Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style
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PHP 5 for Dummies
PHP 5 for Dummies
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PHP and MySQL for Dummies, Second Edition
Updated for PHP 5 and MySQL 4 Create dynamic, interactive Web pages on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X systems Open up a whole new world of Web database applications with PHP and MySQL, the perfect open source pair! This handy guidebook shows you how, with sample applications of an online catalog and a members-only Web site. Get the scoop on security issues, set up your Apache Web server, design the ideal database, and more. The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun Discover how to: Plan and develop a Web database application Design and build the database Write custom PHP application programs Work with numbers and character strings Move information from one Web page to another
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How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL
This new release in the popular How to Do Everything series explains how to build open source web applications with MySQL and PHP 5. Using these two tools, you’ll be able to create highly functional, interactive web sites easily. Follow along with a step-by-step sample application and, as a bonus, download three full-length case studies complete with code trees.
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This new release in the popular How to Do Everything series explains how to build open source web applications with MySQL and PHP 5. Using these two tools, you’ll be able to create highly functional, interactive web sites easily. Follow along with a step-by-step sample application and, as a bonus, download three full-length case studies complete with code trees.
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PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development
Don't spend your time wading through manuals to learn PHP 5. Spend it doing what you do best - creating web pages! With "PHP 5 Fast & Easy Web Development" you can get up and running with PHP 5, Apache, and MySQL with ease. By the time you're finished, you'll be able to display dynamic content, build your own contact management system, create custom reports, work with XML, and much more. Less time, less effort, more results!
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Julie Meloni is the Technical Director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA. She's been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish. She is the author of "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development, 2nd Edition" (Premier Press, 193184187X).
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Learning PHP and MySQL
The PHP scripting language and MySQL open source database are quite effective independently, but together they make a simply unbeatable team. When working hand-in-hand, they serve as the standard for the rapid development of dynamic, database-driven websites. This combination is so popular, in fact, that it's attracting many programming newbies who come from a web or graphic design background and whose first language is HTML. If you fall into this ever-expanding category, then this book is for you.
Learning PHP and MySQL starts with the very basics of the PHP language, including strings and arrays, pattern matching and a detailed discussion of the variances in different PHP versions. Next, it explains how to work with MySQL, covering information on SQL data access for language and data fundamentals like tables and statements. Finally, after it's sure that you've mastered these separate concepts, the book shows you how to put them together to generate dynamic content. In the process, you'll also learn about error handling, security, HTTP authentication, and more.
If you're a hobbyist who is intimidated by thick, complex computer books, then this guide definitely belongs on your shelf. Learning PHP and MySQL explains everything--from basic concepts to the nuts and bolts of performing specific tasks--in plain English.
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Professional PHP5
What is this book about?
With the release of PHP 5 and the Zend Engine 2, PHP finally graduates from it earliest days as a lightweight scripting syntax to an powerful object oriented programming language that can hold its own against the Java and .NET architectures that currently dominate corporate software development. This book has a pragmatic focus on how to use PHP in the larger scheme of enterprise-class software development.
What does this book cover?
Unlike Java or .NET, there is little discussion of the application of design patterns, component architectures, and best-practices to the development of applications using PHP. Software written in the absence of this sort of higher-order architecture will never be able to match the robust frameworks that Java and .NET ship with out of the box. This book addresses this issue by covering the following material:
* Part 1 discusses the OO concepts that were initially explored in Beginning PHP 5 and a demonstration of how to implement them in PHP 5. This section also covers UML modeling and provides a brief introduction to project management techniques that are covered in more depth in Part 4.
* Parts 2 and 3 present objects and object hierarchies that, when completed, comprise a robust toolkit that developers will be able to reuse on future projects. These chapters are designed to arm the professional PHP developer with the sort of constructs that are available out of the box with platforms such as Java and .NET — from simple utility classes like Collection and Iterator, to more complex constructs like Model/View/Controller architectures and state machines.
* Part 4 shows how to use the toolkit from Parts 2 and 3 to create real-world applications. We look at the development of a robust contact management system that will leverage the componentry and concepts already discussed and introduce project management and software architecture concepts that enable developers to accurately identify business requirements, design scalable, extensible platforms, and handle change management effectively. It covers the waterfall and spiral project management paradigms and include a discussion on eXtreme Programming and other approaches to software development.
* The Appendices include an extended discussion on the effective use of CVS, introduce the Zend Studio IDE and related tools, and discuss performance tuning and scalability.
