Basic Skills for the TOEFL iBT 1 – Speaking

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Basic Skills for the TOEFL iBT 1 – Speaking

The quality of the book is just ok, not like the seller described. Most important thing, it over the shipped day. I received after 3 days, causing frustration. This book Focused practice of each TOEFL iBT question type, Controlled note-taking activities, Graded vocabulary acquisition, Transcripts for all listening exercises and integrated tasks,  Full answer key including sample responses for spoken and written sections,  Complete audio recordings of the listening and integrated sections.  Sample lesson plans
 
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Dive Into Python 3

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Dive Into Python 3

Python now comes in two flavors–Python 3 and Python 2. The philosophy of programming in Python 3 diverges from Python 2 to the point that print statements written in three don’t even run properly in two. Unfortunately, so many of the books written using Python over the last few years are still using version 2.6 – which is backwards compatible with all previous versions. If you are buying this book because you are taking a class in which the teacher is using Python rather than teaching it -bioinformatics or visualization for example – this may cause you trouble. If you need to learn 2.6 or an earlier version of Python 2, please buy the previous edition.
If you are learning Python for the first time and it’s up to you as to what flavor of Python to learn, then I suggest you start with Python 3. It does fix some longtime problems with the Python language. In that case, this edition of “Dive Into Python” is what you want.
I tend to learn languages more readily if I write a simple program first then add to its complexity by having more complex aspects of the language revealed to me, which is basically the approach of “Dive Into Python”. What worked best for me when I learned Python 2 was to read the free online guide “Dive Into Python” which is incomplete but top-down, then switch to “Learning Python”, which is detailed but more academic and more of a bottom-up approach. For example, while this book is about 500 pages, the new “Learning Python” book by Mark Lutz is 1200 pages long.
The author of this book has continued his tradition of placing his book online free of charge if you wish to look through it. I have read this updated version in order to update to Python 3. However, the author realizes that if you like his book you’ll want a copy for yourself to carry about and in which to scribble notes. Sometimes you can make more money by being generous.
In summary, I highly recommend this book as a way to get started, but then you’ll probably want to proceed to “Learning Python” for advanced topics and as a reference.
 
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Game Theory: A Critical Introduction

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Game Theory: A Critical Introduction

An introduction to game theory for those who approach the field with some skepticism. The book gives you all the important essential elements of non-cooperative and evolutionary game theory but with a much deeper emphasis on understanding its essential methodological and philosophical underpinnings yet without too much formalism. The authors do a superb job of introducing the topics via a tour of important moral, political, and philosophical ideas and debates mentioning Marx, Smith, Hobbes, Habermas, Hume, Locke and others. The book takes several detours to offer useful expositions of terms and debates such as methodological individualism, common knowledge, equilibrium, learning, morality, norms, etc. I’d recommend this book for two types of people: (1) those who plan to read just one book about game theory (because you don’t think it’s your cup of tea); and (2) those who plan on learning game theory rigorously (so that you can get a picture of the forest before getting lost in the trees).

This is not just one of my favorite books amongst the several books that I have read on game theory and mechanism design, but also one of the most thumbed book in my entire book collection.
 
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Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Logical Design

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Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Logical Design

