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Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8
- ISBN:
- 1590595696
- Authors:
- David Powers
In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using PHP and MySQL, the world’s most popular open source server-side language and database server combination, which are both reliable, powerful, and open source (and therefore free to use!) This latest version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for PHP and MySQL. David Powers first takes you through the latest...
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3
- ISBN:
- 0131240722
- Authors:
- Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield
Many companies are facing problems with Windows development using traditional Windows tools such as Visual Studio. When they write applications, even just "single platform" applications for Windows, they often have to account for differences between different Windows versions, which adds hassle to development and maintenance. Qt works no matter the Windows versions. This book provides all the information needed to become a professional Qt...
Getting StartED with Windows 7
- ISBN:
- 1430225033
- Authors:
- Joseph Moran, Kevin Otnes
Welcome to the new world of Windows 7. Whether this is your first time with Windows, you're switching from another operating system, or you're upgrading from Windows XP or Vista, you’ll find a wealth of new ideas and innovations in Windows 7. The mission with this release was to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and in Getting StartED with Windows 7 we’ll highlight those features to make your time in Windows more productive and more...
My BlackBerry Curve
- ISBN:
- 0789742853
- Authors:
- Craig James Johnston
Step-by-step instructions with callouts to BlackBerry Curve photos that show you exactly what to do. Help when you run into BlackBerry Curve problems or limitations. Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your BlackBerry Curve. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your BlackBerry Curve working just the way you want. The tasks include: • How to get started fast with any BlackBerry Curve: 8300...
Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms : The Ultimate Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs
- ISBN:
- 1928994679
- Authors:
- Mario Ferrari, Giulio Ferrari, Ralph Hempel
Lego robots! Mindstorms are sweeping the world and fans need to learn how to programme them Lego Mindstorms are a new generation of Lego Robots that can be manipulated using microcomputers, light and touch sensors, an infrared transmitter and CD-ROMs. Since Lego launched Lego Mindstorms in late 1998 sales have skyrocketed - with no sign of slowing down. Mindstorms have captured the imagination of adults and children alike, creating a subculture...
Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook (Java 5,Version 1.5)
- ISBN:
- 0596007388
- Authors:
- David Flanagan, Brett McLaughlin
Java 1.5, code-named "Tiger", promises to be the most significant new version of Java since the introduction of the language. With over a hundred substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available. But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy, often boring language specification; you could wait...
XML for Bioinformatics
- ISBN:
- 0387230289
- Authors:
- Ethan Cerami
XML for Bioinformatics aims to provide biologists, software engineers, and bioinformatics professionals with a comprehensive introduction to XML and current XML applications in bioinformatics. The book will assume no background in XML, and take readers from basic to intermediate XML concepts. Core topics will include: fundamentals of XML, creating XML grammars, web services via SOAP, and parsing XML documents in Perl and Java.
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Sensory Neurochemistry (Springer Reference)
- ISBN:
- 0387303499
TEX in Practice: Volume 1: Basics (Monographs in Visual Communication)
- ISBN:
- 0387975950
- Authors:
- Stephan v. Bechtolsheim
TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PCs putting TEX on the desks of many people: writers, designers, desktop publishers, engineers, and consequently, the interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how...
One-Parameter Semigroups for Linear Evolution Equations (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 0387984631
- Authors:
- Klaus-Jochen Engel, Rainer Nagel
This book gives an up-to-date account of the theory of strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups of linear operators. It includes a systematic discussion of the spectral theory and the long-term behavior of such semigroups. A special feature of the text is an unusually wide range of applications, e.g., to ordinary and partial differential operators, delay and Volterra equations and to control theory, and an emphasis on philosophical...
Brain Mystery Light and Dark: The Rhythm and Harmony of Consciousness
- ISBN:
- 0415180503
- Authors:
- Charl Don Keyes
Brain Mystique Light and Dark bridges the gap between neuroscience, brain evolution and consciousness by examining scientific models of how the brain becomes conscious.
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
- ISBN:
- 0415319153
- Authors:
- Gunther Kress
This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully...
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English
- ISBN:
- 0415371821
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used...
The Role of DNA Damage and Repair in Cell Aging, Volume 4 (Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology)
- ISBN:
- 044450494X
Aging occurs at the level of individual cells, a complex interplay between intrinsic "programming" and exogenous "wear and tear", with genetically-determined cellular capacity to repair environmentally-induced DNA damage playing a central role in the rate of aging and its specific manifestations. In 12 chapters, "The Role of DNA Damage and Repair in Cell Aging" provides an intellectual framework for aging of mitotic and post-mitotic cells,...
