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Accelerated Silverlight 3 (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Apress, 2009

Accelerated Silverlight 3 teaches you how to get up to speed with the latest version of Silverlight quickly and efficiently. The book assumes you're already comfortable with the basics of .NET coding and with WPF and builds on your existing knowledge to make your journey to Silverlight 3 proficiency as quick and painless as possible....

Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5 (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2009

WE FEEL PRETTY FORTUNATE. During the past three decades, we have traveled the world teaching programmers what we know. Between the two of us, we have led hundreds of classes and taught thousands of professional programmers. We enjoy working with the people who are inventing the future, andwehave been fortunate enough to have been at the cutting...

The Art of Lean Software Development: A Practical and Incremental Approach

O'Reilly, 2009

This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. With The Art of...

Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Consider that 80 percent of the information within most organizations is unstructured: word processing files, e-mail, spreadsheets, Web content, images, graphics, and all the other digital assets that organizations create and use as part of their business processes. Fully 90 percent of this unstructured information remains unmanaged within most...

The New York City Subway System (Building America: Then and Now)

Chelsea House Publications, 2009

In 1912, workers digging to create the Broadway Subway, north of Murray Street in lower Manhattan, hit a brick wall approximately 21 feet (6.4 meters) below the street surface. Breaking through the wall, the laborers came upon a tunnel 9 feet (2.7 m) in diameter and lined with eight- inch- thick (20.32 centimeters) bricks. Two rails led into a...

SpeakOut: The Step-by-Step Guide to SpeakOuts and Community Workshops (Tools for Community Planning)

Earthscan, 2009

This new manual is the product of nearly two decades of successful practice by internationally acclaimed community planning specialists. It will enable both planning veterans and people with little or no experience in the field to conduct a wide variety of community engagement events with absolute confidence.

It introduces the...

Mysticism in the World's Religions

Oneworld Publications, 1995

This wide-ranging book covers all the major religious traditions, while exploring monistic and theistic mysticism, and such key issues as altered states of consciousness, sex, and visionary experiences.

There is a widespread modem interest in religious affairs in the broadest sense, from Hare Krishna to the Jesus People and from...

Computers in Psychiatry

RCPsych Publications, 2006

At its heart, a psychiatrists work is about communicating. Failures in communication have led to well-publicised failures in care. The new technologies of communication can hopefully lead to better care. To realise these hopes, however, psychiatrists need a computer book aimed at intelligent professionals, not dummies. This is that book.It differs...

Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience (Animal Guide)

O'Reilly, 2009

From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable...

Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes

Dover Publications, 1997

Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of a number of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics and language. Delightful elucidations of methods for misunderstanding the real world of experiment (Aristotle™s Circle paradox), being led astray by algebra (De Morgan™s paradox) and other mind-benders. Some...

Critical Play: Radical Game Design

MIT Press, 2009

For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer Mary Flanagan...

The History of Approximation Theory: From Euler to Bernstein

Birkhauser, 2005

The problem of approximating a given quantity is one of the oldest challenges faced by mathematicians. Its increasing importance in contemporary mathematics has created an entirely new area known as Approximation Theory. The modern theory was initially developed along two divergent schools of thought: the Eastern or Russian group, employing...

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