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Anybody's Business
by Barbara Van Syckle Brian TietjeMore than a book, Anybody's Business is an approach to business and life that harnesses the best of people and how they work together to produce a transformation in perspective and purpose. This text shows the students the connections between business concepts and their everyday lives. The skills they learn can be put to use from the moment they leave the classroom and throughout their professional journey.
How to Cheat in Motion
by Patrick SheffieldThe text provides a "cookbook" style of learning computer animation, presenting the user with specific recipes to achieve desirable outcomes. This practical guide helps readers to enhance titles, motion graphics and visual effects with Motion. Step-by-step instruction is concisely described and lavishly illustrated.
Copyright Exceptions: The Digital Impact
by Robert Burrell Allison ColemanThis book was first published in 2005. Copyright 'exceptions' or 'users' rights' have become a highly controversial aspect of copyright law. Most recently, Member States of the European Union have been forced to amend their systems of exceptions so as to comply with the Information Society Directive. Taking the newly amended UK legislation as a case study, this book examines why copyright exceptions are necessary and the forces that have shaped the present legislative regime in the UK. It seeks to further our understanding of the exceptions by combining detailed doctrinal analysis with insights gained from a range of other sources. The principal argument of the book is that the UK's current system of 'permitted acts' is much too restrictive and hence is in urgent need of reform, but that paradoxically the Information Society Directive points the way towards a much more satisfactory approach.
Twisted Network Programming Essentials
by Abe Fettig<p><i>Twisted Network Programming Essentials</i> from O'Reilly is a task-oriented look at Twisted, a Python-based network application framework. Twisted is fast becoming indispensable to Python network programmers. It supports common networking protocols such as TCP/IP, SSH, and SMTP. Using Python and Twisted, you can develop web services applications, email clients and servers, and just about any other type of networking application that you can conceive.</p>
Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition
by David FlanaganThe 1.4 release of Java 2 Standard edition brings a load of new features - and the potential for frustration. Fret not, our new 4th edition has answers. The accelerated introduction lets you start writing code right away, and because the book's classic quick reference contains all the classes in the essential Java packages, you can find exactly what you need to make Java's new version work for you.
Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
by William L. Oberkampf Christopher J. RoyAdvances in scientific computing have made modelling and simulation an important part of the decision-making process in engineering, science, and public policy. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic development of the basic concepts, principles, and procedures for verification and validation of models and simulations. The emphasis is placed on models that are described by partial differential and integral equations and the simulations that result from their numerical solution. The methods described can be applied to a wide range of technical fields, from the physical sciences, engineering and technology and industry, through to environmental regulations and safety, product and plant safety, financial investing, and governmental regulations. This book will be genuinely welcomed by researchers, practitioners, and decision makers in a broad range of fields, who seek to improve the credibility and reliability of simulation results. It will also be appropriate either for university courses or for independent study.
Artificial Intelligence
by David L. Poole Alan K. MackworthConstraint-based reasoning is an important area of automated reasoning in artificial intelligence, with many applications. These include configuration and design problems, planning and scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning, defeasible and causal reasoning, machine vision and language understanding, qualitative and diagnostic reasoning, and expert systems. Constraint-Based Reasoning presents current work in the field at several levels: theory, algorithms, languages, applications, and hardware. Constraint-based reasoning has connections to a wide variety of fields, including formal logic, graph theory, relational databases, combinatorial algorithms, operations research, neural networks, truth maintenance, and logic programming. The ideal of describing a problem domain in natural, declarative terms and then letting general deductive mechanisms synthesize individual solutions has to some extent been realized, and even embodied, in programming languages. Contents :- Introduction, E. C. Freuder, A. K. Mackworth. - The Logic of Constraint Satisfaction, A. K. Mackworth. - Partial Constraint Satisfaction, E. C. Freuder, R. J. Wallace. - Constraint Reasoning Based on Interval Arithmetic: The Tolerance Propagation Approach, E. Hyvonen. - Constraint Satisfaction Using Constraint Logic Programming, P. Van Hentenryck, H. Simonis, M. Dincbas. - Minimizing Conflicts: A Heuristic Repair Method for Constraint Satisfaction and Scheduling Problems, S. Minton, M. D. Johnston, A. B. Philips, and P. Laird. - Arc Consistency: Parallelism and Domain Dependence, P. R. Cooper, M. J. Swain. - Structure Identification in Relational Data, R. Dechter, J. Pearl. - Learning to Improve Constraint-Based Scheduling, M. Zweben, E. Davis, B. Daun, E. Drascher, M. Deale, M. Eskey. - Reasoning about Qualitative Temporal Information, P. van Beek. - A Geometric Constraint Engine, G. A. Kramer. - A Theory of Conflict Resolution in Planning, Q. Yang. A Bradford Book.
