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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008

A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for...

XNA 3.1 Game Development for Teens

Course Technology PTR, 2010

XNA 3.0 GAME DEVELOPMENT FOR TEENS is a complete guide to entry level programming and computer game development using XNA 3.0 and the Visual C# 2008 Express programming language for beginners. This book shows readers how to create and execute computer games on their PC, and then how to port their PC games over to their Xbox 360 or Zune...

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef

O'Reilly, 2011

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef demonstrates a radical approach to developing web infrastructure that combines the powerful Chef configuration management framework with Cucumber, the leading Behavior-driven development (BDD) tool. Learn how to deliver real business value by developing infrastructure code test-first.

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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Oxford University Press, 2010

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture.

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The Best Travel Writing 2010: True Stories from Around the World

Travelers Tales, 2010

My favorite mountaineering book is The Mountains of My Life, by legendary Italian climber Walter Bonatti. While I love being in the mountains—it’s a rare day I don’t daydream about the Alps or the Himalayas—I am not a climber. It isn’t so much Bonatti’s exploits that inspire me as his attitude towards...

Coupled Model Transformations for QoS Enabled Component-Based Software Design

KIT Scientific Publishing, 2010

Performance-aware Component-based Software-Development A characteristic of an engineering discipline is the ability to predict the impact of design decisions. For example, in civil engineering accurate predictions of the impact of adding an additional ?oor on a construction’s statics are available. Having a similar ability in software...

Learning Classifier Systems: From Foundations to Applications

Springer, 2000

Learning classier systems are a machine learning paradigm introduced by John Holland in 1976. They are rule-based systems in which learning is viewed as a process of ongoing adaptation to a partially unknown environment through genetic algorithms and temporal dierence learning.

From the beginning, classier systems have attracted...

R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

O'Reilly, 2009

What people are saying about R in a Nutshell

"I am excited about this book. R in a Nutshell is a great introduction to R, as well as a comprehensive reference for using R in data analytics and visualization. Adler provides 'real world' examples, practical advice, and scripts, making it...

Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Peachpit Press, 2010

With the release of Adobe Creative Suite CS5, Dreamweaver solidifies its role as the de facto tool of choice for anyone designing for the Web. Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create,...

Sign Languages in Contact (Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series, Vol. 13)

Gallaudet University Press, 2007

The 13th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series This volume collects for the first time various accounts of contact between sign languages throughout the world, presenting an exciting opportunity to further understand the structural and social factors of this linguistic component in Deaf communities. Editor...

Good Green Homes

Gibbs Smith, 2003

Green. It conjures images of a meadow in spring for some, and the color of money for others. What does "green" have to do with our homes? In essence, green building-or sustainable building-means being smart about how we use energy, water, and building materials so that we can live well without needlessly damaging the environment....

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers (Graphics Series)

Charles River, 2007

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers is a completely updated edition of this insightful and practical guide to using Photoshop as your photographic editing tool. All of the new featurees of CS3 related to photography are thoroughly covered and wide variety of new photos and tutorials are used to teach you how to organize, enhance,...

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