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You Be the Judge: 20 True Crimes and Cases to Solve

Sphinx Publishing, 2008

"This lively, original book is likely to be a milestone in America's ongoing fascination with the drama of trials and justice."
- Fred Graham, former chief anchor Court TV

Have you ever had the chance to decide the fate of another person? What would you do? In the real-life cases presented to you in this book,...

POSIX.4 Programmers Guide: Programming for the Real World

O'Reilly, 1995

What's "real-world programming"?Real-world programming (typically called real-time programming) is programming that interacts in some way with the "real world" of daily life. At one time, real-time systems were confined to very esoteric applications, like rocket guidance systems. Now, they play a role in...

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Advance praise for Philip Plaits Bad Astronomy

"Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and space you never knew you suffered from." —Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editor of The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia

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Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)

Addison Wesley, 2003

The Need for a Services Blueprint

As business processes increasingly become digitized, the role of management is changing from technology users to the reluctant “architects of services blueprints.” They need answers to strategic questions such as:

What kind of...

The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine

Oxford University Press, 2009

Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where...

Managementorientiertes IT-Controlling und IT-Governance (German Edition)

Springer, 2012

IT-Controlling und IT-Governance sind wesentliche Erfolgsfaktoren, um den ökonomischen Mehrwert der IT zu erhöhen. Das Werk vermittelt die theoretischen Grundlagen in diesem Bereich und zeigt mit zahlreichen Beispielen, wie es in der Praxis umgesetzt wird.

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The Art of Application Performance Testing: Help for Programmers and Quality Assurance

O'Reilly, 2009

This practical book provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before they're deployed -- a vital topic to which other books devote one chapter, if that. Businesses today live and die by network applications and web services. Because of the increasing complexity of these programs, and...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Addison Wesley, 2001

Relationale Datenbanksysteme sind in den letzten Jahren mit Abstand die wichtigsten Datenbanksysteme geworden, die in der Praxis angewendet werden. Die Gründe dafür sind mannigfaltig: die hohe Portierbarkeit der Anwendungen, die Verwendung der Standarddatenbanksprache SQL usw. Eines der herausragendsten relationalen Datenbanksysteme...

Outsourcing: The Definitive View, Applications, and Implications

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Outsourcing is the hottest topic in business, and it will likely stay that way. Managers, workers, executives, and almost anyone else involved in any large business will probably have to deal with it one day, in one way or another. Outsourcing is a business issue first and foremost, but it's also a political, personal, and cultural issue...

C# and the .Net Framework: The C++ Perspective

Sams Publishing, 2001

This book covers topics ranging from the general principles of .NET through the C# language and how its used in ASP.NET and Windows Forms. Written by programmers for programmers, the content of the book is intended to get readers over the hump of the .NET learning curve and provide solid practical knowledge that will make developers productive from...

Service Virtualization: Reality Is Overrated

Apress, 2012

Software drives innovation and success in today’s business world. Yet critical software projects consistently come in late, defective, and way over budget. So what’s the problem?

Get ready for a shock, because the answer to the problem is to avoid reality altogether. A new IT practice and technology called Service...

Game Coding Complete, Third Edition

Charles River, 2009

I had been playing the Ultima series of games by Richard Garriott since I was in high school, and I was a die-hard fan. Every game he published, I played all the way through, from Ultima I on the Apple ][ to Ultima V on the IBM PC. Ultima VI came out right as I graduated from college, and I noticed that the contact information for Origin...

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