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| ISBN: | 0131038052 |
| Author: | Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 932 pages (February 1995) |
| Description: | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach introduces basic ideas in artificial intelligence from the perspective of building intelligent agents, which the authors define as "anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon the environment through effectors." This textbook is up-to-date and is organized using the latest principles of good textbook design. It includes historical notes at the end of every chapter, exercises, margin notes, a bibliography, and a competent index. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach covers a wide array of material, including first-order logic, game playing, knowledge representation, planning, and reinforcement learning. |
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| ISBN: | 0132174499 |
| Author: | Jerry Banks, Barry Nelson (Contributor), John Carson (Contributor) |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall College Div |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 548 pages 2nd edition (September 1995) |
| Description: | This text provides a basic treatment of discrete-event simulation, one of the most widely used operations research tools presently available. Proper collection and analysis of data, use of analytic techniques, verification and validation of models, and an appropriate design of simulation experiments are treated extensively. Readily understandable to those having a basic familiarity with differential and integral calculus, probability theory and elementary statistics. The Second Edition reorganizes, updates and expands coverage to reflect the most recent developments. |
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| ISBN: | 039304002X |
| Author: | Jan Gullberg, Peter Hilton |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton & Company |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 1120 pages (October 1997) |
| Description: | A long book on mathematics? No need to brace yourself for tedium. Whether counting on an abacus or solving triple integrals, Gullberg explains his subject with an infectious zeal--and an unpredictable sense of humor. The basic formulas are all here, making this an ideal reference for readers who cannot quite remember what they once learned about trigonometric functions or vector algebra. But beware! Those looking for quick help with a problem may find themselves diverted for many hours by the wealth of historical anecdotes, literary quotations, artwork, light verse, and even cartoons sprinkled liberally through the pages. Perhaps because he is himself a well-practiced amateur in the field rather than a professional, Gullberg anticipates perfectly the perplexities of the average reader. Simplified derivations and numerous examples will clear up most of the hard points. But the point Gullberg makes clearest of all is that mathematics can be very exciting and thoroughly enjoyable. |
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| Price: | $US 35.00 ($US 50.00 list price - you save $US 15.00) |
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| ISBN: | 0521431085 |
| Author: | William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ Press |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 994 pages 2nd edition (January 1993) |
| Description: | This is the greatly revised and expanded Second Edition of the hugely popular Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. The product of a unique collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry Numerical Recipes is a complete text and reference book on scientific computing. In a self-contained manner it proceeds from mathematical and theoretical considerations to actual practical computer routines. With over 100 new routines bringing the total to well over 300, plus upgraded versions of the original routines, the new edition remains the most practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing available today. |
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| Artist: | Johnny Cash |
| Publisher: | Lost Highway |
| Edition: | Audio CD (November 5, 2002) |
| Description: | On first thought, the idea of the Man in Black recording such covers as "Bridge over Troubled Water," "Danny Boy," and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" might seem odd, even for an artist who's been able to put his personal stamp on just about everything. But American IV: The Man Comes Around, which also draws on Cash's original songs as well as those by Nine Inch Nails ("Hurt"), Sting ("I Hung My Head"), and Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus"), may be one of the most autobiographical albums of the 70-year-old singer-songwriter's career. Nearly every tune seems chosen to afford the ailing giant of popular music a chance to reflect on his life, and look ahead to what's around the corner. From the opening track--Cash's own "The Man Comes Around," filled with frightening images of Armageddon--the album, produced by Rick Rubin, advances a quiet power and pathos, built around spare arrangements and unflinching honesty in performance and subject. In 15 songs, Cash moves through dark, haunted meditations on death and destruction, poignant farewells, testaments to everlasting love, and hopeful salutes to redemption. He sounds as if he means every word, his baritone-bass, frequently frayed and ravaged, taking on a weary beauty. By the time he gets to the Beatles' "In My Life," you'll very nearly cry. Go ahead. He sounds as if he's about to, too. Unforgettable |
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| Artist: | Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz |
| Publisher: | Pgd/Verve |
| Edition: | Audio CD (June 25, 1991) |
| Description: | One of my favorite Jazz CD's of all time (panned by some!) and a great showcase of Bari Sax playing by Gerry, and when they swap horns, Stan. Also check out other CD's by these two great artists for the best of "cool" jazz. |
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| Artist: | Offspring |
