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In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging - and beautiful - working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging...

This second edition of Lessons in Play reorganizes the presentation of the popular original text in combinatorial game theory to make it even more widely accessible. Starting with a focus on the essential concepts and applications, it then moves on to...

Assassin's Creed Syndicate takes players into the underbelly of Victorian London at a time when the Industrial Revolution is in full swing. This volume contains hundreds of never-before-seen concept arts, including sketches, final paintings, 3D renders...

Whether based on academic theories or machine learning strategies, all financial models are at the mercy of modeling errors that can be mitigated but not eliminated. Probabilistic ML technologies are based on a simple and intuitive definition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993367960Author James V StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Tutorial IntroductionsPublisher Tutorial IntroductionsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684833484Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Build your VFX arsenal with quick-access, step-by-step instruction on how to create today's hottest digital VFX shots. This essential toolkit provides techniques for creating effects seen in movies such as 300, Spiderman 3, Predator and others, with...

Use Kotlin to build Android apps, web applications, and more-while you learn the nuances of this popular language. With this unique cookbook, developers will learn how to apply this Java-based language to their own projects. Both experienced programmers...

Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software development method and practice. The book brings together some 75 short pieces about principles and techniques for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544517667Author Ted HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

If you're just learning how to program, Julia is an excellent JIT-compiled, dynamically typed language with a clean syntax. This hands-on guide uses Julia 1.0 to walk you through programming one step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts...

Decision intelligence (DI) has been widely named as a top technology trend for several years, and the Gartner Group reports that more than a third of large organizations are adopting it. Some even say that DI is the next step in the evolution of AI. Many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543323Author Marina Umaschi BersFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Learn how to build fast and secure gRPC-based microservices using the powerful Go programming language. Ideal for software developers who know the basics of Go. gRPC Microservices in Go shows you howto combine the powerful gRPC Remote Procedure Call...

Become a professional photo editor and bring your ideas to life with Photoshop Elements 2019 Key Features Improve your pictures with easy-to-follow techniques that help you make simple, fast and effective edits Understand how to animate and add...

and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined...

Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global...

Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? "Head First Web Design" is...

A guide to managing data in the digital age.Winner of the ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award by the Society of American ArchivistsMany people...

The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. Following O'Reilly's popular problem-and-solution cookbook format, this title is an indispensable companion to DNS & BIND, 4th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527249264Author Martin BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Martin BaileyPublisher Martin BaileyWeight(grams) 191g

The Data and Analytics Playbook: Proven Methods for Governed Data and Analytic Quality explores the way in which data continues to dominate budgets, along with the varying efforts made across a variety of business enablement projects, including...

Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox. This book is the only complete reference for both Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0, the very latest...

Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create...

Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781257750245Author CCIE #6778 Michel ThomatisFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 867g

Stop motion animation is a challenging and time-consuming skill that requires patience, adaptability, and a close eye to detail. Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition is the essential guide to help stop motion animators overcome...

This book presents a unified approach to a rich and rapidly evolving research domain at the interface between statistical physics, theoretical computer science/discrete mathematics, and coding/information theory. It is accessible to graduate students and...

DESCRIPTION Any large application needs an efficient way to handle the constant messages passing between components in the system. Billed as "messaging that just works," the RabbitMQ message broker initially appeals to developers because it's...

Used by sites as varied as Hulu, GitHub, Shopify, and Airbnb, Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks for developing web applications, but it can be challenging to learn and use. Whether you're new to web development or new only to Rails,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805078534Author Hawkins, JeffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Diving the Thistlegorm is a unique in-depth look at one of the world's best-loved shipwrecks, the World War II British Merchant Navy steamship, featuring award-winning underwater photography. In this highly visual guide, cutting edge photographic methods...

In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilities associated with casual and...

As a Facebook moderator, Chris Gray made a living looking at graphically violent images and reviewing some of the internet's most toxic debates. Following a short training induction, he was responsible for deciding what material could remain online and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820279Author Kevin ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Kubernetes has gained significant popularity over the past few years, with OpenShift as one of its most mature and prominent distributions. But while OpenShift provides several layers of abstraction over vanilla Kubernetes, this software can quickly...

C++ is the language behind most of today's computer games. This 96-page C++ Game Development Primer takes you through the accelerated process of writing games for otherwise experienced C++ programmers. After reading this book, you'll have the fundamental...

Data matching (also known as record or data linkage, entity resolution, object identification, or field matching) is the task of identifying, matching and merging records that correspond to the same entities from several databases or even within one...

Software development is becoming recognised more and more as an essential skill and profession in today's increasingly digital world. Familiarity with basic programming concepts is no longer sufficient to succeed as a software developer, today's...

DESCRIPTION Readers who find themselves in the position of supporting SQL Server as the back-end to a third-party application or who have had SQL Server dumped on them because they are the "Microsoft person" in the office will be relieved to find...