Foreign Language Nonfiction

"Exodus" is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the... More

With detailed cultural information and insider tips, Lonely Planet regional guides provide spectacular introduction to each state. The Alaska guide offers dedicated chapters on Alaskan wildlife, wilderness hikes, and paddles, and expanded coverage of Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound. of full... More

Why did Judas betray Jesus?The Pope recently referred to the continuing ‘mystery of Judas’. This intriguing book – the result of an intense collaboration between one of the world’s most popular storytellers and one of the world’s leading biblical scholars – throws a new light on the eve... More

Marlene Dietrich once said, "I am not a myth." But by referencing the term, Dietrich only reinforces the fact more emphatically. For, using almost any common dictionary definition of that word, Dietrich is a myth. Her image was fashioned by director Josef von Sternberg in films like The Blue Angel, ... More

Designing & Building Distributed Applications If youre a distributed Java or Enterprise JavaBeans programmer, then youve undoubtedly heard of Javas Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Java programmers use RMI to write efficient, fault-tolerant distributed applica... More

This is the of the programming language-independent text that helped establish computer algorithms as a discipline of computer science. The text incorporates the latest research and state-of-the-art applications, bringing this classic to the forefront of modern computer science education. A major st... More

CONTENTS: Introduction; Elementary Data Structures; Divide-And-Conquer; The Greedy Method; Dynamic Programming; Basic Traversal and Search Techniques; Backtracking; Branch-And-Bound; Algebraic Problems; Lower Bound Theory; NP- Hard and NP - Complete Problems Approximation Algorithms; Pram Algorithms... More

This new edition provides a comprehensive and technically rigorous introduction to data structures such as arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees and graphs and techniques such as sorting hashing that form the basis of all software. In addition, this text presents advanced or specialized data s... More

The unexpected never happens ... A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged ... has he achieved 'Th... More

Recipes for Cryptography, Authentication, Input Validation & More Password sniffing, spoofing, buffer overflows, and denial of service: these are only a few of the attacks on today's computer systems and networks. At the root of this epidemic is poorly writte... More

SAP BW has recently come to the fore as a valuable tool for developing data warehouses that accurately and effectively support critical business decision making. It facilitates easy-to-use and high-performance extraction, transfer, transformation, and loading of data from a variety of data sources, ... More

The Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit, a programming environment for creating graphical user interfaces under X Windows together represent one of the most exciting innovations in X Window System programming. Because Tcl and Tk are so easy to learn, extremely powerful, and contain sophisticat... More

Why Does 2+2=5986? There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks famous. C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style anddebugging also play... More

Programming Style Guidelines C++ is a powerful, highly flexible, and adaptable programming language that allows software engineers to organize and process information quickly and effectively. But this high-level language is relatively difficult to master, eve... More

Think about the managers who most influenced your career. Since they knew their career success depended on the performance of their employees, they created a fun, synergistic work environment and were rewarded with superior employee commitment and performance. These exceptional leaders succeeded be... More

Preface 1. Introduction2. Learning Processes3. Single Layer Perceptrons4. Multilayer Perceptrons 5. Radial-Basis Function Networks 6. Support Vector Machines7. Committee Machines8. Principal Components Analysis9. Self-Organizing Maps10. Information : Theoretic Models 11. Stochastic Machines and thei... More

Hang on tight as tram 28 rattles up to Lisbon's Castelo de Sao Jorge; step back in history to Braganca's astonishingly well-preserved 13th-century citadel; and savor the world's best port amid the terraced vineyards of tiny Pinhao--with over 86 detailed maps, this guide covers it all.Discover Portug... More

Hot on the heels of Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless, this new Dilbert collection will be widely welcomed by fans of that attention-grabbing comic which appears in 175 newspapers nationwide. Don't miss incompetent, socially inept technohead Dilbert and his megalomaniac pet Dogbert as they try to not... More

Regular Expressions and High-Performance I/O Many serious Java programmers, especially enterprise Java programmers, consider the new I/O API--called NIO for New Input/Output--the most important feature in the 1.4 version of the Java 2 Standard Edition. The NI... More