Culture-on-Demand

Culture-on-Demand

This highly original, thought-provoking book written by a pioneer of communication studies is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture.

Culture-on-Demand

Programming Language Pragmatics - Third Edition

Programming Language Pragmatics - Third Edition

As software rapidly becomes more complex and segmented, it is increasingly important for programmers to have references that can point out common underlying principles, provide guidance making about which of dozens of popular languages to learn, and explain the potentially dizzying jargon.

Programming Language Pragmatics - Third Edition

Art Projects that Dazzle and Delight

Art Projects that Dazzle and Delight

Beach Ball Collage, Patchwork Pets, Symmetrical SmilesKids will love these creative and colorful no-fail art activities that tie into popular themes, such as seasons, animals, and friends. Easy how-tos guide you through each step, from introducing the projects to displaying them. Created and classroom-tested by four art teachers, these surefire activities are fun for every student! For use with Grades 2-3.

Art Projects that Dazzle and Delight

Effective Project Management

Effective Project Management

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated

Effective Project Management

Elizabethan Popular Culture

Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley delights readers with a collection of facts and folklore of the people of Queen Elizabeth I’s era. He describes sports and pastimes, religion and superstition, cooking, life in town and country, and the rising bourgeois class. In chapters titled as ‘Cakes and Ale,’ ‘The Playhouse and the Bearbaiting Pit,’ and ‘Hey nonny nonny,’ Ashley paints an enlightening portrait of a time made memorable by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Elizabethan Popular Culture

Lipid Biochemistry, 5th Edition

Lipid Biochemistry, 5th Edition

Since the publication of the first edition of this successful and popular book in 1970, the subject of lipid biochemistry has evolved greatly and this fifth up-to-date and comprehensive edition includes much new and exciting information.

Lipid Biochemistry, 5th Edition

Summer in the South

Summer in the South

Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town.

Summer in the South

Nuclear Energy, Seventh Edition

Nuclear Energy, Seventh Edition

Nuclear Energy is one of the most popular texts ever published on basic nuclear physics, systems, and applications of nuclear energy. This newest edition continues the tradition of offering a holistic treatment of everything the undergraduate engineering student needs to know in a clear and accessible way. The book presents a comprehensive overview of radioactivity, radiation protection, nuclear reactors, waste disposal, and nuclear medicine.

Nuclear Energy, Seventh Edition

Structural Equation Modeling

Structural Equation Modeling

This volume is intended to serve as a didactically-oriented resource covering a broad range of advanced topics often not discussedin introductory courses on structural equation modeling (SEM). Such topics are important in furthering the understandingof foundations and assumptions underlying SEM as well as in exploring SEM as a potential tool to address new types ofresearch questions that might not have arisen during a first course. Chapters focus on the clear explanation and application oftopics, rather than on analytical derivations, and contain syntax and partial output files from popular SEM software.

Structural Equation Modeling

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

Prescription for Drug Alternatives

Prescription for Drug Alternatives

James Balch and Mark Stengler, coauthors of the hugely successful Prescription for Natural Cures, and Robin Young Balch have teamed up to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date book available on natural alternatives to prescription medications. The book provides natural, safe, and effective ways to treat a wide range of common ailments, including ADHD, allergies, diabetes, depression, erectile dysfunction, eczema, heart disease, headaches, and PMS. Youll read in-depth information, not found in any other popular book, about the pros and cons of prescription and over-the-counter drugs compared with natural treatment alternatives ranging from diet and lifestyle changes to supplements and herbal medicines.

Prescription for Drug Alternatives

The Tao Of Poker

The Tao Of Poker

Poker is more than just a card game – it can also help you become a winner away from the gaming tables! By blending the life lessons of a time-honored spiritual practice with the strategy of this popular card game, you can create a powerful approach to successful play – and successful living. In The Tao of Poker, prize-winning poker player Larry Phillips offers more than 280 rules to bring you to new levels of personal achievement, just when and where you need them most.

