Treating Drug Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)

Treating Drug Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)
By Arthur W. Blume


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 316
Publication Date: 2005-03-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471484830
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471484837
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Part of the new Treating Addictions series, Treating Drug Problems is full of practical information on assessing, diagnosing, and treating drug problems, and represents an invaluable tool for anyone who works with clients experiencing drug dependence or addiction. The popular series format includes assessment scales; tables, checklists, and diagrams; features such as "Dos and Don'ts" and "Important Things to Remember"; problem-solving scenarios; "Self-Improvement Techniques"; and suggested resources, including an annotated bibliography and lists of contacts such as self-help groups, residential and outpatient treatment programs, support groups, and websites.

Other Book :
Treating Drug Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)
علاج مشاكل المخدرات (ايلي سلسلة علاج الإدمان).
Лечение проблеми с наркотиците (Wiley Лечение наркомании серия).
治疗药物问题（威利治疗吸毒系列） 。
治療藥物問題（威利治療吸毒系列）

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed
By Paul Kimmel


Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2002-01-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 067232234X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780672322341
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:

Visual Basic.NET Unleashed is a complete book on the fundamentals of programming with a fully object-oriented language filled with new idioms and capabilities. In addition to the fundamentals, this book covers:
Free threading and multithreading
Inheritance
Virtual methods and shared methods
Structured exception handling
Event handling
Encapsulation at the namespace level
Web Services
.NET Framework compatibility


Amazon.com:

Aimed at the more experienced developer, Visual Basic .NET Unleashed will let you master the improved object-oriented capabilities of the newest version of Visual Basic quickly. Stressing "refactoring" and advanced class design features, this challenging tutorial proves that VB .NET is in the front rank of object-oriented programming languages today. The expert focus here on language features and refactoring (for efficient class design) is the hallmark of this text.

After an in-depth tutorial on the new IDE available in Visual Studio .NET, the author digs in with a fast-moving tour of VB .NET language features (including coverage of changes from VB6). The text starts with basic and then advanced topics, but its real emphasis is on advanced class design using classes and interfaces, with some excellent material on inheritance and polymorphism, as well as taking advantage of VB .NET's support for properties and reflection, among other topics. By continually advising how to rewrite classes to improve their maintainability, the author raises the bar here by presenting some tips and best practices beyond the obvious, using techniques invented by the Extreme Programming (XP) movement.

Later chapters turn to the basics of using Windows Forms and graphics programming (with GDI+), as well as ADO.NET for building database-driven Web applications. The book finishes with a nicely comprehensive listing of all VB6 to VB .NET changes, an invaluable resource for those making this transition.

If you are going to learn to design with objects, you might as well learn to do it right, this guide argues, using the expertise garnered from other programming languages. In all, this title shows how VB .NET supports basic and advanced object-oriented design features. It will be most profitably read by those with some previous object-oriented programming experience, though it will also benefit the beginner who wants to be challenged with some expert advice to get the most out of the new object support available in VB .NET. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: In-depth introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE (including common project tasks, configuration options, debugging, and built-in views), VB6 versus VB .NET language tutorial (including new .NET data types, variables, arrays, collections, and exception handling); extending VS .NET with macros (including Add-ins and Wizards), procedures and parameters, recursion, structures, enumerated types, reflection APIs, object-oriented design tutorial, (classes, access specifiers, properties, methods, nested classes), events in VB .NET: delegates and event handlers, inheritance and polymorphism (including interfaces), shared members, attributes (plus custom attributes); VB .NET console applications (debugging and running applications), multithreaded applications (lightweight and heavyweight threading), introduction to Windows Forms, GDI+ graphics (including basic shapes, curves and Bezier splines and images), tutorial for Web services (UDDI, DISCO, building and debugging Web services); basic Web programming with ASP.NET and ADO.NET, writing to the event log, list of changes between VB6 and VB .NET, refactoring VB code, and advice for effective object-oriented programming.



