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This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth European Software Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invited papers and 27 contributed papers selected from more than 135 submissions. The volume has a mixtureof themes. Some, such as software engineering and computer supported collaborative work, are forward-looking and anticipate future developments; others, such as systems engineering, are more concerned with reports of practical industrial applications. Some topics, such as software reuse, reflect the fact that some of the concerns first raised in 1969 when software engineering was born remain unsolved problems. The contributed papers are organized under the following headings: requirements specification, environments, systems engineering, distributed software engineering, real-time systems, software engineering and computer supported collaborative work, software reuse, software process, and formal aspects of software engineering.

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1987 First Edition. Gift quality. Same day shipping.

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This 112-page 3.5 x 5 field guide contains straight forward advice for men on how to improve their relationships with women. It covers topics like… <P>• Communicating with a woman <BR>• What a woman wants <BR>• A woman’s need for security <BR>• Improving sexual intimacy. <P>The guide is a positive book that celebrates the differences between men and women while offering effective advice that changes relationships! <P>As a man you react, think, and respond to situations totally different than the woman in your life. Your natural reactions to situations often fall short of expectations and both you and your significant other are left desiring more from your relationship. This book delivers the secrets to understanding a woman’s point of view, and more importantly, provides specific steps and actions that deliver bulletproof results. <P>This is a positive book that celebrates the joy of relationships while teaching helpful guidelines that will improve them. <P>There are 4 divisions in the book; each offers a number of topics that can be read in less than 5 minutes. <P>Armed with this knowledge you can easily meet her needs, creating a dynamic relationship for you both. This is not rocket science, but core knowledge coupled with simple practices that create dramatic results. <P>Now you will never be caught short handed. Simply keep your field guide handy, and in less than 5 minutes you will understand the situation and deliver the goods. <P>It IS simple... if you have the guide.

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One plane, hundreds of passengers, thousands of snakes - what are the odds? Novelization of the smash hit 2006 movie.

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<b><i>From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope</i></b><br><br>After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.<br><br>The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi . . . for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level—dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.<br><br>In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen’s process closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen’s newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again. . . .

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When a ruthless ambassador is assassinated, Security Chief Garibaldi and Commander Susan Ivanova join the victim\'s enraged assistant Na\'Toth in a search for the killer, only to find themselves the targets of a blood oath.

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The Narn have been greatly wronged by the Centauri.  During the domination of their world by that sophisticated and ruthless people, the Narn were slaves in all but name; forced to watch as their world was stripped of everything of value.  And when at last they succeeded in driving the hated dictators from Narn space, they were left with little but their freedom.<br><br><br><br>They hate the Centauri, but have learned from them.  The Narn sought out other worlds, rich with resources to supply their beggared home-world.  They found them.  And when those worlds had native populations, the Narn conquered them, enslaved them, and exploited them as ruthlessly as ever the Centauri at their worst might have.  Now, the Centauri have struck again at the Narn and the two powers are embroiled in battle.  It is a time when an enslaved people might see an opportunity to strike at their enemy; perhaps win their freedom.  But in every conflict there comes a lull, a time when exhaustion temporarily causes even the bitterest opponents to call a truce, to rest and recoup, a time when allies try to make peace between the combatants, a time when reluctant rebels might hope for a peaceful solution before they drench their own hands in blood.<br><br><br><br>Babylon 5 will host a conference between the Narn and the Centauri.  Nobody really expects peace and everyone is determined to remain uninvolved in the conflict, but everyone feels forced to go through the motions.

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A deadly conspiracy from Mars succeeds in stripping Ivanova of her command and forcing the Babylon 5 loyalists into action.

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The last true hope for freedom, Babylon 5 is struggling to survive. The station has severed its ties with Earth--and has been quarantined in retaliation. <br><br>Then, in the depths of hyperspace, a squad of Starfuries makes an astounding discovery that could affect the destiny of the civilized universe. But have the pilots from the embattled space station uncovered the threshold to a new age . . . or a gateway to hell?<br><br>As they recover a gargantuan alien artifact floating derelict in space, both Captain Sheridan and archaeologist Elizabeth Quijana know it is a gold mine of possibilities. But the telepath Lyta is the first to sense the danger, when her mind is assaulted by swift, crippling images of unspeakable terror. And as research teams attempt to penetrate the mysteries of the mammoth machine, Babylon 5 is thrust toward a terrifying confrontation with the monstrous dimension of Thirdspace . . .

