Legend of The Five Rings

Legend of The Five Rings 

By: Rich Wulf

Takuro staggered slightly as he walked out of the sake house, wincing at the bright light of the morning sun. His two comrades laughed as they spilled out on either side, similarly unsteady from the previous evening’s  entertainments. Takuro glanced about him with an arrogant sneer. He and his brothers had arrived in this village almost a week ago. This place was unaccusiomed to being visited by samurai; the peasants here were weak and afrais. They had offered food and lodging with qulet terror, asking for nothing in return, clearly petrified by the two swords at his hip. Takuro and his brothers had decided that they liked it here; this village was theirs now. As he looked around, however, he realized that something was different. The peasants all huddled at the edges of the open square begore the sake house. They watched quietly, waiting. There was still fear in their eyes, but it was different somehow. [download]

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Mammals

Mammals 

By: Thomson Gale 

Fossils are body parts of animals that lived very long ago. Not many long-ago mammals are preserved as fossils. But some entire mammal fossils have been discovered, such as a 10-foot (3-meter) woolly mammoth preserved in Siberian frozen ground, and an Ice Age woolly rhinoceros discovered inPoland, preserved in asphalt. Many long-ago mammals lived in a warm, wet world. They ate soft, leafy plants. The earliest known mammals were possibly shrew-like creatures living about 190 million years ago. Later larger mammals occurred, then disappeared, or became extinct. These include the mesohippus, a three-toed horse only 24 inches (60 centimeters) high; a giant pig with a head that was 4 feet (1.22 meters) in length; and the smilodon, a huge saber-toothed cat with canine teeth that were 8 inches (20.3.centimeters) in length. By about 15,000 years ago, long-ago people were hunting mammals with stone-pointed spears. [download]

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The Djinn in The Nightingales Eye

The Djinn in The Nightingales Eye 

By: A.S. Byatt

There was once a young sailor who had nothing but his courage and his bright eyes but those were very bright and the strength the gods gave him, which was sufficient. He was not a good match for any girl in the village, for he was thought to be rash as well as poor, but the young girls liked to see him go by, you can believe, and they liked most particularly to see him dance, with his long, long legs and his clever feet and his laughing mouth. And most of all one girl liked to see him, who was the miller’s daughter, beautiful and stately and proud, with three deep velvet ribbons to her skirt, who would by no means let him see that she liked to see him, but looked sideways with glimpy eyes, when he was not watching. And so did many another. It is always so. Some are looked at, and some may whistle for an admiring glance till the devil pounces on them, for so the Holy Spirit makes, crooked or straight, and naught to be done about it. [download]  

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In The Whirl of The Rising

In The Whirl of The Rising 

By: Bertram Mitford

The man could hardly drag one step behind the other. He could hardly drag by the bridle the tottering horse, of which the same held good. His brain was giddy and his eyes wearied with the unvarying vista on every hand, the straight stems of the mopani forest, enclosing him; a still and ghastly wilderness devoid of bird or animal life. He stumbled forward, his lips blue and cracked, his tongue swollen, his throat on fire; and in his mind was blank and utter despair, for he knew that he was in the heart of a waterless tract, extending for about a hundred miles, and for over forty hours no drop of moisture of any sort had passed his lips. Forty hours of wandering in the driest, most thirst-inspiring region in the world! He had made a bad start. There had been festivities at FortPagadithe night before, to celebrate the Jameson Raid and drink the health of its leaders. [download]

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Introduction to Systems Biology

Introduction to Systems Biology

By: Sangdun Choi, Ph.D.

Systems biology aims at a system-level understanding of biological systems (1,2). The investigation of biological systems at the system level is not a new concept. It can be traced back to homeostasis by Canon (3), cybernetics by Norbert Weiner (4), and general systems theory by von Bertalanffy (5). Also, several approaches in physiology have taken a systemic view of the biological subjects. The reason why “systems biology” is gaining renewed interest today is, in my view, due to emerging opportunities to solidly connect system-level understanding to molecular-level understanding, as well as the possibility of establishing well-founded theory at the system level. This is only possible today because of the progress of molecular biology, genomics, computer science, modern control theory, nonlinear dynamics theory, and other relevant fields, which had not sufficiently matured at the time of early attempts. [download]

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Greek and Roman Folklore

Greek and Roman Folklore

By: Graham Anderson

It has been some 80 years since William Halliday produced a short account entitled Greek and Roman Folklore. To attempt to cover the same ground now has presented this author with a challenge of compression. The amount of material available to Halliday and to H. J. Rose in the early part of last century was intractable enough, but the increase since the 1920s in theory alone has made a further survey increasingly necessary and increasingly beyond the scope of any single volume. This is all the more evident because classicists, in particular, tend to classify folkloric materials in so many other ways and tend to avoid folklore as a subject in its own right. I have set out to offer some overview of defi nitions of folklore and some limitations, ancient and modern, in the way we tend to approach it. [download]