Dr. Terry Halpin makes a compelling case for designing databases using a method called Object Role Modeling (ORM), and teaches the reader how to use the method.
Review: A properly designed database is critical to the success of business applications. Developers love good database designs because they are much easier to code against, and they make it much easier to accommodate the business requirements of the user, which is after all the purpose of the application. Everyone recognizes the need for good data design, but few people know how fill that need. A good database design requires a good data model, where does one learn how to create a good data model? If you are looking for one book that will really make a difference the next time you design a database, look no further than Information Modeling and Relational Databases by Dr. Terry Halpin.
Halpin’s writing style is clear and interesting, and the numerous examples he uses make the concepts easier to digest. Besides examples within the text, each subsection of the book has a complete set of exercises. Comparing your answers with the supplied answers is a great way to make sure you’ve absorbed the material. This book is very comprehensive; it starts with simple concepts, and ends with discussions of relational algebra, UML and ER modeling, in addition to Halpin’s preferred method, Object Role Modeling (ORM).
Halpin’s presentation and explanation of ORM sets this book apart from other data modeling books. As Halpin explains it, the focus in ORM is on business facts, not abstract data structures. As a professional database designer, one of the most common (and often valid) criticisms I encounter is that data modelers often seem too far removed from the business or too “theoretical”.
Genuinely good theories should have practical benefits, which is certainly the case with ORM. Object Role Modeling has a very solid theoretical foundation (indeed it is grounded in logic and philosophy), but the application of ORM is very practical. Throughout the book, one is struck by how often Halpin emphasizes the importance of getting real examples from the users. Of course, many books will tell you how important it is to get requirements from the users, but they don’t outline a simple, usable method for actually doing it.
Halpin outlines such a method in the “Conceptual Schema Design Procedure” (CSDP). The CSDP is a step-by-step guide to using ORM for producing a first class data model based on business requirements. The CSDP walks one through the entire process, from familiarization with the business to the final quality checks on the model. ORM and the CSDP provide a simple way to organize, manipulate and validate the business knowledge that you glean from the users.
Halpin calls ORM a conceptual modeling method. So what does an ORM conceptual model look like? At its core an ORM conceptual model is a set of simple assertions about the data for a particular business and how those data relate. Examples are “Employee drives Car” and “Car is made by Manufacturer” etc. Such assertions are known as sentence types. Each of these sentence types alone deals with only a small part of the business data, but taken as a collection, the sentence types form a complete picture of the data that must be stored and manipulated in the business environment.
Every one of these sentence types is populated (i.e. turned from a general statement into specific examples) with sample data. The sample data can either be supplied directly by the users, or created by the users and database designer as part of the design sessions. Once the sentence types are populated, you apply constraints that regulate the allowable populations.
ORM’s constraint language is very expressive. Using ORM, you can directly model such constraints as “No person can review a book which s/he has written”, “No employee can have insurance unless s/he is full time”, and “An ambassador can be assigned to a country only if s/he is fluent in one of the languages spoken in that country”. Other modeling methods have trouble with these kinds of constraints, but ORM takes them in stride. Expressing these constraints in the data model makes it easier to enforce the rules in the resulting application.
There is an accompanying graphical representation for ORM models, but the entire model can be expressed in terms of (indeed originated as) simple sentences with real sample data and rules. Halpin correctly argues that users can validate these simple sentences much more easily than they can validate graphical representations of data structures (e.g. tables and keys).
Once you have the completed conceptual model, it is quite easy to create a relational (or object-relational) schema on which to base your application. Halpin provides a simple algorithm for automatically generating a relational schema from an ORM conceptual model. The generated schema is automatically normalized as a result of the mapping process. Because of this automatic normalization feature, Halpin’s discussion of normalization, while complete, is not as lengthy as the discussions found in some other books.
I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the design of database applications. If you are not interested in design, let me put it another way: If you have ever written (or directed someone to write) a CREATE TABLE statement, you need this book! People who have never done data modeling will be well served by learning this method first, and accomplished modelers can learn a technique that will greatly improve their communication with their users, and yield higher quality results.
 
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Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

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Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

I had reviewed the previous edition of Heffelfinger’s book and noted how it served as both an introduction to Glassfish as well as a summary of the components of Java EE 5 and their associated APIs. For me this was great, as I was looking just as much for a Glassfish text as I was for a reference about Java EE 5. This updated edition does not disappoint in covering the new features of Java EE 6 and how they are implemented in Glassfish 3. In particular, the new features associated with version 3.0 of the Servlet API are covered very well, especially the new Java annotations that make a separate web.xml file for configuring web applications completely optional and allow for programmatic configuration of servlets. The material on Facelets has been appropriately merged into the chapter on JSF. Also, the JAX-WS functionality for SOAP-based web services is now supplemented with a chapter on JAX-RS for REST-based web services (using the Jersey reference implementation that is part of Glassfish). David’s explanations of newer ways of doing things are always clear and thorough without being pedantic and evangelistic. Although naturally there is a lot of redundancy with the previous edition, there are certainly enough changes between Java EE 5 and Java EE 6 to warrant a new edition of the book.
This book strives to cover much – if you are new to Java EE 6 – this may be a useful introductory text that can provide a broad overview of the core technologies – and in particular – a great companion to learning how to use GlassFish 3.
As the following chapter list illustrates, this book attempts to aggressively cover a broad spectrum of Java EE technologies:
Chapter 1: Getting Started with GlassFish
Covers the various processes for deploying Java EE applications, and basic GlassFish administration tasks.
Chapter 2: Servlet Development and Deployment
Covers how to develop, configure, package, and deploy servlets, using servlet context to persist information between requests – also covers the major new features of Servlet 3.0
Chapter 3: JavaServer Pages
Chapter 4: JSP Standard Tag Library
Chapter 5: Database Connectivity
Covers Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Persistence API (JPA), as well as Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)
Chapter 6: JavaServer Faces
Also covers integrating JSF and the Java Persistence API (JPA)
Chapter 7: Java Messaging Services
Chapter 8: Security
Covers he GlassFish default realms, file realm, and the certificate realm. Creation of additional realms is covered via the realm classes included with GlassFish.
Chapter 9: Enterprise JavaBeans
Chapter 10: Contexts and Dependency Injection
Covers how JSF pages can access CDI named beans (as JSF managed beans)
Chapter 11: Web Services and JAX-WS
Covers sending attachments to a web service, exposing EJB’s methods as web services, and how to secure web services from unauthorized clients.
Chapter 12: RESTful Web Services and Jersey and JAX-RS
Covers leveraging Java API for XML Binding (JAXB) to simplify integrating data between Java and XML.
Appendix A: Sending E-mails from Java EE Applications
Appendix B: IDE Integration
At 489 pages, this book is necessarily more of a survey of Java EE 6 development topics – with insight into the corresponding configuration and deployment aspects for the GlassFish 3 Application Server. It is a handy reference for both the beginner and advanced user of GlassFish application server.
 
