Many things have happened since I started the writing of Starting Strength: A Simple
and Practical Guide for Coaching Beginners in 2004. As a result of its publication I have had
the opportunity to meet and learn from many new people. It is my sincerest hope that the
additions to this book that are the direct result of their input...
THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN FOR students in hotel, restaurant, and institution management programs and culinary programs. Practicing management and culinary professionals will find it useful as well. As with previous editions, this is meant to be a practical how-to book tailored to the needs of students and professionals. It is written for those who...
At a young age, I lived very close to my grandmothers and I used to visit them often. Both of my
grandmothers were very skilled in textile handcrafts and, along with my mother, were firm believers that
sewing is one of those basic skills that everyone should know. One grandmother was amazing at
crocheting and needlepoint, and the...
Manufacturing has been one of the key areas that support and influence a nation’s
economy since the 18th century. Being the primary driving force in economic
growth, manufacturing constantly serves as the foundation of and contributes to
other industries. In the past centuries, manufacturing has contributed to the modern...
Pan-frying and deep-frying have been very popular and ancient methods of food
preparations for more than 4000 years. Pre-fried and fried food products like
potato crisps, fish fingers or French fries have become a main component of our
diet. It is estimated that the total usage of frying fats and oils in restaurants,...
OS X was first released to the public over a decade ago as Mac
OS X Beta (code-named Kodiak). The decade after that saw
Mac OS X go from an interesting oddity unsuited to daily work
to a usable operating system with little third-party support to
everything most people want out of an operating system and a...
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of electric refractory materials as exotic materials
(i.e., metallic and semiconducting refractory materials) from fundamental properties to application
in a wide variety of electronics. The metallic ceramics or metalloids are the transition metal
carbides, nitrides, and diborides of...
The future of high-performance computing (HPC) lies with large distributed parallel systems with three levels of parallelism, thousands of nodes containing MIMD* groups of SIMD* processors. For the past 50 years, the clock cycle of single processors has decreased steadily and the cost of each processor has decreased. Most applications would...
Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...
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My intent in writing Animating Real-Time Game Characters has been to
share my work methods, thoughts, and ideas about animating real-time...
The advent and growing popularity of BlackBerry smartphones has changed how corporate users communicate whenever away from their offices. No longer tied to their landline phones, no longer glued to their desktop PCs, corporate users could stay in touch via voice and e-mail as long as cellphone reception was available. Then, Research In Motion...
I still remember how I first got to know C++ and Qt. It was around 15 years ago while working on my diploma thesis. Most of the development we did at that time was done in Fortran and C. I was working on a Linux system with FVWM as a window manager. One day I read an article about KDE—a cool, new open source project...
