Psychology of Religion

Psychology of Religion

In the past four decades or so, the so-called psychology of religion after having been deemed extinct, impossible or unlikely has risen to prominence again: the number of publications is rapidly growing, an impressive secondary literature (handbooks, introductions, etc.) is available already, infrastructure has been developed (a number of new journals devoted to the subject have been founded, organizations have been established, increasingly funding is going to the area), attracting many new researchers. Organizations like the American Psychological Association are now publishing in the field of psychology of religion (and its Div. 36 [psych of rel] with almost 3,000 members is already midsized among the APA-divisions). This book documents this re-emergence and development.

Psychology of Religion

Quantum Concepts in Physics

Quantum Concepts in Physics

Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard axiomatic approach, this book adopts a historical perspective, explaining clearly and authoritatively how pioneers such as Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Pauli and Dirac developed the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and merged them into a coherent theory, and why the mathematical infrastructure of quantum mechanics has to be as complex as it is. The author creates a compelling narrative, providing a remarkable example of how physics and mathematics work in practice. The book encourages an enhanced appreciation of the interaction between mathematics, theory and experiment, helping the reader gain a deeper understanding of the development and content of quantum mechanics than any other text at this level.

Quantum Concepts in Physics

The New Language of Business

The New Language of Business

There is now a direct, provable link between an organizations flexibility and business performance. To optimize flexibility, companies must achieve unprecedented levels of integration and automation of key processes and infrastructure, both internally and externally. At the same time, they must learn to manage their processes far more dynamically and responsively.

The New Language of Business

Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

A scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection

Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

Residual Stresses in Composite Materials

Residual Stresses in Composite Materials

Residual stresses are a common phenomenon in composite materials. They can either add to or significantly reduce material strength. Because of the increasing demand for high-strength, light-weight materials such as composites and their wide range of applications in the aerospace and automotive industries, in civil infrastructure and in sporting applications, it is critical that the residual stresses of composite materials are understood and measured correctly.

Residual Stresses in Composite Materials

Beginning Lua Programming

Beginning Lua Programming

This book is for students and professionals who are intrigued by the prospect of learning and using a powerful language that provides a rich infrastructure for creating programs. No programming knowledge is necessary to benefit from this book except for the section on Lua bindings, which requires some familiarity with the C programming language. A certain comfort level with command-line operations, text editing, and directory structures is assumed.

Beginning Lua Programming

The Poker Blueprint

The Poker Blueprint

From the man who literally CREATED the poker ebook market and its poster child, ‘Let There Be Range’ (‘a two-thousand dollar poker manual for high-stakes poker professionals’), ‘The Poker Blueprint’ provides the infrastructure for micro- and small-stakes players to build their game on. It also offer advanced strategies that are vital to crushing today’s online short-handed games up to 100NL.

The Poker Blueprint

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

Get started with Puppet, and learn how this popular configuration management , helps you automate your servers. This concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet’s tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and , servers. Through code samples and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and how to administer , control. If you’re new to Puppet, but familiar with systems administration and Ruby language basics, this book is the ideal way to start using this open source framework.

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

RESTful Web Services Cookbook

RESTful Web Services Cookbook

While the REST design philosophy has captured the imagination of web and enterprise developers alike, using this approach to develop real web services is no picnic. This cookbook includes more than 100 recipes to help you take advantage of REST, HTTP, and the infrastructure of the Web. You’ll learn ways to , RESTful web services for client and , applications that meet performance, scalability, reliability, and , goals, no matter what programming language and development framework you use.,

Each recipe includes one or two problem statements, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for solving them, as well as examples using HTTP requests and responses, and XML, JSON, and Atom snippets. You’ll also get implementation guidelines, and a discussion of the pros, cons, and trade-offs that come with each solution.