Trading Futures For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
- ISBN:
- 0470287225
- Authors:
- Joe Duarte MD
Explore single-stock futures, ETFs, and alternative energy futures Protect your assets and maximize your profits in this risky yet lucrative market Want to take advantage of the futures market? This plain-English guide gives you the surefire strategies you need to be a successful trader, with up-to-the-minute advice on the various types of futures, conducting research, finding a broker, entering and exiting positions, and minimizing your losses....
The Brain Wash: A Powerful, All-Natural Program to Protect Your Brain Against Alzheimer's, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases
- ISBN:
- 0470839287
- Authors:
- Michelle Schoffro Cook
A Powerful, All-Natural Program to Protect Your Brain Against Alzheimer's, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Parkinson's, and Other Brain Diseases. Scientists predict that within fifteen years brain disease will kill or disable more North Americans than cancer and heart disease combined. The Brain Wash is a powerful, holistic health plan based on the most cutting-edge brain, nutrition, and healing research. Combining thousands of scientific...
Old Church Slavonic: An Elementary Grammar
- ISBN:
- 0521236746
- Authors:
- S. C. Gardiner
Old Church Slavonic, the language of the religious texts translated by Saints Cyril and Methodius for the use of the Slavonic-speaking people of Central Europe in the early Middle Ages, later to become the literary language of medieval Russia and other East European countries, is a basic component of Modern Standard Russian. This is an elementary grammar of the language for readers of English. No previous knowledge of a Slavonic language or of...
Advanced Grammar in Use CD ROM
- ISBN:
- 0521614023
- Authors:
- Martin Hewings
A fully updated version of the highly successful Advanced Grammar in Use - extra practice is also available on a new interactive CD-ROM to accompany the book. The exciting and substantial CD-ROM offers even more practice of the grammar at this level. This CD-ROM is standalone.
Touchstone: Student's Book with Audio CD/CD-ROM, Level 2
- ISBN:
- 0521666058
- Authors:
- Michael J. McCarthy, Jeanne McCarten, Helen Sandiford
Touchstone Student's Book 2 is the second level of the innovative Touchstone series. Drawing on research into the Cambridge International Corpus, a large database of language that includes everyday conversations and texts from newspapers and books, Student's Book 2 presents the vocabulary, grammar, and functions students encounter most often in real life. It makes learning fun by maximizing the time students spend on interactive, personalized...
The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order
- ISBN:
- 0521793742
- Authors:
- Friedemann Pulvermüller
The Neuroscience of Language puts forth the first systematic model of language to bridge the gap between linguistics and neuroscience. Neuronal models of word and serial order processing are presented in the form of a computational, connectionist neural network. The linguistic emphasis is on words and elementary syntactic rules. The essence of the work is contained in chapters on neural algorithms and networks, basic syntax, serial order...
Introducing Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics)
- ISBN:
- 0521794072
- Authors:
- Muriel Saville-Troike
Written for students encountering the topic for the first time, this introduction explains in non-technical language how a second language is acquired; what the second language learner needs to know; and why some learners are more successful than others. The textbook logically introduces a range of fundamental concepts--such as SLA in adults and children, formal and informal learning contexts, and diverse socio-cultural settings. It takes an...
The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Colonial Expansion and Language Change (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)
- ISBN:
- 052183175X
- Authors:
- J. Clancy Clements
The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieties. These varieties include Portuguese- and Spanish-based creoles, Bozal Spanish and Chinese Coolie Spanish in Cuba, Chinese Immigrant Spanish, Andean...
Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript
- ISBN:
- 0521839211
- Authors:
- Bill Casselman
This practical introduction to the techniques needed to produce high-quality mathematical illustrations is suitable for anyone with basic knowledge of coordinate geometry. Bill Casselman combines a completely self-contained step-by-step introduction to the graphics programming language PostScript with an analysis of the requirements of good mathematical illustrations. The many small simple graphics projects can also be used in courses in...
Acute Pain Management (Cambridge Medicine)
- ISBN:
- 0521874912
This textbook is written as a comprehensive overview of acute pain management. It is designed to guide clinicians through an impressive array of different options available to them and to patients. In the last decade there has been a flurry of interest in the extent to which acute pain can become chronic pain, and how we might reduce the incidence of such chronicity. This overview covers a wide range of treatments for pain management, including...
