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Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in .Net)

Apress, 2008

Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every–day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready–made code recipes that will save you hours of coding...

Pesticides: A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

Praeger Publishers, 2007

The writing of this book came about through a serendipitous circumstance. I wrote a book dealing with child labor in the United States, published three years earlier, containing a chapter that included a description of the hazards migrant farmworkers and their children face, not the least of which was exposure to pesticides. While mentioning the...

Getting Your PhD: A Practical Insider's Guide (Survival Skills for Scholars)

Sage Publications, 2007

Packed with practical advice on all aspects of the PhD process, new and continuing research students should find this book of great help.

Professor Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, UK

How to get your Ph.D is an original study guide aimed at prospective and current postgraduate students, covering the process of...

Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) (Developer's Library)

Addison Wesley, 2009

From the author of Programming in C,Programming in Objective-C 2.0 provides the new programmer a complete, step-by-step introduction to the Objective-C language. The book does not assume previous experience with either C or object-oriented programming...

Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision Making and Applications (Control Engineering)

CRC Press, 2006

It has long been the goal of engineers to develop tools that enhance our ability to do work, increase our quality of life, or perform tasks that are either beyond our ability, too hazardous, or too tedious to be left to human efforts. Autonomous mobile robots are the culmination of decades of research and development, and their potential is...

The Well-Grounded Rubyist

Manning Publications, 2009

The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. Whether the topic is simple or tough, the...

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems

Princeton Press, 2008

"Paul Nahin's Digital Dice is a marvelous book, one that is even better than his Duelling Idiots. Nahin presents twenty-one great probability problems, from George Gamow's famous elevator paradox (as corrected by Donald Knuth) to a bewildering puzzle involving two rolls of toilet paper, and he solves them all with the aid...

Beginning Linux Programming (Linux Programming Series)

Wrox Press, 1999

Provided you have some previous basic exposure to C and Unix, Beginning Linux Programming delivers an excellent overview of the world of Linux development with an appealing range of essential tools and APIs.

The standout feature of Beginning Linux Programming is its wide-ranging coverage of important topics in basic Unix...

Level Sets and Extrema of Random Processes and Fields

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Level Sets and Extrema of Random Processes and Fields discusses how to understand the properties of the level sets of paths as well as how to compute the probability distribution of its extremal values, which are two general classes of problems that arise in the study of random processes and fields and in related applications. This book...

Visual Media Coding and Transmission

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This book presents the state-of-the-art in visual media coding and transmission

Visual Media Coding and Transmission is an output of VISNET II NoE, which is an EC IST-FP6 collaborative research project by twelve esteemed institutions from across Europe in the fields of networked audiovisual systems and...

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems

Springer, 1994

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems presents two comprehensive frameworks for reasoning about system dependability, thereby establishing a context for understanding the roles played by specific approaches presented in this book's two companion volumes. It then explores the range of models and...

Flexible Shift Planning in the Service Industry: The Case of Physicians in Hospitals

Springer, 2010

The book presents new ideas to model and solve the flexible shift planning problem of personnel workers in the service industry. First, a new modeling approach is proposed that requires shifts to be generated implicitly rather than employing a predefined set of shift types like three 8-hour or two 12-hour shifts to cover varying forecast demand....

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