Lynda Lee Kaid, Christina Holtz-Bacha “Encyclopedia of Political Communication " 2007-12-21 | ISBN: 1412917999 | 1104 pages | PDF | 18,2 Mb Political communication began with the earliest studies of democratic discourse by Aristotle and Plato. However, modern political communication relies on an interdisciplinary base, which draws on concepts from communication, political science, journalism, sociology, psychology, history, rhetoric, and others. This two-volume resource considers political communication from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the many different roles that communication plays in political processes in the United States and around the world. The Encyclopedia of Political Communication discusses the major theoretical approaches to the field, including direct and limited effects theories, agenda-setting theories, sociological theories, framing and priming theories, and other past and present conceptualizations. With nearly 600 entries, this resource pays considerable attention to important political messages such as political speeches, televised political advertising, political posters and print advertising, televised political debates, and Internet sites. The audiences for political communications are also central, necessitating concentration on citizen reactions to political messages, how the general public and voters in democratic systems respond to political messages, and the effects of all types of media and message types. http://www.filefactory.com/file/6b71ff/n/Encyclopedia_of_Pol_rar ============== Thomas M. Leonard “Encyclopedia of the Developing World" Routledge | 2005-10-27 | ISBN: 1579583881 | 1902 pages | PDF | 9580 KB (9.1 MB) The Encyclopedia of the Developing World is a comprehensive work on the historical and current status of developing countries. Containing more than 750 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses primarily the years since 1945 and defines development broadly, addressing not only economics but also civil society and social progress. Entries cover the most important theories and measurements of development; relate historical events, movements, and concepts to development both internationally and regionally where applicable; examine the contributions of the most important persons and organizations; and detail the progress made within geographic regions and by individual countries. http://rapidshare.com/files/143469651/EncyclopediaOfTheDevelopingWorld.zip.hyml ================ Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Roberts “World War II: A Student Encyclopedia (5 volume set)" ABC-CLIO | 2005-02-23 | ISBN: 1851098577 | PDF | 1795 pages | 30,6 MB This five-volume set contains some 1,200 entries prepared by a roster of 270 international contributors. The subtitle declares this a "student encyclopedia," but there's nothing condescending about the articles or their presentation (no glossy color photos or boxed features); instead, this is a solid reference for a general audience, with a decent selection of maps and photos in b & w. After a section of 15 general maps (included in each volume), the first volume presents three overview essays on the origins and legacy of the war. Following are the alphabetically arranged entries covering the major theaters, the campaigns, individual battles major weapons systems, diplomatic conferences, and key individuals, as well as the war's historiographical controversies and major turning points, and life on the home front. Entries are signed and include references and cross-references. The fifth volume presents a selection of important documents representing the pre-war period through the aftermath. Edited by Spencer C. Tucker (history, emeritus, Virginia Military Institute); Priscilla Mary Roberts (history, U. of Hong Kong) assisted with the documents volume. http://depositfiles.com/files/7445572 http://w15.easy-share.com/1701327236.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/c7df00/n/WorldWarEnc_rar ================ Hamid Dabashi , "Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire" Routledge (2008) | English | ISBN 0203928385 | 317 pages | PDF | 1.38 MB Are we today witness to a renewed confrontation between ‘‘Islam and the West’’ or are the signs of an imperial domination of globalized capital versus new modes of resistance to it already evident? This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking on the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long-running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically depleted in its confrontation with colonialism. Rather, we are seeing the emergence of the United States as a lone superpower, and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and the rising need for a new Islamic theodicy. Expanding on his vast body of scholarship in reading political Islamism during the last quarter of a century, Dabashi here lays the groundwork for a progressive rethinking of the place of Islamic cosmopolitanism in navigating modes of legitimate resistance to globalized imperialism. The combination of political salience and theoretical force makes Islamic Liberation Theology a cornerstone of a whole new generation of thinking about political Islamism and a compelling read for anyone interested in contemporary Islam, current affairs and US foreign policy. Dabashi drives his well-supported and thoroughly documented points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style. http://rapidshare.com/files/138617201/I5l4mic_LibeTheo.rar.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/dea7a3/n/I5l4mic_LibeTheo_rar ================ Michael Jordan , "Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology)" Facts on File | 2nd edition (2004) | English | ISBN 0816059233 | 420 pages | PDF | 2.50 MB An essential collection of more than 2,500 deities of the world. For more than 60,000 years, people have worshiped deities of the sun, sky, and sea, as well as creator gods, relying on the guidance of faith in the midst of the mysterious world around them. Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Second Edition provides access to more than 2,500 of these religious figures, from ancient Sumerian gods through the modern Haitian deities. roviding a plethora of information from cultures as diverse as the Aztecs, Celts, and Japanese, this dictionary discusses lesser-known divinities as well as the contemporary gods of the major monotheistic religions - Allah, God, and Yahweh, among others. New features, including cross-references and a comprehensive index, make this revised edition more accessible than ever. Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Second Edition is an indispensable resource perfect for general readers interested in mythology and religion, as well as scholars in religious studies, anthropology, history, and archaeology. http://www.filefactory.com/file/271688/n/Dic7i0n4ry_oGaG_rar.html ============= Mariko Namba Walter & Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, "Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture" ABC-CLIO (2004) | English | ISBN 1576076458 | 1091 pages | PDF | 7.53 MB For thousands of years shamans have traveled the spirit world, hunting lost souls, healing the sick, interpreting dreams, and guiding human endeavors on behalf of individuals and communities. Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture is the first worldwide survey to trace the continuous thread of shamanic beliefs and rituals across cultures and through time. It is the only reference to fully convey what it means to be a shaman and how the role of the shaman influences—and draws meaning from—each culture from which it emerges. Shamanism offers nearly 200 fascinating entries on general and regional topics, with leading anthropologists, ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature describing shamanism in tribal and large-scale populations and in developing and developed societies. It both investigates shamanism as a universal part of humanity and discusses specific traits and rituals, studying shamanism from multiple points of view. http://www.filefactory.com/file/932e9e/n/5h4m4ni5m_rar.html ============== Christian C. Young & Mark A. Largent, "Evolution and Creationism: A Documentary and Reference Guide" Greenwood Press (2007) | English | ISBN 0313339538 | 321 pages | PDF | 7.18 MB As recently seen by the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case, the evolution versus creation debate never goes away. The best way to understand these debates is to read the arguments of the individuals involved. This reference work provides over 40 of the most important documents to help readers understand the debate in the eyes of the people of the time. Each document is from a major participant in the debates -- from the predecessors of Darwin to the judges of the influential court cases of the present day. The editors have included an introduction and analysis of each document that places it within historical and scientific context. Evolution and Creationism: A Documentary and Reference Guide aims to enhance our understanding of the debate by presenting over 40 documents that shed light on the origins, goals, and history of the ongoing debate. The volume examines such topics as: Darwin's theory of natural selection, and reviews of his work from his contemporaries; The rise of Fundamentalism and its opposition to evolution; From "Equal-Time" to the de-emphasis of evolution in the schools; and Evolution and its discontents at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, the work includes an extensive bibliography and reference guide to relevant print and electronic resources. http://rapidshare.com/files/142170036/EvolutionAndCreationism.rar.html ================== Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in the Digital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century. Borgman describes the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings. No framework for the impending “data deluge” exists comparable to that for publishing. Analyzing scholarly practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Borgman compares each discipline’s approach to infrastructure issues. In the process, she challenges the many stakeholders in the scholarly infrastructure–scholars, publishers, libraries, funding agencies, and others–to look beyond their own domains to address the interaction of technical, legal, economic, social, political, and disciplinary concerns. Scholarship in the Digital Age will provoke a stimulating conversation among all who depend on a rich and robust scholarly environment. http://www.filefactory.com/file/e10cb9/n/0262026198_rar ============= Games in Economic Development * Author(s): Bruce Wydick * ISBN: 9780521867580 * Publisher: Cambridge University Press * Edition: 1 * Date: 14 Jan 2008 * Pages: 312 Games in Economic Development examines the roots of poverty and prosperity through the lens of elementary game theory, illustrating how patterns of human interaction can lead to vicious cycles of poverty as well as virtuous cycles of prosperity. The book shows how both social norms and carefully designed institutions can help shape the "rules of the game," making better outcomes in a game possible for everyone involved. The book is entertaining to read, intended for a broad audience, and can be accessed with little background in development economics or game theory. Its chapters explore games in natural resource use; education; coping with risk; borrowing and lending; technology adoption; governance and corruption; civil conflict; international trade; and the importance of networks, religion, and identity, illustrating concepts with numerous anecdotes from recent world events. An appendix explaining basic ideas in game theory used in the book is provided for interested readers. Download (1.3 KB) http://depositfiles.com/files/4852517 ================ Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan “Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English" Pearson ESL | 1999-11-05 | ISBN: 0582237254| 1203 pages | PDF | 49,8 Mb The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types ¿ conversation, fiction, news reportage, and academic prose ¿ and reports statistical findings as well as examining the reasons that condition a particular grammatical choice. Encompasses a six-year research project into the ways in which language is really used. Reveals which structures, tenses, and lexical choices occur, and how their distribution differs in different text types. Analyzes natural language in each chapter, based on analysis of the real everyday conversations in the Longman Spoken American Corpus and the British National Corpus. Contains over 350 tables and graphs that show the frequency of constructions across different registers, from conversation to fiction to academic prose. http://depositfiles.com/files/7397881 http://w16.easy-share.com/1701306299.html =================== Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 3 North Holland | 1986-06-01 | ISBN: 0444861874 | 658 pages | PDF | 27,3 MB Hardbound. The Handbook is a definitive reference source and teaching aid for econometricians. It examines models, estimation theory, data analysis and field applications in econometrics. Comprehensive surveys, written by experts, discuss recent developments at a level suitable for professional use by economists, econometricians, statisticians, and in advanced graduate econometrics courses. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GQUVIVYH http://w17.easy-share.com/1700713443.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/2e0f0b/n/Handbook_of_Econometrics_Volume_3_rar.html =================== Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition McGraw-Hill | 1996-10-01 | ISBN: 0070244960 | 725 pages | PDF | 30,3 MB This classic book secured Benjamin Graham's status as a Wall street immortal. the carefully honed methods for finding undervalued stocks and bonds he described here have never been equaled, and have already outlived their author by more than 20 years. Even as Security Analysis has gone through five editions and nearly a million copes, you can learn time-tested investment secrets and strategies by going back to the source - THE ORIGINAL - and paying close attention to its wisdom. Written just five years after the crash, Security Analysis's message today is just as vivid, just as lucid, and just as vital as it was in 1934. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=POPW3TUI http://w17.easy-share.com/1700713473.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/e64cb5/n/Security_Analysis_rar.html =================== Grant's Atlas of Anatomy Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Pages:834 | 2008-02-01 | ISBN: 0781796040 | CHM | 609 MB A cornerstone of gross anatomy since 1943, Grant's Atlas of Anatomy continues to reach students worldwide with its realistic illustrations, detailed surface anatomy photos, clinical relevance, and muscle tables. Renowned for its accuracy, pedagogy, and clinical relevance, the new edition of this classic anatomy atlas features many improvements, including updated artwork, more vital tissue colors, new conceptual diagrams, vibrantly re-colored illustrations, and a more consistent art style. Clinical integration has been greatly enhanced in this edition, with clinical material clearly highlighted for easy identification. In addition, the organization within each chapter has been updated to provide a clearer and more consistent approach. A companion Website offers student and instructor versions of Grant's Interactive Atlas, including images from the book, video clips from Acland's DVD Atlas of Human Anatomy, USMLE-style questions, image-based drag-and-drop questions, and electronic flash cards from Gould's Clinical Anatomy Flash Cards. Also available is an interactive atlas for faculty, which contains all of the images, select Acland clips, presentations of dissection sequences, an expanded table of contents, and more!Medical and health professions students as well as faculty and practitioners continue to rely on Grant's Atlas for its accuracy and comprehensiveness. They're going to love what this new edition has to offer! 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Showcasing a wide range of images, plus the work and insights of guest photographers This key resource for all photographers will help you get the very best from todays sophisticated digital cameras. In this book you will learn essential photographic techniques, before moving on to specific genres: people, nature, action shots and working in the studio. Detailed captions throughout explain which camera and lens was used for each shot and highlight key factors in getting the right exposure, lighting and composition. There is an essential troubleshooting guide to printing errors such as smudges, lines and colour casts. Discover how to produce fine art prints and optimize images for the Web. Plus key technical information on digital and optical quality and colour management. http://depositfiles.com/files/7532527 http://w14.easy-share.com/1701369260.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/565014/n/UndDigitalC_rar.html ==================== Edward A. Irons " Encyclopedia Of Buddhism " Facts on File | 2008-01-31 | ISBN: 0816054592 | 634 pages | PDF | 6,3 MB This is a general introduction and reference primarily to Buddhism, but also to Daoism, Shinto, Confucianism, and other major religious traditions of East Asia that are not covered in other volumes of the series. Articles by scholars of religion, all but one American, consider important figures, both Asian and Western; deities and other supernatural beings; rules and concepts; schools; practices; and other aspects. http://depositfiles.com/files/7464869 http://w15.easy-share.com/1701336678.