Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition


Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X. Why is this such a good time to switch? Upgrading from one version of Windows to another used to be simple. But now there's Windows Vista, a veritable resource hog that forces you to relearn everything. Learning a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. And if you're still using Windows XP, we've got you covered, too. If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know: Transferring your stuff — Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files. Re-creating your software suite — Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them. Learning Leopard — Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh. Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.

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First Certificate Organiser


John Flower “First Certificate Organiser"
LTP (Language Teaching Publications) | 1996 | ISBN: 189939625X | 208 pages | PDF | 8,6 Mb

Exam Preparation
provides students with comprehensive exam preparation and revision. Every activity is designed to help students pass their examination. For use in class and at home, FIRST CERTIFICATE ORGANISER is the ideal complement to all FCE courses.
Easy-to-use two page format: the left-hand page practises and the right-hand page organises and reviews.

• Contains highly practical language work with immediate relevance to the content of the examination.
• The latest edition of FIRST CERTIFICATE ORGANISER takes into account the change in the updated First Certificate Examination .



Geriatric Anesthesiology


Geriatric Anesthesiology
Publisher: Springer | Language: English | ISBN: 0387725261 | 440 pages | Data: 2007 | PDF | 5 Mb

Description: Geriatric anesthesia is a rapidly growing and evolving field. The last few years have seen significant advancements in and important new modalities for addressing the needs of an aging population. The editors of Geriatric Anesthesiology's second edition are uniquely situated to put together a text highlighting both essential knowledge and recent breakthroughs of importance to any who work with the elderly. For the second edition, the editors have introduced a streamlined chapter format and have assembled a selection of chapters intended to deepen the understanding of anesthesic management of the geriatric patient.


Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts


Bogdan Povh, Klaus Rith, Christoph Scholz, Frank Zetsche “Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts"
Springer; 5th ed. edition (October 19, 2006) | ISBN: 3540366830 | 397 pages | PDF | 2,8 Mb

This introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics. The first part, Analysis, is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. This part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part, Synthesis, shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena. A section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridge the field of "nuclear and particle physics" and "modern astrophysics and cosmology". New developments are covered, e. g. in sections on the double beta decay including a discussion of the possibility of a neutrinoless decay and its implications for the standard model. This concise text, translated into many languages, has become a standard reference for advanced and undergraduate courses.



An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation


Desmond Higham “An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation"
Cambridge University Press | 2004-04-19 | ISBN: 0521547571 | 296 pages | PDF | 2,5 Mb

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Quantum Field Theory (Problem Solutions Included)


Mark Srednicki “Quantum Field Theory (Problem Solutions Included)"
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 5, 2007) | ISBN: 0521864496 | 664 pages | PDF | 3,8 Mb

Quantum field theory is the basic mathematical framework that is used to describe elementary particles. This textbook provides a complete and essential introduction to the subject. Assuming only an undergraduate knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity, this book is ideal for graduate students beginning the study of elementary particles. The step-by-step presentation begins with basic concepts illustrated by simple examples, and proceeds through historically important results to thorough treatments of modern topics such as the renormalization group, spinor-helicity methods for quark and gluon scattering, magnetic monopoles, instantons, supersymmetry, and the unification of forces. The book is written in a modular format, with each chapter as self-contained as possible, and with the necessary prerequisite material clearly identified. It is based on a year-long course given by the author and contains extensive problems

About the Author
Mark Srednicki is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He gained his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1977, and received a PhD from Stanford University in 1980. Professor Srednicki has held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).



How to Prepare for any Disaster


"How to Prepare for any Disaster"
ISBN: N/A | 46 Pages | PDF | 1.2 Mb

This booklet will help you understand the importance of making preparations before anything happens, and help you know what to do and how to act before, during and after a disaster.