Large-Scale Landscape Experiments: Lessons from Tumut (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation)
- ISBN:
- 0521881560
- Authors:
- David B. Lindenmayer
Landscape change and habitat fragmentation are key factors impacting biodiversity worldwide. These processes have many facets, each of which is usually studied in isolation. The Tumut Fragmentation Study has run for over 11 years and yielded extensive data on changes in both plant and animal populations in areas of native forest and pine plantation. The study is unique in the way that many different factors and processes, influencing a wide...
Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought
- ISBN:
- 0521881765
- Authors:
- Noam Chomsky
In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century. It has been made more...
Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks
- ISBN:
- 0521884381
- Authors:
- Adnan Darwiche
This book provides a thorough introduction to the formal foundations and practical applications of Bayesian networks. It provides an extensive discussion of techniques for building Bayesian networks that model real-world situations, including techniques for synthesizing models from design, learning models from data, and debugging models using sensitivity analysis. It also treats exact and approximate inference algorithms at both theoretical and...
Journeys in English
- ISBN:
- 0563496266
- Authors:
- Bill Bryson
This BBC Radio 4 series is written and presented by Bill Bryson and based on his best-selling book "Mother Tongue". In it he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-beating - language. The subject areas covered in the course of the programme (which was originally broadcast in 6 episodes) include the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons, the rules which brought order...
How To Teach Pronunciation (Book with Audio CD)
- ISBN:
- 0582429757
- Authors:
- Gerald Kelly
*Provides detailed analyses of key topics such as vowels, consonants, stress and intonation, with a variety of sample lessons for each topic *Includes a photocopiable Learner's Reference Chart of English Sounds, a breakdown of common pronunciation errors, and pronunciation and spelling tables *An audio CD with spoken examples of sounds, words and phrases from the book puts the theories examined into a clear context
The Handbook of Fish Biology and Fisheries Volume 1
- ISBN:
- 0632054123
Recent decades have witnessed strong declines in fish stocks around the globe, amid growing concerns about the impact of fisheries on marine and freshwater biodiversity. Fisheries biologists and managers are therefore increasingly asking about aspects of ecology, behavior, evolution and biodiversity that were traditionally studied by people working in very separate fields. This has highlighted the need to work more closely together, in order to...
Creating Lightweight Components with ATL
- ISBN:
- 0672315351
- Authors:
- Jonathan Bates
Creating Lightweight Components with ATL covers ATL in depth, including an overview of COM development, then drills down to explain how ATL implements the fundamentals of COM. It also details how small, lightweight ATL-based COM solutions can be created to solve 'real world' problems. Creating Lightweight Controls with ATL enables you to quickly get up to speed with ATL COM development, and shows how you can use the many ATL/COM APIs and...
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed (2nd Edition)
- ISBN:
- 0672324679
- Authors:
- Ray Rankins, Paul Jensen, Paul Bertucci
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, 2E offers a variety of topics for system and database administrators to help them learn new features of the product and to solve problems they face on a daily basis. It shows them how to build upon their working knowledge of the product and take their experience and knowledge to a higher level. This new edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed covers the latest updates and service packs to SQL Server...
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)
- ISBN:
- 067400793X
- Authors:
- Philip Lieberman
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought Philip Lieberman This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more...
Oh's Intensive Care Manual
- ISBN:
- 0702030961
The sixth edition of Oh's Intensive Care Manual provides practical, concise information on all aspects of intensive care. Written in a clear and accessible style and now for the first time presented in colour throughout, this book enables the user to manage a patient in an ICU setting effectively without recourse to large text/reference works or specialized monographs. This thoroughly revised and updated edition reflects the best and most...
MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-291): Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network Infrastructure, (Pro Certification)
- ISBN:
- 0735622884
- Authors:
- J.C. Mackin, Ian McLean
Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-291, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world...
MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-290): Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Environment, Second Edition
- ISBN:
- 0735622892
- Authors:
- Dan Holme, Orin Thomas
Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-290, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world...
Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition
- ISBN:
- 0735713634
- Authors:
- Andrew Rollings, David Morris
Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition is a revision of the classic that you have been waiting for! This is a detailed guide to game design and planning from first concept to the start of development, including case studies of well known games. Originally published in 1999, Game Architecture and Design , has been updated by the original authors Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris. They tap back into what they teach so well and update this...
Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse
- ISBN:
- 0739127535
- Authors:
- John Ingulsrud, Kate Allen
The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities coming out of Japanese animation, manga, and video games are together called Japan Cool. The origins of the movement are in manga, the practices of the readers, the diversity of the titles, and the sheer number of works.