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What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

what is death?

A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the...

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)

Peachpit Press, 2012

Since Lightroom first launched, Scott Kelby’s The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers has been the world’s #1 best-selling Lightroom book (it has been translated into a dozen different languages), and in this latest version for Lightroom 4, Scott uses his same award-winning, step-by-step, plain-English...

C++ Cookbook

O'Reilly, 2005

Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information with amazing efficiency and quickness.

The C++ Cookbook will make your path...

Writing Effective Use Cases

Addison Wesley, 2000

Writing use cases as a means of capturing the behavioral requirements of software systems and business processes is a practice that is quickly gaining popularity. Use cases provide a beneficial means of project planning because they clearly show how people will ultimately use the system being designed. On the surface, use cases appear to be a...

Information Architecture with XML: A Management Strategy

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

In the ‘good old days’ before food labelling, sell-by dates and competitive brand promotion,
you placed yourself at the mercy of your local village store manager. After the
painful wait for the previous customer to bid his farewells and finally let attention turn
your way, you placed your trust in the nice old guy who...

Open Source Development with CVS

Paraglyph, 2003

The need for a modern source-code management strategy in the distributed open-source community is paramount. The benevolent dictatorship model of open-source maintainers is only quasi-stable, but it is far better than the other extreme: the chaos of democratic code development.

The best available compromise is the concurrent versioning system...

Designing Usable Electronic Text (Second Edition)

CRC Press, 2004

Designing Usable Electronic Text is without question an important resource to all professionals involved in the field of human-computer interaction and user interface designs.

- HCI International News, April 2005

[A]n engaging presentation of elements...

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2004

A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for professionals and novices, that can be used both as a tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical reference book to common problems, solutions and effects. The Question and Answer format makes it easy for readers to solve their problems and learn more about common pitfalls...

Network+ Certification Study Guide, Third Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2005

This book’s primary objective is to help you prepare for and pass the required Network+ exam so you can begin to reap the career benefi ts of certifi cation. We believe that the only way to do this is to help you increase your knowledge and build your skills. After completing this book, you should feel confi dent that you have thoroughly...

Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics
Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the...

The Ancient Sailing Season (Mnemosyne Supplements History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity) (Latin Edition)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2012

A comprehensive examination of the effects of the shifting seasons on maritime trade, warfare and piracy durig antiquity, this book overturns many long-held assumptions concerning the capabilities of Graeco-Roman ships and sailors.

It is the long-standing belief among classical scholars that seafaring on the ancient Mediterranean...

Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

Princeton Press, 2019

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder

After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that...

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