Tuesday, October 2, 2012


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Hardcover: 848 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press; 1 edition (May 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1587142716
ISBN-13: 978-1587142710
File Size : 106 Mb | File Format : PDF + Epub
Book Description 

Trust the best selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.

CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

·         Master Cisco CCNP Security FIREWALL exam topics
·         Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
·         Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
·         Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM

CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide, focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Security FIREWALL exam. Expert networking consultants Dave Hucaby, Dave Garneau, and Anthony Sequeira share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP Security FIREWALL exam, including:
  • ASA interfaces
  • IP connectivity
  • ASA management
  • Recording ASA activity
  • Address translation
  • Access control
  • Proxy services
  • Traffic inspection and handling
  • Transparent firewall mode
  • Virtual firewalls
  • High availability
  • ASA service modules
CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

The print edition of the CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide contains a free, complete practice exam.

Also available from Cisco Press for Cisco CCNP Security study is the CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-618 Official Cert Guide Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test. This digital-only certification preparation product combines an eBook with enhanced Pearson IT Certification Practice Test.

This integrated learning package:
·         Allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams
·         Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions
·         Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions
·         Tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (July 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032183397X
ISBN-13: 978-0321833976
File Size : 34.2 Mb | File Format : PDF + Epub 
Book Description 

Master Android™ App Development for Amazon’s Bestselling Kindle Fire™—Hands-On, Step-by-Step! 
In this book, bestselling Android programming authors Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder teach you every skill and technique you need to write production-quality apps for Amazon Kindle Fire, the world’s hottest Android tablet. You’ll learn the very best way: by building a complete app from start to finish. Every chapter builds on what you’ve already learned, helping you construct, expand, and extend your working app as you move through the entire development lifecycle.

Packed with fully tested, reusable sample code, this book requires absolutely no previous Android or mobile development experience. If you’ve ever written any Java code, you can dive right in and get results fast. Darcey and Conder start with the absolute basics: installing Android development tools, structuring and configuring Kindle Fire apps, and applying crucial design principles associated with high-quality software. Next, building on this strong foundation, you’ll learn how to manage application resources and build application frameworks; integrate user interfaces, logic, and support for networking and web services; test your apps; and publish on the Amazon Appstore.

Coverage includes
  • Establishing an efficient development environment and setting up your first project
  • Mastering Android fundamentals and adapting them to the Kindle Fire
  • Building reusable prototypes that define a framework for production projects
  • Incorporating strings, graphics, styles, templates, and other app and system resources
  • Developing screens, from splash screens and main menus to settings and help
  • Displaying dialogs and collecting user input
  • Controlling app state, saving settings, and launching specific activities
  • Internationalizing Kindle Fire apps to reach wider markets
  • Setting application identity and permissions
  • Preparing your app for publication
Table of Contents

I. Kindle Fire Fundamentals

01. Getting Started with Kindle Fire
02. Mastering the Android Development Tools
03. Building Kindle Fire Applications
04. Managing Application Resources
05. Configuring the Android Manifest File
06. Designing an Application Framework

II. Building an Application Framework

07. Implementing an Animated Splash Screen
08. Implementing the Main Menu Screen
09. Developing the Help and Scores Screens
10. Collecting User Input
11. Using Dialogs to Collect User Input
12. Adding Application Logic
13. Adding Network Support
14. Exploring the Amazon Web Services SDK for Android

III. Publishing Your Kindle Fire Application

15. Managing Alternative and Localized Resources
16. Testing Kindle Fire Applications
17. Registering as an Amazon Application Developer
18. Publishing Applications on the Amazon Appstore

IV. Appendixes

A. Configuring Your Android Development Environment
B. Eclipse IDE Tips and Tricks
C. Supplementary Materials

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Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile in 24 Hours

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Sams Publishing; 1 edition (July 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672335948
ISBN-13: 978-0672335945
File Size : 9.4 Mb | File Format : PDF
Book Description 

Quickly start using jQuery Mobile with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
jQuery Mobile makes it easy for developers to add "native" mobile functionality to their sites and applications, delivering seamless experiences to customers using diverse mobile devices, all from a single code base. In this book, leading mobile expert Phil Dutson helps readers master the latest version of jQuery Mobile, even if they have no previous experience. In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Dutson guides readers through every step of creating and customizing a mobile website with jQuery Mobile. Each short, easy lesson builds on all that's come before, teaching jQuery Mobile's newest features in the context of real solution development. Readers learn how to: -Create user interfaces with toolbars, buttons, forms, lists, events, and themes -Build responsive layouts and develop new themes -Detect diverse devices -Encode and embed mobile video -Use mobile device simulators -Build apps with PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile -Incorporate QR and Microsoft Tag Codes -And much more Step-by-step instructions walk developers through common questions, issues, and tasks... Quizzes and Exercises build and test knowledge... "Did You Know?" tips offer insider advice and shortcuts... and "Watch Out!" alerts help readers avoid problems. By the time they're finished, readers will be comfortable going beyond the book to "mobilize" virtually any site.

