Once the province of mental health professionals, CBT (or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) has gained wide acceptance as the treatment of choice for anyone looking to overcome anxiety, lose weight, manage anger, beat an...

One of the most exciting psychological techniques in use today, neuro-linguistic programming helps you model yourself on those-or, more accurately, the thought processes of those-who are stellar in their fields....

Managing retirement plans can be a...

The multiplicity of possible carbon structures has posed in the last two decades a formidable challenge to theoretical and computational physicists, since not only a number of different methods (such as simulations based on empirical potentials, tight-binding calculations or DFT) are currently being used to study the structure and the...

You don’t want good pictures from your new Canon EOS 7D—you demand outstanding photos. After all, the 7D is the most advanced mid-level camera that Canon has ever introduced. It boasts an astounding 18 megapixels of resolution, blazing fast automatic focus, and cool features like the real-time preview system called Live View, full...

In April 2005, I received a telephone call from Humana Press Senior Editor, Harvey Kane, inquiring whether there might be a need for a book to be published concerning the different aspects of computer forensics. During a subsequent meeting to discuss the current state of available texts covering this topic, I noted to Mr. Kane that there were...

In the three years since the introduction of the first iPhone, we’ve seen a tremendous change in the way that people work with...

The bulk of this book was written over a period of two years between the middle of 2008 and April 2010. In that time the world’s media systems were caught up in a massive vortex of uncertainty and change. News 2.0 captures the flavour of that period and sets it against an historical background. In short: Where did the news media’s...

"Don't worry. This isn't a garden makeover book that'll convince you to put decking over every plant you see nor will it teach you how to spot your Symphoricarpos albus from...

The days of Web pages that have nothing more than text and a picture or two are long gone. To be competitive in today’s Internet landscape, you need pages that pop. This Mini Missing Manual shows you how to add interactive elements to your pages: menus that expand when a visitor clicks on them, images that change with a mouse roll, and...