The Text Mining Handbook
by Ronen Feldman James SangerText mining tries to solve the crisis of information overload by combining techniques from data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and knowledge management. In addition to providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection algorithms and operations, this book examines advanced pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches. Finally, it explores current real-world, mission-critical applications of text mining and link detection in such varied fields as M&A business intelligence, genomics research and counter-terrorism activities.
Programming in Visual Basic 2010
by Jim MckeownThis is an introduction to programming using Microsoft's Visual Basic. NET 2010, intended for novice programmers with little or no programming experience or no experience with Visual Basic. The text emphasizes programming logic and good programming techniques with generous explanations of programming concepts written from a non-technical point of view. It stresses input, processing, and output and sequence, selection, and repetition in code development. File I/O and arrays are included. Later chapters introduce objects, event programming, and databases. By taking a slow and steady approach to programming ideas, this book builds new concepts from what the reader has already learned. VB tips and quips inject both humor and insight. The book includes numerous programming examples and exercises, case studies, tutorials, and "fixing a program" sections for an in-depth look at programming problems and tools. Quizzes and review questions throughout each chapter get students to think about the materials and how to use them. Each chapter has a summary and glossary for extra review. The accompanying Web site, www.cambridge.org/us/McKeown, has code downloads, I/O, and database files from small, simple files to large files with thousands of records, flowcharts, deskchecks and audits to aid with program design, coding, and debugging; PowerPoint files for every chapter; and hundreds of ideas for programs and projects.<P> Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. To explore further access options with us, please contact us through the Book Quality link on the right sidebar. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.
iPad in One Hour for Litigators
by Tom MighellWhether you are a new or a more advanced iPad user, iPad in One Hour for Lawyers takes a great deal of the mystery and confusion out of using your iPad. Ideal for lawyers who want to get up to speed swiftly, this book presents the essentials so you don't get bogged down in technical jargon and extraneous features and apps.
The Samantha Granger Experiment: Fused
by Kari Lee Townsend<p>When you make a face or cross your eyes, do your parents tease that if you're not careful, your face might stay that way forever?<br>Well, my parents said that if I'm not careful, I'll turn into one of my gadgets. </p><p><b>I thought they were joking, people!</b></p><p>But-somehow, someway-I have become a living, breathing, walking piece of technology. Apparently my head now has a built-in GPS and my palm is equipped with talking and texting capabilities-just like my cell phone!</p><p>Now I'm a techno-superhero with powers that seem to have a mind of their own. And, in my case, keeping a secret identity is harder than it sounds. I short-circuit every time Trevor Hamilton looks my way. </p><p>Like being a girl isn't stressful enough. </p>
Resident Evil: Extinction
by Keith R. A. DecandidoFollowing the events of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the beautiful, dangerous, enigmatic Alice returns, and this time she and her fellow survivor Carlos Olivera are running with a pack of humans led by a new ally, Claire Redfield. Together they are cutting through the wastelands of the United States on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the scheming Dr. Isaacs, Alice has zombies hungry for her flesh and the Umbrella Corporation's monstrous lab rats hungry for her blood...while Alice herself hungers only for revenge.
Python Bibliography
by Developers From DevzoneTwenty years ago, Guido van Rossum was hard at work on the first release of Python. A lot has changed in those twenty years. Many of the programming languages that were contemporaries of Python have started showing their age. Meanwhile, there have been no shortages of new programming languages, yet Python continues to hold up well. Its emphasis on clean syntax, and its melding of object-oriented and functional programming elements, put it years ahead of the other popular languages from the 1990s. The story of Python is not only about it being ahead of its time in terms of syntax and features. It is also about its open development and the community around it. Its value as a scripting language is well known, and it ships with many operating systems. For years Python has been one of the Pâ TMs in the LAMP stack used for numerous web applications. Indeed, Pythonâ TMs popularity with web developers has lead to a multitude of web application frameworks written in Python: Django, TurboGears, Pylons, CherryPy, and so on. Even with technology's fast-moving pace, Python remains on the cutting edge. NoSQL data stores have become increasingly popular, and you can find first class support for using Python with any of these technologies. This is just further evidence of the continued popularity of Python and the vibrant community around it. This bibliography contains a wide selection of books about Python. These range from various introductory to advanced books. Of course, web development is covered, but you might be surprised to see the wide variety of other types of development that are done using Python. Whether you are working on machine learning or just hacking in your spare time, Python has something for you.
