Baghdad Central

Baghdad Central

Baghdad, 2003: Iraqi police inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji investigates the disappearance of young women translators working for the American occupation forces.

Baghdad Central

Foundations of Bilingual Memory

Foundations of Bilingual Memory

Foundations of Bilingual Memory provides a valuable update to the field of bilingual memory and offers a new psychological perspective on how the bilingual mind encodes, stores, and retrieves information. This volume emphasizes theoretical issues, such as classic memory approaches, Compound-Coordinate Bilingualism, Bilingual Dual Coding Theory, and Working Memory, about which relatively little has been written in the bilingual domain. Also covered are:

Foundations of Bilingual Memory

Lippincotts Advanced Skills for Nursing Assistants

Lippincotts Advanced Skills for Nursing Assistants

This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a ‘basic’ nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants.

Lippincotts Advanced Skills for Nursing Assistants

Swimming Sweet Arrow

Swimming Sweet Arrow

Evangeline Starr Raybuck — plain-spoken, lusty, and hardworking — and June Keel are high school seniors, best friends going out with best friends, working together at Noecker’s chicken farm after school. Vangie and June make out with their boyfriends together in the same car; they pass dirty notes to each other during the day at school. They tell each other everything: ‘That was the kind of friends we were’.

Swimming Sweet Arrow

The Wages of Whiteness

The Wages of Whiteness

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roedigers widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.

The Wages of Whiteness

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

When a website slows to a crawl or worse, the server shuts down. It’s imperative to get things working againfast. IIS is the fundamental communication gateway for many Microsoft servers as well as the primary technology for publishing web sites. Knowing how to manage IIS effectively can mean the difference between a successful business solution and a vacant parking lot.

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0 is a comprehensive book that will guide you through the many aspects of XNA game development and their specific implementations on the Zune platform. The book addresses Zune game development concepts in detail and shows you how to apply them in practical, stepbystep examples, building complete, working XNA 3.0 examples along the way that you can download and play.

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Dangerous Passions

Dangerous Passions

More than anything, Lady Eve Halliday wants vengeance. Fortunately, working for the ultrasecret fellowship of the Black Phoenix will enable her to achieve it. Although ostensibly Eve is being paired up with Colonel Lord Marcus Cordell to look into a series of murders of young men–a faux betrothal between the two offering the perfect cover for their investigation–she plans on using the opportunity to get closer to Marcus to ruin him.

Dangerous Passions

The Rome Affair

The Rome Affair

Two security experts must work too closely for comfort in Addison Fox’s THE ROME AFFAIR. Jack Andrews has once again snatched a covetable job from the House of Steele. But now that the assignment has gotten complicated, he must call upon the last person he wants to ask for help: Kensington Steele. Jack never flinches at danger, but working side by side with his fascinating, sexy competitor might be more than he can handle…. When the assignment brings them to the Italian vineyard of a corrupt diplomat, Kensington vows to keep things professional. Even if working as a team fans the flames of their mutual desire. But once a murderer begins stalking them, they realize getting close may be the only way they’ll survive…

The Rome Affair

Handbook of Elasticity Solutions

Handbook of Elasticity Solutions

This Handbook is intended as a desk reference for researchers, students and engineers working in various areas of solid mechanics and quantitative materials science. It contains a broad range of elasticity solutions. In particular, it covers the following topics:

Handbook of Elasticity Solutions

The Yellow Papers

The Yellow Papers

It’s 1872 and China still bruised from its defeat in the two Opium Wars sends a group of boys, including seven-year-old Chen Mu, to America to study and bring back the secrets of the West. But nine years on Chen Mu becomes a fugitive and flees to Umberumberka, a mining town in outback Australia. He eventually finds peace working for Matthew Dawson, a rich pastoralist.

The Yellow Papers

Residue Number Systems

Residue Number Systems

This text is an excellent reference for both professional and academic researchers in the field of VLSI using residue number systems. It is also of interest to those working in the general fields of VLSI design, DSP design, and cryptography.

