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Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid

2008-09-08T17:50:00.002+01:00

Drawn from fifteen years of research, Sperm Counts examines historical and scientific documents, children's "facts of life" books, pornography, the Internet, forensic transcripts and sex worker narratives to explain how semen got so complicated. Among other things, understanding how we produce, represent, deploy and institutionalize semen-biomedically, socially and culturally-provides valuable new perspectives on the changing social position of men and the evolving meanings of masculinity. Ultimately, as Moore reveals, sperm is intimately involved in not only the physical reproduction of males and females, but in how we come to understand ourselves as men and women.

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Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB

2008-09-08T08:22:00.002+01:00

Building on the revolutionary ASP.NET 2.0 release, ASP.NET 3.5 adds several key new developer features including AJAX, LINQ, and a new CSS designer in Visual Web Developer 2008. The dramatic reduction in code that developers realized from the more than 50 new server controls in ASP.NET 2.0 now allows developers the time to make their applications more interactive with AJAX, to work with data in their preferred language with LINQ, and to build visually attractive and consistent standards-based sites with CSS.

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Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Digital Field Guide

2008-09-08T08:14:00.003+01:00

The Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Digital Field Guide is filled with everything you need to know in order to take amazing photographs using your Sony Alpha A700 digital SLR camera. This full-color portable guide walks you through the essential controls, features, and functions of the A700 using step-by-step instructions and full-color images of each menu screen. This robust guide not only shows you how to adjust white balance, autofocus, exposure, and choose lenses, it also teaches you when and why you should adjust each of these key settings. The Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Digital Field Guide goes beyond camera settings to offer you a refresher guide to the principles of digital photography, covering the essentials of lighting, composition, and exposure. Filled with amazing examples, this book also presents a variety of tips and tricks to capturing portraits, candids, sports, travel, macro photography, and much more.

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Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition

2008-09-08T08:06:00.005+01:00

This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract representation of the program text) to express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way that is both clear and executable. The approach is both analytical and hands-on. The book provides views of programming languages using widely varying levels of abstraction, maintaining a clear connection between the high-level and low-level views. Exercises are a vital part of the text and are scattered throughout; the text explains the key concepts, and the exercises explore alternative designs and other issues.

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Distributed and Parallel Systems: In Focus: Desktop Grid Computing

2008-09-08T07:57:00.002+01:00

Distributed and Parallel Systems: Desktop Grid Computing, based on DAPSYS 2008, presents original research, novel concepts and methods, and outstanding results. Contributors investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of grid computing; and introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation. This volume features a special focus on desktop grid computing as well.

Designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry, this book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

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Platform Interference in Wireless Systems: Models, Measurement, and Mitigation

2008-09-08T07:46:00.002+01:00

A complete guide to identifying, diagnosing, and resolving signal conflicts and interference problems found in the same RF/wireless device!

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Wireless Networking

2008-09-08T07:40:00.004+01:00

Convenient one-stop view of wireless networking including cellular networks, WiFi and WiMax, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networking, and the full range of options in between.

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Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer's Guide

2008-09-08T07:30:00.002+01:00

James M. Van Verth, Lars M. Bishop, "Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer's Guide"
Morgan Kaufmann | ISBN-10: 0123742978 | May 16, 2008 | 704 pages | PDF | 3.2MB

Even though I've worked with these systems for years,this book showed me new ways of looking at several topics that make them easier to remember and use. For someone new to 3D programming, it is extremely useful - it gives them a solid background in pretty much every area they need to understand.

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Nintendo Wii Flash Game Creator's Guide

2008-09-08T07:21:00.002+01:00

Whip up awesome Wii games using Flash and ActionScript. Nintendo Wii Flash Game Creator's Guide lays out each next-generation technique alongside real-world examples and cut-and-paste code samples. Learn how to design exciting Flash animations, create cool characters, simulate realistic motion, and use the Wii remote control in innovative ways. Plus, you'll get the latest tricks for supercharging your games and tips for distributing them on the Web.

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Pro Tools All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition

2008-09-08T07:13:00.002+01:00

When you add Pro Tools to your home recording studio, you have the software used to create hit records. Throw in Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition and you get the insight you need to capture your sounds, edit your tracks, create a mix, and master your songs for the world to hear. Add a generous helping of your own talent and you have the perfect recipe for music stardom.