Our Digital World: Introduction to Computing
by Jon Gordon Karen Lankisch Nancy Muir Denise Seguin Anita VernoThe authors of Our Digital World have done a lot of work to make the writing in this book easy to read, to find ways to get you excited about how technology is evolving, and to make computing relevant to your work and personal lives.
Acoso Textual
by Raúl Vallejo¿Una? ¿Un? estudiante universitario explora su identidad inventando múltiples personalidades virtuales e intercambiando correos electrónicos con curiosos personajes, virtuales ellos también, alrededor del mundo. Así, banano@wam.umd.edu en ocasiones se presenta como un romántico en busca del amor, en otras es una posgraduada de ciencias políticas que problematiza las utopías socialistas del siglo xx, o se convierte en un explorador del placer del sexo virtual. Para cada uno de sus interlocutores cibernéticos tiene un género, un interés y una personalidad distintos. Es un ser andrógino como el lenguaje. Ahora, banano@wam.umd.edu debe enfrentarse a sus propias preguntas: ¿Debo matar a las personalidades ficticias para encontrar mi identidad verdadera? ¿Debería convertir mis relaciones virtuales en realidades físicas? ¿Qué valor tiene la palabra virtual? Acoso textual, novela pionera en la literatura hispanoamericana en el uso de correos electrónicos para relaciones epistolares, nos ubica en un espacio virtual en que las personas se construyen a sí mismas con las palabras que van y vienen a través de Internet.
The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
by William E. KasdorfWhat is metadata? When do you need to archive digital content? How does electronic publication affect copyrights? How can XML and PDF improve your workflow and your publications? There is a digital dimension to virtually all publishing today. Beyond the obvious electronic media -- the music and movies we take for granted, the increasingly indispensable Web, the eBooks that most of us will take for granted in a few years -- almost everything we read, even on paper, was produced digitally. This new digital world offers a steadily increasing number of choices. It is this rich and rapidly changing publishing environment for which The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishingwas created. Although there is a vast amount of information on a host of topics relevant to digital production and publishing available -- some in print, more on the Web -- there has been, until now, no single resource to which those involved in any dimension of publishing could turn for guidance. The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing fills that need. The Guide is definitive: written by experts in the broad array of subjects it covers, it provides reliable, authoritative, user-friendly information about a vast number of topics. Designed to be the first place to go to learn about any of the numerous interrelated issues that define the digital publishing landscape, it offers readers a multilevel approach, from a brief glossary definition of a technical term or acronym (sometimes all a user needs), to a concise discussion of a topic (comprehensible to the lay person, yet useful for the technical expert). It puts a subject in the context of other topics and broader issues, with real-world examples, liberal cross-references, and pointers to sources of further information in print or electronic form.
Uncertainty in Games
by Greg CostikyanIn life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn outto be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; thestock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairlycheerful about it all. But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Is itany wonder, then, asks Greg Costikyan, that we have taken this aspect of our lives and transformedit culturally, making a series of elaborate constructs that subject us to uncertainty but in afictive and nonthreatening way? That is: we create games. In this concise and entertaining book,Costikyan, an award-winning game designer, argues that games require uncertainty to hold ourinterest, and that the struggle to master uncertainty is central to their appeal. Game designers, hesuggests, can harness the idea of uncertainty to guide their work. Costikyan explores the manysources of uncertainty in many sorts of games -- from Super Mario Bros. toRock/Paper/Scissors, from Monopoly toCityVille, from FPS Deathmatch play to Chess. He describestypes of uncertainty, including performative uncertainty, analytic complexity, and narrativeanticipation. And he suggest ways that game designers who want to craft novel game experiences canuse an understanding of game uncertainty in its many forms to improve their designs.
Ambient Commons
by Malcolm McculloughThe world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts andformats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appeareverywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors,and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. Amid thisflood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed formspersist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In AmbientCommons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention though a rediscovery ofsurroundings. Not all that informs has been written and sent; not all attention involves deliberatethought. The intrinsic structure of space -- the layout of a studio, for example, or a plaza --becomes part of any mental engagement with it. McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: anincreasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matterless and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form. He explores how the fixed forms ofarchitecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. As apersistently inhabited world, can the Ambient be understood as a shared cultural resource, to besocially curated, voluntarily limited, and self-governed as if a commons? AmbientCommons invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attentionitself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.
