Categories: Magazines
Computer Shopper - Issue 318, August 2014
English | Pages 156 | PDF | 98.6 Mb
The UK's biggest technology magazine providing you with more in-depth reviews than any other computing title.
Computer Shopper is the essential monthly magazine that allows you to stay abreast of the latest news and releases in the world of technology. With more reviews, hands-on guides and features than any other tech monthly, you’ll be better informed by reading Computer Shopper.
White Trash Cooking: 25th Anniversary Edition by Ernest Matthew Mickler
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1607741873 | 192 pages | EPUB | 15,7 MB
More than 200 recipes and 45 full-color photographs celebrate 25 years of good eatin’ in this original regional Southern cooking classic.
A quarter-century ago, while many were busy embracing the sophisticated techniques and wholesome ingredients of the nouvelle cuisine, one Southern loyalist lovingly gathered more than 200 recipes—collected from West Virginia to Key West—showcasing the time-honored cooking and hospitality traditions of the white trash way. Ernie Mickler’s much-imitated sugarsnap-pea prose style accompanies delicacies like Tutti’s Fancy Fruited Porkettes, Mock-Cooter Stew, and Oven-Baked Possum; stalwart sides like Bette’s Sister-in-Law’s Deep-Fried Eggplant and Cracklin’ Corn Pone; waste-not leftover fare like Four-Can Deep Tuna Pie and Day-Old Fried Catfish; and desserts with a heavy dash of Dixie, like Irma Lee Stratton’s Don’t-Miss Chocolate Dump Cake and Charlotte’s Mother’s Apple Charlotte.
Professor Jin Keun Seo, "Electro-Magnetic Tissue Properties MRI"
English | ISBN: 1783263393 | 2014 | 250 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This is the first book that presents a comprehensive introduction to and overview of electro-magnetic tissue property imaging techniques using MRI, focusing on Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT), Electrical Properties Tomography (EPT) and Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM). The contrast information from these novel imaging modalities is unique since there is currently no other method to reconstruct high-resolution images of the electro-magnetic tissue properties including electrical conductivity, permittivity, and magnetic susceptibility. These three imaging modalities are based on Maxwell's equations and MRI data acquisition techniques. They are expanding MRI's ability to provide new contrast information on tissue structures and functions. To facilitate further technical progress, the book provides in-depth descriptions of the most updated research outcomes, including underlying physics, mathematical theories and models, measurement techniques, computation issues, and other challenging problems.
Rahmat Omar, Prepageran Narayanan, "Image-Based Case Studies in ENT and Head & Neck Surgery"
2014 | ISBN-10: 9350900890 | 150 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This atlas describes clinical cases in ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) encountered by clinicians in daily practice. Divided into four sections otology, rhinology, head and neck, and laryngology, each case describes current surgical procedures and evidence-based management techniques. Each case is illustrated by high quality photographs taken using techniques such as endoscopy and videostroboscopy with corresponding questions.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Arduino and LEGO Projects by Jon Lazar
English | 2013 | ISBN-10: 1430249293 | 212 pages | EPUB + PDF | 7 + 14 MB
We all know how awesome LEGO is, and more and more people are discovering how many amazing things you can do with Arduino. In Arduino and LEGO Projects, Jon Lazar shows you how to combine two of the coolest things on the planet to make fun gadgets like a Magic Lantern RF reader, a sensor-enabled LEGO music box, and even an Arduino-controlled LEGO train set.
Learn that SNOT is actually cool (it means Studs Not on Top)
See detailed explanations and images of how everything fits together
Learn how Arduino fits into each project, including code and explanations
Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development (Technology in Action) by Philip Chu
English | 2013 | ISBN-10: 1430248750 | 300 pages | PDF + EPUB | 34 + 19 MB
Unity is an incredibly powerful and popular game creation tool, and Unity 4 brings even more great features, including Mechanim animation. Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development will show you how to use Unity with Xcode to create fun, imaginative 3D games for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
You'll learn how to optimize your game for both speed and quality, how to test and profile your game, and how to get the most out of your iOS device features, including the gyroscope and accelerometer.
You'll also learn how to incorporate the latest Game Center improvements in iOS 6 into your game, how to make sure your game gets into the App Store, and even how to promote your app and track revenue.
If you have a great 3D game idea, and you want to make it a reality in the App Store, then Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development has exactly what you need.
Categories: Magazines
net Magazine August 2014
English | 116 Pages | True PDF | 20MB
.net is the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Every issue boasts pages of tutorials covering topics such as CSS, PHP, Flash, javascript, HTML5 and web graphics written by many of the world’s most respected web designers and creative design agencies. Interviews, features and pro tips also offer advice on SEO, social media marketing, web hosting, the cloud, mobile development and apps, making it the essential guide for practical web design.
