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The Recording Engineer's Handbook

Course Technology PTR, 2009

Working as a recording engineer presents challenges from every direction of your project. From using microphones to deciding on EQ settings, choosing outboard gear to understanding how, when and why to process your signal, the seemingly never-ending choices can be very confusing. Professional Audio's bestselling author Bobby Owsinski (The Mixing...

Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices

Chicago Review Press, 2001

Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple-a match-powered rocket-to the more complex-a scale-model, table-top...

A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding

Code Break, 1997

Straight facts about riding! A Twist of the Wrist, the acknowledged number one book on rider improvement for ten years straight, brought riders worldwide to a new understanding of vital riding skills. Uncovers and traces, action by action, the direct links between man and machine.

The thrill of motorcycle racing tugs at the...

A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks & Other Indicators

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Are you looking for time-tested trading techniques that professional stock index and futures traders use?

Futures and options markets can be profitable arenas for both novice and experienced traders. But to come out on top, you must have a solid understanding of the markets, the technical tools used to trade them, and yourself.

After...

The Time Traveler's Wife (Today Show Book Club #15)

MacAdam, 2003

"Niffenegger has written a soaring love story."
-- starred, Publishers Weekly (Publisher's Weekly )

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into...

Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Life)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

As a techie, you're a special breed, with special challenges facing you in the job search. Your competition is smart, tech-savvy, and highly resourceful. Expectations among employers are higher. Your competition will run you over if you're not up to the challenge. Land the Tech Job You Love gives you the background, the skills, and the...

Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery

Princeton Press, 2009

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras'...

Portable DBA: Oracle

McGraw-Hill, 2004

This handy, affordable reference is ideal for on-the-job DBAs in need of quick access to administrative commands, error resolutions, and best practices. Covering the most commonly used Oracle database versions, the book contains invaluable tables so problems can be diagnosed quickly and includes examples and syntax diagrams for each command. ...

Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that drive results. It goes beyond prescribing typical best practices – instead focusing on what it really takes to implement performance management effectively....

Vietnam at War

Oxford University Press, 2009

For many Westerners, the Vietnam War summons images of American soldiers patrolling rice paddies, battling an elusive enemy as helicopters circle overhead. But there were, in fact, many Vietnam wars--an anti-colonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among southern...

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

Harper Perennial, 2009

Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance...

Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks from Start to Finish

Addison Wesley, 2009

The complete guide to today’s hard-to-defend chained attacks: performing them and preventing them

Nowadays, it’s rare for malicious hackers to rely on just one exploit or tool; instead, they use “chained” exploits that integrate multiple forms of attack to achieve...

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