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System Dynamics (4th Edition)

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System Dynamics (4th Edition)

This book is very helpful for those who are doing system dynamics course. I spent more than 4 hours in my university library (KFUPM), comparing this book to other system dynamics books and I found the following result. This book contains the most solved examples than other system dynamics books I have seen. Each chapter of this book contains lots of solved problems that came in my quizzes, major, and final exams.
Unlike other system dynamics books I have seen, this book does not discuss Mason loop rule method which is easier to use instead of Block reduction rule method mentioned in this book. I, also, think that this book does not explain very well how to plot Bode Diagrams by hands.
Like other system dynamics books I have seen, this book does not provide the students with the solutions of the questions given at the end of each chapter.
Regardless of its few minuses, this book is still an excellent one and I strongly recommend it.
To overcome its minuses, buy this book as well as ” Modern Control System” which is written by Richard C. Dorf & Robert H. Bishop. Modern Control System is also a wonderful book and a very interesting one. It is better than System Dynamics book in that the concepts are explained deeply. Mason loop rule, Block reduction rule, and plotting Bode Diagrams by hands are very well explained in this book. It is easy to understand and very illustrated. Compared to System Dynamics book, this book has 7 excellent appendices plus a fantastic index, which can also be used as a glossary. Additionally, and above all, the solved exampled plus the questions given at the end of each chapter deal with the modern systems, equipments, devices, and with the recent technology available today.

 
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HTML & XHTML in 24 Hours 6th Edition by Dick Oliver and Michael Morrison

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HTML & XHTML in 24 Hours 6th Edition by Dick Oliver and Michael Morrison
 
Scripting is a polite word for computer programming, and that’s obviously an enormous topic you’re not going to learn much about in a one-hour lesson. Still, there are some awfully handy things you can do in a snap with scripting—and things you can’t do any other way. So with a spirit of bold optimism, this hour aims to help you teach yourself just enough Web page scripting to make your pages stand out from the “non-de-script” crowd. Specifically, you’ll learn in this hour how to make the images (or multimedia objects) on your Web pages change in response to mouse movements or mouse clicks, as well as how to jump into the advertising business by adding animated banner ads to your Web pages that cycle between different ad images. Using the JavaScript language, you can do these tasks in a way that is compatible with all major Web browsers.
 
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SQL The Complete Reference by James R.Groff & Paul N.Weinberg

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SQL The Complete Reference by James R.Groff & Paul N.Weinberg

The SQL language and relational database systems based on it are one of the most important foundation technologies in the computer industry today. Over the last decade, the popularity of SQL has exploded, and it stands today as the standard computer database language. Literally hundreds of database products now support SQL, running on computer systems from mainframes to personal computers and even handheld devices. An official international SQL standard has been adopted and expanded twice.Virtually every major enterprise software product relies on SQL for its data management, and SQL is at the core of the database products from Microsoft and Oracle, two of the largest software companies in the world. From its obscure beginnings as an IBM research project, SQL has leaped to prominence as both an important computer technology and a powerful market force.
 
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Microsystem Design

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Microsystem Design
 
The goal of this book is to bring together into one accessible text the fundamentals of the many disciplines needed by today's engineer working in the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
The subject matter is wide-ranging: microfabrication, mechanics, heat flow, electronics, noise, and dynamics of systems, with and without feedback. Because it is very difficult to enunciate principles of `good design' in the abstract, the book is organized around a set of Case Studies that are based on real products, or, where appropriately well-documented products could not be found, on thoroughly published prototype work.
The Case Studies were selected to sample a multidimensional space: different manufacturing and fabrication methods, different device applications, and different physical effects used for transduction. The Case Study subjects are: the design and packaging of a piezoresistive pressure sensor, a capacitively-sensed accelerometer, a quartz piezoelectrically-driven and sensed rate gyroscope, two electrostatically-actuated optical projection displays, two microsystems for the amplification of DNA, and a catalytic sensor for combustible gases.
This book is used for a graduate course in `Design and Fabrication of Microelectromechanical Devices (MEMS)' at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is appropriate for textbook use by senior/graduate courses in MEMS, and will be a useful reference for the active MEMS professional.
Each chapter is supplemented with homework problems and suggested related reading. In addition, the book is supported by a web site that will include additional homework exercises, suggested design problems and related teaching materials, and software used in the textbook examples and homework problems.
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The book is very well written and discussed both aspects of MEMS - fabrication and design.
Fabrication part is well written and can be clearly understood. I was really impressed with the design part of the book - lumped systems, etc.
Good book for grad students.


