There is no Islam but Islam, cries convention both from within and from without the faith, while daily practice displays a breadth of belief and practice that outspans desert and sea. And so it was even during the Middle Ages, so that the story of texts and ideas from ancient Greece passing through a monolithic Islam enroute to Christian Europe must be rethought. Classicists and other scholars, Europeans or their descendants, point out some of the multiform paths and channels. Their topics include Greek myth and Arabic poetry at Qusayr 'Amra, the multi-lingual and multi-confessional maze of Islamic medicine, and memories of Egypt in medieval Venice. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Men's Edition
Includes Free DVD

The proven 14-day program, now with a DVD designed to give every man six-pack abs

It's abdominal shaping at its best: the best exercises, the best nutrition plan, and the best training schedule out there. The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Men's Edition targets the abdominal muscles and the appearance of the stomach with its tested and proven 14-day program that will define
and sculpt the six-pack. Now featuring a follow-along DVD to help launch the rigorous interval training program, this book and DVD combo teaches how the average Joe can use traditional and trendy exercises to pack on muscle and burn body fat using the periodization principle, plus:

• just-for-men features like increased weight resistance and motivation techniques to keep you focused

• dozens of specially selected abdominal exercises, from traditional crunches to stability and medicine balls

• an all-new 30-minute follow-along DVD to keep you motivated

No diet pills, gimmicks, or gadgets; just the 14-day workout
plan that gets results fast. The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs:
Men's Edition, has everything that you need to get rock-hard abs!

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women's Edition
Includes Free DVD

The follow-along DVD designed to help every woman get that toned and slender waistline.

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women's Edition shows women how to get the abs she wants...and her man desires. The abdominal muscles, stomach, and waistline are targeted in this unique book and DVD combo, featuring the best exercises, the best nutrition plan, and the best training schedule out there.

The invigorating 14-day program includes a follow-along DVD to jumpstart the break-in workout. Combining traditional and trendy exercises, this book uses the periodization principle to teach a quick, easy way to burn body fat and create a slender but toned waist. Inside you'll find:

• just-for-women features like a focus on reducing body fat and motivation techniques

• dozens of specially selected abdominal exercises, from traditional crunches to stability and medicine balls

• an all-new 30-minute follow-along DVD to keep you motivated

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women's Edition has everything that made the original editions so popular, without the gimmicks, diet pills, or gadgets.

ju·das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction

New York Times bestselling author James Rollins returns with a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world . . . and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels.

From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind—a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis—operatives of SIGMA Force—search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.

A world away, SIGMA's Commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo. But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. As a relentless madman dogs their every step, Gray and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Gray Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one, for any one of them could be . . . a Judas.

Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.
The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy - unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set.
When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch - especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation's eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome - only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.

From America's favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook.

Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us.

Look elsewhere for how to bone skate or trim out a saddle of lamb, how to sauté sweetbreads or flambé dessert. Look here instead for how to zest a lemon, make the perfect hamburger, bread a chicken breast, make (truly hot) coffee in a French press, make magic with a Microplane. It's all here: how to season a castiron pan, bake a perfect pie, keep shells from sticking to hardcooked eggs. How to carve a turkey, roast a chicken, and chop, slice, beat, broil, braise, or boil any ingredient you're likely to encounter. Information on seasoning, saucing, and determining doneness (by internal temperatures, timings, touch, and sight) guarantee that you've eaten your last bland and overcooked meal.

Here are 500 invaluable techniques with nearly as many color photographs, bundled into a handy, accessible format.

