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Digital Games and Learning

Continuum International, 2011

Several years ago, I attended a conference in Shanghai that brought together leading American and Chinese thinkers about games and learning. The event’s organizers asked us to share what we saw as best practices from our respective countries. The Chinese game designers proudly displayed games that included historically...

Microsoft Visual C# 2012 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))

Microsoft Press, 2013

Microsoft Visual C# is a powerful but simple language aimed primarily at developers creating applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework. It inherits many of the best features of C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic, but few of the inconsistencies and anachronisms, resulting in a cleaner and more logical language. C# 1.0 made its...

What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons

This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence, and even aliens....

Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp,...

Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics)

Springer, 2007

The integrated circuit with each new generation has been characterized by increasing functionality. In the 1980’s Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSIC) began to emerge with transistor counts approaching one million plus per chip! The IC package quickly became more than a “chip carrier”. Now the packaging...

Windows Game Programming with Visual Basic and DirectX

Que, 2001

I’ve been fascinated by computer games for years. Some of my first experiences date back to the late 1960s when I was in junior high school. I was allowed to skip math class once a week to use an old teletype terminal. I spent hours punching a tic-tac-toe game written in BASIC onto paper tape so that I could play it when I...

Photoshop CS6 Unlocked: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2012

This book is a resource for web designers who want to use Photoshop to create better-looking web graphics.

When this book came out in 2006, it was one of the first Photoshop CS2 books that didn’t encourage you to use Photoshop’s generated HTML code. Instead, it saw Photoshop fundamentally...

iWork for Mac OSX Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

I have been in publishing for almost 30 years, having held positions such as Publisher, Group Publisher, VP/Group Publisher, VP/Strategic Planning, and Senior VP/Research Publishing. Back then, I had staff to edit, design, and produce publications. But that all changed 10 years ago, when two friends and I started publishing...

Starting Strength (2nd edition)

The Aasgaard Company, 2007

Many things have happened since I started the writing of Starting Strength: A Simple and Practical Guide for Coaching Beginners in 2004. As a result of its publication I have had the opportunity to meet and learn from many new people. It is my sincerest hope that the additions to this book that are the direct result of their input...

Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business

O'Reilly, 2012

We are living in a time of big changes. We face changes driven by powerful forces like world population growth; rising prices for food, fuel, and raw materials; depletion of natural resources; and increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And at the very same time, we are also surrounded by the...

Hello! HTML5 & CSS3: A user-friendly reference guide

Manning Publications, 2012

I first saw the web in my final year of university in 1993-94. All the cool kids (bear in mind, this was a Computer Science department) were playing with a strange bit of software called Mosaic on their Sun 4 workstations.

I had some fun with it and created my first web page (a guide to...

Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in clear and engaging prose, explains how the credit mess happened beginning with the mortgage...

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