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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)

Sams Publishing, 2002

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Third Edition presents the key features of SQL (Structured Query Language) in an easy to understand format with updated code examples, notes, diagrams, exercises, and quizzes. New material covers more information on transactions, constructs, embedded databases, and object-oriented programming. In this...

The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue

Princeton Press, 2004

More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and...

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design

Rockport Publishers, 2010

Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find the information and know-how...

The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch

Princeton Press, 2011

Where do our things really come from? China is the most common answer, but Thomas Thwaites decided he wanted to know more. In The Toaster Project, Thwaites asks what lies behind the smooth buttons on a mobile phone or the cushioned soles of running sneakers. What is involved in extracting and processing materials? To answer these...

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

When the first edition of About Face was published in 1995, the idea of designing products based on human goals was a revolutionary concept. Thanks to the work of Alan Cooper and other pioneers, interaction design is now widely recognized as a unique and vital discipline, but our work is far from finished.

This completely updated volume...

The Radio Station, Seventh Edition: Broadcast, Satellite & Internet

Focal Press, 2006

Keith's masterful updated survey of what has changed and what remains the same in the dynamic audio industry.
- Christopher Sterling,
George Washington University

The bible for beginning radio professionals. A complete guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry. The book is now a...

A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites

The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2010

The Web is always moving, always changing. As some Web sites come, others go, but the most effective sites have been well established. A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites provides a list of key web sites in various disciplines that will assist researchers with a solid starting point for their queries. The sites included in this collection...

The Da Vinci Code

Doubleday, 2003

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in...

Klimt (Mega Square Collection)

Parkstone Press, 2011

Gustav Klimt first made himself known by the decorations he executed (with his brother and their art school companion F. Matsch), for numerous theatres and above all (on his own this time) for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart. At the age of thirty he moved into...

Lonely Planet Discover Egypt (Country Guide)

Lonely Planet, 2012

Experience The Best of Egypt
The Pyramids of Giza, Siwa Oasis, Luxor Museum – we’ve selected the most iconic sights and incredible places so you can enjoy the real Egypt with the minimum of fuss.

Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiences
Itineraries...

Visualizing Data

O'Reilly, 2008

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and...

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer

MIT Press, 2003

Sitting in the reading rooms of the Public Record Office in London, a historian is in the center of a museum of organization. Copies of the catalogue to the museum fill several walls (although these are now complemented by online versions). The catalogue lists are dominated by references to objects of one kind: the file. The file has in its...

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