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Geometry, Topology and Physics, Second Edition (Graduate Student Series in Physics)

Taylor & Francis, 2003

This book provides an introduction to the ideas and techniques of differential geometry and topology. It starts with a brief survey of quantum field theory, gauge theory, general relativity, vector spaces, and topology. Using many illustrations, exercises, and problems, the author demonstrates more elaborate concepts of topology and geometry,...

MAC OS X UNIX Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for the Mac OS X

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Explore a ton of powerful Mac OS X UNIX commands

This handy, compact guide teaches you to use Mac OS X UNIX systems as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply the skills you learn from this book to...

Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval (Software, Environments, Tools), Second Edition

SIAM, 2005

“There is no other information retrieval/search book where the heart is the mathematical foundations. This book is greatly needed to further establish information retrieval as a serious academic, as well as practical and industrial, area." ---Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University. “Berry and Browne describe most of what...

Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

University of Chicago Press, 2007

"The discussion of surveillance techniques is excellent, the legal analysis is sound, and the case for Fourth Amendment reform compelling. Recommended."-Choice (D. E. Smith Choice )

Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly...

Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System

Prentice Hall, 2003

"The book that Microsoft should have written, but didn't."
—Jeremy Allison, Samba Team

"Your detailed explanations are clear and backed-up with source code—and the numerous bits of humor make a dry subject very enjoyable to read."
—J.D. Lindemann, network engineer, Adaptec, Inc.

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The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

Apress, 2002

See what reviewers at Slashdot.org have to say about this book!

Conquer the problems that all professional programmers routinely face, regardless of language, operating system, or platform

Improve your ability to deliver solid code, on time and under budget, in even the most uncooperative...

The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture

Princeton Press, 2005

From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or...

Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture (Three Volume Set)

Sage Publications, 2009

"With a strong interdisciplinary approach to a subject that does not lend itself easily to the reference format, this work may not seem to support directly academic programs beyond general research, but it is a more thorough and up-to-date treatment than Taylor and Francis’s 1994 Encyclopedia of...

Secrets of the iPod

Peachpit Press, 2002

Everyone loves the iPod (though for a lot of us it's a fairly abstract love, given the gizmo's sticker price). In Secrets of the iPod, Christopher Breen--you may know him from TechTV--does a brain-dump on the latest version of the iPod. His coverage is complete, easy to read, and clearly reflects the personal experience of a man who likes...

Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality

Cambridge University Press, 2009

This book examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree about the requirements of political morality. Christopher McMahon argues that there will be a 'zone of reasonable disagreement' surrounding most questions of political morality. Moral notions of right and wrong evolve over time as new zones of reasonable disagreement emerge out of...

Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community

Oxford University Press, 1996

"This is a clear, insightful book that takes an alternative look at some of the broader issues surrounding software development.... The commentary on the work of Christopher Alexander, currently being taken up so fervently by the software architecture community, is particularly appealing."--Sanjiv Gossain, Associate Director, Cambridge...

Literary Texts and the Greek Historian

Routledge, 2000

This original survey explores the ways in which non-historical texts as well as historical ones can be used to construct Greek historical accounts.

Funding bodies used to be more relaxed, and when I became a graduate student I was admitted to research on ‘Greek literature and/or Roman history’. That capacious definition more...

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