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Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property

At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the...

Frommer's Florida 2011 (Frommer's Complete)
Frommer's Florida 2011 (Frommer's Complete)

Although it’s the state nickname, describing Florida as the Sunshine State is like calling Martha Stewart “manic.” Sure, it’s true, but not necessarily all the time—and it doesn’t nearly begin to describe the state’s other marketable assets. There’s a lot more to Florida than just...

What If Medicine Disappeared?
What If Medicine Disappeared?

I was trying to imagine what the world would look like without Western medicine. Gone would be primary care physicians, surgeons, psychiatry—all the various medical specialties. There would be no treatment for trauma, nor fractures. Sufferers from the common cold would need to recover without their physician’s help. There would be...

Smart Graphics: 6th International Symposium, SG 2006, Vancover, Canada, July 23-25, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Smart Graphics: 6th International Symposium, SG 2006, Vancover, Canada, July 23-25, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2006 was held during July 23–25, 2006, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It was the seventh event in a series which originally started in 2000 as an AAAI Spring Symposium.

In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its organizers...

iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition)
iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition)

In case you haven’t heard, the digital camera market is exploding. At this point, a staggering 98 percent of cameras sold are digital cameras. It’s taken a few decades—the underlying technology used in most digital cameras was invented in 1969—but film photography has been reduced to a niche activity.

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Elemental Magic, Volume I: The Art of Special Effects Animation
Elemental Magic, Volume I: The Art of Special Effects Animation

In the spring of 2004, at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France, a dear friend and I had a conversation about animation books. Interesting, we noted, that there is not a single book dedicated to classical hand-drawn special effects animation, even though it is an enormously important aspect of the animation business,...

Game Physics, Second Edition
Game Physics, Second Edition

Create physically realistic 3D Graphics environments with this introduction to the ideas and techniques behind the process. Author David H. Eberly includes simulations to introduce the key problems involved and then gradually reveals the mathematical and physical concepts needed to solve them. He then describes all the algorithmic foundations...

Essential App Engine: Building High-Performance Java Apps with Google App Engine (Developer's Library)
Essential App Engine: Building High-Performance Java Apps with Google App Engine (Developer's Library)
A single hype is not enough to change the world. But multiple hypes together can change it as long as they are part of a bigger trend.

This book discusses more than one hyped technology: cloud computing, NoSQL, and HTML5. The technologies in this book combine well with other hyped technologies: functional
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iPad: The Missing Manual
iPad: The Missing Manual
Apple announced the original iPad on January 27, 2010, and the technology world hasn’t been the same since. Customers rushed to buy the tablet, snapping up more than 300,000 the day it went on sale. Competitors rushed to copy it, with Samsung, Motorola, Amazon, and others creating their own variations on...
Professional jQuery (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Professional jQuery (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS JAVASCRIPT has undergone a remarkable transformation. Where once it was a “toy” language relegated to secondary status it’s now one of the most important programming languages in the world. With the ongoing importance of Ajax-based development and the rise of full-featured JavaScript...
Failed Stone
Failed Stone
In the spring of 2002, I wrote a book entitled Falling Glass: Problems and Solutions in Contemporary Architecture. The research for Falling Glass helped me understand how glass failures could be avoided and enlightened me as to which innovations were being explored within the glass industry. Originally, the book was...
Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction
Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction
From July 11th to July 22nd, 2005, a NATO advanced study institute, as part of the series “S´eminaire de math´ematiques sup´erieures”, was held at the Universit ´e de Montr´eal, on the subject Equidistribution in the theory of numbers. There were about one hundred participants from sixteen...
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