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/e3a44e/n/EncBuddhism_rar.html ================== Raymond Smith “Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic" Routledge | 1998-08-01 | ISBN: 1579580076 | 601 pages | PDF | 13 MB The Encyclopedia of AIDS covers all major aspects of the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic, including the breakthroughs in treatment announced at the International AIDS Conference in July 1996. The encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of major topics in eight areas: basic science and epidemiology; transmission and prevention; pathology and treatment; impacted populations; policy and law; politics and activism; culture and society; and the global epidemic. With more than 300 entries written by 175 specialists and illustrated with more than 100 photographs and charts, the Encyclopedia of AIDS is an essential reference work for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, professionals in a wide variety of medical, service, and care fields, academics, researchers, journalists, and general readers. http://www.filefactory.com/file/033807/n/EncAIDS_rar http://rapidshare.com/files/141989275/EncAIDS.rar ================= Coli Hempstead “Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Technology" Routledge | 2004-12-07 | ISBN: 1579583865 | 992 pages | PDF | 12,9 MB Comprising 395 essays arranged alphabetically, mostly on individual objects, artifacts, techniques, and products, this is an up-to-date reference work for all those involved in teaching or researching the history of twentieth-century technology, as well as the serious general reader. The core of each of the main entries is a technical description, within a historical narrative, of about 1,000 words plus illustrations and further reading. There are also about 30 longer survey entries that that address broad questions of technological systems, such as the context in which the various technologies were developed, discussions of any controversies and schools of thought, comparisons between different political and economics systems, and the various ways in which different nations have attempted to make and apply science and technology policies. http://www.filefactory.com/file/0533fe/n/EncTechn_rar http://rapidshare.com/files/141998313/EncTechn.rar ======================== Philipp Strazny “Encyclopedia of Linguistics" Routledge | 2004-12-29 | ISBN: 1579583911 | 1304 pages | PDF | 7,98 MB Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field. The Encyclopedia contains four types of entries to thoroughly discuss the different elements of linguistics. 1. Topic essays cover a wide range of theoretical issues and highlight the main problems discussed in the relevant sub-disciplines of linguistics. 2. Sketches of individual languages provide readers with a broad phenomenological and historical overview. To capture the variability of language, each entry concentrates on the particular characteristics that differentiate the language (or language family) from others. 3. Essays on countries and regions highlight linguistics issues specific to a given country or geographic region. These regional essays concentrate on the political and sociological aspects of linguistic diversity, language planning, education, etc. 4. Biographical essays focus on the scholarship and contributions to the theoretical development of linguistics and present brief biographic details. http://www.filefactory.com/file/fea89c/n/EncLinguistic_rar http://depositfiles.com/files/7446810 ================== Lynne Warren “Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (3 Volumes)" Routledge | 2005-11-15 | ISBN: 1579583938 | PDF | 140 pages | 28,6 MB The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography brings together this rich history in three volumes. It explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This three volume Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included. http://www.filefactory.com/file/39f9cb/n/EncPhotog_rar http://w13.easy-share.com/1701327459.html ================= How to Program Using Java A humorous and friendly introduction to programming for undergraduate students meeting the subject for the first time. Using Java as a running example, the authors outline the principles of programming that will serve as a valuable foundation in good practice for when students meet other languages in later courses. Packed with cartoons and entertaining examples, this book is an accessible, student friendly guide to programming for beginners. http://rapidshare.com/files/137542664/How_2Program_UsingJava.rar http://www.filefactory.com/file/b3a6ef/n/How_2Program_UsingJava_rar ============== Phishing: Cutting the Identity Theft Line “Phishing” is the hot new identity theftbankWeb site where s/he is asked to provide account details. The site looks legitimate, and 3 to 5 percent of people who receive the e-mail go on to surrender their information-to crooks. One e-mail monitoring organization reported 2.3 billion phishing messages in February 2004 alone. or other financial institution, and it contains a link to a scam. An unsuspecting victim receives an e-mail that seems to come from a If that weren’t enough, the crooks have expanded their operations to include malicious code that steals identity information without the computer user’s knowledge. Thousands of computers Written by a phishing securitybook are compromised each day, and phishing code is increasingly becoming part of the standard exploits. helps IT professionals respond to phishing incidents. After describing in detail what goes into phishing expeditions, the author provides step-by-step directions for discouraging attacks and responding to those that have already happened. expert at a top financial institution, this unique In Phishing, Rachael Lininger: Offers case studies that reveal the technical ins and outs of impressive phishing attacks. Presents a step-by-step model for phishing prevention. Explains how intrusion detection systems can help prevent phishers from attaining their goal-identity theft. Delivers in-depth incident response techniques that can quickly shutdown phishing sites. http://ifile.it/7h06tdk/0764584987.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/136165091/0764584987.rar ============= Ann Pilling "The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History" Helicon Publishing | Year 2006 | ISBN : 1859862578 | 728 pages | 15 Mb The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the people, events, and ideas that have shaped Britain from prehistory to the present day. The editors have also sought to convey the truth that history is more than simply a compilation of facts from the past. The editors have included as much factual information as possible in each A-Z entry, and numerous tables and statistics are included, as well as many specially-created maps and plans. The chronological relationships of past events and lives are conveyed through various detailed subject chronologies (attached to the relevant A-Z entries). A large thematic chronology, following the A-Z text, provides a visual reference to the relationship between the events of British/Irish history and events elsewhere in the world. And the cultural context of as many entries as possible has been brought to life via a wide range of illustrations, which provide a wealth of visual detail and, often, a key to past conceptions. Interspersed in the text are 21 specially commissioned, extended feature articles from noted historians that provide the analysis and the sense of the broad sweep of history that would otherwise be impossible to convey in an A-Z reference book. http://rapidshare.com/files/139957961/EncBritHish.rar.html ============== The Unofficial MacGyver How-To Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition American International Press | ISBN:1887641475 | 2005-12-21 | PDF | 192pages | 2.95 MB Don't you wish you could do all the cool tricks that MacGyver did? Now you can. The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition provides step-by-step instructions to MacGyver's most inventive tricks. As viewers of the show, we had always assumed that MacGyver's tricks were fiction, the kind of stuff that only works on TV. Inspired by a rerun in which MacGyver seals an acid leak with a chocolate bar, we decided to dig up our old high school science books and find out if this stuff really works. The result of our investigation is The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition, an illustrated primer to MacGyver's tricks complete with scientific explanations. We provide step-by-step, how-to instructions that unlock the scientific secrets and spy genius of MacGyver's many tricks, including: How to pick a lock with a pocket knife; How to develop film with orange juice; How to create homemade fog; How to use a paperclip to undress a woman AND disarm a missile! Each entry includes: A description of the materials you need to perform the trick; Step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish the trick; The scientific explanation of why the trick works. In depicting these tricks, The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition, offers a mix of extreme scenarios and practical applications. So while you'll probably never have the thrill of breaking into a high security laboratory, you can feel like a secret agent while you develop photos in the kitchen sink with orange juice. http://w15.easy-share.com/1699725368.html http://depositfiles.com/files/3840861 http://rapidshare.com/files/95768595/The_Unofficial_MacGyver_How-to_Handbook.rar ================= Colleen Conway, "Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity" Oxford University Press (2008) | English | ISBN 019532532X | 270 pages | PDF | 3.33MB In this book, Colleen Conway looks at the construction of masculinity in New Testament depictions of Jesus. She argues that the New Testament writers necessarily engaged the predominant gender ideology of the Roman Empire, whether consciously or unconsciously. Although the notion of what constituted ideal masculinity in Greek and Roman cultures certainly pre-dated the Roman Empire, the emergence of the Principate concentrated this gender ideology on the figure of the emperor. Indeed, critical to the success of the empire was the portrayal of the emperor as the ideal man and the Roman citizen as one who aspired to be the same. Any person who was held up alongside the emperor as another source of authority would be assessed in terms of the cultural values represented in this Roman image of the "manly man." Conway examines a variety of ancient ideas of masculinity, as found in philosophical discourses, medical treaties, imperial documents, and ancient inscriptions. Manliness, in these accounts, was achieved through self-control over passions such as lust, anger, and greed. It was also gained through manly displays of courage, the endurance of pain, and death on behalf of others. With these texts as a starting point, Conway shows how the New Testament writings approach Jesus' gender identity. From Paul's early letters to the Gospels and Acts, to the book of Revelation, Christian writings in the Bible confront the potentially emasculating scandal of the cross and affirm Jesus as ideally masculine. Conway's study touches on such themes as the relationship between divinity and masculinity; the role of the body in relation to gender identity; and belief in Jesus as a means of achieving a more ideal form of masculinity. This impeccably researched and highly readable book reveals the importance of ancient gender ideology for the interpretation of Christian texts. http://rapidshare.com/files/135607684/B3h0ld_7h3_M4n.rar http://www.filefactory.com/file/0f153b/n/B3h0ld_7h3_M4n_rar ================= Fulton J. Sheen, "Your Life Is Worth Living: The Christian Philosophy of Life" Saint Andrew's Press (2001) | English | ISBN 0970145683 | 400 pages | PDF | 3.67 MB Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was one of the leading religious figures of the 20th century and the chief spokesman of American Catholicism. Previously unpublished, this work reflects his 16 years of service as national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and 26 years on radio and television. It is the only work where he describes his Christian philosophy. Sheen created this compendium in 1965 in the privacy of his New York City residence at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. The series ran over 21 hours on 25 vinyl records. It is his response to millions of letters he received from people around the world writing him in search of truth, salvation, and spiritual guidance and was also conceived to explain his mission to evangelize the world. This book provides Sheen’s answers to life’s most profound questions and presents the Christian philosophy of life. Released solely on audiocassette for 20 years, it is now available for the first time in print. http://www.filefactory.com/file/c3ea35/n/Y0ur_Lif3_iWL_rar =================== Physics in Our Word: Particles and the Universe, Facts On File Library of Congress Cataloging | English | ISBN-9780596529680 | Jun-2007 | PDF | 5.85 MB | 177 pages | RAR Compressed - 2.29 MB | No Password Introduction AS A STUDENT forced to flee Cambridge University during an epidemic in 1665–66, Isaac Newton—later knighted, becoming Sir Isaac—found a lot of time to do experiments. He put this time to good use, discovering the basis for many of the laws of physics he would go on to publish a few decades later. Newton’s equations accurately described acceleration and motion, and his universal law of gravitation explained in a concise and mathematical way gravity on Earth as well as in the solar system. The physics of Newton dominated physics for more than 200 years. In Newton’s viewpoint, forces caused changes in motion, which could be precisely determined and calculated, and concepts such as space and time were absolute, the same for everyone. Physicists continued to accept this point of view until, in the 20th century, exceptions began to appear. With improved instruments and more imaginative theories, people began to probe objects and events that were not encountered in everyday life—tiny particles inside an atom, immense objects such as the entire universe, and small or large objects moving at exceptionally fast speeds. Laws described by Newton failed to hold true in many cases. New laws, and occasionally entirely new concepts, were needed. The new laws reduce to the old laws in familiar situations but increase their scope and accuracy. Particles and the Universe documents the phenomena in which Newton’s physics failed and explains “modern” physics that formed the basis for a new set of laws. One thing that did not change was the scientific method—observations lead to theories, which must be tested for accuracy. Each chapter of Particles and the Universe delves into the observations, theories, and tests of a particular topic: 1.nuclear physics 2.quantum mechanics 3.particle physics 4.relativity cosmology, the study of the universe Nuclear physics investigates the properties and behavior of the central portion, or nucleus, of the atom. This branch of physics has had perhaps the biggest impact on the world in the 20th century because it evolved into knowledge that helped build the most destructive weapons people have ever known. The atomic bombs that ended World War II in 1945, and the weapons race that followed, changed the course of history. But applications of nuclear physics have also provided enormous energy for peaceful purposes, generating about 16 percent of the world’s electricity. The strange behavior of tiny particles such as the components of an atom required physicists to revise their theories, as well as the way that those theories are understood and applied. Quantum mechanics supplies the equations to describe the motion and properties of particles, but its measurements have peculiar features. Properties of objects tend to have a discrete nature—their values increase by specific amounts, like the integers (. . .