Life (Audiobook) By Keith Richards

 By Keith Richards, read by Johnny Depp
Publisher: Hachette Audio 2010 | 21 hours and 57 mins

ISBN: 1600242405 | MP3 | 562 MB

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As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way.

Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated autobiography in decades. And what a story! Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records in a coldwater flat with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, building a sound and a band out of music they loved. Finding fame and success as a bad-boy band, only to find themselves challenged by authorities everywhere. Dropping his guitar's sixth string to create a new sound that allowed him to create immortal riffs like those in "Honky Tonk Woman" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash." Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones's girlfriend. Arrested and imprisoned for drug possession. Tax exile in France and recording Exile on Main Street. Ever-increasing fame, isolation, and addiction making life an ever faster frenzy. Through it all, Richards remained devoted to the music of the band, until even that was challenged by Mick Jagger's attempt at a solo career, leading to a decade of conflicts and ultimately the biggest reunion tour in history.

In a voice that is uniquely and unmistakably him--part growl, part laugh--Keith Richards brings us the truest rock-and-roll life of our times, unfettered and fearless and true.

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AUDIOBOOKS For The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero

By Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio); Unabridged edition

October 12, 2010 | ISBN: 0307711773
Audio CD in MP3 | 172 MB

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo.
They’re all students at a boarding school for “bad kids.” What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly?

Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out.

Leo has a way with tools. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first audiobook in The Heroes of Olympus series.

About the Author
Rick Riordan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid, as well as all the books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, which is also available on audio from Listening Library.

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Songwriting For Dummies

By Dave Austin, Jim Peterik, Cathy Lynn
Publisher: For Dummies

Pages: 384, Date: 2010-08-02
ISBN-10 : 0470615141, 5.1 MB's | Vector PDF

Description:
Proven techniques for songwriting success
This friendly, hands-on guide tackles the new face of the recording industry, guiding you through the shift from traditional sales to downloads and mobile music, as well as how you can harness social media networks to get your music "out there." You get basic songwriting concepts, insider tips and advice, and inspiration for writing — and selling — meaningful, timeless songs.


*Songwriting 101 — get a grip on everything you need to know to write a song, from learning to listen to your "inner voice" to creating a "mood" and everything in between
*Jaunt around the genres — discover the variety of musical genres and find your fit, whether it's rock, pop, R&B, gospel, country, or more
*Let the lyrics out — master the art of writing lyrics, from finding your own voice to penning the actual words to using hooks, verses, choruses, and bridges
*Make beautiful music — find your rhythm, make melodies, and use chords to put the finishing touches on your song
*Work the Web — harness online marketing and social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and others to get your music heard by a whole new audience

Open the book and find:

*What you need to know before you write a single note
*Tips on finding inspiration
*Ways to use poetic devices in lyrics
*Computer and Web-based shortcuts and technologies to streamline songwriting
*A look at famous songwriting collaborators
*Writing for stage, screen, and television
*How to make a demo to get your song heard
*Advice on how to make money from your music

Learn to:
*Develop your songwriting skills with tips and techniques from the pros
*Use social networking sites to get your music out to the public
*Break into the industry with helpful, how-to instructions

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PDF For Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World

By Keith Brown, Publisher: Elsevier Science
Pages: 1320, Date: 2008-11-21

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0080877745,
10.7 MB PDF, RAR

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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world.

It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.

Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics.

In highlighting the diversity of the world's languages - from the thriving to the endangered and extinct - this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World.

* Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes
* Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic
development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
* Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose
* Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage
* Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia

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Network and System Security

By John R. Vacca
Publisher: Syngress

Pages: 408, Date: 2010-03-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1597495352

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Network and System Security provides focused coverage of network and system security technologies. Explores practical solutions to a wide range of network and systems security issues. Chapters are authored by leading experts in the field and address the immediate and long term challenges in the authors' respective areas of expertise. Coverage includes building a secure organization; cryptography; system intrusion; UNIX and Linux security; Internet security, intranet security; LAN security; wireless network security; cellular network security, RFID security, and more.

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How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS5: The Art of Design and Animation

 By Chris Georgenes
Publisher: Focal Press 2010

376 Pages | ISBN: 0240522079 | PDF | 156 MB

Need to solve problems quickly to develop creative projects to time and to budget? Want to hone your Flash skills so you can concentrate on your animation? Then How to Cheat in Flash is for you! Chris Georgenes shows how to work from the problem to the solution - from the viewpoint of an animator who has been commissioned to create a job and is working to a deadline and to a budget.

With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce creative, professional animations, Chris is the go-to guru for designers and animators who want to create great animation, applications or motion design with Flash.

Fully updated for CS5, How to Cheat in Flash CS5, is a goldmine of artistic inspiration, timesaving practical tips, tricks and step-by-step workthroughs that you'll wonder how you survived without it.

Each techniques is designed as a double-page spread so you can prop the book up behind your keyboard or next to your monitor as a visual reference while working alongside it. Many of these workthroughs are real-world client projects, with the source files supplied for you to open and explore. With these real-life professional projects you'll discover how to: bring objects to life with cool motion effects, make it rain, snow or set your world ablaze, develop flash mobile applications and many more tips and tricks not found anywhere else!

