Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Bruce Lee; John R. Little "The Art of Expressing the Human Body"

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Bruce Lee; John R. Little "The Art of Expressing the Human Body"
Charles E Tuttle Co | 1998-11-15 | ISBN: 0804831297 | 320 pages | PDF | 12,2 MB

Beyond his martial arts and acting abilities, Bruce Lee's physical appearance and strength were truly astounding. He achieved this through an intensive and ever-evolving conditioning regime that is being revealed for the first time in this book. Drawing on Lee's own notes, letters, diaries and training logs, bodybuilding expert John Little presents the full extent of Lee's unique training methods including nutrition, aerobics, isometrics, stretching and weight training. READ MORE
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TS-Car Secret eBook

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TS-Car Secret eBook
English | 2008 | 99 Pages | PDF

Top Secret Car Secret - Dr Suzanne Gudakunst “I’m Going to Give You My Secret for Buying Any Car You Want for 30%, 50% and Even 90% OFF What Everybody Else Has to Pay!” “I’ve personally used my Top Secret Car Secret to buy every kind of car you can think of … everything from your average middle-class car, all the way up to Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis … but where I’ve saved literally $100,000’s on these cars and MORE!”
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Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

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Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-10-10 | ISBN 978-0-19-533305-3 | English | 400 pages | PDF | 3.4MB

The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples found in Six-legged Soldiers, a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture.

Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. Award-winning science writer Jeffrey A. Lockwood begins with the development of "bee bombs" in the ancient world and explores the role of insect-borne disease in changing the course of major battles, ranging from Napoleon's military campaigns to the trenches of World War I. He explores the horrific programs of insect warfare during World War II: airplanes dropping plague-infested fleas, facilities rearing tens of millions of hungry beetles to destroy crops, and prison camps staffed by doctors testing disease-carrying lice on inmates. The Cold War saw secret government operations involving the mass release of specially developed strains of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting American public--along with the alleged use of disease-carrying and crop-eating pests against North Korea and Cuba. Lockwood reveals how easy it would be to use of insects in warfare and terrorism today: In 1989, domestic ecoterrorists extorted government officials and wreaked economic and political havoc by threatening to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops.

A remarkable story of human ingenuity--and brutality--Six-Legged Soldiers is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day. READ MORE
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Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications

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Secure PHP Development: Building 50 Practical Applications
Wiley Publishing, Inc.|2003|ISBN: 0-7645-4966-9| English| 916 pages| PDF | 9.7 MB

* Offers fifty practical and secure PHP applications that readers can immediately put to use
* Explains the entire life cycle of each PHP application, including requirements, design, development, maintenance, and tuning
* Reviews application development line-by-line and module-by-module to help readers understand specific coding practices and requirements
* Applications can be readily adapted to many real-world business situations

Your in-depth guide to designing and developing secure PHP applications

It’s a hacker’s dream come true: over one million Web sites are now vulnerable to attack through recently discovered flaws in the PHP scripting language. So how do you protect your site? In this book, bestselling author Mohammed Kabir provides all the tools you’ll need to close this security gap. He presents a collection of 50 secure PHP applications that you can put to use immediately to solve a variety of practical problems. And he includes expert tips and techniques that show you how to write your own secure and efficient applications for your organization.

You’ll learn how to:

* Implement the featured applications in business environments such as intranets, Internet Web sites, and system administrations
* Develop e-mail and intranet solutions using PHP
* Determine the importance of certain coding practices, coding styles, and coding security requirements
* Follow the entire process of each PHP application life cycle from requirements, design, and development to maintenance and tuning.
* Use PHP in groupware, document management, issue tracking, bug tracking, and business applications
* Mature as a PHP developer by using software practices as part of your design, development, and software life cycle decisions
* Improve the performance of PHP applications
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Restaurant Service Basics

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Restaurant Service Basics
JohnWiley & Sons, Inc. | 2009 | ISBN 978-0-470-10785-0| English | PDF | 211 pages | 4.7 MB

Restaurant Service Basics, 2nd edition, is a practical guide for those who want to learn the core skills of professional table service in restaurants. Actual and prospective servers, aswell as managers, supervisors, and teacherswho train servers, will find this an invaluable resource for classroom use, restaurant training, or selftraining. This book discusses the server’s job, types of establishments, and different types of service, including French, Russian, English, American, banquet, familystyle, buffets, and more. Current issues such as embracing diversity, preventing harassment, and maintaining a drug-free workplace are also discussed. The text walks the reader through the dining experience from taking reservations, preparing the dining room, and greeting and serving guests to presentation of the check, and instructs the server on how to troubleshoot potential problems that may occur along the way. Safety, sanitation, and medical emergencies are addressed. Current information on ever-changing restaurant technology has a chapter of its own. The final chapter covers alcoholic beverage service, with all of its ramifications to the restaurant business.

