What beautiful, showpiece necklaces you can make following the instructions in this book - wearable art in the most exciting sense. The materials and tools needed are inexpensive and readily available, the work portable, the results striking. When you wear the necklaces you make, they elicit admiration and praise. The book opens with an exciting gallery of the work done by Helen Banes and many of her students. Once your appetite is whetted by what you have seen, then Diane Fitzgerald explains how the neckpieces are made and presents you with 19 projects for making your own. Each project is shown with a full page color photograph of the completed piece and a working diagram for it. Profusely illustrated in color.

The goal of this book is to provide a detailed description of the approaches to be employed and issues to be considered when undertaking a molecular analysis of the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms for a newly isolated gene, or a biochemical analysis of a new transcription factor. Our emphasis is on mammalian transcription, which is complicated by the combinatorial nature of regulation and the lack of facile genetics.We refer periodically to studies in yeast, Drosophila, and other organisms where more tractable genetic approaches have led to a detailed understanding of particular mechanistic issues. The topics covered in the book extend from the determination of whether a gene is in fact regulated at the level of transcription initiation to advanced strategies for characterizing the biochemical mechanism underlying its combinatorial regulation by activators. Although numerous specialized and detailed techniques are included, the unique characteristics of this book are its strategic and conceptual emphasis on analysis of individual genes and the
transcription factors that regulate them.

Spring — the open source Java-based framework — allows you to build lighter, better performing applications. Written by Spring insiders Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek, Pro Spring is the only book endorsed by Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework. At over 800 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive book available and thoroughly explores the power of Spring. You'll learn Spring basics and core topics, as well as share the authors' insights and real-world experience with remoting, mail integration, hibernate, and EJB. From the Foreword: "Rob’s enthusiasm for Spring—and technology in general — is infectious. He has a wide range of industry experience and a refreshingly practical, common sense approach to applying it. All those qualities come out in this book. It’s evident on nearly every page that it reflects in-depth experience with Spring and J2EE as a whole. Rob is not only an author and open source developer — he is an application developer, like his readers. I firmly believe that the best writing on software development comes out of experience in the trenches, so this is my kind of book. If you’re new to Spring, this book will help you understand its core concepts and the background in areas such as transaction management and O/R mapping that underpins them. If you’re already using Spring, you will learn about features you haven’t yet seen and hopefully, gain a deeper understanding of those features you’re already using."

This straightforward guide shows SharePoint users how to create and use web sites for sharing and collaboration. Learn to use the document and picture libraries for adding and editing content, add discussion boards and surveys, receive alerts when documents and information have been added or changed, and enhance security. Designed to help you find answers quickly, the book shows how to make the most of SharePoint for productivity and collaboration.

Mind Power Seduction
by Amargi Hillier

This is Wilson Bryan Key's shocking book Media Sexploitation - The Hidden Implants in America's Mass Media (1976) where he vividly exposes how the media uses subliminal techniques to manipulate with our opinions and buying habits. Key is a professor of journalism and author of previous bestseller Subliminal seduction which started his quest for exposure of these little known but extremely widely used and powerful media methods to influence us. Many people have heard of existence of subliminal messages embedded into pictures, movies and music but few have ever seen such a detailed analysis of those clever methods as presented in this fascinating book. The author goes into unbelievable effort to dissect various pictures, scenes from TV ads and music lyrics to bring to surface some of the most intelligently hidden subliminals you'll ever see in your life. Read in amazement how the advertisment agencies will (ab)use every sexual taboo present in a society to attract our subconsciousness in order to make us buy the product being advertised. No psychological trick will be spared, even if it's incest, pedophilia, homosexuality or even necrophilia. Media sexploitation is one of those classic books which is sure to open your eyes as you'll finally see how we are constantly being "subed". Or is it "sexploitated"? In any case you are in for a shocking ride when you'll see how our wildest sexual fantasies are being embedded in just about everywhere inside various media presentations we encounter during our lives. 260 pages, many eye-opening pictures (all in the middle of the book). A must read for everyone.