The World of Anton de Wet

author: David Mercer asin: 1904811809 binding: Paperback list price: $39.99 USD amazon price: $35.99 USD

A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet.

author: Niall Mansfield asin: 095445295X binding: Paperback list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD

Explaining the fundamental concepts necessary to understand how a Web content management system (CMS) works, and how Drupal in particular operates, this guide is basic enough for beginners with no prior CMS experience. First an evaluation guide helps the reader to decide if Drupal is the CMS needed and includes a tutorial to get a useful site up and running in less than a day. After that, Drupal's administration, content management, how to build and manage installation, and modifying and extending functionality are all explained in detail.

author: Robert T. Douglass Mike Little Jared W. Smith asin: 1590595629 binding: Paperback list price: $49.99 USD amazon price: $34.99 USD

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends. Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

author: John K. VanDyk Matt Westgate asin: 1590597559 binding: Paperback list price: $44.99 USD amazon price: $29.69 USD

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a variety of community-driven sites, including blogs, forums, wiki-style sites, and much more. Pro Drupal Development was written to arm you with knowledge to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. The book assumes that you already possess the knowledge to install and bring a standard installation online. Then authors John VanDyk and Matt Westgate delve into Drupal internals, showing you how to truly take advantage of its powerful architecture.

author: Peter Watson asin: 0060935642 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $13.57 USD

Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day&#8212from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul&#8212offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

author: Peter Watson asin: 0060084383 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $13.57 USD

From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.

I recently had a the pleasure to spend some time with Rob Nairn where
he explained a little bit of the tibetan buddhist theory of mind.
This set me thinking and I've come up with an interesting speculation
on how this maps to some recent theories on how our brains work.

When learning meditation, one of the fundamental things to learn is
not to attach. When doing virtually any other type of self discovery,
the importance of goals and outcomes are usually brought to
attention. So what to do? Set goals, attach and introduce unhappiness
or let go of everything, find a cave and be happy. Oops, even finding
a cave is a goal it seems! Slowly I'm learning that there is a subtle
third alternative.

How often do you ask the big questions: Why are we here, why do we
think, is everything around me an illusion? Susan Blackmore takes one
of these hard topics --- consciousness and 21 of the brightest minds
in the area of study, maybe some of the brightest minds on the
planet, to discuss their views on some of these topics.