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It Tolls For Thee: A guide to celebrating and reclaiming the end of life

Watkins Publishing, 2021

A funeral celebrant's story about how celebrating death, and creating personalised space for grief, can enrich lives and give meaning to death.

After a close encounter with death, Tom Morton realised he needed a change of pace and perspective. He decided to become the only independent funeral celebrant on the...

Design Through Verilog HDL

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

A comprehensive resource on Verilog HDL for beginners and experts

Large and complicated digital circuits can be incorporated into hardware by using Verilog, a hardware description language (HDL). A designer aspiring to master this versatile language must first become familiar with its constructs, practice their use in real applications, and...

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (History of Computing)

MIT Press, 2002

This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the U.S. Department of Defense to hasten the advent of "machines that think." From 1983 to 1993, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent an extra $1 billion on computer research aimed at achieving artificial intelligence. The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) was...

DK Life Stories: Florence Nightingale

DK Children, 2019

In this kids' biography, discover the fascinating story of Florence Nightingale, who cared for British soldiers during wartime as the "Lady of the Lamp" and changed the field of nursing.

Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing at a time when women were discouraged from working outside the home,...

Breathing: An Inspired History

Reaktion Books, 2021

Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians, scientists, and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of...

Essential SourceSafe

Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2001

This training aid and reference manual assists casual users, software developers, and SourceSafe administrators in installing, configuring, and maintaining SourceSafe in a variety of development environments. A broad spectrum of topics are covered, from the basics of installation and maintenance, to more advanced features such as reporting, to...

Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis (American Lives)

University of Nebraska Press, 2005

She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her fingers open a jar? Peel an orange? But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of joint. With wrists and elbows no longer...

Solving the PowerPoint Predicament: Using Digital Media for Effective Communication

Que, 2006

Everyone uses PowerPoint, but how effective is your presentation at meeting the goals you've outlined? A great presentation is more than just a slideshowit's about using PowerPoint to its maximum potential to get your message across to your audience. That's the PowerPoint Predicament. Tom Bunzel reveals how to conceive, plan,...

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

Joseph Henry Press, 2006

Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages—and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting...

The Mind of the Mathematician

Johns Hopkins, 2007

What makes mathematicians tick? How do their minds process formulas and concepts that, for most of the rest of the world's population, remain mysterious and beyond comprehension? Is there a connection between mathematical creativity and mental illness?

In The Mind of the Mathematician, internationally famous mathematician Ioan James and...

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

O'Reilly, 2008

Presentations have become the de facto business communication tool. Companies are started, products are launched, climate systems are saved—possibly based on the quality of presentations. Likewise, ideas, endeavors, and even careers can be cut short due to ineffective communication. Out of the millions of presentations...

GSM Switching, Services, and Protocols

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

"...it misses the explanation of why GSM is composed as it is and as a result mostly has value as a reference work." -- IEE Review March, 1999 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Since the publication of the first edition the number of GSM subscribers has...

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