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St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: 2

St. James Press, 2000

Sometimes, when I’m wandering in an art museum looking at the relics of an ancient civilization, I find myself wondering how a future society would represent a defunct American culture. What objects would be chosen—or would survive—to be placed on display? Would I agree with a curator’s choices? Were I to choose...

Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012

Apress, 2012

Microsoft SQL Server implements extensive support for location-based data. Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012 introduces SQL Server’s spatial feature set, and covers everything you'll need to know to store, manipulate, and analyze information about the physical location of objects in space. You’ll learn about the...

Desire2Learn for Higher Education Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

Creating an engaging online or web-enhanced class in the Desire2Learn Learning Environment doesn't have to be difficult. The easy-to-follow recipes in this cookbook guide you through everything from getting your course ready for students to calculating final grades.

"Desire2Learn for Higher Education Cookbook" offers...

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice, 6th Edition

WebMD Professional Publishing, 2007

In recent years, the commercialization of the American health care industry has challenged medicine across the breadth of its traditional roles and responsibilities. This trend is growing, and the greater emphasis on the commercialization and secularization of medicine has generated in medical professionals a passionate desire...

Pro WPF 4.5 in VB: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5

Apress, 2012

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a modern graphical display system for Windows. It’s a radical change from the technologies that came before it, with innovative features such as built-in hardware acceleration and resolution independence, both of which you’ll explore in this chapter.

WPF is the...

SAS/STAT 9.2 User's Guide: Statistical Graphics Using ODS (Book Excerpt)

SAS Institute, 2009

Effective graphics are indispensable for modern statistical analysis. They reveal patterns, differences, and uncertainty that are not readily apparent in tabular output. Graphics provoke questions that stimulate deeper investigation, and they add visual clarity and rich content to reports and presentations.

In earlier...

XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

Microsoft's XNA Framework provides C# developers with a robust and efficient method of utilizing the DirectX and Direct3D Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in order to build 3D games for the Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone platforms.

This book will present a series of video games, utilizing the XNA...

Values, Units, and Colors

O'Reilly, 2012

Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to work with an array of units—including measurements and keywords—that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and...

Information Visualization, Third Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2012

Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information.

The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by...

MATLAB Graphics and Data Visualization Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

MATLAB's customizable graphics elements allow you to tailor your visualizations for exactly what you need to present; alter the figure and axis properties, lighting, transparency and camera position. Use MATLAB to apply volume visualizations to your data as well as interactivity and animation, or to plot your data in 1, 2, 3 and higher...

Raspberry Pi A Quick-Start Guide

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

Over the past decades computers have gotten cheaper and cheaper, so today you can find them not only beneath your desk but in nearly every consumer electronics device such as smartphones or DVD players. Still, computers aren’t so cheap that you spontaneously buy one when shopping for your groceries. Usually, you carefully...

Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Introducing (Microsoft))

Microsoft Press, 2012

The Windows 8 operating system is the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family. It differs from earlier Windows releases as much for what it does not change as for what it does change. That is, the features that IT pros loved about Windows 7 are still there in Windows 8—just better. The same keyboard shortcuts,...

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