Saturday, March 17, 2007
ASP in a Nutshell
ASP in a Nutshell:
The second edition of ASP in a Nutshell gives developers of Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) a quick reference guide for looking up object usage on a dime. This guide is geared toward working ASP programmers who need to get their answers quickly, without wading through long examples. The book is organized into three parts: an introduction to ASP, a language reference, and appendices. This edition has been updated for IIS 5.0 and ASP 3.0 - respectively the latest flavors of Microsoft's flagship Web server and scripting engines. The ASP introduction is very brief, but it adequately explains the basic concepts behind ASP and server-side scripting. The heart of the title is the language reference that covers the intrinsic ASP objects, plus ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.6, Collaboration Data Objects, file access, and more. Each section is tagged with staggered page markers that usually make it unnecessary to resort to the book's index to find a topic.
ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8
ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8:
The ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8 is a comprehensive reference manual that describes the application programming interface (API) for Macromedia Flash Player, the most pervasive client run time environment in the world. It includes valuable syntax and usage information; detailed descriptions of classes, functions, properties, and events; and copy-and-paste code samples for every element in the ActionScript language.
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Wiley - XPath Essentials
Wiley - XPath Essentials:The first complete hands-on guide to programming with XPath. XPath is an important new technology that allows XML data to be restructured and displayed in virtually any other format, such as HTML. It is especially exciting for developers in the B2B arena in that it permits data to be exchanged between companies using different schema's (naming conventions). Written for developers, programmers, Webmasters, and IT/networking professionals, XPath Essentials provides readers with the practical, hands-on instruction they need to accomplish mission-critical tasks. Like all the books in the XML Essentials series, it takes an example-driven approach supplying source code to illustrate the practical application of XPath and its framework, syntax, semantics, and use.
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Timing
Timing:
With the advent of nanometer technologies, circuit performance constraints are becoming ever more stringent. In this context, automated timing analysis and optimization becomes imperative for the design of high-performance circuits that must satisfy a demanding set of constraints. Timing overviews the state of the art in timing analysis and optimization, and is intended to serve as a compendium that can provide an introduction to the uninitiated reader, as a ready reference for a practitioner, or as a source for the accomplished researcher. A comprehensive overview of the basics of timing analysis is provided, and this is augmented with techniques that incorporate physical effects arising in deep submicron and nanometer technologies. The book provides an in-depth treatment of the analysis of interconnect systems, static timing analysis for combinational circuits, timing analysis for sequential circuits, and timing optimization techniques at the transistor and layout levels. The intended audience includes CAD tool developers, graduate students, research professionals, and the merely curious.
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The Dreamweaver Developers Instant Troubleshooter
The Dreamweaver Developers Instant Troubleshooter:
Dreamweaver MX is a complex tool. With its new features for building web sites with server-side scripting, standards-compliant code, advanced template features, and Cascading Style Sheets, it can hold many traps for the unwary. Sometimes you'll end up with problems for which you just can't find the answers. The Dreamweaver Developer's Instant Troubleshooter will answer all of your Dreamweaver MX questions. Each chapter focuses on a particular area of Dreamweaver MX development, looks at the questions you are likely to have, and provides solutions. Whether you're having problems with setting up IIS to test your ASP pages, or you have a CSS quandary that you just can't get your head around, this is the book for you. What you know:
- Familiarity with Dreamweaver MX.
- Tips and tricks from Dreamweaver professionals.
- Ways round common gotchas of dynamic development.
- Installation of dynamic technologies that work with Dreamweaver MX.
Raw 101 Better Images with Photoshop Elements and Photoshop
Raw 101 Better Images with Photoshop Elements and Photoshop:
The first introductory book on using Adobe Camera Raw, RAW 101 covers all practical aspects of RAW in Photoshop Elements 3 and Photoshop CS2. Just follow the heavily illustrated, step-by-step examples and you'll quickly figure out how to attain the greatest accuracy from your RAW files, whether it's correcting shadow and highlight detail, fixing white balance, or eliminating noise. Once you see the startling results, you'll no longer want to rely on your camera to make critical decisions for you.Inside, you'll learn everything you need to know to:
- Get your images ready for RAW file conversion
- Navigate the Adobe Camera Raw workspace
- Master RAW conversion controls for exposure, shadows, brightness, and contrast
- Extend beyond the basics to control white balance, color tint, noise, and more
- Automate Camera Raw to optimize your workflow
- Use advanced conversion options in Photoshop CS2, such as curves control, cropping, and straightening
- Put the finishing touches on your images-adjust levels, use filters, resize, and much more!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Project Management A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling & Controlling
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Photoshop Workflow Setups
Photoshop Workflow Setups:
This highly-visual, well-designed book presents Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs. With his easygoing and authoritative style, Eddie demonstrates how to:
- Create an efficient workspace by using the "arrange" menu and setting the screen view
- Become familiar with palettes for layers, channels and paths; history and actions; color, swatches and styles; and more
- Set preferences for file handling, guides and grids, memory and image cache, and more
- Customize keyboard shortcuts and menus
- Work with Adobe Bridge
- Use Photoshop's selection, painting, graphics, and vector tools, among others
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Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips:
Over 300 productivity-enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator CS2. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator CS2’s new features: Converting bitmaps into vectors with Live Trace, Painting with the new Live Paint tool, creating Custom Workspaces, and more.
