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Can Science and Religion Work Together, After All?

It’s time for science and religion to stop shouting at each other and start talking with each other. This book leads the way. It is the result of an extraordinary ongoing conversation among a group of highly respected scientists, physicians, philosophers, and theologians. Together, they share profound insights into the deepest questions humans ask and explore the invisible forces and powerful beliefs that shape our lives. Their insights reflect both humanity’s latest science and its most enduring wisdom. Their answers and questions will challenge you–and reward you with a richer understanding of who we are, what we share, and what it means.

What do we really know about human nature?
How do we see what we see, know what we know, feel what we feel?
How do people come to believe in God?
Where does empathy come from?
What can evolutionary psychology and neuroscience teach us about ethics?
What are the health benefits of faith?
Where do you end, and others begin?
What do marriage, family, and friendship mean?
How can people repair the broken connections that keep them lonely? Download Now »

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Using the Audacity software as the starting off point, we discuss what the software is, what it can do, how you can use it, and where you go to get started installing it. All of this information is grounded in some basic audio editing terminology and background for those that aren’t so technology inclined.

Then we’ll start digging into a sample project! You’ll learn about how to set up a project, create a voice track, record an interview with Skype, and basic audio editing techniques. All of this done in an easy to follow, task based approach with lots of examples. Here, we plan to go a step further, we teach how to wrap all of these steps together and create a podcast that can be posted on your own website or blog.

There’s always more you can do with Audacity! The last portion of the book is dedicated to just that – discussing more advanced editing and mixing techniques, using affects, adding music, adding additional plug-ins to the software. All still incorporating examples and easy to follow tasks you can try on your own audio projects.

Create your own podcasts, edit music, and more with this open source audio editor

• Teaches basic techniques for using Audacity to record and edit audio tracks – like podcasts and interviews
• Combines learning to use software program with the simple theories behind digital audio and common audio terms Download Now »

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If you need a reliable tool for technical documentation, this clear and concise reference will help you take advantage of DocBook, the popular XML schema originally developed to document computer and hardware projects. DocBook 5.0 has been expanded and simplified to address documentation needs in other fields, and it’s quickly becoming the tool of choice for many content providers.

DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide is the complete, official documentation of DocBook 5.0. You’ll find everything you need to know to use DocBook 5.0′s features-including its improved content model-whether you’re new to DocBook or an experienced user of previous versions.

• Learn how to write DocBook XML documents
• Understand DocBook 5.0′s elements and attributes, and how they fit together
• Determine whether your documents conform to the DocBook schema
• Learn about options for publishing DocBook to various output formats
• Customize the DocBook schema to meet your needs
• Get additional information about DocBook editing and processing

This book is still in progress, but you can explore this technology through our Rough Cuts edition, which lets you read the manuscript as it’s being written, either online or via PDF. Download Now »

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Professional SlickEditis the first guide to the award-winning SlickEdit tools, and is technically reviewed by the SlickEdit development team. SlickEdit expert John Hurst shares his years of experience in developing with SlickEdit to teach readers how to maximize the tool’s features, and to write and debug code faster than they have before. Additionally, the book includes a CD ROM with an extended trial version of SlickEdit not available anywhere else.

Professional SlickEdit is heavy on examples, making this a hands-on guide that will get readers up and running with the tools quickly.

Topics include:
*Customizing the environment
*Staying organized with Workspaces and Projects
*Understanding Tagging
*Quickly navigating code
*Power editing techniques for text, code and data
*Taking advantage of Aliases and File Templates
*Slick-C Macro Programming
*Custom Language Support Download Now »

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Regular expressions help users and developers to find and manipulate text more effectively and efficiently. In addition, regular expressions are supported by many scripting languages, programming languages, and databases. This example-rich tutorial helps debunk the traditional reputation of regular expressions as being cryptic. It explains the various parts of a regular expression pattern, what those parts mean, how to use them, and common pitfalls to avoid when writing regular expressions.With chapters on using regular expressions with popular Windows platform software including databases, cross platform scripting languages, and programming languages, you’ll learn to make effective use of the power provided by regular expressions once you fully comprehend their strengths and potential.

What you will learn from this book

• Fundamental concepts of regular expressions and how to write them
• How to break down a text manipulation problem into component parts so you can then logically construct a regular expression pattern
• How to use regular expressions in several scripting and programming languages and software packages
• The variations that exist among regular expression dialects
• Reusable, real-world working code that can be used to solve everyday regular expression problems

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In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

Contributions and topics include:
* Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, “The Single Point of Failure”
* Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data”
* Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, “When Is Transparency Useful?”
* Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, “Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule”
* Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, “By the People”
* Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, “Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence”
* Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft’s MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, “Engineering Good Government”
* Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, “A Peace Corps for Programmers” Download Now »