This conversation text implements a dynamic, learner-centered approach that encourages students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful and emotionally charged conflicts. A carefully crafted pedagogical apparatus featuring Conversaciones creadoras mini-dramas, written by renowned Spanish novelist Carmen MartA-n Gaite, challenges students to become ...
History with the nasty parts left in! The Rotten Romans follows life for folks in Roman Britain from Nasty Nero and other awful emperors, to Brave Boudicca and the poor old peasants, who tried to send the Romans right back where they came from...
This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving ...
Gives easy-to-follow instructions for raising foods that have been harvested since ancient times and carefully selected, tasty and easy-to-prepare recipes using these traditional foodstuffs for holidays and festivals. Clearly illustrated with more than thirty fine botanical illustrations.
Appropriate for all MBA-level and advanced undergraduate courses in information systems and/or technology. Managing Information Technology, 5/E is a comprehensive guide to the information technology management techniques that are vital to a successful career as a manager. This edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect rapid changes in ...
"This book is written for people who like to go to folk museums, who like to collect antiques, who like to renovate old houses, and who like to drink," writes the author.
"CD Recordable Solutions" is the ideal companion for your CDR drive. This book teaches you how to burn music, data, and video onto CDs quickly with your PC, Mac, or Linux machine. You'll learn just enough technical specifications to understand your CD burner and how to get the most out of your hardware and software. This book explains the ...
Perl was originally created as a programming language for Unix, but the emergence of the Web has thrust Perl into the mainstream. Providing information on how to do really cool things with Perl, this text offers more than 50 Perl scripts which enable the user to do useful things, including tricks with CGI, handling Palm data and using XML. The CD ...
XML is the leading standard for enabling business-to-business e-commerce, as well as any application that needs to communicate across different platforms. This book focuses on the application of XML when using scripting languages, because these languages make it easier to quickly build Web applications. Two of the most popular open-source ...
Microsoft's Internet Information Server 6 is an Internet server program that works with the Windows Server 2003 operating system. IIS is Microsoft's answer in the Internet server market to Apache, the open source and #1 Internet server in use. In the US 9.7 million servers run IIS (28 percent of the market) powering 5.3 million .com domains. ...
Perl to Python Migration provides a useful and practical resource for programmers that are currently intermediate or expert in using Perl and who want to migrate to using Python for different programming projects. The book achieves this by first giving the user an overview and refresher of the Perl techniques required before giving the information ...
Take the 'black magic' out of switching power supplies with "Practical Switching Power Supply Design"! This is a comprehensive 'hands-on' guide to the theory behind, and design of, PWM and resonant switching supplies. You'll find information on switching supply operation and selecting an appropriate topology for your application. There's extensive ...
The full-color book "Scanner Solutions" shows readers how to use their scanner for personal entertainment, in their home office, and in conjunction with the Internet. By discussing topics such as photo editing, graphic design, desktop publishing, OCR, saving and archiving, and retriving files, this book teaches readers how to use their scanners ...
Python is becoming the preferred scripting language because of its portability, simple learning process and ease-of-use. This text provides programmers with annotations that allow them to customize the accompanying code elements for their own projects.
An essential primer useful to learn the fundamental of setting up and maintaining a network within the Solaris Operating Environment. -- To date there are few titles devoted to thoroughly getting a user started on the Solaris operating system from the 'ground floor.' -- The book's author is an expert in Solaris development and administration, ...
This primer provides a concise, methodological approach to abdominal MR imaging techniques. It offers the user an invaluable pictorial and textual guide to typical features of the most commonly seen entities encountered by the clinician. The authors place an emphasis on a pattern recognition approach, thereby focusing on clinical-pathologic ...
Perl is considered the language of choice for many programmers. This reference to Perl covers all core features such as: command-line options; regular expressions and Perl modules. It includes sample commands, functions, and syntax with discussions on when and how to use them.
Each chapter in this guide covers a specific area of the ActivePerl language. It features general guidelines and tips and tricks in specific cross-platform development. The accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the code mentioned in the book.
Python is an intergrated, object-orientated development language for use in computer programming. This text is split into distinct sections, each concentrating on a core angle of the language. The book also contains sections for Web and application development, the two most popular uses for Python. It is designed to teach a programmer how to use ...
This is a guide to the programming language of Perl. It introduces Perl and continually reinforces users knowledge as they become more advanced. It tackles more complicated problems in line-by-line detail. The CD-ROM contains code and applications from the book in a simple directory structure.
Written for the experienced Microsoft Windows user who does not have time to set up and learn a new operating system and programs alone, this book shows the workings of Linux and reveals its similarities to the user's current software.
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