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Success in your calculus course starts here! James Stewart's CALCULUS texts are world-wide best-sellers for a reason: they are clear, accurate, and filled with relevant, real-world examples. With CALCULUS, Eighth Edition, Stewart conveys not only the...

Virtualization has become a “megatrend”—and forgood reason. Implementing virtualization allows for more efficientutilization of network server capacity, simpler storageadministration, reduced energy costs, and better use of corporatecapital. In other words: virtualization helps you save money,energy, and space. Not bad,...

Just as a professional athlete doesn’t show up without a solid game plan, ethical hackers, IT professionals, and security researchers should not be unprepared, either. The Hacker Playbook provides them their own game plans. Written by a longtime security professional and CEO of Secure Planet, LLC, this step-by-step guide to the...

This ability is what enables living systems to look at the world...

When I began writing this book, I spent quite a bit of time searching for a good quote to start things off. I ended up with two. R is a wonderfully flexible platform and language for exploring, visualizing, and understanding data. I chose the quote from Alice in Wonderland to capture the flavor of statistical analysis today—an...

• Understand functional programming patterns by comparing them with the traditional object-oriented design patterns
• Write robust, safer, and better code using the declarative programming paradigm
• An...

"Modeling" has become one of the primary concerns in modern Software Engineering. The reason is simple: starting development processes from clear and succinct models has proven to foster not only quality but also productivity. With the advance of modeling there also came a desire for automatic code generation from models....