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A good senior in physics or electrical engineering would be able to use this as either a textbook or a self-study book as an introduction to MEMS. Could you go off and build a new device after reading this book? Probably not, but you could go off and work with a group of more experienced individuals and built a device. This would get you up to speed.
The text's coverage is somewhat uneven, in places it seems overly detailed, and in others too sparse. However, one of my colleagues (and another reviewer) identified completely different over- and under-coverage sections, so I'm going to consider it to be personal taste as much as anything else.
In short, it's a good, but not perfect text. It gets five stars though for being the best there is at the moment.

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This book is a good graduate level MEMS book, but do not think that you will be able to design a MEMS chip after just reading. I bought this one as a part of MEMS Design course at Northeastern University. MEMS students should be familiar with pSpice circuit simulation and Matlab in order to even start thinking of designing MEMS. Microfabrication, the way it is explained here, is very brief, and not very useful.

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In 23 chapters, Senturia brings together a dizzying array of fields of engineering necessary to design micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and examples of MEMS products. For instance, he covers Euler beam theory, the Navier-Stokes equation, micromachining, feedback circuits, and electronic noise, and then anchors these topics with a gyroscope and a DNA amplifier, among other devices.
Senturia's approach to some chapters strikes me as a little idiosyncratic, but he does convey the principles quite well. His love for the material shines through in a way that many authors cannot manage.
Unlike books on single topics, this text cannot be used as a definitive guide to anything. Because Sentuira only has only 30 pages or so for each of the very broad topics that he covers, he doesn't cover any of them in much depth. However, the reader does get a sense of the issues that each physical domain presents. For those who need to know more, Senturia provides a short list of further reading in each chapter. I think of this book as a comprehensive starting point that can help me determine what further investigation I need.
Aesthetically, the text is somewhat lacking. The small pages are cramped compared to those of larger-format texts, and the figures are subpar.

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This book is definitely a must-have for anyone interested in MEMS design. It's one of the classic references on microsystems that everyone should have read at least once.
The sections on mathematical modeling are especially good, and the set of detailed examples at the end are clear and illustrative.
To name some drawbacks, the chapter on fabrication is maybe a bit out of date, and more solved practical exercises are missing.

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"Customer Relationship Management" by Kristin L. Anderson, Carol J. Kerr

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"Customer Relationship Management" by Kristin L. Anderson, Carol J. Kerr
 
Customer Relationship Management provides easy-to-apply solutions and strategies for establishing meaningful bonds with your customers and turning them into reliable, lifelong partners.
This book supplies easy-to-apply solutions to common CRM problems, including how to maximize impact from CRM technology, which data warehousing techniques are most effective, and how to create and manage both short- and long-term relationships.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. Customer Relationship Management Is Not an Option
2. The Customer Service/Sales Profile
3. Managing Your Customer Service/Sales Profile
4. Choosing Your CRM Strategy
5. Managing and Sharing Customer Data
6. Tools for Capturing Customer Information
7. Service-Level Agreements
8. E-Commerce: Customer Relationships on the Internet
9. Managing Relationships Through Conflict
10. Fighting Complacency: The “Seven-Year Itch” in Customer Relationships
11. Resetting Your CRM Strategy


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Cloud Computing Strategies - Dimitris N. Chorafas

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Cloud Computing Strategies - Dimitris N. Chorafas

With an abundance of books available that cover the technical aspects of cloud computing, the time is right for a book that helps managers and CIOs understand exactly how cloud computing affects operations in their companies and departments. A guide to managing a cloud project, Cloud Computing Strategies provides the understanding required to effectively evaluate the technology and determine how it can be best applied to improve business and enhance the overall corporate strategy.

Based on extensive research, the book examines the opportunities and challenges that loom in the clouds. It explains exactly what cloud computing is, what it has to offer, and calls attention to the important issues management needs to consider before passing the point of no return regarding financial commitments. Illustrated with numerous examples and case studies, the text examines security, privacy, data ownership, and data protection in the clouds.
It also:

Explains how and why your company can benefit from Open Software and onDemand Services Identifies various cloud providers, their services, and their content as a basis for evaluating cost effectiveness Provides authoritative guidance on how to transition from legacy systems to the clouds Includes helpful tips for managing cloud vendor relationships and avoiding vendor lock-in

Whether you’re already in the clouds or just considering it, this book provides the unbiased understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cloud computing needed to make informed decisions regarding its future in your organization. The book’s strength is that it supplies authoritative insight on everything needed to decide if you should make a transition to the clouds, and if you decide to do so, how to effectively manage relationships with your cloud providers.

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Electronics Calculations Data Handbook

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Electronics Calculations Data Handbook
 
This unique handbook consists of tables compiled as a labour-saving aid for electronics engineers, designers and technicians. The layout and content of these is designed to make them easy to use, and to contain the most valuable but tough to calculate information.


All the key data needed by electronics designers, engineers and technicians
Saves on hours of needless number-crunching
Must-have information at a glance

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Learn VB.NET, 1St Edition

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Learn VB.NET, 1St Edition
 
Learn VB.NET covers all the aspects of the program in an easy-to-use format for beginners. The book and CD are filled with complete working program examples that illustrate each of the highlighted concepts.