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Table of contents
Introduction
| Introduction | 2:43 | 1.8 MB |
| Using the exercise files | 2:46 | 4 MB |
1. PHP Overview
| What is PHP? | 2:56 | 2 MB |
| History | 3:16 | 2.7 MB |
| Why choose PHP? | 4:46 | 7.1 MB |
| Installation overview | 4:42 | 3.2 MB |
2. Mac Installation
| Installing | 12:12 | 20.2 MB |
| Configuring | 13:40 | 17.8 MB |
| The text editor | 3:50 | 5.5 MB |
| phpMyAdmin | 2:34 | 3.9 MB |
3. Windows Installation
| Installing | 6:31 | 7.7 MB |
| Configuring | 8:22 | 12.6 MB |
| The text editor | 4:21 | 6.3 MB |
4. First Steps
| Viewing PHP configuration information | 8:09 | 10.5 MB |
| Embedding PHP | 6:55 | 5.8 MB |
| ''Hello, World!'' | 5:20 | 4.9 MB |
| The operational trail | 1:36 | 1.2 MB |
| Inserting comments | 3:51 | 4 MB |
5. Exploring Data Types
| Variables | 9:05 | 9 MB |
| Strings | 5:43 | 5.8 MB |
| String functions | 7:37 | 7.7 MB |
| Numbers pt. 1: Integers | 5:14 | 5.5 MB |
| Numbers pt. 2: Floating points | 5:07 | 4.6 MB |
| Arrays | 12:18 | 11.4 MB |
| Array functions | 5:40 | 6 MB |
| Booleans and NULL | 8:25 | 9.6 MB |
| Type switching and casting | 7:35 | 7.7 MB |
| Constants | 4:03 | 3.9 MB |
6. Control Structures Pt. 1: Logical Expressions
| If statements | 6:10 | 5.2 MB |
| Else and elseif statements | 2:34 | 2.4 MB |
| Logical operators | 5:58 | 6.7 MB |
| Switch statements | 4:18 | 4.1 MB |
7. Control Structures Pt. 2: Loops
| While loops | 7:04 | 6.8 MB |
| For loops | 4:01 | 4.1 MB |
| Foreach loops | 6:39 | 6.7 MB |
| Continue | 3:02 | 3.8 MB |
| Break | 3:13 | 3.2 MB |
| Understanding array pointers | 5:18 | 6 MB |
8. User-Defined Functions
| Defining functions | 11:28 | 10.5 MB |
| Using functions | 6:28 | 7.9 MB |
| Returning values from a function | 7:46 | 8.8 MB |
| Setting global variables | 6:40 | 7.4 MB |
| Setting default values | 6:30 | 7.7 MB |
9. Debugging
| Debugging and troubleshooting | 7:09 | 6 MB |
10. Building Web Pages
| Links and URLs | 3:49 | 4.7 MB |
| Using GET values | 5:50 | 5.9 MB |
| Encoding GET values | 7:39 | 7.2 MB |
| Encoding for HTML | 8:51 | 10.1 MB |
| Building forms | 5:28 | 7.2 MB |
| Setting cookies | 9:55 | 11.8 MB |
| Establishing sessions | 8:49 | 8.9 MB |
| Headers and page redirection | 12:19 | 13 MB |
| Including and requiring pages | 7:22 | 8 MB |
11. MySQL Basics
| MySQL introduction | 4:46 | 3.2 MB |
| Creating a database in MySQL | 6:20 | 5.5 MB |
| Populating a MySQL database | 7:12 | 8.3 MB |
| phpMyAdmin | 9:54 | 16 MB |
| Connecting to MySQL with PHP | 6:12 | 6.5 MB |
| Accessing data in MySQL with PHP | 6:22 | 8 MB |
12. Building a Content Management System
| Blueprinting your application | 8:46 | 7.4 MB |
| Building the CMS database | 8:17 | 10.5 MB |
| Understanding relational databases | 5:26 | 5.9 MB |
| Establishing your work area | 4:51 | 6 MB |
| Creating your first page | 7:05 | 12.6 MB |
| Making page assets reusable | 9:01 | 13.4 MB |
| Connecting your site to a database | 11:28 | 15.4 MB |
| Building dynamic navigation | 9:16 | 13.5 MB |
| Refactoring the navigation | 10:25 | 16.1 MB |
| Adding links to your navigation | 4:53 | 6.8 MB |
| Determining which page is selected | 4:49 | 6.7 MB |
| Displaying HTML based on the selection | 4:16 | 6.1 MB |
13. Application CRUD
| Finding a subject in the database | 12:07 | 16.5 MB |
| Finding a page in the database | 5:24 | 7.7 MB |
| Creating a page for a new subject | 11:48 | 23.9 MB |
| Creating a subject entry form | 7:13 | 8.8 MB |
| Adding subjects | 9:15 | 11 MB |
| Escaping values for MySQL | 9:26 | 13.8 MB |
| Form validation | 7:18 | 9.6 MB |
| Additional form validation | 3:21 | 4 MB |
| Editing a subject | 4:59 | 8.2 MB |
| Using single-page submission | 5:41 | 9.7 MB |
| Updating a subject in the database | 8:17 | 12.4 MB |
| Sending form results as messages | 5:36 | 9.9 MB |
| Deleting a subject | 8:39 | 15.3 MB |
| CRUD review and assignment | 7:16 | 8.8 MB |
| CRUD assignment results | 9:18 | 17.5 MB |
14. Building the Public Area
| The public appearance | 3:39 | 3.6 MB |
| Navigation in the public context | 6:57 | 10.9 MB |
| Functions in the public context | 5:30 | 9.8 MB |
| Creating a default subject behavior | 5:19 | 9.8 MB |
| Text encoding and transforming | 8:06 | 8.9 MB |
15. Regulating Page Access
| User access overview | 2:30 | 2 MB |
| Encryption | 7:57 | 11.5 MB |
| Creating a login system | 5:04 | 6.9 MB |
| Checking authorization | 6:00 | 10 MB |
| Using sessions to maintain login status | 6:42 | 8.3 MB |
| Creating a logout page | 8:27 | 11.6 MB |
Conclusion
| Goodbye | 2:45 | 2.2 MB |
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Setting Up PHP 5 for Windows with Apache or IIS
In this title, Kevin Yank, author of the book Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL, explains how to set up a complete web server on Windows. The training covers PHP 5, as well as the Apache web server and ISS. Targeted toward those new to web programming and experienced programmers alike, this tutorial, published by SitePoint, is a thorough guide to setting up PHP 5 and Apache or IIS on Windows.