The Tao Of Poker

Secrets of Non-Standard Sit N Gos

Secrets of Non-Standard Sit N Gos

If you think you know sit’n’gos…think again!The sit’n’go (single table tournament) format is one of the most popular and exciting ways to play poker. The classic sit’n’go consists of ten players sitting at one table and playing for three prizes – but this is not the only possible format. There are many other ways that these events can be run and they can provide a lucrative opportunity for the skilled player. In ‘Secrets of non-standard Sit’n’gos,’ Phil Shaw navigates you through these exciting variants and explains how you can make them profitable.The alternative formats discussed include: – Heads-up sit’n’gos (two players)- Sit’n’gos played across two tables- 45-player and 180-player sit’n’gos- Non-NL games, including Pot-Limit Omaha, Stud, Razz, Triple Draw and Hi-lo games- Step systems (where players can win entries to tournaments like the EPT and WSOP)…and many moreAs well as a deep examination of the correct strategies for all these events, ‘Secrets of non-standard Sit’n’gos’ also analyses the most effective way to capitalise on rakeback and reward programs.

Secrets of Non-Standard Sit N Gos

Fundamentals of Poker

Fundamentals of Poker

A hard-hitting guide to the best strategies for the most popular casino poker games–seven-card stud and Texas hold ‘em–plus insights into winning at Omaha, Omaha eight-or-better, seven-card stud eight-or-better, razz, and lowball.

Fundamentals of Poker

Anti-Sicilians

Anti-Sicilians

The Sicilian is far and away the most popular chess opening, and many players prefer to side-step the Open Sicilian with one of the Anti-Sicilian systems at White’s disposal. This book equips Black to fight against all these lines. The Anti-Sicilian systems include: positionally motivated lines such as the 2 c3 Sicilian and the 3 Bb5 systems; slow but tricky attacking lines including the Closed Sicilian and the King’s Indian Attack; aggressive but loosening ideas like the Grand Prix Attack and a variety of gambits. In the most critical variations, Rogozenko provides a choice between a solid and an aggressive option. He caters for those who meet 2 Nf3 with the three main moves, 2…d6, 2…e6 and 2…Nc6.

Anti-Sicilians

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

Get started with Puppet, and learn how this popular configuration management , helps you automate your servers. This concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet’s tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and , servers. Through code samples and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and how to administer , control. If you’re new to Puppet, but familiar with systems administration and Ruby language basics, this book is the ideal way to start using this open source framework.

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

Magento Site Performance Optimization

Magento Site Performance Optimization

In the open source, e-commerce platform community, Magento has established itself as the most popular e-commerce platform in the market. It is supported by a very strong developer community and it fits most merchants’ needs. Despite this leadership, Magento has a major problem; it is very slow. To serve customers in a more efficient way, we need a tool that can optimize our sites’ performance. Even if the tool is able to boost the speed of the site to some extent, it can still be a very crucial factor when there are so many competing websites on the market.,

This book will start by providing a list of trustee companies to host a Magento website with high traffic. Also, we will discuss the required configurations in terms of amount of RAM, CPU, and HDD.

Magento Site Performance Optimization

Magento 1.4 Themes Design

Magento 1.4 Themes Design

Install and configure Magento 1.4 and learn the fundamental principles behind Magento themes. Customize the appearance of your Magento 1.4 e-commerce store with Magento’s powerful theming engine by changing Magento templates, skin files and layout files. Change the basics of your Magento theme from the logo of your store to the color scheme of your theme. Integrate popular social , aspects such as , and , into your Magento store.

Magento 1.4 Themes Design

RESTful Web Services

RESTful Web Services

‘Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book.’ – David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the , framework,

‘RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it.’ – Adam Trachtenberg, , author and EBay Web Services Evangelist,

You’ve built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That’s where the future lies, and that’s what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do. The World Wide Web is the most popular distributed application in history, and Web services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today’s web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful. They don’t work like the Web, and they’re missing out on its advantages.

RESTful Web Services

Rails 4 Application Development

Rails 4 Application Development

Rails is a rapidly moving, open source, web development framework, and keeping up to speed with it is a big task. You might have already built applications using it, but there have been significant changes in the syntax and semantic of the , , in the latest upgrade.,

Rails 4 Application Development Hotshot shows you how to build the most popular types of applications using Rails 4, and highlights new ways to do things. The book also closely follows lots of the best practices, gems, and popular solutions already known to the community, and tracks the changes in these. This book brings new ideas to refactor and restructure code to make it perform better in production, and enables you to write production-ready code.

Rails 4 Application Development