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Managers Not MBAs
In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful and controversial recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft with a certain amount of art and some science. Because conventional MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people with little if any managerial experience, and hence little art and no craft to draw upon, the programs overemphasize science, in the form of analysis and technique. Graduates leave with a distorted impression that management consists entirely of applying formulas to situations, which has had a corrupting, dehumanizing effect not just on the practice of management, but also on our organizations and our social institutions. Turning to how managers should be developed, Mintzberg describes in detail a set of innovative programs designed to address these shortcomings that he and a group of colleagues have put into practice: the International Masters in Practicing Management. Finally, he outlines how business schools can transform themselves to become true schools of management. Managers Not MBAs presents the kind of bold, iconoclastic thinking readers have come to expect from the man Fast Company magazine called "one of the most original minds in management."
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Introduction to Java & Software Design Swing Update
Introduction to Java & Software Design Swing Update:
Introduction to Java and Software Design breaks the current paradigms for teaching Java and object-oriented programming in a first year programming course. The Dale author team has developed a unique way of teaching object-oriented programming. They foster sound object-oriented design by teaching students how to brainstorm, use filtering scenarios, CRC cards, and responsibility algorithms. The authors also present functional design as a way of writing algorithms for the class responsibilities that are assigned in the object-oriented design.
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Dreamweaver 8 The Missing Manual
Dreamweaver 8 The Missing Manual:
Enter Dreamweaver 8 The Missing Manual, the completely revised fourth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer, Macromedia Certified instructor, and Dreamweaver Advisory Council member David McFarland. This book enables both first-time and experienced web designers to create visually stunning and highly interactive web sites.
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C & Data Structures
Divided into three separate sections, C & Data Structures covers C programming, as well as the implementation of data structures and an analysis of advanced data structure problems. Beginning with the basic concepts of the C language (including the operators, control structures, and functions), the book progresses to show these concepts through practical application with data structures such as linked lists and trees, and concludes with the integration of C programs and advanced data structure problem-solving. The book covers a vast range of data structures and programming issues, such as syntactic and semantic aspects of C, all control statements in C, concepts of function, macro, files and pointers with examples, graphs, arrays, searching and sorting techniques, stacks and queues, files, and preprocessing. C & Data Structures provides a comprehensive guide to all the data types in C with internal implementation, while providing examples to demonstrate their behavior.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Web Services Theory & Practice
This is a soup-to-nuts reference guide on all aspects of Web Services - where Web Services is a fast emerging set of Internet-specific middle ware technology to further promote the growth of all aspects of e-business via standardization, collaboration and "franchising". This book is best characterized as an executive brief for IT and senior management rather than a nuts-and-bolts technical guide for portal implementers. Think of it as the "Cliffs Notes on Web Services". Given this audience, the book consistently focuses on business needs, value propositions, ROI, proven solutions and actual examples of current implementations. Each chapter also ends with a 10-item "Q&A" section that consolidates and summarizes the information discussed in the chapter. The book is illustrated with detailed technical diagrams, includes lots of arresting subtitles and contains many bullet lists and tables to facilitate (and encourage) productive skimming.
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The Science Of Sales Success
The Science Of Sales Success:
The Science of Sales Success shows readers how to achieve the perfect win-win sales situation. Providing a system for giving customers more measurable benefits than competitors, Josh Costell shows how sales professionals can make fewer calls to win higher-profit orders. Costell used his "selling is a science" theory to propel him from rookie status to national sales manager of a Fortune 500 company just three years out of college. Now he reveals how to:
- Apply a quantifiable approach to selling in order to duplicate success
- Speed up "advance or abandon" decisions to make productivity explode
- Create bonds and motivate customers to share decision-making information.