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The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition is a collection of powerful PHP 5 solutions to the most common programming problems.
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Simplify and shorten the PHP application developmentPHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips. cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide.
Inside, you’ll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XMLwidgets and extensions. Plus, you’ll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing. code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL
Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories
Build complex data structures using PHP’s array manipulation API
Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code
Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content
Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms
Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions
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Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
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This practical tutorial has detailed, carefully explained case studies using PHP to build new, effective mashup applications, which combine data from multiple external online sources into an integrated Web 2.0 experience. If you are confident with PHP programming and interested in mashing things up, this book is for you! All you need to know about formats, protocols, web services, and web APIs is covered as you learn to write PHP code to remotely consume services like Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, the Internet UPC Database, and even the California Highway Patrol Traffic data! The 5 real-world PHP projects each start with an overview of technologies and protocols needed and then dive into the tools used and details of creating the project, and you can download each project’s source code. You will learn how these technologies work with each other and how to use this information, together with your imagination, to build your own cutting-edge websites.
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PHP|Architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns
You have probably heard a lot about Design Patterns—a technique that helps you design rock-solid solutions to practical problems that programmers everywhere encounter in their day-to-day work.
Even though there has been a lot of buzz, however, no-one has yet come up with a comprehensive resource on design patterns for PHP developers—until today.
Author Jason E. Sweat's book php|architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns is the first, comprehensive guide to design patterns designed specifically for the PHP developer. This book includes coverage of 16 design patterns with a specific eye to their applications in PHP when building complex web applications, both in PHP 4 and PHP 5 (where appropriate, sample code for both versions of the language is provided). With a thorough, test-driven approach, this book represents the definitive guide to design patterns for the PHP developer.
As you can expect from a php|architect book, this Guide is very focused on its topic, with none of the fluff that accompanies the large, expensive titles you sometimes find at the bookstore. Naturally, this doesn't come at the expense of depth of coverage or clarity: the book contains tens of scripts that give you a practical overview of every topic covered, from top to bottom.
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PHP and MySQL are quickly becoming the de facto standard for rapid development of dynamic, database-driven web sites. This book is perfect for newcomers to programming as well as hobbyists who are intimidated by harder-to-follow books. With concepts explained in plain English, the new edition starts with the basics of the PHP language, and explains how to work with MySQL, the popular open source database. You then learn how to put the two together to generate dynamic content.
If you come from a web design or graphics design background and know your way around HTML, Learning PHP & MySQL is the book you've been looking for. The content includes:
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* A detailed discussion of the variances in different PHP versions
* MySQL data fundamentals like tables and statements
* Information on SQL data access for language
* A new chapter on XHTML
* Error handling, security, HTTP authentication, and more
Learning PHP & MySQL explains everything from fundamental concepts to the nuts and bolts of performing specific tasks. As part of O'Reilly's bestselling Learning series, the book is an easy-to-use resource designed specifically for beginners. It's a launching pad for future learning, providing you with a solid foundation for more advanced development.
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Over 12 million Internet domains worldwide use the PHP language to power their websites. If you are a programmer included in this group, or would like to be one, you should pick up a copy of PHP Unleashed. The definitive guide in PHP programming, PHP Unleashed thoroughly and authoritatively covers the release of PHP 5, as well as advanced topics not found in other books. It begins with a detailed summary of the basics and then quickly moves on to more advanced topics such as working with data, outputting graphical data and building complete applications. Whether you're an experienced programmer and new to PHP, or an experienced PHP programmer but new to PHP 5, this is the one PHP book you need in your library.
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Apress Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional
Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites.
Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as creating an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted e-mail, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a web interface.
Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapters introducing triggers, stored procedures, and views.
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Interested in becoming a master of the PHP language and MySQL database but don’t know where to begin? This best-selling book ranks among the most thorough and practical guides in print, covering all of the key concepts and features, and showing you how to effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to build powerful web sites.