* Work over the shoulder of Chris Georgenes, renowned Flash expert, and apply the practical techniques, tips and tricks to your own projects with downloadable Flash source files, examples and tutorials, available at www.howtocheatinflash.com.
* Bestselling How to Cheat coverage of Flash CS5 - proven format for successful learning
* Learn a myriad of tips and tricks based on real-life working methods to help you work faster and more efficiently and to budget!
* Work from the problem to the solution, to gain the best possible results from Flash CS5!

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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5: The art of creating realistic photomontages

By Steve Caplin
Publisher: Focal Press

Pages: 464, Date: 2010-06-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0240522044, 353 MB pdf, cover+bookmarks, no TOC, splitted in 2 rar parts
part 1: 193 MB rar, part 2: 99 MB rar

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How to Cheat in Photoshop shows you how to cheat in two important ways. First, you'll learn a professional montage artist's proven-to-be-successful tips for getting the best out of Photoshop's many features quickly and efficiently, so that you can create work under deadline while still maintaining quality. Second, you'll learn how to make an image look like something else entirely, for those moments when stock imagery just won't do and you don't have the time (or funding) to set up a photo shoot.

Photomontage master Steve Caplin has been a recognized leader in the world of photo manipulation for many years, and in this invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, retouchers, students, and graphic artists, he shows exactly what methods he uses to create stunning imagery used in advertising, publishing, print media, and more.

Fully updated to cover all of the new features in Photoshop CS5, this book is also backwards-compatible and can be used with any version of Photoshop. The accompanying DVD for Mac and PC contains over two and a half hours of video tutorials for additional training, and on the book's popular website www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com, you'll find even more resources such as an "Ask the Author" forum, sample images from other How to Cheat fans, and weekly challenges so that you can test your own skills and see where your creativity can take you.

* A complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5 learning package! Includes a fully updated book, a DVD containing all of the imagery used in the examples, over 2 ½ hours of video tutorials, and website featuring a reader forum where your questions will be answered by other readers as well as the author himself

* Includes hundreds of tips and project ideas to help you get started, whether you're working to a professional deadline or just for fun

* Packed with professional advice from a photomontage artist who makes his living creating surreal works of art - you're learning from the best!

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Market Risk Analysis: Volume IV: Value at Risk Models

By Carol Alexander
Publisher: Wiley, Pages: 492, Date: 2009-03-03

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470997885

Description:
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, Value-at-Risk Models forms part four of the Market Risk Analysis four volume set. Building on the three previous volumes this book provides by far the most comprehensive, rigorous and detailed treatment of market VaR models. It rests on the basic knowledge of financial mathematics and statistics gained from Volume I, of factor models, principal component analysis, statistical models of volatility and correlation and copulas from Volume II and, from Volume III, knowledge of pricing and hedging financial instruments and of mapping portfolios of similar instruments to risk factors. A unifying characteristic of the series is the pedagogical approach to practical examples that are relevant to market risk analysis in practice.

All together, the Market Risk Analysis four volume set illustrates virtually every concept or formula with a practical, numerical example or a longer, empirical case study. Across all four volumes there are approximately 300 numerical and empirical examples, 400 graphs and figures and 30 case studies many of which are contained in interactive Excel spreadsheets available from the the accompanying CD-ROM . Empirical examples and case studies specific to this volume include:

* Parametric linear value at risk (VaR)models: normal, Student t and normal mixture and their expected tail loss (ETL);
* New formulae for VaR based on autocorrelated returns;
* Historical simulation VaR models: how to scale historical VaR and volatility adjusted historical VaR;
* Monte Carlo simulation VaR models based on multivariate normal and Student t distributions, and based on copulas;
* Examples and case studies of numerous applications to interest rate sensitive, equity, commodity and international portfolios;
* Decomposition of systematic VaR of large portfolios into standard alone and marginal VaR components;
* Backtesting and the assessment of risk model risk;
* Hypothetical factor push and historical stress tests, and stress testing based on VaR and ETL.

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Market Risk Analysis: Pricing, Hedging and Trading Financial Instruments (Market Risk Analysis) Volume 3

By Carol Alexander, Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 416, Date: 2008-06-30

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470997893

Description:
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, Pricing, Hedging and Trading Financial Instruments forms part three of the Market Risk Analysis four volume set. This book is an in-depth, practical and accessible guide to the models that are used for pricing and the strategies that are used for hedging financial instruments, and to the markets in which they trade.

It provides a comprehensive, rigorous and accessible introduction to bonds, swaps, futures and forwards and options, including variance swaps, volatility indices and their futures and options, to stochastic volatility models and to modelling the implied and local volatility surfaces.