Summary: Excellent Resource for the CORE VB.NET Language. If looking for Databases with VB.NET, go get an ASP.NET book and stop whining.
Rating: 5

It doesn't matter if you're coding windows applications or web applications, this book is for you because web programmers ultimately have to know the VB.NET language! It doesn't matter if you're coding .NET 1.0, 1.1, or 2.0, this book is for you...at least until they come out with version 2. This book has taught me so much about the new OOP for VB.NET with real world explanations in a concise manor. Highly recommended even if you are one of those "I know it all, I don't need books" coder...don't be ridiculous...get this book, it's a great reference.

As another person I see in their review stated that this book lacked info on databases. This book is about the VB.NET language, not Databases! If you want more about VB.NET with Databases, that's what ASP.NET books are for!!! I can recommend many for that but this book as it's labeled is for VB.NET, the LANGUAGE!!! common people...lets wake up here.

I don't have money to waste and buy my books carefully..ones that I definitely will use and this is one of them I've used a lot.


Summary: No ADO, are you kidding me?
Rating: 1

you have to be kidding me. how do you have a book called "unleashed" and then not even go into any database usage? i dont think i have ever had to write an application that did not include some type of database usage, yet the author does not even cover it. nor does he go into forms in any detail except when it comes to web forms. where are the 2 pages it would have taken to detail how to populate a listBox? i bought this book off a sidewalk vendor for half price and i got ripped off.


Summary: There's Nothing to be unleashed! BAD BOOK
Rating: 1

The Title says "Visual Basic .Net Unleashed"... what a title? if you want to learn Visual Basic .Net, don't buy this book. Can we use definitions in writing programs? I don't think so. I bought this book because of its title but when i started reading it, its only full of definitions, less examples.


Summary: Good book for the vb.net language
Rating: 4

This is a good book for covering the actual language of vb.net (classes, delegates etc). There isn't much content on creating win or web forms or ado.net for that matter. You will need a separate book if you want to learn these techniques.


Summary: too much effort to go thru this one!!
Rating: 1

The authors seems to know what he is talking about and
the code looks good. However the downloadable code for
this book does not carry the code to call any of the scripts
in his book.
A separate script is needed and
needs to be written by the reader to call each script and
basically test if his vb.net scripts are execute and run successfully.

This approach forces hands-on approach but seeing how large
the .net framework is, my money would have been better spent
on another book.

With the effort required by this book, it could end up to be
a waste of time if his code doesn't work in the end.

This must be one of the worst books I have purchased ...

Other Visual Basic books

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed
البصرية الأساسية. شبكة العنان.
Visual Basic. NET Unleashed.
Visual Basic中。 NET中释放出来。
Visual Basic中。 NET中釋放出來。
Visual Basica. NET Unleashed.

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers (The Practical Guides)
By Michael Sikora


Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Number Of Pages: 150
Publication Date: 2002-12-23
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1558609091
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781558609099
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

If you're an experienced programmer, you already have a rock-solid foundation for learning Java. All you need is a resource that takes your experience into account and explains Java's key principles and techniques in an intelligent, efficient way.

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers is precisely that resource. Here, you won't have to wade through hundreds of pages of overly simplistic material to learn the basics of Java programming. Instead, you get highly focused instruction in the core elements of Java 1.4, accompanied by carefully chosen examples and line-by-line analyses that are right to the point. You'll be astonished at how soon you can begin productive coding in Java, and how quickly your skills will progress.

Web resources:
Source code from the book is no longer available at
http://www.zm.sikora.btinternet.co.uk/source.html
Please press the 'Companion Page' button on the upper right side of this page to access a zip file containing it.

Sun J2SE download page
http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html

Sun J2SE API documentation
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/index.html

* Written expressly for people who already know a procedural or object-oriented programming language.
* Takes a concise approach designed to make the most of the experience you already have.
* Covers the core elements of Java 1.4, including language syntax, OO features, collections, exception handling, input/output, threads, event handling, and Swing components.
* Filled with incisive coding examples and line-by-line analyses.
* Via a companion Web site, provides downloadable example code and links to additional resources.