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Sex for Dummies

Sex for Dummies 

By: Ruth K. Westheimer

Humans have been having sex since time immemorial, and not much changed as the centuries slid by. Then in the 1960s, the Pill came out, and the sexual revolution was said to begin. But the past 25 years, which coincidentally is the period when I first became well known, have seen the most major advancements. Many more women who couldn’t have orgasms are now orgasmic. Many older people, particularly men, can have sex into their 90s. People are talking to each other about their sexual needs, and as a result, they’re more satisfied with their sex lives. And although we’ve made progress, more needs to be done. First of all, millions of young people are just beginning their sexual lives. They need to be taught what to do and how to do it. Secondly, millions of adults are still having sex the way cave men and women did in the Stone Age. [download]

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Singing for Dummies

Singing for Dummies

By: Pamelia S. Phillips

I’m so happy you chose this book! Whether you’re a shower singer or you secretly desire to sing on a stage, this book is for you. The book is full of helpful information covering all aspects of singing, from posture and breathing to vocal health and techniques for increasing your range. Absolutely no experience is necessary! Even if you know zero about singing, you’re going to have a great time exploring your singing voice. You can’t develop your singing voice overnight; it takes time. Some people are born with a voice ready to sing at the Hollywood Bowl, but most people who like to sing have to work on their voice to prepare it for the first performance. Whichever category you fit into, this book has some valuable information for you. [download]

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Sewing for Dummies

Sewing for Dummies

By: Jan Saunders Maresh 

I love to sew. Period. First I get the immediate gratification of completing a project using beautiful fabrics and great timesaving tools. Then I can bask in the personal recognition I get to admire my work and hear praise from my family and friends. On top of that, I save money sewing because I can make things (and make them right) instead of purchase them (and pay to have them altered, if necessary). Wow, what a hobby! I’m betting that after you have a couple of projects under your belt you’ll love to sew as much as I do. Sewing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is a book for both absolute beginners and experienced sewers. If you’re a stone-cold beginner, you may appreciate that I explain everything necessary to sew beginning-level projects and I don’t assume that you’ve ever even picked up a needle and thread before. [download]

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Harmonic Measure

Harmonic Measure

By: John B. Garnett and Donald E. Marshal

Several surprising new results about harmonic measure on plane domains have been proved during the last two decades. The most famous of these results are Makarov’s theorems that harmonic measure on any simply connected domain is singular to Hausdorff measure _α for all α > 1 but absolutely continuous to _α for all α < 1. Also surprising was the extension by Jones and Wolff of Makarov’s α > 1 theorem to all plane domains. Further important new results include thework of Carleson, Jones andWolff, and others on harmonicmeasure for complements of Cantor sets; the work by Carleson and Makarov, Bertilsson, Pommerenke, and others on Brennan’s tantalizing conjecture that for univalent functions__|ϕ_|2−pdxdy < ∞ if 4 3 < p < 4; several new geometric conditions that guarantee the existence of angular derivatives; and the Jones square sum characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves and its applications by Bishop and Jones to a variety of problems in function theory. [download]

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Foundations for The Web of Information and Services

Foundations for The Web of Information and Services 

By: Dieter Fensel

It is hard to know who first had the idea of creating a language on the World Wide Web that could be used to express the domain knowledge needed to improve Web applications. By the mid 1990s, before most people even knew the Web existed, several research groups were playing with the idea that if web markup (it was all HTML back then) contained some machine readable “hints” to the computer, then we could do a better job of Web tasks like search, query, and faceted browsing. It’s important to note that at that time, the potential power of the Web was still being debated, and there were many who were sure it would fail. However, by 1997 or so, it was clear theWeb was going to be around for a while, and there was a burst of energy going on. [download]

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Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in The Ancient World

Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in The Ancient World

By: Peter Bogucki

Th e story of the ancient world spans the globe and covers vast amounts of time. It is the largely overlooked story of the tremendous diversity in human experience, ranging from the ice age societies whose way of life is so remote from ours to the citizens ofGreeceandRomewhom we easily recognize from history books. During the 2 million years since we became human, members of our species have settled every corner of the earth and organized their lives in countless diff erent ways. Th e articles in this encyclopedia will provide you with an overview of the various ways in which people lived in the past and point to sources where you can fi nd more information about the topics that interest you. To learn about the modern world, all we have to do is look around, travel, read, or watch a video about what we cannot see. [download]

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Ethics and War in The 21st Century

