Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts all of our lives. But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it has for us and the part it plays in a life...

Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers. The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from. Crucially, it focuses on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas...

• Full of easy to follow tutorials with ready-to-run code.
• Covers most of the subsystems in the GNOME 3 platform stack, from low to high level.
• Adapts common good development practices with...

The message of this book is that building stored procedures in Transact-SQL is very much like building programs in any other...

If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized reference, you'll get the latest information on Windows XP, including the hot new updates in Service Pack 2....

ASP.NET Core Recipes is a practical guide for developers creating modern...

This completely updated classic (originally titled Practical UNIX Programming) demonstrates how to design complex software to get the most from the UNIX operating system. UNIX Systems Programming provides a clear and easy-to-understand introduction tothe...

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