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A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and Singapore
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and Singapore
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and Singapore: including
An easy-to-use identification guide to 280 bird species most commonly seen in Malaysia (including the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo) and Singapore, perfect for resident and visitor alike.High quality photographs from some of Malaysia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, length, plumage, distribution, habits, and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers climate, vegetation, biogeography, and the main birdwatching sites. The only guide to include a complete check-list to the birds of Malaysia.
Asian Graphics Now!
A visual exploration of graphic design from Mumbai to TokyoFeaturing the best and the most recent advertising campaigns, posters, brand-design projects, corporate identity, package design, and editorial design, Asian Graphics Now! is the ultimate guide to creativity for the whole of Asia, from India to Japan, serving as both an inspirational and a practical guide to any professional or student working in the creative industries. With roughly 60% of the world???s population, around 4 billion people, the continent covers less than 9% of the world???s surface, yet still includes over 50 countries. With China and India leading in growth and Japan being the most technological place on the planet, Asian graphic design has a lot to contribute to creativity around the world. With a unique blend of tradition and a forward-looking approach to contemporary culture, the aesthetics that have developed in the region cannot be seen anywhere else. Although less well known than Japan and China, countries like Korea, Singapore, India, and Thailand also offer a very individual take on the use of graphics, typography, and many other in many related areas.This publication will present works by category, with a full index of design studios and designers at the end.
Diary of a Quite Unusual Tour: Some Autobiographical Notes on Travels to California, Singapore and Malaysia
Diary of a Quite Unusual Tour: Some Autobiographical Notes on Travels to California, Singapore and Malaysia
Energy-Efficient Building Systems: Green Strategies for Operation and
Proven Strategies and Solutions for Reducing Energy Consumption in Commercial StructuresProperty and facility managers can turn to Energy-Efficient Building Systems as a one-stop guide to operating and maintaining commercial building systems at peak efficiency. Designed to help reduce energy costs and meet environmental standards, this state-of-the-art productivity tool contains fully illustrated, real-world examples of successful green building projects that have achieved significant, energy-saving results.This expert resource takes you step-by-step through procedures for getting optimal performance from every building system. For each system, the book presents the latest methods for improving efficiency... identifying promising new solutions... evaluating their feasibility... and estimating actual savings.Comprehensive and authoritative, Energy-Efficient Building Systems enables you to:Get an in-depth understanding of the principles of each building system Select the most efficient systems for any nonresidential building Maximize energy efficiency with practical strategies and solutions Review real-world examples of successful green building projectsInside This Cost-Saving Energy Guide:* Energy Management and Energy Auditing ??? Air-Conditioning and Central Chiller Systems ??? Boilers and Heating Systems ??? Pumping Systems ??? Cooling Towers ??? Air Handling and Distribution Systems ??? Lighting Systems ??? Building Electrical Systems ??? Building Automation Systems ??? Building EnvelopeLal Jayamahais a mechanical engineer and the director of the PREMAS Energy Centre, in Singapore. He has more than 15 years of industrial and academic experience in energy efficiency. He has been the team leader for energy audits and energy retrofit projects involving office buildings, retail malls, institution buildings, hotels, hospitals and industrial plant. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) and a Chartered Engineer (UK). He is also a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK and the American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Dr. Jayamaha has published a number of research papers and has been a key speaker at energy efficiency seminars held throughout the world. He has been a guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore for the last seven years.