Ethics and War in The 21^st Century 

By: Christopher Cooker

A new discourse on war? On 3 April 2006, the British Defence Secretary, John Reid, gave a talk before a largely military audience about the rules of twenty-first century warfare. For centuries, he told his audience, conflict between tribes, cities and states had been unbridled and savage. Only gradually had mankind developed a range of conventions that could be applied to constrain and moderate what was, in essence, a brutal activity. Eventually those agreements had become rules which over time had become laws. Much had been achieved, he added, in the current legal frameworks which went by the name of international humanitarian law. However, warfare continues to evolve, and in its moral dimensions we now have to cope with the deliberate regression towards barbaric terrorism. [download]  

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Encyclopedia of The Essay

Encyclopedia of The Essay 

By: Tracy Chevalier

The entries in this book were chosen primarily by the advisory board (listed on page ix), with advice from contributors when appropriate. Choosing what is to go in reference books is notoriously difficult. There are the subjects that must obviously have entries, and those that must obviously not. In between lies a vast block of those for which an argument can be made for or against. This is where the problems lie, and I expect ourchoices will inevitably raise a few quibbles. Some gaps reflect the nature of the essay and essay scholarship rather than ignorance. There are markedly fewer entries on women, for instance, because historically women’s opinions have not been encouraged, certainly not in written form. Moreover, when women did write they usually chose genres that made them money; the essay has not been known for being lucrative. [download]

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Foundations of Mathematical and Computational Economics

Foundations of Mathematical and Computational Economics 

By: Kamran Dadkhah

Many believe that mathematics is one of the most beautiful creations of humankind, second only to music. The word creation, however, may be disputed. Have humans created something called mathematics? Then how is it that we increasingly discover that the world, and indeed the universe around us, obey one or another mathematical law? Perhaps to the faithful, the answer is clear: A higher power is the greatest mathematician of all. A worldly answer may be that humans discovered, rather than created, mathematics. Thus, wherever we look, we see mathematical laws at work. Whether humans created mathematics and it just so happened that the world seems to be mathematical, or the universe is a giant math problem and human beings are discovering it, we cannot deny that mathematics is extremely useful in every branch of science and technology, and even in everyday life. [download]

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Ellsworth Bunker

Ellsworth Bunker 

By: Howard B. Schaffer

When Ellsworth Bunker accepted the invitation of his old Yale rowing coach and friend Secretary of State Dean Acheson to leave a successful business career and take on the difficult assignment of ambassador to Juan Perón’s Argentina in 1951, neither man anticipated that the appointment would lead to Bunker’s becoming one of the outstanding American diplomats of the Cold War decades. Already in his late fifties, Bunker had seen the Buenos Airesembassy as a brief stop on the way to a quiet, retired life, not as the start of a fullfledged, highly distinguished second career in public service. But before he finally left the diplomatic frontlines in 1979 at the age of eighty-five, he went on to become ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and, most famously, South Vietnam. As special diplomatic negotiator and troubleshooter, he helped resolve major challenges to U.S interests in such far-flung places as Indonesia,Yemen, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. [download]

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The Easy Way: Electronics

The Easy Way: Electronics

By: Barron’s Educational Series 

Electrical engineers are concerned with obs that relate to the generation of electricity, its transmission, and its use. They are also specialist in the many aspects of electronics with speciality area in computers, circuit design, equipment design, manufacture of printed circuits, and manufacture of semiconductor materials and devices. Electrical engineers can do any number of jobs, but most will specialize in electronics and some aspect of it. Others will specialize in the generation of electricity and work with utility companies. Some will work with the distribution of electricity, while still other spend their time in research laboratories developing new devices and processes. The electrical engineer has often been described as a practical mathematician. Therefore, the electrical engineer must have a good math background and is required to take many math course in college. [download]

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Essay in Sociology

Essay in Sociology 

By: Max Weber

Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Thuringia, on 21 April 1864. His father, Max Weber, Sr., a trained jurist and municipal counselor, came from a family of linen merchants and textile manufacturers of western Germany. In 1869 the Webers moved to Berlin, which was soon to become the booming capital of Bismarck’s Reich. There, Weber, Sr. became a prosperous politician, active in the municipal diet of Berlin, the Prussian diet, and the new Reichstag. He belonged to the right-wing liberals led by the Hanoverian noble, Bennigsen. The family resided in Charlottenburg, then a west-end suburb of Berlin, where academic and political notables were neighbors. In his father’s house young Weber came to know such men as Dilthey, Mommsen, Julian Schmidt, Sybel, Treitschke, and Friedrich Kapp. Max Weber’s mother, Helene Fallenstein Weber, was a cultured and liberal woman of Protestant faith. [download]

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Oil Painting for Dummies

Oil Painting for Dummies

By: Anita Gidding and Sherry StoneClifton

Oil painting. The words themselves bring to mind centuries of art. From the masterpieces of the Renaissance to the charming landscapes that you see in a shop on vacation, the rich, glowing colors are fascinating. Oil painting makes it all look like magic. As an artist’s material, it both attracts and intimidates with its possibilities. In this book we set out to introduce you to this enduring medium. We want to give you as much information as we can to make oil painting a part of your life. Whether you’re trying oils for the very first time or you’re an experienced painter, this book walks you through the ins and outs of oil painting. We cover the basics, and we offer some information for those of you who have pursued this wonderful endeavor for some time. [download]

