"To tell you the truth, you can learn the basics of meditation in five minutes," asserts Stephan Bodian, meditation instructor, psychotherapist, and former editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal. You can also study meditation for years, exploring its subtleties. Meditation for Dummies is a simple, clear introduction to the basics of meditation, including an overview of dozens of techniques, practices, and specific meditations, plus direction for going deeper. You get step-by-step instructions for a variety of meditations, including body position, mental concentration, where to put your attention, what to contemplate or notice, physical movements, and breathing. A nice touch is the recurring "traditional wisdom": ancient stories or anecdotes that make a point. This book is useful whether you want the nuts and bolts for getting started in the next minute or you want to dip your mind into different practices and philosophies. Nothing is too elementary to explain: "how to sit up straight — and live to tell about it," what to wear, dealing with fear and self-judgment, and what to do when you get "stuck." You also get plenty of information about the benefits and varieties of meditation. You're bound find and develop a practice that feels right for you.

Vol. 2 : F-L. - 524 p.

Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century elementary particle physics is full of quarks, leptons, antimatter, and dark energy. How is a reader supposed to understand physics when much of what he or she may, or may not, remember from high-school physics is no longer current? This alphabetically arranged guide is intended for a broad audience, including advanced high-school and college students as well as general readers. An international team of physicists contributed 153 entries, each with a bibliography of recommended books, journals, and Web sites. See also references appear at the end of each article. Also included are a reader's guide presenting a topical arrangement of entries, a time line, a glossary, and a list of common abbreviations and acronyms. Case studies of experiments such as the measurement of the muon, profiles of important laboratories such as Fermilab, and biographies of physicists such as Paul Dirac are among the entries, which are illustrated with tables, photograph, and schematics. Building Blocks of Matter is a supplement to the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics (1996). As such, it will help students understand the physics of elementary particles, that is, particles that cannot be broken down. Because of its focus, it is more specialized than a physics dictionary. Recommended for science reference collections in academic and public libraries, especially those that own the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics.

В книге использованы три варианта подачи материала. Текст, представленный крупным шрифтом в начале каждой главы, отражает наиболее существенные аспекты ее содержания. Более мелким шрифтом излагается основной материал, а самый мелкий шрифт использован для более детального описания процессов и для материала, на который автор хотел бы обратить дополнительное внимание. Как правило, последний рассчитан на более подготовленного читателя. Автор часто возвращается к уже упоминавшимся фактам, но представляет их уже в несколько ином ракурсе. Это позволяет сконцентрировать внимание читателя на наиболее важных аспектах. Большое внимание уделяется рассмотрению молекулярных механизмов тех или иных процессов. Казалось бы, это излишне усложняет материал, особенно для врачей и других практических работников. Однако это совсем не так, поскольку современный уровень фармакологии, микробиологии, вирусологии и, особенно, иммунологии не позволяет эффективно использовать новые препараты и методы без понимания тех молекулярных механизмов, на которые эти препараты воздействуют. В книге освещены наиболее существенные молекулярные структуры и механизмы их взаимодействия, служащие базисом важнейших процессов противоинфекционной защиты. Основу любой инфекционной болезни составляет борьба между системой иммунитета и возбудителем инфекции. Поэтому первые главы книги посвящены знакомству читателя с основными элементами и механизмами функционирования системы иммунитета. Структура и функции систем иммунитета у млекопитающих различных видов имеют очень много общего. Это позволяет рассматривать процессы пато- и иммуногенеза с обших биологических (а не только медицинских или ветеринарных) позиций. Поэтому в книге внимание читателя не рассеивается на описаниях мелких структурных и функциональных различий в механизмах иммунной защиты у разных видов млекопитающих. Обсуждаются наиболее существенные положения иммунитета, которые, как правило, были определены на моделях человека и мыши. При описании инфекционного процесса основное внимание уделено механизмам, которые используют паразитические микроорганизмы для борьбы с защитными реакциями иммунитета. Именно эти механизмы составляют основу патогенности паразитов и позволяют им сохранять жизнеспособность внутри организма хозяина. Если возбудитель не имеет таких способностей или в процессе иммунного ответа организм хозяина «нашел» эффективные методы их обезвреживания — происходит быстрое освобождение организма от паразитов. В этом же разделе анализируются и разнообразные возможности воздействия на инфекционный процесс при помощи различных эндогенных и экзогенных продуктов. Как правило, их применение имеет довольно богатую историю и хорошо изложено во многих литературных источниках. Здесь автор видел свою задачу лишь в краткой и удобной для запоминания систематизации, что в первую очередь связано с особенностями структуры и механизма действия этих веществ. Основная же борьба с инфекцией происходит на уровне популяций паразитов и их хозяев. Здесь большую роль начинает играть гетерогенность этих популяций, их изменчивость и целый ряд других факторов. Поэтому в последнем разделе затронуты элементарные понятия эпидемического процесса. Это позволяет более ясно представлять — как, почему и на каких звеньях эпидемической цепи должны быть сконцентрированы мероприятия по борьбе с инфекцией. Не претендуя на разработку каких-либо универсальных схем, автор хотел бы отметить лишь основные тенденции в создании программ борьбы с инфекциями, поскольку именно такие программы позволяют ликвидировать инфекции наиболее успешно. Последний раздел книги представляет собой справочный материал, который может быть полезен специалистам в их работе. Борьба с инфекцией не должна иметь национальных и тем более языковых границ. Автор считает целесообразным использование общепринятой в мировой литературе терминологии. Поэтому в тексте использовано много иностранных терминов и сокращений. Это позволит читателю в дальнейшем легче ориентироваться в зарубежной (да и в отечественной) литературе, поскольку такие сокращения широко используют ведущие мировые издания (Infection and Immunity, The Journal of Immunology, Journal of Immunotherapy, Infection и другие). В тексте этой работы практически нет конкретных ссылок на литературные источники, поскольку в книге затрагиваются достаточно известные положения. В этих условиях ссылки на первоисточники малоинформативны и отвлекают внимание читателя от излагаемого материала. Основные же источники, которые были использованы автором, приведены в конце книги.

