Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide covers fractions, variables,...

Take advantage of your computer's features and tools right away--the QuickSteps way. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do. Follow along and quickly learn how to navigate the Windows operating system; get online; use...

Enable real-time information access and data sharing across your distributed framework using the expert information in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Streams 11g Data Replication explains how to set up and administer a unified enterprise data sharing infrastructure. Learn how...

Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 explains how to take full advantage of Microsoft's collaborative business intelligence (BI) tools. A variety of powerful, flexible technologies are covered, including SQL...

Though the book is primarily theoretical in nature, it attempts to avoid the...

Soft computing, as a collection of techniques exploiting approximation and tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty in traditionally intractable problems, has become very effective and popular especially because of the synergy derived from its components. The integration of constituent technologies provides complementary methods that allow...

Information security has become a critical component in the stability and progress of the modern world. With high expectations from the public and stringent regulations from legislative and industry bodies, never have the pressures on corporations, governments and other organizations been so great to protect their own data as well as...

Throughout these lessons you will not only record your own tracks, but you’ll also...

Books which examine the folklore of Europe's traditional "witch" plants are not uncommon, and some give some coverage to describing the psychotropic and hallucinogenic effects of these plants on the human body. However this book is rather more unusual than that in that the author is first and foremost a biochemist with an...

For several years now, there has been a constant increase in the number of works on UML and object modelling. However, my practical experience of training (more than a thousand or so people trained in OMT, then UML since 1993…) convinced me that there is still another need that is not tended to by the multitude of books...

This book is about the use of techniques and tools for the design and implementation of computer systems and software that are free from logical or functional flaws (in the sense of functional requirements). The word rigorous in the title of this book is justified by the fact that the arguments for such fault freeness have their roots...

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,...