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Acoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures


Acoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures
Springer| ISBN: 3540763465 | 2008-06 | PDF |243 pages | 2.6 MB

This book provides the material for an introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. It is based on extensive teaching experience at the university level. Under the guidance of an academic teacher it is sufficient as the sole textbook for the subject. Each chapter deals with a well defined topic and represents the material for a two-hour lecture. The 15 chapters alternate between more theoretical and more application-oriented concepts.

Elsevier Aerospace Engineering, 2nd edition 2007


Elsevier Aerospace Engineering, 2nd edition 2007
ISBN: 0750669276 | 491 pages | PDF | 3.01 Mb

The study of flight dynamics requires a thorough understanding of the theory of the stability and control of aircraft, an appreciation of flight control systems and a comprehensive grounding in the theory of automatic control. Flight Dynamics provides all three in an accessible and student focussed text.

Written for those coming to the subject for the first time the book is suitable as a complete first course text. It provides a secure foundation from which to move on to more advanced topics such a non-linear flight dynamics, simulation and advanced flight control, and is ideal for those on course including flight mechanics, aircraft handling qualities, aircraft stability and control.

Enhances by detailed worked examples, case studies and aircraft operating condition software, this complete course text, by a renowned flight dynamicist, is widely used on aircraft engineering courses

Suitable as a complete first course text, it provides a secure foundation from which to move on to more advanced topics such a non-linear flight dynamics, simulation and advanced flight control
End of chapter exercises, detailed worked examples, and case studies aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications
Covers key contemporary topics including all aspects of optimization, emissions, regulation and automatic flight control and UAVs
Accompanying MathCAD software source code for performance model generation and optimization


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Adobe Pagemaker 7 - Portable


Adobe Pagemaker 7 - Portable | 32.4 Mb

Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 software is the ideal page layout program for business, education, and small- and home-office professionals who want to create high-quality publications such as brochures and newsletters. Get started quickly with templates, graphics, and intuitive design tools; work productively across Adobe applications; and easily leverage existing content to create customized communications.

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Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint

This book focuses exclusively on the application of PowerPoint to the creation of online training programs. Better than Bullet Points, Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint fills that gap. By providing in-depth guidance, specific instructions, and helpful exercises, the book will enable training practitioners to create impactful learning interactions in PowerPoint. The author steps readers through the powerful features of this popular desktop application, covering everything from text to art, animation to interactivity. Provided that the reader owns a copy of PowerPoint, this book will immediately put free real-world tools into the hands of those who need it. The information is practical rather than theoretical and immediately applicable. Most importantly, this book will help make e-learning accessible to those who have previously been excluded from taking advantage of the opportunities e-learning can provide. Jane Bozarth is the e-learning coordinator for the North Carolina Office of State Personnel's Human Resource Development Group and has been a training practitioner since 1989. She is a columnist for Training Magazine and has written for numerous publications including Creative Training Techniques Newsletter and the Journal of Educational Technology and Society.

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GPRS Networks

GPRS is a packet based wireless communication service that offers data rates from 9.05 up to 171.2 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. GPRS is based on GSM communications and complements existing services such as circuit switched cellular phone connections and the Short Message Service (SMS).

GPRS represents the bridge between 2G and 3G mobile telecommunications and is commonly referred to as 2.5G.

Implementation of GPRS requires modification of the existing GSM networks in that GSM is a circuit switched technology while GPRS is packet oriented. GPRS enables packet data (the same as is used by an Ethernet LAN, WAN or the Internet) to be sent to and from a mobile station - e.g. mobile phone, PDA or Laptop.

WAP and SMS can also be sent using GPRS and individuals working with GPRS need to learn and understand how the mobile stations, the air interface, network architecture, protocol structures and signalling procedures must be modified.
GPRS offers much higher data rates than GSM and can be combined with 3G technologies such as EDGE to give even higher bit-rates. It offers many benefits for customers and network operators: such as volume (rather then time) dependent billing and more efficient use of network resources.

Due to the worldwide delay in implementing 3G solutions such as CDMA and UMTS the demand for GPRS is still growing.

