Welcome to ASP Programming for the Absolute Beginner. By developing an interest in Active Server Pages (ASP), you stand at the threshold of a very exciting programming adventure. When first introduced, ASP offered the promise of an easy, powerful method of breaking through the functional shackles of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)—it has delivered on […]
Between the fi rst and second editions I have interviewed over 150 CEOs, business leaders, sustainability experts, authors, NGOs, international organizations, academics, and students from around the world. So many people have been engaged and supportive of this project, too many to list here. I apologize in advance for those names I will inevitably miss. […]
Mathematics: intellectual endeavor, production factor, key technology, key to key technologies? Mathematics is all of these; the last three of its facets are not well known, though. They have been the focus of the research and development in the Berlin-based DFG Research Center MATHEON in the last twelve years. Through these activities, MATHEON has become […]
The goal of our book is to introduce students to the exciting ways that sociologists study social psychology. Sociology provides a unique vision of the social psychological world both in the theoretical perspectives that sociologists employ when they study human interactions and in the methodological techniques they utilize. We believe that these perspectives and methods […]
THE PRISON LOOKED more like the campus of a community college than a place where men were kept in cells for ten years or longer for offenses committed while wearing the uniform of their country. There were no guard towers, but there were two staggered twelve-foot-tall security fences, armed patrols, and enough surveillance cameras to […]
Several major breakthroughs have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating 2007 book explores some of the most important problems in this field. It examines how planetary systems formed, and how water and the biomolecules necessary for life were produced. It then focuses on how life may have […]
The standardization of the IP protocol and its mapping into network-specific link-layer data frames at each router as required supports interoperability using a packet-switched model of service. Although often not explicitly stated, a number of key assumptions are made regarding the overall performance characteristics of the underlying links in order to achieve smooth operation: • […]
There is a need for a comprehensive, advanced level, textbook dealing with all aspects of gravity, written for the physicist in a contemporary style. The italicized adjectives in the above sentence are the key: most of the existing books on the market are either outdated in emphasis, too mathematical for a physicist, not comprehensive or […]
Renewable hydrogen produced using solar energy to split water is the energy fuel of the future. Accelerated innovation in both major domains of solar energy (photovoltaics and concentrated solar power) has resulted in the rapid fall of the solar electricity price, opening the route to a number of practical applications using solar H2. New thermochemical […]
An undeniably rich and thorough guide to satellite communication engineering, Satellite Communication Engineering, Second Edition presents the fundamentals of information communications systems in a simple and succinct way. This book considers both the engineering aspects of satellite systems as well as the practical issues in the broad field of information transmission. Implementing concepts developed on […]
Proclus of Lycia (412-485) was one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity, producing the most systematic version of late Neoplatonic thought. He exercised enormous influence on Byzantine, medieval, Renaissance and German Classical philosophy, ranking among the top five of ancient philosophers in terms of the number of preserved works. Despite this he is rarely studied […]
While Sondheim and James Lapine were creating Sunday in the Park with George, the two went to the Art Institute of Chicago and stood with three of the museum’s curators before the miraculous canvas of Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grand Jatte. “What is that object up there?†they asked, pointing to an indistinct object […]