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Zongmin Ma (Editor), "Web-based Intelligent E-learning Systems: Technologies and
Applications"
Information Science Publishing | ISBN 159140729X | 2005 Year | PDF | 55 Mb | 388
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Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the
leading researchers in the field of e-learning systems, Web-Based Intelligent E-
Learning Systems: Technologies and Applications provides a single record of
current research and practical applications in Web-based intelligent e-learning
systems. This book includes major aspects of Web-based e-learning systems
standards and certifications, design and development, key techniques,
prototypes, products, and applications. Readers interested in the technologies
and applications of distance education, online learning, and training will find
this book a starting point for the understanding of the notions, techniques, and
methods related to the research and developments of Web-based e-learning
systems.
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Philip C. Plait, "Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from
Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'"
Wiley | ISBN 0471409766 | 2002 Year | linked PNG-files | 20,51 Mb | 288
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Plait, a science writer who works in the physics and astronomy department at
Sonoma State University, is appalled that millions of Americans don't believe
the moon landing really took place and do believe that Galileo went blind from
looking at the sun, or that they can make an egg stand on end only on the vernal
equinox. To set the record straight, he debunks these and many other astronomy-
related urban legends in this knowledgeable, lighthearted volume. The early
chapter "Idiom's Delight" sets the stage by clearing up the scientific
inaccuracies in everyday expressions as in the phrase "light years ahead," for
example, which is used to indicate timeliness or prescience when light years are
actually a unit of distance. In later chapters, Plait explains meteors,
eclipses, UFOs, and the big bang theory, revealing much about the basic
principles of astronomy while clearing up fallacies. With avuncular humor, he
points out the ways advertising and media reinforce bad science and pleads for
more accuracy in Hollywood story lines and special effects. This book is the
first in Wiley's Bad Science series on scientific misconceptions (future titles
will focus on biology, weather and the earth). (Mar.)Forecast: If every entry in
the series is as entertaining as Plait's, good science may have a fighting
chance with the American public. Expect respectable sales, for the paperback
format is nicely suited for armchair debunkers.
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Óèëüÿìñ Ý., Áàðáåð Ê., Íüþêèðê Ï., "Active Server Pages â ïîäëèííèêå. Íàèáîëåå
ïîëíîå ðóêîâîäñòâî"
ÁÕÂ-Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðã | ISBN 5941570058, 157610608Õ | 2001 ãîä | DjVu | 14 Mb |
672 ñòðàíèöû[cut]
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Jeffrey A. French (Editor), et al, "Evolutionary Psychology and Motivation"
University of Nebraska Press | ISBN 0803229267 | 2001 Year | linked PNG-files |
52 Mb | 221 Pages[cut]
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Barry M. Brenner (Editor), Floyd C. Rector (Editor), "Benner & Rector's the
Kidney (2 vol set)" (7th edition)
W.B. Saunders Company | ISBN 0721601642 | 2003 Year | PDB | 82 Mb | 3072
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Brandon/Hill Medical List minimal-core,
first-purchase selection (#659). Two-volume resource provides comprehensive,
authoritative coverage of every aspect of kidney development and function,
pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also presents new data on drugs and
therapies.
In the twenty-eight-year period from the first edition of The Kidney (1976) to
the present seventh edition (2004), the knowledge base of nephrology has
expanded remarkably. Progressing in logical order from the study of whole kidney
function in intact organisms to the investigation of the individual nephron
unit—discrete glomerulus and tubule segments and epithelial, endothelial,
mesangial, or other renal-specific cell types—the basic thrust in nephrology
research now extends to the level of cellular organelles, membrane channels,
transporters, and exchangers and to the myriad genes that govern renal cell
protein expression and regulation. At each of these levels of the reductive
cascade, specific derangements are increasingly implicated as causes of the
disorders of renal structure and function that lead to organ-specific injury and
to the generalized disturbances of body fluid volume and composition—the panoply
of syndromes that constitutes the oeuvre of clinical nephrology.
In 1976, the largest annual meeting of nephrology, the American Society of
Nephrology, received approximately 500 abstracts. In 2003, this number exceeded
4000. Such explosive growth in the fruits of research in the basic renal
sciences, pathophysiology, and clinical nephrology challenges our individual
abilities to receive, store, assimilate, and synthesize this ever-increasing
fund of new knowledge. In keeping with previous editions, the seventh edition
once again strives to confront these challenges by expanding the scope of topics
covered, in particular by adding 10 new chapter headings in addition to the many
already added to the fifth and sixth editions. To ensure a fresh perspective in
the formidable task of assimilating and synthesizing new information, we have
continued the approach taken in previous editions, namely, to rewrite chapters,
sometimes partially but more often completely, by inviting internationally
recognized new authorities as contributors. Their challenge, as well as mine,
has been to accomplish our stated goals without adding further bulk to an
already formidable two-volume tome and to ensure the inclusion of thousands of
references that accurately reflect the progress that has been made since the
previous edition 4 years ago.
To further address the needs and interests of clinicians treating renal disease,
we are pleased to continue to update and expand our library of companion volumes
to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney. These books represent highly current,
comprehensive, and integrated content and focus on the significant advances made
in the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic kidney disease and
hypertension.
We are pleased to have just published the second edition of Therapy in
Nephrology and Hypertension, edited by Hugh Brady and Christopher Wilcox. To be
published in the fall of 2004 will be the second editions of Hypertension,
edited by Suzanne Oparil and Michael Weber, and Chronic Kidney Disease: Dialysis
and Transplantation, edited by Brian Pereira, Mohamed Sayegh, and Peter Blake.
In addition, we remain delighted with the success of our current volumes: Acute
Renal Failure, edited by Bruce Molitoris and William Finn, and Acid-Base and
Electrolyte Disorders, edited by Thomas DuBose and Lee Hamm. In the near future
we will also add to the companion library an Atlas of Renal Pathology, The
Molecular and Genetic Basis of Renal Disease, a new concise Pocket Companion to
Brenner & Rector's The Kidney, and a board-review workbook. A most exciting part
of our future planning is an e-edition, a web site based on the entire library,
which will include updates and other multimedia not possible in print form.
I continue to be indebted to our authors for their unrivaled scholarship,
splendid cooperation, and timeliness in meeting austere deadlines. I also wish
to express my sincere gratitude to my very able editorial assistant, Francesca
Quinn, and to the many dedicated professionals at Elsevier—in particular Susan
Pioli, Jennifer Ehlers, Lee Ann Draud, and Steven Stave—for their enthusiasm,
guidance, and unrelenting support.
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Christine M. Boyer, "CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic
Communication" (2nd edition)
Princeton Architectural Press | ISBN 1568980485 | 1997 Year | PDF | 15,87 Mb |
245 Pages[cut]
From the moment William Gibson announced in his dystopian science-fiction
account Neuromancer (1984) that the new informational network or computer matrix
called cyberspace looks like Los Angeles seen from five thousand feet up in the
air, there has been a predilection for drawing a parallel between the virtual
space of computer networks and post-urban places of disorder and decay.
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Þ.Â. Ãåéêî, "Àâòîëèêáåç"
Îëèìï, ÀÑÒ | ISBN 5170115105, 5819507002 | 2002 ãîä | PDF | 1,84 Mb | 192
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