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BitTorrent for Dummies by Susannah Gardner (Paperback - For Dummies)
 

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BitTorrent for Dummies by Susannah Gardner (Paperback - For Dummies)
Share your home movies or download new software

Find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business

There's certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks. This book not only shows you how to acquire BitTorrent, but also how to use it without picking up worms, viruses, and lawsuits.

Discover how to

  • Select, download, and install a BitTorrent client
  • Manage and store files you download
  • Choose software for making movies and audio files
  • Understand the legal risks of file sharing
  • Trim business costs with BitTorrent

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Xslt 2.0 Web Development by Dmitry Kirsanov (Paperback - Prentice Hall Ptr)
 

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Xslt 2.0 Web Development by Dmitry Kirsanov (Paperback - Prentice Hall Ptr)

"I've worked with Dmitry on many projects. He is both a designer (artist) and a developer (programmer), so his book genuinely speaks to both audiences."

-Charles F. Goldfarb

Leverage the incredible power of XSLT 2.0 to create sites that are easy to build, maintain, and extend!

This book teaches you exactly how to build state-of-the-art web sites with XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. XML developer and web designer Dmitry Kirsanov drills down to real development challenges and specific tools and techniques for solving them.

You'll learn from a hands-on project that gives you insights you just won't find anywhere else. Kirsanov covers the entire project lifecycle: schema creation, validation, transformation, testing, and maintenance... offering outstanding code and markup examples every step of the way.

  • Explore new XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 standards from a web developer's point of view
  • Develop rock-solid, high-performance domain-specific schemas
  • Create and convert source documents for effective XML processing
  • Set up XSLT transformations to automatically generate HTML, graphics, and other site components
  • Build your dynamic web site on the solid foundation of the Cocoon framework
  • Use Schematron to validate XML and streamline processing
  • Study complete printed and downloadable page sources, stylesheets, and schemas

XSLT 2.0 Web Development is an indispensable resource for...

  • Professional web developers
  • Project managers who want to streamline site development and maintenance
  • Graphic designers who need more flexible ways to present structured information
  • Content management specialists using XML documentation/publishing systems

Fully tested and implemented examples are available at authors.phptr.com/kirsanov andwww.kirsanov.com/xsltwd

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Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours by George Anderson (Paperback - Sams)
 

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Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours by George Anderson (Paperback - Sams)

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Second Edition is the perfect tool for learning one of the most sophisticated enterprise solutions available today. Designed to being with the basics, you will become acquainted with the entire SAP system, from navigation to creating your own reports. You'll also cover:

  • Implementation tools and methodologies
  • NetWeaver
  • ECC 5.0
  • Designing Screens and menus
  • Reporting
  • Integration with Microsoft Office
  • And more
Written by leading SAP consultants with over 20 years of combined experience, this easy-to-understand tutorial is ideal for getting up and running with SAP quickly and efficiently.

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Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle (Paperback - New Riders Pub)
 

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Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle (Paperback - New Riders Pub)

Designing Virtual Worlds is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual worlddesign to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It's a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary,economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethicalunderpinnings of design, while providing the reader with a deep, well-grounded understanding of VW design principles. It covers everything from MUDs to MOOs to MMORPGs, from text-based to graphical VWs.

Designing Virtual Worlds brings a rich, well-developed approach to the designconcepts behind virtual worlds. It is grounded in the earliest approaches to such designs, but the examples discussed in the book run the gamut from the earliest MUDs to the present-day MMORPG games mentioned above. It teaches the reader the actual, underlying design principles that many designers do not understand when they borrow or build from previous games. There is no other design book on the market in the area of online games and virtual worlds that provides the rich detail, historical context, and conceptual depth ofDesigning Virtual Worlds.

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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
 

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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the "impossible." For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. The Black Swan is a landmark book--itself a black swan.

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