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As a JavaScript developer, you will already be aware of some of the time saving, convenience, and functionality provided to you by JavaScript/Ajax libraries in general Prototype (www.prototypejs.org) and its sister effects library, script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/), are among the most popular and best–supported JavaScript libraries, and now Prototype Core dev team member Andrew Dupont has written this book to provide you with an essential guide to getting the most out of using Prototype and script.aculo.us.

Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us will help you leverage the Prototype and script.aculo.us libraries to enhance your day–to–day work, speeding up mundane tasks and providing advanced UI effects in a way that is cross–browser compliant—taking many worries off your shoulders. Take a whirlwind tour of the different time–saving functions and features Prototype provides and how it extends the basic JavaScript objects, including events, Ajax techniques, DOM elements, enumerables, and advanced OOP. Understand how script.aculo.us fits into the wider world of DOM Scripting/DHTML; find out how to use it to enhance your UIs quickly and effectively, with UI controls, effects, and drag and drop; and discover Prototype and script.aculo.us as a platform.

The author avoids needless theory and rhetoric throughout the book, moving you through the topics at a fast pace. He incorporates several real–world examples to help you gain valuable practical experience as you learn. Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us is completely up to date and features server–side examples written in PHP that show the framework can be used effectively in more environments than just Ruby on Rails.

• Master all the convenience functions of Prototype to speed up your JavaScript/Ajax development.
• Leverage script.aculo.us to turbo charge your dynamic UIs.
• Learn from JavaScript expert Andrew Dupont, one of the Prototype Core team members.

What you’ll learn

• How to use all of the basic timesaving/convenience functions of Prototype
• How to use enumberables to speed up looping, arrays, etc.
• How to enhance your Ajax applications with Prototype
• How Prototype makes working with events and DOM elements a cinch
• How script.aculo.us fits into DOM Scripting/DHTML
• How to make use of the basic effects available in script.aculo.us
• Mastery of UI controls and drag and drop in script.aculo.us
• How to treat Prototype and script.aculo.us as a platform
• How to use Prototype and script.aculo.us effectively with PHP and other server–side setups besides Ruby on Rails

Who is this book for?

This book is for any JavaScript developer who wants to employ Prototype/script.aculo.us in his or her day–to–day work.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Related Titles from Apress

• Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional
• Pro JavaScript Techniques
• Pro DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries
• AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques

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A comforting, practical guide to helping your child deal with anxiety

Fear, worry, stomach pains, self-doubt-- these are all classic symptoms of anxiety in children and teenagers. Anxiety affects both boys and girls, regardless of age, size, intelligence, or family specifics. And the only way your family can be free of anxiety is to confront it every time it appears. This book will show you how.

The bestselling authors of The Anxiety Cure present a reassuring guide to help adults and children understand the way anxiety works. Using characters such as the Dragon and the Wizard, The Anxiety Cure for Kids explains how to overcome the negative impacts of anxiety and turn anxiety into a positive opportunity for the whole family. It outlines specific action steps to regain full control of your anxious child's life. You'll learn how to communicate effectively with your child, help him or her confront fear, and boost your child's feelings of accomplishment and self-esteem. The book also includes helpful advice for anyone who works with anxious children, such as teachers, coaches, therapists, and school nurses. The plentiful exercises and tips reveal how to:
* Recognize the symptoms of anxiety in your child
* Evaluate your child's need for medication and/or therapy
* Utilize a journal to gain a clear perspective
* Assess the role of your family in anxiety disorders
* Set goals for the future-- including what to do if anxiety returns


Overcoming anxiety in children takes time and persistence-- but it can be done. By making changes little by little, your child can get well and stay well. The lessons in The Anxiety Cure for Kids have helped many children break free from anxiety and, with your family's help, your child will too..
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"The Anxiety Cure is a warm, wise, and thoroughly wonderful book for people with anxiety disorders and for everyone who cares about them."
-- From the Foreword by Jerilyn Ross, M.A., L.I.C.S.W., President, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and author of Triumph Over Fear

