04 May, 2010

John Gosney, Dawn McKay Rosenberg, Michele Lipson - Postal Clerk and Carrier Exam Cram


John Gosney, Dawn McKay Rosenberg, Michele Lipson - Postal Clerk and Carrier Exam Cram
Publisher: Pearson Education | 2006-01-16 | ISBN: 0789735393 | PDF | 264 pages | 5.61 MB


Anyone with an interest in working for the US Post Office as a clerk or a mail carrier must take either the 473-C city carrier exam, the 473 retail clerk exam, or the 460 rural carrier exam (which has not changed). Those candidates who receive a 95% or higher score are interviewed first; those with scores lowers than 90% aren't often interviewed at all, making these exams extremely competitive. The Postal Clerk and Carrier Exam Cram, Second Edition, is a concise review guide that can help you score higher on the postal clerk and carrier exams and eliminate some of the competition.
The new edition covers all of the exam topics from the USPS, including new topics like Address Coding, Forms Completion, and Personal Characteristics and Experience Inventory. These topics replaced number series, memory for addresses, and oral instructions. The Exam Cram also provides exam alerts, strategies, tips, a practice exam on each topic and four full practice exams covering all the topics. The Cram Sheet tear card provides facts for last minute review. Study your way to a higher score with the Postal Clerk and Carrier Exam Cram, Second Edition.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference


Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference
Sybex | 2010-01-26 | ISBN: 0470525398 | 600 pages | PDF | 7 MB

All your Windows Server 2008 R2 questions answered—on the spot! Get up to speed on the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 with this indispensableguide. Designed for busy IT professionals, it's the perfect go-to resource for quick answers and real-world solutions as you administer the new server OS. You'll find easy-to-read lists, quick-reference tables, helpful thumb tabs, and much more in a handy, compact format that puts the information you need at your fingertips.

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IELTS Practice Tests by Vanessa Jakeman and Clare McDowall


IELTS Practice Tests by Vanessa Jakeman and Clare McDowall
Publisher: Longman | 2001 | English | ISBN: 0582471699 | PDF | 179 pages | 9,56 MB

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English for Life Beginner: Student's Book by Tom Hutchinson


English for Life Beginner: Student's Book by Tom Hutchinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press | 2007 | English | ISBN: 0194307255 | PDF | 128 pages | 8,71 MB

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03 May, 2010

Law and Administration


Law and Administration By Harlow Carol, Rawlings Richard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009 | 880 Pages | ISBN: 0521701791 | PDF | 3 MB



This definitive textbook explores the field of law which allows government and its agencies to practically apply its laws. The subject, affected by policy and political factors, can challenge even the more advanced student. In response, this title looks at both the law and the factors informing it, laying down the foundations of the subject. This contextualised approach also allows the student to develop the broadest possible perspective. Case law and legislation are set out and discussed, and the authors have built in a range of case studies to give a practical emphasis to the study. It is, however, the distinctive theoretical framework for administrative law that the authors develop that distinguishes this title from others and allows for real understanding of the subject. This updated edition will cement the title's seminal status.

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Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction


Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction By Bridget J. Crawford, Anthony C. Infanti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 0521734924 | PDF | 2 MB



Tax law is political. This book highlights and explains the major themes and methodologies of a group of scholars who challenge the traditional claim that tax law is neutral and unbiased. The contributors to this volume include pioneers in the field of critical tax theory, as well as key thinkers who have sustained and expanded the investigation into why the tax laws are the way they are and what impacts tax laws have on historically disempowered groups. This volume, assembled by two law professors who work in the field, is an accessible introduction to this new and growing body of scholarship. It is a resource not only for scholars and students in the fields of taxation and economics, but also for those who engage with critical race theory, feminist legal theory, queer theory, class-based analysis, and social justice generally. Tax is the one area of law that affects everyone in our society, and this book is crucial to understanding its impact.

