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Architecture of Italy (Reference Guides to National Architecture)

Greenwood Press, 2008

Covering all regions of Italy--from Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicily--and all periods of Italian architecture--from the first-century Colosseum in Rome to the Casa Rustica apartments built in Milan in the 1930s--this volume examines over 70 of Italy's most important architectural landmarks....

AI for Computer Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

AK Peter, 1999

Simply put, AI for Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling Approach shows how video game characters can be taught to "think" for themselves. This groundbreaking title points the way for the future of intelligent gaming. While this book features formal mathematical proofs of its arguments, it also provides a worthwhile overview...

Valve Selection Handbook, Fifth Edition: Engineering Fundamentals for Selecting the Right Valve Design for Every Industrial Flow Application

Gulf Professional, 2003

Valves are the components in a fluid flow or pressure system that regulate either the flow or the pressure of the fluid. They are used extensively in the process industries, especially petrochemical. Though there are only four basic types of valves, there is an enormous number of different kinds of valves within each category, each one used for a...

IPv6 in Practice: A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet

Springer, 2010

Back in early 2000 I first tried to get seriously started with IPv6. But I couldn’t find any documentation that helped me to understand how to make it work in my usual environment. Being swamped with work at my then job I eventually gave up, frustrated for the first time.

In 2002 Silvia Hagen published the...

A Practical Guide to UNIX® for Mac OS® X Users

Prentice Hall, 2005

The Most Useful UNIX Guide for Mac OS X Users Ever, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples!

Beneath Mac OS^{^®} X’s stunning graphical user interface (GUI) is the most powerful operating system ever created: UNIX^®. With unmatched clarity and...

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More

O'Reilly, 2008

High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced...

Building Your Own Home For Dummies

For Dummies, 2005

Keep construction on track with helpful checklists

Turn your dream of a custom home into reality!

Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy...

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The essays in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Historically and in our own time scholars have shown that rhetoric can very well be theorized in the strong sense that...

Ophthalmology A Pocket Textbook Atlas

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2006

In this second edition, we have again designed the book in accordance with the principles of “understanding it in medical school,” “learning it for the examination,” and “using it during internship.” The broader goal was to give students a textbook thatwould kindle their interest and indeed their...

Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

A powerful new model to design and manage distributed dynamic systems

This text expands and builds upon the author's landmark work, Mobile Processing in Distributed and Open Environments, by introducing a new extended, universal WAVE-WP (or world processing) model for distributed processing and control in dynamic and open worlds. The new model...

Pro Apache, Third Edition (Expert's Voice)

Apress, 2004

"...a behemoth of a resource for everything you ever wanted to know about Apache." — Doug Schasteen, member, Kansas City's PHP User Group

"This is by far the best ‘know all, end all’ reference, bar none. My hat goes off to Peter Wainwright and Apress for opening up a whole new world to me."...

Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example

Addison Wesley, 2010

“Ruby on Rails™ 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps.”

—Peter Cooper, Editor of Ruby Inside

Using Rails 3, developers...

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