Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs.

After explaining the advantages of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, the book shows how you can take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best in class applications. Programming WCF Services focuses on the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly-documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development. Developers and architects will learn not only the "how" of WCF programming, but also relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls. Original techniques and utilities provided by the author throughout the book go well beyond anything that can be found in conventional sources.

Providing the range of mail-related services expected by organizations can be a confusing, daunting process. Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution presents a comprehensive guide to managing the most important e-mail services, including user administration, mail transfer agents, remote e-mail access, virus protection, spam and e-mail filtering, web-based e-mail, and mailing list maintenance.

Beginning with installation and configuration of the popular server-based operating system Fedora Core, the book outlines the system and network preparation process geared towards running a complete enterprise e-mail system. Subsequent chapters cover installation and configuration of sendmail, the popular POP3/IMAP server Dovecot, and ClamAV and SpamAssassin for virus protection and spam filtering. With a nod to the global e-mail availability now required by many organizations, this book also guides you through configuration of a web-based mail interface, mailing-list software, and advanced security and privacy topics.

This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this work paints a clear picture of the very real risk that exists for these less-studied, more general populations, so individuals may better personalize the risk and engage in more preventative measures. Authors Tara M. Emmers-Sommer and Mike Allen examine issues surrounding safer sex, utilizing research that focuses on how individuals struggle with personalizing the HIV and AIDS risk and how they cope with safer sex issues.
Safer Sex in Personal Relationships takes readers on a journey through a variety of close relationship types. It begins by highlighting awareness to the global enormity of HIV and AIDS and providing a link between the global and personal, and the need to make HIV and AIDS awareness part of everyday talk and personal relationship structure.
It then focuses on:

• safer sex in close relationships, both heterosexual and homosexual
• marital relationships and the importance of safe sex discussion and awareness in marriages
• HIV and AIDS from a multicultural perspective
• HIV and AIDS in aged populations; and
• increasing awareness, understanding, and compassion of those living with HIV and AIDS.

This book will appeal to scholars and students concerned with HIV and AIDS in personal relationships. It will be an invaluable text for courses on interpersonal communication and relationships; family, marital, human sexuality, sex and gender, gay and lesbian relationships, and sexual education; and relational conflict across communication, psychology, and sociology disciplines.

Book Description
Policy, methods, and tools to make good decisions Project success means making the numbers. Project success means delivering business value from the application of resources to project scope and taking measured risks to achieve deliverables. Quantitative methods provide the basis for calculating value, establishing the project metrics that will be the measures of success, and helping project managers understand the numerical values of risks to be addressed.

Customer review from :

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This book teaches reading comprehension of 750 Chinese characters in a minimum amount of time. It starts from scratch - no prior knowlege of Chinese characters is assumed. Most other books are just lists and lists of Chinese characters, that apparently you must stare at a sufficiently long for them to sink in. This book, however, is from the source - the Beijing Chinese Institute. The method here to teach "Rapid Literacy in Chinese" is near perfect - and appears to be something new. Let me describe: There are 25 chapters. Each chapter introduces a single sentence containing 30 new letters. You memorize each sentence, and practice the reading sections in each chapter, getting extensive use with the 30 characters of that chapter. By the time you finish 25 chapters, you can read 750 Chinese characters near fluently. The 25 core sentences are also listed on 2 summary pages, and can be read through quickly for an entire review of the 750 characters (something you should want to do frequently). Additionally, the 750 characters are listed in alphabetical order on a page by themselves, for quick review. There is also an extensive dictionary of all terms and letter combinations learned in the many practice texts - the longest text being two full pages of Chinese containing all the letters you've been learning.

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Review in

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This book is specially designed for non-Chinese students who want to learn Chinese. It uses a novel approach, in that it teaches characters and Pinyin pronunciations separately making learning easier and less bewildering for beginners. The book uses 750 commonly used Chinese characters and 1300 words formed from them to make 25 short sentences, 25 conversational dialogues and four narrative prose pieces. This is not only a valuable language learning resource, but an excellent opportunity to learn about Chinese culture since there is much to be learned from the Chinese characters the book details, along with their alluring charm and fascination.

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Cf. also a very useful detailed review in http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Jul/16088.htm

I have recently purchased this book in China, and had obtained marvellous results with it: a student of mine has learned from scratch in two months - with about one hour of daily practicing - to read even texts far above beginner level (like homepages) with very few additional dictionary browsing. I can warmly recommend this to anyone who wants to begin to learn reading and writing Chinese.

This book teaches you both the traditional and the simplified forms of Chinese characters. To my experience, the best way to learn it is to memorize these 25 phrases both written and orally - dedicating about two days (one hour per day) to each -, and then beginning every new lesson by writing down once all the sentences you have mastered that far.



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You Can Cook with Confidence & Style

With this restaurant recipe cookbook containing over 200 restaurant customer tested and approved and requested recipes --you can cook with confidence and style.

Just stand back and be ready to accept the applause graciously!

This collection of readings shows how cognitive science can influence most of the primary branches of philosophy, as well as how philosophy critically examines the foundations of cognitive science. Its broad coverage extends beyond current texts that focus mainly on the impact of cognitive science on philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, to include materials that are relevant to five other branches of philosophy: epistemology, philosophy of science (and mathematics), metaphysics, language, and ethics. The readings are organized by philosophical fields, with selections evenly divided between philosophers and cognitive scientists. They draw on research in numerous areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, psychology of reasoning and judgment, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuropsychology. There are timely treatments of current topics and debates such as the innate understanding of number, children's theory of mind, self-knowledge, consciousness, connectionism, and ethics and cognitive science.

Retailing in the 21st Century: Current and Future Trends
by Manfred Krafft & Murali K. Mantrala

PDF: 413 pages - Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 25, 2005)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3540283994

Book Description
Retailing in the new millennium stands as an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. Today, the retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, e.g., increasing competition within and across retailing formats, the growth of online retailing, the advent of ???radio frequency identification??™ (RFID) technology, the explosion in customer-level data availability, the global expansion of major retail chains like Wal-Mart and METRO Group and so on. Making sense of it all is not easy but of vital importance to retailing practitioners, analysts and policymakers. With crisp and insightful contributions from many of the world's leading experts in retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium.

About the Authors
Manfred Krafft holds the Chair of Marketing at the University of Muenster, Germany. He is also director of the Center for Interactive Marketing and Media Management (CIM). Professor Krafft has published articles in Interfaces, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Recherche et Application en Marketing and Marketing Science. For one of his papers he won the INFMS Society for Marketing Science's Practice Prize in 2003. Professor Krafft serves on several editorial boards.

Murali Mantrala is the Sam M. Walton Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of Missouri. He has published articles in Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Marketing Letters, Interfaces, Managerial and Decision Economics and European Journal of Operational Research and serves on the editorial review board of Marketing Science. Professor Mantrala recently spent several years as a Manager with ZS Associates Inc., a sales and marketing strategy consulting firm, with clients in the pharmaceutical, insurance and broadcast media industries.