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BackTrack 4 Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
Packt Publishing 2011; US$ 29.99Master the art of penetration testing with BackTrack more...
Embedded Image Processing on the TMS320C6000? DSP
Springer 2005; US$ 159.99Embedded Image Processing on the TMS320C6000? DSP: Examples in Code Composer Studio? and MATLAB focuses on efficient implementations of advanced image processing algorithms for resource-constrained embedded DSP systems. Featuring the popular Texas Instruments TMS320C6000TM line of Digital Signal Processors, it utilizes a proven methodology of beginning... more...
Peoples on Parade
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the “savages at Hyde Park Corner,” an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a “witch-hunt” and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these “living curiosities”: displayed foreign peoples... more...
Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 30.99Detailing the heavy involvement of the Nixon administration in the 1973 coup against the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende of Chile, Qureshi provides the reasons for the coup including the threat Allende posed to the United States' notions of hegemony in Latin America. more...
Interpreting WTO Agreements
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 36.00Offers a comprehensive examination of the underlying conditions for interpreting WTO agreements. more...
Phase Change Memory: From Devices to Systems
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00As conventional memory technologies such as DRAM and Flash run into scaling challenges, architects and system designers are forced to look at alternative technologies for building future computer systems. This synthesis lecture begins by listing the requirements for a next generation memory technology and briefly surveys the landscape of novel non-volatile... more...
Atlas of Interventional Neurology
Demos Medical Publishing 2008; US$ 199.00Cerebrovascular disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide ;but endovascular procedures are rapidly expanding the spectrum of treatment for CV disease. Atlas of Interventional Neurology is the first comprehensive review of the basic principles of endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular disease. It takes readers logically through... more...
The New Crusades
Columbia University Press 2003; US$ 31.99The New Crusades explores the historical, political, and institutional forces that have raised the specter of a threatening and monolithic Muslim enemy. Bringing together twelve of the most influential thinkers in Middle Eastern and religious studies -- including Edward Said, Roy Mottahedeh, and Fatema Mernissi -- this timely collection confronts... more...
Oxidative Stress and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Elsevier Science 2007; US$ 195.00Oxidative stress is the result of an imbalance in pro-oxidant/antioxidant homeostasis that leads to the generation of toxic reactive oxygen species. Brain cells are continuously exposed to reactive oxygen species generated by oxidative metabolism, and in certain pathological conditions defense mechanisms against oxygen radicals may be weakened and/or... more...
Lyapunov Matrix Equation in System Stability and Control
Elsevier Science 1995; US$ 63.95The Lyapunov and Riccati equations are two of the fundamental equations of control and system theory, having special relevance for system identification, optimization, boundary value problems, power systems, signal processing, and communications. The Lyapunov Matrix Equation in System Stability and Control covers mathematical developments and applications... more...









