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Universe (Britannica Illustrated Science Library)
Universe (Britannica Illustrated Science Library)

There was a time when people believed that the stars were bonfires lit by other tribes in the sky, that the universe was a flat plate resting on the shell of a giant turtle, and that the Earth, according to the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, was at the center of the universe. From the most remote of times, people have been curious...

Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects
Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects

The Foundry’s Nuke is fast becoming the industry leader in compositing software for film and TV. Virtually all the leading visual effects studios—ILM, Digital Domain, Weta Digital, MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and Sony Pictures Imageworks—now use Nuke as their main compositing tool. This is not surprising, as Nuke offers...

Computer Science Made Simple: Learn how hardware and software work-- and how to make them work for you!
Computer Science Made Simple: Learn how hardware and software work-- and how to make them work for you!

Welcome to Computer Science Made Simple, a novice’s guide to one of the most important fields today. I wrote this book with several kinds of readers in mind. For the person curious about how computers work and what the computer terms used in magazine advertisements mean, this book will provide the answers. For those considering...

The Complete Android Guide: 3Ones
The Complete Android Guide: 3Ones

Google's Android operating system for phones is definitely a moving target. During the production of this book's first version, the latest Android version available on a cutting-edge phone jumped from 1.6 to 2.2. In that time, too, phones made by HTC and Motorola became exceedingly popular, and modified versions of the Android...

Electric Power Transformer Engineering, Second Edition
Electric Power Transformer Engineering, Second Edition

It is appropriate that I first acknowledge my appreciation to Professor Leo Grigsby for inviting me to prepare the chapter on power transformers for the first edition (2001) of his now very popular Electric Power Engineering Handbook. From this evolved the recognition that two chapters from the 2001 Handbook, those for (1) substations...

App Inventor for Android: Build Your Own Apps - No Experience Required!
App Inventor for Android: Build Your Own Apps - No Experience Required!

When Android was first introduced by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, my first thought was of how awesome it would be to have a free open-source application environment for the growing smart phone revolution. The harsh reality hit when I tried to apply my rusty programming skills to the Java and Android software development kit (SDK)....

Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0
Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0

In response to the success of the first edition of Foundation Game Design with Flash, Rex van der Spuy has revised and updated all the code to meet current programming best practices, and the focus is now on accurate ActionScript 3.0, regardless of the IDE that you use.

We’ve all sneaked the
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802.11n: A Survival Guide
802.11n: A Survival Guide
Communications is changing our life in many ways. Our society is increasingly dependent on wireless communications technologies and the applications they support. In the same way that we can’t understand how the folks who lived in 1800 managed without anesthesia, television, … (insert favorite must-have...
Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook
Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook
The Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook is all about what happens once you've completed the various introductory tutorials, and want to create something with a little more substance.

In this book, you'll find examples of how to flesh out some of the more complex, or initially less intuitive, pieces
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ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development
ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development
There is a curious symmetry to the way this book presents Acceptance Test- Driven Development and the way software is developed with ATDD. Just as there is an art to picking the specific examples of program behavior that will elicit the correct general behavior for the system, there is an art to picking specific examples of a...
Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby: Learning About Everyday Things
Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby: Learning About Everyday Things

If you’re curious about how things work, this fun and intriguing guide will help you find real answers to everyday problems. By using fundamental math and doing simple programming with the Ruby and R languages, you’ll learn how to model a problem and work toward a solution.

All you need is a basic...

Devil & Miss Prym
Devil & Miss Prym

A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village -- Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether...

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