How to Use Microsoft® Excel®
by Joseph M. ManzoHow to Use Microsoft® Excel® The Careers in Practice Series is an textbook appropriate for a course covering Microsoft Excel at a beginner to intermediate level. It is geared toward and will be accommodating for students and instructors with little to no experience in using Microsoft Excel. However, the approach is not at the expense of relevance. How to Use Microsoft® Excel® The Careers in Practice Series approaches Excel from the perspective of making personal and professional quantitative decisions. Personal decisions include big purchases such as homes and automobiles, savings for retirement, and personal budgets. Professional decisions include budgets for managing expenses, merchandise items to markdown or discontinue, and inventory management.
Genomics and Bioinformatics
by Tore SamuelssonWith the arrival of genomics and genome sequencing projects, biology has been transformed into an incredibly data-rich science. The vast amount of information generated has made computational analysis critical and has increased demand for skilled bioinformaticians. Designed for biologists without previous programming experience, this textbook provides a hands-on introduction to Unix, Perl and other tools used in sequence bioinformatics. Relevant biological topics are used throughout the book and are combined with practical bioinformatics examples, leading students through the process from biological problem to computational solution. All of the Perl scripts, sequence and database files used in the book are available for download at the accompanying website, allowing the reader to easily follow each example using their own computer. Programming examples are kept at an introductory level, avoiding complex mathematics that students often find daunting. The book demonstrates that even simple programs can provide powerful solutions to many complex bioinformatics problems.
Mastering the Nikon D5000
by Darrell YoungMastering the Nikon D5000 by Darrell Young is a comprehensive guide for of the owners of this newest, budget-friendly generation of Nikon digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. The smaller, more lightweight Nikon D5000 mixes generous portions of user-controlled manual photography features with the latest technological innovations, allowing fully automatic point and shoot simplicity. Darrell's approach in helping the reader to master this camera avoids the purely instructional technique, favoring a more friendly and advisory tone. He blends his decades of Nikon camera experience with an intuitive understanding of the readers' most likely questions regarding specific camera functions and features. Rather than just list all options for the myriad of camera settings and adjustments, he explains the background behind each setting and shares his personal recommendations. Darrell understands that many owners of the D5000 may be just entering the world of DSLRs, and he takes the time to guide these new owners through the basics, while giving more experienced photographers the option of a refresher course. Also included is an entire chapter on the exciting new D-Movie function that can record high-quality HD movie clips at an amazing 24-frames per second. Mastering the D5000 is the most recent volume in the highly successful series of Nikonians Press books.
ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
by Markus HaackerA report from the International Monetary Fund.
An Introduction to Programming with C++ (6th Edition)
by Diane ZakAn Introduction to Programming with C++, Sixth Edition is the latest C++ offering from Diane Zak. This book is distinct from other textbooks because of its unique approach, which motivates students by demonstrating why they need to learn the concepts and skills presented. Each chapter contains Mini-Quizzes, Labs, and Try This features to help readers practice and absorb the content as they go along. This edition also includes completely new applications and exercises, more IPO charts and flowcharts, and a brand new interior design.
Microsoft Enterprise Bibliography
by Safari Content TeamAs computer users, most people are not aware of how extensive and how prevalent the Microsoft Enterprise platform is in businesses around the world. Most office users don't think much about the servers and technology that exist somewhere in the back room or computer room at major corporations. They just interact with the computer sitting on their desk and expect it to connect to their email, access the Internet and allow them to get to the documents that they need to do their job. But ask the administrator that works to keep everything up and working correctly, and he or she can tell you that there is a large infrastructure working behind the scenes so that the user can do their job with a minimum of fuss. The administrators know that there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle and that it takes sometimes daily maintenance across a variety of servers and platforms to make it all work. The world of Enterprise is highly competitive and the technology you choose, along with how you architect and administer it, can mean the difference between success and failure. If you are someone just wanting to explore Microsoft's Enterprise technologies, or if you are an architect or administrator working daily on Microsoft's platform, then this bibliography is for you. It covers all of the platforms mentioned in this introduction, pointing you to all of this information you need inside Safari Books Online.