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The Encyclopedia of Haunted Places is the first directory to be written by dozens of the world's leading paranormal investigators Research notes, location background, first-hand accounts, and many anomalous photographs featuring ghostly manifestations comprise the hundreds of haunted listings in this directory. For years, paranormal investigative groups have been studying their local ghosts with scientific equipment as well as with more esoteric methods, such as psychics and séances. This directory is a repository of some of their most profound cases. From across the United States, Canada, and many spots around the globe, ghost investigators tell of their sometimes harrowing experiences, share their research, and give readers an overview of both well-known and obscure haunted locales. From private residences to inns and restaurants, battlefields to museums and libraries, graveyards to churches, The Encyclopedia of Haunted Places will offer supernatural tourists a guide to points of interest through the eyes of the ghost hunters. This reference also offers names, addresses, phone numbers, and Web addresses to each location covered. Feeling brave? You may just want to stop and visit some ghosts on your next trip. Jeff Belanger is a voracious fan of the unexplained. He's been studying and writing about the supernatural for regional and national publications since 1997. Belanger is the founder of Ghostvillage.com, the Internet's largest supernatural community, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. He's the author of: The World's Most Haunted Places: From the Secret Files of Ghostvillage.com (New Page Books 2004), and The Encyclopedia of Haunted Places (New Page Books 2005)..
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Aimed at the advanced C++ programmer, Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales explains the internals of how C++ streams work and provides support for internationalization. It explains the inner details of architecture and design of these important built-in C++ objects, and it's a reference to all relevant classes and methods.

This book effectively reveals the inner workings of the entire stream class library in today's Standard C++ in two ways: First, it explains the design principles and internal function of these stream classes, whether for simple console or file I/O or for more advanced topics like memory streams. There's coverage of I/O basics (manipulators, stream flags, and other built-in features) for everyday programming with streams. The book also does an excellent job of delving into the nitty-gritty details of these classes (which most of us know only on the surface). Examples include a custom date class that will cooperate with existing stream libraries and create new "facets"--output rules that customize data for particular languages or "locales."

Besides an in-depth guide to what streams do by default and some hints for adding your own classes to work with them, the text also contains over 200 pages of reference material on every C++ stream and locale class, organized by header files. (These sections will arguably be the most useful for the working C++ developer.)

Like the support for template classes, the Standard Library's support for streams is powerful but until now, anyway, not easily accessible to ordinary programmers. For anyone who already knows the fundamentals of streams and is seeking to do more, this title fills a useful niche. It is an authoritative and densely packed source of technical detail on built-in C++ classes. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Standard C++ predefined streams, input and output operators, manipulators, locale basics, formatted input, stream state flags, file streams, in-memory I/O, stream positioning, synchronizing streams, stream class architecture, stream buffer classes, character types, wide character support, stream and stream buffer iterators, custom stream classes for user-defined types, inserters and extractors, user-defined manipulators, customizing stream and stream buffer classes, internationalization and localization, standard facets, user-defined facets, stream and locale class reference..
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This book provides a basic understanding of the way radio signals work-without becoming bogged down with the technicalities It covers all kinds of radio signal types--including mobile communications, short-wave, satellite, and microwave No detailed knowledge of electronics or mathematics is required. A-Z coverage of radio signals including satellites, mobile communications, and short-wave radio. No math or electronics background necessary..
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As a cub reporter at The New Republic, Jake Halpern earned the unofficial job title of Bad Homes Correspondent Braving Home tells his stories of places where people really ought not live and the people who live there anyway. Halpern traveled to such inadvisable destinations as a bed and breakfast at the foot of an active Hawaiian volcano, a North Carolina town trying to recover from being completely submerged, an indoor Alaskan city, and an island in the Gulf of Mexico located directly in the cross hairs of numerous hurricanes. And while the places themselves make for interesting historical lore, the people who choose to stay and make their homes there form the real heart of the story. The doomed, it seems, get few visitors but have plenty of time on their hands. So Halpern goes out to meet them, crashes on their couches or guest beds and hangs out for a few days forming a one-man tourist industry. Far from being the kooks one might expect, Halpern's subjects come across as normal folks, though significantly more resilient than most, who stay in their homes simply because, well, those are their homes. Halpern himself figures prominently in most of the stories and at times it seems like the young man is spending too much time navel gazing. But on each of the book's five adventures, Halpern goes from wide-eyed visitor to welcome member of the community and in so doing demonstrates how, once you get used to it, any place can feel like home. Even if that it's surrounded by molten lava. --John Moe.
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Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the 3rd volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman " This volume is made up of eight novella length stories It reprints Wellman's "Judge Pursivant" and "Sergeant Jaeger" stories, as well as a lost classic that has not been reprinted since its original publication in Strange Stories, in 1939. In addition, it features an introduction by Wellman's long time friend, Stephen Jones, who provides a heartwarming bit of historical perspective on Wellman, and the influential shadow that his work as cast over the genre. Contents: * Introduction by Stephen Jones * Fearful Rock * Coven * Toad's Foot * For the Love of a Witch * The Hairy Ones Shall Dance * The Black Drama * The Dreadful Rabbits * The Half-Haunted * Some Notes on the Texts by John Pelan.
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Brinda un panorama completo de los fundamentos de las redes locales: topologías, medios de transmisión, tipos de cables, protocolos, normas estándar, control de errores, recuperación ante fallos, tipos de redes, sistemas operativos de red, seguridad física del servidor, seguridad de los datos, configuración, gestión y comunicación con el exterior; un libro esencial para los administradores de redes que les permitirá solucionar errores en la red,tomar precauciones para su correcto funcionamiento y una administración adecuada. Explica el protocolo TCP/IP, direcciones IP, concepto de dominio, concepto de usuario, resolución de nombres, protocolos, segmentación de la red, incluyendo una descripción de cada uno de sus comandos. Aborda los estándares para redes inalámbricas IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN, Bluetooth, HomeRF y Wi-Fi, así como redes para móviles WAP, GPRS y UMTS. Resumen del contenido: Conceptos básicos sobre las redes locales - Topología de las redes locales - Medios de transmisión - Normas estándar - Protocolos de control - Protocolos de red y de transporte (I) - Protocolos de red y de transporte (II) - Interfaces de enlace de datos - Tipos de redes locales - Comunicación con el exterior - Sistemas de comunicaciones - Sistemas operativos de red - Seguridad del servidor - Configuración y gestión - Internet, Intranet y Extranet Glosario..
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