SQL For Dummies
See how SQL interfaces with today's environments. Start building and using relational databases with SQL's newest features.The database may be the twenty-first century filing cabinet, but building one is a little more complex than sliding drawers into a metal box. With this book to guide you through all the newest features of SQL, you'll soon be whipping up relational databases, using SQL with XML to power data-driven Web sites, and more! Discover how to:
- Use SQL in a client/server system
- Build a multitable relational database
- Construct nested and recursive queries
- Set up database security
- Use SQL within applications
- Map SQL to XML
Six Days of War
Six Days of War:
In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in West Bank, the intifada and the rise of Palestinian terror: all are part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of this dramatic and pivotal event, the first to explore it both as a military struggle and as a critical episode in the global Cold War. Oren spotlights all the participants - Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American - telling the story of how the war broke out and of the shocking ways it unfolded. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. Also examined are the domestic crises in each of the battling states, and the extraordinary personalities - Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez al-Assad and Yitzhak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin - that precipitated this earthshaking clash.
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Sams Python Phrasebook
Sams Python Phrasebook:
Python Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects in Python. Concise and Accessible, Easy to carry and easy to use—lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable guide, Flexible and Functional, Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets—so you can readily code functional Python in just about any situation.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Marketing Insights From A To Z-80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know
Marketing Insights From A To Z-80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know:
In Marketing Insights from A to Z, Philip Kotler, one of the undisputed fathers of modern marketing, redefines marketing’s fundamental concepts from A to Z, highlighting how business has changed and how marketing must change with it. He predicts that over the next decade marketing techniques will require a complete overhaul. Furthermore, the future of marketing is in company-wide marketing initiatives, not in a reliance on a single marketing department. This concise, stimulating book relays fundamental ideas fast for busy executives and marketing professionals. Marketing Insights from A to Z presents the enlightened and well-informed musings of a true master of the art of marketing based on his distinguished forty-year career in the business. Other topics include branding, experiential advertising, customer relationship management, leadership, marketing ethics, positioning, recession marketing, technology, overall strategy, and much more.Philip Kotler (Chicago, IL) is the father of modern marketing and the S. C. Johnson and Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, one of the definitive marketing programs in the world. Kotler is the author of twenty books and a consultant to nonprofit organizations and leading corporations such as IBM, General Electric, Bank of America, and AT&T.
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Making Your Fortune In Real Estate Investing
Making Your Fortune In Real Estate Investing:This book can give you all of the basic information that you need to get started. Make this book the catalyst to get you started and to find within yourself the desire to succeed. I hope this book encourages you to start taking persistent actions toward becoming a real estate investor with various sources of income.
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Contemporary Research in E-Marketing
Contemporary Research in E-Marketing brings the intrinsically inter-disciplinary work of e-marketing, by academic researchers from various fields, to one outlet. This book fuels the cross-fertilization of ideas and greater dissemination of key research concepts. Contributions from fields as diverse as marketing, management, MIS, communication, computer science and finance offer exposure to cutting-edge ideas with broad scope and international focus.
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101 Healing Stories for Kids & Children
101 Healing Stories for Kids & Children:101 Healing Stories for Children and Teens is a must read for everyone working with this age group. George Burns takes the reader on a wonderful journey, balancing metaphor, good therapeutic technique, and empirical foundations during the trip. Given that Burns utilizes all three aspects of the Confucian story referred to in the book—teaching, showing, and involving—any reader using this resource should increase their understanding of how stories can be used therapeutically.
Richard G.Whiteside,MSW
Author of The Art of Using and Losing Control and Working with Difficult Clients
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Richard G.Whiteside,MSW
Author of The Art of Using and Losing Control and Working with Difficult Clients
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What is Death A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
What is Death A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life:
Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinet maker of evolution. Again, the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature, but rather what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out into the wider context of which death is a part.
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Valuation for M&A Building Value in Private Companies
Valuation for M&A Building Value in Private Companies:
Whether buying or selling, the question of "what's it worth?" is multifaceted. In an M&A setting, it is necessary to compute fair market value, but it is far more important to compute investment value-the value of the target company to a strategic buyer. This calculation varies with each prospective buyer, depending on synergies, benefits, and other competitive analyses that are seldom involved in business valuation. Valuation for M&A is the first book to focus on valuation for merger and acquisitions. This groundbreaking guide provides document request checklists, sample interview questions, a format for adjusting financial statements, a format for developing discount rates, a format for computation of net cash flow, and a valuation reconciliation form, all to help senior executives and M&A professionals better negotiate a successful deal.