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SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

2008-09-08T07:05:00.002+01:00

SQL Server 2008 Transact–SQL Recipes: A Problem–Solution Approach is an example–based guide to the Transact–SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2008. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Author Joseph Sack takes common Transact–SQL tasks and breaks them down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.

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Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect

2008-09-08T06:47:00.002+01:00

You might think more than enough design books exist in the programming world already. In fact, there are so many that it makes sense to ask why you would read yet another. Is there really a need for yet another design book? In fact, there is a greater need than ever before, and Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect fills that need!

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Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers: From Novice to Professional

2008-09-08T06:39:00.002+01:00

SQL Server 2008 is a first–rate database management system. It offers more capability than any previous release of SQL Server. More than just a classic relational database management system, SQL Server 2008 includes exciting and powerful features that make it useful for everything from large corporate data warehouses to ad hoc departmental databases. You’ll find enhanced support for XML, new support for spatial data, transparent data encryption, a policy–based management system, and more.

Author and developer Robin Dewson will show you the way from beginner to SQL Server 2008 professional. Learn to install SQL Server 2008 and navigate around Management Studio before getting right to the heart of mastering fundamental SQL Server 2008 tasks: creating tables, storing data, securing data, and retrieving it again. Dewson ensures you’ll be fully prepared to use all the basics and create a solid foundation for your own projects.

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Android Essentials

2008-09-08T06:10:00.002+01:00

Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location–based services, and networking.

Thorough, complete, and useful work on the nuts and bolts of applicatio development in Android
Example driven and practically minded
A tool for hobbyists and professionals who want to create production–quality applications

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Pro Spring 2.5

2008-09-05T19:22:00.003+01:00

The move from so–called heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, it’s picked up pace. The Spring Framework remains the leader in this move and provides a platform on which you can build your own applications and services.

Pro Spring 2.5 covers the new features of Spring 2.5, but moreover, it is focused on the best practices and core standards of contemporary Spring development. As members of the Spring development team at Cake Solutions, the author team brings extensive practical experience gained from working with Spring since version 1.0 and delivering successful systems on top of it.

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Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide

2008-09-05T06:21:00.004+01:00

Discussing new and existing features, SQL Server designer and administrator Michael Coles takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact–SQL functionality in SQL Server 2008 in his book Pro T–SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring Coles’ technically accurate and engaging treatment of Transact–SQL into your own hands. Step–by–step explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of best–practices will steer you down the road to success.

Pro T–SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide is every developer’s key to making full use of SQL Server 2008’s powerful, built–in Transact–SQL language. Transact–SQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL Server. It’s used for everything from querying data, to writing stored procedures, to managing the database. New features in SQL Server 2008 include a spatial data type, SQLCLR integration, the MERGE statement, a dramatically improved and market–leading XML feature set, and support for encryption—all of which are covered in this book.

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Multimedia Transcoding in Mobile and Wireless Networks

2008-09-05T06:13:00.003+01:00

In recent years, the field of multimedia communication in wireless and mobile video has grown in attraction. As the number of networks, types of devices, and content representation formats increase, the need for multimedia transcoding in wireless and mobile networks intensifies in order to provide a seamless interaction between content creation and usage.

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Action! Cartooning

2008-09-04T07:34:00.003+01:00

Ben Caldwell, "Action! Cartooning"
Sterling | ISBN-10: 0806987391 | March 28, 2004 | PDF | 35.5MB

Written and illustrated by a former Marvel Comics’ artist with brilliant hand-done images throughout, this graphic handbook of cartooning is without equal. It's simply larger, better illustrated, and more in depth than any similar title on the market. In elaborate detail, it focuses on superheroes and their atmospheric world filled with speed and movement. Every aspect of creating cartoons is taught: the supplies, developing mood, and the techniques that endow characters with personality. See how to draw a variety of faces (female, heroic, cute, gaunt), and give the appearance of age. From the skeleton to the torso, to the arms, hands, and legs, follow every stroke that goes into producing bodies of all shapes and sizes. Finally, there's instruction on sending those figures into running, jumping, punching, kicking action in a fully realized scene. With advice so thorough, any amateur can become a pro.