The book begins with a vast overview of PHP’s capabilities, starting with a survey of the installation and configuration process on both the Windows and Linux platforms. Next, several chapters are devoted to basic PHP concepts, including variables, datatypes, arrays, functions, string manipulation, and processing user input. Other key PHP topics are also covered, including PEAR, session handling, LDAP integration, the Smarty templating engine, Web services, and PDO.
Next up is a presentation of MySQL’s key features. You’re first guided through MySQL’s installation and configuration process, and are presented with an introduction to its storage engines, datatypes, administration utilities, security features, and data import/export facilities. New MySQL 5–specific chapters have been added in this edition, covering triggers, stored procedures, and views. Along the way, you’ll gain insight into PHP’s assortment of MySQL functions (using both the mysql and mysqli extensions), and learn how to create and execute queries, perform searches, and carry out key database tasks from within your Web application.
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- Accept and process information submitted via HTML forms.
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- Process web-based file uploads using the HTTP_Upload PEAR package.
- Create your own RSS aggregator using Magpie, and process XML files in amazingly efficient fashion using SimpleXML.
- Use both command-line and graphical MySQL clients to effectively manage your data.
- Secure the MySQL server, creating roles and restricting access even at very granular levels.
- Effectively integrate PHP and MySQL to create dynamic, data-driven web applications.
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PHP and MySQL Web Development All in One For Dummies
Webmasters and Web programmers around the world know that PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites for eCommerce and content management. In fact, PHP is used in one of every three Web sites on the Internet and MySQL has been downloaded millions of times. PHP and MySQL provide a freely downloadable and widely supported alternative to ASP.NET.
Written by the bestselling author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies, this book provides six discreet minibooks that show you not only how to program in PHP, create and administer a MySQL database, and manipulate MySQL data via a Web interface, but also shows you how to create a secure Web site, and how to code the most popular Web applications, such as login programs and shopping cart applications.
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- Book I: PHP Programming - Setting Up Your PHP Environment, PHP Basics, Building PHP Scripts, PHP and Your Operating System, Object-Oriented Programming.
- Book II: Using MySQL - Setting Up MySQL, Administering MySQL, Building a Database, Other Administrative Tasks, Using MySQL Administrator, Using MySQL Query, Using phpMyAdmin.
- Book III: Using PHP with MySQL - Communicating with the Database; Creating and Modifying Database Structure; Adding, Updating, and Removing Data; Retrieving Data from the Database; Advanced Features.
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- Book V: PHP Extensions - Introducing Extensions, Working with Packages Using PEAR, Using the XML Extension, Generating Graphics with the GD Extension.
- Book VI: PHP Web Applications - Building and Processing Dynamic Forms, Making Information Available on Multiple Web Pages, Building a Login Application, Building an Online Catalog, Building a Shopping Cart, Building a Content Management System.
- Book VII: Installation Appendixes - Installing PHP, Installing MySQL, Installing Apache.
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The first thing you realize when reading the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism is that Daniel Bell is smarter than you. That's a good thing, because he interprets the classic philosophers (Marx, Aristotle, Weber) in the context of the 20th century, and reveals problems in society that I never quite realized. He's not quite as cogent as Aristotle, and I think he's only witty in person, and he uses a lot of big words that only confused me. Also, the essays seem rather disjointed, as they were not originally written as a single book. Regardless, I hail Bell for his insight.
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Islam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle
This book will show you what started the unfinished battle between Islam and the Jews and what it will take to bring the battle to an end. Mark Gabriel, Ph.D was born into a Muslim in Egypt and was able to quote the entire by the age of twelve. His childhood education was spent in Muslim schools, and he earned a doctorate degree in Islamic history and culture from Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious Islamic university in the world. As a product of his education and culture, he was a classic anti-Semite, but now his heart has completely changed. This book tells his story and explains the source of Muslim toward Jews.
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Jack Kornfield’s The Roots of Buddhist Psychology is an invitation to drink deeply of these teachings – to taste the wisdom that flows from the heart of Buddhism’s most useful ideas on the interior life and what brings awakening, freedom, and happiness. Jack Kornfield opens this eternal view of the mind for all listeners on this six-cassette collection. From Suffering to Enlightenment Among the world’s great religions, Buddhism has developed a rich psychology based not on metaphysics, but on the human predicament. Through its strategies, you can discover for yourself how to find true freedom from worldly suffering. Buddhism views the mind as a maze of feelings, perceptions, and emotional states. Unhappiness is rooted in unskillful responses to our world: grasping when things are pleasant, aversion when they are unpleasant, and delusion/confusion when they are neutral. Through awareness training, Kornfield teaches, you can transform these responses into real skills that are the path to awakening and freedom.