RESTful Web Services Cookbook

Python and AWS Cookbook

Python and AWS Cookbook

If you intend to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for remote computing and storage, Python is an ideal , language for developing applications and controlling your cloud-based infrastructure. This cookbook gets you started with more than two dozen recipes for using Python with AWS, based on the author’s boto library.,

You’ll find detailed recipes for working with the S3 storage service as well as EC2, the service that lets you , and build , applications. Each recipe includes a code solution you can use immediately, along with a discussion of why and how the recipe works. You also get detailed advice for using boto with AWS and other cloud services.

Python and AWS Cookbook

Managing Windows Servers with Chef

Managing Windows Servers with Chef

This book begins with an introduction to the functionality and benefits of using Chef to manage , systems. From there, you are shown an overview of the Chef architecture and how to prepare a Windows host so that it can be managed by Chef, followed by an example of writing code to install a popular , application with Chef.,

This book looks at how Windows system administrators can effectively leverage Chef as an automated system management tool to simplify their lives through managed infrastructure. Included are practical examples that will help you to understand how to take advantage of Chef when managing your infrastructure.

Managing Windows Servers with Chef

Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

Today’s IT environment is very complex, encompassing a myriad of technologies and middleware platforms. Many organizations have large and heterogeneous middleware platforms that power their enterprise applications and it is often a real challenge for administrators to meet agreed service levels and minimize downtime. , Enterprise Manager allows administrators to manage the complete lifecycle of an entire application infrastructure for middleware and , applications.,

This book will help you kick-start the setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and master all aspects of middleware management supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

Pro Microsoft HDInsight

Pro Microsoft HDInsight

Pro Microsoft HDInsight is a complete guide to deploying and using , , on the , Windows Azure Platforms. The information in this book enables you to process enormous volumes of structured as well as non-structured data easily using HDInsight, which is Microsoft’s own distribution of Apache Hadoop. Furthermore, the blend of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings available through Windows Azure lets you take advantage of Hadoop’s processing power without the worry of creating, configuring, maintaining, or managing your own cluster.,

With the data explosion that is soon to happen, the open source Apache Hadoop Framework is gaining traction, and it benefits from a huge ecosystem that has risen around the core functionalities of the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and Hadoop Map Reduce.

Pro Microsoft HDInsight

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and , management platform. With System Center 2012, you can more easily and efficiently manage your applications and services across multiple hypervisors as well as across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.,

This cookbook covers architecture , and planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve , 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy, and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors: Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi, and Citrix XenServer. It also includes the VMM 2012 SP1 features.

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

Cloud Computing Bible

Cloud Computing Bible

Its potential for lowering IT costs makes , computing a major force for both IT vendors and users; it is expected to gain momentum rapidly with the launch of , Web Apps later this year. Because cloud computing involves various technologies, protocols, platforms, and infrastructure elements, this comprehensive reference is just what you need if you ll be using or implementing cloud computing.,

Anyone involved with planning, implementing, using, or maintaining a cloud computing , will rely on the information in Cloud Computing Bible.

Cloud Computing Bible

Backbone.js Testing

Backbone.js Testing

Frontend web applications are soaring in popularity and the Backbone.js library is leading this charge with a modular, lightweight approach for organizing , web applications. At the same time, , client-side JavaScript and Backbone.js programs remains a difficult and tedious undertaking.,

Backbone.js Testing brings sensible practices and current techniques to the challenges of Backbone.js test development. The book introduces fundamental testing concepts, comprehensive test infrastructure design, and practical exercises to easily and systematically test modern JavaScript web applications.

Backbone.js Testing

Automation through Chef Opscode

Automation through Chef Opscode

Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in , and , for configuration management, , infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.,

Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. The book presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks and as a refresher on them to help the reader get on speed with the flow of book.,

The book provides step by step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef, usage scenarios of Chef, in infrastructure automation by providing common scenarios like virtual machine provisioning, OS configuration for Windows, Linux, and Unix, provisioning and configuration of web servers like Apache along with popular databases like MySQL.

Automation through Chef Opscode