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 Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small ThingsAn award-winning psychologist exposes the truth behind life's little oddities and absurdities in this quirky and practical guide to life.
For over twenty years, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life. In Quirkology, he navigates the backwaters of human behavior, discovering the... | | Red Wired: China's Internet Revolution
The Chinese share an imprecation (the first of three)—May you live in interesting times.1 The other two are considered even more forbidding—May you come to the attention of those in authority; and May you find what you are looking for. In contrast we, as authors, are blessed to live in interesting times; otherwise our search for... | | Telephone Projects for the Evil Genius
Since its inception in 1876, the telephone has captured the imagination of people around the world. From its simple origins, the telephone has evolved from the humble device it once was to the modern cell phone or satellite phone. The telephone has fundamentally and instantaneously changed the human race’s ability to communicate over... |
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No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film
I twice viewed No Country for Old Men in the theater, and on both occasions after the final image of Tommy Lee Jones had cut to black, there were audible exclamations from the patrons around me: “That’s it?” “What happened?” This twelfth film by Joel and Ethan Coen evoked the same response that the... | | Everything You Know about CSS Is Wrong!
Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You'll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory.
In this book, you'll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques... | | Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada
The arrival and popularity of multi-core processors have sparked a renewed
interest in the development of parallel programs. Similarly, the availability
of low cost microprocessors and sensors has generated a great interest in embedded
real-time programs. This book provides students and programmers
with traditional backgrounds in... |
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Economics For Dummies®, 2nd Edition
Economics is all about humanity’s struggle to achieve happiness in a world full of constraints. Too little time and money is available to do everything people want. And things like curing cancer are still impossible because the necessary technologies haven’t yet been developed.
But people are clever. They tinker and... | | Android in Action
When we set out to write the first version of this book, many friends and family wondered just what this Android thing was all about. Now, two years after the publication of the first edition, Android is nearly a household term.
The first edition of the book, Unlocking Android, enjoyed enough success that we were privileged to have... | | Why Does My Bird Do That: A Guide to Parrot Behavior
In this updated edition of the popular guide to parrot behavior, you’ll learn why your bird does strange things and discover positive techniques for modifying those behaviors. You'll get information on training and caring for your bird, normal behavior, and species-specific behavior. Don’t let your feathers get ruffled by a... |
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iPhone 3D Game Programming All In One
This is a complete guide to iPhone and iPod Touch game development. Beginning with the basics and ending with a finished game published in the App store this book covers all the fundamentals. The combined strength of Unity and the iPhone development platform are used to full effect allowing even complete novices to create and publish an... | | A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
From America's wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful book on the workings of stock markets and the basic irrationality of our dreams of wealth.
Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom.
In A Mathematician Plays the Stock... | | Mastering Perl
Take the next step toward Perl mastery with advanced concepts that make coding easier, maintenance simpler, and execution faster. Mastering Perl isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming for solving debugging, configuration, and many other real-world problems you’ll encounter... |
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