Like no other teaching course, The Roots of Buddhist Psychology gives you these immediate strategies for living in the present: 12 profound lectures – each one a gem of intelligent wisdom – on Buddhism’s central teachings about the psyche and sacred attention. Here are nine hours of specific instruction, taught in the classic tradition and enlivened with many parables, worldly stories, and thoughts from artists, philosophers, and writers who have helped us see how to live true, useful lives. Join Jack Kornfield on The Roots of Buddhist Psychology and discover for yourself that what you seek is already here.
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JINANANDA: The Middle Way - the Story of Buddhism (Audiobook)
General interest in Buddhism has never been higher. The story and teachings of a man who lived 2500 years ago have a special resonance for us today, perhaps because he taught a way of life that was not based on belief in a creator god but rather on personal experience. 'Test my words for yourself,' he said.
But what lies behind those distinctive images of the Buddha, seated with unshakeable poise, with eyes half-closed and a slight smile? How did Buddhism develop, from the austere style which governed the life of the yellow-robed monks in ancient India to the more colourful, even magical expression of Tibet? And where does Zen fit in?
In The Middle Way. Jinananda. a Western-born Buddhist, divides the subject into The Three Jewels - The Buddha (a life of the historical figure), The Dharma (an account of the fundamental teachings) and The Sangha (the disciples, both lay and monastic throughout the world). With extracts from some of main sutras, Jinananda explains the key concepts that lie behind a system of thought and behaviour which, like the universe itself, is continuously expanding.
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The Muslim World After 9/11
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The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition)
The Western film is inextricably tied to American culture: untamed landscapes, fiercely independent characters, and an unwavering distinction between good and evil. Yet Westerns began in the early twentieth century as far more fluid works of comedy, adventure, and historical explorations of the frontier landscape. Nanna Verhoeff examines here the earliest films made in the Western genre and proposes the thought-provoking argument that these little-studied films demand new ways of considering Westerns and the history of cinema.
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Explorations in Cultural History
The central themes of this volume are that culture is historically conditioned and history culturally conditioned. The production of history is now clearly recognized as a cultural practice, an invention in the present, as much as a representation and interpretation of the past.Both theoretical and practical in its approach, this book explores the development of cultural history, and its impact on current teaching.
- Part 1 examines the ways in which conceptions of historical meaning have been challenged, via developments in a range of disciplines (including literary and linguistic theory, history, sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies).
- Part 2 looks at four case studies drawn from America and Britain: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the music of the Beatles, the social documentary of George Orwell, and the political polemics of nineteenth-century British radical women.
Witchcraft, Power And Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
This is an extraordinary contemporary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch-hunting in 1980s South Africa - a period of rapid social change with the dismantling of apartheid and the reinstating of the ANC - this book demonstrates the extent to which witchcraft must be seen, not as a residue of 'traditional' culture but as part of a complex social drama which is deeply embedded in contemporary political and economic processes.
Isak Niehaus provides the context for this fascinating study of witchcraft practices. He shows how the witchcraft was politicized against the backdrop of the apartheid state, the liberation struggle and the establishment of the first post-apartheid regime all affected conceptions of witchcraft. Niehaus demonstrates how the ANC and other political groups used witchcraft beliefs to further their own agenda. He explores the increasingly conservative role of the chiefs and the Christian church. In the process, he reveals the fraught nature of intergenerational and gender relations.
The result is a truly insightful and theoretically engaged account of a much-studied but frequently misunderstood practice.
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Islam In The Digital Age
The Internet is an increasingly important source of information for many people in the Muslim world. Many Muslims in majority and minority contexts rely on the Internet -- including websites and e-mail -- as a primary source of news, information and communication about Islam. As a result, a new media culture is emerging which is having a significant impact on areas of global Muslim consciousness. Post-September 11th, this phenomena has grown more rapidly than ever. Gary R. Bunt provides a fascinating account of the issues at stake, identifying two radical new concepts: firstly, the emergence of e-jihad ("Electronic Jihad") originating from diverse Muslim perspectives -- this is described in its many forms relating to the different definitions of 'jihad', including on-line activism (ranging from promoting militaristic activities to hacking to co-ordinating peaceful protests) and Muslim expression post 9/11; secondly, he discusses religious authority on the Internet -- including the concept of on-line fatwas and their influence in diverse settings, and the complexities of conflicting notions of religious authority.Highlighting contradictory and diverse concepts of "Islamic" authority in this way, Islam in the Digital Age offers a unique insight into contemporary Muslim cultures in a post-9/11 context.
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Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
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Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
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Beyond Birth and Death (repost-link deleted)
Is there life after death? India's most renowned Vedic authority presents startling evidence of the soul's incredible journey after death. Swami Prabhupada tells how the soul travels from body to body, and how we can end the cycle of birth and death by reaching Lord Sri Krishna's ultimate abode.
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The Bible Unmasked
Joseph Lewis makes his case “against” both the Bible and Christianity (and against Judaism to some extent). He does not only give his personal opinion but also cites verses and passages from the Bible. He also cites the comments and opinions of Christian preachers and ministers to prove his point. One may or may not agree with Lewis’ arguements/conclusions, but anyone who reads this books will see that he supports what he says with evidence and/or with previous works made by famous scholars.i.e. Thomas Paine. Highly recommended if you’re a student of religion, the Bible, and/or Christianity and Judaism.
