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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

Grove Press, 1994

Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding storyÂpart of it hidden till now in secret Government filesÂof the role the mind-altering drug played in our recent...

Write Your Way into Animation and Games: Create a Writing Career in Animation and Games

Focal Press, 2010

Audiovisual storytelling has a long, well-developed history. As far back as the earliest known prehistoric times, human beings have communicated the essence of story through the use of pictures and sound: whether it’s cave paintings of the hunt, a poet proclaiming the epic adventures of Odysseus, Greek actors performing tragedy...

web2py

Lulu.com, 2010

The official web2py manual. 3rd Edition. Includes many new pages (537 total).

web2py was launched in 2007 and now, after three years of continuous development, we have reached a very much needed third edition of this book. During this time web2py has managed to win the affection of many knowledgeable users and developers who share...

Object-Oriented Design and Patterns

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

This book is an introduction to object-oriented design and design patterns at an elementary level. It is intended for students with at least one semester of programming in an object-oriented language such as Java or C++.

An object-oriented design text that's student oriented too!

Now updated to reflect the...

Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference

Springer, 2010

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of recent results obtained in different disciplines encourages this interchange for the...

Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence

MIT Press, 1997

"Ming Design II is a welcome update of its predecessor, itself a useful compendium on the philosophy of cognitive science. This new volume retains the intellectual foundations, and some discussions of classical AI built on them, while adding connectionism, situated AI, and dynamic systems theory as extra storeys. Which of these is...

Business Process Mapping: Improving Customer Satisfaction

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Praise For Business Process Mapping: Improving Customer Satisfaction, Second Edition

"A must-read for anyone performing business process mapping! This treasure shares step-by-stepapproaches and critical success factors, based on years of practical, customer-focused experience.A real winner!"
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Entrepreneurship Three Volumes: The Engine of Growth (Praeger Perspectives) (v. 1-3)

Praeger Publishers, 2006

“This three-volume set brings together 32 essays exploring the topic of entrepreneurship. The first volume explores entrepreneurship as a form of human action, examining the influence of various factors on entrepreneurial behavior, including cognition, risk, social capital, institutions, immigration and ethnicity, and gender. The second...

First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards (FIRST AID Specialty Boards)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

An "insider's guide" for success on the Emergency Medicine written board and in-service exams written by residents and junior faculty.

First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards presents time-strapped emergency medicine residents (taking annual in-training exams or the end of...

Ruby on Rails Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Thanks to the explosive growth in popularity of the Rails framework, the equally popular Ruby programming language now has a great place to hang its hat. The powerful combination of the two provides the perfect toolset to create Web applications that feature concise code, clean syntax, and easy maintenance. This must-have book is your best guide on...

Informal Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

From around the turn of the twentieth century, the founders of symbolic logic had a profound effect on subsequent philosophical practice. They saw the combination of logic and science as a model that philosophy should emulate. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) described it as a “scientific philosophy, grounded in mathematical logic.”...

The Physics of Football: Discover the Science of Bone-Crunching Hits, Soaring Field Goals, and Awe-Inspiring Passes

Harper Perennial, 2005

"Whether your primary interest is popular science or pro football, you will enjoy FOOTBALL PHYSICS." (Bill Belichick, head coach, New England Patriots )

"Football Physics is great fun. It taught me more about football than 50 years of watching the game." (Robert K. Adair, Ph.D., author of Physics of Baseball )...

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