| Publisher: | Epitaph Records |
| Edition: | Audio CD (April 19, 1994) |
| Description: | The Offspring preserve the essential ingredients of their chosen genre - guitars grinding out three chords, shouted vocals, and plenty of vitriol - and layer them over a melodic base that packs considerable popular appeal. The singles from Smash, the Offspring's breakthrough album, still receive considerable radio airplay: "Gotta Get Away," "Come Out and Play," and "Self Esteem." With these and Smash's 11 other tracks, the band chronicles the adolescent experience with clarity and surprisingly incisive wit. More even and less "pop" than the latest Americana and much better than their first major label recording Ixnay On The Hombre. |
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| Artist: | Radio Birdman |
| Publisher: | Sub Pop |
| Edition: | Audio CD (July 17, 2001) |
| Description: | Radio Birdman lead the "New Race" of Australian proto-punk, whose power-chord-heavy, snarling, and tightly woven tunes have caused the pulses of record collectors the world over to soar dangerously high. Sub Pop has compiled all the essential tunes from their first two albums and thrown in a few rare live tracks to boot on the truthfully titled collection The Essential Radio Birdman (1974-1978). |
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| Artist: | Dave Brubeck |
| Publisher: | Sony Music |
| Edition: | Audio CD (March 25, 1997) |
| Description: | Boasting the first jazz instrumental to sell a million copies, the Paul Desmond-penned "Take Five," Time Out captures the celebrated jazz quartet at the height of both its popularity and its powers. Recorded in 1959, the album combines superb performances by pianist Brubeck, alto saxophonist Desmond, drummer Joe Morrello and bassist Gene Wright. Along with "Take Five," the album features another one of the group's signature compositions, "Blue Rondo a la Turk." Though influenced by the West Coast-cool school, Brubeck's greatest interest and contribution to jazz was the use of irregular meters in composition, which he did with great flair. Much of the band's appeal is due to Desmond, whose airy tone and fluid attack often carried the band's already strong performances to another level. Together, he and Brubeck proved one of the most potent pairings of the era. |
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| Artist: | Various Artists - Lounge, Ultra Lounge (series) |
| Publisher: | Emd/Capitol |
| Edition: | Audio CD (September 17, 1996) |
| Description: | Excellent introduction into the polyester world of lounge music. Standout highlights include the John Buzon Trio's "Mr Ghost Goes To Town" and Louis Prima's Jump, Jive An' Wail. Comes complete with fuzzy fake leopard skin cover and is a MUST for collectors. |
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| Artist: | Pink Floyd |
| Publisher: | Sony Music |
| Edition: | Audio CD (December 16, 1997) |
| Description: | To look fondly back on Pink Floyd is a certain indication that you grew up in the '70s. My first memory of "The Pink Floyd" was attending a psychedelic party held at a Quaker boarding school in Hobart, where they played the early albums very loud, smoked funny smelling stuff and showed slides that had been melted over a flame. That was a bit of an eye opener for this thirteen year old. However in my opinion, Wish You Were Here has stood the test of time much better than the much more popular Dark Side of the Moon, due to its emotions and power and less technical recording show off pieces. Just the thing to get things moving at Quaker functions |
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| ISBN: | 1568843224 |
| Author: | Alan Cooper |
| Publisher: | IDG Books Worldwide |
| Edition: | Paperback - 400 pages (August 11, 1995) |
| Description: | An excellent book for anyone who wants to understand why so much software is so poorly designed - and an even better book for anyone who wants to DO something about the problem. Must reading (and doing!) for programmers of any level. |
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| Price: | $US 23.99 ($US 29.99 list price - you save $US 6.00) |
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| ISBN: | 097669400X |
| Author: | Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, Andrea Schwarz |
| Publisher: | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| Edition: | Paperback: 450 pages |
| Description: | Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks. With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and scaling. You'll see how easy it is to install Rails using your web server of choice (such as Apache or lighttpd) or using its own included web server. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all. You'll create a complete online store application in the extended tutorial section, so you'll see how a full Rails application is developed---iteratively and rapidly. Rails strives to honor the Pragmatic Programmer's "DRY Principle" by avoiding the extra work of configuration files and code annotations. You can develop in real-time: make a change, and watch it work immediately. Forget XML. Everything in Rails, from templates to control flow to business logic, is written in Ruby, the language of choice for programmers who like to get the job done well (and leave work on time for a change). Rails is the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. Agile Web Development with Rails is the book for that generation, written by Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer and author of Programming Ruby) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who created Rails. |
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| ISBN: | 0471117099 |
| Author: | Bruce Schneier |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
| Edition: | Paperback - 784 pages 2nd edition (December 1995) |