All together, the Market Risk Analysis four volume set illustrates virtually every concept or formula with a practical, numerical example or a longer, empirical case study. Across all four volumes there are approximately 300 numerical and empirical examples, 400 graphs and figures and 30 case studies many of which are contained in interactive Excel spreadsheets available from the the accompanying CD-ROM . Empirical examples and case studies specific to this volume include:

* Duration-Convexity approximation to bond portfolios, and portfolio immunization;
* Pricing floaters and vanilla, basis and variance swaps;
* Coupon stripping and yield curve fitting;
* Proxy hedging, and hedging international securities and energy futures portfolios;
* Pricing models for European exotics, including barriers, Asians, look-backs, choosers, capped, contingent, power, quanto, compo, exchange, ‘best-of’ and spread options;
* Libor model calibration;
* Dynamic models for implied volatility based on principal component analysis;
* Calibration of stochastic volatility models (Matlab code);
* Simulations from stochastic volatility and jump models;
* Duration, PV01 and volatility invariant cash flow mappings;
* Delta-gamma-theta-vega mappings for options portfolios;
* Volatility beta mapping to volatility indices.

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Market Risk Analysis: Practical Financial Econometrics , Volume 2

By Carol Alexander
Publisher: Wiley, Pages: 426, Date: 2008-06-10

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470998016
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Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, Practical Financial Econometrics forms part two of the Market Risk Analysis four volume set. It introduces the econometric techniques that are commonly applied to finance with a critical and selective exposition, emphasising the areas of econometrics, such as GARCH, cointegration and copulas that are required for resolving problems in market risk analysis. The book covers material for a one-semester graduate course in applied financial econometrics in a very pedagogical fashion as each time a concept is introduced an empirical example is given, and whenever possible this is illustrated with an Excel spreadsheet.

All together, the Market Risk Analysis four volume set illustrates virtually every concept or formula with a practical, numerical example or a longer, empirical case study. Across all four volumes there are approximately 300 numerical and empirical examples, 400 graphs and figures and 30 case studies many of which are contained in interactive Excel spreadsheets available from the the accompanying CD-ROM .

Empirical examples and case studies specific to this volume include:
*Factor analysis with orthogonal regressions and using principal component factors;
*Estimation of symmetric and asymmetric, normal and Student t GARCH and E-GARCH parameters;
*Normal, Student t, Gumbel, Clayton, normal mixture copula densities, and simulations from these copulas with application to VaR and portfolio optimization;
*Principal component analysis of yield curves with applications to portfolio immunization and asset/liability management;
*Simulation of normal mixture and Markov switching GARCH returns;
*Cointegration based index tracking and pairs trading, with error correction and impulse response modelling;
*Markov switching regression models (Eviews code);
*GARCH term structure forecasting with volatility targeting;
*Non-linear quantile regressions with applications to hedging.

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Market Risk Analysis: Quantitative Methods in Finance Volume 1

By Carol Alexander, Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 320, Date: 2008-06-10

ISBN-10 : 0470998008

Description:
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, Quantitative Methods in Finance forms part one of the Market Risk Analysis four volume set. Starting from the basics, this book helps readers to take the first step towards becoming a properly qualified financial risk manager and asset manager, roles that are currently in huge demand.

Accessible to intelligent readers with a moderate understanding of mathematics at high school level or to anyone with a university degree in mathematics, physics or engineering, no prior knowledge of finance is necessary. Instead the emphasis is on understanding ideas rather than on mathematical rigour, meaning that this book offers a fast-track introduction to financial analysis for readers with some quantitative background, highlighting those areas of mathematics that are particularly relevant to solving problems in financial risk management and asset management. Unique to this book is a focus on both continuous and discrete time finance so that Quantitative Methods in Finance is not only about the application of mathematics to finance; it also explains, in very pedagogical terms, how the continuous time and discrete time finance disciplines meet, providing a comprehensive, highly accessible guide which will provide readers with the tools to start applying their knowledge immediately.

All together, the Market Risk Analysis four volume set illustrates virtually every concept or formula with a practical, numerical example or a longer, empirical case study. Across all four volumes there are approximately 300 numerical and empirical examples, 400 graphs and figures and 30 case studies many of which are contained in interactive Excel spreadsheets available from the accompanying CD-ROM . Empirical examples and case studies specific to this volume include:
Principal component analysis of European equity indices;

*Calibration of Student t distribution by maximum likelihood;
*Orthogonal regression and estimation of equity factor models;
*Simulations of geometric Brownian motion, and of correlated Student t variables;
*Pricing European and American options with binomial trees, and European options with the Black-Scholes-Merton formula;
*Cubic spline fitting of yields curves and implied volatilities;
*Solution of Markowitz problem with no short sales and other constraints;
*Calculation of risk adjusted performance metrics including generalised Sharpe ratio, omega and kappa indices.


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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, Second Edition

By Simon Collison, Cameron Moll, Andy Budd
Publisher: friends of ED

Pages: 300, Date: 2009-10-29
ISBN-10 : 1430223979, RAR-ed PDF 9.13 MB

Description:
The Internet abounds with information on CSS based design. However it's spread across a large and disparate group of sites and can be very difficult to find. The purpose of this book is to pull all this information together in one place, thus creating a definitive guide to modern CSS based techniques. The book can be read cover to cover, with each chapter building on the previous one. However it can equally be used as a reference book, dipping into each chapter or technique to help solve specific problems.

