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Pocket Guide to Herbal Medicine

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2004

The use of medicinal plants to treat everyday complaints and illnesses is becoming ever more popular. This pocket guide is aimed not only at doctors and members of the various healing professions interested in phytotherapy, but also in particular at interested lay people, for whom this book is intended as a...

50 Battles That Changed the World

Career Press, 2001

Any attempt to list the 50 most important battles in all history is necessarily subjective. To list them in order of importance is an even greater exercise of chutzpah. Nevertheless, people have been listing decisive battles since Sir Edward Creasy, a lawyer who taught history, a century-and-a-half ago. Other compilers include...

The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business (Completely Revised and Updated)

Three Rivers Press, 2000

It doesn't matter how old you are or where you're from; you can start a profitable business. The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business will show you how. This completely updated edition is filled with real, inspirational stories of young people finding success in the business world -- from superstars...

Creating Database-Backed Library Web Pages: Using Open Source Tools

American Library Association, 2006

Database-backed Web pages provide many advantages for libraries: users get accurate and up-to-date information in real time, and site maintenance and data publishing are much easier. As appealing an idea as database-backed pages are, the “how-tos” of creating them remain a mystery to many librarians.

This hands-on...

Jump Start CoffeeScript

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2012

CoffeeScript is “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.”1 It aims to smooth over some of JavaScript’s rougher edges while highlighting and augmenting the impressive flexibility at the core of the JavaScript language. It’s clean, concise, and maintainable, and makes writing client-side code really, really...

The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type (2nd Edition)

Adobe Press, 2011

Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleties of this layout would be lost when converted to ePub, so we have chosen to offer this ebook only in PDF format, which keeps the page...

IMS Application Developer's Handbook: Creating and Deploying Innovative IMS Applications

Academic Press, 2011

Many books have been written about IMS, so why do we think another is needed? Most of the existing books are written from the perspective of those who implement the technology, either network vendors or operators. There is no such focus for developers. The standards that form the basis of IMS are complex – as they are...

Differential Equations Workbook For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

Too often, differential equations seem like torture. They seem so bad in fact that you may be tempted to cringe or shudder when you’re assigned homework that involves ’em. Differential Equations Workbook For Dummies may not get you to embrace differential equations with open arms, but it will improve your understanding...

The PowerPoint Detox: Reinvent Your Slides and Add Power to Your Presentation

Kogan Page, 2009

Presentations matter. There can be a great deal hanging on them and rarely, if one fails to work, do you get a second chance. A poor presentation can blight a plan, a proposal, a reputation – even a career. But making a good one is not easy, as a quotation from Sir George Jessel makes clear: ‘The...

Chemical testing of textiles (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

Woodhead Publishing, 2005

It has long been my desire to contribute to a textbook that is solely devoted to the chemical analysis of textiles. Thus, when Woodhead Publishing contacted me about editing this book, I enthusiastically accepted the offer. Now, with the hard work of a team of contributors who are professors, material researchers and textile analysts from...

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: Introductory (Shelly Cashman)

Course Technology PTR, 2010

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the fi nest textbooks in computer education. We are proud of the fact that our previous Dreamweaver books have been so well received. With each new edition of our Dreamweaver books, we make signifi cant improvements based on the software and comments made by instructors and students. For this...

96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire

AMACOM, 2008

Once upon a time, there was a general manager in a downtown high-rise who had the final say over all new hires at her location. Although she realized how critical it was to identify and hire the best and the brightest talent for her firm, she really didn’t like interviewing all that much. First, she felt fairly...

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