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OCA/OCP Oracle Database 11g All-in-One Exam Guide

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OCA/OCP Oracle Database 11g All-in-One Exam Guide
 
Prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Administration I and SQL Fundamentals I exams and the Oracle Certified Professional Administration II exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, and a two-minute drill to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all objectives for exams 1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, and 1Z0-053, including:
* Instance management
* Networking and storage
* Security
* SQL
* Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback
* Oracle Automatic Storage Management
* Resource manager
* Oracle Scheduler
* Automatic workload repository
* Performance tuning
* And more


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Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies by: Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan

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Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies by: Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan
 
The fun and easy guide for building Silverlight 4 applications!


Silverlight is a Web browser plugin that enables functions such as animation, streaming media, vector graphics, and audio-video playback that characterize rich Internet applications. It only requires a simple download, after which most end-users are not even aware that it's running. This helpful guide covers everything you need to know in order to start creating applications in Silverlight 4 and then moves on to key topics such as controls, data binding, skinning, using Visual Studio tools, and more.

Whether you have just the most basic programming skills and are interested in learning to develop Silverlight apps or you are an experienced developer looking for an understandable guide on the newest version of Silverlight, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies is ideal for a wide audience.

* The Silverlight plugin enables animation, streaming media, vector graphics, and audio-video playback
* Shows you how to create applications in Silverlight 4
* Covers important Silverlight topics including controls, data binding, skinning, animations, and more
* Discusses how to best use the offering of tools from Visual Studio

Get enlightened and start creating Silverlight 4 applications with this book by your side.

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SQL Clearly Explained, Third Edition - Jan L. Harrington

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SQL Clearly Explained, Third Edition - Jan L. Harrington
 
Although the core of the SQL language remains relatively unchanged, the most recent release of the SQL standard (SQL:2008) includes two sets of extensions: 1) support for object-relational databases and 2) support for XML. The second edition of this book included some material about the object-relational extensions. However, that set of commands has been greatly extended and the new edition takes that into account. The XML extensions are entirely new to the third edition. A chapter on basic relational concepts will be also added to broaden the audience and make the book more complete in its own right.
All of the chapters will be revised to be sure they are up to date. Chapter 10 ("Views, Temporary Tables, and Indexes") from the second edition will be expanded to include common table expression (CTEs). The material in the existing Chapter 14 ("Unimplemented SQL-92 Features 251") will be disbursed through the chapters where the particular type of operation is discussed. While the content throughout will be updated where necessary, the existing organizational structure through chapter 14 will remain largely intact because this coverage represents the stable portion of the SQL language.
There will be two NEW chapters at the beginning of the book. Chapter 1 ("The Relational Data Model") covers the relational data model conceptual material; Chapter 2 ("Manipulating Relations with Relational Algebra") covers the relational algebra material that will be pulled from the retrieval chapters. Part 5 ("Non-relational SQL Extensions") will now include the non-relational SQL extensions in three chapters. Chapter 17 (NEW) will cover XML. Chapter 18 will contain the object-relational conceptual material from the original chapter 15 and chapter 19 (NEW) will cover SQL object-relational support. (Some of chapter 19 will come from the second edition, however, a great deal of object-relational support has been added to the current standard and therefore needs to be added.) The other NEW chapter is Chapter 14, which covers triggers and stored procedures. This material was missing from previous editions. Many readers should find it a useful addition.
•Demonstrates how to formulate SQL queries and how queries are processed to maximize performance of the database management system
Explains use of SQL to enter, modify or delete data to maintain database structural elements Covers in great detail new SQL application for XML to meet the growing XML usage in development of online content


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The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference

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The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference

Programming with the C++ Standard Library can certainly be difficult, but Nicolai Josuttis's The C++ Standard Library provides one of the best available guides to using the built-in features of C++ effectively.The C++ Standard Library provides plenty of default functionality in the form of the Standard Template Library (STL) for containers (like vectors and linked lists), as well as generic algorithms (which allow you to sort, search, and manipulate elements inside containers).Each container type is explained along with short code excerpts. Moreover, in a reference section, the author explores the connections between each container type, showing how they share similar methods.Learn just a few methods and you can pretty much work with them all.