This second edition contains:
* New examples and updated browser support information
* New case studies from Simon Collison and Cameron Moll
* CSS3 examples, showing new CSS3 features, and CSS3 equivalents to tried and tested CSS2 techniques

What you'll learn
* The best practice concepts in CSS design.
* The most important (and tricky) parts of CSS
* Identify and fix the most common CSS problems
* How to deal with the most common bugs
* Completely up to date browser support information
* Covers CSS3 as well as CSS2 showing you the future of CSS

Who is this book for?
This book will be aimed towards intermediate web designers/developers although the examples should be simple enough for novice designers/developers with a basic understanding of CSS to follow along with. Readers will probably have read beginner/intermediate instructional books such as Web Standards Solutions and will be looking for more practical and in-depth information. This book is likely to have a broad appeal, attracting intermediate developers wanting to improve their skills as well as advanced developers wanting a useful reference.

The CSS 2/3 content of the book is delivered in a way that allows readers to learn CSS2 techniques that they can implement now in professional work, and then gem up on CSS3 techniques if desired, if they want to start looking towards the future.

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Glencoe Physical Science with Earth Science, Student Edition By Glencoe McGraw-Hill

By Glencoe McGraw-Hill
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Pages: 960, Date: 2008-04-16

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0078802482, RAR'd vector PDF, 82MB

Description:
Give every student a deeper understanding of physical science!
Glencoe Physical Science with Earth Science provides students with accurate and comprehensive content coverage of physical science integrated with Earth science. This highly engaging program brings together physics, chemistry, Earth science, space science, and mathematics.

This course, together with a biology course, prepares students for many state/district graduation exams administered at 10th grade.

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PDF For Experiment Central, 2nd edition

By M. Rae Nelson, Publisher: UXL
Pages: 1430, Date: 2010-06-25

ISBN-10 : 1414476132, PDF 21.8 mb rar

Experiment Central: Understanding Scientific Principles Through Projects provides in one resource a wide variety of science experiments covering nine key science curriculum fields—astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, food science, geology, meteorology, and physics—spanning the earth sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences.

Experiment Central, 2nd edition combines, expands, and updates the
original four-volume and two-volume UXL sets. This new edition includes 20 new chapters, 60 new experiments, and more than 35 enhanced experiments. Each chapter explores a scientific subject and offers experiments or projects that utilize or reinforce the topic studied.

Chapters are alphabetically arranged according to scientific concept, including: Air and Water Pollution, Color, Eclipses, Forensic Science, Genetics, Magnetism, Mountains, Periodic Table, Renewable Energy, Storms and Water Cycle. Two to three experiments or projects are included in each chapter

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Mel Bay Guitar Setup, Maintenance &a Repair

By John LeVan
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Pages: 152, Date: 2006-01-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0786639040

Description:
This guide will use photographs, diagrams and sketches made by the author and some provided by various manufacturers to teach how to clean, condition, adjust the action and properly intonate your acoustic guitar, as well as: John's trade secrets on hand-carving bone nuts and bridge saddles, wiring and fretwork.

John has also included a chapter on identifying and diagnosing problem guitars. It even includes a forward written by Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars. This book is perfect to teach a beginner or a reference for the guitar repair professional.

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A Pianist's Dictionary: Reflections on a Life

By Alan Hersh, Publisher: Hamilton Books
Pages: 99, Date: 2010-01-15

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 076184838X

Description:
This book explores the world of the classical pianist and piano professor, deconstructing many familiar words that describe this environment. Based upon the author's experience as a concert artist and college professor, this book resonates with both past and current students of the piano as well as music lovers.

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The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods

(Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management)

By Dennis M. Buede
Publisher: Wiley, Pages: 516, Date: 2009-02-03

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470164026, 4.08 MB PDF in RAR

Description:
The Engineering Design of Systems compiles a wealth of information from diverse sources, providing a unique, one-stop reference of current methods and models for systems engineering. This updated edition features important new information on Systems Modeling Language (SysML), more descriptive material on usage scenarios based on literature from use case development, updated homework assignments, and use of the software product CORE to generate the SysML figures.

This book serves as an excellent introductory reference suitable for students and professionals alike.

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Quantitative Drug Design: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition

By Yvonne C. Martin
Publisher: CRC Press, Pages: 292, Date: 2010-05-06

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1420070991, PDF, 8 MB

Description:
Since the publication of the first edition, the field has changed dramatically. Scientists can now explicitly consider 3D features in quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies and often have the 3D structure of the macromolecular target to guide the 3D QSAR. Improvements in computer hardware and software have also made the methods more accessible to scientists. Taking these developments into account, Quantitative Drug Design: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition shows scientists how to apply QSAR techniques at a state-of-the-art level.

