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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)

Duke University Press, 2019

From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of...

Optimized C++: Proven Techniques for Heightened Performance

O'Reilly, 2016

In today’s fast and competitive world, a program’s performance is just as important to customers as the features it provides. This practical guide teaches developers performance-tuning principles that enable optimization in C++. You’ll learn how to make code that already embodies best practices of C++ design run...

Kivy Blueprints

Packt Publishing, 2015

Build your very own app-store-ready, multi-touch games and applications with Kivy!

About This Book

Learn how to create simple to complex functional apps quickly and easily with the Kivy framework

Bend Kivy according to your needs by customizing, overriding, and bypassing the built-in...

Introduction to Blockchain and Ethereum: Use distributed ledgers to validate digital transactions in a decentralized and trustless manner

Packt Publishing, 2018

Build distributed applications that resolve data ownership issues when working with transactions between multiple parties

Key Features

Explore a perfect balance between theories and hands-on activities

Discover popular Blockchain use cases such as Bitcoin

Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Apress, 2010

Anyone who has been developing on the Microsoft platform for the last several years knows the drill: every few years, there’s a new database access technology. There was ODBC; then DAO and RDO; OLEDB, ADO, and ADO.NET; LINQ to SQL; and now Entity Framework! In many ways, this progression of technologies has been confusing, but in other...

Artificial Intelligence. An International Perspective

Springer, 2009

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing inter-disciplinary field with a long and distinguished history that involves many countries and considerably pre-dates the development of computers. It can be traced back at least as far as Ancient Greece and has evolved over time to become a major subfield of computer science in general.

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Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Being a multidisciplinary area involving subjects such as mechanics, electronics and computing, the evolution and spread of robotics to different application sectors still requires intense interaction with other fields of science and technology. This applies equally when dealing with wearable robots, meaning robotic systems that a...

Pro Spring Boot 2: An Authoritative Guide to Building Microservices, Web and Enterprise Applications, and Best Practices

Apress, 2018

Quickly and productively develop complex Spring applications and microservices out of the box, with minimal concern over things like configurations. This revised book will show you how to fully leverage the Spring Boot 2 technology and how to apply it to create enterprise ready applications that just work. It will also cover...

Brain-Mind Machinery: Brain-inspired Computing and Mind Opening

World Scientific Publishing, 2009

Brain and mind continue to be a topic of enormous scientific interest. With the recent advances in measuring instruments such as two-photon laser scanning microscopy and fMRI, the neuronal connectivity and circuitry of how the brain's various regions are hierarchically interconnected and organized are better understood now than ever...

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

This book presents this new discipline in a very accessible form: both as a text to train the next generation of practitioners and researchers, and to inform lifelong learners like myself. Witten and Frank have a passion for simple and elegant solutions. They approach each topic with this mindset, grounding all concepts in concrete examples,...

Herb Gardening For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden))

For Dummies, 2010

A plain-English guide to the world of herb gardening

Starting an herb garden isn't free, but it certainly outweighs the growing costs of buying retail herbs. Plus, adding homegrown ingredients to your meals is a healthy and tasty way to improve upon any dish you whip up at home.

This friendly, hands-on guide is an...

Programming Smalltalk - Object-Orientation from the Beginning: An introduction to the principles of programming

Springer, 2015

A straightforward, step-by-step introduction to clear and elegant object-oriented programming. Using a language that's perfect for this kind of programming, the book has been tested in numerous courses and workshops over ten years.

Programming Smalltalk is particularly suited for readers with no prior programming...

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