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Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies


Janine Warner, "Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies"
For Dummies | 2010 | ISBN: 0470565209 | 352 pages | PDF | 14,1 MB

A step-by-step guide to creating your first Web site

Everybody's building cool web sites, but how? Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, 2nd Edition, shows you how, with simple, step-by-step instruction that will build your confidence as you build your site.

You'll learn to plan your site and secure a domain name, how to use Dreamweaver for site construction, and how to test and publish your site. You'll also learn about designing a blog, creating a podcast, adding Flash, and even how to make money with your Web site. Dummies makes it easy and fun!
Perfect for those who've never attempted a Web site before, including small-business owners, the family historian, amateur genealogists, and travel buffs
Explains using Web site creation tools including Dreamweaver, Photoshop Elements, Flash, and Word
Shows how Web pages work, how to plan and design your site, and what to look for in Web hosting services
Covers editing and creating Web graphics and text, how to customize a site for different purposes, testing, and your site
Pres information on blogs, podcasts, adding Flash, and making money from your site

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101 Things Every Kid Should Do Growing Up


Alecia T. Devantier, Christopher Cerf, "101 Things Every Kid Should Do Growing Up"
Sourcebooks, Inc. | 2002 | ISBN: 157071861X, 1570718628 | 288 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB

A wealth of creative experiences for building a well-rounded childhood.

This hands-on, imaginative book offers 101 experiences every child should have as they grow toward adulthood. Each entree provides practical suggestions that help you make each of these experiences a reality. The examples include:

o Every child should believe in things that can’t be seen—which offers details on how a child can create a special drawstring bag for the nap fairy or elf who can leave behind small rewards.

o Every child should catch snowflakes on his tongue and eyelashes—which explains how a child can also capture a snowflake using cardboard.

o Every child should publish a book—which describes how your youngster can go about becoming his or her own publisher.

o Every child should camp out in the backyard—which also shows how your youngster can do precisely that in his or her own living room if no yard exists.

o Every child should have a dream for the future and an adult who believes in that dream.

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CompTIA A+ 2009 Q&A


Inc. Chimborazo Publishing, "CompTIA A+ 2009 Q&A"
Course Technology PTR | 2009 | ISBN: 1435454901 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

This is a straightforward, crisp, cut-and-dry way to prepare for the A+ exams. Providing 800 questions and answers for the new A+ exams, this is the “no-fluff” Q&A guide. With answers at the back of the book as opposed to right after the question, CompTIA A+ 2009 Q&A truly encourages self-study. The book’s questions cover everything you might encounter on the two A+ 2009 exams, Essentials 220-701 and Practical Application 220-702. You’ll get comprehensive questions covering software and every operating system (with emphasis on Windows XP and Vista), networking and security issues, PC repair and maintenance, and much more. Hardware is covered as well, of course—everything from P4 motherboards, notebooks, and printers to PDAs and wireless devices. The accurate content and convenient presentation of questions and answers offer a great solution to studying for these exams.

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Game Programming with Silverlight


Game Programming with Silverlight
Course Technology PTR | 2009-06-24 | ISBN: 1598639064 | 257 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Learn to program fun and challenging games using Silverlight, a rich, web-based application that is ideal for rapid, casual game development. "Game Programming with Silverlight" shows anyone interested in game design and development how to build web-based games using any of the major operating systems and browsers. This comprehensive guide walks readers through every feature of Silverlight used in game creation. You'll get an introduction to Silverlight 3 and all of its cool features. After you're comfortable with the application you'll learn how to create your game world, add objects and animate them, incorporate sound and music, network your game and make it multiplayer, and more! Each chapter covers a wide range of topics that you can leverage to build just about any type of game using Silverlight.

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Cnet Do-it-yourself Camera and Music Phone Projects : 24 Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do!


Ari Hakkarainen, Cnet Do-it-yourself Camera and Music Phone Projects : 24 Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do!
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition | ISBN: 0071485643 | 2006 | PDF | 228 pages | 10.8 MB


Here's your chance to take the sound and vision of your mobile phone to new heights-with 24 easy-to-execute projects you may have never dreamed possible. Ever think you could listen to music and podcasts on your cell phone? You can! Ever think you could take digital photographs of superior quality with your phone? Well, of course you can, and CNET Do-It-Yourself Camera and Music Phone Projects will show you how to do it all.

Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics, and written by high-tech expert Ari Hakkarainen, this book leads you step by step through each project. If you've ever wanted to take photos with your mobile phone that would make professional shutterbugs jealous, or amp up the musical capabilities of your handheld, this indispensable how-to is just the book you need!

* Take higher quality photos
* Record home movies on your mobile phone
* Share your photos with family and friends without incurring network charges
* Download and listen to music and podcasts
* Save money by learning how to download free music and ringtones on your phone
* Record your own ringtones
* Watch TV on your phone
* And much more!

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Project Management: Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence


Project Management: Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence
Wiley | 2010-02-08 | ISBN: 047052829X | 707 pages | PDF | 6 MB

The bestselling first edition of Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence set the course for project managers navigating the increasingly challenging task of working within global corporations and with distant and diverse work teams. This new edition carries that tradition to the next step, presenting a new set of firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations.

In this Second Edition, senior managers of more than fifty global companies—both large (Fortune 500) and small, and in all sectors of the market—share their best practices in project management. These industry leaders offer insight into best practices for:

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Project risk management
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Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures
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Focusing on value as well as cost and schedule
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Integrated and virtual project teams

With new and updated information on the latest developments in the field, Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence, Second Edition offers a must-have window onto the issues—and their real-world solutions—facing corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today's global market.

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Implant Laboratory Procedures: A Step-by-Step Guide


Carl Drago, Thomas Peterson Implant Laboratory Procedures: A Step-by-Step Guide
Wiley-Blackwell | 2010 | ISBN: 0813823013 | 344 pages | PDF | 53,5 MB

Implant Laboratory Procedures: A Step-By-Step Guide provides its readers with a systematic and practical approach to the common dental laboratory procedures associated with implant restorative dentistry. Written with laboratory technicians and restorative dentists in mind, the book is organized by case type, taking common case scenarios and devoting a separate chapter to each one in turn, demonstrating each step of the laboratory procedure required for the implant restoration. Complications associated with the various prosthetic procedures are also included in each chapter and work orders are shown for each and every step. Cases are illustrated with products from various implant companies, but predominantly feature products from Biomet 3i.
Implant Laboratory Procedures: A Step–By–Step Guide offers a useful, pragmatic, and helpful approach to the laboratory aspects of implant dentistry. Focusing on step–by–step explanations of procedures, it also contains a wealth of other useful information, such as terminology and background of the modality. Highly illustrated with clinical and laboratory photographs and diagrams, it will provide dental technicians with a comprehensive guide to implant dentistry, and also allow both restorative dentists and implant surgeons to gain additional insights into dental laboratory procedures.

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World's Most Baffling Puzzles


World's Most Baffling Puzzles By Charles Barry Townsend
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks 1994 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 8122201555 | PDF | 6 MB



A collection of over 70 bewildering puzzles, together with 100 clue-filled illustrations, to boggle your mind and drive your friends and family nutty. The answers are in the back.

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The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day: 180 Reproducible Activities to Teach Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary


The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day: 180 Reproducible Activities to Teach Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary
Paperback: 256 pages | Publisher: Jossey-Bass (February 8, 2010) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0470429801 | PDF | 2.58 Mb

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as "sponge" or "hook" activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and more.

* Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has been proven to be effective
* Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each day of the school year
* A new volume in the new series 5-Minute FUNdamentals

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DB2 Developer's Guide


Craig S. Mullins, DB2 Developer's Guide
Sams Publishing | ISBN: 0672326132 | 2004 | CHM | 1512 pages | 12.88 MB

Marketshare for DB2 has been growing steadily over the past 5 years and with the announcement of DB2 Universal Database V8 (T-Rex), the product has never had more momentum. DB2 owns about 30 percent of the database market--the same as Oracle. Not only is the product used in many Fortune 500 companies, but it is becoming very popular in small to medium sized businesses as well. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive reference and research tool for DB2 for the mainframe. Official material is awkwardly written, spans over a dozen manuals in PDF format, and lacks real-world guidance. Author, Craig Mullins, consistently hears from readers of past editions that they rely on this book as their primary reference for DB2. Craig Mullins is constantly being asked when it will support a new release. "This is an excellent book . . . It is chock full of DB2 technical information, design and tuning approaches and database administration guidelines . . .Mullins seems to have dumped his entire DB2 life experience into DB2 Developer's Guide."- Jonathon Sayles in Relational Database Journal.