GPRS Networks:

*Offers detailed information ranging from standards to practical implementation

*Answers 'how' and 'why' rather than just simply re-stating GPRS specifications

*Provides comprehensive coverage in a single volume

Essential reading for all telecommunications project managers, field engineers, technical staff in network operator and manufacturing organisations, GPRS application and service developers, Datacoms/IT engineers.
The comprehensive coverage also makes this a superb reference for students of computer science, telecommunications and electrical engineering.

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Understanding Windows CardSpace

Windows CardSpace empowers organizations to prevent identity theft and systematically address a broad spectrum of security and privacy challenges. Understanding Windows CardSpaceis the first insider’s guide to Windows CardSpace and the broader topic of identity management for technical and business professionals. Drawing on the authors’ unparalleled experience earned by working with the CardSpace product team and by implementing state-of-the-art CardSpace-based systems at leading enterprises, it offers unprecedented insight into the realities of identity management: from planning and design through deployment.

Part I introduces the fundamental concepts of user-centered identity management, explains the context in which Windows CardSpace operates, and reviews the problems CardSpace aims to solve. Next, the authors walk through CardSpace from a technical standpoint, describing its technologies, elements, artifacts, operations and development practices, and usage scenarios. Finally, they carefully review the design and business considerations associated with architecting solutions based on CardSpace or any other user-centered identity management

system. Coverage includes

  • The limitations of current approaches to authentication and identity management
  • Detailed information on advanced Web services
  • The Identity Metasystem, the laws of identity, and the ideal authentication system
  • Windows CardSpace: What it is, how it works, and how developers and managers can use it in their organizations
  • CardSpace technology: user experience, Information Cards, private desktops, and integration with .NET 3.5 and Windows Vista
  • CardSpace implementation: from HTML integration through federation, Web services integration, and beyond
  • Adding personal card support to a website: a detailed, scenario-based explanation
  • Choosing or becoming an identity provider: opportunities, business impacts, operational issues, and pitfalls to avoid
  • Using CardSpace to leverage trust relationships and overcome phishing

Whether you’re a developer, security specialist, or business decision-maker, this book will answer your most crucial questions about identity management, so you can protect everything that matters: your people, your assets, your partners, and your customers.

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The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor

The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor is a comprehensive handbook on the inner workings of XenSource’s powerful open source paravirtualization solution. From architecture to kernel internals, author David Chisnall exposes key code components and shows you how the technology works, providing the essential information you need to fully harness and exploit the Xen hypervisor to develop cost-effective, highperformance Linux and Windows virtual environments.

Granted exclusive access to the XenSource team, Chisnall lays down a solid framework with overviews of virtualization and the design philosophy behind the Xen hypervisor. Next, Chisnall takes you on an in-depth exploration of the hypervisor’s architecture, interfaces, device support, management tools, and internals—including key information for developers who want to optimize applications for virtual environments. He reveals the power and pitfalls of Xen in real-world examples and includes hands-on exercises, so you gain valuable experience as you learn.

This insightful resource gives you a detailed picture of how all the pieces of the Xen hypervisor fit and work together, setting you on the path to building and implementing a streamlined, cost-efficient virtual enterprise.

Coverge includes

  • Understanding the Xen virtual architecture

  • Using shared info pages, grant tables, and the memory management subsystem

  • Interpreting Xen’s abstract device interfaces

  • Configuring and managing device support, including event channels, monitoring with XenStore, supporting core devices, and adding new device types

  • Navigating the inner workings of the Xen API and userspace tools

  • Coordinating virtual machines with the Scheduler Interface and API, and adding a new scheduler

  • Securing near-native speed on guest machines using HVM

  • Planning for future needs, including porting, power management, new devices, and unusual architectures

