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61. |  The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book By: Laurens Valk Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 03-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book From the creative mind of author, robotics instructor, and frequent NXT Step Blog contributor Laurens Valk, <i>The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 Discovery Book</i> is packed with building and programming instructions for eight innovative robots....
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62. |  By: Scott F. Andrews Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 23-APR-2010 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Guild Leader's Handbook Scott F. Andrews has been helping guild leaders and officers since 2007 through his weekly column for WoW.com, Officers' Quarters. In The Guild Leader's Handbook, Andrews offers a complete guide to conceptualizing, establishing, and maintaining a successful guild....
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63. |  The Art of Assembly Language, Second Edition By: Randall Hyde Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 15-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 07-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Art of Assembly Language, Second Edition The Art of Assembly Language teaches programmers how to understand assembly language and how to use it to write powerful, efficient code. Using the proven High Level Assembler (HLA) as its primary teaching tool, The Art of Assembly Language leverages your knowledge of high level programming languages to make it easier for you to quickly grasp basic assembly concepts....
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64. |  The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology By: Masaharu Takemura; Sakura ,; Becom Co., Ltd. Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 28-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 28-JAN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
Rin and Ami have been skipping molecular biology class all
semester, and Professor Moro has had enough - he's sentencing them to
summer school on his private island. But they're in store for a
special lesson. Using Dr. Moro's virtual reality machine to travel
inside the human body, they'll get a close-up look at the
fascinating world of molecular biology.
Join them in
The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
, and
learn all about DNA, RNA, proteins, amino acids, and more. Along
the way, you'll see chemical reactions first-hand and meet
entertaining characters like Enzyme Man and Drinkzilla, who...
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65. |  By: Darren Barefoot; Julie Szabo Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 22-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 12-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Friends with Benefits The rules of marketing have changed. Savvy marketing
professionals know that they must engage with individuals directly
on the Web, and smart businesses know that customers can become
friends—with benefits. Friends With Benefits shows you how
to get into the online marketing game. A guide filled with tips,
tricks, and real-world case studies, Friends With Benefits
shows how you can increase your company's online visibility and Web
traffic and win over online influencers.Friends With Benefits explains how to:Connect with potential customers and join their
conversationsTweak your website to...
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66. |  My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, Second Edition By: Wallace Wang Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 17-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 05-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, Second Edition So you finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Whether it's a
MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, or iMac—it's still your Mac, and it
runs the Macintosh operating system, OS X. But what do you do with
your Mac after you turn it on? Do you even know how to turn it off
and put it to sleep? Maybe you do. . . . But what about setting up
an email account, or playing your favorite CDs and movies? You need
a book like My New™ Mac to make everything easy.In this new, Snow Leopard edition of the best-selling My New
Mac, you'll find 52 simple projects that will have you doing
useful things right away—like...
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67. |  By: Dmitry Kirsanov Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 22-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 04-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Book of Inkscape This is it. The complete and definitive guide to Inkscape, the
free, vector-based graphics editor that competes with expensive drawing
programs like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. In The Book of Inkscape , core Inkscape
developer Dmitry Kirsanov shares his design experience and knowledge of
Inkscape's inner workings as he walks you through the basics of using the
program: drawing, working with objects, transformations and styling,
adding text and shapes, and more. Kirsanov couples his detailed
explanations with step-by-step tutorials that show you how to...
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68. |  By: Chris Takemura; Luke S. Crawford Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 15-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Book of Xen Xen, the open source virtualization tool, is a system
administrator's dream. Xen is a free, high-performance virtual machine
monitor that lets you consolidate your hardware and finally put those
unused cycles to use—without sacrificing reliability, performance, or
scalability. The Book of Xen explains everything you need
to know in order to use Xen effectively, including installation,
networking, memory management, and virtualized storage. You'll also learn
how to use Xen and standard Linux tools to take snapshot backups, perform
QoS operations on network...
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69. |  By: Hiroyuki Kojima; Shin Togami; Becom Co., Ltd. Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 19-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 11-NOV-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manga Guide to Calculus
Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the
Asagake Times
. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues,
like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for
it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is
here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical
eye.
In
The Manga Guide to Calculus
, you'll follow along with
Noriko as she learns that calculus is more than just a class
designed to weed out would-be science majors. You'll see that
calculus is a useful way to understand the patterns in physics,
economics, and...
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70. |  By: Wallace Wang; Wallace Wang Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 15-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 03-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: My New iPhone You finally did it-you bought the gizmo that everyone's talking
about. Maybe you've already figured out how to play music or make
phone calls, but then what?How does the voicemail work? And that keyboard? What about all
of those cool apps-which ones do you need, and how do you get them?
You need a book like My New iPhone to make everything
easy.This simple, project-oriented book will have you using the best
features of your iPhone or iPod Touch in no time. Rather than drag
you through some boring manual, My New iPhone focuses on
individual, fun projects, like configuring multiple email...
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71. |  By: Hideo Nitta; Keita Takatsu; Trend-Pro Co., Ltd. Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 13-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 24-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manga Guide to Physics Megumi is an all-star athlete, but she's a failure when it comes
to physics class. And she can't concentrate on her tennis matches
when she's worried about the questions she missed on the big test!
