Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
How to Calculate Quickly: Full Course in Speed Arithmetic
Date : June 1, 1955
I gave it a five star simply because the books is simple and very effective at getting you to learn the "art" of quick calculation.
I looked at all the others in that field. Most of them teach you tricks for quick calculation. To do certain calculation you need to remember the tricks. There are dozen of them and you just get confused. This book do not used trick but teach you "number sense" ... and how to calculate from left to right with complex number. Beleive me, I was affraid of that kind of calculation and with that book I learned a lot!
I used it because I am preparing for interviews in management consulting. Case study need you to do lots of quick mental calculation. I am very good with complex calculation but mental arithmetics is something else.
BUY THIS BOOK ... very slim, but as said before, lots lots of exercise well made and improving in difficulty ... cant say more, its the book I was looking for.
Amusing, it was first published in 1945 ...
Instant Orgasm: Excitement at First Touch (Positively Sexual)
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Author(s): Ph.D. Steve Bodansky and Ph.D. Vera Bodansky
Date : 2008
In their latest book, noted sexperts Steve and Vera Bodansky show readers how to take their sexual pleasure to the max by becoming instantly orgasmic. In the first part of the book, they describe the concept of instant orgasm and explain why humankind’s natural ability to experience ecstasy has been stifled through cultural brainwashing. They then present specific techniques for becoming instantly orgasmic by using a “Ground Hog” approach: starting and stopping over and over again, each time with additional knowledge gained until the concept is totally integrated into actual sensation and feelings.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Allan's Wife
Date : 1887
The third book in the Allan Quatermain series
The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.
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Lady Rosamond's Secret
Date : 1878
The First Scene: A September sunset in Fredericton, A. D. 1824.
Much has been said and sung about the beauteous scenes of nature in every clime.
Sir Walter Scott has lovingly depicted his native heaths, mountains, lochs and glens.
Moore draws deep inspiration amid scenes of the Emerald Isle, and strikes his lyre to chords of awakening love, light and song.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
Date : 1870
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (written in 1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (written in 1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author of all time, behind Disney Productions and Agatha Christie, according to Index Translationum. Some of his work has been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".
War and Peace
Date : 1869
War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Date : 1749
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.
Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
Avatar script
Date : 2010
Academy Award-winning writer/director James Cameron, the maker of Titanic and the creator of the Terminator series, has been crafting Avatar for over four years.
English Vocabulary in Use Elementary, with Answers
Date : 1999
Your Introduction to your English Vocabulary
Calculus in Context: The Five College Calculus Course
Date : 1995
For courses currently engaged, or leaning toward calculus reform. The authors fully embrace the calculus reform movement in technology and pedagogy, while taking it a step further with a unique organization and applications to real-world problems.
The book aims to:
• Develop calculus in the context of scientific and mathematical questions.
• Treat systems of differential equations as fundamental objects of study.
• Construct and analyze mathematical models.
• Use the method of successive approximations to define and solve problems.
• Develop geometric visualization with hand-drawn and computer graphics.
• Give numerical methods a more central role.
• Encourage collaborative work.
• Empower students to use calculus as a language and a tool.
• Make students comfortable tackling large, messy, ill-defined problems.
• Foster an experimental attitude towards mathematics.
• Help students appreciate the value of approximate solutions.
• Develop the sense that understanding concepts arises out of working
on problems, not simply from reading the text and imitating its techniques.
Mysteries of the Cabala (Audio)
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Date : 1993
1. Ancient of Days - Nature of the Godhead
2. Mother of the Mysteries - Processes of Creation
3. Angel of the Presence - Administration of Universal Law
4. Chariot of Righteousness -Mystical Disciplines of Cabalism & Yoga
5. Everlasting House - Restoration of Heaven & Earth
Alchemy (Audio)
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Date : 1993
Description
1. Adepts of the Alchemical Tradition
2. Hermetic Symbols of the Great Work
3. Human Regeneration by Alchemy
4. Alchemical Transmutations Psychologically Interpreted
5. Chinese & Tibetan Alchemy
Product Description
1. Adepts of the Alchemical Tradition
2. Hermetic Symbols of the Great Work
3. Human Regeneration by Alchemy
4. Alchemical Transmutations Psychologically Interpreted
5. Chinese & Tibetan Alchemy
From the Publisher
The Philosophical Research Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1934 for the purpose of assisting thoughtful persons to live more graciously and constructively in a confused and troubled world. The Society is entirely free from educational, political, or ecclesiastical control. Dedicated to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems, the Society's program stresses the need for the integration of religion, philosophy, and the science of psychology into one system of instruction. The goal of this instruction is to enable the individual to develop a mature philosophy of life, to recognize his proper responsibilities and opportunities, and to understand and appreciate his place in the unfolding universal pattern.