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ScreenOS Cookbook

Written by key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team, this one-of-a-kind Cookbook helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances. This book: offers scores of recipes that address a wide range of security issues; provides step-by-step solutions; and, includes discussions of why the recipes work, so you can easily set up and keep ScreenOS systems on track. "ScreenOS Cookbook" gives you real-world fixes, techniques, and configurations that save time - not hypothetical situations out of a textbook. This book comes directly from the experience of engineers who have seen and fixed every conceivable ScreenOS network topology, from small branch office firewalls to appliances for large core enterprise and government, to the heavy duty protocol driven service provider network. Its easy-to-follow format enables you to find the topic and specific recipe you need right away and match it to your network and security issue.Topics include: Configuring and managing ScreenOS firewalls; NTP (Network Time Protocol); Interfaces, Zones, and Virtual Routers; Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks; DDNS, DNS, and DHCP; IP Routing; Policy-Based Routing; Elements of Policies; Authentication; Application Layer Gateway (SIP, H323, RPC, RTSP, etc.

Content Security; Managing Firewall Policies; IPSEC VPN; RIP, OSPF, BGP, and NSRP; Multicast - IGPM, PIM, Static Mroutes; and, Wireless. Along with the usage and troubleshooting recipes, you will also find plenty of tricks, special considerations, ramifications, and general discussions of interesting tangents and network extrapolation. For the accurate, hard-nosed information you require to get your ScreenOS firewall network secure and operating smoothly , no book matches "ScreenOS Cookbook".

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ScreenOS Cookbook

Written by key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team, this one-of-a-kind Cookbook helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances. This book: offers scores of recipes that address a wide range of security issues; provides step-by-step solutions; and, includes discussions of why the recipes work, so you can easily set up and keep ScreenOS systems on track. "ScreenOS Cookbook" gives you real-world fixes, techniques, and configurations that save time - not hypothetical situations out of a textbook. This book comes directly from the experience of engineers who have seen and fixed every conceivable ScreenOS network topology, from small branch office firewalls to appliances for large core enterprise and government, to the heavy duty protocol driven service provider network. Its easy-to-follow format enables you to find the topic and specific recipe you need right away and match it to your network and security issue.Topics include: Configuring and managing ScreenOS firewalls; NTP (Network Time Protocol); Interfaces, Zones, and Virtual Routers; Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks; DDNS, DNS, and DHCP; IP Routing; Policy-Based Routing; Elements of Policies; Authentication; Application Layer Gateway (SIP, H323, RPC, RTSP, etc.

Content Security; Managing Firewall Policies; IPSEC VPN; RIP, OSPF, BGP, and NSRP; Multicast - IGPM, PIM, Static Mroutes; and, Wireless. Along with the usage and troubleshooting recipes, you will also find plenty of tricks, special considerations, ramifications, and general discussions of interesting tangents and network extrapolation. For the accurate, hard-nosed information you require to get your ScreenOS firewall network secure and operating smoothly , no book matches "ScreenOS Cookbook".

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Apple Training Series: Desktop and Portable Systems (3rd Edition)

This authoritative, Apple-Certified training course is designed both for professionals who support Apple computers as well as Macintosh enthusiasts who want to upgrade, service, or troubleshoot their favorite systems. Fully revised, this third edition includes Apple's new models with Intel processors, the MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac. Keyed to the learning objectives of the Apple Desktop Service and Apple Portable Service certification exams, this is the companion curriculum used in AppleCare Technician Training courses worldwide. The book starts out with basic computer theory and underlying technologies, then moves on to cover everything from networking to the nitty-gritty steps and diagrams for upgrading and troubleshooting six sample computer models.

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Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms

It's not a one-browser web anymore. You need to reach audiences that use cell phones, PDAs, game consoles, or other "alternative" browsers, as well as users with disabilities. Legal requirements for assistive technologies as well as a wide array of new browsing experiences means you need to concentrate on semantics, alternate access paths, and progressive enhancement.

Give your audience the power to interact with your content on their own terms. It's the right thing to do, and with a $100 billion a year market for accessible content, new laws and new technologies, you can't afford to ignore accessibility.

