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Brodeur: Beyond the Crease

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

THIS PREFACE IS BEING WRITTEN en route to London for my yearly pilgrimage to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for The Championships, otherwise known as Wimbledon. This trip has become an annual opportunity to reflect upon the latest season of hockey, the sport that usually commands the bulk of my professional...

Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

Springer, 2008

Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable. It has deep roots in...

Testing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Foods

CRC Press, 2004

Examine several methods of testing for genetically modified organisms and the reasons behind their strict regulation!

Testing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Foods is the first study of the screening methods and tools utilized for determining the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products. Leading...

Practical Load Balancing: Ride the Performance Tiger

Apress, 2012

The Internet, and in particular the World Wide Web, have effectively leveled the playing field for businesses and individuals around the world. Do you have a great idea for a web site or a service? Even the more advanced ideas can be relatively easily and cheaply realized without much in the way of initial outlay. You can get...

Water Dynamics in Plant Production

CABI Publishing, 2003

The source of life is water. Life began in the oceans, which represent the largest stock of water on Earth. Much less water is stored below the land surface in the form of fresh groundwater, amounting to not quite 0.8% of the earth’s total water reserves, while lakes and rivers combined only contribute a further...

Beginning iOS Application Development with HTML and JavaScript (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2012

THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF THE IPHONE and iPad over the past four years has proven that application developers are now smack deep in a brave new world of sophisticated, multifunctional mobile applications. No longer do applications and various media need to live in separate silos. Instead, mobile web-based applications can bring...

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, Antwerp, Belgium

Springer, 2008

When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on Principles of Data Mining...

Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles: Standards and Technologies for Controlling Emissions

World Bank Publications, 1997

Contributions by Surhid Gautam and Lit-Mian Chan. This book presents a state-of-the art review of vehicle emission standards and regulations and provides a synthesis of worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their applications in both industrial and developing countries. Topics covered include: * The two principal...

PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2012

In this book, I will guide you as you take your first steps beyond the static world of building web pages with the purely client-side technologies of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Together, we’ll explore the world of database driven websites and discover the dizzying array of dynamic tools, concepts, and possibilities that...

Effective Field Approach to Phase Transitions And Some Applications to Ferroelectrics (World Scintific Lecture Notes in Physics)

World Scientific Publishing, 2006

The effective field approach to a phase transition, used by Pierre Weiss at the beginning of this century to describe theoretically ferromagnetic transitions in iron, nickel, and cobalt, is the second oldest (surpassed in this respect only by Van der Waals theory of liquid-vapor transitions) and certainly the simplest approach...

Brilliant BlackBerry Apps For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))

For Dummies, 2010

You’re no dummy, and neither am I. The tongue-in-cheek title of For Dummies used for this book franchise is one of the world’s most successful oxymorons, like military intelligence or boneless ribs. You are smart enough to pick up this book because you know there are gaps in your knowledge. The publisher was smart enough to pay me...

WebGL: Up and Running

O'Reilly, 2012

In early 1994, Tim Berners-Lee put out an open call for a virtual reality specification for the Web; Mark Pesce and I answered. Only being able to afford one plane ticket, we sent Mark to Geneva to present our Labyrinth prototype at the first-ever World Wide Web Developers’ Conference. With typical bombast,...

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