Mon Jardin & Ma Maison No.654 - Juillet 2014
French | 108 Pages | HQ PDF | 104.53 Mb
L'art de vivre et d'embellir votre jardin au fil des saisons. Mon Jardin & Ma Maison est le magazine de référence du jardin. Découvrez les secrets de jardiniers passionnés qui vous aident à transformer facilement votre coin de verdure en coin de paradis!
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Applying the ADA: Designing for The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design in Multiple Building Types by Marcela A. Rhoads
2013 | ISBN: 1118027868 | English | 336 pages | PDF | 140 MB
A guide to real-world applications of The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design
Applying the ADA helps architects and developers understand better how the rules for eliminating barriers in the built environment apply to everyday life and how to best implement them in the design and construction of a broad variety of buildings and facilities.
By showing how The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design have been applied in various contexts and building types, this extensively illustrated guide helps readers quickly understand the requirements of the standards and how to apply them to both new construction and renovation. Written by an architect who consults regularly on accessibility issues for design professionals, building owners, and facility managers, this user-friendly guide features 100 photos and 150 drawings that take the guesswork out of applying the standards to real-world projects. Building types covered include:
The Architecture of Transgression AD by Rachel Sara, Jonathan Mosley
2014 | ISBN: 1118361792 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has long been sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture of conservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized status as one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up new possibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact that working on the architectural periphery can make on the mainstream, as transgressive practices have the potential to reinvent and reposition the architectural profession: whether they are subverting notions of progress; questioning roles and mechanisms of production; aligning with political activism; pioneering urban interventions; advocating informal or incomplete development; actively destabilising environments or breaking barriers of taste. In this new dispersed and expanded field of operation, the balance of architectural endeavour is shifted from object to process, from service to speculation, and from formal to informal in a way that provides both critical and political impetus to proactively affect change.
Contributors: Can Altay, Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren, Kim Dovey, Chris Jenks, David Littlefield, Silvia Loeffler, Alistair Parvin, Louis Rice, Patrik Schumacher and Robin Wilson
Featured architects: atelier d’architecture autogérée, Lina Bo Bardi, Construire/La Machine, EXYZT, Didier Faustino/Bureau des Mésarchitectures, Lacaton & Vassal, N55, Catie Newell/*Alibi Studio, Wang Shu, Superflex and Bernard Tschumi
Lisa Sabin-Wilson & Matt Mullenweg, "WordPress For Dummies, 5th edition"
English | For Dummies | ISBN: 1118383184 | 2012 | 432 pages | PDF | 7.67 MB
The popular guide to WordPress, fully updated to help you get bloggingJoin the millions of bloggers who rely on WordPress, the popular and free blogging platform. This guide covers all the features and improvements in the most up-to-date version of WordPress. Whether you are switching to WordPress from another blogging platform or just starting your first blog, you'll find lots of advice in this friendly guide. With this easy-to-follow book, you?ll be able to take full advantage of the flexibility and usability of WordPress.WordPress is a state-of-the-art blog platform that emphasizes aesthetics, web standards, and usability Shows what it takes to set up and maintain a blog with WordPress and how to use all the new features Covers the changes and improvements to the latest release of WordPressWritten by WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson, this guide helps bloggers take advantage quickly and easily of everything this popular blogging tool has to offer.
Jon Fancey and Karthik Bharathy, "Getting Started with BizTalk Services"
English | ISBN: 178217740X | 2014 | 144 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 32 MB
A practical book that acts as a clear and concise introduction to BizTalk Services. Full of real-world scenarios, each area of BizTalk Services is explained in detail, essentially enabling you to smoothly design your own integration solutions with minimal effort.
This book is intended for those who want to understand BizTalk Services, what it can do, and how to build integration solutions using it in their organizations. If you are a developer, architect, or project manager, this book will quickly get you acquainted with this powerful cloud integration technology. It would be helpful to have some experience with BizTalk Server; however, this is neither required nor assumed. It is recommended to have a subscription with Windows Azure to try out the examples in the book.
Klaas Deforche and Kenny Saelen, "Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2012 R2 Services"
English | ISBN: 1782176721 | 2014 | 264 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 32 MB
Integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with other applications will always be necessary within any organisation, and services is the best way of achieving this. With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 being more flexible than ever when it comes to creation and use, understanding these services will help you to know when and where to use them for the best result.
Starting from ground up, we will build your knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services through step by step tutorials, to give you the ability to create and use the most suited service to the task at hand.