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Build Your Own Low-Power Transmitters: Projects for the Electronics Experimenter

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Build Your Own Low-Power Transmitters: Projects for the Electronics Experimenter

UHF channels 14-18; 1-watt CW beacon transmitter for Part 15 LF radio experimentation; CW identifier for transmitters; test equipment projects for L Rudolf Graf and William Sheets have written a book containing twenty low-power (LP) transmitter projects, perfect for the electronics hobbyist and radio experimenter. Now that the FCC has changed its regulations about "pirate" transmissions, more and more people are setting up radio and video stations for broadcast from their homes. Build Your Own Low-Power Transmitters addresses applications for hobbyist broadcasting of AM, SSB, TV, FM Stereo and NBFM VHF-UHF signals with equipment the reader can build himself for thousands of dollars less than similar equipment sold on the retail market. The authors also fully explore the legal limits and ramifications of using the equipment as well as how to get the best performance for optimum range. The key advantage is referencing a low-cost source for all needed parts, including the printed circuit board, as well as the kit.
Projects in the book include: LP FM stereo transmitter; digitally synthesized PLL FM stereo transmitter; LP AM transmitter for 150-1710 KHz; radio control transmitter/receiver; carrier current transmitter and AM and FM receivers; LP VHF one-way and two-way audio links; 1-watt 40-meter CW transmitter for ham radio use; SSB LP transmitter for 10-meter ham radio use; 2-meter VHF FM ham radio transmitter; FM video link for 900 MHz NTSC/PAL operation; 2-watt TV transmitters for 440, 900 and 1300 MHz amateur TV NTSC/PAL transmissions; linear amplifier for 440MHz, 10-15watt NTSC/PAL operation; Downconverters for 440, 900 and 1300 MHz with VHF channel 3 or 4 output; TV video receiving systems and AM-FM IF systems; LP video link for 
P transmitters; as well as an RF power meter and modulation monitor.
Complete source information will be included to help each reader find the kits and parts they need to build these fascinating projects. Unique among comparable project books, this one offers a low-cost source for all parts, including the printed circuit board. This allows immediate completion without needing to search for difficult to find parts Features twenty low-power transmitter projects.


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The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture

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The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture was written to provide a textbook that incorporated all of the necessary organization and architecture topics, yet was concise enough to allow the material to be covered in one semester.
This book covers all the core topics, including digital logic, data representation, machine-level language, general organization, assembly language programming, CPU organization, memory organization and input/output devices. The goal of The Essentials of Computer Organization Architecture is to allow the students to tie the hardware knowledge covered in this book to the concepts learned in their introductory programming classes to give a complete and thorough picture of how hardware and software fit together.

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The Phantom Rickshaw; and other tales

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The Phantom Rickshaw; and other tales

This book brings together five of Kipling's most-loved short stories. Each deals with events that can't quite be explained away, whether a traditional ghost story, a terrifyingly realistic nightmare or an sumptuous and lavish romance. Powerful, exotic and extravagant, these tales are rated, by some, to be the best stories Kipling ever wrote

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An Introduction to Relational Database Theory - Hugh Darwen, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick

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An Introduction to Relational Database Theory - Hugh Darwen, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick

This book introduces you to the theory of relational databases, focusing on the application of that theory to the design of computer languages that properly embrace it. The book is intended for those studying relational databases as part of a degree course in Information Technology (IT). Relational database theory, originally proposed by Edgar F. Codd in 1969, is a topic in Computer Science. Codd's seminal paper (1970) was entitled A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (reference [5] in Appendix B).
An introductory course on relational databases offered by a university's Computer Science (or similarly named) department is typically broadly divided into a theory component and what we might call an "industrial" component. The "industrial" component typically teaches the language, SQL (Structured Query Language), that is widely used in the industry for database purposes, and it might also teach other topics of current significance in the industry. Although this book is only about the theory, I hope it will be interesting and helpful to you even if your course's main thrust is industrial.
The book is directly based on a course of nine lectures delivered annually to undergraduates at the University of Warwick, England, as part of a 14-lecture module entitled Fundamentals of Relational Databases. The remaining five lectures of that module are on SQL. We encourage our students to compare and contrast SQL with what they have learned in the theory part.
 
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Introduction to Software Development

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Introduction to Software Development - J. PErez LOpez and L. Ribas i Xirgo

This course book is designed for IT specialists and developers that are starting their way in the free software development universe.
Free Software is developed with specific collaboration technics and tools that engage and enable world-wide communities. Professionals need to handle different programming technics, languages and develop specific workgroup skills.
The programming languages used in this module are C, C++ or Java.
 
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Introduction to Web applications development - Carles Mateu

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Introduction to Web applications development - Carles Mateu

This course starts with an introduction to the internet, including a brief history of the TCT/IP protocol and worldwide web. It defines the basic concepts for web servers and studies the case of Apache, the most used webserver, while other free software webservers are not forgotten. The course continues with webpage design focussing on HTML and JavaScript. XML Schemas, their validation and transformation are covered as well as dynamic webpages built with CGI, PHP or JSP and database access.
Webservices are software components that are accessible through SOAP and have their interface described with WSDL (Web Service Description Language). In this section the XML-RPC protocol is discussed among other things.
The last part of the course deals with configuration, maintenance, monitoring and security aspects.
 
