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Earn $30,000 Per Month Playing Online Poker

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Step-by-step Guide to Single-table Tournaments

By Ryan Wiseman

£12.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback ECW Press,Canada

Catering specifically to no-limit Texas Hold 'Em sit-n-go (SNG) online poker players, this is the essential guide for those looking to master the game without having to learn complex and confusing theories. Based on a group of university students' experience playing--and winning at--online poker, this handbook illustrates how to take a small initial investment and turn it into hundreds of thousands of dollars by following specific steps and guidelines. Instead of bogging players down in the mathematics behind the game, the information is doled out on a need-to-know basis based on skill and limit levels that guide players on a progressive winning path.

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Includes Silverlight 2 and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

By Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta

£39.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback APress

This new edition is updated with everything professionals need to integrate Silverlight 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 into their ASP.NET applications. It covers ASP.NET 3.5, illustrating both the brand-new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP.

The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald G. Firesmith, Peter Capell, Charles B. Hammons, DeWitt Latimer, Tom Merendino, Dietrich Falkenthal

£41.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offering a practical way to generate effective and efficient project-specific system architecture engineering methods, this volume addresses the entire range of systems architecture including hardware, software, subsystems, and systems of systems. It also includes tables and figures to give readers access to useful information.

Intelligent Systems

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Modeling, Optimization, and Control

By Yung C. Shin, Chengying Xu

£67.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offering an introduction to the field of soft computing techniques, this book covers various major techniques in artificial intelligence. It highlights research and applications, addresses issues encountered in the development of applied systems, and describes a range of intelligent systems techniques.

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition step by step

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Griffin, Eric.

£21.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback Microsoft Pr

Information Security

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Strategies for Understanding and Reducing Risks

By Urs E. Gattiker

£45.00 19 Nov 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Teaches the IT security person what they need to know about security and explains why certain issues are important. This work provides an overview of concepts, methods and theories of information security, including wireless networks. It also gives advice on the necessary human, technical and financial resources for critical IT infrastructures.

Modeling and Simulation

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Computer Science of Illusion

By Stanislaw Raczynski

£58.75 19 Nov 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Simulation is the art of using tools physical or conceptual models, or computer hardware and software, to attempt to create the illusion of reality. This work examines the state of the art in research into methods of approaching new applications in the field of modelling and simulation.

How to Do Everything: Adobe Acrobat 9

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doug Sahlin

£14.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Your one-stop guide to Adobe Acrobat 9

Create and publish feature-rich electronic documents that retain the look and feel of the originals. How to Do Everything: Adobe Acrobat 9 explains how to edit PDFs, collaborate with other users, and optimize PDFs for print or the web. YouAnd#39;ll also learn how to secure your PDFs and maintain document integrity. With coverage of the Adobe Acrobat Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended editions, this book helps you maximize all the new and improved features of this versatile program right away.Open, view, and search PDFs Convert virtually any document to PDF Capture PDFs from a scanner or web page Create navigation devices including bookmarks, thumbnails, and links Review, edit, and annotate PDFs Add digital signatures and apply document security Optimize documents for print, CD/DVD applications, the web, and other uses Add multimedia elements Create a searchable indexCreate forms with Adobe LiveCycle DesignerBatch process PDF documents

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2008

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£76.50 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Covers the proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2008, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in December 2008. This book includes such topics as next generation video coding techniques, audio processing and classification, interactive multimedia systems, advances in H.264/AVC, and multimedia networking techniques.

Distributed Computing and Internet Technology

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£33.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2008, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2008. This title presents the 12 revised papers and 8 revised short papers that were reviewed and selected from 96 submissions.

The Semantic Web

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£54.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2008, held in Bankok, Thailand, in December 2008. This title includes papers that address the results in the research and applications of Semantic Web technologies and cover topics including: scalable reasoning and logic, ontology mapping, and ontologies and tags.

HTML

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques

By Gary B. Shelly, Denise M. Woods

£36.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Cengage Learning

Presents an overview of HTML and leads the user through a step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning. This title helps readers learn how to create a Web page using HTML, format the page, and add graphics.

OpenGL Cookbook

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dave Shreiner, Brad Grantham

£30.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA

Used for computer games, flight simulation, CAD, medical imaging, and scientific visualization, OpenGL is the industry standard programming language for creating high performance 2D and 3D graphics. This cookbook gives you more than 150 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology.

Quickbooks 2009: The Missing Manual

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bonnie Biafore

£21.50 18 Nov 2008 Paperback O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA

Presents basic accounting advice. This book helps you boost sales, control spending, and save on taxes. It lets you follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks.

Information Systems and Outsourcing

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mary Cecelia Lacity

£65.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Looks at nearly 20 years of leading theoretical and practical research on IT outsourcing. This book explores how good IT outsourcing theories shape practice and how effective IT outsourcing practices inform theory. It highlights the importance of examining theories borrowed from economics, strategy, and sociology to study IT outsourcing.