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The New Six Sigma: A Leader's Guide to Achieving Rapid Business Improvement and Sustainable Results
*The definitive guide to the New Six Sigma -by its inventors at Motorola
*Beyond defect reduction-discover how to optimize your entire business!
*Learn from state-of-the-science techniques and detailed global case studies
*An essential resource for every leader, quality expert, and Six Sigma Black Belt
Six Sigma has come a long way since Motorola invented it as a breakthrough approach to reducing product defects. Now Motorola has thoroughly revamped Six Sigma to reflect today's core business challenges: the challenge to execute and the challenge to maximize value. In this book, leaders of Motorola Six Sigma offer the first comprehensive guide to the New Six Sigma¡ªand show how to use it for sustainable competitive advantage.
*Six Sigma and shareholder value: key lessons from first-generation Six Sigma
*The four elements of the New Six Sigma: Align, Mobilize, Accelerate, and Govern
*A step-by-step approach to New Six Sigma implementation and management
*Understanding the leadership governance enhancements that are key to success
*Refocusing Six Sigma tools on innovation and strategic business improvement
*Global case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the New Six Sigma
*Tomorrow's Six Sigma: new innovations in financial accounting, customer needs assessment, and asset management
*The future of the Six Sigma Black Belt
The original Six Sigma transformed the business world. The New Six Sigma will have an even more powerful impact. Discover these techniques today¡ªand start reaping the results tomorrow.
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Getting Started in Six Sigma
The basics behind the Six Sigma quality control technique Six Sigma is designed to achieve excellence in customer service and measure deviation from the ideal. It provides a process for placing value on the intangible nature of quality control. The underlying theories of Six Sigma are highly technical and complex. This book is a basic guide to those who are new to the concept, and though this is a complex subject, the concepts involved are not too complex for readers to grasp. Getting Started in Six Sigma demonstrates how an employee or supervisor can implement Six Sigma successfully without having to become technically familiar with process-oriented models or statistical modeling.
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What is Lean Six Sigma
| A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma toimprove your workplace, meet your goals, andbetter serve your customers. Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area. Packed with diagrams, cartoons, and real-life examples, What is Lean Six Sigma? reveals the four keys of Lean Six Sigma and how they apply to your own job: Delight your customers with speed and quality Improve your processes Work together for maximum gain Base decisions on data and facts You'll see the big picture of what your company hopes to gain with Lean Six Sigma, how it may affect your work area, and what it can mean to you personally |
Leaning Into Six Sigma : A Parable of the Journey to Six Sigma and a Lean Enterprise
| A brief business novel about combining today's two most powerful quality initiatives Leaning Into Six Sigma shows managers how to combine today's two most popular continuous improvement methodologies-- Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma--for dramatically improved quality and cycle time. This concise and fast-paced "business novel" tells the story of how one skeptical company gradually came to understand and implement a Lean Six Sigma initiative--improving quality at all levels of the organization. This engaging story will help employees and managers understand basic quality concepts from Design of Experiments (DOE) to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), while learning how to: Implement work cells and preventive maintenance Get rid of excess inventory Speed up processes |
Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle
| Six sigma is an effective and important management approach particularly used by multinational companies with manufacturing bases in the Asian and Pacific rim. One of the key issues facing businesses today is how to eliminate the high cost of developing new products. This is an area where the potential of six sigma has not been widely appreciated before. Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle brings the six sigma approach up-to-date and explains it in a way that appeals to todays management teams. It makes the concept of six sigma easy to understand and accessible with the statistics necessary for its implementation clearly explained. Six Sigma and the Product Development Cycle covers the integration of quality function deployment with Taguchis methods of experimental design and statistical process control. These tools gather detailed insights into customer needs, optimize the products or services to meet these needs at the lowest practical cost, and ensure that this performance is maintained. It is a book about both six sigma and product and service development. Through this approach an organization can gain greater flexibility, shorter timescales, and the ability to react more quickly to changes or new demands in the marketplace. The approach is illustrated with practical examples from the nuclear industry, motor manufacturing, inland mail, emergency response organizations and financial services. * Explains complex processes with simple examples - a down-to-earth approach to a dificult subject. *Focuses on the product development cycle *Shows how to take a concept from the initial stage through to the final delivery so that it achieves sic sigma quality standard. Cached date: AWS Called=true |
The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance
The Six Sigma Way outlines the roadmap for implementing Six Sigma in your manufacturing or service organization.The authors - who have worked with some of the most visible Six Sigma companies including GE - provide step-by-step guidance and practical implementation tips.
Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect-performance objectives that has been employed to acclaim at leading corporations like General Electric. Its name is derived from the eye-catching statistical target of operating with no more than 3.4 defects per one million chances, but Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, and Roland Cavanagh--associates in a firm providing Six Sigma implementation, training, and management services--contend its principles can be applied in businesses of all types to routinely reduce costs, improve productivity, increase market share, and achieve other positive results. The Six Sigma Way is their comprehensive self-help guide to adapting and using the system under various conditions. Its first two parts cover fundamentals and provide specific suggestions for aligning the process with individual needs and goals. (These include sections on balancing potential costs and benefits, clarifying objectives, and defining time frames.) The final part, which accounts for more than half the book, focuses on implementation through a detailed yet flexible five-step "road map" tied to a company's core processes, key customers, current performance, "high-potential improvement opportunities," and future practices. While the procedure is quite complex, diligent managers should be able to bring at least basic components to their organization with the tools and techniques provided.
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Lean Six Sigma for Service : How to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services and Transactions
Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into services
Much of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing. Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explain only how to implement these techniques in a manufacturing environment.
Lean Six Sigma for Services fills the need for a service-based approach, explaining how companies of all types can cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process.
Filled with case studies detailing dramatic service improvements in organizations from Lockheed Martin to Stanford University Hospital, this bottom-line book provides executives and managers with the knowledge they need to:
* Reduce service costs by 30 to 60 percent
* Improve service delivery time by 50 percent
* Expand capacity by 20 percent without adding staff
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Strategic Six Sigma: Best Practices from the Executive Suite
Real executives talk about how Six Sigma changed their organizations for the better
Backed by the real-world experience of executives who successfully implemented Six Sigma, this book shows how this powerful, data-driven quality improvement methodology can improve the learning cycle and financial and corporate reporting, as well as strategic planning, customer demand issues, and more. Case studies and interviews provide real-life best practices that make the implementation process that much easier for managers. The authors are Six Sigma experts affiliated with PricewaterhouseCoopers and here present an innovative examination of this powerful and popular methodology.
Backed by the real-world experience of executives who successfully implemented Six Sigma, this book shows how this powerful, data-driven quality improvement methodology can improve the learning cycle and financial and corporate reporting, as well as strategic planning, customer demand issues, and more.
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The Six Sigma Pax
101 Things A Six Sigma Should Know
Comparison of Statistical Software for Six Sigma
Essential six sigma
GE SixSigma
How to Complement ISO 9001-2000 with Six Sigma
Six SIGMA
Six Sigma Intro
Six Sigma-The Pursuit of Perfection
Six Sigma Friend Or Foe
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Summary-STRATEGIC SIX SIGMA
Summary-The Power Of Six Sigma
The Six Sigma Method and Design of Experiments
What Is Six Sigma?
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Engineering Statistics Handbook:
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Measurement Process Characterization
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What is Lean Six Sigma
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year Published: 2003
The Six Sigma Way
Six Sigma is a data-driven with near-perfect-performance objectives that has been employed to acclaim at leading corporations like General Electric. Its name is derived from the eye-catching statistical target of operating with no more than 3.4 defects per one million chances, but Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, and Roland Cavanagh--associates in a firm providing Six Sigma implementation, training, and management services--contend its principles can be applied in businesses of all types to routinely reduce costs, improve productivity, increase market share, and achieve other positive results. The Six Sigma Way is their comprehensive self-help guide to adapting and using the system under various conditions. Its first two parts cover fundamentals and provide specific suggestions for aligning the process with individual needs and goals. (These include sections on balancing potential costs and benefits, clarifying objectives, and defining time frames.) The final part, which accounts for more than half the book, focuses on implementation through a detailed yet flexible five-step "road map" tied to a company's core processes, key customers, current performance, "high-potential improvement opportunities," and future practices. While the procedure is quite complex, diligent managers should be able to bring at least basic components to their organization with the tools and techniques provided.
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Six Sigma For Managers AND Design for Six Sigma
A practical, straightforward guide to Six Sigma for employees in organizations contemplating or implementing Six Sigma From noted Six Sigma consultant and author George Eckes, Six Sigma for Everyone explains the underpinnings of the revolutionary quality assurance methodology, offers in-depth examples, and outlines the impact and desired end result of implementation. Whereas, most Six Sigma books are written for executives and practitioners of Six Sigma and tend to be overly technical or strategically focused, this book is written specifically for employees of organizations thinking about or already attempting implementation. George Eckes (Superior, CO) is founder, President, and CEO of Eckes and Associates, Inc., a Colorado-based consulting group specializing in results driven by continuous improvement, Six Sigma training and implementation, organizational development,
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Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos (2nd Edition)
I learned statistics back in the university then never applied concepts and after some 10 years I was challenged to undertake basic statistics matters in the way of learning Six Sigma. This book is very focused on the variation and the graphical interpretation of data. Yuo may read this book over a weekend then attack Six Sima stats without pain.
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Demystifying Six Sigma: A Company-Wide Approach to Continuous Improvement
Is Six Sigma the exclusive of manufacturing and service operations, or can excellence be mandated (and achieved) throughout an entire organization? This refreshing book reveals how to apply the legendary quality assurance program across all departments and processes, creating a permanent, company-wide Six Sigma culture.