The Truth about Sexual Behavior and Unplanned Pregnancy
Date : August 30, 2009
Grade 9 Up–Following a brief overview and introduction, the alphabetical entries in these accessible titles contain a brief definition of the topic; factual information, including statistics if appropriate; and facts versus fiction and question-and-answer sections.
All the Mathematics You Missed But Need to Know for Graduate School
Date : January 15, 2002
There's no doubt about it this book designed for people who want to learn some real math. It doesn't take, as the title and description might lead you to believe, a "Math for Engineers" approach.
Each chapter covers, in the span of 10 or 15 pages, what would normally be an entire semester's worth of material, and as a result, is quite dense -- there are alot of ideas crammed onto each page. But unlike traditional advanced math books (which are notoriously dense) the focus is more on developing intuitions than on long strings of equations.
An important strength is that every chapter ends with suggestions on textbooks in that chapter's subject. This turns out to be quite helpful, since one can't reasonably expect to learn everything important about any of these subjects from a brief chapter in any book.
I can envision three main ways in which this book might be useful: First, in combination with one or more of the books in listed in the bibliography for learning a new subject. Second, on its own for review of topics you've seen before. Third, as a reference for "basic" definitions and theorems, as in: "What's a Hilbert space again?"
Overall, this will be a good book to have around, but not a substitute for real study.
Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition)
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Date : December 29, 2007
Stylin' has easy to understand examples, and gets straight to the point. If anyone wants to learn CSS, in an easy and none confusing way, I really recommend this book. Unlike other books I read on the subject, books that tend to overwhelm the reader with un-necessities, Stylin' gets to the heart of what's important and provides examples of how to do the design.
Friday, May 7, 2010
FBI Guide To Concealable Weapons
Date : 2004
After September 11, 2001, the FBI started collecting small, easily concealed knives and other potentially lethal objects, and compiled a catalog that has been distributed to airport screeners and law enforcement agencies across the country. In The FBI Guide to Concealable Weapons, this information is available to every citizen who wants to be prepared to face future terrorist attacks.
Young Mathematicians at Work, Vol. 3: Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Date : 2002
In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the National Science Foundation and ExxonMobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Fosnot and Maarten Dolk reveal what they learned after several years of intensive study in numerous urban classrooms.
In this third volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how children in grades 5-8 construct their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents. Their book:
Silverlight 4 Problem ,Design,Solution
Author(s): Nick Lecrenski
Date : April 26, 2010
A hands-on guide to Microsoft’s latest rich application development technology: Silverlight 4Silverlight 4 is the newest version of the rich Internet application toolkit that provides support for .NET capabilities over the Internet. With this latest release of Silverlight, Microsoft has revolutionized the way that Web applications can be created. This book uses the popular Problem – Design – Solution strategy to demonstrate how to harness the power and abilities of Silverlight 4 to add value to the overall user experience of a Web site.
Using a Web site created by the author as a reference point, you’ll go through the steps of creating a live, fully functional application for the Web using Silverlight 4 and the Silverlight Control Toolkit. Along the way, the book addresses important design considerations, such as the use of Web Services and the SQL Server database.
Uses the popular Problem – Design – Solution format show you how to harness the power of the latest version of Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application toolkit
Puts the author’s own Web site to task as you learn to create rich user interfaces that integrate video, HTML, and social networking components
Explains system linking and data flow, end user interface, system architecture based on Silverlight 4 and .NET 4, and more
Includes coverage on integrating social networking and FacebookWith this book, you’ll quickly get started using the new features of Silverlight 4 to enhance the user experience of a Web site.
From the Back Cover
Create a fully functional application using Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 boasts long-awaited features that conquer writing a Rich Internet Application. Using new line-of-business features in this book, you create a web application that’s more responsive than a traditional ASP.NET web site. Leveraging new features and the improved Silverlight Toolkit, in each chapter you’ll work through the problem statement, design analysis, and solution implementation.
