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LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband: Air Interface Technologies and Performance
LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband: Air Interface Technologies and Performance
506 pages | Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (April 20, 2009) | 0521882214 | PDF | 4 Mb
Do you need to get up to speed quickly on LTE?
Understand the new technologies of the LTE standard and how they contribute to improvements in system performance with this practical and valuable guide, written by an expert on LTE who was intimately involved in drafting the standard. In addition to a strong grounding in the technical details, you'll also get fascinating insights into why particular technologies were chosen in the development process.
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
190 pages | Pragmatic Bookshelf; First Edition edition (December 28, 2008) | 1934356158 | PDF | 2 Mb
Whether you're making the switch from a traditional centralized version control system or are a new programmer just getting started, this book prepares you to start using Git in your everyday programming.
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git starts with an overview of version control systems, and shows how being distributed enables you to work more efficiently in our increasingly mobile society. It then progresses through the basics necessary to get started using Git.
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Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information
Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information
352 pages | Morgan Kaufmann (July 25, 2008) | 0123743699 | PDF | 3 Mb
Information is currency. Recent studies show that data quality problems are costing businesses billions of dollars each year, with poor data linked to waste and inefficiency, damaged credibility among customers and suppliers, and an organizational inability to make sound decisions. In this important and timely new book, Danette McGilvray presents her Ten Steps approach to information quality, a proven method for both understanding and creating information quality in the enterprise. Her trademarked approachin which she has trained Fortune 500 clients and hundreds of workshop attendeesapplies to all types of data and to all types of organizations.
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Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief
288 pages | AMACOM (February 11, 2009) | 0814410960 | PDF | 0.9 Mb
Praised by Newsweek as -a compelling read- and Library Journal as -accessible and down-to-earth,- Dale McGowan-s Parenting Beyond Belief offered freethinking parents everywhere a compassionate introduction to raising caring, ethical children without religious guidance. Now, for the more than 40 million people in the United States who identify themselves as nonreligious, Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children.
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Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
376 pages | The MIT Press (March 31, 2009) | 0262012952 | PDF | 1 Mb
"The most significant contributions of Peter Wenz's book are his illustrations of the practical complexity of the fourteen social and political issues facing our nation, as well as his twelve political philosophies to increase our understanding of these issues. After reading Wenz’s account, people should feel that they now have the resources to talk about these issues and begin to take a stand."
—James P. Sterba, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
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Algorithms of the Intelligent Web
Algorithms of the Intelligent Web
368 pages | Manning Publications (June 28, 2009) | 1933988665 | PDF | 4 Mb
Web 2.0 applications provide a rich user experience, but the parts you can't see are just as important-and impressive. They use powerful techniques to process information intelligently and offer features based on patterns and relationships in data. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web shows readers how to use the same techniques employed by household names like Google Ad Sense, Netflix, and Amazon to transform raw data into actionable information.
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Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world
Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world
408 pages | Manning Publications (June 8, 2009) | 1933988258 | PDF | 8 Mb
Many books discuss Agile from a theoretical or academic perspective. Becoming Agile takes a different approach and focuses on explaining Agile from a case-study perspective. Agile principles are discussed, explained, and then demonstrated in the context of a case study that flows throughout the book. The case study is based on a mixture of the author's real-world experiences.
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Mule in Action
Mule in Action
436 pages | Manning Publications (July 28, 2009) | 1933988967 | PDF | 9 Mb
Mule is the most widely used open source ESB-with millions of downloads- providing an alternative to expensive commercial options. Mule in Action is a comprehensive tutorial designed for working Java developers. This authoritative book explores the architecture and the main features of version Mule 2 through numerous running examples. It starts with a quick overview of ESB technology and a bit of Mule history-including the key changes between Mule 1.x and Mule 2. Readers learn to configure Mule and then get straight to the good stuff-putting Mule to work.
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Open Source SOA
Open Source SOA
448 pages | Manning Publications (June 28, 2009) | 1933988541 | PDF | 7 Mb
You can build a world-class SOA infrastructure entirely using popular, and mature, open-source applications. Unfortunately, the technical documentation for most open-source projects focuses on a specific product, the big SOA picture. You're left to your own devices to figure out how to cobble together a full solution from the various bits. In other words, unless you already know how Mule and Tuscany work with jBPM, you're stuck.
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Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
327 pages | McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 2 edition (September 23, 2008) | 0071543732 | PDF | 8 Mb
Go Green-Go Electric! Faster, Cheaper, More Reliable While Saving Energy and the Environment
This new, updated edition of Build Your Own Electric Vehicle contains everything that made the first edition so popular while adding all the technological advances and new parts that are readily available on the market today.
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Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
584 pages | Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (December 26, 2007) | 1412913136 | PDF | 11 Mb
The Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science covers the essence of this exciting, new, and expanding field in an easily understood but richly detailed style. In addition to contributions from some of the best recognized scholars in GIScience, this volume contains contributions from experts in GIS’ supporting disciplines who explore how their disciplinary perspectives are expanded within the context of GIScience-what changes when consideration of location is added, what complexities in analytical procedures are added when we consider objects in 2, 3 or even 4 dimensions, what can we gain by visualizing our analytical results on a map or 3D display?
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Spatial Data on the Web: Modeling and Management
Spatial Data on the Web: Modeling and Management
314 pages | Springer; 1 edition (September 10, 2007) | 3540698779 | PDF | 7 Mb
Spatial data is essential in a wide range of application domains today. While geographical applications remain the key target area, spatial properties are required in other contexts such as computer-aided design, robotics and image processing. Associated with these is the constantly growing number of distributed processing architectures, based on, for example, grid systems, sensor data networks, and personalized smart devices. "Spatial Data on the Web" links these two research streams, focusing on the modeling and management of spatial data in distributed systems.
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Marketing ROI : The Path to Campaign, Customer, and Corporate Profitability
Marketing ROI : The Path to Campaign, Customer, and Corporate Profitability
256 pages | McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (July 16, 2003) | 0071413634 | PDF | 1 Mb
ROI (Return on Investment) is today's key business tool for measuring how effectively money was spent--yet few marketing managers receive any ROI training at all. Marketing ROIchanges all that, showing marketing pros at every level how to use ROI and other financial metrics to support their strategic decision making.
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Real World Haskell
Real World Haskell
710 pages | O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (May 11, 2009) | 0596514980 | CHM | 4 Mb
This easy-to-use, fast-moving tutorial introduces you to functional programming with Haskell. You'll learn how to use Haskell in a variety of practical ways, from short scripts to large and demanding applications. Real World Haskell takes you through the basics of functional programming at a brisk pace, and then helps you increase your understanding of Haskell in real-world issues like I/O, performance, dealing with data, concurrency, and more as you move through each chapter. With this book, you will:
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100 Great Artists
100 Great Artists
208 pages | Foulsham (November 28, 2005) | 0572031610 | PDF | 25 Mb
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