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DEVELOP YOUR FINANCIAL IQ BOOK

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DEVELOP YOUR FINANCIAL IQ BOOK

Naturally, most if not all of us want and crave for something better. It is all part of us if we want a bigger car, a better house, buying good things for the family. We keep hoping for more but, in order to get what you don’t have, you have got to do something you have never done before.
That simply means:
Doing the same thing over and over again YET expecting different results!
As an employee, you can’t stay at the same job forever and hope that a miracle will happen and your boss will suddenly give you a raise. You will be lucky that there is no downsizing in your company. Switching to another company will only provide a short term solution to a long term problem.
Sure, you can take up a second or even third job, but do you have enough hours and stamina in a day to sustain it?
The bottom-line: Trading time for money isn’t wise financial sense in the long term. You keep on increasing the hours just to win the rat race, but in the end of the day, you are still a rat on the mill!

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Dawn Of Empire – Sam Barone

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Dawn Of Empire – Sam Barone
Sam Barone is an American historical novelist with novels centered on early Antiquity. He attended Manhattan College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965, with a major in Psychology and a minor in History.
Dawn of Empire. The first novel in the Eskkar Saga, this book describes the struggle to build mankind's first walled city, and the fight to defend it. Action packed, the love story of Eskkar and the slave girl Trella is set against the background of a barbarian invasion.
Former software designer Barone sets his entertaining debut novel in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization. The nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, who in 2500 B.C.E. still dominate the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are agitated at encroaching gentrification. Barbarian chieftain Thutmose-sin announces that Orak, the agricultural "great village" of 2,000 people nestled along the banks of the Tigris, "defies our way of life" and must be destroyed. Instead of fleeing the fearsome barbarian warriors who have never been defeated by "dirt eaters," the citizens of Orak stay and fight. They're led by a former barbarian, Eskkar, and his young slave mistress, Trella, who is wise beyond her years and station. The apocalyptic battle that ensues will determine which culture—that of the nomad or the villager—will prevail. Barone's characters are engaging enough, if not fully realized, and the action is fast-paced, if sometimes predictable. The combat scenes, gritty and bloody, are especially vivid. Equal parts history lesson, love story and war saga, Barone's first historical will have readers turning pages.
 
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Statistical Mechanics (Advanced Texts in Physics)

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Statistical Mechanics (Advanced Texts in Physics)

I have found Schwabl’s Statistical Mechanics to be an indispensible reference this semester even though it’s not on the reading list for my stat mech course (intro graduate level). I should qualify that statement by saying that I’ve used it primarily for the Ch.6 on magnetism, and the Ch.4 on ideal quantum gases, and I have not looked at any of the exercises at the end of chapters so I cannot attest to their (non)usefulness.
The text is well made (LaTeX!) and full of illuminating diagrams. Other than a persistant occurence of the word “und” the translation from german seems to be flawless, and the notation seems pretty standard, consistent, and intuitive.
As for the presentation, it seems a bit eclectic. Not that I’m an expert, but Ch.1 is an extremely terse forray into some advanced concepts that are irrelevant until about Ch.3. It seems odd to bring up the microcanonical/grand canonical ensembles before the chapter on thermodynamics, but that could just be my bias due to the structure of the course I’m taking right now.
The Ch 8 on Brownian motion, the Fokker-Plank and Langevin eqns is not standard, but actually quite fascinating & I don’t see why those topics are usually left for more advanced stat mech books.
In short, a great supplement! And to the professors out there, I would suggest at least mentioning the existence of this book.
 
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Recent Advances in Mechanics

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Recent Advances in Mechanics

The topics covered in the book can be divided into three major themes: Mathematical methods in applied mechanics (nine papers), experimental mechanics (nine papers) and fracture mechanics (six papers).
Topics covered include: Application of reciprocity relations to laser-based ultrasonics, boundary value problems of the theory of elasticity, optimal design in contact mechanics, scaling of strength and lifetime distributions of quasibrittle structures, directional distortional hardening in plasticity, vibration of systems, instability phenomena in damped systems, variational methods for static and dynamic elasticity problems, an accelerated Newmark scheme for solving the equations of motion in the time domain, photoelastic tomography, electronic speckle pattern interferometry, composites exposed to fire, sampling moiré, microelecromechanical systems, experimental mechanics in nano-scale, advanced cement based nanocomposites, piezonuclear transmutations in brittle rocks under mechanical loading, stress triaxiality at crack tips studied by caustics, reinforcement of a cracked elastic plate with defects, some actual problems of fracture mechanics, cyclic plasticity with applications to extremely low cycle fatigue of structural steel, and fracture of a highly filled polymer composite.
 
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Let Us C By Yashwant Kanetkar

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Let Us C By Yashwant Kanetkar
World has left behind the DOTCOM bust, 9/11 tragedy, the economic downturn, etc. and moved on. Countless Indians have relentlessly worked for close to two decades to successfully establish “India” as a software brand. At times I take secret pleasure in seeing that a book that I have been part of, has contributed in its own little way in shaping so many budding careers that have made the “India” brand acceptable.
Computing and the way people use C for doing it keeps changing as years go by. So overwhelming has been the response to all the previous editions of “Let Us C” that I have now decided that each year I would come up with a new edition of it so that I can keep the readers abreast with the way C is being used at that point in time.
There are two phases in every C programmer’s life. In the first phase he is a learner trying to understand the language elements and their nuances. At this stage he wants a simple learning environment that helps him to master the language. In my opinion, even today there isn’t any learning environment that can beat Turbo C/C++ for simplicity. Hence the first fifteen chapters are written keeping this environment in mind, though a majority of these programs in these chapters would work with any C compiler.
 
