If you've got your hands on this year's hottest new smartphone, you'll want the book that covers it inside and out: Palm Pre: The Missing Manual. This beautiful, full-color book from USA Today personal-technology columnist Ed Baig will help you go from newcomer to expert in no time.
Author and CNN veteran money correspondent Christine Romans believes we should live by three qualifiers: living within our means, living with less debt, and being less vulnerable. While some may say this is old-fashioned, today it's hard to argue with Romans' view.
For today's web designers, fluidity and responsiveness is everything. That's why this introduction to Zurb Foundation is so valuable. It teaches you to use the mobile-first framework to create fantastic web pages, intuitively and expressively.
This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics. Written by leading experts, this book brings together Latin American research on global environmental change. They cover a range of topics such as climate change, water, forest and biodiversity conservation connected with science policies, public...
Master this massive programming language upgrade that raises Visual Basic functionality to the level of the .NET platform. Coverage includes all core topics—plus security, debugging, and helpful information on migrating existing Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic.NET.
Before I introduce the chapters I want to tell you what this...
In this book, world-renowned ASP.NET expert and member of the Microsoft ASP.NET team Stephen Walther shows experienced developers how to use Microsoft’s new ASP.NET MVC Framework to build web applications that are more powerful, flexible, testable, manageable, scalable, and extensible.
Exploit the full power of the revolutionary Google Nexus One superphone
Nexus One is Google's answer to Apple’s iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry. Covering a range of how-to topics, from the most useful Nexus One features and tricks of the core applications, to techniques to get the...
In the past two decades, CMOS technology has rapidly embraced the field of analog inte-
grated circuits, providing low-cost, high-performance solutions and rising to dominate the
market. While silicon bipolar and III-V devices still find niche applications, only CMOS
processes have emerged as a viable choice for the integration of...
Practical, tested, implementable real-world advice for transforming any business and is written by people that have “been there and done that”.
Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket...
As technology has developed, computer hackers have become increasingly sophisticated, mastering the ability to hack into even the most impenetrable systems. The best way to secure a system is to understand the tools hackers use and know how to circumvent them. Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to...
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology whose time has come. Conceived in rudimentary
form as early as the 1960’s, AR is only now becoming truly practical. Recent
advances in mobile processing, coupled with an explosion in digital storage capacity,
ubiquity of wireless broadband connections, mass adoption of smart phones, and...