Perl was originally written by Larry Wall while he was working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs. Larry is an Internet legend, known not just for Perl, but as the author of the UNIX utilities rn, one of the original Usenet newsreaders, and patch, a tremendously useful tool that takes a list of differences between two files and allows you to...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a big field, and this is a big book. We have tried to explore the full breadth of the field, which encompasses logic, probability, and continuous mathematics; perception, reasoning, learning, and action; and everything from microelectronic devices to robotic planetary explorers. The book is...

Nonprofits must comply with stringent federal and state laws due to their special tax-exempt status; the government's ultimate threat is revocation of a nonprofit's...

This is an introductory book to radiological English on the basis that there are a lot of radiologists, radiology residents, radiology nurses, radiology students, and radiographers worldwide whose English level is indeterminate because their reading skills are much higher than their fluency. It is intended to help those health care...

Yatta, we did it! We wrote a book about Entity Framework! It’s not our first book, but it’s the first one written in English and distributed worldwide. It was a great challenge, but having the opportunity to spread the word about Entity Framework made it worth the effort. Entity Framework is a great tool that speeds up the...

So how do you build an application for the iPhone and iPad? Don’t you need to spend years learning complicated programming languages? What about Objective-C and Cocoa touch? The answer is that you don’t need to know any of those things! Anybody can start building simple apps for the iPhone and iPad, and this book will show you...

The bestselling Personal Finance For Dummies has helped countless readers budget their funds successfully, rein in debt, and build a strong foundation for the future. Now, renowned financial counselor Eric Tyson combines his time-tested financial advice...

This book is the sixth volume in this series on the clinical practice of medicine. In it, students and practitioners will find the disease causes and mechanisms, patterns, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal treatment of three dozen or more diseases affecting the urogenital system and lower gastrointestinal tract. It includes an amazingly wide...

UNIX operating system, which is a source code operating system, is widely used in the application area of enterprise-level industries and in the embedded devices. This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the development and management principles of UNIX operating system, core services, Shell, computer networking and...

"There’s only one name in marketing: Phil Kotler. His latest may be his best–a summa that captures the best of his insights, as original today as when he first took pen in hand, forty years ago."
–Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence and...

You can buy everything from beanies to Buicks on eBay – if you know how and where to look. So grab this book before you bid! The leading eBay maven tells you where to...