This is a complete beginners guide to observing the night sky. Understand & enjoy the solar system & beyond with this practical guide to astronomy. Pick up all the basics of sky-watching. Start off by taking a tour around the night sky in simple stages discovering how it fits together & how it works. Then take a closer look at the objects you can see & learn to train your eye to recognize basic patterns of constellations & how to tell planets apart from other celestial bodies. Plus theres advice on buying & using kit from binoculars to telescopes. This title is packed with detailed maps of the night sky & star charts to help any budding astronomer in their quest to find out more about this fascinating subject. ...

The second edition of Practical Aviation Security is a complete guide to the aviation security system from crucial historical events to the policies policymakers & major terrorist & criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today. The tip-of-the-spear technologies that are shaping the future are also addressed. This text equips readers in airport security or other aviation management roles with the knowledge to implement the effective security programs to meet international guidelines & to responsibly protect facilities or organizations of any size. Using case studies & practical security measures now in use at airports worldwide readers learn the effective methods & the fundamental principles involved in designing & implementing a security system. The aviation security system is comprehensive & requires continual focus & attention to stay a step ahead of the next attack. Practical Aviation Security Second Edition helps prepare practitioners to enter the industry & helps seasoned professionals prepare for new threats & prevent new tragedies. It covers commercial airport security general aviation & cargo operations threats & threat detection & response systems as well as international security issues. It lays out the security fundamentals that can ensure the future of global travel & commerce. It applies real-world aviation experience to the task of anticipating & deflecting threats. ...

Barbel fishing has never been more popular. Amongst specialist river anglers the barbel is now the premier fish & taking coarse fishing as a whole barbel is second only to carp. The substantial growth in barbel fishing has been accompanied by a great thirst for knowledge about this hard-fighting & fascinating species & books have been published to help both the beginner & the highly advanced barbel angler. This book however is aimed squarely at the intermediate level & will be valuable to the experienced angler who has decided it is time he tried his hand at barbel fishing. ...

Practical Bioinformatics is specifically designed for biology majors with a heavy emphasis on the steps required to perform bioinformatics analysis to answer biological questions. It is written for courses that have a practical hands-on element & contains many exercises (for example database searches protein analysis data interpretation) to complement the straightforward & practical topics. The chapters are focused on DNA RNA & protein sequence analysis-frequently performed subsets of the field of bioinformatics-taking the reader through the commonly asked question what can I learn about this sequence?" A special note to established scientists: new genomic sequences are being published at an accelerating pace. Although new technology has led to unprecedented accuracy of the sequence incomplete & challenging assemblies along with imperfect predictive methods are still generating gene models that require verification. With the sequence analysis skills learned from this book features such as missing exons & incorrect termini can be easily recognized & more accurate gene models can be constructed." ...

This book based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK
- all by means of day sails. Roger Oliver a passionate sailor explains his in-depth passage planning boat preparations weather checks & log-keeping as well as his choice of routes the detailed navigation sail trim tips & on-passage maintenance all for the benefit of sailors who have a yen to follow in his footsteps. Packed with a wealth of practical tips on seamanship anchoring in high winds coping with big seas problem-solving harnessing the tide sailing short-handed & living aboard for extended cruising this book will be a godsend to the many thousands of sailors who enjoy coastal cruising & who will discover (as did Roger) that it is perfectly possible to cruise around the whole of the UK in a series of day sails. With this book to hand & inspired by Rogers detailed route maps & spectacular photographs anyone can experience the thrill & enjoyment of sailing around the beautiful & varied UK coast from any starting point.
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The popularity of carp fishing has increased dramatically during the last thirty years; many now regard the sport as a separate branch of angling in its own right alongside coarse fishing game fishing & sea fishing. This very practical & accessible book examines the characteristics & habits of this cunning species of fish. There are books of all kinds but this volume is particularly aimed at the coarse angler with some experience who has decided to enter the exciting world of carp fishing for the first time & at relatively inexperienced carp anglers who wish to improve their catches. ...

Practical Cattle Farming" is written by two experienced practising veterinarians & covers the essential elements of beef & dairy cattle farming & the latest cutting-edge scientific research & is therefore of value both to the novice & to those with experience. The text is clearly written &

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What relevance has IT to a social worker? The GSCC demands computer literacy to the level of the European Computer Driving Licence. This book enables students to identify their standard in the seven core areas & through carefully planned activities mapped to social work skills it helps them to reach the required standard & to enhance their professional practice. Ideal for self-directed study it could also form the basis of a course in which the students create an e-portfolio of IT skills. ...

Simple CV is a cross platform (Windows Macintosh Linux) framework in Python that makes writing computer vision applications quick & easy. This book takes you through real world examples & applications using Simple CV so that anyone even with zero knowledge of computer vision can use to create their own vision application in a few minutes with a webcam & PC. Simple CV has its own integrated shell (command line) & code editor so you can rapidly test new techniques load & run examples view documentation etc. The library also works with webcams cell phones the Xbox Kinect & TIs Beagle Board & Panda Board. There are 1-click installers for every platform so you can be up & running any of the examples included in this book in a few minutes. ...

The authoritative guide to the latest developments tools & physics behind the only inexhaustible source of energy for the future. This is the revised edition of a year-long Feasibility Study of the Extraction of Zero-Point Energy from the Quantum Vacuum for the Performance of Useful Work. Profusely illustrated & professionally researched with almost 300 references by a noted expert in the science of zero-point energy. ...