Silverlight 4: Problem–Design–Solution:
Explains how to determine functional requirements for your site
Details the latest features, such as charting, enhanced data entry controls, navigation framework, and element to element binding
Covers the new Silverlight Toolkit featuring themes, charting, and layout management
Uses the new .NET RIA Services for your middle tier and data access layers
Utilizes existing Silverlight ASP.NET membership, authentication, and profile services
Illustrates adding social networking to the application using a Silverlight based MySpace application
The World Cheese Book
Date : 2009
The book is about cheese in all its many glorious varieties. What it looks like, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what you should do with it and why, how to choose a cheese you'll like and how best to enjoy it. It gives you an in-depth understanding of the world of cheese - the science, the smells, the succulence.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
Date : November 5, 2009
Burma has received a lot of attention in the news these past few years, but very few people know much about the country's history or problems. David Steinberg, one of the top experts on Burma, lays everything out clearly in this book. It covers everything from precolonial history to the country's future development challenges. Steinberg also tries to be evenhanded and unbiased (notice the cover, which features both the monks and the generals).
The Ultimate Brownie Book: Thousands of Ways to Make America's Favorite Treat, including Blondies, Frostings, and Doctored Brownie Mixes
Date : 2002
Thousands of Brownie Recipes
Gooey, fudgy, or cakey, flavored with chocolate chips, coconut, or nuts, frosted or enjoyed as is, who doesn't love brownies?
In this ultimate guide to America's favorite treat, discover old-time classics such as Chocolate Syrup Brownies and Butterscotch Brownies,
Bumblebees: Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation
Date : December 13, 2009
Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring throughout much of the world. They are increasingly being used as a model organism for studying a wide range of ecological and behavioural concepts, such as social organization, optimal foraging theories, host-parasite interactions, and pollination. Recently they have become a focus for conservationists due to mounting evidence of range contractions and catastrophic extinctions with some species disappearing from entire continents (e.g. in North America). Only by improving our understanding of their ecology can we devise sensible plans to conserve them. The role of bumblebees as invasive species (e.g. Bombus terrestris in Japan) has also become topical with the growing trade in commercial bumblebee nests for tomato pollination leading to establishment of non-native bumblebees in a number of countries.
Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power
Date : January 25, 2010
Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on August 13 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.
This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, "caught out" by Sunday the Thirteenth. Party, police and Stasi reports reveal why one in six East Germans fled the country during the 1950s, undermining communist rule and forcing the eleventh-hour decision by Khrushchev and Ulbricht to build a wall along the Cold War's frontline.
Did East Germans resist or come to terms with immurement? Did the communist regime become more or less dictatorial within the confines of the so-called "Antifascist Defense Rampart?" Using film and literature, but also the GDR's losing battle against Beatlemania, Patrick Major's cross-disciplinary study suggests that popular culture both reinforced and undermined the closed society. Linking external and internal developments, Major argues that the GDR's official quest for international recognition, culminating in Ostpolitik and United Nations membership in the early 1970s, became its undoing, unleashing a human rights movement which fed into, but then broke with, the protests of 1989. After exploring the reasons for the fall of the Wall and reconstructing the heady days of the autumn revolution, the author reflects on the fate of the Wall after 1989, as it moved from demolition into the realm of memory.
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A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
Date : November 30, 2009
The enormous popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller games like Bejeweled or Zuma has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or to devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.
Mathematica Cookbook
Date : May 12, 2010
Mathematica Cookbook helps you master the application's core principles by walking you through real-world problems. Ideal for browsing, this book includes recipes for working with numerics, data structures, algebraic equations, calculus, and statistics. You'll also venture into exotic territory with recipes for data visualization using 2D and 3D graphic tools, image processing, and music.
Although Mathematica 7 is a highly advanced computational platform, the recipes in this book make it accessible to everyone whether you're working on high school algebra, simple graphs, PhD-level computation, financial analysis, or advanced engineering models.
Burning Lamp (An Arcane Society Novel)
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Date : April 20, 2010
Two strong characters are brought together to discover if a lamp has mysterious properties. I love these characters. Griffin Winters is a crime lord but I found him to be honorable and compassionate in his own way. He is intelligent and no ones fool.
Animation: The Mechanics of Motion
Date : August 18, 2005
Over the years I have read and browsed many books on animation. Not only does this book cover the basics it explains them. The figures are easy to follow and convey complex concepts well. A lot of other animation books will cover a basic walk cycle from just the side view. Webster's book covers it from the side and front. I have had this book for a year and it has not made it to my bookshelf yet. I use it constantly for reference.
