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Life doesn't stop being complicated just because you're dead. In the old days, vampires were sexy, ruthless, and evil. They could, and would, compel the living to do whatever they wanted. They owned the night. Unfortunately, being undead in modern times has unexpected and disturbing challenges. Now...

Bad experiences with construction quality, the energy crises of 1973 and 1979, complaints about "sick buildings", thermal, acoustical, visual and olfactory discomfort, the need for good air quality, the move towards more sustainability - all these have accelerated the development of a field...

This book addresses the following questions: What are the social, cultural or religious particularities of advertising and advertising practices? Are there any taboos? What about legal restrictions? How is the advertising infrastructure? Are there any institutions, federations or boards of advertising?...

Bad experiences with construction quality, the energy crises of 1973 and 1979,complaints about `sick buildings?, thermal, acoustical, visual and olfactory discomfort, the need for good air quality, the move towards more sustainability ? all these have accelerated the development of a field that, for...

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Giving Pottery Gifts Chapter 2: Egyptian Pottery Ageless Beauty Chapter 3: Finding A Great Pottery Wheel Chapter 4: Great Uses For Pottery Chapter 5: Giving Children The Gift Of Creating Pottery Chapter 6: Native American Pottery Chapter...

Enhance your skills in developing multi-touch applications with Kivy About This Book Create most diverse apps and learn how to distribute them with the help of the Kivy framework Explore Kivy API to develop user interfaces and control multi-touch events Step-by-step recipes that provide deeper...

Many approaches to creating Software Product Lines have emerged that are based on Model-Driven Engineering. This book introduces both Software Product Lines and Model-Driven Engineering, which have separate success stories in industry, and focuses on the practical combination of them. It describes...

The increasing advances in electronics allows smaller and more powerful devices, bringing wearable computing closer to reality. However, most wearable computers are very distinguished and placed on clothes and accessories. This book tries to tackle this phenomenon by introducing a new wearable computing...

Get a Jump Start on the popular CSS preprocessor Sass today! Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the tedious repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. Sass simplifies your stylesheets, adding some useful features...

Harness the power of Redis to integrate and manage your projects efficientlyAbout This BookLearn how to use Redis's data types efficiently to manage large data setsScale Redis to multiple servers with Twemproxy, Redis Sentinel, and Redis ClusterA fast-paced guide, full of real-world examples to...

Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world. This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary...

The use of tiny mosaic tiles or blocks to create works of art is an ancient craft that is becoming ever more popular in the present age. As an art form it can have great depth, variety and freedom of expression – but best of all, it is a skill that can be aquired by anyone, with only a minimum...

A child's imagination can supply hours of fun and enjoyment, and nothing seems to complement that better than the traditional dollhouse. For hundreds of years, children have enjoyed dollhouses as a never-ending supply of activity. Making a wooden dollhouse is not only easy but also can become a family...

The Ultimate Guide for Designing and Governing Web Service Contracts   For Web services to succeed as part of SOA, they require balanced, effective technical contracts that enable services to be evolved and repeatedly reused for years to come. Now, a team of industry experts presents the first end-to-end...