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PCs for Dummies

PCs for Dummies 

By: Dan Gookin

Things change quickly in the computer industry, so it’s time for another revision and update to this classic book, now in its 10th edition. I’ve done some major work here, shuffled things around, and tidied up all the text so that PCs For Dummies can give you the answer to the ever-burning question “How does a computer turn a smart person like you into a dummy?” You don’t have to love a computer. Some folks do, most don’t. The reason is simple: Computers are not easy to use. True, a computer is easier to use now than it was 10 years ago, but some things remain cryptic. The help files are mystifying. Technical support isn’t even in English any more! So, you’re left feeling numb and cold and wondering why no one bothers to sit down and explain things to you in plain human terms. Well, wonder no more! [download]

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Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire

Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire 

By: David Barsamian

It is difficult to think of Eqbal Ahmad in the past tense. As I look at his words, I hear his lilting accent and mellifluous voice ringing in my ears. Eqbal was very fond of Urdu poetry and used it as a tool of analysis. One of its main motifs is paradox. So, I write with a mixture of joy and sadness. Joy that we have this book and sadness that Eqbal is not with us. I remember the gleam in Eqbal’s eye and his enthusiastic response when I first proposed doing a series of interviews for a book. The idea had great appeal to him. He had written the introduction to ne Pen and The Sword, my book with Edward Said. I And he was familiar with my work with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.2 More than that, we met in a curious way, albeit he was older, on the same “kinare” or riverbank. I always felt a connection with Eqbal. I had spent some time in South Asiaand spoke his language, Urdu, and shared his appreciation of and admiration for Indo-Islamic culture. [download]

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Documents of Performance

Documents of Performance 

By: Tiffany Stern 

As well as being called ‘play-makers’ and ‘poets’, playwrights of the early modern period were frequently known as ‘play-patchers’ because of the common perception that a play was pieced together out of a collection of odds and ends: it was not a single whole entity. The term was unflattering and designed to wound, as was ‘playwright’, with its implication that constructing plays was a craft  equivalent to being a cartwright or a wheelwright rather than an art. But, just as ‘playwright’ over time lost its pejorative implications, so ‘play-patcher’ too came to be seen as an unpalatable truth. Well mayRandolphsneer at the poet who makes a ‘Comedy’ out of ‘patches of his ragged wit, as if he meant to make Poverty a Coat of it’, and Wither lament the men who can do little more than ‘patch up a bald witlesse Comedy’ out of ‘rotten-old-worme-eaten stuffe’; there was something ‘patchy’ in the very substance of early modern plays. [download]

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Living Vegetarian for Dummies

Living Vegetarian for Dummies 

By: Suzanne Havala Hobbs

Vegetarianism has come a long, long way. As a child, I wore a button that said, “Real People Wear Fake Furs.” I’d picked it up at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair when my older sister was in college at the Universityof Michigan. It was the late ’60s, and it wasn’t much longer before my mother announced to our family that from then on, she would be a vegetarian. She never said why, but for the next several years, the former Wisconsinite ate cheese omelets or cheddar cheese and pickle sandwiches on whole wheat toast for dinner while the rest of us ate the meat she prepared for us. That is, of course, until we kids followed her lead and, one by one and without fanfare, became vegetarians ourselves. [download]

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Networking All in One for Dummies

Networking All in One for Dummies 

By: Doug Lowe

Welcome to the fourth edition of Networking All-in-One For Dummies, the one networking book that’s designed to replace an entire shelf full of the dull and tedious networking books you’d otherwise have to buy. This book contains all the basic and not-so-basic information you need to know to get a network up and running and to stay on top of the network as it grows, develops problems, and encounters trouble. If you’re just getting started as a network administrator, this book is ideal. As a network administrator, you have to know about a lot of different topics: installing and configuring network hardware, installing and configuring network operating systems, planning a network, working with TCP/IP, securing your network, working with mobile devices, backing up your data, and many others. [download]

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Molecular & Cell Biology for Dummies

Molecular & Cell Biology for Dummies 

By: Rene Fester Kratz 

Molecular and cellular biology isn’t just something that happens in a lab; it reaches out and touches your life in many ways, seen and unseen. Genetically modified organisms, designer cancer drugs, forensic science, and even home pregnancy tests are all applications of the science and techniques of molecular and cellular biology. Gaining an understanding of molecular and cellular biology can help you make informed decisions about your lifestyle and health. Understanding cells and how they function is fundamental to all other fields of biology, including medicine. All living things are made of cells, and scientists can trace every response, every function of larger organisms back to the structure and function of cells. Genetic diseases are a dramatic example of how important one cell type, one protein, and one gene can be to an organism. [download]