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The jungle book I & II - Text only version

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The jungle book I & II - Text only version

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermon. The story is boy named Mogli raised in jungle and his fight with lion Sherkhan.
Book I
Mowgli's Brothers
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
Kaa's Hunting
Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
'Tiger! Tiger!'
Mowgli's Song
The White Seal
Lukannon
'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'
Darzee's Chaunt
Toomai of the Elephants
Shiv and the Grasshopper
Her Majesty's Servants
Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals

Book II
How Fear Came
The Law of the Jungle
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
A Song of Kabir
Letting in the Jungle
Mowgli's Song Against People
The Undertakers
A Ripple Song
The King's Ankus
The Song of the Little Hunter
Quiquern
'Angutivaun Taina'
Red Dog
Chil's Song
The Spring Running
The Outsong

 
The link contains ebook in microsoft reader format [download here].
This isn't comic or animation but text only version.

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The Animated Man - A life of Walt Disney

 
The Animated Man - A life of Walt Disney

Anyone who writes a biography of Walt Disney is obliged to explain what he is up to, given that a dozen or more biographies of Disney have already been published. It is not enough to say that most of those books are not very good. The question is whether a new biography can avoid the pitfalls that have doomed the earlier ones.

Most Disney biographies have portrayed either a man who fell short of perfection only in a few venial ways (he smoked way too much and used a great deal of profanity), or one who was personally odious (anti-Semitism being the sin of choice) and the products of whose labors are a stain on American culture.

I have found few signs of either Disney in my own research into his life, which began in 1969 with my first trip to California and interviews with Ward Kimball, one of his best animators, and Carl Stalling, the first  composer for his sound cartoons. Disney was, in my reckoning, a stunted but fascinating artist, and a generally admirable but less interesting entrepreneur. The trick, I think, is to wind those strands of his life together, along with a few strands from his private life, in a way that yields something close to the whole man.

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Laptop for Dummies




 Laptop for Dummies

These days, many people all have a computer in their home. Nevertheless, which one, a desktop or a laptop or notebook specifically. While buying a desktop is more convient in the price tag, it can be bulky, and leave little space, laptops bring in a bit more convience for all to have in space. Although they are much more expensive to purchase, it can be very, very easy for those to operate a laptop in the convience of their own home or in the office. Thankfully, the dummies people know how to help you guide your way into operating a laptop without the hastle of doing it on your own, in a simple how-to guide.

Laptops For Dummies is a very simple instruction book that teaches you how to simply operate youn laptop whenever you need to. The book gives detailed advice on what simple tidbits you'd need to do, to reboot the computer. For example, you could hold the power button down for 5 seconds and you could easily shut down the computer, without destroying the hard drive. Or, you couls also learn how to improve the sound on your computer, by simply buying a sound card and hook it into the computer for better audio playback. Considering, most laptops have distorted sound, you'll find out how easy it happens to be to improve the quality of your computer. The book give great details on Windows XP computers, and gives you a glimpse on what to do if yo choose to upgrade to Windows next operating system, Vista. The book is very detailed in its description, and easy to afford.

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No More Mr.Nice Guy - Robert Glover




No More Mr.Nice Guy - Robert Glover

This controversial e-book phenomenon became a best-seller and landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has devoted his career as a psychotherapist to freeing men from what he was dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome"-trying too hard to please others while neglecting their own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness.
It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frusteration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover. He explains how they can stop seeking approval and start getting what they want in life, by presenting the information and tools to help them ensure their needs are met, to express their emotions, to have a satisfying sex life, to embrace their masculinity and form meaningful relationships with other men, and to live up to their creative potential.

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PC SAFETY TIPS 101 EBOOK



 PC SAFETY TIPS 101 EBOOK

See How Easily You Can Remove The Hacker Filth That Slows Down Your PC, Sends Your Private Information To Sleazy Computer Criminals, And Threatens To Destroy Your Machine!

Have you noticed mysterious slow downs in your computer’s performance, even when you only have one or two programs (apparently) running?
Have you noticed a lag in your web surfing, even though you have a very fast broadband connection?
Almost certainly if you have, it’s because spyware or adware is taxing your system, slowing things down for you while sending information you may not want sent, to places you almost certainly don’t want it sent to.
If you don’t cleanse and protect your PC, you may find yourself… The victim of PC sabotage when your PC stops working the way it should…
The victim of spying by dishonest commercial companies or downright criminal hackers…
The victim of identity or credit card theft when hackers manage to sneak vicious invisible programs on to your PC without your knowledge .and even more.
If you go online, chances are you’re infected. 90% of Internet users fall victim to at least one (usually all three) of these vicious programs:

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