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Disasters at Sea (Disasters Up Close)

Lerner Publications, 2007

For thousands of years, the perils of the sea have claimed uncountable numbers of victims. Bad weather, rocks and icebergs, equipment failures, human error, and many more types of tragedies have all sent ships to watery graves. While modern technology has made sea-going vessels safer and rescues easier, there still are terrible disasters that...

Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe: Challenging the Path Dependence of Dominant Energy Systems

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008

This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading research institutions in each country, the study focuses on the promotional schemes used to foster RES in Austria,...

Iridium Complexes in Organic Synthesis

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Ranging from mechanistic studies to industrial applications, this handbook is the first to comprehensively explores the topic of iridium in organic synthesis. The important advances in iridium mediated reactions namely hydrogenation, hydroamination, hydroboration, C-C bond formation, carbonylation and cycloaddition are discussed. The book...

Online Algorithms: The State of the Art (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 1998

When Hannibal crossed the Alps into Italy, it was no longer as simple to respond to a Roman naval threat in Spain as it was before crossing the Alps. Had Hannibal known the entire future Roman strategy before crossing the Alps then (assuming appropriate computational ability) he could have computed an optimal strategy to deal with the Rome/Cartago...

The Evolution of Hominin Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence

Springer, 2009

This volume brings together new and important research from the top experts in hominid diets across multiple fields. The objective of the volume is to explore if there is a consensus between the different methods, allowing us to better understand the nature of hominin dietary strategies through time. Contributions focus on modern studies, faunal...

Pro Tools 7 Power: The Comprehensive Guide (Book & CD)

Course Technology PTR, 2007

Get the most out of Pro Tools with the definitive guidebook! Covering the LE, M-Powered, and HD versions of Pro Tools for music, post, and multimedia users at all levels, Pro Tools 7 Power!, Second Edition is the perfect resource for both newcomers looking to get up and running, and more advanced users who would like a complete desk reference on...

Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2007

"Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics" collects contributions that describe the state of the art in software development for the Robotics domain. It reports on innovative ideas that are progressively introduced in the software development process, in order to promote the reuse of robotic software artifacts: domain engineering,...

Valode & Pistre Architects

Birkhauser, 2006

The firm of Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, which has been practicing for 25 years, entered upon a new phase of its career in 1992, when the architects — in cooperation with the landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson — received the Equerre d’argent prize of the journal Le Moniteur for the L’Oréal corporate headquarters...

Learning Perl on Win32 Systems

O'Reilly, 1997

In this smooth, carefully paced course, leading Perl trainers and a Windows NT practitioner teach you to program in the language that promises to emerge as the scripting language of choice on NT. Perl for Win32 is a language for easily manipulating text, files, user and group profiles, performance and event logs, and registry entries. Based on...

Programming Perl (3rd Edition)

O'Reilly, 2000

Perl is a powerful interpreted programming language that has matured steadily since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed Bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this book. Programming...

Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence

Academic Press, 2009

To create truly effective human-centric ambient intelligence systems both engineering and computing methods are needed. This is the first book to bridge data processing and intelligent reasoning methods for the creation of human-centered ambient intelligence systems. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book covers topics such as multi-modal...

Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Cambridge University Press, 2009

With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute non-Christian populations played a major role in worsening relations between Christians, Muslims and...

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