Summary: A CONCISE Java Grammar!
Rating: 5

I love this little one. From time to time, between working through and losing myself in half dozen or more heavy tomes of Java book, I would come back to this little one to get a grip of fundamentals and essentials. The book is concise and no nonsensical. I also like the banking application sample code. Practical enough. Who doesn't bank?


Summary: Good for experienced coders
Rating: 4

As the book's title shows, it's just a guide, a simple guide that you can not expect too much details out from it. Before learning Java, I am a Delphi coder. So, I was looking for some book to transfer me from Delphi to Java quickly. Within merely 170-odd pages, Sikora brings you an overview of the Java language. I think this guide just right fits my taste. Another thing to be mentioned, if you are a serious coder, a detailed reference is necessary. As what I am doing now, Java 2, The Complete Reference is by far the most suitable book for me, after I have an bird's eye view from Sikora's guide.


Summary: quickly learn Java?
Rating: 4

Indeed, Sikora offers a quick start to learning Java. He eshews an exhaustive enumeration of every core class in J2SE. Instead, he takes several high level topics and explains which common classes deal with these. A question arises. Can you indeed learn Java from so slender a book? Perhaps. Sikora teaches a core functionality. Made easier if you have already programmed in some other language.

For graphics, he leads you right into Swing. No time wasted on the earlier and inferior AWT classes.

For input/output, Java is more powerful than C or C++, but concomitantly harder to use. The coding is far more verbose, compared to a simple printf() or scanf() in C, for example. The minimal descriptions in Java given here are admirable in how he found the essence of enough to be useful.


Summary: Java for self-starters
Rating: 5

If I could only recommend one book to an experienced programmer who wanted to learn Java it would be this one. It's only 170 pages long and it doesn't contain anything that's unnecessary. But it does cover syntax, flow control, classes and methods, inheritance, exception handling, file I/O, GUI's, collections and threads. That's genuinely Java in a nutshell.

The author can offer such a stripped-down book, of course, because he assumes that the reader already understands programmatic flow control and objects, and can follow a basic inheritance hierarchy without tedious explanation.

Java isn't a difficult language: it can merely be made to seem so by textbooks that bury simple facts under mountains of verbiage. I hope other authors will take Zbigniew Sikora's "Java: Practical Guide for Programmers" as a model for textbooks for busy people.

Other Java Books : 
Java: Практическо ръководство за програмисти (Практическите ръководства).
爪哇：实用指南程序员（实用指南） 。
爪哇：實用指南程序員（實用指南） 。
Java: Guia pràctica per als programadors (els guies pràctiques).
Java: Praktični vodič za Programeri (praktičnog vodiča).
Java: Practical Guide for programmører (Den praktiske vejledninger).
Java: Praktische Gids voor programmeurs (De praktische gidsen).

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability (Windows Server System)
By: Paul Bertucci
ISBN: 0672326256

ISBN-13: 9780672326257
Publisher: Sams - 2004-11-05
Paperback | 456 Pages


From the Publisher

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: A Complete Guide is the first book that explains how to assess, select, and build high availability solutions from the ground up. Chief architects, system and data architects, system and database administrators, and developers will all benefit from this guide. Learn valuable skills, including how to drill-down into the heart of high availability requirements, how to assess and classify these requirements, and how to select, configure, and specify a matching high availability solution that optimally meets your needs. Most importantly, learn how to achieve five 9s (99.999% uptime).


Synopsis Intended for system architects and database administrators, this guide describes the various hardware and software options within the Microsoft family of products that address high availability, and defines a formal design approach for matching a company's computer system requirements to the appropriate availability solution. Four example business cases walk through the implementation of Cluster Services, SQL clustering, log shipping, data replication, and distributed transaction processing.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents Pt. I Understanding high availability Ch. 1 Essential elements of high availability 5 Pt. II Choosing the right high availability approaches Ch. 2 Microsoft high availability options 31 Ch. 3 Choosing high availability 53 Pt. III Implementing high availability Ch. 4 Microsoft cluster services 91 Ch. 5 Microsoft SQL server clustering 127 Ch. 6 Microsoft SQL server log shipping 167 Ch. 7 Microsoft SQL server data replication 195 Ch. 8 Other ways to distribute data for high availability 271 Ch. 9 High availability pieced together 295 Ch. 10 High availability design issues and considerations 315 Ch. 11 High availability and security 369 Ch. 12 Future directions of high availability 391