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Life Coaching for Dummies

Life Coaching for Dummies 

By: Jeni Purdie

Afew years ago I left my well-paid and prestigious job with a global corporation to venture into the scary world of self-employment as a life coach. Many of my colleagues who I’d come to know and love over the years wished me well and asked exactly what I’d be doing. ‘Well,’ said I, ‘I suppose what I’m really interested in is inspiring people to find the right balance, enjoyment, and meaning in their lives.’ ‘Oh,’ they replied, and a faraway look came into their eyes, ‘I could really do with some of that.’ Then their gaze focused back on their overflowing desk and the ringing phone. ‘But I don’t see how I can possibly give up my job.’ And they smiled, reached for the phone, and did what they knew they did best. I found their response very interesting because it summed up the precise feelings I’d wrestled with for three long years before finally taking my personal plunge. [download]

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Living Dairy Free for Dummies

Living Dairy Free for Dummies 

By: Suzanne Havala Hobbs

Why would anyone think that humans need milk from a cow to be healthy? After all, milk is tailor-made for the species it came from. Dogs drink milk from dog mothers, and giraffes drink milk from giraffe mothers. And cow’s milk, for example, is formulated to help calves grow and develop an enormous skeleton in a matter of several months. Human skeletons are small in comparison to cow skeletons, so why would a human need milk that’s formulated for fast, enormous bone growth? Humans are designed to get nourishment from human mothers when they’re infants. Human milk contains the nutrients they need in the amounts they need for the growth and development of the human body (not the cow body). The milk-drinking phase doesn’t last long either a year to a few years, at most. [download]

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Jewelry & Beading Design for Dummies

Jewelry & Beading Design for Dummies 

By: Heather H. Dismore

We love making jewelry and beading. We spend hours creating pieces for ourselves, our families and friends, and a few customers here and there. We think you can absolutely find the same joy and satisfaction by pursuing this exciting and versatile craft. If you have some experience with creating jewelry, Jewelry & Beading Designs For Dummies can help you take your skills to the next level. We give you projects of increasing difficulty to help you build on the foundation you have. We help you experiment with skills you may not think to try on your own, all the while coaching you along with step-by-step instructions. We hope this book inspires you to build up your bead supply so you’re ready to create when inspiration strikes. And we want you to have the confidence to create your own custom pieces by altering or building on the designs and easy to follow instructions we provide. [download]

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Classical Mythology

Classical Mythology

By: William Hansen

On a hot day some twenty-five centuries ago, Socrates and one of his companions, Phaidros, were walking alongside the cool stream of the Ilissos outside the walls ofAthens. “Tell me, Socrates,” said Phaidros, “wasn’t it from the Ilissos somewhere around here that Boreas is said to have carried off Oreithyia?” He was thinking of the myth according to which a daughter of the king of Athenswas playing on the banks of the stream when suddenly the god of the north wind abducted her, carrying her off to his northerly kingdom. “Yes, that’s what they say.” “Was it from here, then?” “No,” Socrates replied, “the spot is actually some distance downstream, at the place where you cross over to the precinct of Agra. There is an altar of Boreas somewhere around there.” Phaidros asked if Socrates believed the story was true. [download]

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Chancengerechtigkeit im Gesundheitssystem

Chancengerechtigkeit im Gesundheitssystem

By: Carsten Wippermann

Gesundheit ist eine wichtige Vor aussetzung für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe in einem umfassenden Sinne, die auch die Partizipation an Kultur, Politik, Arbeitsmarkt, Wirtschaft, Wohlstand und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung etc. einschließt. Daher hat Gesundheit bei den meisten Menschen einen hohen Stellenwert. So gilt Gesundheit als ein fundamentales Gut, im Verständnis vieler Menschen sogar als eines der höchsten Güter überhaupt. Die hohe Wertschätzung von Gesundheit geht allerdings in vielen Fällen nicht mit einer gesundheitsbewussten Lebensweise einher. Es besteht vielmehr bei vielen Menschen eine erhebliche Diskrepanz zwischen der ideellen Wertschätzung von Gesundheit und der täglichen Lebensführung. Aus gesellschaftlicher Sicht stellt sich Gesundheit als ein wichtiger humanitärer Faktor dar. Darin begründet sich die Fürsorgep. [download]

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Brutal

Brutal 

By: Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas

By South Bostonstandards, my childhood was surprisingly normal. I grew up in the Old Colony Housing Project, the fifth in a family of six kids, with two older brothers, two older sisters, and one younger sister. The odds were good with a family of six in Southie that one would run afoul of the law. I was that one. Our apartment on 8 Pilsudski Way, apartment 554, was about 1,200 square feet, with four small bedrooms, a parlor, and a kitchen. My par­ents were in one bedroom; we three boys were in the other. My older sis­ter Maureen had her own bedroom, and Patty and Karen shared theirs. I was born on March 21, 1956, and, at fifty, am two years older than Karen, who is the youngest of the six of us. Billy, at fifty-eight, is the old­est. [download]

