FW: The Shadow of Saganami

 

 

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The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League. The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of as New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans. Read more...

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FW: FileMaker 8

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:54 AM
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Most books on databases approach the reader with descriptions of how to use tools, and make some reference to putting those tools into a real-world context. FileMaker 8 @Work: Projects and Techniques to Get the Job Done turns this approach on its ear by introducing key tools in a single chapter, then moves on to what you really want to know - how to use the product to complete the projects that they face at work. This book provides step-by-step coverage of how to complete a variety of projects that a panel of users has verified as common projects those using the application are asked to complete. Tips, tricks, and notes are provided with the information you need to carry over what you learn on these projects to others you'll undoubtedly be asked to create. Read more...

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FW: Autodesk Inventor 2010 No Experience Required

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:54 AM
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The only continuous, step-by-step tutorial on the essentials of this manufacturing software If you want to get up and running quickly on the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required is your perfect resource. It quickly teaches the essential skills and demonstrates the software using a continuous, real-world tutorial project. Once you understand the interface and how to use Inventor conventions, you'll begin actually designing and modeling a project from start to finish. Along the way, you'll learn the "why" behind each step. * Learn to use the interface and Inventor conventions * Understand sketching commands and best practices, then move into both regular and sheet metal specific part modeling * Understand how to join parts into assemblies to create a single, digital prototype of a box fan * Create and distribute accruate part and assembly drawings, learn about functional design concepts, and use Inventor's Design Accelerator features * Discover how to work with Inventor weldments and create, render, and distribute compelling visualizations of the final design using Inventor Studio * The companion website provides "before and after" tutorial files, enabling you to jump in at any point and compare your work with the author's results Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required gives you all the instruction you need to begin using this powerful 3D mechanical design tool. Read more...

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FW: Country Houses of Tasmania Behind the Closed Doors of Our Finest Private Colonial Estates

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:54 AM
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Subject: Country Houses of Tasmania Behind the Closed Doors of Our Finest Private Colonial Estates

 

A glorious pictorial celebration of Tasmania's finest private residences. Tucked into the folds of Tasmania's wild landscape is an array of beautiful historic homes from a time when life was simpler and grander - and perhaps more of an adventure. The early pastoral settlers of Tasmania were a hardy and eccentric bunch: young men out to make their fortunes; struggling families hoping for a fresh start; and feisty women wanting to make their own mark. From the landed gentry to convicts who'd won their freedom, these men and women created an antipodean England in the elaborate Georgian and Victorian mansions they built. Alice Bennett and Georgia Warner have collected together the stories of these houses, and of the people who have passed through them over the years. As the new colony thrived, fortunes were made and many of the homes featured in Country Houses of Tasmania signalled the New World's wealth with their sumptuous furnishings - from Carrara marble to Italian porcelain, Minton caustic tiles, the best Berlin metal and French moire wallpaper. In the twenty-first century these houses which have been largely lost on the Australian mainland - remain as brick-and-mortar reminders of the past. Many of today's owners are descendants of the original builders, and all are dedicated to the preservation of that hidden architectural heritage. 'The homes you enter in this book are private. Unless you are part of their inner circle you might not have even known they exi Read more...

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FW: ATM&MPS

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:54 AM
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Specifically targeted at ATM network security, including cryptographic and architectural techniques. Provide you with a solid understanding of the current and future state of ATM security. Read more...

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FW: A Women's Berlin Building the Modern City

 

 

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Winner of the Milka Bliznakov Prize Winner of the 2009 DAAD Book Prize of the German Studies Association Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their feminine modernity, both culturally and architecturally. Women located their lives and made their presence felt in the streets and institutions of this dynamic metropolis. From residences to restaurants, schools to exhibition halls, a visible network of women’s spaces arose to accommodate changing patterns of life and work. A Women’s Berlin retraces this largely forgotten city, which came into being in the years between German unification in 1871 and the demise of the monarchy in 1918 and laid the foundation for a novel experience of urban modernity. Although the phenomenon of women taking control of urban space was widespread in this period, Despina Stratigakos shows how Berlin’s concentration of women’s building projects produced a more fully realized vision of an alternative metropolis. Female clients called on female design professionals to help them define and articulate their architectural needs. Many of the projects analyzed in A Women’s Berlin represent a collaborative effort uniting female patrons, architects, and designers to explore the nature of female aesthetics and spaces. At the same time that women were transforming the built environment, they were remaking Berlin in words and images. Female journal Read more...

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FW: Intermediate Natures The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

 

 

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Subject: Intermediate Natures The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

 

Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning. This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo. Read more...

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FW: Building Services Handbook, Fifth Edition Incorporating Current Building & Construction Regulations

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:54 AM
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Excellent in all aspects, easy to read, good diagrams, suits all levels of learner - Steve Girking, Hull College, Lecturer, HNC / National Award / National Certificate in Construction Excellent range of clear diagrams with informative text. This will be very helpful on our Building Services module and throughout the rest of the foundation degree - Chris Hughes, Senior Lecturer, Suffolf College What our readers say: Excellent and clear illustrations Should definitely be a part of your reference shelf Easy to use and highly detailed Tried and tested Read more...

