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Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Oxford University Press, 2008

"Six-Legged Soldiers is an excellent account of the affect arthropod-borne diseases have had on warfare...This book will inspire readers to understand...threats and prepare new methods to combat them."--Nature, November 2008

"Both science and military history buffs will learn much from Lockwood, a self-described skeptic...

An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

Springer, 2008

This self-contained introduction to modern cryptography emphasizes the mathematics behind the theory of public key cryptosystems and digital signature schemes. The book focuses on these key topics while developing the mathematical tools needed for the construction and security analysis of diverse cryptosystems. Only basic linear algebra is required...

On the Internet, Second Edition (Thinking in Action)

Routledge, 2008

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, "On the Internet" agues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. Dreyfus also shows how...

Eureka!: Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe

Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997

"... a concise, authoritative, well written review of physics, in all of its branches from Newton to Hawking ... has a truly excellent glossary ..." -- Australian & New Zealand Physicist

"... sets out the basic ideas of physics in a readable style which will commend itself to the general reader, high-school...

Expert Witnessing in Forensic Accounting: A Handbook for Lawyers and Accountants

CRC Press, 2002

The book provides well-reasoned advice to teach the ins and outs of expert witnessing that is specifically oriented toward accounting. …this is a highly recommended read.
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From opposing the local CPA to tackling the Big Five - Everything you need to know about accounting in the courtroomWith...

SAS 9.2 SQL Procedure User's Guide

SAS Institute, 2008

Describes the basics of using PROC SQL, including retrieving data from single and multiple tables; selecting specific data from tables; subsetting, ordering, and summarizing data; updating tables; combining tables to create new tables and useful reports; performing queries on database management system (DBMS) tables; using PROC SQL with the SAS...

Intelligent Networks: Principles and Applications (IEE Telecommunications Series, 46)

Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2002

The purpose of this book is to give some practical insight into how public telecommunications networks have advanced from the old days of offering just simple telephony services to becoming today’s ‘intelligent’ networks. Telephone companies now operate in an intensely competitive environment, and so they have to constantly...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money

Alpha, 1998

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money shows that any numbskull can master personal finance. In this second edition, a father-and-daughter writing team, Robert K. Heady and Christy Heady, give readers the best advice culled from their many years of experience in consumer rights and money management. The Headys believe that...

Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention

Springer, 2006

Injuries kill and maim millions each year, and seriously impact the lives of countless loved ones. Yet until recently they’ve been considered a random, normal part of life. Preventing injuries, on the other hand, requires not only effective communication with the public, but also a reliable framework for creating and evaluating suitable...

Sharing a Vision: Systems and Algorithms for Collaboratively-Teleoperated Robotic Cameras (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2009

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new...

Home Networking All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2008

If your household harbors more than one computer, you’ve probably wondered about home networking. Maybe you’ve gone so far as to start setting up a network and given up in frustration. Well, now you can relax. Home Networking All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies has come to the rescue!

A network will make your life...

Augmented Vision Perception in Infrared: Algorithms and Applied Systems (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

Springer, 2008

Spurred by security and safety challenges, research efforts in thermographic sensors have advanced greatly, resulting in better performance in remote surveillance, object recognition, guidance and so on.

This comprehensive survey provides a thorough account of the recent deployment of infrared sensors in modern applications of...

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