Книга описывает одну из самых прибыльных в мире систем выбора акций Can Slim, с помощью которой многие инвесторы сделали крупные состояния на фондовом рынке. Знание системы Can Slim является абсолютно необходимым для профессионалов фондового рынка. Кроме того, книга служит прекрасным учебным пособием для преподавателей и студентов экономических и финансовых вузов, а также всех тех, кто стремится зарабатывать на акциях. Создатель этой системы, Уильям О-Нил, в последние десятилетия является одним из наиболее авторитетных биржевых консультантов США. Среди его клиентов все крупнейшие инвестиционные компании, банки, пенсионные фонды и другие институциональные инвесторы страны (более 600), а также сотни тысяч индивидуальных инвесторов, работающих по системе Can Slim и получающих всю необходимую информацию через ежедневную газету Investor-s Business Daily, которую он основал в 1984 году. В настоящее время это вторая общенациональная деловая газета США после The Wall Street Journal. Система Can Slim основана на закономерностях поведения самых прибыльных акций в последние 50 лет. Она опровергает многие стереотипы и ошибочные критерии выбора акций и на практике доказала свою исключительную эффективность.

Volume 1 : Number 1. - 2004. - 875 p.

Vol. 1. - 1921. - 84 p.

The Bulletin on Narcotics is a United Nations journal that has been in continuous publication since 1949. It is printed in all six official languages of the United Nations—Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The Bulletin provides information on developments in drug control at the local, national, regional and international levels that can be of benefit to the international community. The present issue of the Bulletin, whose guest editor is Martin Bouchard of Simon Fraser University in Canada, is focused on measurement issues in drug policy analysis. It consists of a selection of papers presented at the Third Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, held in Vienna on 2 and 3 March 2009. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime wishes to thank Melissa Tullis of the Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs and Raggie Johansen of the Studies and Threat Analysis Section for editorial assistance in preparing this issue.

The publication of the Guidelines for the Application of the ISBDs to the Description of Component Parts marks the completion of a long and complex effort to establish an internationally accepted framework for the description of items such as journal articles, chapters and other parts of monographs, individual tracks on sound recordings, and other types of “works within works”. From the outset it was recognized that achieving acceptance of such a framework would be difficult, particularly inasmuch as the potential implementors are divided between two communities that over time have established rather different practices and traditions with respect to bibliographic description: the library community, on the one hand, with its cataloguing tradition; and, on the other, the abstracting and indexing community with its citation practices. Although the initiative was taken by the library community, through IFLA, and was conceived within the overall programme for the development of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), it was acknowledged that the requirements and constraints of the abstracting and indexing community would have to be addressed in parallel with those of the library community in order to ensure that the resulting framework would meet the objective of providing the necessary bridge between the descriptions formulated in the two communities.

