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Ethernet: The Definitive Guide

O'Reilly, 2000

The "Ethernet"--as distinct from the Internet, intranet, sneakernet, and others in the net family--is both a familiar face and a familiar name. However, it evokes the mental experience of the school crossing guard whose ownership of a corner of your mindscape is so context-sensitive that a change in venue renders the name or face...

The Definitive Guide to MongoDB: A complete guide to dealing with Big Data using MongoDB

Apress, 2013

The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Second Edition, is updated for the latest version and includes all of the latest MongoDB features, including the aggregation framework introduced in version 2.2 and hashed indexes in version 2.4. MongoDB is the most popular of the "Big Data" NoSQL database technologies, and it's still growing....

3D Videocommunication: Algorithms, concepts and real-time systems in human centred communication

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The migration of immersive media towards telecommunication applications is advancing rapidly. Impressive progress in the field of media compression, media representation, and the larger and ever increasing bandwidth available to the customer, will foster the introduction of these services in the future. One of the key components for the...

Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance

Focal Press, 2007

"This is a must-have book for anyone interested in the art of animation and I urge you to buy it and see for yourself what a feast for the eyes and the intellect it is!" .. World Animation Journal

In-depth discussion of the creativity behind making stop motion animated films from the masters of the craft - including Tom...

The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages

W W Norton, 2019

A beautifully illustrated, full-color guide to scrolls and their uses in medieval life.

Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex?or...

No Quarter: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)

McBooks Press, 2007

This first book in the series introduces Matty Graves, midshipman in the early years of the United States Navy. In 1799, the young US Navy faces France in an undeclared Quasi-War for the Caribbean. Matty Graves is caught up in escalating violence as he serves aboard the Rattle-Snake under his drunken cousin, Billy. Matty already knows how to...

The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production...

Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (New Mathematical Library Series/No. 32)

Mathematical Association of America, 1987

This is the third and final collection of puzzle columns that I contributed to Isaac Asimov' s Science Fiction Magazine over a period of about ten years. The format follows that of two previous anthologies: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981) and Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984).

Each chapter poses a problem answered in the First Answers...

Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion

Apress, 2019

Know how your company can accelerate growth by not only tapping into new growth vectors, but also by adapting its organization, culture, and processes.

To oversee growth from an idea to a company with billions in revenue, CEOs must reinvent many aspects of their company in anticipation of it reaching ever-higher revenues....

Tricks of the Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Masters

Que, 2007

All over the world, Windows gurus have been working overtime to uncover the hottest new Windows Vista tips, tricks, and tweaks. Now, J. Peter Bruzzese has collected all their best discoveries in one place: Tricks of the Microsoft^® Windows Vista^TM Masters! Bruzzese has interviewed top Windows professionals,...

Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research

Carl Mautz Publishing, 2000

Completely revised edition, featuring Richard Rudisill's Directories of Photographers, an annotated international bibliography, and six new essays on photography research. Included are David Haynes' "how to" essay expanded to include new resources provided by the advent of the computer and the World Wide Web); Linda Ries' sequel to her...

Mathematics for the Curious

Oxford University Press, 1998

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? How do we calculate the volume of a doughnut? Mathematics for the Curious provides anyone interested in mathematics with a simple and entertaining account of what it can do.

Author Peter Higgins gives clear...

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