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Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar

 

Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar
World Scientific Publishing Company | Pages: 252 | 2005-10-13 | ISBN: 9812565884 | 2 MB

This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under changing social and academic environments in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and England. His activities also covered East Asia, Europe and North America. Ho Peng Yoke worked in collaboration with Joseph Needham of Cambridge over different periods spanning half a century in the monumental series Science and Civilization in China. Ho subsequently succeeded Needham as Director of the Needham Research Institute, where he held the post for 12 years. In the introduction to the final volume of that series, the Oxford scholar Mark Elvin remarked that Ho “had long piloted the ship through difficult times.” This book tells the story and more.
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Survival Skills for Scientists

 

Survival Skills for Scientists
Imperial College Press | Pages: 205 | 2006-07-17 | ISBN: 1860946402 | 13 MB

This book provides young scientists, from physicists through to sociologists, the counsel and tools that are needed to be their own agents and planners, to survive and succeed, hopefully even thrive in science. Making a good career based on peer-reviewed science means navigating many stressful phases from graduate school through to permanent employment. Performing artists pay agents to help them in this effort. In effect, this book is designed to allow you to act as your own agent. You are counseled to analyze yourself deeply to know clearly what you want and whether you can live with it, how to make career choices and what you should then keep in mind, when to fight and when to yield. The unwritten rules of the science game are explained, including how to become published and known, the pitfalls of peer review and how to evade them, papers and posters, job interviews and getting your science funded. Interspersed with this are illustrative anecdotes and a fair amount of humor. While the book is aimed at young scientists, from graduate students and beyond, more senior scientists will benefit from seeing the world from the point of view of rising scientists and become aware of the preoccupations of people in a system which has changed much from when the present senior scientists were rather younger.
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Java: The Complete Reference, J2SE 5 Edition

 

Java: The Complete Reference, J2SE 5 Edition
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | Pages: 1000 | 2004-12-14 | ISBN: 0072230738 | 13 MB

In this completely up-to-date volume, Herb Schildt, the world’s leading programming author, shows you everything you need to know to develop, compile, debug, and run Java applications and applets. You’ll get complete details on the Java language, its class libraries, and its development environment along with hundreds of examples and expert techniques.
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Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA

 

Antonio J. Mendez “Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA”
Turtleback Books | 2002-02 | ISBN: 0606201777 | 351 pages | PDF | 2,1 Mb

The problem with memoirs by ex-secret agents is that they usually make their careers sound about as exciting as that of $6-an-hour bowling alley security guard, unless you’re of the opinion that filing papers and making phone calls is the epitome of thrills. Antonio Mendez, however, has produced a tome that makes the life of a CIA agent sound every bit the slam-bang world of intrigue and skulking in the shadows that movies like Mission: Impossible make it out to be.
Honored by the CIA on its 50th anniversary as being one of the agency’s 50 “Trailblazers,” the now-retired Mendez spins a fast-paced tale of intriguing characters partaking in skullduggery in exotic locales, made all the more appealing because Mendez himself is the featured star of the proceedings. In an almost offhand manner, he writes about seeing and doing things that would wilt the flower of courage in almost any reader. “Was I proud to be enlisting,” he rhetorically ponders at one point, “on our side in the Cold War? You bet.” Originally drafted by the CIA as a “technical artist” to provide cover for agents behind enemy lines, Mendez worked his way up the ladder and progressed to a full-fledged agent in the field, sneaking diplomats past enemy guards and spiriting informants into the night, eluding capture and torture at every turn–and using his artist’s eye for detail to paint vivid word pictures of his predicaments. Mendez possesses a remarkably keen sense of the mechanics of a good cloak-and-dagger story, and fortunately pours it on in abundance here in his quite hefty–and surprisingly lively–autobiography. –Tjames Madison
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Processing Random Data: Statistics for Engineers And Scientists

 

By Robert V. Edwards”Processing Random Data: Statistics for Engineers And Scientists”
World Scientific Publishing Company | Pages: 152 | 2006-07-03 | ISBN: 9812568344 | 3 MB

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Electronics Three

 

By Harry Mileaf”Electronics Three”
Sams | Pages: 168 |1976-07 | ISBN: 0810459566 | 33 MB

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