“making breaking grid”

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehe... More

Find out which technologies enable the Grid and how to employ them successfully! This invaluable text provides a complete, clear, systematic, and practical understanding of the technologies that enable the Grid. The authors outline all the components necessary to create a Grid infrastructure that e... More

In this gripping novel of crime and suspense, Scott Connors and his partner, Tara Jordan, must discover who's responsible for New York City's most recent spate of serial murders. As the clock ticks, more bodies are discovered.ABOUT THE BOOK The sparse furnishings and lack of wall decorations made th... More

When Gino Mastrianno took the job as a manager of a set of office buildings in a downtown complex he didn't know he would have to fight with something that couldn't possibly exist. People were missing and the company was covering it up. When he took notice and wanted to find out the truth things tur... More

One of Britain's most idiosyncratic writers - also an acclaimed poet - returns with a typically original and erotically charged novel. Some time in the not-too-distant future London has merged with Tokyo, police use flying cars to catch kamikazee Boeings, and Michael Jackson shops incessantly. Amid ... More

The energy available from wind, waves, tides and the sun varies in ways which may not match variations in energy demand. Assimilating these fluctuations will affect the output of other forms of generation and the operation and economics of electricity networks and markets. Are these problems signifi... More

Generally speaking, grid computing seeks to unify geographically dispersed computing systems to create one large, powerful system. Over the past 20 years, grid computing has had a relatively small impact on corporate productivity, due to the substantial investment it required to deploy and maintain ... More