| Description: | Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C offers an authoritative introduction to the field of cryptography, suitable for both the specialist and the general reader. The book adopts an encyclopedic approach to cryptographic systems throughout history, from ciphers to public key cryptography. Schneier also outlines cryptographic protocols - the steps required for secure encryption - with the precision of a chess master. Readable, instructive, and truly exhaustive, this text is a must for anyone wanting a solid introduction to the field in a single volume. Applied Cryptography presents the source code for most algorithms and other procedures in C rather than using pure math. The book also includes source code for the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and other algorithms, but readers don't need to know programming to benefit from this text. Includes a truly comprehensive bibliography of over 1,600 entries. |
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| ISBN: | 0138690170 |
| Author: | William Stallings |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 528 pages 2nd edition (July 1998) |
| Description: | Comprehensive in approach, this introduction to network and inter-network security provides a tutorial survey of network security technology, discusses the standards that are being developed for security in an internetworking environment, and explores the practical issues involved in developing security applications. |
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| ISBN: | 0201633612 |
| Author: | Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Grady Booch (Designer) |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Pub Co |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 395 pages 1 edition (October 1995) |
| Description: | Design Patterns is a modern classic in the literature of object-oriented development, offering timeless and elegant solutions to common problems in software design. It describes patterns for managing object creation, composing objects into larger structures, and coordinating control flow between objects. The book provides numerous examples where using composition rather than inheritance can improve the reusability and flexibility of code. Note, though, that it's not a tutorial but a catalog that you can use to find an object-oriented design pattern that's appropriate for the needs of your particular application - a selection for virtuoso programmers who appreciate (or require) consistent, well-engineered object-oriented designs. |
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| ISBN: | 0596008031 |
| Author: | Jenifer Tidwell |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly |
| Edition: | Paperback: 352 pages |
| Description: | Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- Web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices -- may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on how to use them well.
UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. If you learn these, and understand why the best user interfaces work so well, you too can design engaging and usable interfaces with less guesswork and more confidence.
Designing Interfaces captures those best practices as design patterns -- solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each pattern contains practical advice that you can put to use immediately, plus a variety of examples illustrated in full color. You'll get recommendations, design alternatives, and warnings on when not to use them.
Each chapter's introduction describes key design concepts that are often misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of color. These give you a deeper understanding of why the patterns work, and how to apply them with more insight.
A book can't design an interface for you -- no foolproof design process is given here -- but Designing Interfaces does give you concrete ideas that you can mix and recombine as you see fit. Experienced designers can use it as a sourcebook of ideas. Novice designers will find a roadmap to the world of interface and interaction design, with enough guidance to start using these patterns immediately. |
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| ISBN: | 0201310155 |
| Author: | Scott Meyers |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Pub Co |
| Edition: | Software Cd-Rom edition (January 1999) |
| Description: | On the Effective C++ CD, well-known C++ guru Scott Meyers combines the complete text of two of his books, Effective C++ and More Effective C++. Since the format of these two books provides a laundry list of tips for improving C++ code (Effective C++ contains 50 tips, while More Effective C++ adds 35 more), the CD-ROM format is a natural fit and a convenient way to read both titles. The CD-ROM format adds extra material, including several magazine articles and an annotated list of books for further reading. I personally prefer the books but if you don't already own them this is a good reference source. |
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| ISBN: | 0596001738 |
| Author: | Damian Conway |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly |
| Edition: | Paperback: 542 pages |
| Description: | Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good.
But if you're serious about your profession, intuition isn't enough. Perl Best Practices author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not only help programmers communicate and coordinate with one another, they also provide a reliable framework for thinking about problems, and a common language for expressing solutions. This is especially critical in Perl, because the language is designed to offer many ways to accomplish the same task, and consequently it supports many incompatible dialects.
With a good dose of Aussie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code--in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging.
They're designed to work together to produce code that is clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and concise, but Dr. Conway doesn't pretend that this is the one true universal and unequivocal set of best practices. Instead, Perl Best Practices offers coherent and widely applicable suggestions based on real-world experience of how code is actually written, rather than on someone's ivory-tower theories on how software ought to be created.
