Ian Stewart author of the bestselling Professor Stewarts Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities" presents a new & magical mix of games puzzles paradoxes brainteasers & riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient & modern mathematical thought appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes & enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present & past. Amongst a host of arcane & astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform we find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it); why you cant comb a hairy ball; & how to calculate pi by observing the stars. & we get some tantalizing glimpses of the maths of life & the universe. Mind-stretching enlightening & endlessly amusing Professor Stewarts new entertainment will stimulate delight & enthrall." ...

Author Bryan Bland has led thousands of birding tours to more than 70 countries. On one such trip a bemused waiter once posed the question: Where is the profit in birding?" Bryan is famed as one of birdings greatest story-tellers & he uses his book to answer this question emphatically. In short theres more to birding than just birds although these clearly provide a great deal of interest & pleasure. In addition history dramatic scenery location filming plus much else from world politics to the crucial life-enhancing role of music are all featured in this light-hearted examination of the profit of birding. Tales include scrapes with terrorists running 50 miles across the landslide-strewn Himalayas in order to keep an appointment with a tour group & Britains first-ever breeding pair of Parrot Crossbills using Bryans beard to build their nest! Birders & non-birders alike will enjoy the humorous anecdotal narrative while the lively text is accompanied by many of the authors photographs & exquisite line-drawings." ...

The updated edition to one of the most popular books on technical analysis Japanese candlestick charting & analysis is one of the most profitable yet underutilized ways to trade the market. Signals created by this unique method of technical analysis-represented in the form of graphic candlestick" formations-identify the immediate direction & effects of investor sentiment through price movements allowing traders to profit by spotting trend reversals before other investors. This updated version of Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profits makes learning the method fast & easy by introducing specific patterns as well as the psychology behind them. The book * Details the most valuable aspect of technical analysis-reversal patterns-as well as reversal signals including the Doji the Hammer the Hanging Man Engulfing Patterns & Dark Cloud Cover* Explains continuation patterns & explores how they can help with the decision-making process during various trading periods* Reveals how to find trading situations that have the maximum potential for profitability the highest probability of success & the least amount of risk Learn how to quickly search view & profit with candlestick formations with Profitable Candlestick Trading." ...

A chance encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own family's past. Her great-aunt Amy Gaskell was the subject of a beautiful dark portrait by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones but all that was known about Amy according to family lore was that she had 'died young of a broken heart'. In her search Josceline discovered a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell Amy's mother. They formed a passionate & prolific correspondence of up to five letters a day from the last six years of the painter's life. As she read more & more questions were raised: why did Burne-Jones feel he had to protect May from an overwhelming sadness? What was the deep secret she had confided to him? & what was the tragic truth behind beautiful Amy's wayward wandering life her strange marriage & her unexplained early death? ...

Successful construction is often attributed to one or more aspects of the delivery process from good planning design & clever engineering to efficient project management & quality construction. Before any of these disciplines can begin they all require some form of procurement to select the team or supply chain to meet a clients or a projects specific requirements. The concept of PSE
- Purchase & Supplier Engineering
- originated in the procurement of the construction & infrastructure required to stage the 30 th Olympiad in London during 2012. At the time of writing PSE has successfully delivered almost GBP25bn of public procurement meeting client & project requirements & without legal challenge. The construction of the venues & infrastructure needed to stage London 2012 was such a resounding success that it boosted not only the reputation of the UK construction industry but also the confidence of the UK population in the countrys ability to organise build & run a major international event. Its success has been lauded as something from which clients & industry could learn. The ODA has established a comprehensive & informative body of evidence as part of a Learning Legacy. While the ODA is well aware of the many elements of the procurement & supply chain management the complete end to end concept of how the Olympic supply chain procurements were managed has until now not been captured. For example how does one buy the stage for an Olympic Games? How does one manage the details of thousands of contracts & the many firms of contractors subcontractors & material suppliers & ensure that no one organisation adversely affects any other to the detriment of the programme? How are a clients requirements beyond those of the capital asset realised as part of the investment? How does one measure programme exposure or manage performance? How does one measure capacity & the ability of firms to cope with the work & manage the risks involved? Programme Procurement in Construction: Learning from London 2012 covers the planning & preparation of a programmes procurement processes from understanding & developing the clients requirements to monitoring performance based on the benchmarks contractors set out in their own tender submissions. The emphasis is on a close attention to detail to avoid surprises while keeping a focus on the total programme. Purchase & Supplier Engineering provides an overview of managing the interest of firms in participating & the resulting capacity & workloads of all suppliers including the main contractors & the critical subcontractors & material suppliers. Offering techniques tips & lessons learnt from the implementation of PSE on London 2012 & Crossrail this book is aimed at public & private sector clients developers senior management & those businesses & professionals involved in undertaking the procurement supply chain management & delivery of multiple construction projects or complex major construction programmes.

