This Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement covers Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak and Postgres. In the tradition of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, it explores the essential concepts at the core each technology. So, with each database, you'll tackle a real-world data problem that highlights its concepts and features.

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Goes beyond the software manual in exploring key software techniques to help you organize and process your images using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, including the recently announced Version 4. From importing images, to making minor fixes and local edits, to applying special effects to fine-tune your photographs.

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Andrew Hodge's classic bigraphy of Alan Turing has been revised and re-issued to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. It is described as "The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime codebreaking and the computer revolution." Published in the US by Princeton University Press and in the UK by Vintage (978-0099116417).

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JavaScript has become the programming language of the Web but is different from other languages. Based content distilled from David Flanagan’s JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, this quick guide to JavaScript’s features and quirks is ideal for experienced programmers coming to JavaScript from another environment, as well as developers experienced with it.

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Scala is a powerful JVM language that blends the functional and OO programming models. This book brings much needed examples and insights. There's little heavy-handed theory here—just dozens of crisp, practical techniques for coding in Scala eritten for readers who know Java or another OO language.

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This "Missing Manual" is aimed at novice web designers. It starts by explaining how to create simple animations using Edge's timeline, then creates more complex projects like interactive portfolios or photo galleries. The book doesn't assume you have prior coding or scripting experience and provides examples that show how  standard web tools work together.

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Subtitled "From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness" this book introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. It looks at the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal.

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Discover the tools needed for Silverlight 5 development, the roles each plays, and how they interact to produce a seamless result including Expression Design for creating Silverlight assests, Expression Blend, used to build user interaction and Visual Studio, which manages the interaction between designers and developers. See our review of previous edition.

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A wide-ranging and detailed look at the New Jersey lab which has been churning out useful discoveries since the early 1900s. A view of American research and development that will take engineers, scientists, and managers back to the golden age of invention in the U.S.

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Task-based guide, with full-color images of preinstalled iPad apps helps you manage the content on your iPad. Advice on customizing settings, updating and running apps, setting up networking and email, surfing the web, using peripheral devices, editing photos  managing music, Updated to include coverage iOS 5.1 running on any iPad model, including the new 3rd generation iPad with 4G LTE.

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In 24 step-by-step sessions of one hour or less, learn how to develop mobile applications for Windows Phone 7. Covers the fundamentals of Windows Phone 7 app development with the Silverlight or the XNA Framework, and how to get your apps into the Windows Marketplace. One step at a time, master new features ranging from the new sensors to using launchers and choosers.

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For developers new to database programming, planning to create and deploy applications against SQL Server 2012. Now in its third edition, the book is enhanced to cover the very latest developments in SQL Server 2012 and now covers the no-cost Express Edition. See our review of the previous edition.

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