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Throughout most of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, computational linguistics
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Welcome to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android. This book will provide an introduction to HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 for Android Browser for version 4.0 of the Android operating system (called Ice Cream Sandwich). This book will take you through how to leverage the best mobile web technologies and methodologies to develop solid mobile web...
We are proud to publish the sixth edition of Fundamentals of Information Systems. This new
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Photoshop compositing has really blown up over the last few years. You see composites everywhere
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