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North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power

Pluto Press, 2005

George W. Bush's infamous remark about the 'Axis of Evil' brought North Korea dramatically back into the international spotlight. During the late 1990s relations between North Korea and the US and its allies were on the mend. However, the election of George W. Bush resulted in renewed crisis. The nuclear accord between the two...

Professional HTML5 Mobile Game Development

Wrox Press, 2012

THE GAMING WORLD AND THE WEB have been on a collision course with each other since social games began bringing gaming to the masses and helped make what was once a subculture a mainstream, mass-market phenomenon. Throw mobile into the mix and suddenly you have a massive phenomenon that is going to become more important as more devices get into...

Programming Hive

O'Reilly, 2012

Programming Hive introduces Hive, an essential tool in the Hadoop ecosystem that provides an SQL (Structured Query Language) dialect for querying data stored in the Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS), other filesystems that integrate with Hadoop, such as MapR-FS and Amazon’s S3 and databases like HBase (the...

Designing Information: Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

“The book itself is a diagram of clarification, containing hundreds of examples of work by those who favor the communication of information over style and academic postulation—and those who don’t. Many blurbs such as this are written without a thorough reading of the book. Not so in this case. I read it and love it. I...

Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit: Add gesture and posture recognition to your applications

Microsoft Press, 2012

I am always impressed when science fiction and reality meet. With Kinect for Windows, this is definitely the case, and it is exciting to be able to control the computer with only our hands, without touching any devices, just like in the movie “Minority Report.”

I fell in love with Kinect for Windows...

Mac Kung Fu: Over 400 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for Apple OS X

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

Squeeze every drop of juice from OS X with over 400 quick and easy tips, tricks, hints and hacks in Mac Kung Fu: Second Edition . Exploit secret settings and hidden apps, push built-in tools to the limit, radically personalize your Mac experience, and make "it just works" even better. In addition to core OS X...

The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2: More Essays on Software Technology and Innovation

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

While many companies are primarily defined by a business model, Thought- Works is primarily defined by a social model. We define three pillars to measure success in our business and to influence our business decisions.

• Run a sustainable business.

• Champion software excellence, and...

Hadoop Operations

O'Reilly, 2012

Over the past few years, there has been a fundamental shift in data storage, management, and processing. Companies are storing more data from more sources in more formats than ever before. This isn’t just about being a “data packrat” but rather building products, features, and intelligence predicated on knowing more about...

Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

Originally devised to enhance web pages in Netscape 2.0, JavaScript is now faced with being a single-threaded language in a multimedia, multitasking, multicore world. Yet JavaScript has not only persevered since 1995, it’s thrived. One after the other, potential rivals in the browser—Flash, Silverlight, and Java...

The Confident Student (Available Titles Coursemate)

Wadsworth Publishing, 2010

Thank you for choosing Th e Confi dent Student, Seventh Edition. Th is book is special for several reasons. It has grown with the times to refl ect pedagogical changes, technological advancements, and students’ needs. Yet Th e Confi dent Student’s core values of individual responsibility and confi dence through accomplishment...

Raspberry Pi A Quick-Start Guide

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

Over the past decades computers have gotten cheaper and cheaper, so today you can find them not only beneath your desk but in nearly every consumer electronics device such as smartphones or DVD players. Still, computers aren’t so cheap that you spontaneously buy one when shopping for your groceries. Usually, you carefully...

Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Apress, 2012

Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today's mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets.

Android Recipes: A...

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