• Write custom producers and consumers with message partition techniques
• Integrate Kafka with Apache Hadoop and Storm for use cases such as processing streaming...

This book aims to explain to the readers the basic idea of the general equilibrium theory, which forms the core of the current mainstream economics called neoclassical school. To understand this theory is absolutely necessary, either to study further or to criticize the contemporary economic theories. The author not only explains traditional...

Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values, by George C. Christie, examines the attempts by courts to sort out conflicts involving freedom of expression, including religious expression, on the one hand, and rights to privacy and other important social values on the other. It...

Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on...

• Discover the semantics of HTML5 and Microdata
• Understand the concept of the CSS3 Flexible Box...

Just what does it take to be a stratonaut, soaring to higher and higher altitudes of Earth's atmosphere? Brave men and women have reached extreme heights in balloons, aircraft and rocket ships over the past two centuries, from the first untethered balloon flight to the first flights in the newly defined stratosphere, through to the...

• Build high performance NoSQL .NET based applications with step-by-step practical examples
• Master advanced RavenDB indexes and queries
• Create objects in .NET and map them to RavenDB
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Amateur astronomers interested in learning more about astronomical spectroscopy now have the guide they need. It provides detailed information about how to get started inexpensively with low-resolution spectroscopy, and then how to move on to more advanced  high-resolution spectroscopy. Uniquely, the instructions concentrate very much on...

Pro Microsoft HDInsight is a complete guide to deploying and using Apache Hadoop on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platforms. The information in this book enables you to process enormous volumes of structured as well as non-structured data easily using HDInsight, which is Microsoft’s own distribution of Apache Hadoop....

Whether you're experienced with using the iPhone or new to the iPhone family, this practical guide provides you with clear visual instructions on how to use your new iPhone 5s or 5c. More than 500 color illustrations, combined with...

• A step-by-step guide that goes beyond theory, letting you get hand-on experience
• Utilize a dataset and table adapter as data sources for your report
• Learn how to add reports to forms...

• Improve your productivity by efficiently managing dependencies.
• Learn how to detect and fix dependency conflicts
• Learn how to share transitive relations and to visualize your...