Supply Chain
Date : February 2008
Traditionally supply chain management has meant factories, assembly lines, warehouses, transportation vehicles, and time sheets. Modern supply chain management is a highly complex, multidimensional problem set with virtually endless number of variables for optimization. An Internet enabled supply chain may have just-in-time delivery, precise inventory visibility, and up-to-the-minute distribution-tracking capabilities. Technology advances have enabled supply chains to become strategic weapons that can help avoid disasters, lower costs, and make money. From internal enterprise processes to external business transactions with suppliers, transporters, channels and end-users marks the wide range of challenges researchers have to handle. The aim of this book is at revealing and illustrating this diversity in terms of scientific and theoretical fundamentals, prevailing concepts as well as current practical applications.
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The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012
Date : 2009
December 21, 2012. The Internet, bookshelves, and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as we know it. Whether the end will result from the magnentic realignment of the north and south poles, bringing floods, earthquakes, death, and destruction; or from the return of alien caretakers to enlighten or enslave us; or from a global awakening, a sudden evolution of Homo sapiens into non-corporeal beings theories of great, impending changes abound.
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: All Volumes
Date : October 5, 2007
Today, print and online resources that blur or offer a new perspective on sex and gender abound. Recent debates and scholarship focused on sex and gender illustrate, first, that gendered discourse in both the public and private domains is most assuredly alive and well in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and, second, that the concepts of sex and gender are inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on anthropology, biology, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, political science, psychology, and sociology. Undergraduates in these fields, as well as advanced high-school students and educated general readers, need look no further than this landmark work to explore, examine, and evaluate the various concepts of sex and gender that impact nearly every area of human interaction and activity.
Computer Fun: Math (Click It)
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Date : 2001-03
Explains how to use a personal computer to complete activities that explore math, reading, geography, and science.
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The 7 Worst Things Parents Do
Date : January 1, 1999
Most "parenting" books have common goals (e.g how to raise a happy, moral, responsible, self-confident child that achieves his/her full potential). The books just disagree about the best way to achieve these goals. In this book, however, I found myself disagreeing with the stated goals of good parenting. The Friels describe several examples of parenting "failures" that I would consider successes. For example, if your 24 year old daughter says her mother is her best friend, she's a failure (and you've failed as a parent).
Computational Geometry for Design and Manufacture
Date : 1979
This book deals with the mathematical tech-
niques which have been developed in recent
years for the representation, analysis and
synthesis of "shape information" by com-
puters. This area of mathematics is now
assuming major importance in the manufac-
turing industries with the increasing use of
computer-aided design and manufacture,
which require a precise geometrical description
of the product.
Introduction To Statics And Dynamics Problem Book
Date : 2008
This is an engineering statics and dynamics text intended as both an introduction and as a reference. It is aimed primarily at middle-level engineering students. The book emphasizes use of vectors, free-body diagrams, momentum and energy balance and computation. Intuitive approaches are discussed throughout.
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
Date : September 1, 2009
How to Retire happy, Wild, and Free -- I was looking for just this kind of book. Most retirement books are talking about money,and selling you something, this book talks about your life. I am a nervous Nellie when it comes to change or decisions. I research till I know the topic as well as I can and then make my decision.
How To Develope A Perfect Body in 30 Minutes a Day
Date : 2001
For years I have seen Martial Arts Master Teachers who look like they just left a donut eating contest and won it for the 50th time in a row. Fat out of shape disgusting. These people might know how to kick and punch, but they are out of shape and not a credit to the fitness of the martial arts. This book will show you simple 30 minutes exercise programs designed to keep you looking great. Specific exercises for each body part. It even includes diet information. Sections include exercises for men and women I am so thankful for this guide. This probably more than any other one of Dr. Ted's books has changed my life.
No Nonsense Muscle Building: Skinny Guy Secrets To Insane Muscle Gain
Date : 2006
Great Book about building a muscle a guide for skinny guy secrets to insane muscle gain.
The Mountain Man
Date : 2008
Tom only made the four-hour drive from his claim to Keno City once a year. And yet, he paused at the mercantile long enough to load up a fresh stock of supplies, before jumping back into his truck and racing winter all the way back home again. The good news was, he barely made it back to his cabin just as the storm of the century touched down, pretty much guaranteeing he'd be snowbound for the next six months. The bad news was, there was a woman tucked into the back of his trailer, right between the coffee and the canned peaches.