–2, –1, 0, 1, 2,. . .) rather than being continuous, like the real number line, in which the value can be any number. Calculations in quantum mechanics also introduce an amount of uncertainty that can never disappear. Physicists dealt with uncertainty before quantum mechanics, but it was due to a lack of knowledge, not due to the nature of physics itself, as it is in the newer theory. To probe the nature of matter even further, physicists have built gigantic accelerators capable of hurling particles down a pathway at nearly the speed of light. Crashes between high-speed particles have enough energy to tear them apart or to create entirely new particles, and hundreds of different particles exist. Particle physics is the branch of physics devoted to classifying these particles, identifying their properties, and explaining the forces they exert on each other as they interact. Extremely fast speeds, such as those achieved by particle accelerators, were another phenomenon requiring a fresh perspective in physics. A few decades before huge accelerators were built, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicists of all time, concerned himself with the laws of physics as they would appear to observers in motion. Einstein believed physics should be the same for all observers, and his special theory of relativity, published in 1905, generated strange but accurate predictions of slowly moving clocks and shrinking lengths. The general theory of relativity, proposed a decade later, involved gravitation and had its own astonishing consequences, such as the discovery of objects in space so dense that not even light can escape them. Einstein’s theories have survived every test so far. The special and general theories of relativity are also important tools in the study of the universe. These theories help astronomers understand the observations made with telescopes and other instruments, which reveal a host of spectacular objects and events. One of the most fascinating phenomena is the expansion of the universe itself, a prediction of the general theory of relativity even Einstein refused to believe at first. All chapters include a description of the profound changes caused by the new discoveries, along with applications such as earth-shattering weapons, machines to image the activity of a human brain, and precise satellite navigation systems. The rise of 20th-century physics altered the landscape of science, producing new ideas and theories that dramatically advanced scientific knowledge in previously unexplored realms of the universe. Download http://www.ziddu.com/downloadfile/2075931/ParticlesandtheUniverse_FactsOnFile.rar.html ===================== Physics in Our Word: Time and Thermodynamics, Facts Of File Library of Congress Cataloging | English | ISBN-978-0-8160-6113-6 | Jun-2007 | PDF | 6.25 MB | 161 pages | RAR Compressed - 2.92 MB | No Password Introduction A LEGEND OF the ancient Greeks tells the story of a god called Prometheus, who taught people how to make fire. This gave a tremendous boost to humanity, and the other gods were furious with Prometheus for allowing humans to wield such potency. Although the story of Prometheus is a myth, the ability to harness fire and heat did provide people with some of their earliest technology. Steam powered much of the Industrial Revolution, a period of time beginning in the late 18th century in which machines tremendously advanced the productivity of manufacturing and transportation. But heat, temperature, and their relationships are much broader subjects than just steam-powered machines. Warmth is associated with life and activity; cold is associated with death and stillness. Some organisms rely on the environment to provide warmth, and some organisms can generate their own, but all living beings must adapt and interact in a world in which temperature is not constant. Time and Thermodynamics explores the physics of heat and temperature and their effects on people’s lives and technology. The word thermo refers to heat, and the word dynamics gives an indication of motion, both of which are vital to the subject. Heat is energy that flows from warm objects to cooler ones. Nineteenthcentury scientists and engineers such as Sadi Carnot, primarily motivated by the desire to understand and improve steam-powered machines, discovered the principles of thermodynamics. Much to their surprise, they found that the physics of thermodynamics places strict limits on what machines can accomplish. But the subject also opened up vast areas of knowledge in habitats, biology, technology, engines, as well as a surprising amount of revelation on the topic of time. Time and Thermodynamics discusses thermodynamics principles related to each of these topics and how their application enables people to better understand the world and sometimes even improve it. Temperature is vital to the health and welfare of all animals, and Earth’s temperature varies considerably from place to place. Early humans could only live in warm areas such as the tropics, near the equator. Although modern humans have the technology to keep their houses and offices warm even in cold environments, the growth and development of civilization has created unintentional effects. Cities are warmer than their surrounding regions, and on a global scale, Earth is experiencing rising temperatures. Thermodynamics offers an important tool to study these effects. Maintaining proper temperature is critical for life, and this need has a great influence on the form, function, and molecules of the bodies and organs of people and animals. Reptiles bask in the sun for warmth, but humans generate a lot of heat on their own. These two methods of keeping warm differ in significant ways, yet both adhere to thermodynamic principles of heat generation and transfer. Heat naturally flows from warm to cold objects, but it is often desirable to get it to go in the opposite direction. Air conditioners pump heat from the inside of a relatively cool house to the hot environment outside on a summer day. The process requires energy, usually taken from electricity, and the reason why strikes at the heart of the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics laws also put strict limits on the ability of engines to use heat to propel vehicles or raise heavy objects. Knowing these limits prevents engineers from trying to design impossible machines, but it does not stop them from building impressive cars capable of roaring down a racetrack at 200 miles per hour (320 km/hr.), jet fighters that exceed the speed of sound by a factor of two or three, and a new engine called a ramjet to accelerate an aircraft up to 7,000 miles per hour (11,200 km/hr.). The final chapter explores time. Although time would not seem at first to have strong ties with thermodynamics, the relationship is profound. Physics has much symmetry—the laws of physics are often the same in a variety of circumstances. This includes time; physics formulas are usually the same whether time is increasing (going forward, into the future) or decreasing (going backward, into the past). Most of physics has no preference for either case, because its laws work equally well in both directions. Yet people experience time as flowing in a single direction, from past to present and on into the future. Thermodynamics provides an ingenious explanation for this, because its laws are an exception to the rest of physics and breaks the symmetry in time. As a result, thermodynamics yields clues about the nature of time, the possibility of time travel, and the very beginning of time, at the creation of the universe. Download http://www.ziddu.com/downloadfile/2076489/TimeandThermodynamics_FactsOfFile.rar.html ===================== Knowledge and Its Limits Oxford University Press | English | Jun-2002 | PDF | 3.28 MB | 200 pages | RAR Compressed - 2.02 MB | No Password Introduction Knowing and Acting Knowledge and action are the central relations between mind and world. In action, world is adapted to mind. In knowledge, mind is adapted to world. When world is maladapted to mind, there is a residue of desire. When mind is maladapted to world, there is a residue of belief. Desire aspires to action; belief aspires to knowledge. The point of desire is action; the point of belief is knowledge. Those slogans are not platitudes—unless platitudes can be generally contested. According to many philosophers, desire aspires only to satisfaction, and belief only to truth. Action is a systematic way to satisfied desire, and knowledge to true belief, but desires can also be satisfied and beliefs true by chance. There is satisfied desire without action and true belief without knowledge. Why ask for more? Satisfaction and truth already constitute the required match between mind and world, with the appropriate directions of fit. Of course, we sometimes desire to act; those desires are satisfied only if there is action. We sometimes believe ourselves to know; those beliefs are true only if there is knowledge. But such cases are special; our desires and beliefs frequently concern states of the world of which actions and beliefs are not themselves constituents. Although desires can be satisfied as well by chance as by action, that is no reason to marginalize the category of action in the understanding of mind. The place of desire in the economy of mental life depends on its potential connection with action. Similarly, although beliefs can be true as well by chance as by knowledge, that is no reason to marginalize the category of knowledge in the understanding of mind. This book develops a conception on which the place of belief in the economy of mental life depends on its potential connection with knowledge. The foregoing vague phrases will later be partially replaced by something end p.1 more precise. But that is not the purpose of this introduction, which is painted with a broad brush. Its aim is to give the reader a rough overall picture in which the layout of the main parts is visible. Subsequent chapters fill in details in the parts. Even they will amount to nothing like a proof that the picture is correct. Epistemological theories are not usually susceptible of proof. This book shows how to understand cognitive phenomena on the basis of some simple but generally overlooked ideas. The reader will judge those ideas by their fruit. Download http://uploading.com/files/FDIKU9S2/Knowledge%20and%20Its%20Limits.rar.html ============= The Possibility of Knowledge Oxford University Press Inc. | ISBN 978–0–19–920831–9 | English | Jun-2007 | PDF | 1.86 MB | 244 pages Preface This book is about how-possible questions in epistemology. A howpossible question asks how something is, or was, possible. Such questions aren’t necessarily philosophical. Students of British politics might wonder how it was possible for John Major to become Prime Minister in 1990 but this is a question for historians and political scientists rather than for philosophers. The how-possible questions that are of philosophical interest are metaphysical, ethical, or epistemological. So, for example, a philosopher might ask how freedom of the will is possible or how evil is possible or how knowledge is possible. The latter is an example of an epistemological how-possible question. The following chapters are about how this question arises and what a good answer to it would look like. The basic idea is very simple. We start by assuming that knowledge is possible but then come across apparent obstacles to its existence or acquisition. So the question is: how is knowledge, or knowledge of some specific kind, possible given the various factors that make it look impossible? On this account, how-possible questions are obstacledependent. Sceptics are people who think that the obstacles to knowledge are insuperable and that knowledge is therefore impossible. If we don’t want to end up as sceptics we will have to show that the alleged obstacles are unreal or that they can be overcome. Either way, it is the perceived obstacle that gives the how-possible question its bite. What would be an example of an obstacle to knowledge? It’s easier to get a sense of the problem in relation to particular kinds of knowledge, say knowledge of the external world. This kind of knowledge isn’t possible for us unless we have ways of knowing something about the external world, that is, viable sources of knowledge of the world around us. The absence of such sources would therefore be one obstacle. If this is the obstacle that triggers the how-possible question then it looks as though an effective response is going to have to operate at several different levels: at one level, it is going to have to show that we do have at our disposal genuine ways or means of knowing about the external world. Second, any apparent obstacles to the acquisition of knowledge by the proposed means will need to be dealt with. Third, an account might be given of what makes it possible for us to come to know things about the world around us by these suggested means Download http://www.uploading.com/files/8W5L2OZM/The_Possibility_of_Knowledge.pdf.html ============== Light and Optics, Facts On File Library of Congress Cataloging | English | ISBN-978-0-8160-6114-3 | June 2007 | PDF | 6.42 MB | 193 pages | RAR Compressed - 2.27 MB | No Password Introduction SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS ago people believed that vision involved the emission of some kind of radiation by the eye. Everyone realized the eyes are necessary—an eye injury causes a loss of vision—but people in ancient times imagined the eye sent out rays and bounced them off distant objects, providing a sense of vision by analyzing the returning radiation. If vision really worked this way, then eyesight would result from the eye actively exploring the environment. But vision works differently. Arab scholar Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham (965–1040) correctly proposed that the eye receives radiation emitted by other sources; some of the radiation travels straight to the eye, which makes the source visible, and some of the radiation reaches the eye after bouncing off objects that do not otherwise emit radiation, which is how these objects become visible. The major source of this radiation, called light, is the Sun. Light is the messenger of vision, and the eye is tuned to detect it. The importance of light in vision was an excellent motivator for scientists to study and experiment with this type of radiation, known as electromagnetic radiation. Optics is the study of light and the devices and instruments that make use of light. But visible light forms only a small portion of the broad range of radiation, and while the eye and instruments such as microscopes and telescopes are important topics, they do not by any means encompass the whole subject. Light and Optics adopts a physics perspective and explores the science of electromagnetic radiation and its tremendous variety of applications. The optics of image formation, described in chapter 2, is an essential aspect, but this volume also includes discussions of the intense beams of light produced by lasers, the role of light in biological processes such as photosynthesis and medical procedures such as laser surgery, astronomical observations based on all types of radiation, and applications involving communication, radar, and the transformation of light into electricity. An understanding of the science of light led to ways of correcting faulty vision, as well as the means of improving vision to study objects too small or too distant to be seen by the unaided eye. The performance of instruments such as microscopes, telescopes, and the human eye depends on the principles of optics. But even with these advances, some mysteries remain. The nature of light has puzzled scientists for centuries, and just when people think they have it figured out, light does something different. Sometimes light behaves as fields of energy oscillating—vibrating—at various rates, and sometimes light behaves as if it consists of a stream of small particles. These two behaviors are entirely different, yet both are within light’s amazing abilities. Whether future research will clear up this mystery or further deepen it is not presently known. Devices such as cell phones and X-ray machines employ electromagnetic radiation that is different from visible light in the number of oscillations per second; X-ray machines use radiation having a much higher oscillation rate than light, and cell phones use radiation having a lower rate. Although all the types of electromagnetic radiation share many of the same properties, the subtle differences are critical and lead to widely varying applications. The various types of electromagnetic radiation are also crucial in understanding the universe, which contains radiation emitters of almost every conceivable variety. Light has energy, and this energy is capable of extraordinary feats. The energy of sunlight is the basis of all life on Earth, for plants use it to make the food that feeds the world. When concentrated into a narrow laser beam, light can cut, burn, and even propel spaceships. People are just beginning to understand and appreciate the many things that the energy of light and other radiation can accomplish. Today’s equipment and technology are already impressive, and the future holds even more promise. Light and other types of radiation are even being used today in the same way people used to think vision worked. Although the eye does not emit visual rays—that idea was wrong—there is nothing to stop people from building devices that do, and from sending out these rays to extend their vision to observe distant airplanes and detect drivers who exceed posted speed limits. The science and technology of light, radiation, and optics are full of ideas, old and new, to help people see farther and better, and in many strange and unique ways. Download http://www.ziddu.com/downloadfile/2076587/LightandOptics_FactsOnFile.rar.html ============== The Global Positioning System: A Shared National Asset Publisher: National Academies Press | 284 pages | 1995-05-31 | 0309052831 | PDF | 2,5 Mb The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that was originally designed for the U.S. military. However, the number of civilian GPS users now exceeds the military users, and many commercial markets have emerged. 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The signed articles are arranged alphabetically from Abscam to Yielding, with a list of entries, an index, and cross-references enabling the user to find material. Further readings at the end of each article and a selected bibliography of print materials direct readers to other sources. Some black-and-white illustrations and a few tables supplement the text. http://rapidshare.com/files/144811926/Encyclopedia_Of_The_United_States_Congr.zip.html ================ The Encyclopedia of World Religions Editorial Review From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up—Ellwood's wide-ranging, accessible, alphabetically arranged volume includes historical, comparative, and theoretical entries, many covering societal aspects of religion. The further-reading list has been updated, and there are new entries on fundamentalisms, al-Qaeda, Hamas, religion and politics, and more. The inadequate number of illustrations is a weakness, as are the lack of entries on Wahhabism or Falun Gong (though the latter is mentioned briefly in "religions of China"); an outdated statistic on Zoroastrians; and the absurd claim that Roman Catholic statues are "worshipped with adoration." Jones's multivolume set also has many strong points, including pronunciation help, clear expression, informative sidebars, research and activities ideas, and discussion questions. However, its arrangement is confusing, and there is some repetition. Coverage includes 18 major and minor religions and philosophies. Religious influence is presented as entirely positive. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and other notables are not among those profiled. The index lacks entries for Mithras, Falun Gong, the Unification Church, and more. The black-and-white photos are undated, and some primary sources are poorly translated. Among the relatively few errors are conflicting dates for Genesis. Neither of these sets illuminates the current religious climate in any given country. http://rapidshare.com/files/144813993/Encyclopedia_of_World_Relig.zip.hyml =============== “Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate" Facts on File | 2007-06-08 | ISBN: 0816063508 | 832 pages | PDF | 16,65 Mb Editorial Reviews From School Library Journal Grade 8 Up-A much-needed resource that does not disappoint. Nearly 3000 alphabetically arranged entries offer explanations of how the atmosphere works, how weather forms, instruments, important contributors to the advancement of the atmospheric sciences, and more. Allaby's entries range from a few words to essays of several paragraphs. The articles are written in a readable style that requires no background knowledge, though a pronunciation guide is lacking. The set is profusely illustrated with black-and-white maps, diagrams, drawings, and photographs-all captioned. Tables and graphs are scattered throughout. Bold entry headings and guide words at the top of each page facilitate access, while generous type size aids readability. There are a number of cross- and see-references. Many articles include Web addresses; an appendix rounds them all up. A bibliography of books and articles, chronologies of disasters and discovery, a geological time scale, and a listing of tornadoes of the past are also included. There is a comprehensive index in both volumes. This set will be a useful source for all those weather-related questions, for report material, and for general interest. http://www.filefactory.com/file/4ff5d1/n/cyclopedia_of_Weather_zip ============= Harvey Molotch " Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come to Be As They Are " Routledge | 2003-03-14 | ISBN: 0415944007 | PDF | 336 pages | 10 MB No toaster is an island. In fact, as Harvey Molotch demonstrates in this sparkling tour of how things are created, the everyday objects of our life are a delicate and clever intermingling of design, timing and functionality that mirrors contemporary life. Where Stuff Comes From is about paper clips, post-its, bathtubs, cars and all the other stuff in our lives. It is about how these items were imagined into existence and made a part of the American material culture. From the designer to the manufacturer to the business owner to the consumer, Molotch guides us through the worlds of technology, design, corporate culture and popular culture, giving us a sense of how and why we want stuff. He rolls up his sleeves and goes behind the scenes at trade shows and in design studios to speak with the product-makers who gave us the Nike swoosh and Volkswagen's resurrected Beetle. A witty and surprising voyage into the aesthetic unconscious of the consumer, Where Stuff Comes From probes the meaning of the objects in our lives and what our possessions say about us. Ultimately, Molotch opens a fascinating window into our economy, society and culture by unlocking the complex strategies behind simple things. http://www.filefactory.com/file/2e86b7/n/WHERE_STUFF_FROM_zip ================= Maximum Linux Security (2nd Edition) Maximum Linux Security: A Hacker’s Guide to Protecting Your Linux Server and Workstation is designed for system administrators, managers, or Linux users who wish to protect their Linux servers and workstations from unauthorized intrusions and other external threats to their systems’ integrity. Written by an experienced hacker–someone who knows which systems are vulnerable and how crackers get into them–this unique guide to Linux security identifies existing and potential security holes and faults, and then describes how to go about fixing them. 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Dellandrea, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Development and External Affairs, University of Oxford “Major Donors offers some of the best advice from some of the world’s leading prospect researchers, and it will help you to become a much better fundraiser. It is a great resource and an important part of any fundraising library. When you follow the advice in this book, you will raise much more money.” —Harvey McKinnon, President, Harvey McKinnon Associates author of Hidden Gold and How Today’s Rich Give, and coauthor of the international bestseller The Power of Giving Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/130298339/0471768103.rar.html ================= Becoming a Digital Library (Books in Library and Information Science) This excellent reference traces the construction and maintenance of the digital collections and services that have been available day in and day out to users worldwide for more than a decade. It examines applicable guidelines for any library looking to build and manage systems, conduct and evaluate projects, and scout new directions for mainstreaming and hybridizing the building of a digital library. Including contributions from seasoned experts in specializations such as staffing, collection development, and technology project management for digital libraries, Becoming a Digital Library discusses the techniques for finding and training the right people to build a digital library Download: http://www.filefactory.com/file/93acdf/ ================= The Physics of Information Technology The Physics of Information Technology explores the familiar devices that we use to collect, transform, transmit, and interact with electronic information. Many such devices operate surprisingly close to very many fundamental physical limits. Understanding how such devices work, and how they can (and cannot) be improved, requires deep insight into the character of physical law as well as engineering practice. The book starts with an introduction to units, forces, and the probabilistic foundations of noise and signaling, then progresses through the electromagnetics of wired and wireless communications, and the quantum mechanics of electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, to discussions of mechanisms for computation, storage, sensing, and display. This self-contained volume will help both physical scientists and computer scientists see beyond the conventional division between hardware and software to understand the implications of physical theory for information manipulation. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/130462569/The_Physics_Information_Technology.rar.html =============== Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net Whether or not one believes the hyperbolic claims about the Internet being the biggest thing since the invention of the wheel, the Internet is a medium with great consequences for social and economic life. Doing Internet Research is written to help people discern in what ways it has commanded the public imagination, and the methodological issues that arise when one tries to study and understand the social processes occurring within the Internet. Each contributor to the volume offers original responses in the search for, and critique of, methods with which to study the Internet and the social, political, economic, artistic, communicative phenomena occurring within and around it. This book provides encouragement for readers getting started with Internet research and also provides perspective on this new and ubiquitous communication medium. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/130132518/Doing_Internet_Research.rar.html =============== Web Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age This exciting and engaging book explores the ways in which people, organizations, and companies are using the Internet to project their interests and concerns into the world. Beginning with an introduction to cyberculture studies and ways to studying the web, Web.Studies moves on to consider everyday web life, web art and culture, web business, and global web politics and protest. Topics covered range from fan websites, web identities, and web design trends, to global capitalism and web allure, cybercrime and the politics of hacking and propaganda warfare via the web. Throughout the book are suggestions for ways in which students can use the web to further their own research. While there has been an explosion of books on the Internet, this is the first to offer students and general readers a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the new web base media culture. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/130134761/Web_Studies.rar.html ================ Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace With the intense growth of e-business, we hear about an increase in hacking and technology-based criminal incidents. Institutions such as Citibank and Ebay have faced intrusions that have cost them millions of dollars in damages. With the onset of these criminal attacks, there is an increase in demand for products and services that provide more information for people. Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace portrays the shadow side of cyberspace by taking you into the lairs of hackers, crackers, researchers, private investigators, law enforcement agents and intelligence officers. The book covers what kinds of cyber-crimes are going to affect business on the Internet, their cost, how they are investigated, and the motivation of hackers and virus writers. Also covered are the problems faced by law enforcement, corporate cyber security professionals, and real-world examples of cyber crimes and lessons learned. Download (pilih salah satu): http://ifile.it/1stf9i8 http://rapidshare.com/files/129498690/078972443X.rar.html =============== The Social and Cognitive Impacts of e-Commerce on Modern Organizations IGI Global | 2004-03 | ISBN: 1591402492 | 350 pages | CHM | 3,2 MB This important new book aims to expand the overall body of knowledge regarding the human aspects of electronic commerce technologies and utilization in modern organizations and to assist researchers and practitioners to devise more effective systems for managing the human side of e-commerce. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/136925329/TheSocialAndCognitiveImpactEComm.rar.html =================== Herbert Schildt “C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition" McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | 2003-12-03 | ISBN: 0072232153 | 576 pages | PDF | 10 MB Essential skills made easy! Written by Herb Schildt, the world’s leading programming author, this step-by-step book is ideal for first-time programmers or those new to C++. 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Numerous exercises in mathematics and applications areas are presented, graded from routine to more demanding projects requiring some programming. Matlab M-files are provided on the Harcourt/Academic Press web site at http://www.harcourt-ap.com/matlab.html. * Computer-oriented material that complements the essential topics in multivariable calculus * Main ideas presented with examples of computations and graphics displays using MATLAB * Numerous examples of short code in the text, which can be modified for use with the exercises * MATLAB files are used to implement graphics displays and contain a collection of mfiles which can serve as demos Download (pilih salah satu): http://depositfiles.com/files/6163660 http://w17.easy-share.com/1700715588.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/3ff2da/ ========================== David Parrish “T-shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity" Merseyside ACME | 2007-06-12 | ISBN: 0953825450 | 112 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB The book is designed for creative entrepreneurs and people managing creative businesses and cultural organisations. It is one of the few books written especially for people in the creative industries and cultural industries. It offers business ideas on marketing, intellectual property, leadership, organisational structures and more, for the creative business. Download: http://www.filefactory.com/file/3ff2da/ ============================ Daniel S. Wilks “Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Second Edition" Academic Press | 2005-11-21 | ISBN: 0127519661 | 648 pages | PDF | 6,2 MB Praise for the First Edition: "I recommend this book, without hesitation, as either a reference or course text...Wilks' excellent book provides a thorough base in applied statistical methods for atmospheric sciences."--BAMS (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) Fundamentally, statistics is concerned with managing data and making inferences and forecasts in the face of uncertainty. It should not be surprising, therefore, that statistical methods have a key role to play in the atmospheric sciences. It is the uncertainty in atmospheric behavior that continues to move research forward and drive innovations in atmospheric modeling and prediction. This revised and expanded text explains the latest statistical methods that are being used to describe, analyze, test and forecast atmospheric data. It features numerous worked examples, illustrations, equations, and exercises with separate solutions. Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Second Edition will help advanced students and professionals understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, and make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines. * Presents and explains techniques used in atmospheric data summarization, analysis, testing, and forecasting * Chapters feature numerous worked examples and exercises * Model Output Statistic (MOS) includes an introduction to the Kalman filter, an approach that tolerates frequent model changes * Detailed section on forecast verification, including statistical inference, diagrams, and other methods New in this Edition: * Expanded treatment of resampling tests within nonparametric tests * Updated treatment of ensemble forecasting * Expanded coverage of key analysis techniques, such as principle component analysis, canonical correlation analysis, discriminant analysis, and cluster analysis * Careful updates and edits throughout, based on users' feedback Download (pilih salah satu): http://w17.easy-share.com/1700714321.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/b76e1a/ http://depositfiles.com/files/6160708 =========================== Jonathan A. Hales “Accounting and Financial Analysis in the Hospitality Industry" Butterworth-Heinemann | 2005-08-01 | ISBN: 0750678968 | 312 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB The objective of this textbook is to teach students to be conversational in speaking numbers. This means understanding fundamental accounting concepts, developing solid financial analysis abilities, and then applying them to understand and improve the operational performance of their hotel or restaurant. The book will accomplish this by studying the current practices of some of todays leading hotel and restaurant companies. Chapters will be developed under the auspices of a select group of hospitality industry General Mangers, Directors of Finance, and Regional Accounting Managers to ensure that the information is current, accurate and useful. Understanding and applying the information will be the main focus of this book. This textbook should provide hospitality managers the knowledge and experience to be comfortable in using numbers to operate their departments. This includes developing the ability to perform all accounting and financial aspects of their position efficiently and correctly including revenue forecasting, wage scheduling, budgeting, P&L critiques, purchasing procedures and cost control methods. As a result, they will have more time to spend on the floor with their customers and employees. This knowledge will help them understand their operations and how to improve, change or expand them to increase revenues or profits. * Introduces the fundamentals of hospitality accounting from an applied perspective with real industry examples * Developed under supervision of industry experts * Incorporates career success model to place subject in a larger context for students Download (pilih salah satu): http://depositfiles.com/files/6160503 http://w17.easy-share.com/1700714234.html http://www.filefactory.com/file/43edfd/ ================== Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author Dan Brown shows you how to make the documentation you're required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible. He begins with an introductory section about deliverables and their place in the overall process, and then delves into to the different types of deliverables. From usability reports to project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, and more, each chapter includes a contents checklist, presentation strategy, maintenance strategy, a description of the development process and the deliverable's impact on the project, and more. Download (~10MB) 11328 KB - http://rapidshare.com/files/137642628/935319382123.zip.html =================== Principles of Mathematical Modelling English | PDF | 9 parts | RAR-Commpressed : 3.56 MB | No Password Science and engineering students depend heavily on concepts of mathematical modeling. In an age where almost everything is done on a computer, it is my conviction that students of engineering and science are better served if they understand and “own” the underlying mathematics that the computers are doing on their behalf. Mathematics is a necessary language for doing engineering and science. This will remain true no matter how good computation becomes. I repeatedly tell students that it is risky to accept computer calculations without having done some parallel closed-form modeling to benchmark the computer results. Without such benchmarking and validation, how do we know that the computer isn’t talking nonsense? Finally, I find it satisfying and fun to do mathematical manipulations that explain how or why something happens, and to use mathematics to obtain corresponding numerical data or predictions. Thus, as it was for the first edition, my primary goal for this second edition remains to engage the reader in developing a foundation for mathematical modeling. Further, knowing that mathematical models are built in a range of disciplines—including physics, biology, ecology, economics, sociology, military strategy, as well as all of the many branches of engineering—and knowing that mathematical modeling is comprised of a very diverse set of skills and tools, I focused on techniques of particular interest to engineers, scientists, and others who model continuous systems. Features of This Edition Aided by a variety of reviewers’ comments and suggestions, this second edition features: • A more formal statement of a principled approach to mathematical modeling (in Chapter 1). Ten principles are articulated and invoked as applications are developed, and each of them is identified by a key word (see below). • Some 360 problems, many of which are designed to reinforce skills in mathematical manipulation. Many could be done with a computer algebra system (CAS), and there are others for which numerical programs could be used. However, given my goals for this book, I would ask students do the problems in “the old-fashioned way.” • A reordering and expansion of the applications chapters that reflects some sense of increasing complexity. • Expanded figure captions that are intended to be more informative. Download 3739 KB - http://rapidshare.com/files/137643088/PrinciplesofMathematicalModelling.rar.html =============================== Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture Princeton University Press | 2008-04-01 | ISBN: 0691135207 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the humanities. Einstein for the 21st Century shows us why he remains a figure of fascination. download http://depositfiles.com/files/6307749 =============================== Feminists, Islam, and Nation Princeton University Press | 1994-11-14 | ISBN: 069103706X | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam. download http://www.filefactory.com/file/75a2eb/n/frgx_rar ============================ Security Sector Reform And Post-Conflict Peacebuilding United Nations University Press| ISBN: 9280811096 | 2006-01-27 | PDF | 348 pages | 1.85 Mb Military and police forces play a crucial role in the long-term success of political, economic and cultural rebuilding efforts in post-conflict societies. Yet, while charged with the long-term task of providing a security environment conducive to rebuilding war-torn societies, internal security structures tend to lack civilian and democratic control, internal cohesion and effectiveness, and public credibility. They must be placed under democratic control and restructured and retrained to become an asset, not a liability, in the long-term peace-building process. External actors from other nations, regional organizations and the United Nations can be of assistance in this process, by creating a basic security environment, preventing remnants of armed groups from spoiling the fragile peace-building process. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/128524638/SecuritySectorReformAndPeaceBuilding.rar.html ============================== Toleration Princeton Univ Pr | 1996-02-05 | ISBN: 069104371X | 256 pages | PDF | 7,4 MB If we are to understand the concept of toleration in terms of everyday life, we must address a key philosophical and political tension: the call for restraint when encountering apparently wrong beliefs and actions versus the good reasons for interfering with the lives of the subjects of these beliefs and actions. This collection contains original contributions to the ongoing debate on the nature of toleration, including its definition, historical development, justification, and limits. In exploring the issues surrounding toleration, the essays address a variety of provocative questions. Throughout, the contributors point to the inherent indeterminacy of the concept and to the difficulty in locating it between intolerant absolutism and skeptical pluralism. Religion, sex, speech, and education are major areas requiring toleration in liberal societies. By applying theoretical analysis, these essays show the differences in the argument for toleration and its scope in each of these realms. The contributors include Joshua Cohen, George Fletcher, Gordon Graham, Alon Harel, Moshe Halbertal, Barbara Herman, John Horton, Will Kymlicka, Avishai Margalit, David Richards, Thomas Scanlon, and Bernard Williams. "When subtle thinkers probe tolerance with the acuity of this volume's contributors, we see both how far the notion stretches, and the profound challenges it poses to our habits of thinking." --The Philadelphia Inquirer download: http://www.filefactory.com/file/0aee73/n/hgffx_rar ================================ Steven Rosefielde "Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth, and Power in the 21st Century" Wiley-Blackwell | 2002-05-06 | ISBN: 0631229612 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market competition. This analysis is grounded in established principles, but also assumes that individual utility seeking may be culturally determined, that political goals may take precedence over public well being, and that business misconduct may be socially detrimental. download: http://www.filefactory.com/file/19765f/ ========================= Clifford R. Backman "The Worlds of Medieval Europe" Oxford University Press, USA | 2002-08-22 | ISBN: 0195121686 | 478 pages | PDF | 7,8 MB The Worlds of Medieval Europe updates and revises traditional textbook representations of the Middle Ages by balancing the conventional focus on political affairs, especially those of northern Europe, with equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. The result is a nuanced portrayal of a multifarious western world that was sharply divided between its northern and southern aspects. By also integrating the histories of the Islamic and Byzantine world into the main narrative, the text brings new life to the continuum of interaction--social, cultural, and intellectual, as well as commercial--that existed among all three societies. In addition, it describes ways in which the medieval Latin West attempted to understand the unified and rational structure of the human cosmos, which they believed existed beneath the observable diversity and disorder of the world. This effort to re-create a human ordering of "unity through diversity" provides an essential key to understanding medieval Europe and the ways in which it regarded and reacted to the worlds around it. The Worlds of Medieval Europe is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in medieval history, Western civilization, the history of Christianity, and Muslim-Christian relations. It also serves as an excellent supplement for courses on the history of a specific country in the medieval period, the history of medieval art, or the history of the European economy. http://www.filefactory.com/file/3f5eb7/ ===================== Ian Mcneil “An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology" Routledge | 1996-08-12 | ISBN: 0415147921 | 1062 pages | PDF | 9,7 MB This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia presents the entire field of technology--from rudimentary agricultural tools to communication satellites--in this first-of-its-kind reference source. Following an introduction that discusses basic tools, devices, and mechanisms, the chapters are grouped into five parts that provide detailed information on materials, power and engineering, transportation, communication and calculation, and technology and society, revealing how different technologies have together evolved to produce enormous changes in the course of history. Each chapter summarizes the development of a particular technology emphasizing its relation to the social context of the time as well as its place in current scientific thought. http://rapidshare.com/files/127747514/EncyclopediaOfTheHistoryOfTechnology.7z.html ======================== Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader: How You and Your Organization Can Manage Conflict Effectively 240 pages | Jossey-Bass; 1 edition | October 27, 2006 | ISBN: 0787984701 | 0.6 Mb "If workplace conflict is inevitable, becoming a conflict competent leader is one of the most valuable skill sets a leader can possess. Runde and Flanagan clearly lay out how destructive conflict can be prevented while fostering the kind of constructive debate and creative solutions which businesses need to thrive." —Joanne McCree, former vice president, human resources, IBM "Their ability to assimilate and describe what managers actually face in dealing with conflict is a key factor in making this book unique from others. No self-help manual on handling conflict that I've ever seen addresses the basics like this book." —Kenneth Bradt, past president, Society of Consulting Psychologists "Competency in managing conflict is perhaps the most under-recognized component of successful leadership. This book, once read, should remain on the shelf of every leader for handy reference." —Dan Dana, Mediation Training Institute International; author, Managing Differences "Our personal professional development is a constant pursuit in our quest to be the best we can possibly be. Dealing with conflict is a given in any leadership position. Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader serves as a great resource for any leader to better understand and manage conflict." —MaryEllen Elia, superintendent, School District of Hillsborough County, Tampa, Florida http://www.paid4share.net/file/6496/9780787984700-0787984701-rar.html http://www.icefile.net/index.php?page=main&id=58d4f1605&name=9780787984700-0787984701.rar ========================== Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521809975 | 2003 Edition | PDF | 374 Pages | 3.65 MB Twelve essays from a team of European experts examine the struggle that broke out between secular and religious forces in late nineteenth-century Europe. They highlight the role of trans-national forces and their interaction with local conditions. This collection combines an account of the impact of secular-religious strife, at the level of high politics, with case studies that elucidate the meaning of culture war for specific regions and communities. http://rapidshare.com/files/57358786/Culture_Wars-Catholics_vs_Secularists_19th_Century__2003_ebook_.rar.html ===================== Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Global Jihad: A New Conflict Paradigm for the West Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs | ISBN 9652180564 | 2007-01-18 | PDF | 88 pages | 1.6 MB The Middle East has undergone revolutionary changes in the last few years. For most of the 1990s it was the conventional wisdom that the key to regional stability was to be found in the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and, as a result, Western diplomatic energies were primarily focused on that area. Now radical Islam is gaining strength among the Palestinians with the victory of Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary elections of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas and its allies completely reject a negotiated solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and align themselves with jihadi organizations across the region. As a result, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become increasingly a part of the much larger struggle between radical Islam and the West. At the same time, Iran is more determined than ever to achieve regional hegemony. Indeed, the Sunni-Shiite rivalry is likely to emerge as the central axis of conflict in the Middle East in the years to come. Given this new strategic context, the U.S. and its Western allies have enormous leverage with the threatened Sunni Arab states. As a consequence, the West does not have to pay for their cooperation in Israeli coin. The book includes top quality pictures and maps http://depositfiles.com/files/1672118 ======================================= Frederick Quinn, "The Sum of All Heresies: The Image of Islam in Western Thought" Oxford University Press (2008) | English | ISBN: 019532563X | 235 pages | PDF | 2.39 MB Current global tensions and the spread of terrorism have resurrected in the West a largely negative perception of Islamic society, an ill will fueled by centuries of conflict and prejudice. Shedding light on the history behind these hostile feelings, Frederick Quinn's timely volume traces the Western image of Islam from its earliest days to recent times. Quinn establishes four basic themes around which the image of Islam gravitates throughout history: the Prophet as Antichrist, heretic, and Satan; the Prophet as Fallen Christian, corrupted monk, or Arab Lucifer; the prophet as sexual deviant, polygamist, and charlatan, and the Prophet as Wise Easterner, Holy Person, and dispenser of wisdom. A feature of the book is a strong portrayal of Islam in literature, art, music, and popular culture, drawing on such sources as Cervantes's Don Quixote; the Orientalism of numerous visual artists; the classical music of Monteverdi and Mozart; and more recent cultural manifestations, such as music hall artists like Peter Dawson and Edith Piaf; and stage or silver screen representations like The Garden of Allah, The Sheik, Aladdin, and The Battle of Algiers. Quinn argues that an outpouring of positive information on basically every aspect of Islamic life has yet to vanquish the hostile and malformed ideas from the past. Conflict, mistrus misunderstanding characterize the Muslim-Christian encounter, and growing examples of cooperation are often overshadowed by anger and suspicion. In this important book, Quinn highlights long-standing historical prejudices but also introduces the reader to some of the landmark voices in history that have worked toward a greater understanding of Islam. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/128771157/TheSumOfAllHeresies-TheImageOf_IslamInWesternThought_2008.pdf.html ======================= Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture, History and Politics by Claude Faure MacMillan Reference Books | ISBN 0028659775 | 2004 | PDF | 8 MB | 511 pages, two-volume set The often-violent conflict between the state of Israel and the displaced Palestinian people occupies newspaper headlines and television news every day. Despite such coverage, many people still understand very little about the cause of this all but undeclared war. Untenable promises of former colonizers, access to water, religious and cultural traditions as entwined as they are distinct have all contributed to what is arguably the greatest global problem of our time. * The Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict covers the history of the conflict, going back to the birth of Zionism at the end of the 19th century. * The two-volume set covers five Arab-Israeli wars, and provides biographies of political personnel in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and the occupied territories. * The Dictionary provides clear definitions and comprehensive explanations of the elements at play -- history, geography, religion, demographics and more -- and supports the acquisition of knowledge about this topic, not just dissemination of information. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/45124147/ispa.rar.hml ============================== “Disagreements, Disputes, and All-Out War: Three Simple Steps for Dealing with Any Kind of Conflict" Gini Graham Scott | AMACOM | 2007-11-07 | ISBN: 0814480632 | 226 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb The potential for conflict exists in every interaction. But when one doesn’t know how to deal with these disagreements constructively, they can escalate into unproductive and even destructive situations. The key is not to avoid conflict, but to recognize and manage it skillfully to produce the best possible outcome. In this powerful and practical guide, author Gini Graham Scott shows readers how to identify the reason for the conflict, recognize and control the emotional factors, and find the best solution. Disagreements, Disputes, and All-Out War offers a simple but proven system for resolving conflicts resulting from: * poor communication and misunderstandings * different agendas, interests, and values * political power struggles * incorrect assumptions about others’ motives and actions * difficult people Written in an accessible, conversational style, packed with real-life examples, and including simple exercises and tools to help assess conflict situations, this indispensable guide shows readers how to handle whatever life throws at them. