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How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.

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(Paperback)

Contains tutorials that show students how to use AutoCAD software for such drawings as floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, interior elevations, and casework sections. Covering both 2-D and 3-D AutoCAD, this book introduces the method of importing digital images into the material library.

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Explains how to execute computationally intensive analysis on very large data sets. This book shows readers how to determine some of the best methods for solving a variety of different problems, how to create and debug statistical models, and how to run an analysis and evaluate the results.

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There is little doubt that computer and video games occupy a significant place in contemporary popular culture. Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this text considers the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

As technology changes rapidly, new words and phrases are being introduced into our vocabulary, many with Net or Web affixed to them.

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Better than ever, this latest edition brings you more than 440 of the most exciting, educational, and innovative Web sites available for taking your students on unforgettable Internet field trips. Sites that incorporate sound, animation, video, and instructions on downloading software for site navigation are also new to this edition.

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An examination of the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory, radical and border pedagogies, and technological criticism, the text discusses the primary ways in which hypertext is articulated.

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Lays out the theoretical groundwork for personalized search and reputation management, both on the Web and in peer-to-peer and social networks. This book develops scalable algorithms that exploit the graphlike properties underlying personalized search and reputation management, and delves into realistic scenarios regarding Web-scale data.

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Then, proceeding from the environment to the systems to be learned, the author schematizes all of the resources professionals use on the job--their experiences and thought processes, documentation, their colleagues, the computer, and the software system itself--as learning tools.

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(Hardback)

The book explains how openly available information is undervalued by the intelligence community and how analysts can use of this huge amount of information.

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The book explains how openly available information is undervalued by the intelligence community and how analysts can use of this huge amount of information.

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An up-to-date account of the interplay between optimization and machine learning, accessible to students and researchers in both communities.

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Technical writers often use visual displays of hierarchical information to create structures that users can easily understand and navigate. This work constitutes a consideration of the state of outlining at the end of the 20th century and the nature of a new tool - the electronic outliner.

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Technical writers often use visual displays of hierarchical information to create structures that users can easily understand and navigate. This work constitutes a consideration of the state of outlining at the end of the 20th century and the nature of a new tool - the electronic outliner.

(Hardback)

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Presents a broad survey of efforts to use C++ on high performance parallel computers and clusters of workstations. This text includes 16 different dialects and libraries, which are described by their developers and illustrated with many small example programs.