The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbook

Unix/Linux Survival Guide (Administrator's Advantage Series)

Charles River, 2005

The Reference That Every Unix SysAdmin Needs!

All Unix/Linux systems, regardless of manufacturer, have inherent similarities for administrators. The Unix/Linux Survival Guide details these similarities and teaches SysAdmins how to tackle jobs on all systems. Mixing administrator knowledge and best practices, the book walks admins step-by-step...

Film Production Theory (The Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)

University of New York, 2000

To all appearances, the business of cinema goes on as usual. Yes, movies are being made. The production lines in the studios keep churning out their images. The digital effects specialists stay up late at night to meet endless deadlines. Films open in Berlin or Cannes. Critics write their reviews. People talk about the latest releases at work or...

Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling: From Algorithms to Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2006

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) address broad classes of optimization problems by learning explicit probabilistic models of promising solutions found so far and sampling the built models to generate new candidate solutions. By incorporating advanced machine learning techniques into genetic and evolutionary algorithms, EDAs can scalably...

The Essential Patient Handbook: Getting the Health Care You Need - From Doctors Who Know

Demos Medical Publishing, 2004

The Essential Patient Handbook was written for the millions of Americans who are dissatisfied with their medical care, and are looking for a practical no-nonsense way to get the help they need from their doctors. It contains lessons learned by two doctors (husband and wife) who endured immense challenges on the patient side of the...

Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring

Ecco, 2019

A physical and philosophical mediation on why we are drawn to fight each other for sport, what happens to our bodies and brains when we do, and what it all means

Anyone with guts or madness in him can get hit by someone who knows how; it takes a different kind of madness, a more persistent...

A UML Pattern Language (Macmillan Technology Series)

Sams Publishing, 2000

This book is about how to model software systems and how to use those models. It is rooted in that emerging intellectual "ecosystem" comprising the various networks (the Internet, intranets, extranets, and so on), distributed objects, piecemeal development based on short development cycles, and something called...