New to the Second Edition

A new chapter on methods that identify the 3D conformations to use for 3D QSAR New discussions on partial least squares, multidimensional scaling, clustering, support vector machines, kNN potency prediction, and recursive partitioning Expanded case studies that include the results of data that has been re-analyzed using newer methods A new case study on the discovery of novel dopaminergics with pharmacophore mapping and CoMFA A new case study on the application of CoMFA to series in which the 3D structure of the ligand-protein complex is known

Based on the author’s four decades of experience in all areas of ligand-based computer-assisted drug design, this invaluable book describes how to transform ligand structure-activity relationships into models that predict the potency or activity/inactivity of new molecules. It will help you avoid traps when dealing with quantitative drug design.


Features

* Presents computational techniques that analyze the relationships between molecular structure and biological activity, emphasizing methods that provide a quantitative forecast of biological potency
* Discusses the physical chemistry of ligand-macromolecule interactions and the computer programs that translate a molecule’s potential to participate in these interactions into interpretable quantitative descriptors
* Covers the fundamentals of multivariate statistics and validation procedures needed to support a valid structure-activity model
* Provides detailed examples of the author’s past predictions that offer insight into the strengths and pitfalls of various approaches

Summary
Since the publication of the first edition, the field has changed dramatically. Scientists can now explicitly consider 3D features in quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies and often have the 3D structure of the macromolecular target to guide the 3D QSAR. Improvements in computer hardware and software have also made the methods more accessible to scientists. Taking these developments into account, Quantitative Drug Design: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition shows scientists how to apply QSAR techniques at a state-of-the-art level.

New to the Second Edition

A new chapter on methods that identify the 3D conformations to use for 3D QSAR New discussions on partial least squares, multidimensional scaling, clustering, support vector machines, kNN potency prediction, and recursive partitioning Expanded case studies that include the results of data that has been re-analyzed using newer methods A new case study on the discovery of novel dopaminergics with pharmacophore mapping and CoMFA A new case study on the application of CoMFA to series in which the 3D structure of the ligand-protein complex is known

Based on the author’s four decades of experience in all areas of ligand-based computer-assisted drug design, this invaluable book describes how to transform ligand structure-activity relationships into models that predict the potency or activity/inactivity of new molecules. It will help you avoid traps when dealing with quantitative drug design.

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Complete Business Statistics with Student CD, seven edition

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 7 edition
Date : February 8, 2008, 804 pages

Language: English, ISBN-10: 0077239695
File PDF Size 10 Mb

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Statistical integrity with a complete Excel solution.
The seventh edition retains its global emphasis, maintaining its position of being at the vanguard of international issues in business.




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Strategy Making in a Crisis: From Analysis to Imagination

By Michael Gibbert
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub Pages: 232, Date: 2010-05

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1848442408, PDF 1.09 MB


`Michael Gibbert presents a thoughtful theoretical framework allowing readers to critically think about imaginations related to strategy making. His research is based on a highly complex case and diversified context allowing us to understand the use of different theories in an integrated way.'
- Gilbert Probst, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

`Putting imagination center stage in strategy making is a long overdue perspective, one that can renew the field. Michael Gibbert makes an important contribution through this integrative framing.'
- Yves Doz, INSEAD, France

`If you can't imagine the future of your company, how are you supposed to shape it? This book helps appreciate and execute imaginative strategy making.'
- Martin Hoegl, WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, Germany

Which strategy making approach works best in a crisis? In current literature, the recommendations oscillate between prediction, control, and practice, but this unique book focuses specifically on strategy making in a crisis. In a crisis, the business landscape is neither stable nor predictable, resources are scarce rather than abundant, customers disappear and shareholders revolt, all of which can make prediction and control very difficult. Drawing on evidence from philosophy, and on a multi-year case study of a major multinational, Michael Gibbert points to three different kinds of imaginations and proposes a three-step model for imaginative strategy making.Introducing new topics on this subject, Strategy Making in a Crisis will strongly appeal to top-level managers, including corporate development departments, and business-unit level strategy. Postgraduate students will also receive ideas for their own theses, not only from the content, but also from the approach - which is deductive and integrates management theories using social science literature - and methodology.

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Real Analysis Fourth Edition

By Halsey Royden, Patrick Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Pages: 544, Date: 2010-01-15

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 013143747X
zipped ocr'ed pdf size 6.910 MB

Description:
Real Analysis, Fourth Edition, covers the basic material that every reader should know in the classical theory of functions of a real variable, measure and integration theory, and some of the more important and elementary topics in general topology and normed linear space theory.

This text assumes a general background in mathematics and familiarity with the fundamental concepts of analysis.

Classical theory of functions, including the classical Banach spaces; General topology and the theory of general Banach spaces; Abstract treatment of measure and integration. For all readers interested in real analysis.

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Probability, Statistics, and Queuing Theory with Computer Science Applications, Second Edition

By Arnold O. Allen, Publisher: Academic Press
Pages: 768, Date: 1990-09-11

ISBN-10 : 0120510510
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This is a textbook on applied probability and statistics with computer science applications for students at the upper undergraduate level. It may also be used as a self study book for the practicing computer science professional.

The successful first edition of this book proved extremely useful to students who need to use probability, statistics and queueing theory to solve problems in other fields, such as engineering, physics, operations research, and management science.

