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Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers

CRC Press, 2008

Written by renowned experts Bob Keppel and William Birnes, this book focuses on analyzing crimes of violence to unveil common characteristics that might prove useful in the successful identification, apprehension, and conviction of murderers. It details the historical origins of modus operandi as an investigative tool and discusses modern...

MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)

O'Reilly, 2008

"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a...

Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory and Applications (Neural Information Processing)

MIT Press, 2005

The process of inductive inference—to infer general laws and principles from particular instances—is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The Minimum Descriptive Length (MDL) principle, a powerful method of inductive inference, holds that the best explanation, given a limited set of observed...

MySpace For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2008

"I mentioned earlier the phenomenon that is Dummies and here is an example of just what it does best." (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)

MySpace has more than 100 million active users. For many of them, MySpace is their central hub for connecting and communicating. They come to meet new people, keep...

The Greatest Comets in History: Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars (Astronomers' Universe)

Springer, 2008

The Greatest Comets of History is unique. There are a few books on comets that make passing reference to some of the famous and spectacular objects of earlier years, and a few descriptive catalogues are available, but little detailed descriptive information is contained in either of these sources. This book fills the vacant niche that exists...

Blogging For Dummies, Second Edition (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2008

Everybody’s doing it! And while that logic never got far with your mother, it’s a fine reason to start blogging, especially if you have a business to build or a cause to promote. Well-run blogs do more than offer an outlet for your thoughts. They’ve actually influenced everything from a company’s image to the outcome of a...

Engineering and Social Justice (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology and Society)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

In recent years, some leaders in the engineering community in the United States and other countries have been seeking to cast engineering as a profession in service to humanity. This characterization is often propelled by “the problem” of an overall dearth of students entering engineering and a specific concern about underrepresentation...

Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics : Conformation and Dynamics of Biomolecules

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The first systematic summary of biophysical mass spectrometry techniques

Recent advances in mass spectrometry (MS) have pushed the frontiers of analytical chemistry into the biophysical laboratory. As a result, the biophysical community's acceptance of MS-based methods, used to study protein higher-order structure and dynamics,...

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences)

Springer, 2005

In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality?, Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction in this critical debate from a climatological perspective. Beginning with a review of the dire hypotheses for climate trends, the author describes the...

Programming the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture: Examples and Best Practices

Vervante, 2008

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we provide an introduction to the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.™ ) platform. We show detailed samples from real-world application development projects and provide tips and best practices for programming Cell/B.E. applications.

We also describe...

Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Fourth Edition

Academic Press, 2007

A compendium for all involved directly or indirectly in decision making about air pollution control-regulatory or engineering.

Fundamentals of Air Pollution is an important and widely used textbook in the environmental science and engineering community. Written shortly after the passage of the seminal Clean Air Act...

RIBA Book of British Housing, Second Edition: 1900 to the present day

Architectural Press, 2008

RIBA Book of British Housing Design looks at the design solutions developed during the 20th and the 21st centuries, and illustrates over 200 of the most successful projects. It provides an overview of the evolution of housing development, and includes present day schemes and estate regeneration as well as special sections on housing in Scotland and...

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