Handbook of Electronics Formulas, Symbols and Definitions, Second Edition

Handbook of Electronics Formulas, Symbols and Definitions, Second Edition

This pocket-sized databank contains thousands of electronic formulas, symbols, and definitions related to modern passive and active analog circuit technology.

Handbook of Electronics Formulas, Symbols and Definitions, Second Edition

Quick Reference to Critical Care, Fourth Edition

Quick Reference to Critical Care, Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of this pocket-sized reference guide to procedures, treatments, and stabilization techniques for disorders, injuries, and patient situations commonly seen in the critical care setting is now updated for use by nursing students as well practicing critical care nurses. Featuring new information on new drugs, defibrillators and EECP therapy, this useful reference offers two sections providing quick access to need-to-know information. The first section is organized by body system, with problems of each system alphabetized. The second section contains essential information on drugs, dosing, conversions, calculations, compatibilities, laboratory tests, and more.

Quick Reference to Critical Care, Fourth Edition

Elder

Elder

These handy pocket-sized guides introduce readers to the vast and varied world of herbs and instruct them on the phenomenal curative powers of herbs. Each book offers easy-to-prepare herbal remedies, plant profiles with tips on usage and side effects, retail herb sources, a bibliography of further reading, and a listing of other resources.

Elder

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Cavendish LawCards are complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the law for both undergraduate and PGDL courses. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make Cavendish LawCards the ideal revision aid for identifying, understanding, and committing to memory the salient points of each area of law.

Jurisprudence

Sociology

Sociology

Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual’s role in society and society’s role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology as a perspective for understanding the modern world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Sociology

The Managers Pocket Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers

The Managers Pocket Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers

his practical guide provides the concepts and tools any manager needs to recruit and hire the best person for the job. Covers legal requirements in hiring, the importance of structure in recruiting, the costs of a bad hire, and the value of a good hire.

The Managers Pocket Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers

Bedford Square

Bedford Square

The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe himfor in the dead mans pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the generals study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitts clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in probing this masterpiece of evil, spawned by an amorality greater than they can imagine.

Bedford Square

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

Unlock the secrets of the Terminal and discover how this powerful tool solves problems the Finder can’t handle. With this handy guide, you’ll learn commands for a variety of tasks, such as killing programs that refuse to quit, renaming a large batch of files in seconds, or running jobs in the background while you do other work.,

Get started with an easy-to-understand overview of the Terminal and its partner, the shell. Then dive into commands neatly arranged into two dozen categories, including directory operations, file comparisons, and , connections. Each command includes a concise description of its purpose and features.

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

Ruby Pocket Reference

Ruby Pocket Reference

Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can’t remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of a method. This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby’s core components, from operators to reserved words to data structures to method syntax, highlighting those key features that you’ll likely use every day when coding Ruby.

Ruby Pocket Reference

Python Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

Python Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

This is the book to reach for when you’re coding on the fly and need an answer now. It’s an easy-to-use reference to the core language, with descriptions of commonly used modules and toolkits, and a guide to recent changes, new features, and upgraded built-ins — all updated to cover Python 3.x as well as version 2.6. You’ll also quickly find exactly what you need with the handy index.

Python Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The second edition has expanded from Fedora-only coverage to distro-neutral, with practical information on a wider range of commands requested by readers.,

Linux Pocket Guide provides an organized learning path for , use, rather than Linux , and system administration. You’ll find options for the most useful commands, grouped by functionality. For novices who need to get up to speed on Linux use, and experienced users who want a concise and functional reference, this guide provides quick answers.

Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

Linux iptables Pocket Reference

Linux iptables Pocket Reference

Firewalls, Network Address Translation (NAT), , logging and accounting are all provided by Linux’s Netfilter system, also known by the name of the command used to administer it, iptables. The iptables interface is the most sophisticated ever offered onLinux and makes , an extremely flexible system for any kind of network filtering you might do. Large sets of filtering rules can be grouped in ways that makes it easy to test them and turn them on and off.,

Do you watch for all types of ICMP traffic – some of them quite dangerous? Can you take advantage of stateful filtering to simplify the management of TCP connections? Would you like to track how much traffic of various types you get?,

This pocket reference will help you at those critical moments when someone asks you to open or close a port in a hurry, either to enable some important traffic or to block an attack. The book will keep the subtle syntax straight and help you remember all the values you have to enter in order to be as secure as possible. The book has an introductory section that describes applications,followed by a reference / encyclopaedic section with all the matches and targets arranged alphabetically.

Linux iptables Pocket Reference

SQL Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition

SQL Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition

If you’re a programmer or , administrator who uses , in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the ideal on-the-job reference. It uses numerous examples to address the language’s complexity, and covers key aspects of SQL used in Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. That includes the syntax for querying, managing transactions, and making changes to data, as well as SQL functions, type conversion functions and formats, and regular expression syntax.

SQL Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day , of , Server. Zero in on core support and maintenance tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused information you need to save time and get the job done – whether at your desk or in the field!

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant

Canvas Pocket Reference

Canvas Pocket Reference

The Canvas element is a revolutionary feature of , that enables powerful graphics for rich Internet applications, and this pocket reference provides the essentials you need to put this element to work. If you have working knowledge of JavaScript, this book will help you create detailed, interactive, and animated graphics – from charts to animations to video , – whether you’re a web designer or a programmer interested in graphics.,

Canvas Pocket Reference provides both a tutorial that covers all of the element’s features with plenty of examples and a definitive reference to each of the Canvas-related classes, methods, and properties.

Canvas Pocket Reference

bash Pocket Reference

bash Pocket Reference

You need to know how to work with the , , if you want to get to the heart of Unix systems, including , and Mac OS X. Now covering the most recent version of bash, this concise little book puts all of the essential information about bash at your fingertips. You’ll quickly find answers to annoying questions that always come up when you’re writing shell scripts — What characters do you need to quote? How do you get variable substitution to do exactly what you want? How do you use arrays? — and much more.

bash Pocket Reference