A bestselling classic reference, now expanded and updated to cover the latest instrumentation, methods, and applications

The Second Edition of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry brings this core reference up to date on the uses of FT-IR spectrometers today. The book starts with an in-depth description of the theory and current instrumentation of FT-IR spectrometry, with full chapters devoted to signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy. Many diverse types of sampling techniques and data processing routines, most of which can be performed on even the less expensive instruments, are then described. Extensively updated, the Second Edition:
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Discusses improvements in optical components
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Features a full chapter on FT Raman Spectrometry
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Contains new chapters that focus on different ways of measuring spectra by FT-IR spectrometry, including fourteen chapters on such techniques as microspectroscopy, internal and external reflection, and emission and photoacoustic spectrometry
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Includes a new chapter introducing the theory of vibrational spectrometry
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Organizes material according to sampling techniques


Designed to help practitioners using FT-IR capitalize on the plethora of techniques for modern FT-IR spectrometry and plan their experimental procedures correctly, this is a practical, hands-on reference for chemists and analysts. It's also a great resource for students who need to understand the theory, instrumentation, and applications of FT-IR.

Jeff Wall's large color transparencies set forth an imposing and seductive pictorial world. Ranging from the gritty realism of the city street to bizarre flights of fantasy, his photographs have won him wide recognition as one of the most adventurous and accomplished artists of the past three decades. This book accompanies a major retrospective jointly organized in 2007 by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Between showings in New York and San Francisco, the show visits The Art Institute of Chicago.
Born in 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lives and works, Jeff Wall has charted an ambitious and unique path through the maze of contemporary art, drawing upon such diverse resources as Conceptual art, Neorealist cinema, philosophy, literature, critical theory, modernist photography, and the venerable tradition of European painting. The exhibition includes all of his major works to date, which are reproduced here along with several very recent pictures and a generous selection of artistic sources, cousins, and echoes. The latter are illustrations to Galassi's essay, which sketches the breadth and originality of Wall's artistic and intellectual universe and challenges conventional interpretations of his development and achievement. The book also includes an interview with the artist by James Rondeau, Frances & Thomas Dittmer Chairman, Department of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago.

Newly expanded, the second edition of American Encounters provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of scholarship on the Native American experience from European contact through the Removal Era. Retaining the hallmark essays from the celebrated first edition, the second edition contains thirteen new essays, emphasizing the most recent, noteworthy areas of inquiry, including gender relations, slavery and captivity, and the effects of Christianity on the course of native history. With each essay prefaced by helpful headnotes that highlight key concepts and draw connections among the essays, plus an expansive 'Further Readings' section, the second edition of American Encounters is an indispensable volume for both professors and students of early American history.

Newly expanded, the second edition of American Encounters provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of scholarship on the Native American experience from European contact through the Removal Era. Retaining the hallmark essays from the celebrated first edition, the second edition contains thirteen new essays, emphasizing the most recent, noteworthy areas of inquiry, including gender relations, slavery and captivity, and the effects of Christianity on the course of native history. With each essay prefaced by helpful headnotes that highlight key concepts and draw connections among the essays, plus an expansive 'Further Readings' section, the second edition of American Encounters is an indispensable volume for both professors and students of early American history.

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he faced another huge challenge-raising his children without their mother.

Years later Alex is making a bold move in his life. He has left the FBI and set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex finally feels like it's in order. He even has a chance at a new love.

Then Cross's former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi includes threatening his victims with terrifying photos. Cross and Sampson need the testimonies of these women to stop the predator, but the rape victims refuse to reveal anything about their attacker.

When the case triggers a connection to Maria's death, Alex may have a chance to catch his wife's murderer after all these years. Is this a chance for justice at long last? Or the culminating scene in his own deadly obsession?

Beginning with the founding of the Church of Satan by Anton LeVey in 1966, Lewis (religious studies and philosophy, U. of Wisconsin) and Petersen (Norwegian U. of Science and Technology) demystify modern Satanism. International experts on nontraditional religions, Satanists, law enforcement specialists, and Christian clergy analyze the attraction of Satanism in the contemporary world; sort actual practices from media reports and public panic about ritual child sexual abuse and murder and discuss how the Internet contributes to the movement's decentralization. The balanced volume includes a report from the Ritual Abuse Task Force and postulates from a Satanic Web site. Images include art illustrations, photographs of leading Satanists, and Satanic symbols. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

These are the classic comics adventures of Kirk, Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, now collected in graphic novel format with exclusive new background material!