Digital Performer 6 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
Date : 2009
Digital Performer is one of the leading digital audio workstation programs for the Mac. It allows you to sequence MIDI, record multiple channels of audio, mix them down, synch them to video, and utilize plug-in software synthesizers and software studios. Digital Performer 6 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide provides a versatile guide to setting up and using the newest version of MOTU’s Digital Performer 6 audio/MIDI sequencing, editing, and recording software. The book’s approach is one that will simplify and demystify the technical aspects of setting up and using Digital Performer 6, while also supplying useful engineering tips and shortcuts to help you get the most out of the program. Chapters and sections progress naturally through the music production process,
Creative Cloth Doll Beading: Designing and Embellishing with Beads
Date : 2007
Beading, one of the oldest forms of craft, is also a hot new trend and being used in new applications. Beadwork, which has typically been used in fashion, home decoration, and jewelry, is reaching for new horizons and showing up on quilts, journals, knits, crochet, and fiber arts of all kinds.
The Mathematical Description of Shape and Form
Date : 1986
Neither Pythagoras nor Euclid could have foreseen today's
importance of geometry in modern technological systems
of computer-aided design and manufacture. This work
offers the first survey of the mathematical principles of
shape and form and embraces a very wide spectrum of their
applications. It will stimulate the current and growing
revival of interest in the applications of geometry and will
encourage creative thinking about problems of form, as for
instance, in the behaviour of environmental fields in their
interaction with buildings. It will widen awareness of such
versatility of application in other fields whose workers
can now gain a clearer perception of how these rich mathe-
matical concepts can be utilised.
It is a wide-ranging survey of the applications of mathe-
matics to problems of form description, presenting clearly
and concisely a large number of applied geometrical
methods. A unified viewpoint, based on the concept of
mappings between geometrical spaces, is developed so that
the individual methods are seen in the context of a frame-
work of underlying principles.
The topics treated fall broadly into two major categories:
those based on concepts of continuity (differential and
metrical properties of continuous curves and surfaces,
topology, structure of singularities, etc.) and those based on
concepts of discrete point-sets (crystallographic groups,
graph theory, surface and curve fitting and interpolation,
lattice descriptions in pattern recognition and image pro-
cessing, etc.).
Internet Networks: Wired, Wireless, and Optical Technologies
Date : 2009
In the not too distant future, internet access will be dominated by wireless networks. With that, wireless edge using optical core next-generation networks will become as ubiquitous as traditional telephone networks. This means that telecom engineers, chip designers, and engineering students must prepare to meet the challenges and opportunities that the development and deployment of these technologies will bring.
Bringing together cutting-edge coverage of wireless and optical networks in a single volume, Internet Networks Wired, Wireless, and Optical Technologies provides a concise yet complete introduction to these dynamic technologies. Filled with case studies, illustrations, and practical examples from industry, the text explains how wireless, wireline, and optical networks work together. It also:
Multi-Sensor Data Fusion with MATLAB
Date : 2009
Using MATLAB® examples wherever possible, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion with MATLAB explores the three levels of multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF): kinematic-level fusion, including the theory of DF; fuzzy logic and decision fusion; and pixel- and feature-level image fusion. The authors elucidate DF strategies, algorithms, and performance evaluation mainly for aerospace applications, although the methods can also be applied to systems in other areas, such as biomedicine, military defense, and environmental engineering.
Complete Book Of Karate Weapons
Date : April 1991
This book really shows the reader how to use the weapons safely and effectivly. They have easy to follow pictures and instructions to make you become proficient in no time at all. They make use of all the 296 pages worth of information. From the books that I have read this has to be the best of them all. It really captures the purpose of the title of the book. A great read and plenty of useful karate information.
Hero at Large
Date : March 30, 2010
Janet's first book it definately one of her best romance novels. Those of us who have read them all know they are very similar in the fact that they all involved fast evolving relationships...who falls madly in love in a few days :) But this one has you hooked in the few few pages and is a short read that you just can't put down. Janet's books give mom's/wives like me the escape to a more exciting life that we all dream about. They are kinda far fetched in the men being so romantic, but we all can dream...right ladies!?!?!
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