Eyewitness Travel Guide Malaysia and Singapore
Eyewitness Travel Guide Malaysia and Singapore
Films Set in Asia (Study Guide): Waltz with Bashir, Lebanon, List of Films Set in Singapore, the Philippines in American Movies and Television
Films Set in Asia (Study Guide): Waltz with Bashir, Lebanon, List of Films Set in Singapore, the Philippines in American Movies and Television
Guide to the Zoological Collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore
Guide to the Zoological Collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore
Guided Missiles of Singapore: Anti-Tank Missiles of Singapore, Republic of Singapore Air Force Guided Missiles, Agm-114 Hellfire
Guided Missiles of Singapore: Anti-Tank Missiles of Singapore, Republic of Singapore Air Force Guided Missiles, Agm-114 Hellfire
Hacker's Challenge 3: 20 Brand New Forensic Scenarios & Solutions
The stories about phishing attacks against banks are so true-to-life, it???s chilling.??? ???Joel Dubin, CISSP, Microsoft MVP in SecurityEvery day, hackers are devising new ways to break into your network. Do you have what it takes to stop them? Find out in Hacker???s Challenge 3. Inside, top-tier security experts offer 20 brand-new, real-world network security incidents to test your computer forensics and response skills. All the latest hot-button topics are covered, including phishing and pharming scams, internal corporate hacking, Cisco IOS, wireless, iSCSI storage, VoIP, Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX/Linux hacks, and much more. Each challenge includes a detailed explanation of the incident???how the break-in was detected, evidence and clues, technical background such as log files and network maps, and a series of questions for you to solve. In Part II, you???ll get a detailed analysis of how the experts solved each incident.Exerpt from ???Big Bait, Big Phish???:The Challenge: ???Could you find out what???s going on with the gobi web server? Customer order e-mails aren???t being sent out, and the thing???s chugging under a big load?????? Rob e-mailed the development team reminding them not to send marketing e-mails from the gobi web server???. ???Customer service is worried about some issue with tons of disputed false orders???.??? Rob noticed a suspicious pattern with the ???false??? orders: they were all being delivered to the same P.O. box???He decided to investigate the access logs. An external JavaScript file being referenced seemed especially strange, so he tested to see if he could access it himself???. The attacker was manipulating the link parameter of the login.pl application. Rob needed to see the server side script that generated the login.pl page to determine the purpose???.The Solution: After reviewing the log files included in the challenge, propose your assessment: What is the significance of the attacker???s JavaScript file? What was an early clue that Rob missed that might have alerted him to something being amiss? What are some different ways the attacker could have delivered the payload? Who is this attack ultimately targeted against? Then, turn to the experts' answers to find out what really happened.David Pollino has a strong background in security, wireless, and networking. David is currently a security practitioner working in financial services. During his career, he has worked for an industry-leading security consulting company, a large financial services company, and a tier 1 ISP. David often speaks at security events and has frequently been quoted in online and printed journals regarding security issues. During his career as a consultant and network engineer, David has worked for clients across multiple industries, including financial services, service providers, high technology, manufacturing, and government. He co-authored Wireless Security (RSA Press, 2002) and Hacker's Challenge and Hacker's Challenge 2 (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001 and 2002, respectively).Bill Pennington, CISSP, has six years of professional experience in information security and eleven years in information technology. His duties at WhiteHat include managing research and development, guiding product and technology direction, managing web application assessment teams, and developing and delivering WhiteHat Security training. Bill has performed web application assessments for more than four years in a variety of industry verticals including financial services, e-commerce, and biotechnology. He is familiar with Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Windows, and OpenBSD, and he is a Certified Information Security Systems Practitioner (CISSP) and Certified Cisco Network Administrator (CCNA). He has broad experience in web application security, penetration testing, computer forensics, and intrusion detection systems. Prior to joining WhiteHat, Bill was a principal consultant and technical lead for assessment services at Guardent, a nationwide security services provider.Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, MCSE2k, has eight years of computer networking and administration experience, focusing the last four on network security and malware protection. Tony is a network security architect providing design, implementation, and management of network security solutions for a variety of Fortune 500 customers. He is also the editor and writer for the About.com Internet/Network Security website and frequently contributes to a variety of technical and security publications, both in print and on the Web. You can view his writing portfolio at http://www.s3kur3.com.Himanshu Dwivedi is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, an independent provider of information security services and tools. He has 12 years of experience in security and IT. Before forming iSEC, he was Technical Director for @stake's Bay Area security practice. Himanshu's professional focus includes strategic security services, which leverages his experience with software development, infrastructure security, application security, tool development, and secure product design. He is considered an industry expert in storage security, specifically Fibre Channel/iSCSI SANs and CIFS/NFS NAS systems. Himanshu has presented at major security conferences throughout the world, including Black Hat, Storage Networking World, Syscan Singapore, and Bellua Indonesia. Himanshu also has a patent pending for a storage security design architecture that can be implemented on enterprise storage products for Fibre Channel networks. Himanshu has also authored two additional security books, including Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Implementing SSH: Strategies for Optimizing the Secure Shell (Wiley, 2003).
Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking
...you are certain to be amused and amazed in equal parts ... an entertaining and enlightening book."-Psychology TodayThinking is an innate ability that most people take for granted. But like writing well or speaking effectively before the public, thinki "...you are certain to be amused and amazed in equal parts ... an entertaining and enlightening book."-Psychology TodayThinking is an innate ability that most people take for granted. But like writing well or speaking effectively before the public, thinking well is a skill that can be learned and improved with practice. In this unique introduction to critical thinking, Robert Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford first lay out the principles of critical thinking and then invite readers to put these principles to the test by examining a series of unusual and challenging case studies. Assembling a wide range of bizarre but actual incidents from many cultures and various time periods, they demonstrate how the tools of critical thinking can help to unravel alleged paranormal events and seemingly mysterious behavior.What factors led to the "Martian panic" of 1938? Why did many people conclude that an alien spaceship crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? How do we explain the panic expressed by otherwise normal Southeast Asian men who came to believe that a contagious disease was causing their genitals to shrink, or the frenzied dance manias that captivated thousands of Europeans during the Middle Ages? Bartholomew and Radford show that reality is very much a social construction, that cultural assumptions play a large part in our judgments about what is normal and what is deviant, and that the use of critical reasoning is our best means of ensuring an objective perspective.Robert E. Bartholomew, Ph.D. (Whitehall, NY), is an independent scholar, freelance writer, and the author (with George S. Howard) of UFOs and Alien Contact, among other books and articles.Benjamin Radford (Amherst, NY) is the managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and the author of numerous articles on critical thinking, hysterias, and urban legends. 9781615923380 New 9.59 Y 347851 0.00 Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking Prometheus Books Robert E. Bartholomew Philosophy NewDigital NOOKbook (eBook)
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9781451636345 Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781451636345&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSeeds-of-Terror%2FMaria-Ressa%2Fe%2F9781451636345&usg=AFHzDLt3s_uZXsyVEfzLflYFG-WhmbvGXg&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781451636345&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSeeds-of-Terror%2FMaria-Ressa%2Fe%2F9781451636345&usg=AFHzDLt3s_uZXsyVEfzLflYFG-WhmbvGXg&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/87490000/87495691.JPG Books > Political Science & Government > Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucia For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long before the strikes on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, but when the allies overran Afghanistan, the new camps in Southeast Asia became the key training grounds for the future. It is in the Muslim strongholds in the Philippines and Indonesia that the next generation of al-Qaeda can be found. In this powerful, eye-opening work, Maria Ressa casts the most illuminating light ever on this fascinating but little-known "terrorist HQ." Every major al-Qaeda attack since 1993 has had a connection to the Philippines, and Maria Ressa, CNN's lead investigative reporter for Asia and a Filipino-American who has lived in the region since 1986, has broken story after story about them. From the early, failed attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton to the planning of the 9/11 strikes and the "48 Hours of Terror," in which eleven American jetliners were to be blown up over the Pacific, she has interviewed the terrorists, their neighbors and families, and the investigators from six different countries who have tracked them down. After the Bali bombing, al-Qaeda's worst strike since 9/11, which killed more than two hundred, Ressa broke major revelations about how it was planned, why it was a Plan B substitute for an even more ambitious scheme aimed at Singapore, and why the suicide bomber recruited to deliver the explosives almost caused the whole plan to fall apart when he admitted he could barely drive a car. Above all, Ressa has seen how al-Qaeda's tactics are shifting under the pressures of the war on terror. Rather than depending upon its own core membership (estimated at three to four thousand at its peak), the network is now enmeshing itself in local conflicts, co-opting Muslim independence movements wherever they can be found, and helping local "revolutionaries" to fund, plan, and execute sinister attacks against their neighbors and the West. If history is any guide, al-Qaeda revisits its plans over and over until they can succeed ??? and many of those plans have already been discovered and are here revealed, thanks to classified investigative documents uncovered by Ressa. 9781451636345 New 17.09 Y 393550 Standard 3.99 Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group Maria Ressa Political Science & Government New Paperback
9781602790117 Breakfast by the Numbers http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781602790117&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FBreakfast-by-the-Numbers%2FCecilia-Minden%2Fe%2F9781602790117&usg=AFHzDLvHe4bp13E55tAdymUqp1FOwz74Ig&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781602790117&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FBreakfast-by-the-Numbers%2FCecilia-Minden%2Fe%2F9781602790117&usg=AFHzDLvHe4bp13E55tAdymUqp1FOwz74Ig&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/31950000/31951697.JPG Books > Juvenile / Children's Nonfiction > Cooking & Food You may know that breakfast helps fuel your body for the day ahead. But did you know that math can help you make smart breakfast choices? Read this book to find out more about ... You may know that breakfast helps fuel your body for the day ahead. But did you know that math can he
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)