Captain Kirk's actions in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock have left him with a vast price on his head... and urbane, deadly bounty hunter Sweeney aims to collect! But even if the Captain escapes Sweeney's clutches, his problems are just beginning...

Written by Star Trek novelist Peter David (Fallen Angel), The Trial of James T Kirk features never-before-collected issues and ultra-rare interviews with Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and Walter Koenig (Chekov)!

 

Written for both voice and networking professionals, this guide overviews how a basic telephony infrastructure is built and explains major concepts concerning voice and data networking, transmission of voice over data, and IP signaling protocols used to internetwork with current telephony systems. Protocols that affect VoIP are covered in detail. Network administrators and software engineers will appreciate the book's review of VoIP basics. This second edition includes new chapters on security, the importance of billing and mediation in a VoIP network, and common types of threats inherent with the interoperation of packet voice environments, public switched telephone networks, and VoIP. Davidson is affiliated with Cisco Systems. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary is the ultimate guide to pronunciation in English. Thousands of pronunciations not shown in general dictionaries are included, from people and places, to words from science, technology and literature. Based on the classic work by Daniel Jones, the 17th edition is edited by three of the most distinguished phonetics scholars working today. Now better than ever, the 17th edition includes: * NEW! Up-to-date entries including general vocabulary and people and places in the news (e.g. cybercrime, Condoleezza, Darfur, SARS, weblog) * NEW! Lively study pages help with common areas of difficulty * Clear, accessible layout with 80,000 entries and 220,000 British and North American pronunciations using the International Phonetic Alphabet * 200 information panels that explain phonetics terminology and the relationship between spelling and sound The CD-ROM features the whole paper dictionary plus: * NEW! Spoken North American pronunciations as well as British pronunciations for every word Â- no need to understand phonetics to get the information you need! * Record your own voice and listen back * Search by alphabet or phonetic symbols * Interactive pronunciation exercises

Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope,

confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve

them?

Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory,

and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines

ten major environmental threats—climate disruption, biodiversity

loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification,

freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic

pollutants, and excess nitrogen—and explores how they can be

addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of

international cooperation.

Written by Gus Speth, one of the architects of the international environmental

movement, and accomplished political scientist Peter M.

Haas, Global Environmental Governance tells the story of how the community

of nations, nongovernmental organizations, scientists, and

multinational corporations have in recent decades created an unprecedented

set of laws and institutions intended to help solve large-scale

environmental problems.The book critically examines the serious shortcomings

of current efforts and the underlying reasons why disturbing

trends persist. It presents key concepts in international law and regime

formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current

institutional landscape as well as lessons learned and new directions

needed in international governance. Global Environmental Governance is

a concise guide, with lists of key terms, study questions, and other

features designed to help readers think about and understand the concepts

discussed.

Il volume, di circa 500 pagine, è dedicato allo studio di progettazione americano Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, noto in tutto il mondo per una filosofia di pensiero rigorosa che fa dell'attenzione per i dettagli, il rispetto per i luoghi e la ricerca dei materiali dei fondamenti irrinunciabili per una visione armonica della natura che sveli l'essenza più profonda delle cose. Sia nel caso della progettazione degli uffici centrali dei Pixar Animation Studios, dei nuovi Apple Stores di New York, Chicago e Tokyo, sia nel caso della progettazione delle abitazioni in legno illustrate in questo libro, l'architettura dello studio è ben consapevole delle capacità del luogo, naturale o artificiale, e delle vaste possibilità dei materiali e dei mezzi di costruzione. Attraverso fotografie, ampie descrizioni e la riproduzione dei progetti, vengono documentati 12 dei più importanti progetti per abitazioni private realizzati dalla studio a partire dagli anni '70 nel nord degli Stati Uniti. Le case di Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, che in queste pagine emergono in tutta loro straordinarietà, sono da considerarsi fra le migliori realizzate negli ultimi anni per la qualità dei materiali naturali utilizzati, la sensibilità nei confronti dei luoghi e delle persone, la semplicità delle forme e la profondità delle idee.

