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A robots book for people who don’t know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Robots is well-written, inviting, and action-packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots and robot-related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and «schools» of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots. By the end of the book, you will be the proud owner of three bots, the first two of which demonstrate key robotic principles. The third is a programmable/expandable robot, which serves as a platform for future experimentation.
Todd Wilbur is an American author of the Top Secret Recipes series of cook books. The books list knock-offs of named foods, like McDonald’s Big Mac. Wilbur has sold over 5 million books. Wilbur has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
The Lucifer Principle says that both competition between groups and competition between individuals shape the evolution of the genome. The Lucifer Principle shows these facts at work especially in human evolution. The Lucifer Principle «explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture» and argues that «evil is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric». It sees selection (i.e. through violent competition) as central to the creation of the «superorganism» of society.
With little effort and expense, you can hide cash, armaments and even family from the menacing eyes of burglars, terrorists or anyone. Learn how to construct dozens of hiding places right in your house and yard. Here are small hiding places for concealing money and jewelry and large places for securing survival supplies or persons. More than 100 drawings show how to turn ordinary items into extraordinary hiding places.
This is the handbook that professionals who deal with problems related to drugs and drug abuse have been waiting for. The impressive list of more than 80 contributors, each experts and leaders in their field, testifies to the importance of this outstanding new handbook. The volume contains detailed discussions of drug-related issues in criminalistics, pathology, and toxicology. Impairment testing and the pharmacokinetics of abused drugs are examined in detail, as is the field of workplace drug testing, the use of alternate testing matrices, drugs in sports, addiction medicine, and drug-related medical emergencies.
This eBook contains all the dirty secret that the CIA use to sabotage and infiltrate their enemies. From mail drops to assassination, learn how the CIA gets things done! (This book is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. Under no circumstance is it advised to do any of the mentioned things in this book. Act according to your regions laws.).
Most people know that there is more to sex than the missionary position. But to make sex really hot, some people need a little guidance. That is where acclaimed sex educator and WCBS-TV relationship correspondent Sari Locker steps in: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex, has fresh advice on how readers can make smart sexual choices, cast aside inhibitions, and keep their sex life exciting well into their golden years.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. They were found in caves about a mile inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism.
An incredible amount of extremely useful information on the subject of knots, hitches, splices, fancy work, block and tackle, and wire rope.
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers is a book by Kevin Mitnick that is a collection of stories about social engineering as performed by other hackers. Each story ends by summarizing insight into the attack as well as measures to defend against it.
Take control of your PC! Why do they load up a PC with stuff you don’t need and leave off the things you really want? Don’t take it anymore! Grab a screwdriver and let these two experts show you how to build the PC of your dreams, even if you’ve never cracked a case before. You’ll learn to choose the right components, install them safely, test your system, find the best prices on parts, and even trick out your new machine with some cool tweaks and mods. Plenty of illustrations and step-by-step directions make it easy, and you just might make your wallet happy, too.
«The Book of Lies,» was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley and first published in 1912. As Crowley describes it: «This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive.»
Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels. The «21» in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st Century. It has been affirmed and modified at subsequent UN conferences.
The manual was located in Manchester, England by the Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaeda member’s home. The manual was found in a computer file described as «the military series» related to the «Declaration of Jihad.» The manual was translated into English and was introduced earlier this year at the embassy bombing trial in New York. The United States Department of Justice has removed certain portions of the text because they do not want to encourage terrorism. However, a brief selection the eighty page text demonstrates the value of the manual to emergency planners and first responders.
Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings’ sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ca. 1230. The name Heimskringla was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts – kringla heimsins – «the circle of the world».
The sorcerers’ secrets in this book all have a special twist: they combine the illusion of magic with the firepower of improvised explosives, incendiaries, firearms and electronics. Most magicians don’t use flamethrowers or human blowtorches in their acts, but you can after reading this! (The material in this book is dangerous and therefore for information purposes only.).
This is an upbeat, accesible book about the power of positive thought – and about how negative thinking can wreck lives. Negative thinking is seen as a debilitating illness that will slowly kill your spirit – and for some people lead to actual physical disease.
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction is a 2004 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show that parodies and satirizes American politics and worldview. It has won several awards, and generated some controversy. America (The Book) was written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, and other writers of The Daily Show. Karlin was the show’s executive producer and Javerbaum its head writer. The book is written as a parody of a US high school civics textbook, complete with study guides, questions, and class exercises. Also included are scholarly «Were You Aware?» boxes, one of which explains that «the term ‘Did You Know’ is copyrighted by a rival publisher». The book provides discussion questions to mock history study guide books, with ridiculous questions such as: «Would you rather be a king or slave? Why or why not?». It pokes fun at the American political system, and includes a chapter caricaturing stereotypical American views of the rest of the world.
«We traced it through a large dump of outdated security-related materials on a site that hasn’t been updated since 2010. From there we tracked it down to the alt.security newsgroup and a post from the University of Technology Chemnitz-Zwickau in Germany. A posterity-minded participant from Stanford decided it should be archived for the ages, and here it is still.»
Hopefully you’ll never experience being held somewhere against your will, but if you find yourself in a tricky situation, you’ll be glad to know a few effective escape strategies. Standard-issue police handcuffs, and more recently, zip ties, can both be rendered useless in a matter of seconds if you know what you’re doing. Read on to learn how to escape either standard cuffs or ties.
Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want.
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Rapport fra EU
14. november 2012 ble det arrangert en rekke protestmarsjer i flere europeiske land som reaksjon på økonomikse innstramminger, kutt i velferdsordninger, økende arbeidsledighet og økende fattigdom. Bortsett fra et par vannkanoner og litt tåregass forløp dagen uten vesentlige skade på hverken mennesker eller bygninger.