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Blake and Conflict

Blake and Conflict 

By: Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee 

For the majority of William Blake’s life, Britainwas a nation at war. Countries, ideologies and individuals clashed in the ferment of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions.Britainexperienced unprecedented levels of mobilization, chronic food shortages, riots and the repression of civil liberties in ‘Pitt’s terror’. Blake recoiled with horror from ‘the English Crusade against France’ and the consequences of living in a militarized state, where freedom seemed to be crushed under ‘the Iron Wheels of War’ (‘Anns. to Watson’, E613; Jerusalem, 22: 34, E168). Yet Blake’s works do not figure conflict simply as a destructive force. If the first plate of the illuminated book Milton decried attempts to ‘prolong Corporeal War’, it also accused ‘the Camp, the Court, & the University’ of seeking to ‘depress mental [War]’ (E95). [download]

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Java Game Programming for Dummies

Java Game Programming for Dummies 

By: Wayne Holder

This book shows you the techniques that make games tick, and gives you dozens of working Java code examples. In addition, each example is backed up by detailed explanations that fully deconstruct the code so that you can see how everything works. You can start from these working examples and customize them, use the parts to create entirely new games, or simply use them as a source of ideas for writing your own custom game code. While this book does, where necessary, discuss a little theory, the real heart of the book is intended more like a hands-on auto shop class than a physics lecture. After all, understanding how a water pump works is a lot easier if you can hold one in your hand and see where it fits on a real car engine. Likewise, understanding game code is a lot easier if you can examine each part of the code in detail and see where it fits in the overall structure of a working program. [download]

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IT Architecture for Dummies

IT Architecture for Dummies

By: Kalani Kirk Hausman 

The enterprise begins when you carefully put the first two computers together, and complexity grows with every step thereafter. Haphazard IT building practices can easily lead to an enterprise network that is poorly planned or composed of random, one-off projects undertaken as standalone goals. An e-mail consolidation project can unexpectedly derail concurrent licensing projects intended to vastly reduce expensive software licensing costs by carving the authentication domain into separate silos unable to share resources. A server virtualization project may run into difficulties if not coordinated properly with server consolidation projects to make sure that sufficient bandwidth and host resources are available when systems are transferred from physical to virtual states. [download]

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IBM Workplace Services Express for Dummies

IBM Workplace Services Express for Dummies 

By: Stephen R. Londergan

First off, thanks for buying your copy of IBM Workplace Services Express For Dummies. The intent of this book is to provide you with an introduction to and overview of IBM Workplace Services Express (WSE). WSE is a fairly new product (it came upon the world at the end of 2004) that helps teams (both big and small) work together, collaboratively and in real time, to get projects of all kinds (both big and small) done. What’s most exciting, in my humble opinion, about WSE is how it puts so many tools and technologies in the hands of small and medium-sized businesses tools and technologies that have been traditionally only available to large enterprise companies. WSE can help a little guy feel like one of the big guys. [download]  

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Kabbalistic Handbook for The Practicing Magician

Kabbalistic Handbook for The Practicing Magician

By: Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D. 

There are many fields of investigation and experimentation that fall under the general heading of Occultism: from general scrying to scrying in Spirit Vision; from Divination and its two most popular forms, the Tarot and the Pendulum, to the less used Geomantic Divination; from methods and techniques for developing the openly declared psychic functions of telepathy, concentration, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and telekinesis, to astral projection, mental projection, and mediumship; from magic in all of its broadband spectral majesty, to its specific practices of invocation and evocation, planetary and talismanic magic, Sephirotic and Path working investigations, to name but a few of the areas within the magical arts proper. All of these occult designated realms are, perhaps surprisingly, addressed by the Kabbalah. For instance, one may not ses how the faculties of telekinesis and telepathy could be covered by Kabbalistic doctrine. [download]

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All About The Foreign Exchange Market in The United State

All About The Foreign Exchange Market in The United State

By: Sorn Y. Cross

Each of these publications presents a lucid and informed picture of the foreign exchange market and how it operates, filled with rich insights and reflecting a profound understanding of the market and its complex mechanisms. Roger Kubarych’s report, written twenty years ago, provided a valuable analysis of the foreign exchange market that is still read and widely appreciated by persons interested in gaining a deeper understanding of that market. But the foreign exchange market is always changing, always adapting to a shifting world economy and financial environment. The metamorphosis of the 1980s and ‘90s in both finance and technology has changed the structure of the market and its operations in profound ways. It is useful to reexamine the foreign exchange market from today’s perspective. [download]