MySQL Certification Study Guide

MySQL Certification Study Guide (Paperback)
by Paul DuBois, Stefan Hinz, Carsten Pedersen

Paperback: 648 pages
Publisher: MySQL Press (April 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672326329
ISBN-13: 978-0672326325

The authoritative study guide to prepare for the MySQL Core Certification and MySQL Professional Certification exams. When you purchase a copy of the MySQL Certification Study Guide, you automatically receive 25% off the cost of registration for the MySQL Core Certification exam. Details on the back cover of the book. The MySQL certification program is a carefully developed, high-quality certification process that can help you prove your skills in using, maintaining, and administering MySQL database servers and other technologies from MySQL AB. Covering both the basic MySQL Core Certification exam and the advanced MySQL Professional Certification exam, MySQL Certification Study Guide is the one authority to look to when you¿re preparing for either test. The book teaches you all the concepts, principles, and techniques that you¿ll need to know for the Core and Professional certification exams, and it includes an array of learning aids, practice questions, and real-world examples to help you prepare for test day. Certified computer professionals often find that having proven, recognized credentials can advance them farther in their fields, give their careers a boost, and make them better, more productive employees for their companies or organizations. Whatever reason for becoming MySQL certified, MySQL Certification Study Guide gives you the information you need to help you better understand MySQL technologies and prepare for and pass the exams. Download Description The authoritative study guide to prepare for the MySQL Core Certification and MySQL Professional Certification exams. When you purchase a copy of the MySQL Certification Study Guide, you automatically receive 25% off the cost of registration for the MySQL Core Certification exam. Details on the back cover of the book. The MySQL certification program is a carefully developed, high-quality certification process that can help you prove your skills in using, maintaining, and administering MySQL database servers and other technologies from MySQL AB. Covering both the basic MySQL Core Certification exam and the advanced MySQL Professional Certification exam, MySQL Certification Study Guide is the one authority to look to when you're preparing for either test. The book teaches you all the concepts, principles, and techniques that you'll need to know for the Core and Professional certification exams, and it includes an array of learning aids, practice questions, and real-world examples to help you prepare for test day. Certified computer professionals often find that having proven, recognized credentials can advance them farther in their fields, give their careers a boost, and make them better, more productive employees for their companies or organizations. Whatever reason for becoming MySQL certified, MySQL Certification Study Guide gives you the information you need to help you better understand MySQL technologies and prepare for and pass the exams.--This text refers to the Digital edition

Other My SQL BOOKs :

MySQL Certification Study Guide
MySQL شهادة الدراسة الدليل.
MySQL Сертифициране Проучване гид.
MySQL的认证研究指南。
MySQL的認證研究指南。
Guia d'Estudi de Certificació de MySQL.
MySQL Certification Study Guide.
MySQL Certification Study Guide.
MySQL Certification Studiegids.
MySQL Varmentava opinto-opas.
MySQL Certification Study Guide.
Πιστοποίηση Οδηγός MySQL Μελέτη.
MySQL Certification Study guide.

Confessions of a Mortgage Insider

Have you wondered why the mortgage and banking industry are in their current shape of disarray? Did you ever wonder how some people managed to get something for nothing and leave us the average tax payer footing the bill? Are you curious why the once respectable mortgage industry became so corrupt and brought the US economy so quickly to its knees?

Denny Andrew's first book, Confessions of a Mortgage Insider, explores how the mortgage brokerage industry went into a spiraling failure that resulted in a complete meltdown of epidemic proportions. Confessions of a Mortgage Insider uncovers more than the excesses of the industry. It explores the people and personalities of those who worked in the industry through the personal stories of leaders, followers, slimy wheeler-dealers, and the victims. It tells the story through the eyes of mortgage broker Rick Agnew. Agnew goes from naïve freshman loan application agent to a diamond level broker whose life is filled with fast cars, fast women and fast parties. His up close and personal experiences with the industry open his eyes to the rampant fraud and chicanery of the industry.