The book has also been successfully used for courses in queueing theory for operations research students. This second edition includes a new chapter on regression as well as more than twice as many exercises at the end of each chapter.

While the emphasis is the same as in the first edition, this new book makes more extensive use of available personal computer software, such as Minitab and Mathematica.

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Engineering Physiology: Bases of Human Factors Engineering

By Karl H. E. Kroemer, Hiltrud J. Kroemer, Katrin E. Kroemer-Elbert
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 350, Date: 2010-09-17

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3642128823, PDF 8.9 mb

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This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

The book explains energy extraction from food and drink, what efforts the body is capable of, and how our efforts depend on the coordination among the respiratory, circulatory, and metabolic systems.

This text shows how the body monitors itself, how it reacts to work loads and the environment such as heat or cold, humidity and wind. The book also explains how to measure a person’s ability to work at high efficiency: by observation of breathing rate, heart beat frequency, oxygen consumption, and by careful evaluation of subjective judgements.

The text discusses, in practical terms, effects of environmental conditions and how shift work arrangements during day, evening, and night affect task performance.

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The AMA Handbook of Business Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Style, Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, Construction, and Formatting

By Kevin Wilson, Jennifer Wauson
Publisher: AMACOM Pages: 637, Date: 2010-08-04

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 081441589X

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Just because you're not a born writer doesn't mean you should settle for less than perfect business documents. After all, every piece you write reflects directly on the quality of the product or service your business offers. Now, this helpful guide takes the guesswork out of more than 50 commonly used business documents, including: Reports Proposals; Business plans; Presentations; Press releases; Memos; Email Newsletters; Collection letters; and, Sales materials. Arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced for easier use, the book presents clear examples of how to (and how not to) create winning materials every time. The authors' step-by-step instructions begin with an overview of the writing process, from preparation and research right through to final review and publication. Sample documents show you how your pieces should look and read, and close to 300 individual entries cover key points of grammar, style and spelling, and present strategies for writing more clearly, avoiding bias, eliminating cliches, and much more.

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eBooks For The AMA Handbook of Public Relations

By Robert L. Dilenschneider
Publisher: AMACOM, Pages: 256, Date: 2010-02-17

ISBN-10 : 0814415253, Rar'd PDF 582 KB's Full

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Public relations was among the first industries to harness the power of the Internet.
But along with business and the rest of the world, PR has changed in the digital age.
"The AMA Handbook of Public Relations" is written to help PR professionals merge their traditional and Web-based campaigns into a powerful multi-faceted public image machine while protecting their clients and themselves from negative attention and cyber-sabotage.

Readers will learn how to work with trade and consumer media, leverage technology including blogs, podcasts and social networking sites, monitor the Web, manage rumors and crises and quantify online PR efforts and the results they create.

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The AMA Guide to Management Development

By Daniel R. Tobin Ph.D., Margaret Pettingell
Publisher: AMACOM, Pages: 336, Date: 2008-05-27

ISBN-10 : 0814408990, 1012.79 KB rared pdf

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Based on the set of managerial competencies specially developed by the American Management Association for a new core management curriculum, The AMA Guide to Management Development provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how to continually develop managers throughout their entire organization. The book considers every factor important in management development, and features in-depth information on topics including:
* The five major categories of competencies, including business knowledge and the ability to lead and manage change and innovation
* The specific skills needed, including communication skills and people management skills
* Alternative methods organizations may use to develop managers, including different types of training and evaluation of learning effectiveness
Management development is a crucial task for every enterprise.
This book gives readers the guidance they need to make sure that both current and future managers have the abilities their organizations need to prosper.

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Quantum Mechanics for Nanostructures | Cambridge

By Vladimir V. Mitin, Dmitry I. Sementsov, Nizami Z. Vagidov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pages: 448, Date: 2010-07-31
ISBN-10 : 0521763665, PDF 4 MB's Full

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The properties of new nanoscale materials, their fabrication and applications, as well as the operational principles of nanodevices and systems, are solely determined by quantum-mechanical laws and principles. This textbook introduces engineers to quantum mechanics and the world of nanostructures, enabling them to apply the theories to numerous nanostructure problems.
The textbook covers the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, including uncertainty relations, the Schrödinger equation, perturbation theory, and tunneling. These are then applied to a quantum dot, the smallest artificial atom, and compared to hydrogen, the smallest atom in nature. Nanoscale objects with higher dimensionality, such as quantum wires and quantum wells, are introduced, as well as nanoscale materials and nanodevices. Numerous examples throughout the text help students to understand the material.

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Genetics For Dummies

By Tara Rodden Robinson
Publisher: For Dummies, Pages: 384, Date: 2010-05-03

ISBN-10 : 0470551747, PDF | 5 MB

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A plain-English guide to genetics, Want to know more about genetics? This non-intimidating guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals and the most recent discoveries. Now with 25% new and revised material, Genetics For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you clear and accessible coverage of this rapidly advancing field.