FLA/FAIFE places great importance on its biennial World Report. This carefully researched survey provides the information professions with a regular insight into the state of intellectual freedom worldwide as it relates to libraries. It seems to be the nature of the sector that few out and out causes celebres emerge (although a few could be named). The world of journalism is a constant ferment of dangerous and threatening activity, and book publishing produces difficult cases all the time. Internet problems feature prominently in the press and on the Internet itself. Yet it might be possible to assume that libraries exist in an intellectual freedom safe haven. Unfortunately this is not the case. Libraries also share in the threats to privacy and the restrictions on access that trouble the world of knowledge and communication generally. Possibly because the threats creep up on libraries and are often experienced at second hand (for instance, through the suppression of a book or the blocking of a website), they are easier to ignore. The World Report is intended to open our eyes, alert us to dangers and enable us to fight emerging threats or support colleagues in other parts of the world.

The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) is an alphanumerical classification scheme collaboratively produced by staff of and based on the coverage of the two major mathematical reviewing databases, Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH. It is used by many mathematics journals, which ask authors of research papers and expository articles to list subject codes from the Mathematics Subject Classification in their papers.

Emphasizing the finite difference approach for solving differential equations, the second edition of Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists presents a methodology for systematically constructing individual computer programs. Providing easy access to accurate solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems, each chapter begins with objectives, a discussion of a representative application, and an outline of special features, summing up with a list of tasks students should be able to complete after reading the chapter- perfect for use as a study guide or for review. The AIAA Journal calls the book " a good, solid instructional text on the basic tools of numerical analysis."

This remarkably comprehensive new book assembles concepts and results in relational databases theory previously scattered through journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical memoranda in one convenient source, and introduces pertinent new material not found elsewhere. The book is in- tended for a second course in databases, but is an excellent reference for researchers in the field.. The material covered includes relational algebra, functional dependencies, multivalued and join dependencies, normal forms, tableaux and the chase computation, representation theory, domain and tuple relational calculus, query modification, database semantics and null values, acyclic database schemes, template dependencies, and computed relations. The final chapter is a brief survey of query languages in existing relational systems. Each chapter contains numerous examples and exercises, along with bibliographic remarks.

"I really like the software engineering advice given here. As the chief engineer/architect for a large development group, I can say with certainty that the advice given in this book about how real-world projects must work is right on the mark." -Steve Vinoski, coauthor of Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, columnist for C/C++ Users Journal and IEEE Internet Computing, and Chief Architect, IONA Technologies.

Книга Стивена С. Скиены и Мигеля А. Ревиллы "Олимпиадные задачи по программированию. Руководство по подготовке к соревнованиям" является переводом учебника по подготовке к международным соревнованиям по программированию. Содержание книги собрано по материалам АСМ - олимпиад. Это руководство является бестеллером, признанным Journal of Object Technology, как "Лучшая книга 2003 г.". В данном издании 14 глав, в которых содержатся все главные виды задач международных соревнований. В каждой главе книги имеется полезное теоретико-алгоритмическое введение, разбор типовых задач и серия тренировочных заданий уровня ACM. Книга пригодится учащимся, их преподавателям и всем заинтересованным в олимпиадном программировании и алгоритмах.

The study of language learner characteristics, or individual differences (IDs), has a long tradition in second language studies and nobody would question that factors such as language aptitude, motivation, or learning styles are important contributors to success in mastering a foreign language. Accordingly, the existing literature on individual difference variables is extensive. Curiously, however, there are very few book-length summaries of the topic—in fact, there is only one single-authored monograph on language learning IDs, Peter Skehan’s (1989) seminal title on Individual Differences in Second Language Learning. Since the publication of that book a great deal of research has been conducted in the field to explore the language learner, and an updated overview has been due for some time. In response to this need, the last five years have seen the publication of no fewer than four anthologies on learner issues (although not all from an ID perspective), edited by Breen (2001), Cook (2002), Cornwell and Robinson (2000), and Robinson (2002). These volumes are all of high quality, with chapters written by some of the best known experts in the field. So what justifies the writing of the current book? Let me mention three reasons: • An authored book can offer certain useful features that anthologies, by definition, cannot: A unified voice and style, an integrated text, and a more even coverage of the domain without duplications or gaps. • Anthologies are, by definition, selective: They focus on key issues and often ignore smaller but nevertheless important subareas that do not warrant a whole chapter. This is certainly true in our case, as none of the four works mentioned above address, for example, ‘learner beliefs,’ or ‘learning styles,’ let alone lesser known variables such as ‘creativity’. So far such topics have been discussed primarily in journal articles and, to a lesser extent, in thematic monographs targeting only the specific ID variable in question. • In this book I would like to extend the traditional boundaries of individual differences and include some important learner variables—most notably various personality traits—that are not normally discussed in this context in the L2 literature.

