Intricate and compelling, these Celtic designs encompass a dazzling range of knotwork, spirals, key patterns, and animal forms. A wealth of full- and half-page rectangular forms, motifs, medallions, borders, and corner pieces are all rendered with exquisite finesse by renowned Celtic artist Courtney Davis. These timeless and evocative designs will be an unending source of ideas for artists and designers, both amateur and professional. Courtney Davis works within the best traditions of ancient Celtic style to produce his own unique designs. His books on the subject of Celtic art include Celtic Designs and Motifs, The Celtic Stained Glass Book, and The Celtic Image.

Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch.
The new edition covers MySQL 5.0 and its powerful new features, as well as the older but still widespread MySQL 4.1. One major emphasis of this book is how to use SQL to formulate queries for particular kinds of questions, using the mysql client program included in MySQL distributions. The other major emphasis is how to write programs that interact with the MySQL server through an API. You'll find plenty of examples using several language APIs in multiple scenarios and situations, including the use of Ruby to retrieve and format data. There are also many new examples for using Perl, PHP, Python, and Java as well.

A child's history of ancient Irish art, with droll Celtic people and animals admist ancient mazes and patterns. From 8th and 9th century artifacts and the Books of Durrow and Kells.

Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesn't waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.

This is a 1592 partial translation of an extraordinary early printed book published anonymously at the press of Aldus Manutius in Venice, 1499. It was written in a highly idiosyncratic language composed of Latin, Italian and Greek neologisms. The first vernacular translation of it was made in French in 1546, and this is the second translation in English.
The renown of the original is both for the typography and for the woodcuts, not all of which appear in the English translation.
A young man, Poliphilo, tells the story of a dream in which he searches for his lost beloved, Polia (his name means Lover-of-Polia) in an enchanted world of classical antiquity. This is primarily a spiritual quest, which the dream presents in enigmas. The woodcuts and descriptions of glorious architecture and garden settings were highly influential throughout Europe and the British Isles.
For any English reader who is interested in the Hypnerotomachia, while it takes a little practice to read the f's as s's, and see words like 'iuie' as 'ivy' and 'dyfhe' as 'dish', this Renaissance translation will be greatly rewarding as it conveys the flavour and mystery of the original allegory in the narrator's rich descriptions.
There is a constant play on the page between text, image, and hieroglyphic. See for example p. 81 for invented hieroglyphics, and p. 164, where early examples of Arabic and Hebrew type are set into the illustration alongside Latin and Greek.

Массаж оказывает оздоровительное действие на весь организм. Эротический массаж подразумевает использование различных приемов, оказывающих расслабляющее и возбуждающее воздействие. Необходимую информацию о видах, формах, методах и приемах массажа, особенностях его выполнения на различных участках тела вы можете получить, прочитав эту книгу.

Книга Тома Демарко и Тимоти Листера "Человеческий фактор: успешные проекты и команды" - перевод 2-го издания всемирно известного бестселлера об управлении проектами разработки ПО. Первое издание содержало революционные по тем временам (1987 г.) идеи, которые выдержали проверку временем. Авторы скорректировали свои выводы и добавили несколько новых глав. Ценность этой книги в том, что в ней описываются принципы, за каждым из которых стоит реальная история. Все главы содержат наблюдения и новаторские подходы, которые заставят читателей и руководителей увидеть важные вопросы в новом, более разумном ракурсе. С юмором и мудростью, обретенными за годы руководства и консультирования, Демарко и Листер демонстрируют, что сложнейшие проблемы разработки ПО имеют человеческую, а не техническую природу. Они не дают простых ответов, но дают правильные, подкрепленные научными исследованиями. Издание предназначено в первую очередь руководителям проектов, но будет полезно и рядовым программистам.

This book is Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch's companion volume to MY SYSTEM. This classic is one of the best selling and most instructive chess books of all time. Thousands of satisfied customers have used this book to improve their understanding of positional chess play.