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The Encyclopedia of World Religions (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology)

Facts on File, 2007

Gratifi ed by the response to the initial publication of The Encyclopedia of World Religions, the editors have prepared a revised and much enhanced edition of this work. The new edition contains 100 new articles on as many fresh topics, from ACTS OF THE APOSTLES to VIETNAMESE RELIGIONS. Numerous suggestions for further reading have been added...

Frommer's Portugal (Frommer's Complete)

Frommers, 2010

Centuries ago, Portugal was a pioneer of worldwide exploration. Until recently, however, it was never as successful in attracting visitors to its own shores. Outside of greater Lisbon, the Algarve, and the island of Madeira, Portugal remained unknown and undiscovered by the mainstream visitor for many decades.

Today’s...

The Basics of Information Security: Understanding the Fundamentals of InfoSec in Theory and Practice

Syngress Publishing, 2011

Boring, boring, boring. Isn’t this what immediately comes to mind when one sees books on foundational concepts of information security? Monotonous coverage of theory, dry details of history, brief yet inadequate coverage of every topic known to man, even though you know that you’ll never be hired by the NSA as a...

The Black Death (Great Historic Disasters)

Chelsea House Publications, 2008

In 1346, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Generally believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the length and breadth of Europe from Sicily to Norway, from Ireland to Russia, for five terrible years. Scholars can...

Fundamentals of the Fuzzy Logic-Based Generalized Theory of Decisions (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

Springer, 2013

Every day decision making and decision making in complex human-centric systems are characterized by imperfect decision-relevant information. Main drawback of the existing decision theories is namely incapability to deal with imperfect information and modeling vague preferences. Actually, a paradigm of non-numerical probabilities in decision...

Ext JS Data-driven Application Design (Community Experience Distilled)

Packt Publishing, 2013

Learn how to build a user-friendly database in Ext JS using data from an existing database with this step-by-step tutorial. Takes you from first principles right through to implementation.

Overview

Discover how to layout the application structure with MVC and Sencha Cmd

Learn to use Ext...

Handbook of Herbs and Spices: Volume 2

CRC Press, 2004

Herbs and spices are among the most versatile and widely used ingredients in food processing. As well as their traditional role in flavouring and colouring foods, they have increasingly been used as natural preservatives and for their potential health-promoting properties. The Handbook of Herbs and Spices Volume 2 provides an essential...

The Early Pioneers of Steam: The Inspiration Behind George Stephenson

The History Press, 2020

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototypes of the modern systems. But who were the railways' grandfathers and great grandfathers? For the rapid evolution of the railways after 1830 depended to a considerable degree upon the...

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 1999

Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the
Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation
all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is a big
language, and not all of it is equally important. The award-winning first edition of
UML Distilled...

The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain Modeling

MIT Press, 2002

The Neural Simulation Language (NSL), developed by Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Michael Arbib, and Amanda Alexander, provides a simulation environment for modular brain modeling. NSL is an object-oriented language offering object-oriented protocols applicable to all levels of neural simulation. One of NSL's main strengths is that it allows for realistic...

E: The Story of a Number

Princeton Press, 1994

Maor attempts to give the irrational number e its rightful standing alongside pi as a fundamental constant in science and nature; he succeeds very well.... Maor writes so that both mathematical newcomers and long-time professionals alike can thoroughly enjoy his book, learn something new, and witness the ubiquity of mathematical ideas in...

An Introduction to 3D Computer Vision Techniques and Algorithms

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Computer vision encompasses the construction of integrated vision systems and the application of vision to problems of real-world importance. The process of creating 3D models is still rather difficult, requiring mechanical measurement of the camera positions or manual alignment of partial 3D views of a scene. However using algorithms, it is...

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