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Functional C


Pieter Hartel, Henk Muller, "Functional C"
Addison Wesley | 1997 | ISBN: 0201419505 | 433 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

The Computer Science Departments of many universities teach a functional language as the first programming language. Using a functional language with its high level of abstraction helps to emphasize the principles of programming. Functional programming is only one of the paradigms with which a student should be acquainted. Imperative, Concurrent, Object-Oriented, and Logic programming are also important. Depending on the problem to be solved, one of the paradigms will be chosen as the most natural paradigm for that problem.

This book is the course material to teach a second paradigm: imperative programming, using C as the programming language. The book has been written so that it builds on the knowledge that the students have acquired during their first course on functional programming, using SML. The prerequisite of this book is that the principles of programming are already understood; this book does not specifically aim to teach `problem solving' or `programming'. This book aims to:

•Familiarise the reader with imperative programming as another way of implementing programs. The aim is to preserve the programming style, that is, the programmer thinks functionally while implementing an imperative program.
•Provide understanding of the differences between functional and imperative programming. Functional programming is a high level activity. The ordering of computations and the allocation of storage are automatic. Imperative programming, particularly in C, is a low level activity where the programmer controls both the ordering of computations and the allocation of storage. This makes imperative programming more difficult, but it offers the imperative programmer opportunities for optimisations that are not available to the functional programmer.
•Familiarise the reader with the syntax and semantics of ISO-C, especially the power of the language (at the same time stressing that power can kill). The authors visit all dark alleys of C, from void * to pointer arithmetic and assignments in expressions. On occasions, they use other languages (like C++ and Pascal) to illustrate concepts of imperative languages that are not present in C. C has been chosen because it is a de facto standard for imperative programming, and because its low level nature nicely contrasts with SML. Those who want to learn, for example, Modula-2 or Ada-95 afterwards should not find many difficulties.
•Reinforce the principles of programming and problem solving. This is facilitated by the use of three different languages (mathematics, a functional language, and an imperative language). The fact that these widely differing languages have common aspects makes the idea that programming principles exist and that they are useful quite natural.
•Reinforce the principle of abstraction. Throughout the book the authors encourage the student to look for more abstract solutions, for example, by viewing the signature of a function as an abstraction of its purpose, by using procedural abstractions (in particular higher order functions) early on, and by using data abstraction.
•Guide the student from specification and mathematics to implementation and software engineering. In the first chapters the emphasis is on writing correct functions and as the reader makes progress the emphasis gradually shifts to transforming correct functions into efficient and reusable functions. Clean interfaces are of paramount importance, and are sacrificed for better efficiency only as a last resort.
Each problem in this book is solved in three steps:

•A specification of the problem is made.
•An appropriate algorithm is found to deliver solutions that satisfy the specification.
•The algorithm is implemented as efficiently as possible. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on this third step.
The language of mathematics is used to specify the problems. This includes the basics of set theory and logic. The student should have some familiarity with the calculi of sets, predicate logic, and propositional logic. This material is taught at most universities during a first course on discrete mathematics or formal logic.

The appropriate algorithm is given in SML. SML is freely available for a range of platforms (PC's, UNIX work stations, Apple), and is therefore popular as a teaching language. As many functional languages are not too different from SML, an appendix gives a brief review of SML for those familiar with any of the other main stream functional languages, such as Miranda, Haskell, Clean, or Scheme.