Table of Contents

Part I: Beginning jQuery Mobile
Hour 1. Getting to Know jQuery Mobile
Hour 2. Working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Hour 3. Using the jQuery Framework
Hour 4. Introduction to the jQuery Mobile Framework
Hour 5. Building Your First Mobile Site

Part II: Creating the User Interface
Hour 6. Knowing the Capabilities of Mobile Devices
Hour 7. Learning About Page Layout
Hour 8. Tuning the Toolbars
Hour 9. Designing Buttons
Hour 10. Formulating Your Forms
Hour 11. Learning About Lists
Hour 12. Handling Events
Hour 13. Changing the Default Theme

Part III: Customizing Your Content
Hour 14. Sprucing Up Your Design
Hour 15. Responsive Site Layout
Hour 16. Rolling Your Own Theme with ThemeRoller
Hour 17. Detecting Mobile Devices

Part IV: Extending the Mobile Experience
Hour 18. Embedding Video Playback for Mobile
Hour 19. Encoding Your Own Video for Mobile
Hour 20. Creating QR and Tag Codes
Hour 21. Learning to Minify Everything
Hour 22. Using Mobile Device Emulators
Hour 23. Building an App with PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile
Hour 24. Including jQuery Mobile with WordPress

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition (July 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321813847
ISBN-13: 978-0321813848
File Size : 42.6 Mb | File Format : PDF + Epub
Book Description

Android Wireless Application Development has earned a reputation as the most useful real-world guide to building robust, commercial-grade Android apps. Now, authors Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder have systematically revised and updated this guide for the latest Android SDK and tools updates. To accommodate their extensive new coverage, they’ve split the book into two leaner, cleaner volumes. This Volume II focuses on advanced techniques for the entire app development cycle, including design, coding, testing, debugging, and distribution. Darcey and Conder cover hot topics ranging from tablet development to protecting against piracy and demonstrate advanced techniques for everything from data integration and UI development to in-app billing.

Every chapter has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest SDKs, tools, and devices. The sample code has been completely overhauled and is available for download on a companion website. Drawing on decades of in-the-trenches experience as professional mobile developers, the authors also provide even more tips and best practices for highly efficient development. This new edition covers
Advanced app design with async processing, services, SQLite databases, content providers, intents, and notifications
Sophisticated UI development, including input gathering via gestures and voice recognition
Developing accessible and internationalized mobile apps
Maximizing integrated search, cloud-based services, and other exclusive Android features
Leveraging Android 4.0 APIs for networking, web, location services, the camera, telephony, and hardware sensors
Building richer apps with 2D/3D graphics (OpenGL ES and RenderScript), animation, and the Android NDK
Tracking app usage patterns with Google Analytics
Streamlining testing with the Android Debug Bridge

This book is an indispensable resource for every intermediate- to advanced-level Java developer now participating in Android development and for every seasoned mobile developer who wants to take full advantage of the newest Android platform and hardware.

Table of Contents

Part I: Advanced Android Application Design Principles
Chapter 1. Threading and Asynchronous Processing
Chapter 2. Working with Services
Chapter 3. Leveraging SQLite Application Databases
Chapter 4. Building Android Content Providers
Chapter 5. Broadcasting and Receiving Intents
Chapter 6. Working with Notifications

Part II: Advanced Android User Interface Design Principles
Chapter 7. Designing Powerful User Interfaces
Chapter 8. Handling Advanced User Input
Chapter 9. Designing Accessible Applications
Chapter 10. Best Practices for Tablet and Google TV Development

Part III: Leveraging Common Android APIs
Chapter 11. Using Android Networking APIs
Chapter 12. Using Android Web APIs
Chapter 13. Using Location-Based Services APIs
Chapter 14. Using Android Multimedia APIs
Chapter 15. Using Android Telephony APIs
Chapter 16. Accessing Android’s Hardware Sensors
Chapter 17. Using Android’s Optional Hardware APIs

Part IV: Drawing, Animations, and Graphics Programming with Android
Chapter 18. Developing Android 2D Graphics Applications
Chapter 19. Working with Animation
Chapter 20. Developing Android 3D Graphics Applications
Chapter 21. Using the Android NDK

Part V: Maximizing Android’s Unique Features
Chapter 22. Extending Android Application Reach
Chapter 23. Enabling Application Search
Chapter 24. Working with Cloud to Device Messaging
Chapter 25. Managing User Accounts and Synchronizing User Data

Part VI: Advanced Topics in Application Publication and Distribution
Chapter 26. Internationalizing Your Applications
Chapter 27. An Overview of Third-Party In-App Billing APIs for Android
Chapter 28. Enabling Application Statistics with Google Analytics
Chapter 29. Protecting Applications from Software Piracy

