Did you know that: Jean Paul Getty put pay phones in his guests’ bedrooms to save money on phone bills? Leonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his notebooks so that nobody could read them? Pele´s first soccer ball was a grapefruit? Pablo Picasso never threw anything away, not even empty cereal boxes? Agatha Christie wrote […]
This book benefitted enormously from the contributions, deliberations, suggestions, and input of numerous individuals. Their professional assistance made this a far better resource and a more engaging tome than I could have written on my own. I am eternally grateful to old friends and newfound acquaintances for their advice and direction, counsel, and wisdom. First, […]
This is the electronic version of the latest edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Over 20,000 new entries covering the very latest vocabulary from all areas of life today have been added, bringing the total number of words and phrases covered to more than 300,000, with over 480,000 translations. And the dictionary now […]
We can always smell them before we see them. Today it’s bad, really bad, but not as bad as the first time, because then we had no conception of just what we’d see when the wooden doors of the train slid back. Then, that first time, we’d all surged eagerly forward as soon as the […]
It seems logical that any business, whether a commercial enterprise or a not-for-profit business, would understand that building a secure organization is important to longterm success. When a business implements and maintains a strong security posture, it can take advantage of numerous benefits. An organization that can demonstrate an infrastructure protected by robust security mechanisms […]
Algorithm Basics Before you jump into the study of algorithms, you need a little background. To begin with, you need to know that, simply stated, an algorithm is a recipe for getting something done. It defines the steps for performing a task in a certain way. That definition seems simple enough, but no one writes […]
Microsoft SQL Server is becoming a more mature, more feature-rich, and more secure database management system with each new version. SQL Server 2012 is an enterprise-class relational database server. Sometimes, it might not look like it to the staff whose responsibilities are to deploy it, to create databases and write T-SQL code, and to administer […]
Today, computer imaging covers various aspects of data filtering, pattern recognition, feature extraction, computer aided design, and computer aided inspection and diagnosis. Pillars of the field of computer imaging are advanced, stable, and reliable algorithms. In addition, feasibility analysis is required to evaluate practical relevance of the methods. To put these pillars on solid grounds, […]
If you enjoy games about building, survival, engineering, and adventuring, Minecraft is for you. Having attracted more than 9 million players, Minecraft is a loose-ended yet adventurous sandbox game that becomes whatever you make of it. Minecraft is about gathering resources and building structures while facing monsters. The world of Minecraft is composed of cubic […]
The study of economics should begin with a sense of wonder. Pause for a moment and consider a typical day in your life. It might start with a bagel made in a local bakery with flour produced in Minnesota from wheat grown in Kansas and bacon from pigs raised in Ohio packaged in plastic made […]
This book not only provides you with the opportunity to discover all the basics of Play! Framework 2, but also gives you an insight into its advanced features. This new version of Play! Framework has inherited a lot of features from the previous versions, but it has also learned from them. Thus, it comes with […]
Equine practice has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, at a time when horses are more numerous in the UK than they have ever been. Skin problems have always been common in the horse and often present the clinician with a challenge. The growing need for readily accessible and practical information on equine dermatology presented […]