Part story collection, part instruction, and part personal discovery, Andrew's book is a fun and interesting book that makes you angry with the money lust of the brokers, makes you cry for those who are victimized, and laugh at the antics of Rick Agnew the half man/half naughty child protagonist. Using illustrative stories and hilarious hi-jinx this book instructs even the most casual reader on the dangers of the current mortgage failure to the housing market. This book can be that 'tell all' source the casual reader has been seeking to establish some sanity from the current economic crisis in the mortgage industry.

Confessions of a Mortgage Insider prompts the reader to really assess where they are currently in their mortgage and financial stability and then to make a specific plan to get where they want to be. Living in the house of your dreams is not just a wish if you plan carefully and shop wisely for a mortgage and a mortgage broker, according to Andrews. The American dream is not over...it has just become something that once again is only realized through hard work and a good savings plan.

The mortgage bubble has been broken and according to Denny Andrews, it is not a bad thing that the party is over. His exposure of the ugly secrets of such a sleekly designed profiteering machine clearly illustrates the symptoms of our society's pervasive illness: excess. This fast moving book encourages responsible lending and commanding the life choices that promotes accountability and fiduciary common sense. Andrews captures the madness and mayhem through his original stories and then provides sound business advice that everyone can understand.

Title: Confessions of a Mortgage Insider
Author: Denny Andrews
Publisher: Aviva Publishing
Date: 2008
Price: 24.95
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The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
By Scott Kelby


Publisher: New Riders Press
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2005-04-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0321330625
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780321330628
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Kelby s 480-page book shows you Photoshop tips and tricks for altering your digital photo image, including a special chapter on how to set-up Photoshop s color management. You ll also learn: sharpening techniques, retouching secrets, processing RAW images, color correction, image noise reduction and more.



Summary: Great non-techy book
Rating: 4

This book offers the novice and advanced user a non-technical approach without diminishing the important aspects. I am new to Photoshop and within 5 minutes of reading the first chapter, I could make a contact sheet and went forward from there, I'd recommend this book to any one who wants to learn Photoshop without all the technical jargon.


Summary: Claro, conciso, practico y muy didactico...
Rating: 5

Absolutamente recomendable...
Escrito en un ingles fluido, ameno y agradable de leer, Scott Kelby es capaz de trasladar al lector con enorme claridad y sencillez todo una serie de conocimientos, facil e inmediatamente aplicables.
Libro didactico y practico, muy bien estructurado, con buenas imagenes y explcaciones paso a paso, claras y consisas. Me gusta.
Estoy encantado de haberlo adquirido.


Summary: Best Photoshop book for Photographers
Rating: 5

I've used dozens of Photoshop books over the past 15 years and this is the best because it is informative but more importantly it is designed to be easy to read with useful projects dedicated to every page with big color pictures. Tips are good and because of the well-designed layout of the book they are always easy to find. Only bad thing is the intros to each chapter which are moronic and try to be too cool for their own good.


Summary: Great book for Digital Photography and Photoshop
Rating: 5

This is a good book for any beginning and intermediate digital photography and Photoshop level. The topics and examples are clear and easily to follow.


Summary: Starting Photoshop
Rating: 4

A good book for beginners, and don't forget to read the introduction, gives good info on sample files and images. Great examples and step by step instructions. I am taking photoshop 101 at a local Community College, my instructor uses this book instead of the college book. You have to put up with the writers sarcasm, but overall a great book for beginners to intermediate users of Adobe Photoshop CS 2. Not too much on Type (Text) manipulation, in a rating of 1 to 5, I give this book a 4.