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Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed

2008-09-04T07:27:00.003+01:00

Chris Botello "Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed"
Course Technology PTR | ISBN: 1598630288 | Jan 31, 2006 | 320 Pages | PDF | 12.3MB

Get ready to capture the dynamic capabilities that Adobe Premiere Pro® 2.0 has to offer! Giving you a firm foundation, "Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed" allows you to master concepts on both a technical and artistic level. Begin by examining the concept behind each task-the goal and the necessary features that are involved. Then go in-depth with the objective of your task as you study examples and learn the steps necessary to complete it. Working your way through comprehensive, step-by-step lessons, you’ll develop the confidence you need to create polished, professional-looking videos using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.

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Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies

2008-09-04T07:22:00.002+01:00

Katharine Kaye McMillan, Patricia Hart McMillan “Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies"

For Dummies | ISBN: 0470175338 | Dec 28, 2007 | 212 pages | PDF | 12.2MB

A full-color do-it-yourself guide that walks people step by step through painting and papering projects
Painting & Papering Do-It-Yourself For Dummies gives do-it-yourselfers all the information and advice they need to take on the most common painting and papering projects and fixes. From obtaining the right tools and selecting the right colors and styles to priming and prepping walls, ceilings, and floors, this colorful guide, which features over 40 projects, walks readers through each and every step, accompanied by a color photo or illustration. This book also covers various finishings (faux, sponging, colorwashing), borders, papering walls, matching textures and patterns, and making repairs and touch-ups.

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Troubleshooting Oracle Performance

2008-09-03T17:52:00.002+01:00

What do you do when your database application isn’t running fast enough? You troubleshoot, of course. Finding the slow part of an application is often the easy part of the battle. It’s finding a solution that’s difficult. Troubleshooting Oracle Performance helps by providing a systematic approach to addressing the underlying causes of poor database application performance.

Written for developers by an application developer who has learned by doing
Gives a systematic approach to solving database application performance problems
Helps you plan for performance as you would for any other application requirement

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Pro Java EE Spring Patterns

2008-09-03T17:39:00.004+01:00

Pro Java™ EE Spring Patterns focuses on enterprise patterns, best practices, design strategies, and proven solutions using key Java EE technologies including JSP™, servlets, EJB™, and JMS APIs.

This Java EE patterns resource, catalog, and guide, with its patterns and numerous strategies, documents and promotes best practices for these technologies, implemented in a very pragmatic way using the Spring Framework and its counters.

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The Relational Database Dictionary, Extended Edition

2008-09-03T17:30:00.002+01:00

Chris Date, one of the founders of the relational model, has updated and expanded his relational database dictionary to be current with over 900 terms.
What you’ll learn:
- Over 900 relational database terms defined,
- Precise and concise definitions, unlike those found on Wikipedia and other sources,
- Clear examples used where appropriate,
- Hyperlinks included in the eBook for easy reference.

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Fantasy! Cartooning

2008-09-03T07:35:00.003+01:00

The sizzling hot author of Action! Cartooning (100,000 copies sold!) has created a truly "fantastic" second book: a visually eye-popping, covers-it-all manual on drawing and understanding fantasy art.
A former Marvel cartoonist and one of the most talented young artists in this very hip field, Ben Caldwell now delivers his thrilling follow-up to Action! Cartooning. Fantasy! Cartooning is ideal for all kids and adults who love the Lord of the Rings movies, anticipate the Christmas 2005 release of The Chronicles of Narnia film, or have ever read a Harry Potter book. As before, Ben does not merely teach readers how to draw a line here or a circle there; he provides much, much more. Artists will find true insider tips on how to create mind-blowing scenes, awe-inspiring monsters, bigger-than-life heroes, and really incredible, magical landscapes. And because Ben Caldwell knows the fantasy genre inside out, he explains all the complex stories and legends behind each image, too.

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A Companion to Film Theory

2008-09-03T07:32:00.002+01:00

Toby Miller, Robert Stam, "A Companion to Film Theory"
Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0631206450 | May 28, 2004 | 440 Pages | PDF | 19.1MB

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.

* Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
* Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
* Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
* Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
* Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.

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