Starting with service architecture and deployment, we'll quickly take you through to AIF Document services and on to creating custom services for all of your AX needs. This second edition also features information on high availability, load balancing and creating clusters so that you can get the most of your AX services. We then conclude with tracing and debugging, to troubleshoot and monitor running services.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Alexandre Devert, "Matplotlib Plotting Cookbook"
English | ISBN: 1849513260 | 2014 | 222 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 17 MB
This book follows a cookbook style approach that puts orthogonal and non redundant recipes in your hands. Rather than rehashing the user manual, the explanations expose the underlying logic behind Matplotlib.
If you are an engineer or scientist who wants to create great visualizations with Python, rather than yet another specialized language, this is the book for you. While there are several very competent plotting packages, Matplotlib is just a Python module. Thus, if you know some Python already, you will feel at home from the first steps on. In case you are an application writer, you won't be left out since the integration of Matplolib is covered.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Roger Stringer, "Twilio Cookbook, Second Edition"
English | ISBN: 1783550651 | 2014 | 334 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 21 MB
Have you ever wanted to integrate phone features into a project you were working on? Maybe you wanted to send SMS messages to your customers about the latest sales? Maybe you want to set up a company directory with voice mail? Or maybe you want to add two-factor authentication to your web sites to verify your users? Since Twilio was launched in 2007, developers have had an easy and efficient way to do these tasks. The power of Twilio s API is huge and lets you add any type of phone solution to your website from two-factor authentication to verify your users, to setting up a company directory and a voice mail system. The possibilities are endless.
This book is a must have for Twilio development, providing you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises. It helps you take advantage of the real power of the Twilio API, and gives you a good foundation in using it in your websites.
This book examines the Twilio API, and breaks down the mystery and confusion that surrounds adding telephone functionality to your websites. As you go through the recipes, you will learn how to take advantage of the Twilio API quickly and painlessly.
You will learn how to build your own IVR system, company directory, and voicemail box, and also how to set up a two-factor authentication system to verify users, track orders via SMS, send surveys using SMS, allow users to buy phone numbers, set up and delete sub-accounts, and check to see if a human is answering a phone call. We will also combine Twilio with other APIs to build a handy local search system such as a local business search, movie listings search, and web search. We ll also dive into call queues and how to handle multiple incoming callers to agents. If you want to discover the endless benefits of Twilio, then this book is for you.
Zakir Laliwala and Irshad Mansuri, "Activiti 5.x Business Process Management: Beginner's Guide"
English | ISBN: 1849517061 | 2014 | 260 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 13 + 19 + 28 MB
Being a Packt Beginners Guide, each chapter follows an easy to understand approach with plenty of screenshots and clear and concise steps to guide you throughout.
This book is primarily intended for Business Analysts (BAs) who need to develop a process model for implementation in a Business Process Management system. The book assumes that you have basic knowledge of business analysis; however, no Activiti or Java knowledge is required.
Ty Audronis, "Lightning Fast Animation in Element 3D"
English | ISBN: 1783559381 | 2014 | 136 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 19 + 31 + 38 MB
Element 3D is a plugin for Adobe After Effects, used to create basic, yet stunning 3D visual effects. Some may find 3D to be tricky and downright complex. Element 3D allows actual 3D models to be created from scratch or exported to Adobe After Effects, and rendered and composited at a high level of quality and impressive speed.
This practical guide will lift the veil of mystery around 3D animation. It will teach you everything from modeling, preparing, and exporting from various 3D programs to match-motion, texturing, and complex animations using Element 3D.
This book is a comprehensive guide to using Element 3D and is appropriate for users of all levels. It will walk you through the basics of modeling objects for Element 3D. Then, you ll learn how to texture, light, and animate as well as optimize your scenes for quick render times.
You will discover some of the limits of Element 3D, and learn how to break through those barriers to create virtually any 3D scene imaginable. You will also learn how to take advantage of other 3D programs such as Maya and Blender to create content and create stunning abstract scenes in relatively no time, and how to composite 3D animation into motion-tracked live action scenes.
By the time you complete this book, you will have all the information you need to effectively create professional 3D graphics using Element 3D.
P. Taylor Goetz and Brian O'Neill, "Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation"
English | ISBN: 178216829X | 2014 | 336 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 24 MB
A blueprints book with 10 different projects built in 10 different chapters which demonstrate the various use cases of storm for both beginner and intermediate users, grounded in real-world example applications.
Although the book focuses primarily on Java development with Storm, the patterns are more broadly applicable and the tips, techniques, and approaches described in the book apply to architects, developers, and operations.
Additionally, the book should provoke and inspire applications of distributed computing to other industries and domains. Hadoop enthusiasts will also find this book a good introduction to Storm, providing a potential migration path from batch processing to the world of real-time analytics.
