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Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan, Bert Vis, "Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died

Eight of America's early astronauts, selected to participate in the Mercury,

Gemini and Apollo programs, died while employed by NASA. Three of the eight-

Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White-are fairly well known, having died in a

gruesome fire during a training exercise in the Apollo 1 command module on

January 27, 1967. The other five are far less familiar. Four perished in jet

crashes (Ted Freeman, Elliot See, Charlie Bassett and C.C. Williams) while one

(Ed Givens) died in a car crash. Unfortunately, Burgess (Teacher in Space) and

Doolan (coauthor, Mission to Planet Earth) tell their stories in turgid and

repetitive prose, failing to dig beneath the surface and thus providing

remarkably little insight into the men, their time or the agency for which they

worked. Unlike virtually every other book dealing with the personalities of the

astronauts, this one leads us to believe that all were single-minded saints,

with no human foibles. Rounding out the book is a chapter written by Vis, a

Dutch space analyst, detailing the lives and deaths of the eight Soviet

cosmonauts who died between 1961 and 1971. This chapter is even weaker than the

rest; little meaningful information is presented and there are factual conflicts

with the American chapters. While the untimely deaths of good, talented men

evoke pathos, these abbreviated biographies do not deepen understanding of them.

John Hoover, "How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive - Without Killing Your

For more than two decades, Dr. John Hoover has written books on leadership,

creativity, and organizational performance, extolling the virtues of flattened

organizations, collaborative leadership, and shared responsibility. His clients

welcomed him, praised him...yet (he felt) completely ignored his advice! This

book contains the confession of a recovering "I-Boss" (Idiot Boss). After

decades of writing and consulting, Dr. John finally realized that the vast

majority of people he kept trying to "energize," "motivate," and "enlighten"

were, well, idiots. Also he was an idiot for trying to change them. Instead, he

has decided to enlighten you, who actually have to continue working for

difficult and demanding bosses. You cannot change them. You cannot challenge

them. Yet, you can survive them, even thrive under them, if you learn how to

deal with them using this book. It offers hope for the spirit and strategy for

the mind to help you deal with your work place situation.

James Phillips (Editor), James Morley (Editor), "Imagination and Its

From John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding to the most recent

edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, madness

has been viewed as a faulty mix of ideas by a deranged and violent imagination.

This book shows that the relation of the imagination to pathological phenomena

is as diverse and complex as the human condition itself. The imagination has the

power not only to react to the world but to recreate it. And that power is

double-edged: it is as destructive as it is creative.

Recent advances in genetics and neuroscience have reinforced the empiricist

approach in psychiatry, to the neglect of subjective aspects of the pathological

experience. This book argues that the study of the imagination and pathology is

long overdue, and that such an integration will be both theoretically and

clinically fruitful. Because imagination can be creatively integrative as well

as pathological, the book emphasizes the holistic, therapeutic dimension of

imagination as well as its destructive effects. The areas discussed include

philosophical perspectives on pathological imagination; pathological imagination

and the psychodynamic tradition; and specific cases of pathological imagination

in schizophrenia, juvenile pathology, artistic creativity (Vaslav Nijinsky), and

Интересная и полезная книга, написанная с применением семейного подряда (см.

Рудольф Делла-Росса, Александр Делла-Росса, Ирина Делла-Росса, "Adobe Photoshop

БХВ-Петербург | ISBN 5941577508 | 2005 год | PDF | 55 Mb | 608 страниц[cut]

Пособие по быстрому освоению программ Adobe Photoshop CS2 и Adobe ImageReady

CS2, рассчитано на тех, кто не знаком с графическими редакторами, но будет

полезно и опытным пользователям. Цель книги - обучить читателя средствами Adobe

Photoshop создавать собственные изображения (натюрморт, портрет, пейзаж) в

технике рисунка, акварели, живописи и пр. Приведено множество иллюстрированных

примеров пошагового выполнения работ (в том числе, обработки фотографий),

помогающих усвоить приемы использования инструментов, манипулирования

изображениями и цветом, работы со слоями и др. Отдельная глава посвящена

необходимым сведениям о рисунке, перспективе, композиции и цвете.

Vincent J. M. DiMaio, "Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms,

Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques" (2nd Edition)

The authoritative 2nd edition includes new coverage of DNA and cytology, bang

guns, rubber and plastic bullets, and more, as well as 78 new photographs.

Written by the nation's foremost expert on the subject.

В.Н.Шитов, "Excel. Единый справочник"

ГроссМедиа | ISBN 5476001115 | 2005 год | PDF | 69,7 Mb | 512 страниц[cut]

В книге описаны основные методы работы с популярным программным продуктом

Microsoft Excel 2002, предназначенным для работы с электронными таблицами. В

издании приводится огромное число примеров и иллюстраций по работе с

электронными таблицами. Читатель найдет много советов и приемов, которые потом

может применить в самостоятельной работе. Книга рассчитана на пользователей с

различным уровнем подготовки.

Trudy Dittmar, "Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature's Wisdom"

University Of Iowa Press | ISBN 0877458723 | 2003 Year | linked PNG-files |

Available November 2003 In essays with settings that range from the Wind River

Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, to the Pine

Barrens of New Jersey, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience with diverse

threads of subject matter to create unexpected connections between human nature

and nature at large. Life stories, elegantly combined with mindful observations

of animals, plants, landscape and the skies, theories in natural science,

environmental considerations, and touches of art criticism and popular culture,

offer insights into the linked analogies of nature and soul. A glacial pond

teeming with salamanders in arrested development is cause for reflection on the

limits of a life that knows only bounty. The hot blue lights of celestial

phenomena are a metaphor for fast, flashy men—he loves of a life—and a romantic

career is interpreted. Watching a pronghorn buck battling for, and ultimately

losing, his harem leads to a meditation on a kind of immortality.

Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky is testimony to the bearing and consequence of

nature in one life, and to the richness of understanding it can bring to all

Jonathan Cohen, William Powderly, "Infectious Disease" (2nd edition)

C.V. Mosby | ISBN 0323026079 | 2003 Year | PDB | 70 Mb[cut]