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Half Life 2 Mods for Dummies

Half Life 2 Mods for Dummies 

By: Erik Guilfoyle

If this is your first time venturing into the world of game modding, let me post a warning now: You are entering into something that many people (including me) have described as addicting, exciting, and frustrating all at the same time. I know very few people who started on the path of game modification and found it easy to stop working on their projects for even a few days. If you’re experienced in game modification, you already know what you’re getting yourself into. Either way, I welcome you to Half-Life 2 Mods For Dummies. I’ve lead many beginners along the path of game modification, and they all say the same thing: This is an addictive hobby, and it isn’t easy to put down even for the night. On several occasions, I’ve sat down in my computer chair to work on my game, planning to accomplish only a few things. [download]

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Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg for Dummies

Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg for Dummies

By: Geoff Stebbings

Gardening is an exciting journey. Every year is different: growing something new, experimenting with new varieties, and experiencing all that the British weather can throw at you (perfect weather one year and rotten weather the next!). No matter how many years you spend in the garden, you never get to know everything and you can always improve. But with every year you gain more experience, and the successes you have make your yearning for knowledge get even stronger. Growing your own crops gets you outside in the open air and gives you plenty of exercise. More importantly, growing crops gets you back in touch with the seasons and with nature something that modern living has moved us away from. You experience the near miracle of seeds germinating. You nurture your seedlings and young plants, do your best for them, battle against their enemies, enjoy the abundance of your plants, and finally feed your body with food that’s fresh and richer in nutrients than anything you can buy. [download]

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Herb Gardening for Dummies

Herb Gardening for Dummies

By: Karan Davis Cutler

You’ve probably already decided that you want to grow herbs, so we’ll keep this introduction short and sweet so that you can dive right into the more important and exciting stuff. But just in case you need a little more convincing, here are a few compelling reasons to try your hand at growing herbs: ✓ Herbs are versatile. As a group, herbs are both ornamental and practical, beautiful and useful. Most are fragrant, many taste good, and some are highly nutritious. Plus, they’re just plain interesting many have colorful names and equally colorful lore associated with them. ✓ You get the freshest harvest. There’s a big difference between herbs plucked fresh from the garden and the dried herbs sitting for who knows how long on the grocery store shelf. [download]

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All About Market Indicators

All About Market Indicators 

By: Michael Sincere

Why did professional trader and Market Wizard Linda Raschke move completely out of the stock market three days before a major crash? And what motivated Fred Hickey, a Barron’s Roundtable participant and editor of a monthly investment newsletter, to send out an alert to his subscribers three months before an October crash? And why did economist Bernard Baumohl recommend going long in the midst of one of the greatest recessions since the Great Depression? Is it luck or is it really possible to forecast what the market will do next? By the time you finish All About Market Indicators, you’ll have an answer. In this book, you’ll be taking an entertaining and educational journey. Along the way, you’ll meet a lot of fascinating people with different opinions about how to use market indicators. Some of the people you’ll meet use indicators to trade and invest, others create their own, and many do both. [download]

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All About Stocks

All About Stocks 

By: Esme Faerber

There are many compelling reasons why investors should invest in common stocks. For one, people are living longer and are going to need more money for retirement, and for medical and other expenses. Consequently, they are going to have to save more and invest it in assets that earn satisfactory rates of return to fund these increasing expenses. The key to success is to set aside more for savings and then invest it wisely. Investments are made to generate future purchasing power that will keep ahead of inflation and provide investors with a sense of financial security. If rates of return earned on these. investments are meager, this sense of security can quickly change to a sense of frustration. In order to generate future purchasing power, rates of return need to exceed the rate of inflation and cover the taxes paid on the earnings. [download]

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Football for Dummies

Football for Dummies 

By: Scott Muray

Congratulations! You’ve got a copy of Football For Dummies in your hands. This book has been written specially for people who want to know all they can about the greatest and most popular sport on the planet: association football. Football For Dummies aims to satisfy your curiosity, help you to understand the basics of how to play the game, arm you with knowledge so you can enjoy watching it to the full and show you that you have a whole world of football to be explore. There’s a reason football has taken off all around the globe, after all! Millions are passionate about the sport, from fans of the ‘beautiful game’ inBrazil to lovers of ‘soccer’ in theUS. And none more so than fans in the British Isles, where the game as you know it today took off back in the mid 1800s. It’s the simplest of sports in principle in the final analysis. [download]

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Genetics for Dummies

Genetics for Dummies

By: Tara Rodden Robinson

Genetics affects every aspect of life on earth. As a science, it’s one of the fastest growing fields because it has untold potential for good and for ill. Although complicated and diverse, all genetics comes down to basic principles of heredity and how DNA is put together. So it turns out that genetics, in many ways, is surprisingly accessible. Genetics is a bit like taking a peek behind a movie’s special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show. I may sound like a geek, but genetics is my favorite subject. If you’d told me I’d end up feeling this way when I took my first genetics course, I would have laughed. At first, I hated genetics (and I barely passed!). But as I learned more, I was hooked. Now, my career follows the genetics of birds in hopes of helping to conserve the natural beauty that makes our world such a wonderful place to be. [download]