Residue Number Systems

Thorazine Beach

Thorazine Beach

Fiction. Mystery. Jack Minyard is a Private Dick down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind too. After narrowly escaping charges in a statewide fraud and money laundering scandal, Jack has been working private contracts and counting on the kindness of strangers to get by. (Not to mention a pile of prescription drugs.) In a last-ditch play to resurrect his career, Jack takes on a case that puts him on the wrong side of the tracks and in the midst of some of the roughest trade going. THORAZINE BEACH is a palpable and enthralling mystery.

Thorazine Beach

Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript

Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript

This book is a fast-paced guide full of step-by-step instructions that teach you how to visualize social data using HTML5 and JavaScript.This book is for developers who are excited about data and who want to share that excitement with others. Developers who are interested in the data which can be extracted from social networks will also find this book hugely beneficial.Readers should have a working knowledge of both JavaScript and HTML.

Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript

Ada 2012 Reference Manual

Ada 2012 Reference Manual

The Ada 2012 Reference Manual is an enhanced version of the text of International Standard ISO/IEC 8652/2012(E) for the programming language Ada. The Ada 2012 Reference Manual combines all of the previous corrections of Technical Corrigendum 1 and Amendment 1 with changes and additions that improve the capabilities of the language and the reliability of programs written in the language. The Ada 2012 Reference Manual will replace the former versions as an indispensable working companion for anybody using Ada professionally or learning and studying the language systematically.

Ada 2012 Reference Manual

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is a fast-paced and feature-packed book, designed to get you working with Java EE 6, JDK 7 and Oracle WebLogic Server 12c straight away, so start developing your own applications.Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer’s Guide is written for developers who are just getting started, or who have some experience, with Java EE who want to learn how to develop for and use Oracle WebLogic Server. Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer’s Guide also provides a great overview of the updated features of the 12c release, and how it integrates Java EE 6 and JDK 7 to remove boilerplate code.

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Star Wars, Knight Errant

Star Wars, Knight Errant

A lone Jedi in Sith space dedicates her life to bringing down Sith rule, one act of sabotage at a time. A thousand years before Star Wars: A New Hope, the Republic is in a dark age and groups of Sith have taken over vast swaths of the galaxy. Hiding in one Sith hell-hole is Kerra Holt, a young Jedi working alone to destroy the Sith Masters. But what she doesn’t know is that she just might be the pawn of a powerful Sith Lord…

Star Wars, Knight Errant

Make: Electronics

Make: Electronics

Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you’ll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You’ll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!

Make: Electronics

Macs For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Macs For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition

You took a while, but you are now the proud owner of your first , computer. Macs For Seniors For Dummies is just for you. This friendly, accessible guide walks you through choosing a Mac and learning how to use it. You’ll find yourself falling head over heels for your Mac in no time.,

Macs For Seniors For Dummies introduces you to all the basics that you need to know: turning the Mac on and getting connected; using the keyboard and mouse; working with files and folders; navigate around the Mac desktop and OS X Lion; setting up an Internet connection and e-mail; and much more.

Macs For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Mac OS X Lion Made Simple

Mac OS X Lion Made Simple

So you have your brand new Mac, or perhaps you’ve upgraded to Lion on an existing desktop or laptop. Now what? OS X Lion Made Simple will guide you through all of the new features of Lion, as well as provide a thorough tour of the features and applications that are OS X standards. You’ll discover how to make the most of features like Spotlight, Stacks, and Air Drop, and you’ll see how to get the newest version of Mail working exactly the way you want it to.,

Inside this book, you will find all of the new features of OS X Lion explained, exposed, and uncovered. It’s filled with clear and colorful images that help you get the bigger picture and get a close-up look at what OS X Lion has to offer. Whether you are just joining the many millions of , users around the world, or you are upgrading from Snow Leopard, this book will assist you in uncovering the many new options offered with OS X Lion.

Mac OS X Lion Made Simple