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The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature in the world approaches its power. Yet most Americans have only a murky idea of how it works.

In The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than...

Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby
Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby
Raven is a Ruby-based build system that leverages Ruby tools (namely Rake and Gems) to help you effectively and easily manage your Java projects, providing a way to handle dependencies and specific tasks for Java. Raven: Scripting Java™ Builds with Ruby

covers the most productive and flexible Java build tool around with the...

Phase Transitions in Machine Learning
Phase Transitions in Machine Learning

From its inception in the 1930s, the rich and vigorous field of computer science has been concerned with the resources, both in time and in memory, needed to carry out a computation. A number of fundamental theorems were discovered that resorted to a worst-case analysis. The central question was whether a given algorithm could be...

Organizational Consulting: How to Be an Effective Internal Change Agent
Organizational Consulting: How to Be an Effective Internal Change Agent
Praise for Organizational Consulting

"Alan grasps the very essence of organizational consulting. It’s not about foolish fads or mindless meetings, it’s about relationships, trust and focusing on key issues with a sense of urgency that gets results. His principles and techniques are easy to understand and apply."
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Sinatra: Up and Running
Sinatra: Up and Running

When people speak of Ruby web development, it has historically been in reference to the opinionated juggernaut that is Rails. This is certainly not an unfounded association; Hulu, Yellow Pages, Twitter, and countless others have relied on Rails to power their (often massive) web presences, and Rails facilitates that process with zeal....

JRuby Cookbook
JRuby Cookbook
If you're interested in JRuby, you probably don't need a turorial on Ruby, Rails, or Java -- you just need to know how to get things done. This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the Java implementation of the Ruby language, with targeted recipes for deploying Rails web applications on Java servers, integrating JRuby code with Java...
The Enjoyment of Math
The Enjoyment of Math
A thoroughly enjoyable sampler of fascinating mathematical problems and their solutions.
(Science )

Each chapter is a gem of mathematical exposition.... [The book] will not only stretch the imagination of the amateur, but it will also give pleasure to the sophisticated mathematician.
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Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills (Photography Essential Skills)
Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills (Photography Essential Skills)

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,...

Learning Devise for Rails
Learning Devise for Rails

Use Devise to make your Rails application accessible, user friendly, and secure

Overview

  • Use Devise to implement an e-mail-based sign-in process in a few minutes
  • Override Devise controllers to allow username-based sign-ins, and customize default Devise HTML views to change the look and feel...
Application Testing with Capybara
Application Testing with Capybara

One of my colleagues once described the Ruby community as "Test Infected" and if any library epitomizes this it's Capybara, which has gained popularity exponentially since it was first released. The Ruby community certainly owes its creator Jonas Nicklas a great deal of thanks for bringing peace and harmony to many test...

A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology
A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology
This practical guide provides a succinct treatment of the general concepts of cell biology, furnishing the computer scientist with the tools necessary to read and understand current literature in the field.

The book explores three different facets of biology: biological systems, experimental methods, and language and...

Game Engine Gems, Volume One
Game Engine Gems, Volume One

In the fields of computer graphics and computer game development, the word gem has been established as a term for describing a short article that focuses on a particular technique, a clever trick, or practical advice that a person working in these fields would find interesting and useful....

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