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David R. Heffelfinger, "Java Ee 7 with Glassfish 4 Application Server"
English | ISBN: 1782176888 | 2014 | 348 pages | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | 28 MB
This book is a practical guide and follows a very user-friendly approach. The book aims to get the reader up to speed in Java EE 7 development. All major Java EE 7 APIs and the details of the GlassFish 4 server are covered followed by examples of their use. If you are a Java developers who wants to become proficient with Java EE 7 this book is ideal for you. Readers are expected to have some experience with Java and to have developed and deployed applications in the past, but don t need any previous knowledge of Java EE or J2EE. It teaches the reader how to use GlassFish 4 to develop and deploy applications.
Steve Suehring, Janet Valade - PHP, MySQL, javascript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies
English | Published: 2013-04-01 | ISBN: 111821370X | EPUB + MOBI | 720 pages | 8 MB
7 books in 1
Web Technologies
HTML and CSS
javascript
PHP
MySQL
Web Applications
PHP and Templates
In charge of a website? Here's what you need to know about key web technologies!
Websites have become much flashier, but the building blocks to create them remain much the same. This information-packed book covers four essential web technologies: HTML and CSS, javascript, PHP, and MySQL. Learn how they work together to create web services, validate web forms, and set up a members-only site, plus discover how to create a templating system with PHP. You'll build on the basics and take your website to new levels with this friendly For Dummies guide.
Lay the groundwork — find out how the web works and how to get and install PHP, MySQL, and a web server
Style it — create a page with HTML, add style with CSS, build a javascript program, and see what jQuery can do for you
Rockin' with PHP — learn about PHP syntax and error messages, build a script, and use PHP to create dynamic web pages
Magical MySQL — administer MySQL and set up MySQL accounts, design and build databases, keep them updated, and connect MySQL to PHP
Service, please — create a web service, create and validate web forms, and set up login objects
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking by Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1449361323 | 414 pages | PDF | 14,5 MB
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.
Based on an MBA course Provost has taught at New York University over the past ten years, Data Science for Business provides examples of real-world business problems to illustrate these principles. You’ll not only learn how to improve communication between business stakeholders and data scientists, but also how participate intelligently in your company’s data science projects. You’ll also discover how to think data-analytically, and fully appreciate how data science methods can support business decision-making.
Understand how data science fits in your organization—and how you can use it for competitive advantage
Treat data as a business asset that requires careful investment if you’re to gain real value
Approach business problems data-analytically, using the data-mining process to gather good data in the most appropriate way
Learn general concepts for actually extracting knowledge from data
Apply data science principles when interviewing data science job candidates
Advanced Molecular Biology: A Concise Reference
English | Richard Twyman | 1998 | Scan PDF | ISBN: 185996141X | 512 pages | 105 Mb
Advanced Molecular Biology emphasises the unifying principles and mechanisms of molecular biology, with frequent use of tables and boxes to summarise experimental data and gene and protein functions. Extensive cross-referencing between chapters is used to reinforce and broaden the understanding of core concepts. This is the ideal source of comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date information for all those whose work is in the field of molecular biology.
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How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0199895570, 0199371245 | 464 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution.
In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. The environmental movement, he contends, is philosophically confused and has unrealistic agendas. Its sights are directed at the largescale events and the confrontation between international politics and multinational business. But Scruton argues that no large-scale environmental project, however well-intentioned, will succeed if it is not rooted in small-scale practical reasoning. Seeing things on a large scale promotes top-down solutions, managed by unaccountable bureaucracies that fail to assess local conditions and are rife with unintended consequences. Scruton argues for the greater efficacy of local initiatives over global schemes, civil association over political activism, and small-scale institutions of friendship over regulatory hyper-vigilance. And he suggests that conservatism is far better suited to solving environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. Rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local control. People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as they would a home, and to involve themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics.
Our common future is by no means assured, but as Roger Scruton clearly demonstrates in this important book, there is a path that can ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Human Resources Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
English | ISBN: 1466616016 | 2014 | 1622 pages | PDF | 48 MB
Human resources management is essential for any workplace environment and is deemed most effective when a strategic focus is in place to ensure that people can facilitate that achievement of organizational goals. But, effective human resource management also contains an element of risk management for an organization which, as a minimum, ensures legislative compliance. Human Resources Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications compiles the most sought after case studies, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and research related human resources management. Including over 100 chapters from professional, this three-volume collection presents an in-depth analysis on the fundamental aspects, tools and technologies, methods and design, applications, managerial impact, social/behavioral perspectives, critical issues, and emerging trends in the field, touching on effective and ineffective management practices when it comes to human resources. This multi-volume work is vital and highly accessible across the hybrid domain of business and management, essential for any library collection.
