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Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (The Facets of Ruby)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013

Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox.

This book is the only complete reference for both Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0, the very latest version of Ruby.

2013 marks the 20th...

The Origins of the Roman Economy: From the Iron Age to the Early Republic in a Mediterranean Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2021

In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic. Bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, he argues that the early Roman economy was more diversified than has been previously acknowledged, going well beyond agriculture and pastoralism. Cifani bases his argument on...

Theory of the Earth

Stanford University Press, 2021

We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or...

Cisco AVVID and IP Telephony Design and Implementation

Syngress Publishing, 2001

Cisco AVVID Design and Implementation is a complete reference for network administrators and engineers responsible for a complicated AVVID network. This book covers history, protocols, hardware, servers, switches, bridges, and routers, and discusses implementation issues, realities of cost, requirements, and network limitations. Engineers will...

Digital Nature Photography: The Art and the Science

Focal Press, 2007

Over 50,000 photographers cant be wrong! John and Barbara Gerlach finally write the book their workshop attendees have been asking for!

Digital Nature Photography is a how-to guide for photographers who want to take their work to the next level. Written by professionals with over 20 years experience, the Gerlachs reveal enlightening...

Method of Discrete Vortices

CRC Press, 1992

The present book provides an effective direct method of the numerical solution of singular integral equations for both one and two (or more) dimensions and includes multiple integrals, especiaIly as applied to separated and vortex flows in aerodynamics. The authors of the book are a professional mathematician (Ivan Lifanov) and a numerical...

Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Introducing service orientation as a vision and philosophy that can impact a business, this innovative new book equips the reader to:

Best use technology resources to meet goals

Unleash their "inner nerd" to embrace IT as part of their business as a whole

Address the "mother of all business...

Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies (Health & Fitness)

For Dummies, 2008

"the authors...know their stuff...the book is a fairly painless way to learn more about subjects you might rather avoid." -- Chicago Tribune, December 1, 2002

Need to get your cholesterol in check? You’ll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and...

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

Springer, 2010

The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West’s own traditions.

This is the first collection of...

The Secret History of the World: And How to Get Out Alive

Limitless Corporation, 2005

I suspected something was wrong with the “facts of life” as they were presented to me when I was a kid. Sure, I then spent a little over thirty years trying to be “normal” and make that square peg fit the round hole, “looking for a reason to believe.” But then there was a memorable day when I finally grew up and...

History of Programming Languages (Acm Monograph Series)

Academic Press, 1981

These proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference are a record, in the words of those who helped make the history, of a baker's dozen of the languages that set the tone of most of today's programming. It is difficult to describe the feeling that prevailed at the conference. There were no parallel...

Molecular Logic-based Computation: RSC (Monographs in Supramolecular Chemistry)

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

We all learn - in schools, factories, bars and streets. We gather, store, process and transmit information in society. Molecular systems involved in our senses and within our brains allow all this to happen and molecular systems allow living things of all kinds to handle information for the purpose of survival and growth. Nevertheless, the...

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