As the target language to implement solutions in an imperative style the authors have chosen C. The choice to use C and not C++ was a difficult one. Both languages are mainstream languages, and would therefore be suitable as the target language. The authors have chosen C because it more clearly exposes the low level programming. To illustrate this consider the mechanisms that the languages provide for call by reference. In C, arguments must be explicitly passed as a pointer. The caller must pass the address, the callee must dereference the pointer. This in contrast with the call by reference mechanism of C++ (and Pascal and Modula-2). This explicit call by reference is a didactical asset as it clearly exposes the model behind call by reference, and its dangers (in the form of unwanted aliases).

As this book is intended to be used in a first year course, only few assumptions were made about prior knowledge of the students. Reasoning about the correctness of programs requires proof skills, which students might not have acquired at this stage. Therefore the authors have confined all proofs to specially marked exercises. To distinguish the programming exercises from the exercises requiring a proof, they have marked the latter with an asterisk... The answers to one third of the exercises are provided in Appendix A.

The student should have an understanding of the basic principles of computing. This would include base 2 arithmetic and the principles of operation of the von Neumann machine. A computer appreciation course would be most appropriate to cover this material. The book contains examples from other areas of computer science, including data bases, computer graphics, the theory of programming languages, and computer architecture. These examples can be understood without prior knowledge of these areas.

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100 Strangest Mysteries


100 Strangest Mysteries
Publisher: Metro Books | ISBN: 0760791929 | edition 2007 | PDF | 213 pages | 24,7 mb

Were the Amityville hauntings cynical media manipulation? Is levitation possible? Has Earth been visited by UFOs from other realms? All these questions, and more, are considered in 100 Strangest Mysteries. Paranormal investigator Matt Lamy documents in detail the numerous phenomena and events which can be termed 'mysterious' and cannot be dismissed as mere hysteria or wild imaginings.

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World's Hardest Puzzles


World's Hardest Puzzles By Charles Townsned
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks 1996 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 8122201652 | PDF | 8 MB



If you can match minds with the greatest brains, then you have a chance of solving these puzzles. Try this one right now:
"A word 1 know.
Six letters it contains;
Subtract just one
And twelve, you'll find, remains."
If you can prove that six minus one equals twelve, you win the prize for smart thinking!
If you miss it, or any others in this book, all the answers are in the back. Great cartoons and illustrations will help and entertain, while your brain gets to work on these topnotch, tricky challenges.
More than 90 of the world's hardest puzzles start with super-hard puzzles and move up to out-of-this-world hard. You'll love every one!

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Longman - Longman Photo Dictionary of American English


Longman - Longman Photo Dictionary of American English
Publisher: Pearson ESL | 2002-06-04 | ISBN: 0582451035 | PDF | 131 pages | 18.20 MB


*1000 clear and up-to-date photos make learning over 2500 basic words easy and memorable *Conversation and vocabulary activities offer extra speaking and writing practice on every page, and in a separate section at the back

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Drilling Engineering: A Complete Well Planning Handbook


Neal Adams, "Drilling Engineering: A Complete Well Planning Handbook"
Pennwell Corp | 1985 | ISBN: 0878142657 | 976 pages | PDF | 81,9 MB

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Stuart L Weinstein, Joseph A Buckwalter - Turek's Orthopaedics: Principles and Their Application


Stuart L Weinstein, Joseph A Buckwalter - Turek's Orthopaedics: Principles and Their Application
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | 2005-05-01 | ISBN: 0781742986 | CHM | 768 pages | 52.90 MB


Now in its revised, updated Sixth Edition, this text provides residents and medical students with a broad overview of adult and pediatric orthopaedics. Major sections focus on general and regional disorders of the musculoskeletal system. This edition's chapters on regional disorders have separate adult and pediatric sections and include sports medicine information and reviews of anatomy. Coverage of each disorder includes more details on treatment and prognosis. This edition also provides expanded coverage of molecular orthopaedics, biomaterials, orthotics and prosthetics, diagnosis by physical examination, commonly ordered laboratory tests, rehabilitation, biomechanics, principles of fractures, osteoporosis, overuse syndromes, and Achilles tendon rupture.

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