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CSS3 for Web Designers

Book Apart, 2019

From advanced selectors to generated content, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities. No one can better guide you through these galaxies than world-renowned designer, author, and CSS superstar Dan Cederholm. Learn what works, how it works, and how to work around...

Distributed .NET Programming in C#

Apress, 2002

This text describes how to use these new .NET technologies to build fast, scalable, and robust distributed applications, and answers the many questions about the .NET Remoting Framework.

Presents information using a style that has been tested while teaching professional developers

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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Ballantine Books, 1998

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will...

The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

What do Einstein's theory of relativity, string theory, and lots of other mind-bending—and space-bending—revelations of modern physics have in common? None of them could have been discovered until scientists and mathematicians recognized an uncomfortable truth—that there was a reason the world's greatest mathematical minds had...

Java I/O

O'Reilly, 1999

Because it doesn't provide a printf() function like C/C++, some developers think Java isn't up to snuff with files and streams. Author Rusty Harold Elliotte argues against this notion in Java I/O, a book that shows how Java's stream support can help simplify network programming, internationalization, and even compression and...

An Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology

Cambridge University Press, 2001

This book provides a concise introduction to the mathematical aspects of the origin, structure and evolution of the universe. The book begins with a brief overview of observational and theoretical cosmology, along with a short introduction of general relativity. It then goes on to discuss Friedmann models, the Hubble constant and deceleration...

Al- Ghazali's Philosophical Theology

Oxford University Press, 2009

The Muslim thinker al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of Islam and has been considered an authority in both Western and Islamic philosophical traditions. Born in northeastern Iran, he held the most prestigious academic post in Islamic theology in Baghdad, only to renounce the position and teach at...

Supplier Relationship Management: How to Maximize Vendor Value and Opportunity

Apress, 2014

There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier Relationship...

Game Design Workshop, Second Edition: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

There is magic in games.

Not magic like a Level 19 fi reball spell is magic. Not the kind of magic you get when you purchase a trick in a magic store. And not the kind of mystical experience that organized religion can go on about. No, games are magic in the way that fi rst kisses are magic, the way that fi nally arriving at a perfect...

Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone: Uncovering Humanity's Cosmic Context

Springer, 2008

The questions of our origin and cosmic abundance of life are among the most compelling facing humanity. We have determined much about the nature and origin of the Universe and our place in it, but with virtually all evidence of our origin long since gone from our world and an unimaginably vast Universe still to explore, defining answers are...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Ballantine Books, 1997

"FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."
--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the...

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Broadway, 2002

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden...

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