Discrete Mathematics Using aComputer

Discrete Mathematics Using aComputer

This volume offers a new, ‘hands-on’ approach to teaching Discrete Mathematics. A simple functional language is used to allow students to experiment with mathematical notations which are traditionally difficult to pick up. This practical approach provides students with instant feedback and also allows lecturers to monitor progress easily. All the material needed to use the book will be available via ftp (the software is freely available and runs on Mac, PC and Unix platforms), including a special module which implements the concepts to be learned. No prior knowledge of Functional Programming is required: apart from List Comprehension (which is comprehensively covered in the text) everything the students need is either provided for them or can be picked up easily as they go along. An Instructors Guide will also be available on the WWW to help lecturers adapt existing courses.

Discrete Mathematics Using aComputer

This Dark Road to Mercy

This Dark Road to Mercy

Hailed as ‘mesmerizing’ (New York Times Book Review) and ‘as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird’ (Richmond Times-Dispatch), A Land More Kind Than Home made Wiley Cash an instant literary sensation. His resonant new novel, This Dark Road to Mercy, is a tale of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, a story that involves two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.

This Dark Road to Mercy

Plumbing Instant Answers

Plumbing Instant Answers

Make simple work of the toughest plumbing problem

Plumbing Instant Answers

The Disappearance

The Disappearance

The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of Februaryat four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o’clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature.? On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically; social stability and peace in the other are offset by famine and a widespread breakdown in machinery and science. And as we learn from the fascinating parallel stories of a brilliant couple, Bill and Paula Gaunt, the foundations of relationships, love, and sex are scrutinized, tested, and sometimes redefined in both worlds. The radically divergent trajectories of the gendered histories reveal stark truths about the rigidly defined expectations placed on men and women and their sexual relationships and make clear how much society depends on interconnection between the sexes. Written over a half century ago yet brimming with insight and unsettling in its relevance today, The Disappearance is a masterpiece of modern speculative fiction.

The Disappearance

Manage Partitions with GParted How-to

Manage Partitions with GParted How-to

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.,

Full of practical examples including screen shots, additional tips, and clear step-by-step instructions,

Create and move partitions without data loss,

Identify and manage partitions on all of your disk devices

Manage Partitions with GParted How-to

Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery

Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery

XMPP is a robust protocol used for a wide range of applications, including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and search. This book teaches you how to harness the power of XMPP in your own apps and presents you with all the tools you need to build the next generation of apps using XMPP or add new features to your current apps. Featuring the , language throughout and making use of the , library, the book contains several XMPP apps of increasing complexity that serve as ideal learning tools.

Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery

Linux Bible

Linux Bible

This completely revamped edition covers the familiar , flavors as well as some exciting new distributions-Ubuntu, Mepis, Arch Linux, and four others.,

Ideal for users planning the transition to Linux who want to sample different distributions to see which one best meets their needs.,

Includes new sections on practical uses for Linux, cool multimedia apps, instant messaging, BitTorrent, and improved , techniques.,

Valuable information for system administrators who need to set up secure, fully functioning Linux servers.

Linux Bible

XMPP: The Definitive Guide

XMPP: The Definitive Guide

This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) — the open technology for real-time communication used in instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, , computing, and more. XMPP: The Definitive Guide walks you through the thought processes and , decisions involved in building a complete XMPP-enabled application, and adding real-time interfaces to existing applications.

XMPP: The Definitive Guide