Luckily for her, she befriends Ryota, a patient physics geek who
uses real-world examples to help her understand classical
mechanics-and improve her tennis game in the process!You'll also learn how to:Apply Newton's three laws of motion to real-life problemsDetermine how objects will move after a collisionDraw vector diagrams and simplify complex problems using
trigonometryCalculate how an object's...
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72. |  By: Justin Seitz Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 20-APR-2009 Insert Date: 24-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Gray Hat Python, 1st Edition
Python is fast becoming the programming language of choice for
hackers, reverse engineers, and software testers because it's easy
to write quickly, and it has the low-level support and libraries
that make hackers happy. But until now, there has been no real
manual on how to use Python for a variety of hacking tasks. You had
to dig through forum posts and man pages, endlessly tweaking your
own code to get everything working. Not anymore.Gray Hat Python explains the concepts behind hacking
tools and techniques like debuggers, trojans, fuzzers, and
emulators. But author Justin Seitz goes...
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73. |  The Manga Guide to Electricity By: Kazuhiro Fujitaki; Matsuda .; Trend-Pro Co., Ltd. Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 11-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manga Guide to Electricity Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the
land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity
exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time,
she has to passLuckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is there to help. Join
them in the pages of The Manga Guide to Electricity as
Rereko examines everyday electrical devices like flashlights,
heaters, and circuit breakers, and learns the meaning of abstract
concepts like voltage, potential, current, resistance,
conductivity, and electrostatic force.The real-world examples that you'll find in The...
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74. |  By: Bernard Girard Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 10-APR-2009 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Google Way Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern
corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass
production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for
combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is
reinventing business yet again-the way we work, how organizations
are controlled, and how employees are managed.Management consultant Bernard Girard has been analyzing Google
since its founding in 1998, and now in The Google Way, he
explores Google's innovations in depth-many of which are far
removed from the best practices taught at the...
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75. |  Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 04-OCT-2005 Insert Date: 16-APR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: TCP/IP Guide The TCP/IP Guide is both an encyclopedic and comprehensible
guide to the TCP/IP protocol suite that will appeal to newcomers
and the seasoned professional. It details the core protocols that
make TCP/IP internetworks function, and the most important
classical TCP/IP applications. Its personal, easy-going writing
style lets anyone understand the dozens of protocols and
technologies that run the Internet, with full coverage of PPP, ARP,
IP, IPv6, IP NAT, IPSec, Mobile IP, ICMP, RIP, BGP, TCP, UDP, DNS,
DHCP, SNMP, FTP, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP, Telnet and much more. The author
offers not only a...
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76. |  Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition By: Randall Hyde Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 01-SEP-2003 Insert Date: 01-APR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition
Presents assembly language from the high-level programmer's point of view, so you can
start writing meaningful programs within days. The High Level Assembler (HLA) that accompanies
the book is the first assembler that allows you to write portable assembly language programs
that run under either Linux or Windows with nothing more than a recompile. The CD-ROM includes
the HLA and the HLA Standard Library, all the source code from the book, and over 50,000 lines
of additional sample code, all well-documented and tested. The code compiles and runs as-is
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77. |  By: John Ross Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 05-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Network Know-How Are the machines in your office living isolated lives? Do you
have a few computers at home that you want to connect to each other
and the Internet? The best way to share files on a group of
computers is to create a network. But how do you do that?Network Know-How is your guide to connecting your
machines, filled with practical advice that will show you how to
get things done. You'll learn the nitty-gritty of network setup,
design, and maintenance, from running cables and placing wireless
access points to configuring file sharing and printing. This
practical and comprehensive guide will teach...
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78. |  By: Mana Takahashi; Shoko Azuma; Trend-Pro Co., Ltd. Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 28-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manga Guide to Databases
Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its
unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational
content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for
you.
Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away,
she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling
empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting
prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But
a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her
organizational problems-with the practical magic of databases.
In The Manga Guide...
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79. |  By: Louis Testa Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 05-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Growing Software As the technology leader at a small software company, you need
to focus on people, products, processes, and technology as you
bring your software to market, while doing your best to put out
fires and minimize headaches.Growing Software is your guide to juggling the day-to-day
challenges of running a software company while managing those
long-term problems and making sure that your business continues to
grow. With practical, hands-on advice, Growing Software will
teach you how to build and lead an effective team, define and sell
your products, work with everyone from customers to CEOs,...
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80. |  Cisco Routers for the Desperate, Second Edition By: Michael W. Lucas Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 11-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 24-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cisco Routers for the Desperate, Second Edition Cisco routers and switches are the cornerstones of many
networks. But when things break, repairs can intimidate even the
most competent administrator. Luckily, just knowing the "in case of
emergency" basics will take you far.Just like the original, this second edition of the highly
acclaimed Cisco Routers for the Desperate is written for the
administrator in crisis mode. Updated to cover switches and the
latest Cisco terminology, with a tighter focus on the needs of the
small network administrator, this second edition gives you what you
need to know to provide reliable network services and...
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