The work of Richard M. Stallman literally speaks for itself. From the documented source code to the published papers to the recorded speeches, few people have expressed as much willingness to lay their thoughts and their work on the line. Such openness-if one can pardon a momentary un-Stallman adjective-is refreshing. After all, we live in a society that treats information, especially personal information, as a valuable commodity. The question quickly arises. Why would anybody want to part with so much information and yet appear to demand nothing in return? As we shall see in later chapters, Stallman does not part with his words or his work altruistically. Every program, speech, and on-the-record bon mot comes with a price, albeit not the kind of price most people are used to paying. I bring this up not as a warning, but as an admission. As a person who has spent the last year digging up facts on Stallman's personal history, it's more than a little intimidating going up against the Stallman oeuvre. "Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel," goes the old Mark Twain adage. In the case of Stallman, never attempt the definitive biography of a man who trusts his every thought to the public record. For the readers who have decided to trust a few hours of their time to exploring this book, I can confidently state that there are facts and quotes in here that one won't find in any Slashdot story or Google search. Gaining access to these facts involves paying a price, however. In the case of the book version, you can pay for these facts the traditional manner, i.e., by purchasing the book. In the case of the electronic versions, you can pay for these facts in the free software manner. Thanks to the folks at O'Reilly & Associates, this book is being distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License, meaning you can help to improve the work or create a personalized version and release that version under the same license. If you are reading an electronic version and prefer to accept the latter payment option, that is, if you want to improve or expand this book for future readers, I welcome your input. Starting in June, 2002, I will be publishing a bare bones HTML version of the book on the web site, http://www.faifzilla.org. My aim is to update it regularly and expand the Free as in Freedom story as events warrant. If you choose to take the latter course, please review Appendix C of this book. It provides a copy of your rights under the GNU Free Documentation License. For those who just plan to sit back and read, online or elsewhere, I consider your attention an equally valuable form of payment. Don't be surprised, though, if you, too, find yourself looking for other ways to reward the good will that made this work possible. One final note: this is a work of journalism, but it is also a work of technical documentation. In the process of writing and editing this book, the editors and I have weighed the comments and factual input of various participants in the story, including Richard Stallman himself. We realize there are many technical details in this story that may benefit from additional or refined information. As this book is released under the GFDL, we are accepting patches just like we would with any free software program. Accepted changes will be posted electronically and will eventually be incorporated into future printed versions of this work. If you would like to contribute to the further improvement of this book, you can

Kudelia S. Revolutionary Bargain: the Unmaking of Ukraine's Autocracy through Pacting. - 78-101 p.

In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes made covertly in his office ordering violence to be undertaken against the journalist. The scandal led to the creation of a wide protest movement that culminated in the victory of democratic opposition parties in 2002. The democratic opposition, led by its presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, fought a bitter and fraudulent election campaign in 2004 during which he was poisoned. Widespread election fraud led to Europe's largest protest movement since the Cold War which became known as the Orange Revolution, known after the campaign colour of the democratic opposition. This book is the first to provide a collection of studies surveying different aspects of the rise of the Ukraine's democratic opposition from marginalization, to protest against presidential abuse of office and culminating in the Orange Revolution. It integrates the Kuchmagate crisis of 2000-2001 with that of the Orange Revolution four years later providing a rich, detailed and original study of the origins of the Orange Revolution.

Книга “Від диктатури до демократії” вперше опублікована у Бангкоці 1993 р. Комітетом з відновлення демократії у Бірмі спільно з Хітом П’яінгом (Khit Pyaing, The New Era Journal). З того часу книгу було перекладено принаймні вісьмома мовами та видано, зокрема, в Сербії, Індонезії і Таїланді. У Сполучених Штатах Америки книгу видано двічі. Для української версії автор надіслав більш актуальну статистичну інформацію. Український переклад книги здійснений Мар’яною Шипош з англійської мови за другим американським виданням.