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Flip Video for Dummies

Flip Video for Dummies 

By: Joe Hutsko and Drew Davidson

Your Flip is probably the easiest-to-use camcorder in the world. Just point, shoot, and copy to your computer. A few clicks later, friends, family, and even strangers around the world can view your creations on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other sharing Web sites. Burning your movie to a DVD so that others can watch it on TV or their computer is nearly as quick and easy as the online sharing options. So why, you might wonder, would anyone need a whole book for such an easy-to-use gadget? Let me count the ways. . . . Options, baby, options. Sure you can shoot and upload your video in a few clicks. By editing your video and adding titles, credits, special effects, and a music soundtrack, however, you can make your movie more interesting to others. You’ll see how to do that in this book. Want to capture individual snapshots from your videos and then string those pictures together to create photo slideshows? It’s in here. [download]

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All About Futures

All About Futures 

By: Russel Wasendorf

Philosophers throughout the centuries have said that if God didn’t exist, man would have invented Him. The creation of futures markets may have been just about as inevitable a concept. Human beings have always had a love-hate relationship with the future: They can’t wait for things to get better, and they fear what will happen tomorrow. On a more mundane level, businesspeople have at least as much difficulty dealing with the unknown as the average person. How can they set firm prices for the products they sell or manufacture if they don’t know what they’ll have to pay for the raw materials they use? This question is at least 6,000 years old, dating back to when a futures market in rice is thought to have developed in China. By the Middle Ages there was already a sophisticated futures purchasing system for wheat and wool. [download]

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All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds

All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds 

By: Esme Faerber

People work hard for their money, and when they invest it, they expect to earn satisfactory rates of return. Money that is not spent is saved. This book is intended to assist savers with their investment options to earn satisfactory returns. There are a great number of investment alternatives, but many investors end up with the same few choices. Investments are made to generate future purchasing power that will keep ahead of inflation and provide investors with a sense of financial security. However, if rates of return earned on these investments are meager, this sense of security can quickly turn to a sense of frustration. Rates of return need to exceed the rate of inflation and cover the taxes paid on the earnings to produce positive purchasing power for investors. [download]

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Excel 2010 Just The Steps for Dummies

Excel 2010 Just The Steps for Dummies 

By: Daine Koers

Excel is like a giant accountant ledger sheet composed of a grid made up of columns and rows. At each row and column intersection is a cell. A single worksheet contains 16,374 columns across the top (stretching from column A to column XFD) and 1,048,576 rows down the side. That’s over 17 billion cells in a single worksheet. A cell address is the description of the intersection of a column and a row, such as D23 (in this example, D is the column name and 23 is the row). The Excel interface provides you with the right tools at the right time. In most Windows programs, you see menus and toolbars to select your options from. Instead of the traditional look, Excel provides icon- and button laden tabs on the Ribbon containing most Excel features. Throughout the course of this book, you discover methods to use Excel as a spreadsheet, of course; but you…[download]

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Firefighter Exam for Dummies

Firefighter Exam for Dummies 

By: Stacy L. Bell

Chances are that if you’re reading this book, you’ve thought about pursuing a career in the fire service. Good for you! Firefighting is an exhilarating career. Sure, it involves some risk, but for the most part, firefighters consider what they do honorable, rewarding, and essential for public safety. Firefighters rescue people from all manner of emergencies, including wildland fires, structure fires, floods, motor vehicle accidents, and more. They work to keep the public safe from harm. Perhaps you want to become a firefighter because you like the thought of helping people each day. Maybe you like the idea of an ever-changing work environment or you want a job that keeps you active all the time. Whatever your reason, we applaud your choice and want to help you get hired. The firefighter hiring process is unlike that of any other job. It’s much more than a job application, a resume, and an interview. [download]  

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Europe for Dummies

Europe for Dummies 

By: Wiley Publishing Inc

Finally, you’re taking that long-awaited trip to Europe. Congratulations! You’re about to embark on a great adventure, and part of you may feel a bit overwhelmed. You have lots of plans to make: where to stay, where to dine, how long to remain in each country, and which attractions to see but we can help you every step of the way. You already took the first step in the right direction by buying Europe For Dummies, 4th Edition!. You have in your possession a reference tool, not a guidebook that you have to read from cover to cover. Open up this book to any chapter to find the answers on how to make your European travel dreams come true. You can read Europe For Dummies from start to finish if you want, but if you’re already familiar with some aspects of international travel, feel free to skip over the first two parts and jump right into the destination descriptions. [download]

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