Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 08

Foam Films and Foams: Fundamentals and Applications (Progress in Colloid and Interface Science)

CRC Press, 2018

This book describes in detail the scientific philosophy of the formation and stabilization-destabilization of foams. It presents all hierarchical steps of a foam, starting from the properties of adsorption layers formed by foaming agents, discussing the properties of foam films as the building blocks of a foam, and then describing...

Application Design for Wearable Computing (Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Mobile access is the gating technology required to make information available at any place and at any time. Its application domains range from inspection, maintenance, manufacturing, and navigation to on-the-move collaboration, position sensing, and real-time speech recognition and language translation. In the course of developing wearable systems...

Microsoft Windows Server Administration Essentials

Sybex, 2011

The core concepts and technologies you need to administer a Windows Server OS

Administering a Windows operating system (OS) can be a difficult topic to grasp, particularly if you are new to the field of IT. This full-color resource serves as an approachable introduction to understanding how to install a server, the various...

Visual C# Game Programming for Teens

Course Technology PTR, 2011

Imagine this scenario: You create a hunter character with random stats and hit points and enter the dungeon to begin exploring for treasure. You stumble upon a zombie pacing near a pile of gear and gold! You attack the zombie and it strikes back! You roll 1D20 and score a critical hit! The 20 point die plus dexterity, against the...

Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In

AMACOM, 2013

The authors argue against the aggressive selling of ideas and instead emphasize listening, genuine engagement and commitment to a lasting business relationship in order to get someone to come around to one's way of thinking.

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The Chick and the Dead (Pepper Martin Mysteries, No. 2)

Avon, 2007

Ever since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them—and they won't shut up! Now it's Didi Bowman, a poodle-skirted relic from the Great Beyond, who's bending Pepper's ear, complaining that her famous author sister,...