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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation

Chicago Review Press, 2018

One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was called “the Dark Lord,” “the Godfather,” and “UNO”—short for unidentified NASA official. He was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence...

Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism (Refiguring Modernism)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement’s significance to art history today.

In the context of modernism,...

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Broadway, 2002

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden...

Hands-On Oracle Application Express Security: Building Secure Apex Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

AT RECX we’ve been involved in the world of IT Security for more than a decade. We were involved in some of the fi rst penetration tests performed in the UK, where large organizations and government departments allowed ethical hackers into their networks to determine the risk they faced from what are now known as cyber attacks....

Clinton and Japan: The Impact of Revisionism on U.S. Trade Policy

Oxford University Press, 2009

This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration. In the context of growing fear over Japan's increasing economic strength, revisionists argued that Japan represented a distinctive form of...

Microsoft .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers

Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2002

I asked myself this question when early releases of .NET first arrived on the scene. Visual FoxPro allowed me to do pretty much anything I wanted, from building single-tier applications with a VFP back end, all the way to building distributed Internet applications accessing clientserver data.

Then, I started to dive into the .NET...

Nutrition and Well-being a To Z; 2V.

Macmillan Technical, 2004

Nutrition is one of the most important factors that impact health in all areas of the lifecycle. Pregnant women need adequate food and health care to deliver a healthy baby who has a good birth weight and a fighting chance for survival. In many regions of the world, the infant mortality rate is very high, meaning that many...

Game Character Development

Course Technology PTR, 2008

The game development industry is in some ways quite similar to the film industry. We create entertainment for the masses, escapism for people as they are taken into different lives, and amazing worlds of imagination and wonder. The outsider’s view of what it must be like to work in these industries is often enjoyed through rose-tinted...

Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War

Oxford University Press, 2004

Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the...

Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide

Auerbach Publications, 2008

Today our civilization is highly dependent upon software-intensive systems. Software-intensive systems are those systems that are highly dependent upon computing infrastructure and software for the basic functionality they provide and the properties they possess. Architecture design of software-intensive systems as a separate and distinct...

IT Portfolio Management: Unlocking the Business Value of Technology

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

This book provides a pragmatic, step-by-step road map, describing IT portfolio
management and its major elements. Chapter 1 provides an overview of IT
portfolio management. Chapter 2 describes the planning aspects of IT portfolio
management. It explains the IT portfolio management maturity model and the
key people, process, and...

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 Hours, First Edition

Sams Publishing, 2005

Create works of art using your computer, Adobe Photoshop CS 2 and Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop CS 2 in 24 Hours. Learn the basics of Photoshop with a minimum of jargon from market-leading author, Carla Rose. Her conversational, friendly approach will make Photoshop seem less intimidating and more manageable to learn. With Carla's help, you...

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