Herbal and Traditional Medicine: Molecular Aspects of Health (Oxidative Stress and Disease)

Interest Rates, Prices and Liquidity: Lessons from the Financial Crisis (Macroeconomic Policy Making)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Many of the assumptions that underpin mainstream macroeconomic models have been challenged as a result of the traumatic events of the recent financial crisis. Thus, until recently, it was widely agreed that although the stock of money had a role to play, in practice it could be ignored as long as we used short-term nominal interest rates as...

Object-Oriented PHP: Concepts, Techniques, and Code

No Starch Press, 2006

It can be tough to learn the concepts of object-oriented programming with a language like C++. Fortunately, PHP's simple object model makes it an ideal language for learning about object-oriented programming.

For the uninitiated, this guide to the latest version of PHP offers a speedy introduction to object-oriented programming, including a...

Music And Philosophy (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

Marquette University Press, 2005

Music played a central role in the thought of existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973). One of the most tantalizing claims he made in a set of conversations with Paul Ricoeur. Employing a geographic metaphor, he claimed that philosophy was the continent of his work while his plays formed the off-shore islands; but what was deepest was...

The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)

University of California Press, 2011

In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling missionÂÂTo organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible”Âand its much-quoted motto, ÂDon’t be...

SFML Game Development

Packt Publishing, 2013

If you've got a firm grasp of C++ with a secret hankering to create a great game, this book is for you. Every practical aspect of programming an interactive game world is here - the only real limit is your imagination.

Overview

Develop a complete game throughout the book

Learn how to...

International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies

Routledge, 2013

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a way of overcoming borders that are both...