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What does it take to build well-engineered Android applications? Explore Androids core building blocks & APIs in depth with this authoritative guide (updated to cover the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android) & learn how to create compelling apps that work on a full range of Android devices. Youll work with proven approaches to app design & implementation
- including application frameworks that you can use as a starting point for your own projects. Delve into sensors native development 3D graphics & many other topics & discover how to build apps on the platform of your choice. If youre an intermediate to advanced programmer youll learn how to make great Android apps. Learn how to use the Android SDK with the Eclipse IDE Apply advanced Java concepts regardless of your experience with the language Create an Android user interface thats captivating & easy to navigate Use the Fragment API for tablet user interfaces Make your application compatible with Honeycomb & earlier versions Understand Androids unique database design issues & the role of SQLite Use sensors & gestures to expand your apps input beyond just tapping & scrolling Explore Android APIs for multimedia location communication NFC & other applications
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Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework using powerful architecture patterns & modern web technologies such as HTML 5 & j Query. With this hands-on guide you'll gain a complete understanding of this framework with examples that demonstrate how various ASP.NET MVC 4 features work. You'll also get valuable code examples that you can directly apply to your own projects. This practical book also

Includes:: tips tricks & best practices for web application development in general & ASP.NET MVC 4 in particular
- including pitfalls you need to avoid. Key topics include: Web application architecture (s) The ASP.NET MVC 4 framework Mobile web development Cloud architecture & development Best practices for using HTML5 CSS Javascript & j Query


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The second edition of Programming Clojure is the first book to cover the new features in Clojure 1.3. Clojure experts Stuart Halloway & Aaron Bedra have updated the first book on Clojure & new examples have been added to demonstrate the power & depth of the new features. Programming Clojure 2nd Edition covers new concepts like Protocols & Datatypes as well as Clojures changes to the numerics system. In addition this book

Includes:: coverage of Clojure Script a new platform for the Clojure language that rests on top of Java Script. This book provides the foundation you need to understand the power of the Clojure language & how to wield it. Clojure is an increasingly important language. It recently overtook Scala in relative growth & is becoming the language of choice for many who are moving to functional programming or dealing with the challenges of concurrency. More & more developers are starting to see what Clojure has to offer. * Simplicity. Clojures clean careful design lets you write programs that get right to the essence of a problem without a lot of clutter & ceremony. * Clojure has the power inherent in Lisp but is not constrained by its history. * Clojure is a functional language. Data structures are immutable & functions tend to be side-effect free. This makes it easier to write correct programs & to compose large programs from smaller ones. * Clojure is concurrent. Rather than error-prone locking Clojure provides software transactional memory. * Clojure embraces Java. Calling from Clojure to Java is direct & goes through no translation layer. * Clojure is fast. Wherever you need it you can get the exact same performance that you could get from h&-written Java code. Many other languages offer some of these features but the combination of them all makes Clojure sparkle. Programming Clojure 2nd Edition shows you why these features are so important & how you can use Clojure to build powerful programs quickly. Reviewers called the first edition of Programming Clojure a masterwork " "well-organized & easy-to-read " "a great reference " "a mature & polished guide " & "a real pleasure to read." This second edition not only provides up-to-date coverage of the language but is a fantastic reference that you can keep close to you during the development of your own Clojure programs. What You Need: * Oracle JDK 6 * A text editor"

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This updated edition teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications with the latest features in PHP 5.x. You'll start with the big picture & then dive into language syntax programming techniques & other details using examples that illustrate both correct usage & common idioms. If you have a working knowledge of HTML the authors' many style tips & practical programming advice will help you become a top-notch PHP programmer. Get an overview of what's possible with PHP programs Learn language fundamentals including data types variables operators & flow control statements Understand functions strings arrays & objects Apply common web application techniques such as form processing data validation session tracking & cookies Interact with relational databases like My SQL or No SQL databases such as Mongo DB Generate dynamic images create PDF files & parse XML files Learn secure scripts error handling performance tuning & other advanced topics Get a quick reference to PHP core functions & standard extensions ...

For undergraduate students who have completed a course in object-oriented programming Programming the World Wide Web provides a comprehensive introduction to the tools & skills required for both client- & server-side programming teaching students how to develop platform-independent sites using the most current Web development technology. Essential programming exercises are presented using a manageable progression: students begin with a foundational XHTML Web site & employ new languages & technologies to add features as they are discussed in the course. Readers with previous experience programming with an object-oriented language are guided through concepts relating to client-side & server-side programming. ...