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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010

Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you'll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you'll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than...

Bioinformatics: High Performance Parallel Computer Architectures (Embedded Multi-Core Systems)

CRC Press, 2010

New sequencing technologies have broken many experimental barriers to genome scale sequencing, leading to the extraction of huge quantities of sequence data. This expansion of biological databases established the need for new ways to harness and apply the astounding amount of available genomic information and convert it into substantive...

HF Filter Design and Computer Simulation

Noble Publishing, 1994

A book for engineers who design and build filters of all types, including lumped element, coaxial, helical, dielectric resonator, stripline and microstrip types. A thorough review of classic and modern filter design techniques, containing extensive practical design information of passband characteristics, topologies and transformations,...

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Richard Bird takes a radically new approach to algorithm design, namely, design by calculation. These 30 short chapters each deal with a particular programming problem drawn from sources as diverse as games and puzzles, intriguing combinatorial tasks, and more familiar areas such as data compression and string matching. Each pearl starts with...

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python: Practical Programming for Biological Data (Animal Guide)

O'Reilly, 2009

Powerful, flexible, and easy to use, Python is an ideal language for building software tools and applications for life science research and development. This unique book shows you how to program with Python, using code examples taken directly from bioinformatics. In a short time, you'll be using sophisticated techniques and...

City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11

FT Press, 2010

The World Trade Center’s destruction unleashed one of the gravest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Now, former NY Times Ground Zero reporter Anthony DePalma presents a full accounting of the disaster that followed 9/11. He separates myths from reality…reveals decisions that destroyed...

The Killer Book of True Crime: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007

This book is designed to serve up a potpourri of delectable information about crime in a manner that’s entertaining, informative, and satisfying. It should be right down the average crime lover’s gurney—or rather, alley.

This book serves up crime in a variety of ways. There are Notable Quotables (quotes from...

Mathematica Cookbook

O'Reilly, 2010

Mathematica Cookbook helps you master the application's core principles by walking you through real-world problems. Ideal for browsing, this book includes recipes for working with numerics, data structures, algebraic equations, calculus, and statistics. You'll also venture into exotic territory with recipes for data...

Hierarchical Voronoi Graphs: Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Mobile Robots

Springer, 2009

Voronoi graphs and their hierarchical extensions have become a widely used tool for deriving abstract spatial representations from environmental data. They are currently being studied and applied in several subfields of computer science such as AI and robotics, computational geometry, and geoinformatics.

This book investigates the...

Fairness in Bargaining and Markets (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Springer, 2009

This book contributes to behavioral economic research on the central issue of social preferences, focusing on the implications of social fairness norms on the interaction of market participants. The author uses both game-theoretic and experimental methods to analyze the implications of social fairness norms on the outcomes of bilateral...

Markovian Demand Inventory Models (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2009

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade...

Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Packt Publishing, 2009

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place - it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here.

This book demystifies Moodle and...

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