With this book, you'll learn basic principles and techniques for developing accessible HTML, audio, video, and multimedia content. In addition, you will understand how to apply the principles you learn in this book to new technologies when they emerge.

You'll learn how to:

  • Use best practices of accessibility to develop accessible web content
  • Build testing into projects to improve results and reduce costs
  • Create high quality alternative representations for your audience
  • Add accessibility features to external media like PDF and Flash
  • Negotiate the terrain of accessibility standards
  • Apply principles of accessiblity to new technologies as they emerge
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    Wireless Communications The Future

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    Predicting the future is an essential element for almost everyone involved in the wireless industry. Manufacturers predict the future when they decide on product lines to develop or research to undertake, operators when they buy licences and deploy networks, and academics when they set PhD topics. Wireless Communications: The Future provides a solid, clear and well-argued basis on which to make these predictions.

    Starting with a description of the current situation and a look at how previous predictions made in 2000 have fared, the book then provides the contributions of six eminent experts from across the wireless industry. Based on their input and a critical analysis of the current situation, it derives detailed forecasts for 2011 through to 2026. This leads to implications across all of the different stakeholders in the wireless industry and views on key developments.

    This book, compiled by a renowned author with a track record of successful prediction, is an essential read for strategists working for wireless manufacturers, wireless operators and device manufacturers, regulators and professionals in the telecoms industry, as well as those studying the topic or with a general interest in the future of wireless communications.

    TABLE OF CONTENT:
    Chapter 01 - Predicting the Future is a Necessary Part of Business
    Chapter 02 - Previous Predictions have been Accurate
    Chapter 03 - How to put Together a Forecast
    Chapter 04 - The Current Position
    Chapter 05 - End User Demand
    Chapter 06 - Technology Progress
    Chapter 07 - Major World Events
    Chapter 08 - Future Military Wireless Solutions
    Chapter 09 - From the Few to the Many: Macro to Micro
    Chapter 10 - The Role of Ad-hoc Technology in the Broadband Wireless Networks of the Future
    Chapter 11 - Interference and Our Wireless Future
    Chapter 12 - Three Ages of Future Wireless Communications
    Chapter 13 - Mobile Cellular Radio Technology Disruption
    Chapter 14 - Assimilating the Key Factors
    Chapter 15 - The Future Roadmap

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    Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide


    This book is the official guide to Adobe (R) AIR[TM], written by members of the AIR team. With Adobe AIR, web developers can use technologies like HTML and JavaScript to build and deploy web applications to the desktop. Packed with examples, this book explains how AIR works and features recipes for performing common runtime tasks. Part of the Adobe Developer Library, this concise pocket guide explains: What Adobe AIR is, and the problems this runtime aims to solve How to set up your development environment The HTML and JavaScript environments within AIR How to create your first AIR application using HTML and JavaScript Ways to perform an array of common tasks with this runtime Also included is a guide to AIR packages, classes, and command line tools. Once you understand the basics of building HTML- and JavaScript-based AIR applications, this book makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems. It offers a quick introduction to a significant new development technology, which lets you combine the reach and ease of the Web with the power of the desktop.

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    C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3


    C# in Depth is a completely new book designed to propel existing C# developers to a higher level of programming skill. One simple principle drives this book: explore a few things deeply rather than offer a shallow view of the whole C# landscape. If you often find yourself wanting just a little more at the end of a typical chapter, this is the book for you.

    Expert author Jon Skeet dives into the C# language, plumbing new C# 2 and 3 features and probing the core C# language concepts that drive them. This unique book puts the new features into context of how C# has evolved without a lengthy rehearsal of the full C# language.

    C# in Depth briefly examines the history of C# and the .NET framework and reviews a few often-misunderstood C# 1 concepts that are very important as the foundation for fully exploiting C# 2 and 3. Because the book addresses C# 1 with a light touch, existing C# developers don't need to pick through the book in order to find new material to enhance their skills.

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