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Real World Adobe InDesign CS4

Peachpit Press, 2009

Adobe InDesign is a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs in the Creative Suite. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design.

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design...

Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery

Random House, 1992

"Smullyan is not your run-of-the-mill puzzlemeister; he polishes up old chestnuts, spins variations on a theme, and peoples his logical world with a delightful cast of characters."

-- Science 82

"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who...

Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems

Springer, 2009

Evidence now suggests that the roles of essential fatty acids as growth promoters and as indices of health and nutrition are fundamentally similar in freshwater and marine ecosystems. "Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems" integrates this divergent literature into a coordinated, digestible form. Chapters are organized so as to discuss and...

Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups

Apress, 2009

Learn the business thinking behind financial modeling and execute what you know effectively using Microsoft Excel. Many believe that sales and profitability projections shown in financial models are the keys to success in attracting investors. The truth is that investors will come up with their own projections. The investor wants to understand the...

The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

For over a century, epic cinema has significantly shaped popular interest in Roman history and culture. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), the last of the silver-screen epics about ancient Rome before Gladiator, stands out as the only epic that attempted, and largely succeeded, to show the greatness of Roman civilization rather...

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems

Princeton Press, 2008

"Paul Nahin's Digital Dice is a marvelous book, one that is even better than his Duelling Idiots. Nahin presents twenty-one great probability problems, from George Gamow's famous elevator paradox (as corrected by Donald Knuth) to a bewildering puzzle involving two rolls of toilet paper, and he solves them all with the aid...

The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations

Scribner, 1977

This book has been a classic in the former Soviet Union since it was first published in 1956, and it remains just as entertaining today. A master at making math fun for his high school students, Boris Kordemsky loaded this clever collection with a wide variety of math and logic related games and puzzles dealing with magic squares, tricky...

Deblurring Images: Matrices, Spectra, and Filtering (Fundamentals of Algorithms 3)

SIAM, 2006

“The book’s focus on imaging problems is very unique among the competing books on inverse and ill-posed problems. …It gives a nice introduction into the MATLAB world of images and deblurring problems.”

— Martin Hanke, Professor, Institut für Mathematik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität.
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Sons of Fortune (Archer, Jeffrey)

St Martin Press, 2003

"A master at mixing power, politics, and profit into fiction."-- Entertainment Weekly

"Archer is a master entertainer"--Time magazine

"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."--The Boston Globe

"Cunning plots, silken style... Archer...

The Artful Universe Expanded

Oxford University Press, 2005

Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or symphony draws upon instincts laid down long before humans existed. Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly popular The Artful Universe, Barrow further explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and...

Light and Dark: An exploration in science, nature, art and technology

Taylor & Francis, 2002

Encourages us to take a more careful look at many familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of twilight through the year and the ability of human vision to misinterpret patterns of lines under certain conditions. Aims to be entertaining, instructive, diverse and unusual. Softcover.

In December 2001 Martin Creed was...

Refactoring: Ruby Edition

Addison Wesley, 2009

Just over a decade ago I (Martin) worked on a project with Kent Beck. This project, called C3, became rather known as the project that marked the birth of extreme programming and helped fuel the visibility of what we now know as the agile software movement.

We learned a lot of things on that project, but one thing that particularly...

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