Understanding Mathematics and Science Matters

Understanding Mathematics and Science Matters (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)
By
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2005-02
Sales Rank: 1363108
ISBN / ASIN: 0805846956
EAN: 9780805846959
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Studio: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Average Rating:
Total Reviews:

Description

The research reported in this book provides reliable evidence on and knowledge about mathematics and science instruction that emphasizes student understanding--instruction consistent with the needs of students who will be citizens in an increasingly demanding technological world. The National Center for Improving Student Learning in Mathematics and Science--established in 1996 as a research center and funded by the U.S. Department of Education--was instrumental in developing instructional practices supportive of high student achievement in and understanding of mathematics and science concepts. NCISLA researchers worked with teachers, students, and administrators to construct learning environments that exemplify current research and theory about effective learning of mathematics and science. The careful programs of research conducted examined how instructional content and design, assessment, professional development, and organizational support can be designed, implemented, and orchestrated to support the learning of all students. This book presents a summary of the concepts, findings, and conclusions of the Center's research from 1996-2001. In the Introduction, the chapters in this book are situated in terms of the reform movement in school mathematics and school science. Three thematically structured sections focus on, respectively, research directed toward what is involved when students learn mathematics and science with understanding; research on the role of teachers and the problems they face when attempting to teach their students mathematics and science with understanding; and a collaboration among some of the contributors to this volume to gather information about classroom assessment practices and organizational support for reform. Following a preface, this book is divided into four parts. Part I, Introduction, presents the initial chapter of the book: (1) Standards-Based Reform and Teaching for Understanding (T. A. Romberg, T.P. Carpenter, and J. Kwako). Part II, Learning with Understanding, includes: (2) Developing Modeling and Argument in the Elementary Grades (R. Lehrer and L. Schauble); (3) The Generative Potential of Students' Everyday Knowledge in Learning Science (A. S. Rosebery, B. Warren, C. Ballenger, and A. Ogonowski); (4) Developing Algebraic Reasoning in the Elementary School (T. P. Carpenter, L. Levi, P. W. Berman, and M. Pligge); (5) A Teacher-Centered Approach to Algebrafying Elementary Mathematics (J. J. Kaput and M. L. Blanton); (6) Statistical Data Analysis: A Tool for Learning (K. McCain, P. Cobb, and K. Gravemeijer); (7) Modeling for Understanding in Science Education (J. Stewart, C. Passmore, J. Cartier, J. Rudolph, and S. Donovan); (8) Learning Mathematics in High School: Symbolic Places and Family Resemblances (R. Nemirovsky, A. Barros, T. Noble, M. Schnepp, and J. Solomon). Part III, Teaching for Understanding (M. Franke and E. Kazemi) includes: (9) Changing Teachers' Professional Work in Mathematics: One School's Journey (J. Shih, S. Biagetti, and D. Battey); (10) Teacher Collaboration: Focusing on Problems of Practice (D. C. Webb, T. A. Romberg, M. J. Ford, and J. Burrill); and (11) Managing Uncertainty and Creating Technical Knowledge (W. G. Secada and T. Williams). Part IV, Cross-Cutting Studies, includes the final chapters: (12) Research in Assessment Practices (J. de Lange and T. A. Romberg); and (13) Capacity for Change: Organizational Support for Teaching for Understanding (A. Gamoran).

Understanding Mathematics and Science Matters (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning)
فهم مسائل الرياضيات والعلوم (دراسات في الرياضيات والتفكير والتعلم).
Разбиране математика и науката въпроси (изследвания в Математическо мислене и обучение).
理解数学和科学事项（研究数学思维和学习） 。
理解數學和科學事項（研究數學思維和學習） 。
Comprensió matèria de Matemàtiques i Ciències (Estudis en el pensament matemàtic i l'aprenentatge).
Razumijevanje Matematika i znanost stvarima (studije u matematičko razmišljanje i učenje).
Forståelse af matematik og naturvidenskab Matters (Studies i matematisk tankegang og Læring).
Inzicht in Mathematics and Science Matters (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning).
Ymmärtämys Matematiikka ja tiede Matters (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning).
Unawa sa Mathematics at Science matters (Studies sa Mathematical Iniisip at Learning).