Multimedia Data Mining

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Zhongfei Zhang, Ruofei Zhang

£46.99 17 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Defines multimedia data mining, its theory and its applications. This book discusses the theoretical foundations of multimedia data mining, presenting commonly used feature representation, knowledge representation and soft computing techniques. It provides application examples that showcase the potential of multimedia data mining technologies.

Forms That Work

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Designing Web Forms for Usability

By Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney

£22.99 17 Nov 2008 Paperback Elsevier Science & Technology

Forms are everywhere on the web - for registration and communicating, for commerce and government. This title explains how to design great forms for the web. It guides readers on how to define requirements, how to write questions that users will understand and want to answer, and how to deal with instructions, progress indicators and errors.

Internet Services

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Economics of Quality of Service for Networks, Grids, and Markets

By McKnight, Lee W.

£25.95 17 Nov 2008 Hardback MIT Press Ltd

Experts analyze the technical, economic, business, policy, and user challenges facing Internet services in the future.

Mobile Wireless Networks

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Integrated Service Issues

By Pallapa Venkataram

£65.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Multimedia Engineering

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Practical Guide for Internet Implementation

By Alvis Cheuk Ming Fong, S.C. Hui, Guanyue Hong, Bernard Fong

£52.87 16 Nov 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Multimedia technologies and the internet are increasingly intrinsic to our daily lives, and into the future can continue to transform the way we live. This work immerses the reader into the development of many practical internet/ multimedia systems, offering an insight into a range of engineering problems and solutions.

Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dmitry Vostokov, Thomas Monahan

£15.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Opentask

Computer Orchestration Tips and Tricks

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Bennett

£9.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback PC Publishing

Using modern technology, composers no longer need to wait until an orchestra plays their score to hear what their music will actually sound like. Using a computer and suitable software, its possible for anyone to produce high-quality results that can be used for music CDs, film, and TV scores. Create realistic sounding orchestras on your computer Little or no musical notation knowledge needed Create scores for real players to read Tips and tricks to get the best out of your software All you need to orchestrate on your computer. This book is aimed at those with little or not understanding of music notation. It gives the reader a basic understanding or the principles of orchestration and offers tips and techniques to help get the best simulated orchestral performance out of their equipment.

Software Engineering

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches and Practices

By Heidi J.C. Ellis, Steven A. Demurjian, J.Fernando Naveda

£125.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

Presents the developments in software engineering education.

Semantic Web for Business

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cases and Applications

By Roberto Garcia

£125.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

Delivers real-life cases that illustrate the benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and e-commerce scenarios.

Intelligent User Interfaces

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Adaptation and Personalization Systems and Technologies

By Constantinos Mourlas, Panagiotis Germanakos

£125.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

The field of intelligent user interfaces has received great attention from the research community over the years. This book combines broad research areas in intelligent user interfaces to provide a review of studies, applications, and methodologies and theories that support the issue of adaptation and personalization in various application levels.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

£2081.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

Features 693 contributions from 50 countries on various aspects of information science and technologies. This book covers critical issues related to utilization and management of information science and technology. It includes more than 9,300 references to literature and research on information science and technologies.

Grid Computing Research Progress

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jiannong Wong

£85.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Nova Science Publishers Inc

Grid computing is a phrase in distributed computing which can have several meanings: Multiple independent computing clusters which act like a "grid" because they are composed of nodes not located within a single administrative domain or at a single geographical location. This book presents research from around the globe.

Effective Screen Reading

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Managing Electronic Information Effectively

By Tarmo Toikka

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback HRD Press Inc.,U.S.

Did you know reading text on a computer screen can be as much as 30 percent slower with less comprehension than reading printed text? This book provides principles for increasing on-screen productivity and effectiveness. It offers techniques for speed reading e-mails and other documents directly off your computer screen.

Maintaining Windows XP

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

10 Easy Steps to Success

By Ron Nykiforuk

£17.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback HRD Press Inc.,U.S.

Offers a program for maintaining operating systems for Windows XP. This book outlines a 10-step program to scan and remove viruses from your hard drive; use disk cleanup to remove unwanted files from your hard drive; and clean out temporary Internet files and offline files in Internet Explorer for faster Internet startup.

Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Min Song, Yi-Fang Brook Wu

£323.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

Text mining, a variation of data mining, extracts desired information from large, unstructured text collections stored in electronic forms. This book covers the state of research in the field of text mining. It also offers cross-referencing of key terms, figures, and information pertinent to text and Web mining technologies.

Managing Very Large IT Projects in Businesses and Organizations

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Matthew W. Guah

£104.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback IGI Global

Successful management of very large IT projects is becoming vital to corporations worldwide. This book offers a perspective on the management and implementation of very large IT projects. It discusses sub-project integration, risk management, IT project life cycle, leadership and team building, emerging technologies, and corporate strategies.

Media Security and Protection

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Min Wu