This guide to anime offers an overview of the art form, looking at its development in Japan and its export to other cultures. It includes a history of Japanese animation from early examples to the relaunch of animation as a viable commercial...

Your investing options aren’t confined to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Those are merely the most common investments and, as recent history proves, certainly not the safest or most profitable. How to Make Money in Alternative Investments introduces you to more than 40 places to invest your money outside the...

• Learn how to create, retrieve, update, and delete the data in a relational database using .NET
• Choose from an array of examples in C# and VB.NET that showcase the key concepts of Entity Framework
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• Add search capability to your custom applications
• Integrate with the core Hibernate system, using traditional APIs or JPA
• Write search queries in no time that may...

• Understand and develop using the entity paradigm and entity metadata wrappers
• Create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on all entities
• Programmatically attach fields to entities...