The first edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach has become a classic in the AI literature. It has been adopted by over 600 universities in 60 countries, and has been praised as the definitive synthesis of the field.In the second edition, every chapter has been extensively rewritten…The book is supported by a suite of online resources…

Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day?

Conrad Leyser examines the formation of the Christian ascetic tradition in the western Roman Empire during the period of the barbarian invasions, c.400-600. In an aggressively competitive political context, one of the most articulate claims to power was made, paradoxically, by men who had renounced 'the world', committing themselves to a life of spiritual discipline in the hope of gaining entry to an otherworldly kingdom. Often dismissed as mere fanaticism or open hypocrisy, the language of ascetic authority, Conrad Leyser shows, was both carefully honed and well understood in the late Roman and early medieval Mediterranean. Dr Leyser charts the development of this new moral rhetoric by abbots, teachers, and bishops from the time of Augustine of Hippo to that of St Benedict and Gregory the Great.

Why did people choose the Reformation? What was in the evangelical teaching that excited, moved or persuaded them? Andrew Pettegree tackles these questions directly by re-examining the reasons that moved millions to this decisive and traumatic break with a shared Christian past. He charts the separation from family, friends, and workmates that adherence to the new faith often entailed and the new solidarities that emerged in their place. He explores the different media of conversion through which the Reformation message was communicated and the role of drama, sermons, song and the book. His findings offer a persuasive new answer to the critical question of how the Reformation could succeed as a mass movement in an age before mass literacy.

Firedrake, a young dragon, receives a frightening warning one night: Humans are planning to destroy the valley in which he lives! All the dragons must flee. Their only refuge is a place above the clouds called the Rim of Heaven –- which may not even exist. Firedrake boldly volunteers to go ahead first. As he embarks on his journey, he meets Ben, a runaway boy. Together, the boy & dragon make their way toward the Rim of Heaven, all the while running a step ahead of Nettlebrand, a monster who will stop at nothing to hunt down Firedrake. Their quest will truly become an adventure like no other.

This one of a kind encyclopedia has 15 volumes consisting of 5,000 pages with 30,000 photos. The encyclopedia is the culmination of General Choi's lifelong research into Tae Kwon Do's history and development. This complete encyclopedia includes: Origins and the development of martial arts, the complete history of Tae Kwon Do, culture and philosophy, theory of power, attacking and blocking tools, vital spots, stances, hand and foot techniques, free fighting, fundamental exercises, step-by-step instructions to all the original 24 Tae Kwon Do forms.

This one of a kind encyclopedia has 15 volumes consisting of 5,000 pages with 30,000 photos. The encyclopedia is the culmination of General Choi's lifelong research into Tae Kwon Do's history and development. This complete encyclopedia includes: Origins and the development of martial arts, the complete history of Tae Kwon Do, culture and philosophy, theory of power, attacking and blocking tools, vital spots, stances, hand and foot techniques, free fighting, fundamental exercises, step-by-step instructions to all the original 24 Tae Kwon Do forms.

Von allen Lehrbüchern über Technische Mechanik, die ich kenne (das dürften etwa ein Dutzend sein), ist dieses Buch von Dankert und Dankert mein Favorit.
Ich war Assistent für Technische Mechanik an der Uni und gebe seit einigen Jahren Vorlesungen im Fach Biomechanik für Fachhochschüler, Medizinstudenten und Physiotherapeuten. Dabei empfehle ich dieses Buch. Das Buch ist umfassend. Ausgehend vom klassischen Inhalt der Technische Mechanik (Statik, Elastostatik, Kinematik, Kinetik) schlägt es Brücken zu den Lehrgebieten Festigkeitslehre, Maschinendynamik, Prinzipien der Mechanik, Numerische Methoden, Finite Elemente.
Gegenüber vielen anderen Büchern sehe ich dabei folgende Vorteile:
a) Klare Struktur: Beispielsweise werden wichtige Sätze und Zusammenhänge durch Rahmen hervorgehoben.
b) Die Skizzen sind anschaulich und sehr schön gezeichnet.
c) Das Schnittprinzip wird in Skizzen konsequent eingehalten. Keine Kräfte ohne Schnitt. Das sieht man sonst leider selten, obwohl dies didaktisch - so glaube ich - äußerst wichtig ist. Denn nur so entstehen selbsterklärende mechanische Ersatzsysteme. Auch Gewichtskräfte werden hier auf ein "Wegschneiden" der Massen zurückgeführt.
d) Die zahlreichen Rechenbeispiele sind sehr anschaulich und üben die Verwendung der mitgelieferten Software.
e) Es ließt sich einfach gut.
Das Buch ist gut als Lehr- und auch Nachschlagewerk für Studenten (FH und Uni), Ingenieure, Forscher. Wer die Technische Mechanik vom Fundament her durchdringen will wird das Buch mögen.

"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." – David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework "RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." – Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services Evangelist You've buit web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do. The World Wide Web is the most popular distributed application in history, and Web services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today's web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful. They don't work like the Web, and they're missing out on its advantages.

A Heat Transfer Textbook 3rd Edition

John H. Lienhard IV / John H. Lienhard V (Authors)English | 2003 | ISBN 0-15-748821-1 | pdf | 762 pages | 5.16 MB
This book is meant for students in their introductory heat transfer course, students who have learned calculus (through ordinary differential equations) and basic thermodynamics. The author include the needed background in fluid mechanics, although students will be better off if they have had an introductory course in fluids. An integrated introductory course in thermofluid engineering should also be a sufficient background for the material here.

This Dynamic Earth : The Story of Plate Tectonics
Peter Lindeberg (Editor) | pdf | 2001 | ISBN 0160482208 | 77 pages | 3.51 MB

In the early 1960s, the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics started a revolution in the earth sciences. Since then, scientists have verified and refined this theory, and now have a much better understanding of how our planet has been shaped by plate-tectonic processes. We now know that, directly or indirectly, plate tectonics influences nearly all geologic processes, past and present. Indeed, the notion that the entire Earth's surface is continually shifting has profoundly changed the way we view our world.