Programming and Languages

Microsoft Office 2007 for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Wallace Wang

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* The new version of Office boasts lots of new features-from enhanced charting and PivotTable capabilities in Excel to an instant e-mail search in Outlook to an improved graphics engine in PowerPoint * Bestselling computer book author Wally Wang comes to... (read more)
 
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Pulling Strings with Puppet: Automated System Administration Done Right
by James Turnbull

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Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even... (read more)
 
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Software Management

The Myths of Innovation
by Scott Berkun

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How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this... (read more)
 
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Object Oriented Programming

Design Patterns : Microarchitectures for Reusable Object-oriented Software (95 Edition)
by Erich Gamma

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Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch designers present a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems. Previously undocumented, these 23 patterns allow designers... (read more)
 
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Systems Analysis and Design

The Unofficial Lego Builder's Guide
by Allan Bedford

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LEGO is a brand that is well-known and well-loved by kids and adults around the world, and LEGO modeling is more popular and sophisticated today than ever. The Unofficial LEGO® Builder's Guide brings together... (read more)
 
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Open Source

The Cathedral & the Bazaar (Paperback)
by Eric S Raymond

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Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and... (read more)
 
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Game Design

Video Game Art
by Nic Kelman

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By 2008 most analysts predict that the video game industry will be larger than the film and music industries combined. Games today already command Hollywood budgets and teams of dozens of artists, writers, musicians, and designers... And yet almost... (read more)
 
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Algorithms

A First Course in Finite Elements
by Jacob Fish

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Developed from the authors, combined total of 50 years undergraduate and graduate teaching experience, this book presents the finite element method formulated as a general-purpose numerical procedure for solving engineering problems governed by partial... (read more)
 
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Compilers

Engineering a Compiler
by Keith Cooper

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Today's compiler writer must choose a path through a design space that is filled with diverse alternatives. "Engineering a Compiler" explores this design space by presenting some of the ways these problems have been solved, and the constraints that made... (read more)
 
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Head First Software Development Head First Software Development
by Dan Pilone

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Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let... (read more)
 
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The Art of Game Characters The Art of Game Characters
by Leo Hartas

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Computer and video games are the entertainment media of the 21st century, and game characters like Lara Croft and Mario are now as famous as Mickey Mouse and Homer Simpson. This definitive guide examines the appeal of these iconic characters from the... (read more)
 
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Operating Systems Design & Implement 2ND Edition
by Andrew S Tanenbaum

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Most books on operating systems deal with theory while ignoring practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. The book demonstrates how it works while illustrating the... (read more)
 
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Object Oriented Modeling & Design
by James Rumbaugh

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Object oriented modelling and design promoted better understanding of requirements cleaner designs and more maintainable systems. Often books on related subjects rely to heavy on programming and coding forcing readers to think in terms of the compute and... (read more)
 
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Version Control

Essential CVS
by Jenn Vesperman

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CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, is the popular source-code management tool that frees developers from the chaos that too often ensues when multiple users work on the same file. An open source technology that is available on most computer platforms... (read more)
 
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CASE

Information Engineering: Case, Practices and Techniques
by Robert Mylls

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Designed to assist managers and information workers in high-tech companies to integrate and maintain computer-aided software programs into their organization's engineering information system, provides step-by-step guidance to the assessment of a... (read more)
 
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Regular Expression Pocket Reference 2ND Edition
by Tony Stubblebine

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This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the... (read more)
 
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Programming and Languages

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
by Toby Segaran

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Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the... (read more)
 
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