Part VII: Appendices
Appendix A. The Android Debug Bridge Quick-Start Guide
Appendix B. The SQLite Quick-Start Guide

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Book Detail 
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Casemate Pub; Reprint edition (November 29, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935149369
ISBN-13: 978-1935149361
File Size : 3.75 Mb | File Format : Epub
Book Description 

"A fine job of recounting a 20-year-old fight that was no doubt just another round in a continuing struggle."-US Naval Institute Proceedings
In May 1987 the US frigate Stark, calmly sailing the waters of the Persian Gulf, was suddenly blown apart by an Exocet missile fired from an Iraqi jet fighter. A fifth of the ship's crew was killed and many others horribly burned or wounded. This event jumpstarted one of the most mysterious conflicts in American history: "The Tanker War," waged against Iran for control of the Persian Gulf.
This quasi-war took place at the climax of the mammoth Iran-Iraq War during the Reagan administration. Losing on the battlefield, Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran had decided to close the Persian Gulf against shipping from Iraq's oil-rich backers, the emirate of Kuwait. The Kuwaitis appealed for help and America sent a fleet to the Gulf, raising the Stars and Stripes over Kuwait's commercial tankers.
The result was a free-for-all, as the Iranians laid mines throughout the narrow passage and launched attack boats against both tankers and US warships. The sixth largest ship in the world, the tanker Bridgeton, hit an Iranian mine and flooded. The US Navy fought its largest surface battle since World War II against the Ayatollah's assault boats. Meanwhile, US Navy Seals arrived in the Gulf, setting up shop aboard two mobile platforms. As Saddam Hussein, who had instigated the conflict, looked on, Iranian gunners fired shore-based Silkworm missiles against US forces, actions which, if made known at the time, would have required the US Congress to declare war against Iran.
In July 1988, nervous sailors aboard the cruiser USS Vincennes shot an Iranian airliner out of the sky, killing 300 civilians. This event came one month before the end of the war, and may have been the final straw that influenced the Ayatollah to finally drink from his "poisoned chalice."
Author Lee Allen Zatarain, employing recently released Pentagon documents, firsthand interviews, and a determination to get to the truth, has revealed a conflict that few recognized at the time, but which may have presaged further battles to come.

REVIEWS

"...not only an exciting work but an essential one for those wishing to understand America's vast naval and air capability as well as its enduring vulnerability."-Stephen Tanner, author of Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban and The Wars of the Bushes
"...an amazingly detailed look inside the U.S. Navy during the period it encountered a myriad of threats from Iranian ships, aircraft and missiles in the Persian Gulf. Given the fact that a reprise of the conflict is just beyond the horizon, this book should be essential reading for all U.S. policymakers as well as-and even more so-the current leaders of Iran."-Samuel A. Southworth, author of U.S. Armed Forces Arsenal and U.S. Special Warfare
"...does an excellent job of describing the tension aboard US ships and helicopter/ air crews... a good read and a fast one, especially for those of us unfamiliar with the "war" in the first place."Magweb.com 05/2008
"...a fine job of recounting a 20 year old fight that was no doubt just another round in a continuing struggle."Proceedings, US Naval Institute, 08/2008
"Well paced and factual... clearly understands the details of war at sea. As the United States discusses a possible conflict with Iran in the global press, the important lessons outlined...become particularly valuable."The Northern Mariner Spring 2008
"...one of the best reads of the year...the best and most accurate account of the events of that fateful time peiod...answers a lot of questions and brings up a few as all, It is one that you simply must read."Mo

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Book Detail 
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; Ninth Edition edition (January 6, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312687745
ISBN-13: 978-0312687748
File Size : 12.8 Mb | File Format : PDF
Book Description 

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience offers students practical help in making the transition to college and getting the most out of their time there. Speaking with evident respect for students at all kinds of institutions, with all kinds of learning styles, and with all kinds of backgrounds, the authors ask them to consider their own goals, and their purposes for being in college. Particularly relevant to today’s students, a new Money chapter discusses managing money, building credit, and financing college. A new chapter on Emotional Intelligence helps students recognize their own strengths and weaknesses so they can understand themselves better and direct their own path. A fresh, clean new design eliminates clutter so that students can focus on the important topics.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Preparing for SUCCESS

Chapter 01: Exploring Your Purpose for Attending College
Chapter 02: Managing Your Time
Chapter 03: Understanding Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 04: Discovering How You Learn

Part 2: Preparing to STUDY

Chapter 05: Thinking Critically: The Basis of a College Education
Chapter 06: Being Engaged in Learning: Listening, Taking Notes, and Participating in Class
Chapter 07: Reading to Learn from College Textbooks
Chapter 08: Learning to Study, Comprehend, and Remember
Chapter 09: Improving Your Performance on Exams and Tests
Chapter 10: Writing and Speaking Effectively
Chapter 11: Developing Library, Research, and Information Literacy Skills