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/128522115/Disagree.rar.html =========================== The Way of Conflict: Elemental Wisdom for Resolving Disputes and Transcending Differences New World Library | 224 Pages | ISBN 1577314492 | 2004 | CHM | 3.35 MB The Way of Conflict teaches strategies for using time-tested knowledge and modern techniques to confidently engage in any dispute and reach a balanced resolution. The book integrates the wealth of conflict skills found throughout the world's major religious and indigenous traditions with the latest scientific systems and conflict resolution theory. Using the cross-cultural metaphor of the four natural elements - earth, water, fire, and air - it identifies innate conflicts in personalities and offers productive paths through the chaos of conflict. Combining her extensive experience as a licensed mediator and corporate trainer with insight gained from years of spiritual study, Deidre Combs uses assessment tests, anecdotes from indigenous and religious traditions, and illustrative folktales to show how to quickly assess a conflict and implement an appropriate resolution strategy. The Way of Conflict helps people overcome the sense of hopelessness they feel when facing personal, national, or international conflicts, and can help improve relationships and decrease levels of stress and frustration. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/128520763/TheWayOfConflict.rar.html =================== Reshaping the Future: Education and Post-Conflict Reconstruction World Bank | ISBN: 0821359592 | 2005 | 120 pages | PDF | 0.7 MB The aim of Reshaping the Future is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing conflict and in reconstructing post-conflict societies. The author also hopes to alert developing countries and donors alike to the devastating consequences of conflict on a country’s education systems and outcomes, as well to emphasize the importance of maximizing the opportunities to reform education systems presented by a reconstruction setting, adopting a long-term development perspective, and emphasizing equity and quality in the delivery of education services. Every education system has the potential to exacerbate the conditions that contribute to violent conflict. Based on this notion, the author argues that education warrants high priority in both humanitarian response and post-conflict reconstruction. The central message of this book is that education plays key role in both conflict prevention and in the reconstruction of post-conflict societies. It highlights significant findings on education and post-conflict reconstruction drawn from thorough research and literature review, a survey and database of key indicators for 52 conflict-affected countries, and a review of 12 country studies. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/127741444/ReshapingTheFuture.zip.html ========================== "Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies That Work" by Ilona M. Bray NOLO | 2008-01-15 | ISBN: 1413307485 | 496 pages | PDF | 10 Mb Getting tax-exempt status for your nonprofit organization is just the first step -- whether its mission will succeed depends entirely on your ability to raise money. Fortunately, Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits will show you how. Featuring advice and stories from over 40 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists and more Download (10504 KB) http://rapidshare.com/files/115937448/EffectiveFundraisingForNonprofits_200801.rar.html =========== "Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age" (Religion, Media and Culture) by Mara Einstein Routledge (2007) | English | ISBN: 0203938879 | 259 pages | PDF | 4.10 MB In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively, faiths have had to become brands - easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom religious prospects can make immediate connections. Mara Einstein shows how religious branding has expanded over the past twenty years to create a blended world of commerce and faith, where the sacred becomes secular and the secular sacred. In a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, she explores the significance of branded church courses, such as Alpha and The Purpose Driven Life, mega-churches, and the popularity of the televangelist Joel Olsteen and television presenter Oprah Winfrey, as well as the rise of Kaballah. She asks what the consequences of this religious marketing will be, and outlines the possible results of religious commercialism - good and bad. Repackaging religion - updating music, creating teen-targeted bibles - is justifiable and necessary. However, when the content becomes obscured, religion may lose its unique selling proposition - the very ability to raise us above the market. Download (4306 KB) http://rapidshare.com/files/115930524/Brands_of_Faith.rar.html ============ "Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe" by Zachary Shore Johns Hopkins University Press (2006) | English | ISBN: 0801885051 | 244 pages | PDF | 1.18 MB While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe's Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic alliance. Europe's failure to integrate its Muslim millions, combined with America's battered image in the Muslim world, have left too many Western Muslims easy prey for violent dogmas. Until America and Europe adopt new strategies, Shore argues, Europe will increasingly become the incubation ground for breeding new Bin Ladens. The U.S. continues to spend billions of dollars and lose thousands of its young men and women to combat Islamic extremists, a group estimated to be as small as fifty thousand. What Western leaders have not done, says Shore, is seek to understand the millions of moderate Muslims who live peacefully in the United States and Europe. Many in this extraordinarily diverse group are deeply ambivalent toward perceived Western values. While they may admire America's economic or technological might, many are appalled by its crass consumerism, sexualization of women, lack of social justice, and putative hypocritical foreign policies. Shore offers a deeply nuanced and hopeful consideration of Islam's future in the West. Cautioning Western leaders against an anti-terrorist tunnel-vision that could ultimately backfire, Shore proposes bold, creative, and controversial solutions for attracting the hearts and minds of moderate Muslims living in the West. 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Download 17,1 MB (pilih salah satu) http://depositfiles.com/files/5443694 http://w15.easy-share.com/1700411535.html ======================= A Modern Dictionary of Geography" by Michael Witherick, Simon Ross, John Small A Hodder Arnold Publication | 2001-09-06 | ISBN: 0340762101 | 304 pages | PDF | 22,7 Mb Small & Witherick's highly successful dictionary has already, in its first three editions, proved its value as a comprehensive guide to the key principles, concepts, and terminology of contemporary geography. This new, accessible edition reflects developments in the discipline since 1995. Covering both human and physical geography, this dictionary is an essential reference for undergraduate geography students. download 23 MB (pilih slah satu) http://depositfiles.com/files/5443322 http://w15.easy-share.com/1700411462.html ========================= Lectures on Macroeconomics" by Olivier Jean Blanchard, Stanley Fischer The MIT Press | 1989-03-21 | ISBN: 0262022834 | 664 pages | PDF | 23,8 Mb Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors' perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today. The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices. The most important fact of modern economic history is persistent long term growth, but as the book makes clear, this growth is far from steady. The authors analyze and explore these fluctuations. Topics include consumption and investment; the Overlapping Generations Model; money; multiple equilibria, bubbles, and stability; the role of nominal rigidities; competitive equilibrium business cycles, nominal rigidities and economic fluctuations, goods, labor and credit markets; and monetary and fiscal policy issues. Each of chapters 2 through 9 discusses models appropriate to the topic. Chapter 10 then draws on the previous chapters, asks which models are the workhorses of macroeconomics, and sets the models out in convenient form. A concluding chapter analyzes the goals of economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and dynamic inconsistency. Written as a text for graduate students with some background in macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics, Lectures on Macroeconomics also presents topics in a self contained way that makes it a suitable reference for professional economists. 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Becoming a Translator has been specifically designed for introductory undergraduate courses in the theory and practice of translation. It will also be of interest to professional translators and students of translation and language. download: (2,2 MB) http://depositfiles.com/files/5435668 ================== "Inflation Targeting, Debt, and the Brazilian Experience, 1999 to 2003 " by Francesco Giavazzi , Ilan Goldfajn , and Santiago Herrera The MIT Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0262072599 | 325 pages | PDF | 1.55 Mb Inflation targeting -- when central bank policies set specific inflation rate objectives -- is widely used by both developed and developing countries around the world (although not by the United States or the European Central Bank). This collection of original essays looks at how Brazil's policy of inflation targeting, coupled with a floating exchange rate, survived a series of severe economic shocks and examines the policy lessons that can be drawn from Brazil's experience.After a successful start in early 1999, Brazil's policy regime had to manage mounting difficulties, including a sudden reversal of capital flows and its effects on the exchange rate and public debt, the contagion of Argentina's severe economic problems, a domestic energy crisis, and the political uncertainty of the 2002 presidential campaign. The contributors, prominent Brazilian and international economists, draw important lessons from Brazil's experience, including the necessity of accompanying monetary policy with fiscal improvement, the trade-offs involved in dollar-linked debt, the importance of fiscal institutions in an emerging market economy, and the importance of keeping inflation under control. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/113698226/0262072599.rar.html ================= "Economics" Paul A. Samuelson, William D. Nordhaus McGraw-Hill Companies | 1998-01-06 | ISBN: 0070579474 | 824 pages | PDF | 22,2 Mb For 50 years, the standard-bearer for elementary economics courses, this revision is a clear and modern introduction to economic principles. Bill Nordhaus is now the primary author of this classic text. Download (pilih salah satu) http://depositfiles.com/files/5133026 http://w13.easy-share.com/1700310406.html ================ "Market, Class, and Employment" by Patrick McGovern, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills, and Michael White Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-01-11 | ISBN: 0199213372 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal order in which employers and employees no longer feel a sense of obligation to each other. Drawing on a range of employee and employer surveys, including the authors own Working in Britain 2000 survey, this ambitious study presents a comprehensive examination of the conditions, attitudes, and experiences of British employees from the mid-1980s to the early years of this century. The authors' analyses provides a compelling critique of the received wisdom, while also providing an original, alternative account of recent developments in work and labour markets. Along the way, the book covers such topical issues as the changing nature of trade union membership, the consequences of Britain's 'long hours' culture', and the apparent inability of women to ask for pay rises. Significantly, the authors seek to reposition debates about the future of work by restoring the concepts of contracts and social class to the analysis of the employment relationship. Based on the ESRC funded Future of Work research programme this book is destined to shape our understanding of employment in Britain for the foreseeable future. download (pilih salah satu): http://depositfiles.com/files/5093607 http://w14.easy-share.com/1700291436.html ================ "Computer-Aided Introduction to Econometrics" by Juan Rodriguez Poo Springer | 2003-02-26| ISBN: 354044114X | 332 pages | PDF | 1,7 Mb The advent of low cost computation has made many previously intractable econometric models empirically feasible and computational methods are now realized as an integral part of the theory. This book provides graduate students and researchers not only with a sound theoretical introduction to the topic, but allows the reader through an internet based interactive computing method to learn from theory to practice the different techniques discussed in the book. Among the theoretical issues presented are linear regression analysis, univariate time series modelling with some interesting extensions such as ARCH models and dimensionality reduction techniques. download (pilih salah satu): http://depositfiles.com/files/5049646 http://w16.easy-share.com/1700271331.html ================== "Econometrics" by Fumio Hayashi Princeton University Press | 2000-12-15 | ISBN: 0691010188 | 690 pages | PDF | 18 Mb Hayashi's Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics. It introduces first year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through cointegration. The book is also distinctive in developing both time-series and cross-section analysis fully, giving the reader a unified framework for understanding and integrating results. Econometrics has many useful features and covers all the important topics in econometrics in a succinct manner. All the estimation techniques that could possibly be taught in a first-year graduate course, except maximum likelihood, are treated as special cases of GMM (generalized methods of moments). Maximum likelihood estimators for a variety of models (such as probit and tobit) are collected in a separate chapter. This arrangement enables students to learn various estimation techniques in an efficient manner. Eight of the ten chapters include a serious empirical application drawn from labor economics, industrial organization, domestic and international finance, and macroeconomics. These empirical exercises at the end of each chapter provide students a hands-on experience applying the techniques covered in the chapter. The exposition is rigorous yet accessible to students who have a working knowledge of very basic linear algebra and probability theory. All the results are stated as propositions, so that students can see the points of the discussion and also the conditions under which those results hold. Most propositions are proved in the text. For those who intend to write a thesis on applied topics, the empirical applications of the book are a good way to learn how to conduct empirical research. For the theoretically inclined, the no-compromise treatment of the basic techniques is a good preparation for more advanced theory courses. download (pilih salah satu): http://depositfiles.com/files/4997946 http://w13.easy-share.com/1700246931.html password: gigapedia ========== Problem Solving (Careers Skills Library) | 2004 | PDF | 0.8 MB No matter where your career leads you, you’ll move faster and higher up the ladder of success if you’re perceived as an effective problem solver. This book covers the following valuable problem-solving skills: 1. Building a reputation as a problem solver, using skills that you already have, as well as learning to avoid negative problem-solving behaviors 2. Using analytical and critical thinking (left-brain activities) to analyze and solve problems scientifically 3. Solving problems creatively by brain-storming, asking questions, approaching problems from odd angles, note-taking, and visualizing—all right brain activities 4. Avoiding problem-solving potholes and pitfalls such as logical fallacies, which are errors in rational thought 5. Solving problems with the Problem-Solving Process 6. Applying problem-solving skills to the decision-making process download: http://rapidshare.com/files/127747709/ProblemSolving.pdf.html ==================== The Interpretation of Financial Statements Collins | 1998-01-15 | ISBN: 0887309135 | 144 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer. The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to interpreting and understanding financial statements. It has long been out of print, but now joins Graham's other masterpieces, The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, as the three priceless keys to understanding Graham and value investing. The advice he offers in this book is as useful and prescient today as it was sixty years ago. As he writes in the preface, "if you have precise information as to a company's present financial position and its past earnings record, you are better equipped to gauge its future possibilities. And this is the essential function and value of security analysis." Written just three years after his landmark Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements gets to the heart of the master's ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company's balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company. This volume is an exact text replica of the first edition of The Interpretation of Financial Statements, published by Harper & Brothers in 1937. Graham's original language has been restored, and readers can be assured that every idea and technique presented here appears exactly as Graham intended. Highly practical and accessible, it is an essential guide for all business people--and makes the perfect companion volume to Graham's investment masterpiece The Intelligent Investor. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/128520336/The_Interpretation_of_Financial_Statements.rar.html ======================= Terrorism in Asymmetric Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Sipri Research Reports) Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-05-25 | ISBN: 0199533555 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB The book's main focus is on extremist ideologies and structural capabilities of violent non-state actors that employ terrorist means. Ideologies and organizational patterns are seen as the main comparative advantages of such groups in an asymmetrical confrontation at all levels, from the local to the global. Resolution of the key issues of the armed conflict is seen as essential, but this is not sufficient to undermine the foundations of terrorism generated by that conflict, unless the structural capabilities of militant groups are fully disrupted and the role of extremist ideologies in driving their terrorist activities is neutralized. With its central focus on Islamist terrorism, the book argues that the quasi-religious, supra-national ideology of violent Islamism, especially in its most ambitious transnational forms, cannot be effectively counterbalanced at the ideological level either by Western democratic secularism or by the use of moderate versions of Islam itself. The author concludes that unless transnational violent Islamism is, first, 'nationalized' and, second, transformed in organizational terms through its being coopted into a more regular political process, it is unlikely to become amenable to persuasion or any external influence, let alone to be destroyed by the repression on which it thrives. Download (pilih salah satu): http://w17.easy-share.com/1700613014.html http://depositfiles.com/files/5944217 ====================== Kimberly A. Maynard Healing Communities in Conflict: International Assistance in Complex Emergencies Columbia University Press | ISBN: 0231112793 | 2000 Year | 199 Pages | 0.9 MB From Rwanda to Bosnia-Herzegovina to Kosovo and beyond, devastating human tragedies have torn apart communities – and too often, the international response has been ineffective. Here now is a wealth of pragmatic information on how the international community can help these regions rebuild their communities. download (pilih salah satu): http://mihd.net/2sqadj http://rapidshare.de/files/12765837/Healing_Communities_in_Conflict.rar.html ===================== Searching For Peace - Second Edition: The Road to TRANSCEND by Johan Galtung and Carl G. Jacobsen Pluto Press | ISBN: 0745319297 | 2002-05-20 | PDF | 320 pages This new, updated and extensively revised edition of "Searching for Peace" is one of the first books to bridge the gap between peace and conflict studies, world order and globalization. Revealing deep structures and deep cultures of violence and finding in them the reasons for increasing violence and peacekeeping failures, it presents the lessons that can be learned from the TRANSCEND approach, adopted as a UN training guide. A critical and piercing analysis of the short-comings of conventional approaches to conflict resolution, realpolitik and worsening dynamics of global violence which, if not resolved, threaten even more catastrophic destruction in the future. The book maps the conditions and path to sustainable peace, and the challenge for peace by peaceful means. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/128527957/Galtung-SearchForPeace.pdf.html ======================== Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts Greenwood Press | ISBN:0313313814 | 2003 | PDF | 478 p. | 1 MB The Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts consists of 38 articles focusing on specific ethnic conflicts around the world. The articles are substantial, covering the historical background of the conflict's characteristics, management, and significance and including a chronology, cross-references, and a bibliography. Examples include "Central Europe: The Romany, a Stateless Minority in a World of States"; "United Kingdom: Scotland and Scottish Nationalism"; and "Western Sahara: Ethnic Conflict and the Twentieth Century's Last Colonial War." Arrangement is alphabetical based on country or geographic area. An appendix lists the volume's contents by region, and an extensive index gives good access. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/86940561/Modern_Conflicts.rar.html ============================= "Value, Capitalist Dynamics, and Money (Research in Political Economy) " by P. Zarembka JAI Press; 1 edition | 2000 | ISBN: 0762306963 | 370 pages | PDF | 17,6 Mb This volume begins with an introduction to Marx's theory of capitalism in his own words, with his examples modernized from use of shillings and pence as subdivisions of the Pound. Well-known 1901 work on the theory of crises in capitalism by Michael Tugan-Baranowsky is translated into English for the first time, with a Preface placing it in context. The political activism and theoretical work of Henryk Grossman through 1926 is summarized in some detail, and a rarely-known brief article of his from 1919 included.Ambiguity in Marx's definition of accumulation of capital and the differing directions Lenin and Luxemburg took with it are next analyzed, with a more precise definition offered. Debate, begun in the last volume, over the valuation of means of production and its effect on the possibility of a falling tendency of the profit rate is taken a step forward as contrasting positions are developed.Finally, credit money as an advanced form of money is analyzed and the post-Keynesian analysis of it, originating from Kaldor, subject to critique. Several theories of inflation theory are reviewed, with focus on the agencies causing inflation. A rediscovery of Marxian inflation theory is proposed. Download (17,6 MB) http://rapidshare.com/files/113703711/0762306963.rar.html ==================== How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People 256 pages | McGraw-Hill; 1 edition | December 9, 2002 | ISBN: 007138569X | 1 Mb In his international bestseller, Dinosaur Brains, psychologist Albert J. Bernstein told readers how to deal with difficult people at work. Now, in a groundbreaking new book, Bernstein tackles a more serious problem that profoundly affects the lives of millions of people: walking time bombs. How do you help a friend who explodes into panic attacks? What do you say when a depressed family member bursts into tears? How do you protect yourself when a stranger blows up in your face? Too often, our choices make matters worse. But it isn't our fault. All that we feel, and much of what we hear directs us to defend the fearful, comfort the sad, and talk sense to the angry, regardless of the utter futility of these well-meaning actions. Moment to moment, people with mental disorders stand at the crossroads between getting better and getting worse. For disorders to heal, medicine, psychotherapy, the encouragement of friends, and the kindness of strangers must all point explosive people toward a single direction. People with anxiety disorders must turn and face their fear rather than running away Depressed people cannot wait to feel better to do the things that will make them feel better Angry people have to recognize that anger is something they do, not a reaction to what is done to them Reaching these goals sometimes requires stunning feats of mind over matter. In How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People, Dr. Bernstein demonstrates, step by step, how to do them. Download (1.2 MB) http://rapidshare.com/files/113800109/HowToDealWithEmotionallyExplosivePeople.rar.html ===================== "Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror" by Meghnad Desai I. B. Tauris (2007) | English | ISBN: 1845112679 | 209 pages | PDF | 1.95 MB Despite increasingly frantic calls - especially after the London bombings of July 7, 2005 - for western leaders to 'understand Islam better', there is a still a critical distinction that needs to be made between 'Islam' as religion and 'Islamism' in the sense of militant mindset. As the author of this provocative new book sees it, it is not a more nuanced understanding of Islam that will help the western powers defeat the jihadi threat, but rather a proper understanding of Islamism: a political ideology which is quite distinct from religion. While Islamism may be draped in religious imagery and suffused by apocalyptic language, it nevertheless is similar in nature to secular ideologies of terror. And once, the author holds, this is properly appreciated, the ways to defeat it will become much better evident. Historically sophisticated and passionately argued, Rethinking Islamism makes a powerful case by a master theorist of political philosophy. It will be essential reading for students and policy-makers in the fields of politics, current affairs and religion. Download (1.95 MB) http://rapidshare.com/files/113794357/RethinkingIslamism.rar.html =================== Educating the Net Generation EDUCAUSE | 2005 | ISBN: 0967285321 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 2.2 MB This book will help educators make sense of the many patterns and behaviors are seen in the Net Generation but not quite understood. Educating the Net Generation is a privilege and a challenge. They expect a great deal of us, just as we do of them. To find the right balance point, we need to understand each other well. We hope this book helps as you educate the Net Generation-and as they educate us. The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raisedone that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up. This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included. Download (2.2 MB): http://rapidshare.com/files/113796390/Educating_the_net_genpub7101.rar.html ==================== "Islamic Philosophy A-Z" by Peter S. Groff Edinburgh University Press | ISBN 0748622160 | 2007-05-15 | 224 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb Islamic Philosophy A-Z comprises over a hundred concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key figures, schools, concepts, topics, and issues. Articles on the Peripatetics, Isma'ilis, Illuminationists, Sufis, kalam theologians and later modern thinkers are supplemented by entries on classical Greek influences as well as Jewish philosophers who lived and worked in the Islamic world. Topical entries cover various issues and key positions in all the major areas of philosophy, making clear why the central problems of Islamic philosophy have been, and remain, matters of rational disputation. Download (1 MB): http://rapidshare.com/files/113790448/isphi.rar.html ================= "The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections" by John C. Green Praeger Publishers (2007) | English | ISBN: 0275987183 | 235 pages | PDF | 1.30 MB The impact of religion on the 2004 presidential election results provoked widespread consternation and surprise. Given the intensity and closeness of the results, however, the role of religion should not have come as a shock. In fact, religion and faith have played a vital role in American elections for some time, and here, Green explores the links and how they have changed over time. Specifically, he concludes that there was an "old religion gap" that described longstanding political differences among religious communities, which has been supplanted by a "new religion gap" that shows political divisions based on religious behavior and belief. Green puts the differences into context and documents the changing role of religion in politics over the last sixty years. Covering three areas of religion that tend to influence election outcomes, Green illuminates the meaning of religious belonging, behaving, and believing in current political context. Each of these aspects of religion affects the way people vote and their views of issues, ideology, and partisanship. He reviews the importance of "moral values" in the major party coalitions and discusses the role religious appeals have in presidential campaigns. In addition, he compares the influence of religion to other factors such as gender, age, and income. Given the emphasis on the influence of religion on American politics and elections in recent years, this book serves as a cogent reminder that the situation is not new, and offers a careful analysis of the real role faith plays in the electing of government officials. Download (1,3 MB): http://rapidshare.com/files/113792132/TheFaithFactor.rar.html ================== Stochastic Dynamic Macroeconomics Oxford University Press, USA | 2006-01-19 | ISBN: 0195301625 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB This is a book on stochastic dynamic macroeconomics from a Keynesian perspective. It shows that including Keynesian features in intertemporal models considerably contributes to resolve major puzzles arising in the context of the Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) model. It also demonstrates that including microeconomic intertemporal behavior of economic agents in macroeconomics is not inconsistent with Keynesian economics. http://rapidshare.com/files/118697100/stochasticDynamic.rar.html ================== The Forces of Economic Growth Princeton University Press | 2004-12-13 | ISBN: 069111918X | 208 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB In economics, the emergence of New Growth Theory in recent decades has directed attention to an old and important problem: what are the forces of economic growth and how can public policy enhance them? This book examines major forces of growth--including spillover effects and externalities, education and formation of human capital, knowledge creation through deliberate research efforts, and public infrastructure investment. Unique in emphasizing the importance of different forces for particular stages of development, it offers wide-ranging policy implications in the process. download (pilih salah satu) http://rapidshare.com/files/118696074/economicGrowth.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/118696420/economicGrowth.rar.html ================== Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis P. Allan | 1986 | ISBN: 0860031721 | 413 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB The book is designed to assist the student's learning in every way possible and contains comprehensive sets of problems and exercises at all stages. In addition the book is supported by a companion web site containing supplementary resources for lecturers and students. For lecturers these include PowerPoint slides and answers to the book's many exercises and question sets. Features for students include PowerPoint material designed to aid understanding of graphical arguments used in the text and model answers to some of the exercises. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/118695089/Cowell_Microeconomics.rar.html ================== Kamus Inggris Indonesia (Echols & Shadily) http://rapidshare.com/files/110188359/KamusIndonesiaInggris_Echols_Shadily.djvu =========================== Financial Calculus Cambridge University Press | 1996-09-28 | ISBN: 0521552893 | 233 pages | DjVu | 1,7 MB Here is the first rigorous and accessible account of the mathematics behind the pricing, construction, and hedging of derivative securities. With mathematical precision and in a style tailored for market practioners, the authors describe key concepts such as martingales, change of measure, and the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model. Starting from discrete-time hedging on binary trees, the authors develop continuous-time stock models (including the Black-Scholes method). They stress practicalities including examples from stock, currency and interest rate markets, all accompanied by graphical illustrations with realistic data. The authors provide a full glossary of probabilistic and financial terms. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/125498993/Financial_Calculus.rar.html =============== Karste JohansenA History of Ancient Philosophy: From the Beginning to St. Augustine" Routledge | 1999-04-16 | ISBN: 0415127386 | 685 pages | Djvu | 3 MB This book discusses key philosophical concepts and ideologies, including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics during classical antiquity. Karsten Friis Johansen charts the history of ancient philosophy from the mythological oral tradition, Homer and early tragedy, to the giants of Plato and Aristotle through to paganism and the genesis of Christianity. A History of Ancient Philosophy also presents detailed analysis of individual ancient philosophers and interpretations and commentary on key philosophical passages. http://www.filefactory.com/file/ae633f/ http://w16.easy-share.com/1700751179.html ========================== Richard A. LockshinThe Joy of Science" Springer | 2007-11 | ISBN: 140206098X | 440 pages | PDF | 42,1 MB This book, by a practicing and successful scientist, explores why questions arise in science and looks at how questions are tackled, what constitutes a valid answer, and why. The author does not bog down the reader in technical details or lists of facts to memorize. Instead, he places the questions in their historical and cultural context, ranging from the earliest intimations that the earth had a long history to current controversies, even describing the origins, challenges, and promises of modern molecular biology. Addressing issues as complex as radiocarbon dating and how we know that DNA is a double helix, he uses examples, illustrations, and descriptions that all students should be able to grasp ("Were there kangaroos in Noahs Ark?"; "Molecular Biology Aint Rocket Science"). He gives the reader a sense of why a scientist feels always "like the child called to the stage to watch the magician do his trick". The authors thesis is that scientific logic is an extension of the common human logic used by everyone on a daily basis, and that it can and should be understood by everyone. The book should provide an antidote for students who have suffered through "science for non-scientists" courses that were long lists of names to memorize; and it should prove enlightening for any citizen who has been perplexed by the meaning, relevance, and moral or political implications of scientific headlines or commercial efforts, or anyone who has cast or will cast a vote influenced by a scientific presumption. http://www.filefactory.com/file/a2f8fd/ ================== Richard Sennett "The Culture of the New Capitalism" Yale University Press | 2006-01-01 | ISBN: 030010782X | 224 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday lifehow the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls the specter of uselessness haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving. In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an iron cage. Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. 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It offers a series of chapters featuring practical research, insight and recommendations on how virtual team projects can be better managed, as well as in depth discussion on issues critical to virtual team success, including the place of virtual teams in organizations, leadership, trust and relationship building, best use of technology, and knowledge sharing. http://rapidshare.com/files/125510964/rwgrg6.rar.html ======================= Michael Wickens, "Macroeconomic Theory: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach" Publisher: Princeton University Press | Pages: 496 | 2008-01-03 | ISBN: 0691116407 | PDF | 2.16 MB Macroeconomic Theory is the most up-to-date graduate-level macroeconomics textbook available today. This book truly offers something new by emphasizing the general equilibrium character of macroeconomics to explain effects across the whole economy, not just part. It is also the perfect resource for economists who need to brush up on the latest developments. Michael Wickens lays out the core ideas of modern macroeconomics and its links with finance. He presents the simplest general equilibrium macroeconomic model for a closed economy, and then gradually develops a comprehensive model of the open economy. Every important topic is covered, including growth, business cycles, fiscal policy, taxation and debt finance, current account sustainability, exchange-rate determination, and an up-to-date account of monetary policy through inflation targeting. Wickens addresses the interrelationships between macroeconomics and modern finance and shows how they affect stock, bond, and foreign-exchange markets. While the mathematics needed for this book is rigorous, the author describes fundamental concepts in a way that helps make the book self-contained and easy to use. Accessible, comprehensive, and wide-ranging, Macroeconomic Theory will become the standard text for students and is ideal for economists, particularly those in government, central and commercial banking, and financial investment. * The most up-to-date macroeconomics textbook available today * Web-based exercises with answers (June 2008) * Emphasis on general equilibrium macroeconomics addresses the whole economy * Latest advances in macroeconomics covered fully and completely * Gives up-to-date account of monetary policy * Covers modern finance * Extensive mathematical appendix for at-a-glance easy reference download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126438311/Yooply_MacECON.rar.html =============================== BURESI (Pascal), Histoire de l'Islam, Documentation photographique, N 8058 | ISSN: 04195361 | 2007 | PDF | 150 dpi | 65 pages | 40 Mb Publier aujourdhui une histoire de lislam, cest r�ondre �une demande forte en mati�e de connaissance du religieux. La Documentation photographique et lInstitut europ�n en sciences des religions (IESR) ont choisi de mener ensemble ce travail. Ce num�o, �abor�par Pascal Buresi, se situe r�olument dans une perspective dhistoire critique. Cette approche, toujours soucieuse des contextes, tend �souligner que lislam daujourdhui nest pas lislam des origines. Elle souligne �alement la pluralit�de lislam dans lespace ; en t�oigne la diversit�des soci�� musulmanes dans le monde contemporain. Autrement dit, dans un domaine o se bousculent les affirmations aussi tranchantes que simplistes, cet ouvrage pourrait d�ontrer que lhistoire de lislam est complexe. download (40 MB) http://rapidshare.com/files/126314217/DP_8058_Islam.pdf.zip.html ============================== Asian Development Review, 25th Anniversary Edition, 2008 ADB | 2008 | ISSN 0116-1105 | English | PDF | 172 pages | 2.2 MB The Asian Development Review is a professional journal for disseminating the results of economic and development research carried out by staff and resource persons of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Review stresses policy and operational relevance of development issues rather than the technical aspects of economics and other social sciences. Articles are refereed and intended for readership among economists and social scientists in government, private sector, academia, and international organizations. The Review also invites contributions from external scholars and researchers dealing with Asian and Pacific development issues. All submitted manuscripts are subject to review by two external referees and one ADB staff member. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126441050/ADR-Vol25-1-2.rar.html ================================ Josiah Ober, "Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens" Publisher: Princeton University Press | Pages: 362 | 2008-10-09 | ISBN: 0691133476 | PDF | 1.6 MB When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security. Combining a history of Athens with contemporary theories of collective action and rational choice developed by economists and political scientists, Josiah Ober examines Athenian democracy's unique contribution to the ancient Greek city-state's remarkable success, and demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices hold for us today. He argues that the key to Athens's success lay in how the city-state managed and organized the aggregation and distribution of knowledge among its citizens. Ober explores the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management, including the use of social networks for collecting information, publicity for building common knowledge, and open access for lowering transaction costs. He explains why a government's attempt to dam the flow of information makes democracy stumble. Democratic participation and deliberation consume state resources and social energy. Yet as Ober shows, the benefits of a well-designed democracy far outweigh its costs. Understanding how democracy can lead to prosperity and security is among the most pressing political challenges of modern times. Democracy and Knowledge reveals how ancient Greek politics can help us transcend the democratic dilemmas that confront the world today. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126245606/Yooply_DEM_KNOW.rar.html ================================== Statistical Analysis of Management Data Springer | 2003-03-01 | ISBN: 1402073151 | 280 pages | DjVu | 4,6 MB This book is not intended as a first introduction to statistics and statistical analysis. Instead it assumes that the student is familiar with basic statistical techniques. The techniques are presented in a fundamental way but in a format accessible to students in a doctoral program, to practicing academicians, and to data analysts. download: http://www.filefactory.com/file/81217f/n/Statistical_Analysis_of_Management_Data_rar.html ================================= Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution ABC-Clio Inc | 1997 | 356 pages | ISBN-10: 0874368391 | 1.21 MB | CHM The goal of this volume is "to make the broad conflict resolution knowledge base more accessible." Covering both deep-rooted conflicts and short-term negotiable disputes, the authors, codirectors of the Conflict Research Consortium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, furnish an inside look at a relatively new scholarly and professional field. Conflicts and disputes, from a basic two-party personal relationship to a showdown between superpowers, and the context in which these disputes occur are discussed. Labor-management issues, public-policy conflicts, business negotiations, victim-offender reconciliation, and tension between social groups, as well as those conflicts that occur in personal relationships, all have their place in this volume, which presents the competing viewpoints prevalent in the field. The encyclopedia defines central concepts in entries such as alternative dispute resolution (ADR), arbitration, mediation, and negotiation, and provides explanations for common terms and phrases, such as collaborative problem solving, interest groups, and nonnegotiable issues. There are entries for ethical and legal issues, important organizations, and individuals, such as Henry Kissinger and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as critical cases and events in the history of conflict resolution, such as the Camp David Accords and the Persian Gulf War. The introduction provides relevant background information on the development of the field of conflict resolution and a general overview of the contents. Entries are arranged alphabetically and vary in length from a few paragraphs to several pages. See also references guide the reader to related terms and entries. Each entry concludes with a brief bibliography of related titles, including relevant Internet addresses. Appendixes provide access to conflict-resolution organizations, ADR professionals, conferences, and training providers. The volume concludes with a 14-page bibliography and an index. The authors' intention is that this unique encyclopedia will be useful to both nonprofessionals and beginning professionals in the field. It should assist readers in sorting through the many dispute-resolution techniques and options, as well as provide definitions of terms, details of historic events, and biographical information on important people in the field. Academic and large public libraries will find this a useful addition to their collections. download http://rapidshare.com/files/126443190/ECP.rar.html ===================================== "Conflict and Communication: A Guide Through the Labyrinth of Conflict Management" by Daniel Shapiro, Lisa Pilsitz, Susan Shapiro International Debate Education Association | 2004-10 | ISBN: 0972054197 | 296 pages | PDF | 1,5 Mb Conflict and Communication offers educators a practical curriculum on conflict management that helps student understand the nature of conflict and learn the skills that will enable them to deal with conflicts in their lives. The book is divided into two parts: Conflict Management and Student Mediation. Conflict Management contains 60 hands-on activities that help students understand how personal values are formed; how misperceptions and misunderstandings arise and affect relationships; and how they can communicate effectively. The activities explain the roots and consequences of conflict; offer specific strategies for dealing with conflict; and help students discover basic human rights and their connection to conflict. Each lesson plan contains learning objectives, key concepts, background information, materials needed, activities, activity or resource sheets, discussion questions, and teacher tips. Student Mediation presents a 10-lesson program in training student mediators. Each session contains learning objectives, material needed, and step-by step activities. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126444247/Conflict_and_Communication.rar.html ========================== The Conflict and Communication Activity Book: 30 High-Impact Training Exercises for Adult Learners" Bill Withers, Keami D. Lewis AMACOM | 2003-06-02 | ISBN: 0814471676 | 256 pages | PDF | 5,6 Mb Every workplace has its share of conflict, and one of trainings universal goals is to help organizations resolve it in a way that brings benefit to everyone involved. This timely activity book offers 30 ready-to-use exercises trainers can use to help workshop participants communicate more effectively and create positive outcomes from conflict situations. The Conflict and Communication Activity Book features: * Field-proven exercises from the authors worldwide experience * Easy-to-follow instructions for preparation, additional reading, and Q & A processes * Valuable essays on handling conflict situations * An Exercise Matrix to sort activities by type, length, and other parameters It also includes a jam-packed Trainers Toolbox containing more than sixty handouts, flipcharts, and overheads; workshop agendas; instructions for breakout sessions; and tons more. From the quick-fix solutions of the ""My Workshop Starts in Five Minutes"" section to fully developed sessions, this book will be every educators best friend." download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126445467/TheConflictAndCommunication-ActivityBook.rar.html ============================= Thomas C. Schelling, "The Strategy of Conflict" Harvard University Press | ISBN 0674840313 | December 12, 2006 | DJVU | 4.2 Mb | 326 pages Book Details: Title: The Strategy of Conflict Authors: Thomas C. Schelling Publisher: Harvard University Press (1980); Reprint edition (December 12, 2006) Paperback: 326 pages Language: English ISBN: 0674840313 List Price: $22.50 Amazon Sales Rank: #9,855 (!) Brilliant Work from a Brilliant Scholar Thomas Schelling's 1960 book, The Strategy of Conflict, was a significant work in game theory and is one of the reasons for his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 2005. It is 254 pages plus three appendices. Schelling's work is a refreshing look at game theory. He is a consistent methodological individualist, and he emphasizes the aspects of reality that are often overlooked in game theory. He carefully discusses the different aspects of the pure-conflict, mix-motive, and pure-cooperation games. He shows that often in negotiation, impotence is a source of strength. By giving up the ability to buy a car over $X to a third party, the buyer can now negotiate more successfully with the seller who now knows there is no reason to continue bargaining; he can either take the sale at that price or make no sale at all. The buyer's ability to make a commitment before the other party does, allows him a significant advantage. Schelling then analyzes a variety of different situations and the effect of promises, threats, third-parties, mediator, and arbitrators. He also shows the advantage of retaliation over simply defense from an attack, and the important role of uncertainty in retaliation. Schelling's discussion of "focal points" is of great popularity. The basic idea is that even when two people cannot communicate at all, they can often reach an agreement. For example, imagine a game where there is $100 and it is to be split by two people who cannot talk to each other. In order for each person to win, they must independently split the money in exactly the same division. How would you split the money? It turns out that many people split it 50/50. This is a solution that seems like something he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think....These focal points are often arbitrary but they carry a distinction; they are a place where one asks "if not here, where?" Focal points can be based on historical trends, cultural understandings, equality, or simplicity. It is basically anything that one person thinks will draw the other person's attention. Schelling improves on traditional game theory (such as that of Nash and Aumann) by including these aspects of interaction which are generally lost in the abstract modeling. Additionally, he emphasizes the inclusion of asymmetry of payouts. Schelling's work is engaging because it is realistic and riddled with examples from war and everyday life. It stands out, to me, because unlike many other works on game theory, it is truly realistic and relevant. The Strategy of Conflict reminds me to some extent of Robert Nozick's Anarchy State and Utopia because they are both filled with fanciful examples that draw out fascinating concepts and conclusions. I recommend this book to someone who is willing to think hard while reading and enjoys useful economic insights. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126447060/schelling.rar.html ==================================== John K. Walton, Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity And Conflict Multilingual Matters Limited | ISBN:1845410327 | 2005 | PDF | 0.8 MB | 253 pages This collection of essays presents develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and from Frinton to the 'Far East'. download: http://rapidshare.com/files/126448866/45410327.rar.html ================================ Politics, Philosophy, Terror Princeton University Press | 1999-08-30 | ISBN: 069100935X | 269 pages | PDF | 7,4 MB Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century. download: http://w17.easy-share.com/1700775747.html