From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double-helix, you get clear explanations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you'll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes . . . and even clone cats.
* Covers topics in a straightforward and effective manner
* Includes coverage of stem cell research, molecular genetics, behavioral genetics, genetic engineering, and more
* Explores ethical issues as they pertain to the study of genetics

Whether you?re currently enrolled in a genetics course or are just looking for a refresher, Genetics For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides science lovers of all skill levels with easy-to-follow information on this fascinating subject.

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English for the Automobile Industry By Marie Kavanagh

By Marie Kavanagh
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pages: 80, Date: 2007-05-03 ISBN-10 : 019457900X

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Student's Book with MultiROM
English for the Automobile Industry is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs English to communicate with colleagues, customers and business partners in the automotive industry. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own, as a stand-alone intensive specialist course of for self-study.

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Key Features of the Book
* A broad range of material targeting various areas of the automotive
industry
* Boxes of important functional language
* Motivating role-plays for pairwork speaking tasks
* STARTER section at the beginning of each unit with warm-up and awareness-raising activities
* OUTPUT section at the end of each unit with activities to encourage discussion and reflection
* Appendix with answer key, transcript and a section of useful phrases and vocabulary

Key Features of the MultiROM
* Realistic listening extracts
* Interactive exercises to practise useful phrases, vocabulary and communication
* A-Z word list

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Objective CAE Teacher's Book

By Felicity O'Dell, Annie Broadhead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pages: 190, Date: 2002-06-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521799902

Description:
This course contains thirty short units which take a fresh approach to a wide variety of topics, and examine related genres useful for the exam.

Authentic language examples illustrate a wide range of real English usage and a ?Grammar folder? appendix provides further examples and explanations.

The course is written by experienced examiners who have an in-depth knowledge of the CAE exam, and contains material informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus which highlights typical mistakes made by CAE candidates.

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CAE Listening and Speaking Skills Student's book

By Diana Pye, Simon Greenall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pages: 136, Date: 1997-01-28, ISBN-10 : 0521485339

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Cambridge CAE Skills offer a bridge between communicative methodology and the needs of the exam class. Designed to prepare students for the various CAE papers, these books also consider the four skills in their wider application through the use of exciting topics and enjoyable communicative activities. The skills relevant to Papers 4 and 5 are covered in this single book.

Each unit is divided into two sections, one dealing with listening and the other with speaking, linked to a common topic. Topics are innovative and unusual, offering students a genuine stimulus for speaking activities. Exam Tips boxes give students detailed advice about what to expect during each of the CAE papers, and the book offers plenty of opportunity to practise the type of activities that will be encountered during the paired interview.
The cassettes feature authentic recordings from diverse sources.

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The Reversal | EPUB FIle

By Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Pages: 400, Date: 2010-10-05
ISBN-10 : 0316069485, epub | 401 KB

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Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.

Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.

With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.


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At Home: A Short History of Private Life, By Bill Bryson

By Bill Bryson, Publisher: Doubleday
Pages: 544, Date: 2010-05-27

ISBN-10 : 0385619170, RAR-ed PDF 2.1 MB

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From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.

“Houses aren’t refuges from history
. They are where history ends up.”

Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has fig­ured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.

Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposi­tion imaginable. His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.

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Audiobooks For Rework

By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (March 9, 2010)

ISBN: 0307704513,

Seth Godin is the author of Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, Purple Cow, All Marketers Are Liars, and Permission Marketing, as well as other international bestsellers. He is consistently one of the 25 most widely read bloggers in the English language. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Rework:
This book will make you uncomfortable. Depending on what you do all day, it might make you extremely uncomfortable.

That's a very good thing, because you deserve it. We all do.
Jason and David have broken all the rules and won. Again and again they've demonstrated that the regular way isn't necessarily the right way. They just don't say it, they do it. And they do it better than just about anyone has any right to expect.
This book is short, fast, sharp and ready to make a difference. It takes no prisoners, spares no quarter, and gives you no place to hide, all at the same time.
There, my review is almost as long as the first chapter of the book. I can't imagine what possible excuse you can dream up for not buying this book for every single person you work with, right now.
Stop reading the review. Buy the book.--Seth Godin
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Jason Fried and David Hansson follow their own advice in REWORK, laying bare the surprising philosophies at the core of 37signals' success and inspiring us to put them into practice. There's no jargon or filler here just hundreds of brilliantly simple rules for success. Part entrepreneurial handbook for the twenty-first century, part manifesto for anyone wondering how work really works in the modern age, REWORK is required reading for anyone tired of business platitudes."
--Chris Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of THE LONG TAIL and FREE

"House-husband, housewife, Fortune 500 CEO, cab driver, restaurateur, venture capitalist -- this is 'the book for you,' a book of true wisdom, business wisdom, life wisdom. The clarity, even genius, of this book actually brought me to near-tears on several occasions. Just bloody brilliant, that's what!"
--Tom Peters, New York Times bestselling author of IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE, THRIVING ON CHAOS and LEADERSHIP
"If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. This is a must read for every entrepreneur."
--Mark Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and Broadcast.com and owner of the Dallas Mavericks
"Inspirational...REWORK is a minimalist manifesto that's profoundly practical. In a world where we all keep getting asked to do more with less, the authors show us how to do less and create more."
--Scott Rosenberg, Co-Founder of Salon.com and author of DREAMING IN CODE and SAY EVERYTHING
"The brilliance of REWORK is that it inspires you to rethink everything you thought you knew about strategy, customers, and getting things done. Read this provocative and instructive book—and then get busy reimagining what it means to lead, compete, and succeed."
--William C. Taylor, Founding Editor of Fast Company and coauthor of MAVERICKS AT WORK

"...a Webby manifesto for post-recession success."--Newsweek

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PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition

Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam
By Rita Mulcahy, PMP,Publisher: RMC Publications, Inc.

