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System Level Design with Rosetta (Systems on Silicon)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

The steady and unabated increase in the capacity of silicon has brought the semiconductor industry to a watershed challenge. Now a single chip can integrate a radio transceiver, a network interface, multimedia functions, all the "glue" needed to hold it together as well as a design that allows the hardware and software to be reconfigured...

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (Food, Health, and the Environment)

MIT Press, 2009

In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing,...

Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games

CMP Books, 2003

The popular Postmortem column in Game Developer magazine features firsthand accounts of how some of the most important and successful games of recent years have been made. This book offers the opportunity to harvest this expertise with one volume. The editor has organized the articles by theme and added previously unpublished analysis to reveal...

Developing Software with UML: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design in Practice (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2002

Practical guide to exploiting the power of Object Technology and UML in your software development process.

This book is a practical, example-driven introduction to OO analysis and design. The author is a highly experienced OO practitioner and in the book he highlights the benefits of using the OO approach for software development.

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The Fly-Tying Bible: 100 Deadly Trout and Salmon Flies in Step-by-Step Photographs

Barron's Educational Series, 2003

Avid sport fishermen will treasure this book?which is nearly as beautiful as the objects it describes. Fly-tying is a highly prized fisherman?s craft, but it?s also an art form, wonderfully captured in this volume?s hundreds of color photos. Each of 100 fly patterns is presented in a two-page spread: an enlarged photo and textual description on the...

Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience

Addison Wesley, 2011

Are you a software developer? Are you interested in how build systems work? You’re reading this book; so there’s a good chance you answered “Yes” to both questions. On the other hand, many software developers aren’t interested in how their program is compiled. Most people just want to press a button and...

What's Your Future Worth?: Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015

We weigh every significant decision based on how it will affect our future. But when it comes to figuring that out, we mostly make the process up as we go along. While financial professional Peter Neuwirth can't help you actually predict the future, he can offer...

MongoDB in Action: Covers MongoDB version 3.0

Manning Publications, 2016

Summary

MongoDB in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated version. It introduces MongoDB 3.0 and the document-oriented database model. This perfectly paced book gives you both the big picture you'll need as a developer and enough low-level detail to satisfy system engineers.

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Option Pricing Models and Volatility Using Excel-VBA (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

T his book constitutes a guide for implementing advanced option pricing models and volatility in Excel/VBA. It can be used by MBA students specializing in finance and risk management, by practitioners, and by undergraduate students in their final year. Emphasis has been placed on implementing the models in VBA, rather than on the theoretical...

Imaging in Rheumatology (Medicine)

Oxford University Press, 2003

Imaging in Rheumatology provides a unique, comprehensive review of the modalities of imaging now available to assist rheumatologists in diagnosing and managing virtually all rheumatic diseases. It is divided into three sections. The first describes in simple detail how the various modes of imaging work in practice. The second informs the reader...

Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

"The first edition of this book, published 30 years ago by Duda and Hart, has been a defining book for the field of Pattern Recognition. Stork has done a superb job of updating the book. He has undertaken a monumental task of sifting through 30 years of material in a rapidly growing field and presented another snapshot of the field,...

Principles of Network and System Administration

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Burgess fine book … is a well-articulated introduction to a corpus of guiding principles for systems administrators … I consider this an important book … I think that Burgess will become part of the required reading for future (and current) systems administrators. Peter Salus, Usenix Association Features

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