Author Alan Larson, a Motorola veteran, has created a simple and practical Continuous Improvement model, and offers a strategy for managing the change to Six Sigma-driven operations and philosophy. Larson's approach is based on the seven key elements of Six Sigma:
* Focus on customer satisfaction * Use of data and systems * Setting improvement goals * Team approach * Employee involvement * Defining roles * Personal growth Field-proven in organizations of all types, Larson's methodology can help any company make quality a real and viable strategic objective
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Six Sigma for Financial Professionals
With its celebrated success and proven results, the Six Sigma quality improvement methodology has expanded from its origins in the engineering industry to transform a wide variety of businesses, along the way developing a particular focus on and satisfaction. While this evolution may seem to imply a shift of attention to the "ground floor" business-client interface, Six Sigma expert D. H. Stamatis draws his readers to the very peak of the organizational chart, explaining how executives and leaders make or break Six Sigma success with their every action and decision. Six Sigma for Financial Professionals is a comprehensive quality improvement guide for the financial industry, explaining the practice of Six Sigma methodology from top to bottom.
Conceiving a vision without creating the plans and effort to achieve it results in "fantasy," the author writes, while advancing plans and effort without an overriding vision produces "drudgery." Only by articulating vision, plans, and effort together can a leader realize "success." Stamatis explains how executives can effectively shift paradigms within their organizations and empower their employees with the authority and motivation to achieve the required goal. He identifies six items that a leader must always keep in mind:
* Customer orientation
* Quality culture
* Accountability
* Products and services
* Suppliers
* Training
These are the critical arenas where an executive’s vision must transform into policy and practice. Stamatis then moves on to analyze Six Sigma principles in every aspect of a financial firm. Specific chapters address the fundamentals of Six Sigma, the DMAIC model, design, , statistics, roles and responsibilities, transactional business, and implementation strategy. In each chapter, Stamatis includes case studies that provide road maps and other practical blueprints based on actual business experiences.
The author concludes with a heavy emphasis on training, both in nuts-and-bolts Six Sigma implementation and in cultivating future leaders as part of a vital growth strategy for any firm. No business can afford to ignore the extraordinary promise and potential of quality improvement. Six Sigma for Financial Professionals will prove a powerful guide for CEOs, CFOs, and all corporate leaders.
The Six Sigma Project Planner : A Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Six Sigma Project Through DMAIC
Meet your Six Sigma project goals--on time and on budget
Six Sigma demands results. These results are delivered by projects that are tightly linked to customer demands and enterprise strategy. If you're leading a Six Sigma initiative in your organization, this hands-on guide is designed to help you achieve these results quickly and effectively by treating a Six Sigma project like any other project that must be managed and completed on time and within budget.
Written by leading Six Sigma expert Thomas Pyzdek, The Six Sigma Project Planner offers a project management approach to Six Sigma. You'll learn how to rigorously measure and analyze problems, implement solutions, and choose and complete the quality improvement projects that offer the largest payoff. Pyzdek provides dozens of reproducible, downloadable project management tools and worksheets for each step of the DMAIC process (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control). The step-by-step guidelines will help your team:
* Identify high-payoff projects to tackle
* Define project goals and estimated ROI
* Employ breakthrough techniques to develop and implement entirely new processes that meet project goals
* Correct problems in current processes
* Identify stalled projects and jumpstart them--or pull the plug before they consume too much time and resources
* Perform a process capability study using Statistical Process Control
* Establish control and continuous improvement systems
The Six Sigma Project Planner enables all team leaders to identify the "Critical Path" to successful project completion--while you stay on time and on budget.
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Making Sense of Data: A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining
A practical, step-by-step approach to making sense out of dataMaking Sense of Data educates readers on the steps and issues that need to be considered in order to successfully complete a data analysis or data mining project. The author provides clear explanations that guide the reader to make timely and accurate decisions from data in almost every field of study. A step-by-step approach aids professionals in carefully analyzing data and implementing results, leading to the development of smarter business decisions. With a comprehensive collection of methods from both data analysis and data mining disciplines, this book successfully describes the issues that need to be considered, the steps that need to be taken, and appropriately treats technical topics to accomplish effective decision making from data.Readers are given a solid foundation in the procedures associated with complex data analysis or data mining projects and are provided with concrete discussions of the most universal tasks and technical solutions related to the analysis of data, including:* Problem definitions* Data preparation* Data visualization* Data mining* Statistics* Grouping methods* Predictive modeling* Deployment issues and applicationsThroughout the book, the author examines why these multiple approaches are needed and how these methods will solve different problems. Processes, along with methods, are carefully and meticulously outlined for use in any data analysis or data mining project.From summarizing and interpreting data, to identifying non-trivial facts, patterns, and relationships in the data, to making predictions from the data, Making Sense of Data addresses the many issues that need to be considered as well as the steps that need to be taken to master data analysis and mining.
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