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Surrounded by telepaths during a Psi Corps Convention, Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi are unable to help resident telepath Talia Winters when she is accused of setting off a bomb on Babylon 5.

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<P>Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to build a great blog from the ground up. This isn\'t a book about technology -- it\'s a book about engaging millions of readers. Starting your blog is easy, but building and maintaining a popular one is hard. <BR><BR>Blogging experts John Biggs and Charlie White (Gizmodo, Mashable and TechCrunch) share their secrets from the frontline showing you how to blog with quality and flair, find the best stories, and attract millions of readers to your blog.<BR><BR>Blogging goes way beyond writing. It\'s a conversation between you and your audience. Guiding you to blogging success Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to: </P> <UL> <P></P></UL> <P>* Uncover a niche for your blog, and realize key factors about yourself that you need to know before you write a single word.<BR>* Gather the ideal tools for blogging, without spending too much or approaching it underequipped.<BR>*Discover the best ways to spread the word about your new blog.<BR>* Find the most compelling stories to write about, and get the information before anyone else does.<BR>* Transform your writing by learning the subtle art of constructing a compelling, engaging blog post.<BR>* Stimulate your readers to directly participate in the two-way conversation, perhaps the most exciting part of this new way of communicating.</P>

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<div><p>Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? <em>Head First Web Design</em> is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what\'s really going on in the world of web design.</p><p>Whether you\'re building a personal blog or a corporate website, there\'s a lot more to web design than div\'s and CSS selectors, but what do you really need to know? With this book, you\'ll learn the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites, from customer requirements to hand-drawn storyboards all the way to finished HTML and CSS creations that offer an unforgettable online presence.</p><p>The revised two-color edition of this book includes a free online version of the chapter on web color. You can easily access this chapter at Oreilly.com once you register your book.</p><p>Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, <em>Head First Web Design</em> uses a visually rich format specifically designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.</p></div>

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Why do many phenonmena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as <em>morphic resonance:</em> the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, Sheldrake reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws.<br /><br />The first edition of <em>A New Science of Life</em> created a furor when it appeared, provoking the outrage of the old-guard scientific community and the approbation of the new. The British journal <em>Nature</em> called it "the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." A lively debate ensued, as researchers devised experiments testing Sheldrake\'s hypothesis, including some involving millions of people through the medium of television. These developments are recorded in this revised and expanded edition.<br /><br />

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Developing User Interfaces Ensuring Usability Through Product & Process "This book is an important milestone in our progress toward embracing user-centered design. This is the first book to emphasize process…[it] details a pragmatic approach to the interface development process in a way that is immediately useful to practitioners struggling to produce usable interfaces." —James D. Foley, Georgia Tech So you want to develop user interfaces for interactive systems? This practical book will show you how to do just that. Developing User Interfaces is about ensuring high usability through the user interface development process independently of widgets, software, toolkits, and implementation considerations. The hands-on approach of this book uses practical exercises to apply the material presented with a suggested solution for each exercise. You will learn a quantitative approach to usability goals, usability evaluation, and management of the interface development process. Developing User Interfaces shows how to:

• Write a customized style guide and apply human factor guidelines to your interface designs
• Understand and know when to use currently available interaction styles in your interface designs
• Understand and apply the concept of an iterative life cycle for user interface development
• Use behavioral, user-centered representation techniques for capturing your interface designs
• Establish usability specifications to measure quantitatively the usability of your interface
• Build effective rapid prototypes of your interface designs
• Carry out formative usability evaluation as your interface evolves
• Perform cost/benefit and other analyses to determine which changes to the interface will have the biggest impact on usability

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Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor, enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death. Few knew the real man behind the impenetrable facade that for years fooled British Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI. After he defected to Russia in 1963, he maintained a code of silence for 25 years - until a few weeks before his death. He invited journalist Phillip Knightley to his Moscow apartment and in six days of conversation he bared his soul as never before. he told of his childhood, the influence of his extraordinary father and the events that lead him inexorably to turn traitor. He tells the story before and after defection and gives his veiws on everything form loyalty and patriotism to pop music and Margaret Thatcher.

