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Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

Joseph Henry Press, 2006

Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages—and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting...

Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam

O'Reilly, 2009

Learn the latest principles and certification objectives in The PMBOK Guide, Fourth Edition, in a unique and inspiring way with Head First PMP . The second edition of this book helps you prepare for the PMP certification exam using a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. You'll find a full-length...

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers (Graphics Series)

Charles River, 2007

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers is a completely updated edition of this insightful and practical guide to using Photoshop as your photographic editing tool. All of the new featurees of CS3 related to photography are thoroughly covered and wide variety of new photos and tutorials are used to teach you how to organize, enhance,...

Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer

Oxford University Press, 2005

the amount of information collected by the editor is huge and it offers interesting reading for anybody with a deep interest in computer history. EMS Newsletter Wonderful...The Essential Turing is a must. J. Bowen, The Times Higher Education Supplement This book (and the related website of the Turing Archive) will be an invaluable reference for...

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief

AMACOM, 2009

“I raised my own freethinking sons not that long ago, and I had little choice but to do it without much practical support. This book is the best, most comprehensive compendium of secular parenting strategies and tips I can imagine. It shows how, without the aid of any supernatural overseer, you can raise kids who...

Gnuplot in Action: Understanding Data with Graphs

Manning Publications, 2009

Statistical data is only as valuable as your ability to analyze, interpret, and present it in a meaningful way. Gnuplot is the most widely used program to plot and visualize data for Unix/Linux systems and it is also popular for Windows and the Mac. It's open-source (as in free!), actively maintained, stable, and mature. It can deal with...

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880

Oxford University Press, 2009

Credit's centrality to the current economic crisis makes the publication of Sean O'Connell's social history of working-class credit consumption particularly timely. Although the credit crunch came too late to be included in this book, the portrait of a complex relationship between lenders and borrowers over the past 120 years should be required...

Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure (Advances in Design and Control)

SIAM, 1987

This book is the first to pay special attention to the combined issues of speed and numerical reliability in algorithm development. These two requirements have often been regarded as competitive, so much so that the design of fast and numerically reliable algorithms for large-scale structured systems of linear equations, in many cases, remains a...

Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About

Alliance Publishing, 2005

Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off a nest of deception and double standards concerning general and individual health in this new book, "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About." Kevin has risked government prosecution to bring you the full story of an intricate conspiracy.

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A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, Second Edition

Academic Press, 2008

Mathematica enables the user to solve a wide range of physics problems and provides an environment that allows the user to develop a greater intuitive understanding of physics. This book will aid the reader in using Mathematica for numerical, symoblic, and graphical calculations, and also will demonstrate the program's capability to animate two-...

Body language: How to read others’ thoughts by their gestures

Sheldon Press, 1984

When I first heard about ‘body language’ at a seminar in 1971, I became so excited about it that I wanted to learn more. The speaker told us about some of the research done by Professor Ray Birdwhistell at the University of Louisville, which had shown that more human communication took place by the use of gestures, postures, position...

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security, Membership, and Role Management with C# and VB

Wrox Press, 2008

As the only book to address ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, and IIS 7 security from the developer’s point of view, this book begins with a look at the new features of IIS 7.0 and then goes on to focus on IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 integration. You’ll walk through a detailed explanation of the request life cycle for an ASP.NET application running on IIS...

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