"The Anxiety Cure is sure to enjoy substantial popularity and will be used widely by anxious people, their families, and therapists."
-- R. Reid Wilson, Ph.D., author of Don't Panic

One in four people suffers from some form of anxiety-- and for millions, the symptoms can be crippling. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are highly treatable. Written in a friendly and reassuring manner, The Anxiety Cure offers both sufferers and their loved ones immediate, long-lasting relief. The authors share their step-by-step methods for dealing with the six main types of anxiety, including panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, along with treatment prescriptions and easy relaxation techniques. Grounded in the authors' own treatment of thousands of clinically anxious people, The Anxiety Cure:
* Reveals how to manage anxiety at home and at work
* Provides action plans for friends, family, and support people
* Features dramatic stories as well as boxes, tools, and forms to chart your personal progress
* Outlines lifesaving strategies for anxious people with alcohol or drug problems


The Anxiety Cure is written by a father and his two daughters-- now in clinical practice together-- who tell the inspiring story of how they overcame anxiety in their family. Completely revised and updated, this practical guide features a chapter on anxiety and terrorism and an updated section on the latest medications..
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Why is the brain so vulnerable to the effects of alcohol and other drugs? How does addiction echo through families, cultures, and history? What is it that families and communities do to promote or prevent addiction? These are some of the questions that this thorough, thoughtful, and well-reasoned book answers--in clear, comprehensible terms. From the basics of brain chemistry to the workings of particular drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, The Selfish Brain explains how individuals and communities become trapped in destructive habits--and how various treatments and approaches lead to recovery and whole, healthy lives. A practicing psychiatrist, Robert L. Dupont, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He was the first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and a director of the White House Drug Abuse Prevention Office..
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How were the Appalachian Mountains formed? Are the barrier islands moving? Where is there gold in the Carolinas? Find answers to these questions and many more in this reader-friendly guide to the geology of North Carolina and South Carolina..
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Are you a drug addict? No? Are you sure about that?

Millions of people are at risk of dangerous dependency from commonly prescribed tranquilizers and sleeping pills. The Benzo Book, by Jack Hobson-Dupont, examines this problem in depth and detail, and provides methodology for getting safely off such drugs.

Countless people take tranquilizers every day. Considered ‘safe and effective,’ they are prescribed for everything from anxiety to muscle spasms. Stopping tranquilizers is usually not a big deal. But for a significant number of people, trying to discontinue their use may be a hundred --a thousand-- times harder than heroin or cocaine. Withdrawal can be severe and can last for months, even years.

How is it that this problem is largely ignored in the United States? Doctors appear to have no clue that withdrawal from benzodiazepine drugs, the most common tranquilizers and sleeping pills, can ever involve more than a week or two of discomfort. Those patients who experience a more prolonged reaction are told that their problems are the reemergence of a pre-existing condition whose symptoms had been held at bay by benzodiazepine. And yet, the symptoms of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Syndrome are often so bizarre and numerous, there is no pre-existing condition which would explain them. Anybody taking medications such as Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Valium, Rivotril, Rohypnol, Dalmane, Mogadon, Halcion, or Librium for a period greater than two weeks is at risk of experiencing symptoms of addiction should they attempt to stop.

In The Benzo Book, author Jack Hobson-Dupont points out that, to someone struggling with such symptoms, the difference between "addiction" and "dependency" is merely one of semantics. He recounts his own experience at finding himself unwittingly addicted to a benzodiazepine his doctor had prescribed, and details the method he and others have used to get safely off the drug. He then explores in considerable depth and detail the medical, sociological and economic factors that conspire to create the conditions in which addiction to pharmaceutical products can be widespread and yet still remain largely unknown, unreported and untreated.

Anyone taking tranquilizers or sleeping pills, even under a doctor’s supervision, could benefit from the information in The Benzo Book-- information no doctor is likely to know, let alone to offer..
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