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FW: Construction Administration for Architects

 

 

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Co-written by an architect and an attorney, this is the ideal desktop guide for architects, engineers, and other design professionals in need of expert advice on navigating the construction process and anticipating, avoiding, and managing liability risks. This invaluable construction administration resource leads you, step-by-step, through a typical project--from contract to closeout. Construction Administration for Architects provides tested techniques for proactively minimizing potential construction problems, and responding strategically when unforeseen events occur. Covering private and public sector work, this comprehensive handbook contains essential information for emerging professionals as well as in-depth strategies for experienced industry veterans. Useful tips, checklists, and real-world examples are included throughout the book. Construction Administration for Architects covers: * Agreements and contracts * Construction document details, such as specifications, drawing notes, project scope, credits, and cost estimates * Requests for proposal, bidding, and construction contract negotiation * Field testing, inspection, and certification of work * Documents management, including requests for substitution, requests for information, submittals, and applications for payment * Problems and disputes, such as poor workmanship, hidden conditions, and change order requests * Contract Read more...

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FW: Applying Computational Intelligence How to Create Value

 

 

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The flow of academic ideas in the area of computational intelligence is impacting industrial practice at considerable speed. Practitioners face the challenge of tracking, understanding and applying the latest techniques, which often prove their value even before the underlying theories are fully understood. This book offers realistic guidelines on creating value from the application of computational intelligence methods. In Part I, the author offers simple explanations of the key computational intelligence technologies: fuzzy logic, neural networks, support vector machines, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and intelligent agents. In Part II, he defines the typical business environment and analyzes the competitive advantages these techniques offer. In Part III, he introduces a methodology for effective real-world application of computational intelligence while minimizing development cost, and he outlines the critical, underestimated technology marketing efforts required. The methodology can improve the existing capabilities of Six Sigma, one of the most popular work processes in industry. Finally, in Part IV the author looks to technologies still in the research domain, such as perception-based computing, artificial immune systems, and systems with evolved structure, and he examines the future for computational intelligence applications while taking into account projected industrial needs. The author adopts a light tone in the book, visualizes many of the te Read more...

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FW: The Fate of Felix Brand

 

 

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Author: Florence Finch Kelly Language: English Published: 1913 A "double-personality" story.

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FW: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3

 

 

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Familiar studies of men and books -- The body-snatcher. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Language: English Published: 1912 I. Victor Hugo’s Romances II. Some Aspects of Robert Burns III. Walt Whitman IV. Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions V. Yoshida-Torajiro VI. François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker VII. Charles of Orleans VIII. Samuel Pepys IX. John Knox and His Relations To Women

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FW: Detective Burns' Great Cases--Ulrich: A Soldier of Fortune

 

 

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Author: Dana Gatlin Language: English Published: 1911

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FW: The Son of His Mother

 

 

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Author: Clara Viebig Language: English Published: 1913 A married couple of good social standing and in fairly prosperous circumstances are childless after a number of years in wedlock. To the man, it is a matter of keen disappointment; to the woman, it is an obsession and ever-present torture--until, one day in the Swiss mountains, she comes across a little child, son of a peasant woman, and the thought of adopting him dawns upon her.

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FW: The Hound of Heaven

 

 

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Author: Francis Thompson Language: English Published: 1926

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FW: Industrial Conspiracies

 

 

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Author: Clarence Darrow Language: English Published: 1912 The earth is moving, the universe is working, all the laws of creation are working toward justice, toward a better humanity, toward a higher ideal, toward a time when men will be brothers the world over.

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FW: Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:14 AM
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Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects By Haywood Dan * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf * Number Of Pages: 375 * Publication Date: 2009-12-22 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356441 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934356449 Product Description: Domain-driven design (DDD) focuses on what matters in enterprise applications: the core business domain. Using object-oriented principles, you can develop a domain model that all team members-including business experts and technical specialists-can understand. Even better, this model is directly related to the underlying implementation. But if you've tried building a domain-driven application then you'll know that applying the DDD principles is easier said than done. Naked Objects, an open-source Java framework, lets you build working applications simply by writing the core domain classes. Naked Objects automatically renders your domain object in a generic viewer--either rich client or HTML. You can use its integration with Fitnesse to test-drive the development of your application, story-by-story. And once developed, you can deploy your application either to the full Naked Objects runtime, or within your existing application infrastructure. In this book, Dan Haywood first gives you the tools to represent your domain as plain old Java objects, expressing business rules both declaratively and imperatively. Next, you'll learn the techniques to deepen your design while keeping it maintainable as the sco Read more...

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FW: Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques

 

 

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Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques By Brian Hogan, Hogan Brian * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf * Number Of Pages: 300 * Publication Date: 2009-12-30 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356131 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934356135 Product Description: Developers don't get to spend a lot of time thinking about design, but many secretly wish they knew how to make their applications look just a little bit better. This book takes you on a journey through a web site redesign, where you'll learn the basic concepts of design, color theory, typography, and accessibility. You'll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page. You'll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences. Read more...

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FW: Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes?

 

 

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Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes? By Noteberg Staffan * Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf * Number Of Pages: 144 * Publication Date: 2009-11-30 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356506 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934356500 Product Description: You have so much you need to accomplish today. Your list is a mile long and you find yourself getting interrupted every other minute. You'd like to tell everyone to leave you alone, but most of the interruptions are coming from you! You think of a phone call you need to make or a web site you need to check and before you know it you're answering email, checking twitter, and finding a million other things to occupy your time. You need to focus---really focus. The Pomodoro Technique puts you back in charge of your day. You'll apply successful techniques from software engineering to identify what you should be doing today and to help you achieve your goals. Your mind won't wander when it is fully engaged in short bursts of focused activity. Learn to work less and accomplish more using nothing more than paper, pencil, and a simple kitchen timer. Set the timer and start on your next Pomodoro. When the bell rings take a break. This personal approach to timeboxing is at the core of the Pomodoro technique and this book is filled with advice on how get started and how to tailor it to your own needs. Summary: Interesting Productivity Approach Rating: 4 Read more...

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