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The Toyota Way
The Toyota Way:
In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:
- Eliminating wasted time and resources
- Building quality into workplace systems
- Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology
- Producing in small quantities
- Turning every employee into a quality control inspector
The Power of Persuasion How We Are Bought & Sold
The Power of Persuasion How We Are Bought & Sold:
This valuable and nonacademic guide reveals the extent to which we are surrounded by persuasion, and how we can resist. Levine (A Geography of Time), professor of psychology at Cal State Fresno, opens by demonstrating that all of us (including himself) can be persuaded under the right circumstances. He goes on to study financial manipulation and the use of the sense of obligation (which exists in all cultures, even if it is most strongly visible in Japan), and then proceeds to a nuts-and-bolts analysis of salesmanship by describing what he learned and did (and had done to him) as an automobile salesman. He offers an admirably concise and unemotional analysis of the famous Milgram experiment, involving the (claimed) administration of ever-stronger electric shocks to test the impulse to obedience. Inevitably, he moves to cults, the Moonies and the ultimate persuasion horror story, Jonestown. Not so inevitably, he avoids hysteria and demonization, even of Jim Jones, and points out that brute force is required at the extreme end of the persuasion spectrum. Levine's final chapter offers ways of dealing with unwelcome persuasion while remaining part of a society in which some persuasion is part of almost any social interaction. The final results are bout as far as possible from the shrill Hidden Persuaders tradition or the cult deprogrammers who become cult gurus themselves-and quite persuasive about the author's credentials, common sense and ethics.
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The Portable MBA in Project Management
The Portable MBA in Project Management:
Text offers the best thinking on the newest strategies as well as tried-and-true practices in managing projects and project-based organizations. Includes contributions of classic works on project selection, risk management, insights on working in virtual teams, and integrating project management capabilities into the enterprise.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Semiconductors for Micro & Nanotechnology
Semiconductors for Micro & Nanotechnology:
Semiconductors play a major role in modern microtechnology, especially in microelectronics. Since the dimensions of new microelectronic components, e.g. computer chips, now reach nanometer size, semiconductor research moves from microtechnology to nanotechnology. An understanding of the semiconductor physics involved in this new technology is of great importance for every student in engineering, especially electrical engineering, microsystem technology and physics. This textbook emphasizes a system-oriented view of semiconductor physics for applications in microsystem technology. While existing books only cover electronic device physics and are mainly written for physics students, this text gives a more hands-on approach to semiconductor physics and so avoids overloading engineering students with mathematical formulas not essential for their studies.
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Ajax for Web Application Developers
Ajax for Web Application Developers:
Ajax is one of the latest and greatest ways to improve users’ online experience and create new and innovative web functionality. By allowing specific parts of a web page to be displayed without refreshing the entire page, Ajax significantly enhances the experience of web applications. It also lets web developers create intuitive and innovative interaction processes. Ajax for Web Application Developers provides the in-depth working knowledge of Ajax that web developers need to take their web applications to the next level. The book shows how to create an Ajax-driven web application from an object-oriented perspective, and it includes discussion of several useful Ajax design patterns.
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Que Googlepedia The Ultimate Google Resource
Que Googlepedia The Ultimate Google Resource:
Do you want to learn and ultimately master Google's web and software tools beyond what information can find through their help files? Well Googlepedia shows both casual end-users and professional web developers how to get the most out of the Google search site and Google's powerful tools. For web searchers, Googlepedia describes how Google indexes web pages and ranks search results, and provides step-by-step instructions on conducting both basic and advanced queries. All types of searches are presented, including searches of specific government and university web sites. Finally, webmasters and website developers learn how to submit their pages to Google for indexing, increase their search rankings, incorporate Google searches on their Web sites, and use Google's Adsense service to make money from any sized website. For all web users, Googlepedia shows how to use and master Google's web-based and software-based tools. Readers learn how to enhance their PC's operation with the Google Pack and Google Toolbar; map destinations, get driving directions, and find nearby businesses with Google Maps and Google Earth; find the best online bargains with Froogle; instant message other users with Google Talk; view web pages in other languages with Google Translate; create their own blogs with Blogger; use Google on their mobile phones; and much, much more.
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Professional Active Server Pages 3.0
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Introduction to SQL Mastering the Relational Database Language
Introduction to SQL Mastering the Relational Database Language:
This book is completely devoted to SQL. Every aspect of the language is discussed thoroughly and critically. These aspects, among others, include the following:
- Querying data (joins, functions, and subqueries)
- Updating data
- Creating tables and views
- Specifying primary and foreign keys and other integrity constraints
- Using indexes
- Considering data security
- Developing stored procedures and triggers
- Developing programs with embedded SQL and ODBC
- Working with transactions
- Optimizing statements
- Dealing with object relational concepts, such as subtables, references, sets, and user-defined data types
- Using the catalog
Going Visual Using Images to Enhance Productivity Decision Making & Profits
Going Visual Using Images to Enhance Productivity Decision Making & Profits :How and why to make visual communication a powerful competitive tool From digital cameras and camera phones to videoconferencing, visual communication technology is changing not only personal lives but global business relationships and communities of interest. Visual communication is an essential tool for every corporation-in any industry-that wants to stay competitive. Going Visual demonstrates how businesses can harness the power of digital images and video to communicate comprehensively and unambiguously. Through real-world success stories the authors outline a clear, simple, five-step plan for developing a Visual Communication Strategy that will sharpen every organization's competitive edge and improve its bottom line.
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