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 Geeks and Geezers
We were drawn to thinking and then ultimately writing
about geeks and geezers from very different starting points.
Coauthoring a book isn’t quite like synchronized swimming. It’s
more like gaining perspective and depth through incongruity.
Through writing and arguing in what seemed like endless and
percussive... | | Practical Database Programming with Java
D atabases have become an integral part of our modern day life. We are an information -
driven society. Database technology has a direct impact on our daily lives. Decisions are
routinely made by organizations based on the information collected and stored in databases.
A record company may decide to market certain albums in... | | Water Dynamics in Plant Production
The source of life is water. Life began in the
oceans, which represent the largest stock of water
on Earth. Much less water is stored below the land
surface in the form of fresh groundwater, amounting
to not quite 0.8% of the earth’s total water
reserves, while lakes and rivers combined only
contribute a further... |
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Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
We live in a world that is rich in data, ever increasing in scale. This data comes from many di erent
sources in science (bioinformatics, astronomy, physics, environmental monitoring) and commerce (customer
databases, nancial transactions, engine monitoring, speech recognition, surveillance, search). Possessing
the knowledge as to... | | Modern Antenna Handbook (v. 1)
Antennas and antenna systems are the eyes and ears of wireless communication systems,
which have experienced an unprecedented rapid expansion. Part of this advancement has
been attributed to contributions of antenna technology. These wireless systems, no matter
how simple or complex, cannot operate efficiently unless they utilize... | | The Hoover Dam (Building America: Then and Now)
The time was the early 1930s, the president was Herbert
Hoover, and the situation in the United States looked bleak.
The stock market had crashed in 1929, and most Americans were
hurt by the Great Depression, which left a majority of them jobless,
homeless, and penniless. But in the West, a beacon of hope
was in the... |
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Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, 9 Edition
Warp speed universe. Warp speed financial markets. The 8th Edition of this
classic book appeared when it seemed that the millennium and paradise had
been achieved and that, like McKay’s tulipomania, the price of stocks would
rise forever and men would rush from the world over and pay whatever
price was asked for... | | Web Application Security, A Beginner's Guide
Security Smarts for the Self-Guided IT Professional
“Get to know the hackers—or plan on getting hacked. Sullivan and Liu have created a savvy, essentials-based approach to web app security packed with immediately applicable tools for any information security practitioner sharpening his or her tools or just starting... | | Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition
To name something is to begin to understand it.
My five-year-old son, like many children, enjoys looking at clouds. A few weeks ago,
he clued into the fact that different kinds of clouds had different names. And so, being
of good geek stock, he proceeded to memorize them—cirrus, cumulus, ... |
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