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 Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
This popular introductory linguistics text is unique in the way various themes are integrated throughout the book. One primary theme is the question, "How is a speaker's communicative intent recognized?" Rather than treat phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics as completely separate fields, the text... | | Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about the weakness of the story than the... | | Fundamental Models in Financial Theory
This book provides an innovative, integrated, and methodical approach to understanding complex financial models, integrating topics usually presented separately into a comprehensive whole. The book brings together financial models and high-level mathematics, reviewing the mathematical background necessary for understanding these models... |
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Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health
This inquisitive and highly useful book shows the hacker and maker communities how to bring science and software into their nutrition and fitness routines.
The digital age has made a big splash with new web-connected gear in the sports/fitness world. Fitness for Geeks covers many of these new self-tracking ... | | Linux Schnellkurs für Administratoren
Als Bill Lubanovic und ich gerade die letzten Änderungen an diesem Buch
vornahmen, belauschte ich in unserem Cisco-Labor ein Gespräch zwischen zwei
Arbeitskollegen, die sich gerade über Linux unterhielten. Der Senior-Netzwerkguru der
beiden ließ dabei eine interessante Bemerkung fallen. Er sagte, dass... | | The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Second Edition
Early in his rise to enlightenment, man invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct. He invented gambling.
Recent advances in the field, particularly... |
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Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words
Should you sweat the small stuff?
Absolutely, says Stephen Young-especially when it comes to those critical behaviors that can make or break performance. The reason is simple: no matter what you think you're saying, your words, gestures, and tone of voice can actually communicate something entirely different.
... | | Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control -- or foretell -- the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. The first law of human... | | The Discipline of Organizing
Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things--books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers--and digital things--Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create and browse Web sites, blog, tag, tweet, and upload and download content... |
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