Most of all, Perl Best Practices offers guidelines that actually work, and that many developers around the world are already using. Much like Perl itself, these guidelines are about helping you to get your job done, without getting in the way. |
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| ISBN: | 0321262506 |
| Author: | Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey, John Green |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Professional; |
| Edition: | Paperback: 936 pages |
| Description: | Writing for professional developers and true Excel experts, the authors share insider's knowledge they've acquired building Excel applications for many of the world's largest companies—including Microsoft. Professional Excel Development demonstrates how to get the utmost from Excel, addressing everything from application architectures through worksheet and userform design, charting, debugging, error handling and optimizing performance. Along the way, the authors offer best practices for every type of Excel development, from building add-ins through interacting with XML Web services. Coverage includes
* Building add-ins to provide new Excel functions
* Designing effective worksheets, userforms and other user interface elements
* Leveraging Excel's powerful data analysis features
* Creating sophisticated custom charts
* Handling errors, debugging applications and optimizing performance
* Using class modules and interfaces to create custom objects
* Understanding Windows API calls: when to use them, and how to modify them
* Adding worksheet functions with
* C-based XLLs
* Programming with databases
* Controlling external applications from Excel
* Integrating with Visual Basic 6, VB.NET and Visual Studio Tools for Office
* Using XML to import and export data and communicate with Web services
* Providing help, securing, packaging and distributing. |
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| ISBN: | 1556159005 |
| Author: | Steve C McConnell |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Press |
| Edition: | Paperback - 647 pages (July 1996) |
| Description: | Written for team leaders, managers, and programmers alike, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules is an excellent book on scheduling software development effectively and quickly. McConnell, an experienced software consultant for Microsoft and other companies, convincingly outlines potential hazards in the development process and possible steps for avoiding them. The chapter on classic mistakes will fill some with an overwhelming sense of déjá vu. The first two-thirds of the book are filled with clear-headed takes on topics ranging from scheduling to productivity tools, interspersed with examples, supporting data, and insightful anecdotes. The last section of the book is devoted to "Best Practices," suggestions for more efficient development, each explicitly described and analyzed for potential effectiveness. Since its publication, Rapid Development has developed a reputation for success and earned a place on the desks of software developers everywhere. |
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| ISBN: | 0385495315 |
| Author: | Simon Singh |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 402 pages (September 14, 1999) |
| Description: | For millennia, secret writing was the domain of spies, diplomats, and generals; with the advent of the Internet, it has become the concern of the public and businesses. One cyber-libertarian responded with the freeware encryption program Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), and Singh similarly meets a sharpening public curiosity about how codes work. His first popular foray into a mathematical topic, Fermat's Last Theorem (1997), nicely balanced technical detail with vibrant storytelling, a quality happily present again here. Although the quantum-mechanical encryption with which Singh culminates his narrative is challengingly arcane to most except for the math spooks at the National Security Agency, Singh successfully conveys its essential principles, as he does those of all major ciphering schemes. Beginning with such simple ideas as monoalphabetic substitution, which can protect the communications of a boy's treehouse club but not much more, Singh underscores with stories how codemakers and codebreakers have battled each other throughout history. A tool called frequency analysis easily defeats the monoalphabetic cipher, and encryptors over time have added the Vigenere square, cipher disks, one-time pads, and public-key cryptography that underlies PGP. But each security strategy, Singh explains, contains some vulnerability that the clever code cracker can exploit, an opaque process the author splendidly illuminates. Instances of successful decipherment, as of Egyptian hieroglyphics or the German Enigma cipher system in World War II, combine with Singh's sketches of the mathematicians who have advanced the art of secrecy, from Julius Caesar to Alan Turing to contemporary mathematicians, resulting in a wonderfully understandable survey. |
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| ISBN: | 0672316498 |
| Author: | Alan Cooper (Preface), Paul Saffo |
| Publisher: | Sams Publishing |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 261 pages 1 edition (April 6, 1999) |
| Description: | The Inmates are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customer loyalty, and erode competitive advantage. Cooper offers a provocative, insightful and entertaining explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products. More importantly, he uses his own work with companies big and small to show how to harness those talents to create products that will both thrill their users and grow the bottom line. |
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| ISBN: | 1560726032 |
| Author: | Wladyslaw Mielczarski (Editor), Grazyna Michalik (Editor) |
| Publisher: | Nova Science Publishers, Inc |
| Edition: | Hardcover (November 1998) |
| Description: | Open electricity, competitive electricity markets are characterized by two main features. First, everyone who is able to satisfy technical and financial obligations has access to generation and retail of electrical energy. Second, electrical energy as a product is separated commercially from transmission and distribution as a service. Reforms to the electricity supply industry have been introduced in several countries. This has resulted in the competitive wholesale market. This book is a comprehensive presentation of the competitive electricity markets. |
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| ISBN: | 0412088312 |
| Author: | Robert J. Jannarone |
| Publisher: | Chapman & Hall |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 352 pages (July 1997) |