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<div>In this explosive account of wrongful acts and on-going cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. For too long, we the people have sat by and let politicians and bureaucrats from both parties obfuscate and lie. And according to this former Navy SEAL, former pro wrestler, and former Minnesota governor, the media is complicit in these acts of deception. For too long, the mainstream press has refused to consider alternate possibilities and to ask the tough questions. Here, Ventura looks closely at the theories that have been presented over the years and separates the fact from the fiction.<BR><br> In Ventura’s eyes, the murder of Abraham Lincoln and the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, all need to be re-examined. Was Watergate presented honestly, or was the CIA involved? Did the Republican Party set out to purposefully steal two elections on behalf of George W. Bush? Has all the evidence been presented about the 9/11 attacks or is there another angle that the media is afraid to explore? And finally, is the collapse of today’s financial order and the bailout plan by the Federal Reserve the widest-reaching conspiracy ever perpetrated?<BR><br> “If you’re talking outspoken, unconventional, and no-holds-barred, you’re talking Jesse Ventura.”—Larry King<BR>  <BR> “I wouldn’t mind seeing Ventura run for president (or for senator, or dog-catcher, or whatever). In addition to talking conspiracy, he’s likely to raise all sorts of other trouble.”—Damon W. Root, <I>Reason Magazine</I></div>

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This is a revised and updated edition of a concise reference work on the basic phenomena of visual perception. The author offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, colour and objects. He explores the occurrence of visual illusions to establish how perception normally works and why sometimes it fails. A new introduction indicates the recent advances made in the psychology and physiology of seeing.

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Designed for general and research audiences, this volume contains an up-to-date discussion of the global changes in intellectual property rights, including patents and trademarks. It discusses the critical trade and economic issues for the developing and developed countries involved in creating this new international standard of intellectual property protection.

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Wake Up and Take Control of Your Life!

Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life. The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life and harness the forces that shape your destiny.

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<div><p>The recent boom in digital camera sales has created a tremendous demand for simple yet powerful photo-editing software. This is because experienced users, as well as amateurs, are quickly outgrowing the program that was originally bundled with their cameras.Fortunately, Photoshop Elements 3, the latest photo-editing software from Adobe, is filling this void. It allows users to achieve high-quality results without the overwhelming complexity of professional-level software. And it\'s also affordable. As a result, it is the best-selling photo-editing software on the market today. Yet, while Photoshop Elements 3.0 seems to have everything going in its favor, it is missing one very important element: a manual that explains all of its incredible capabilities.To help consumers truly understand this software, there\'s now <i>Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual</i>. This comprehensive guide from Barbarba Brundage offers page after page of valuable insight into this popular program, making it the only book readers will need on the topic.<i>Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual</i> does a whole lot more than just point out how to straighten photos, crop, and adjust the color and focus. It\'s a collection of wonderful tips and tricks, from how to make basic selections to advanced color correction strategies, and from classic darkroom techniques to stylized digital effects. Each feature is carefully explained in easy-to-understand language, so that everyone from professional shooters to hobbyists can benefit. Among other lessons, readers will learn how to:</p><ul><li>Instantly fix flaws using Elements\' Quick Fix mode</li><li>Gain control with sliders, zoom tools, and before and after views</li><li>Easily organize photos by calendar or keyword label</li><li>Make dynamic slide shows with transitions, captions, music, and narration</li><li>Create themed photo email</li></ul>Whether you\'re a hobbyist or a professional photographer, <i>Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual</i> will help you become a more efficient, sophisticated digital camera user.</div>

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Here is the book that Rolling Stone called "the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors\' brief but brilliant life as a group".

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This fifth edition offers an introduction to human sexuality. The text highlights biological, developmental, psychosocial, health and cultural aspects of human sexuality. This edition has been revised to include a new full-colour format, a new chapter on improving sexual relationships, updated coverage on the latest birth control methods (Norplant, the female condom, and Depo-Provera), recent statistics on the pill, up-to-date research on vascectomies, and the latest developments and discoveries in HIV/AIDS research. In addition many chapters have been reorganized to provide more logical and thorough discussion of topics.