Restaurant Service Basics, 2nd edition, will enable readers to develop the consummate service skills required to handle all phases of providing quality service, increasing their tips, and capturing repeat business for the restaurant. This is a great training tool for new servers and a reference tool for veteran servers. Servers can learn the techniques of serving thatwill perfect their job performance and guarantee success. READ MORE
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Ready for English 1

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Ready for English 1
ESL Distributions | 2008 | 16 pages| PDF| 1 MB

This ebook is best for anyone beginning to learn the English language, there are many exercises that will really make you learn English the simple way :) READ MORE
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A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya

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A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya
Praeger Security International| 2006|ISBN 0–275–98502–4| English| PDF|281 pages| 1.3 MB

This book brings to light Russia's undeservedly-obscure military past, rectifying the tendency of American and Western military historians to neglect the Russian side of things. Russia, as both a Western and non-Western society, challenges our thinking about Western military superiority. Russia has always struggled with backwardness in comparison with more developed powers, at some times more successfully than others. The imperatives of survival in a competitive international environment have, moreover, produced in Russian society a high degree of militarization. While including operational and tactical detail that appeals to military history enthusiasts, this book simultaneously integrates military history into the broader themes of Russian history and draws comparisons to developments in Europe. The book also challenges old assumptions about the Russian military. Russian military history cannot be summed up simply in a single stock phrase, whether perennial incompetence or success only through stolid, stoic defense; it also shows numerous examples of striking offensive successes. Stone traces Russia's fascinating military history, and its long struggle to master Western military technology without Western social and political institutions. It covers the military dimensions of the emergence of Muscovy, the disastrous reign of Ivan the Terrible, and the subsequent creation of the new Romanov dynasty. It deals with Russia's emergence as a great power under Peter the Great and culminating in the defeat of Napoleon. After that triumph, the book argues, Russia's social and economic stagnation undermined its enormous military power and brought catastrophic defeat in the Crimean War. The book then covers imperial Russia's long struggle to reform its military machine, with mixed results in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. The Russian Revolution created a new Soviet Russia, but this book shows the continuity across that divide. The Soviet Union's interwar innovations and its harrowing experience in World War II owed much to imperial Russian precedents. A superpower after the war, the Soviet Union's military might was purchased at the expense of continuing economic backwardness. Paradoxically, the very militarization intended to provide security instead destroyed the Soviet Union, leaving a new Russia behind the West economically. Just as there was a great deal of continuity after 1917, this book demonstrates how the new Russian military has inherited many of its current problems from its Soviet predecessor. The price that Russia has paid for its continued existence as a great power, therefore, is the overwhelming militarization of its society and economy, a situation it continues to struggle with. READ MORE
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Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation

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Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation
WHO| 2008| ISBN: 978 92 4 159644 2| English | PDF | 48 pages| 5.9MB

This Statement is a call to all States, international and national organizations, civil society and communities to uphold the rights of girls and women. It also calls on those bodies and communities to develop, strengthen, and support specific and concrete actions directed towards ending female genital mutilation. However, despite some successes, the overall rate of decline in the prevalence of female genital mutilation has been slow. It is therefore a global imperative to strengthen work for the elimination of this practice, which is essential for the achievement of many of the Millennium Development Goals. READ MORE
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Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific, November 2008

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Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific, November 2008
IMF|2008|ISBN 978-1-58906-761-5|English| 69 pages| PDF| 2MB

With the global economy entering a major downturn amid a deepening financial crisis, Asia is confronting the likelihood of sharply slowing growth and increased vulnerabilities. In particular, global financial stresses and the process of deleveraging by financial institutions are expected to continue beyond next year. This will dampen economic prospects in the region via a number of potential channels, notably lower demand for Asia’s exports, tighter funding conditions, more volatile capital flows, depressed equity prices and confidence, and deteriorating loan quality.

As outlined in Chapter 1, our baseline scenario sees growth in Asia slowing substantially before beginning a recovery in late 2009. With the global slowdown dampening exports, growth in Asia is projected to come primarily from domestic demand, which is nonetheless expected to slow. With commodity prices easing and growth declining below potential, inflation should decline. In fact, there are signs that headline inflation—and to a lesser extent, core inflation—have already peaked. Read More

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