In the aftermath of the destruction of the Genesis planet — and a Klingon ship — in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the Klingons are after Captain Kirk... with a vengeance! And when Kirk manages to infuriate the crazed Nasguls, a bidding war breaks out for the price on his head!

Meanwhile, the Enterprise Captain and crew must face a host of challenges, including a vicious civil war and a plague outbreak... not to mention a duplicitous Admiral in Starfleet Command, and a new — highly attractive — protocol officer!

By comics writer and Star Trek novelist Peter David (Fallen Angel), with art by James Fry, these never-before-collected comics are the most explosive yet!

Join the Body Sculpting revolution with this companion book specially designed to target women's trouble spots.

Hugo Rivera and James Villepigue, authors of the widely popular Body Sculpting Bible series, are at it again with a program to tone and tighten your buns, thighs, and legs. This book has something for everyonefrom break-in routines for the novice to advanced training for the expert who wants to rise above that fitness plateau. And all of the exercises, fitness programs, and nutritional information have been custom-designed by the experts to sculpt, slim, and strengthen the unique contours of a woman's body.

Based on the periodization principle that made the original so effective, the 14-day body sculpting workout for women never stays the same for long and the results just keep on coming.

The Body Sculpting Bible for Buns and LegsWomen's Edition includes:
detailed, body-part specific exercises that target the thighs, hips, legs, and buns
meal charts, workout graphs, and fitness plans to help you chart your progress
specialized training tips for pregnant or menopausal women

The Body Sculpting Bible for Buns and Legs is the essential guide to getting the body of your dreams, fast. 150 b/w photos.

The growth of the environmental sciences has greatly expanded the scope of biological disciplines today's engineers have to deal with. Yet, despite its fundamental importance, the full breadth of biology has been given short shrift in most environmental engineering and science courses.

Filling this gap in the professional literature, Environmental Biology for Engineers and Scientists introduces students of chemistry, physics, geology, and environmental engineering to a broad range of biological concepts they may not otherwise be exposed to in their training. Based on a graduate-level course designed to teach engineers to be literate in biological concepts and terminology, the text covers a wide range of biology without making it tedious for non-biology majors.

Teaching aids include:
* Notes, problems, and solutions
* Problem sets at the end of each chapter
* PowerPoints(r) of many figures

A valuable addition to any civil engineering and environmental studies curriculum, this book also serves as an important professional reference for practicing environmental professionals who need to understand the biological impacts of pollution.

Wait, what did you say?

Sukie is worried -- her parents are acting strange. When she runs in the house, her dad asks, 'If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge too?' When she eats peas with her fingers, Mom yells, 'You'll put an eye out with that thing!'

What is going on? She and her older brothers decide to investigate. And what they discover leads to a kids-against-parents war!

From Playboy's classic archives comes a trilogy of stocking-stuffer-sized volumes, each devoted to a certain hair color destined to quicken a man's pulse. Blonde? Brunette? Redhead? In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, it seemed like all the Playboy models, not just blondes, had more fun. Building sandcastles in the buff, romping on tiger skin rugs, or starting pillow fights, beauties of every tress are captured in these timeless color photographs. Playboy contributing editor James R. Petersen introduces each book with a heartfelt text, and witty quotes are sprinkled throughout. At once evocative and whimsical, this handsome collection is a perfect gift for a gentlemanwhether he prefers a blonde, marries a brunette, or has always had a thing for a redhead.

From Playboy's classic archives comes a trilogy of stocking-stuffer-sized volumes, each devoted to a certain hair color destined to quicken a man's pulse. Blonde? Brunette? Redhead? In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, it seemed like all the Playboy models, not just blondes, had more fun. Building sandcastles in the buff, romping on tiger skin rugs, or starting pillow fights, beauties of every tress are captured in these timeless color photographs. Playboy contributing editor James R. Petersen introduces each book with a heartfelt text, and witty quotes are sprinkled throughout. At once evocative and whimsical, this handsome collection is a perfect gift for a gentlemanwhether he prefers a blonde, marries a brunette, or has always had a thing for a redhead.