Unix Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management attempts to make UNIX essential and network administrative topics more accessible to a wide audience, including both academic and professional users. The selected book title...
Offering theoretical insights and practical suggestions, Achieving Excellence in Medical Education explores an essential question facing medical educators and learners: What is our vision of educational excellence and what can be done to enhance performance? Coverage includes: resources for promoting excellence in medical education, promises...
What is an "issue"? An issue derives from tension, or cognitive dissonance. Research or law may be reasonably clear on something but different collections of people—a community, a pressure group, political blocs, academicians—take a position contrary to the research or current practice. Or, there may be insufficient research...
In the summer of 2008, I began a personal blog powered by WordPress and quickly fell for the ease and extensibility of the platform. As an educator, I had tried a number of tools to power course websites, but had to be satisfied with the results. With the fall semester approaching, I decided to try WordPress in the classroom. As the academic...
This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taking the design and hobbyist world by storm. Getting Started with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for Arduino projects and helps you get going on them right away. From getting organized to putting the final...
Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online is a comprehensive book that melds detailed, how-to information on PC hardware and operating system security within the context of protecting one's privacy in a digital world. It is designed for individuals who are serious about their privacy and who also want an accessible, one-stop source of practical...
"Their first edition was a landmark work. This new edition is even better. Too many guidelines for instructional design are based on opinion or an attempt to be consistent with some philosophical position. It is most refreshing when one of the...
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PowerPoint, the number one presentation software, has been revised and improved with the introduction of Microsoft Office 2010. More than 120 million people are using PowerPoint to create business and educational presentations worldwide.
Easy to understand and filled with lively real-world examples, ECONOMICS: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH, Eighth Edition, is your ideal introduction to the principles of economics. McEachern approaches the course by using many economic concepts that you've likely encountered in your own life experiences. These life experiences are then explained...
VB.NET: A Laboratory Course teaches the reader how to program in Visual Basic from an object-oriented viewpoint, which is important becuase of the object-oriented flavor of VB.NET. The emphasis of this book is not on the fancy users interface tricks you can perform with VB.NET, but on the fundamentals of writing correct and efficient VB programs....
Digital video editing continues to grow in both the educational and at-home market and "Adobe Premiere Pro X Revealed" is perfect for anyone interested in editing video on their home computer. Written for users who have no previous experience with Premiere, the book takes them step-by-step through important video editing skills using the...