Part 3: Preparing for LIFE 

Chapter 12: Making the Right Choice Majors and Careers
Chapter 13: Managing Your Money
Chapter 14:Establishing and Maintaining Relationships in College
Chapter 15: Appreciating Diversity
Chapter 16: Maintaining Wellness

Epilogue  
Glossary 
Index

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Monday, October 1, 2012


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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Routledge (March 8, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415779960
ISBN-13: 978-0415779968
File Size : 2.9 Mb | File Format : PDF + Epub + Mobi
Book Description 

Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from these humane and societal concerns by importing mechanistic ideas from 19th century physics. This book seeks to show how that original humane and social focus can be renewed.

The many particular topics the book examines can be traced to two central ideas. Firstly, that economic theory, like physics, requires two distinct theoretical frameworks. One treats qualities that are invariant across time and place; this is the domain of equilibrium theory. The other treats the internal generation of change in societies through entrepreneurial action that continually transforms the ecology of enterprises that constitutes a society. Secondly, economic theory is treated as a genuine social science and not a science of rationality writ large. The book also explores ways in which life in society is understood differently once economics is treated as a social science.

The book will be useful to professional audiences who work with economic theory and who find that much of the hyper-formality that comprises economic theory these days fails to make reasonable contact with reality. It will also be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and researchers in law, public policy, Austrian economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and political economy.

Review

"Richard Wagner develops a bold alternative to the predominant research program in contemporary economics. This alternative, focused on understanding emergent-dynamic processes, provides valuable insights into our understanding of economic systems. This important book deserves a wide readership."

Christopher J. Coyne, University of West Virginia

About the Author

Richard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, USA.

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Manorama | August 2012 | English | 96 pages| PDF | 19.1 mb
Book Description 

Oil rules our world. The world's economy virtually revolves around petroleum. The word 'petroleum' is coined from two Latin words - 'petra' and 'oleum'. Petra means rock, and oleum means oil, and these words, in brief, tell their story very well. Petroleum is formed from the remains of ancient living things. Man has been using oil for thousands of years. But we began to consume oil in vast quantities only in recent times. Oil has now become one of our planet's most valuable commodities, essential to our daily life. This means that very large quantities of oil are being dug out, and the world's oil supplies are gradually running out. A real, viable alternative for oil is yet to be discovered. This issue of Tell Me Why tells you the fascinating story of the world's most valuable natural resource - one that rules the modern world, and literally, makes it go!

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Library Binding: 121 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications; 1 edition (October 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1604130105
ISBN-13: 978-1604130102
File Size : 3.6 Mb | File Format : PDF
Book Description 

When December 7, 1941, dawned in Hawaii, no one expected that by the end of the day, the U.S. Pacific Fleet would lie in ruins and the United States would be at war. That morning, in just over an hour and a half, the planes of the Japanese First Carrier Striking Force sank or severely damaged 18 American warships lying at anchor at the Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu. This single air raid on a single morning altered the history of the United States and forever changed the way Americans thought about the world. The Attack on Pearl Harbor examines the history leading up to the attack, the specifics of the raid itself, and the consequences of what then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt called 'a date which will live in infamy'.

Table of Contents 

01. The Tomb
02. Pacific Empires
03. War Clouds Gather
04. Enter Yamamoto
05. "Thing would automatically begin to happen"
06. Climb Mount Nitaka
07. Sunday Morning
08. The Aftermath and Legacy of Pearl Harbor

Chronology and Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index

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Paperback: 526 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition (April 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 161608605X
ISBN-13: 978-1616086053
File Size : 997 Kb | File Format : Epub
Book Description 

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, here are true accounts by the people who built it, as well as the survivors.

This is the graphic, first-hand story of the maiden voyage and disastrous sinking of the RMS Titanic, told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner has been told countless times since that fateful night on April 14, 1912, by historians, novelists, and film producers alike, but no account is as graphic or revealing as those from the people who were actually there. Through survivors’ tales and contemporary newspaper reports from both sides of the Atlantic, here are eyewitness accounts full of details that range from poignant to humorous, stage by stage from the liner’s glorious launch in Belfast to the somber sea burial services of those who perished on her first and only voyage. In this book, the voices of the survivors share their own stories, as well as the official records, press reports, and investigations into what went wrong that night.

About the Author

Geoff Tibballs is the author of the bestselling The Mammoth Book of Jokes and forthcoming The Mammoth Book of Dirty Jokes. Tibballs is a former journalist and press officer. He is now a full-time writer and has previously written the highly successful Business Blunders and Legal Blunders. He lives in England.

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