international organizations. It includes comparative chapters on the rules and practices concerning, for example, membership, decision-making, financing, legal order, supervision and sanctions, legal status and external relations. The book has been designed to appeal to both academics and practitioners.

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 Personality and Intelligence at Work
Psychology Press | 2008-07-17 | ISBN: 1841695866 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 Mb

Personality and Intelligence at Work examines the increasingly controversial role of individual differences in predicting and determining behaviour at work. It combines approaches from organizational psychology and personality theory to critically examine the physical, psychological and psycho-analytic aspects of individual differences, and how they impact on the world of work.

Topics covered include the role of IQ at work as the best predictor of success, but also the importance of increasingly recognized social intelligences such as emotional intelligence (EQ). The significance of personality traits and the impact of temperaments on work performance are also examined, and the methods used to assess work behaviour and potential are reviewed. Psychological tests, which measure personality traits, are questioned as accurate predictors of behaviour at work, alongside other factors such as job satisfaction, productivity, absenteeism and turnover.

This new, thoroughly revised and updated edition of Personality at Work provides a comprehensive review of the relevant literature from psychology, sociology and management science. It will be of interest to students of organizational psychology and business and management studies, as well as HR professionals.

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Thoroughly revised and updated, the Handbook of Vitamins highlights recent research in vitamins and gene expression, including vitamin-dependent genes, and vitamin effect on DNA stability. This edition adds chapters on vitamin-dependent chromatin modification, vitamin metabolism analysis using mass spectrometry, and dietary intakes. Encompassing classical and modern approaches, it focuses on nutrition and looks at vitamin action at the molecular level. With contributions from international experts, this remains an ideal reference for nutritional and food scientists, and graduate students.

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 CareerJournal.com Resume Guide for $100,000 Plus Executive Jobs
English | 2002-08-15 | ISBN: 0471232874 | 354 pages | PDF | 2.2 Mb

The Proven, Professional Resume and Job Search Guide for Executives in the 100K and Above Salary Range

This new, expanded edition of a classic bestseller supplements veteran career advisor William Montag’s years of experience with the powerful online resources of CareerJournal.com, The Wall Street Journal’s own career Web site. Let this handy resource be your own professional executive coach with up-to-the-minute advice on how to land your ideal executive job using proven high-visibility marketing techniques.

The top-notch, real-world resume and cover letter samples inside will help you launch your search with the same competitive edge held by the top-level clients of Montag Associates. You’ll learn how critical self-marketing is to your success and how to maximize your marketability by pairing the perfect cover letter with the right resume for any job opportunity. By combining the author’s power packaging and patented Expansionist Theory™ methods with 24/7 online job search strategies you can outmarket, outsmart, and outclass the competition.

Put your executive job search on the fast track with:

All the marketing techniques and online skills of professional executive career coaches
Up-to-date listings of the best career and job search sites on the Internet
Sample resumes accompanied by their own specially designed cover letters
Frequently asked questions and market-tested answers
Top ten rules for the twenty-first-century job market

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Anyone can learn a language with Michel Thomas--The World's Greatest Language Teacher. No books. No writing. No drills. And nothing to memorize--ever! With his unique program, Michel Thomas has taught celebrities, corporate leaders, and schoolchildren--with immediate and amazing results. Now the Language Teacher to the Stars invites everyone to join his class!

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Anyone can learn a language with Michel Thomas--The World's Greatest Language Teacher.

No books. No writing. No drills. And nothing to memorize--ever! With his unique program, Michel Thomas has taught celebrities, corporate leaders, and schoolchildren--with immediate and amazing results. Now the Language Teacher to the Stars invites everyone to join his class!

Using Italian with Michel Thomas, listeners learn in real time--fully understanding as they go along, turning words into short sentences, and then building them into longer, more complex sentences, until they are conversing in Italian.

Michel will have listeners formulating their own thoughts and sentences from the very beginning, even if they have never succeeded in learning a language before. Michel has used this very method to teach celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, and Princess Grace of Monaco.
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This book covers a wide area of the atmospheric science, focusing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of our environment which tend to create heat sources and sinks in the earth-atmosphere system and which it seeks to balance through circulation at different time and space scales. The processes of heat transfer in the atmosphere and ocean by general circulation and by waves and oscillations are discussed in detail. The heat balance of the atmosphere is considered, after taking into consideration the role of various types of greenhouse gases that may be present. In this context, the publication of the book will be very timely and will be welcomed by all those interested in knowing more about our atmosphere and the way it works, especially with regard to the contentious issue of global warming by greenhouse gases released by human activities on earth.

Starting with the origin, composition and structure of the atmosphere, the physics part deals with the laws of heat and thermodynamics of dry and moist air, water vapor and its transformation into different phases and formation of cloud and rain under different stability conditions, solar and terrestrial radiation and their impact on the gaseous envelope in different layers of the atmosphere which create sources and sinks in different parts of the atmosphere especially in its boundary layers. The dynamics part highlights the various types of motion systems including the general circulation of waves and oscillations which create the heat balance in the earth-atmosphere system.

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To learn Linux, understand and obtain leading Linux certification in the industry - RHCE. Please note that this is not a book with ISBN number. Instead official course material. You don't find this in Amazon or so. Only by attending the RHCE course from Redhat or its partners by spending around $2500.

Red Hat Linux Essentials

Unit 1 - Linux Ideas and History

* An Introduction to Linux and Open Source: what are the central ideas behind the Linux phenomenon and where do they come from?

Unit 2 - Linux Usage Basics

* Logging into the system, changing users and editing text files.

Unit 3 - Running Commands and Getting Help

* How to use built-in and online documentation to enhance your experience.

Unit 4 - Browsing the Filesystem

* Understanding the locations of important directories on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and navigating them from the command line and using the graphical Nautilus browser.

Unit 5 - Users, Groups and Permissions

* Reading and setting permissions on files and directories.

Unit 6 - Using the bash Shell

* Basic tips and tricks to make Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s default shell work for you. Topics include tab completion, history and an introduction to shell scripting.

Unit 7 - Standard I/O and Pipes

* The ins-and-outs of redirecting output between programs and files.

Unit 8 - Text Processing Tools

* An introduction to some of the most useful text-processing utilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including grep, cut, sed, sort, diff and patch.

Unit 9 - vim: An Advanced Text Editor

* How to get the most out of the powerful and flexible vim text editor.

Unit 10 - Basic System Configuration Tools

* Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s graphical and text-based configuration tools to manage networking, printing and date/time settings.

Unit 11 - Investigating and Managing Processes

* Listing, terminating and scheduling program executions on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.

Unit 12 - Configuring the Bash Shell

* A discussion of using shell variables and scripts to customize the command-line environment.

Unit 13 - Finding and Processing Files

* In-depth coverage of using the find command and related utilities to locate and act upon files based on arbitrary criteria .

Unit 14 - Network Clients

* An overview of network tools available in Red Hat Enterprise linux, from web browsers to email clients and diagnostic utilities.

Unit 15 - Advanced Topics in Users, Groups and Permissions

* A deeper discussion of how user and group identities are stored on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, as well as the introduction of advanced filesystem permissions like SetUID and SetGID.

Unit 16 - The Linux Filesystem In-Depth

* The nuts-and-bolts of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux deals with filesystems. Topics include partitions, inodes, linking and archiving tools.

Unit 17 - Essential System Administration Tools

* An introduction to fundamental system administration topics such as installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, managing software packages, and enhancing security with SELinux and the netfilter firewall.


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