Pages: 544, Date: 2009-04-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1932735186, (OCRed) Optimized PDF file Size: 60.5 MB

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Can you imagine valuing a book so much that you send the author a Thank You letter?
Hundreds of thousands of project managers understand why PMP Exam Prep by Rita Mulcahy, PMP, is a worldwide best-seller. Is it Rita's years of PMP exam preparation experience?

The endless hours of ongoing research?

The interviews with project managers who failed the exam, to identify gaps in their knowledge?

Or is it the razor-sharp focus on making sure project managers don't waste a single minute of their time studying any more than they absolutely have to? Actually, it's all of the above.

PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition by Rita Mulcahy contains hundreds of updates and improvements from previous editions--including new exercises and sample questions never before in print.

Offering hundreds of sample questions, critical time-saving tips plus games and activities available nowhere else, this book will help you pass the PMP exam on your FIRST try.

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

By Steve Krug, Publisher: New Riders Press
Pages: 216, Date: 2005-08-28

ISBN-10 : 0321344758, tar.bz2 > pdf  | 3.1 MB

Description:
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike.

Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.
Three New Chapters!
* Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites
* Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible
* Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims

"I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.

In this second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards

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Cardiology Essentials in Clinical Practice

By Gabriel A. Adelmann
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 690, Date: 2010-10-29

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1849963045

Description:
This is a general cardiology handbook that addresses the entire cardiological pathology. The information is in a Q&A format and accompanies the reader through each significant condition, from incidence and severity, to mechanisms, clinical and lab diagnosis, and up to treatment and prognosis.

The chapters have an uniform structure fostering a methodical approach to heart disease. The level is intermediate, with an accent on clinical practice.

At the same time, an excellent tool for preparing for exams, as i) disease mechanisms are systematically discussed; ii) guidelines are explained and summarized; iii) novel resarch directions are explained.  

 The book provides conciseness, completeness, and updatedness, while offers: for residents, familiarization with the discipline of cardiology; for cardiology fellows, the book will be a friendly companion for practice and Boards study; for primary care physicians, the book represents an update to their knowledge; while for clinical cardiologists, the book represents a companion reference.

About this book
Being a cardiology fellow is one of the most daunting commitments one can make as a physician. The stressful and intensive work schedule is followed by long hours of study in an ever-expanding field, making it occasionally challenging to master both classical teachings and cutting-edge developments. Graphically memorable tables and schematics are one of the most useful tools for making sense of the profusion of guidelines, textbooks, and medical papers. The Cardiology Essentials in Clinical Practice provides these tools to those learning the practicalities of cardiology, whether as residents, fellows, or internists. In conjunction with the concisely conceived text, the tables and figures provide a comprehensive clinical picture of each condition, while reviewing key specific details. The text and tables have been grounded in the existing practice guidelines, while incorporating the results of the latest clinical trials. Key trials and resources have been outlined in the text and bibliography to facilitate follow-up on the issues of interest, making this manual an invaluable tool in the quest for a wide-ranging, yet precise knowledge of cardiology.

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Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

By Armin Wachter, Publisher: Springer
Pages: 400, Date: 2010-12-17, ISBN-10 : 904813644X

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Which problems do arise within relativistic enhancements of the Schrödinger theory, especially if one adheres to the usual one-particle interpretation? * To what extent can these problems be overcome? * What is the physical necessity of quantum field theories? In many textbooks, only insufficient answers to these fundamental questions are provided by treating the relativistic quantum mechanical one-particle concept very superficially and instead introducing field quantization as soon as possible. By contrast, this book emphasizes particularly this point of view (relativistic quantum mechanics in the ''narrow sense''): it extensively discusses the relativistic one-particle view and reveals its problems and limitations, therefore illustrating the necessity of quantized fields in a physically comprehensible way. The first two chapters contain a detailed presentation and comparison of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac theory, always with a view to the non-relativistic theory. In the third chapter, we consider relativistic scattering processes and develop the Feynman rules from propagator techniques. This is where the indispensability of quantum field theory reasoning becomes apparent and basic quantum field theory concepts are introduced. This textbook addresses undergraduate and graduate Physics students who are interested in a clearly arranged and structured presentation of relativistic quantum mechanics in the "narrow sense" and its connection to quantum field theories. Each section contains a short summary and exercises with solutions. A mathematical appendix rounds out this excellent textbook on relativistic quantum mechanics.

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