| Description: | Many monitoring, forecasting, and control operations occur in settings where relationships among key measurements must be learned quickly. Examples are on-line industrial processes where influent material is not consistent over time, energy load or price forecasting where demand characteristics change rapidly,and health management where relationships among monitored variables must be learned for each patient-treatment combination. The solution presented is a new neuro-computing system that learns in real-time, even when data arrival rates are several million measurements per second. The book describes benefits and features of the system, statistical foundations for the system, and several related models. The book also describes available system software. |
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| ISBN: | 0878146466 |
| Author: | Clark W. Gellings |
| Publisher: | Pennwell Pub |
| Edition: | Hardcover (February 1998) |
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| ISBN: | 0786312319 |
| Author: | Dragana Pilipovic |
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 308 pages (December 19, 1997) |
| Description: | Gain the benefit of Dragana Pilipovic's complete energy risk management system, from devising hedging and trading strategies to the implementation on the trading desk. Pilipovic covers valuation and portfolio analysis, along with tips for managers who must deal with energy risk. Designed for institutions that trade and hedge energy, as well as end-users, Energy Risk will be especially useful for key markets such as electricity or natural gas. |
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| ISBN: | 0786311843 |
| Author: | Peter C. Fusaro (Editor) |
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 200 pages (April 1998) |
| Description: | An overview of the complex subject of energy derivatives. This book is written for the laymen who wishes to know on the subject of energy derivatives. It covers all the energy commodities in all the world markets. Other topics covered include Value at Risk, Technical Analysis, and Options Theory & Application for Energy. |
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| ISBN: | 0201544121 |
| Author: | Alan H. Watt, Mark Watt (Contributor) |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Pub Co |
| Edition: | Hardcover (November 1992) |
| Description: | An exposition of state-of-the-art techniques in rendering and animation. This book provides a unique synthesis of techniques and theory. Each technique is illustrated with a series of full-color frames showing the development of the example. |
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| ISBN: | 0201848406 |
| Author: | James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes, Richard L. Phillips |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Pub Co |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 1175 pages 2nd edition |
| Description: | Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice is the most exhaustive overview of computer graphics techniques available. This textbook's 21 chapters cover graphics hardware, user interface software, rendering, and a host of other subjects. Assuming a solid background in computer science or a related field, Computer Graphics gives example programs in C and provides exercises at the end of each chapter to test your knowledge of the material. The guide has over 100 beautiful, four-color photographs that illustrate important topics and algorithms, such as ray tracing and bump maps, and also inspire you to acquire the skills necessary to produce them. Encyclopedic in its coverage, the book has a good table of contents so that you can immediately turn to information on the z-Buffer algorithm or the chapter on animation. |
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| Price: | $US 69.95 |
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| ISBN: | 0961392118 |
| Author: | Edward R. Tufte |
| Publisher: | Graphics Press |
| Edition: | Hardcover (May 1990) |
| Description: | A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. |
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| Price: | $US 33.60 ($US 40.00 list price - you save $US 6.40) |
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| ISBN: | 1888001380 |
| Author: | Richard Saul Wurman |
| Publisher: | Watson-Guptill Pubns |
| Edition: | Paperback - 240 pages (October 1997) |
| Description: | Frankly, I have found most books about graphics in the information age to be riddled with hyperbole, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced. After looking at many of these books, I typically pull out my dog-eared copy of Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information to clear my visual and conceptual palettes. However, Information Architects, edited by Richard Saul Wurman with contributions by 20 masters in the visual display of information deserves to be on the same shelf as Tufte's masterpieces. Nor does this book shout a simplistic "Cyberspace über alles!": there's great material in here about the importance of informational design in physical spaces and virtual interfaces, and train tracks and track balls. Very highly recommended. |
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| Price: | $US 27.96 ($US 34.95 list price - you save $US 6.99) |
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| ISBN: | 096139210X |
| Author: | Edward R. Tufte |
| Publisher: | Graphics Press |
| Edition: | Hardcover Reprint edition (February 1992) |
| Description: | A timeless classic in how complex information should be presented graphically. The Strunk & White of visual design. Should occupy a place of honor--within arm's reach - of everyone attempting to understand or depict numerical data graphically. The design of the book is an exemplar of the principles it espouses: elegant typography and layout, and seamless integration of lucid text and perfectly chosen graphical examples. Very Highly Recommended. |
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| ISBN: | 0961392126 |
| Author: | Edward R. Tufte, Bonnie Scranton (Illustrator), Dmitry Krasny (Illustrator) |
| Publisher: | Graphics Press |
| Edition: | Hardcover - 156 pages (March 1997) |
| Description: | With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, Envisioning Information, explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. Visual Explanations centers on dynamic data - information that changes over time. (Tufte has described the three books as being about, respectively, "pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs."). Like its predecessors, Visual Explanations is both intellectually stimulating and beautiful to behold. Tufte, a self-publisher, takes extraordinary pains with design and production. |
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