Critical Visions: New Directions in Social Theory

Critical Visions: New Directions in Social Theory
By Anthony Elliott


Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 240
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0742526895
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780742526891


Product Description:

This remarkable book develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing social theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis together in a bold configuration, Elliott challenges the widespread view that social theory seems to have lost its way as a result of the diversification of conceptual approaches. In outlining an approach that places imagination and creativity at the center of social theory, Elliott argues that theoretical pluralism--from post-structuralism to postmodernism, from psychoanalysis to deconstruction--represents not the demise, but the renewal of critical social theory.



Summary: Vsions for the Future
Rating: 5

Brilliant! I've read Elliott previously, and this book is perhaps his best. Clear, focused and analytically distinct. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in theory.

A Primer of Special Relativity

A Primer of Special Relativity
By P.L. Sardesai

2004

Amazon U.S.:

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Publisher: New Age International (P) Ltd.
Number Of Pages: 190
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 8122415202
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9788122415209

Primer Of Special Relativity

A Primer Of Special Relativity is an unusually lucidintroduction to the subject specifically written for Indian students. It isintended to give the beginner a firm grounding for a more advanced course inrelativity. An entire chapter is devoted to applications of the theory toelucidate a large number of topics the students (B.Sc. Physics) come across inModern Physics. Detailed and well-selected examples are used to illuminateaspects of the theory as well as to show techniques of applications. A largenumber of illustrative examples enables the students to gain confidence to solveany problem in relativity normally expected of B.Sc. students. The book meetsthe complete requirements of a textbook for B.Sc. General and Honours courses inspecial theory of relativity recommended by the U.G.C. Existing syllabi in anumber of our universities have been taken into account in planning the book.The structure of the book permits a lot of flexibility. The book can thereforebe used as a text for a number of existing courses (with different allottedperiods) presently prevalent in many Indian universities.

The special theory of relativity is an essential part of the syllabus for B.Sc. (Physics) students in Indian
Universities. Though many excellent books on the subject are available, most of our students find them to
be high-brow because they are written by foreign authors with their own students in view as potential users.
An average Indian student often finds that though he has understood the theory, he cannot solve the
problems intended to test his grasp of the theory. This often results in loss of time for the student when
he tries to refer to a number of books one after another to gain confidence in problem solving.
This book is specifically written for a student who needs to be led quickly and yet with sympathy along
a path suitable for him so that he obtains a proficiency in the subject and develops the necessary skills and
confidence to solve the problems based on the theory. Every effort is made to ensure that an average student
masters the elements of the theory of special relativity in the shortest possible time without recourse to any
other book.
Syllabi in special theory of relativity from a number of Indian Universities have been consulted for
planning of this book. This book not only covers the syllabus recently suggested by the U.G.C. for B.Sc.
General and Honours courses in Indian Universities but it also provides latitude for additional topics to suit
individual taste. The structure of the book is such that it can be used as a textbook to suit individual taste,
or to suit different courses as per the time available for its completion. The style is so facile that if necessary
any topic can be assigned for self-study by the students. Besides the courses recommended by the U.G.C.,
the book can be used as a textbook for courses based on (i) first six chapters with some selected topics from
Chapter 7; (ii) first seven chapters; (iii) first eight chapters etc.
Throughout the writing of the book, the author has kept reminding himself of his own student days—
he has in view an average student putting in sincere efforts to get a clear understanding of elements of the
special theory of relativity. The author would be personally obliged to receive suggestions to make this
book more useful to our student community.
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Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation

Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation (Get Political)
By A. Sivanandan


Publisher: Pluto Press
Number Of Pages: 272
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0745328342
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780745328348


Product Description:

Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.

A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing for over forty years and this is the definitive collection of his work.

The articles selected span his entire career and are chosen for their relevance to today's most pressing issues. Included is a complete bibliography of Sivanandan’s writings, and an introduction by Colin Prescod (chair of the IRR), which sets the writings in context.

This book is highly relevant to undergraduate politics students and anyone reading or writing on race, ethnicity and immigration.