Jon Bentley is recongized as one of the great authorities on Computer Programming and also as one of the best writers in the field. In this book he gives practical advice on improving the efficiency (optimizing) and the limits there of. While showing how to trade off speed for space or vice-versa, he points out the limits that can be expected to gain. His list of techniques is a collection of practical approaches rather than theoretical possibilities.
At 158 pages (not counting index) this book is eminently readable, accessable and useful. Clearly written and well organized this is a book to keep on your shelf for when a program needs improving. It is also a book to read before a program as a reminder not to make things complicated with optimization that aren't needed.

Pictures for Writing - Book 2: Уровень - Pre-Intermediate
В этой книге, как и в предыдущей, тоже 22 раздела на теперь уже более сложные темы. Главная задача книги - развить у детей любовь к письменной речи, и авторы постепенно, от простых предложений к полноценным параграфам, подводят детей к этой цели.
Каждый раздел состоит из одного разворота (двух страниц).
Слева - иллюстрации, справа - четыре подсекции: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Prepare for Writing, Writing.

Pictures for Writing - Book 1: Уровень - Elementary
Учебное пособие по английскому для детей
В книге 22 раздела на различные темы, включающие в себя как грамматический материал, так и лексику. Главная задача книги - научить детей письменной речи, и авторы постепенно, от простых предложений к полноценным параграфам, подводят детей к этой цели.
Каждый раздел состоит из одного разворота (двух страниц).
Слева - иллюстрации, справа - четыре подсекции: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Prepare for Writing, Writing.

Red Star vol.26
This interesting survey looks at Russian military aviation in the post-Soviet era. While difficulties with funding means that the large new aircraft programs of the Cold War era are likely to remain things of the past, military aviation in Russia is not standing still. Upgrades to existing programs and reorganization of current resources are two of the ways in which combat capability is being not just maintained but enhanced. This volume looks at programs like the new Mi-8MTKO and Mi-24PN night-capable helicopters from Mil. The latest Sukhoi upgrades such as the Su-24M2, Su-25SM, and Su-27SM are also explored, along with the programs designed to extend the capabilties of the Tu-95MS and Tu-160 bombers by allowing for the carriage of new and more capable missiles. The revamping of the Russian Air Force's training fleet with the Yakovlev's Yak-130 is also considered, contrasting the differences between the first ones built and production-standard aircraft.

Peebles admirably assembles, from a multitude of sources, a compact complete history of U.S. programs to develop so-called black or secret aircraft. Those began with work on the first American jet, the Bell P-59, during World War II, and proceeded to include the construction of such eventual headline-makers as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, which distinguished itself in the Gulf War. Also covered are such lesser-known vehicles as several families of reconnaissance drones, some fast and high, some low and slow. Besides the hardware, Peebles covers the logistics, administration, and politics of keeping multibillion-dollar programs under wraps until they succeed or fail.

This book teaches readers how to systematically design efficient, portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL) digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesis software. Focusing on the module-level design, which is composed of functional units, routing circuit, and storage, the book illustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs and the underlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codes that faithfully reflect the module-level design and can be synthesized into efficient gate-level implementation.

The authors are developers of network and web server software for IBM. They specifically target performance issues related to C++ programming. The primary topics of discussion are constructors & destructors, virtual functions, return value optimization, temporary objects, inlining, memory managers, and reference counting. Learn how to create efficient constructor functions. Learn how to avoid the costly construction of temporary objects. The authors promote "lazy evaluation" and nail "useless computations" and "obsolete code." Algorithm and data structure discussions are referred to other standard references, however there is coverage of the STL structures (insertion, deletion, traversal, and find operations). An additional bonus is the excellent coverage of multithreading issues.

What do topics ranging from organic chemistry to Napoleon's campaigns have to do with computer programming? This collection of essays demonstrates the many varied aspects of programming, showing how programming can be both a fun and elegant science.
Some of the essays cover programming techniques, like how profilers can provide insight into the dynamic behavior of programs, and methods for making data files self-describing. These techniques deal with real programs and they are realistically illustrated, using the C and Awk languages. Bentley also provides the reader with some tricks of the programmer's trade, like a collection of rules of thumb and hints for finding simple solutions to hard problems.
These essays also originally appeared in the author's column in Communication of the ACM, and have been substantially revised, incorporating new sections, problems, and reader comments.

Search Engine Visibility is not about merely obtaining top positions in search search results. Rather, Search Engine Visibility is about designing, writing, and creating a web site primarily for your site’s visitors, adn helping them find what they are searching for via the major search engines, directories, and industry-related sites. This book teaches developers, designers, programmers, and online marketers what pitfalls to avoid from the beginning so they can provide their clients with more effective site designs.

Buildings are responsible for 50% of C02 emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the optimal pathyways to greener buildings design and great diversity in practices of sustainable architecture.

Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you’re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power Your Home For Dummies takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!
This friendly, hands-on guide is packed with tips for making your home more energy-efficient though solar power—and helping the planet at the same time. You’ll see how to survey your home to determine your current household energy efficiency and use, and evaluate where solar power would best benefit you.

This guy is a seminal martial arts teacher. And an early exponent of mixed martial arts! What they don't understand is that Tegner was writing to a civilian population in a relatively safe, law abiding world, where most guys were going to deal, at worst, with some bullying and a challenge to "take it outside". He was not, in this book, preparing guys to be commandos or inner-city cops.

The purpouse of this book is very simple: to help you, the reader, to pronounce English better than you do now. Millions of foreign students want to learn English as well as they can, for some it is only a matter of reading and writing it, and they will find no help here. But many students want to be able to speak English well, with a pronounciation wich can be easily undersstood both by their fellow-students and by English people, and it is for them that this book is specially intended.

Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby is a practical, quick-moving tutorial based on real life, and real-world GUI applications. Right out of the gate you'll start working with code to drive a desktop GUI. You'll discover the kinds of gotchas and edge cases that don't exist in simple, toy programs. As you add more tests, you'll learn how to organize your test code and write lucid examples. The result is a series of "smoke tests" team will run on Continuous Integration servers.

In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests that these domestic and foreign policy outcomes are closely related. The Truman administration's efforts to fund its ambitious and expensive foreign policy required it to sacrifice much of its domestic agenda and acquiesce to conservative demands for a campaign against radicals in the labor movement and elsewhere.

В данном пособии излагаются правила и требования к составлению деловых писем. Книга насыщена множеством примеров для каждой категории: Sales, Marketing, and Public Relations Letters, Customer Service Letters и др.

Четвертая часть пятиуровнего комплексного курса английской грамматики от издательства Longman
Clear, communicative, and teachable, "Focus on Grammar" provides enough context, practice, and interaction to make any classroom come alive.
"Focus on Grammar" features: Clear visual presentation of grammar Concise grammar explanations Fully contextualized grammar presentation and practice in all four skills Controlled and communicative practice Comprehensive review tests including TOEFL Test-style questions From Grammar to Writing sections included in all levels New information gap activities throughout each book

Пятая часть пятиуровнего комплексного курса английской грамматики от издательства Longman
Clear, communicative, and teachable, "Focus on Grammar" provides enough context, practice, and interaction to make any classroom come alive.
"Focus on Grammar" features: Clear visual presentation of grammar Concise grammar explanations Fully contextualized grammar presentation and practice in all four skills Controlled and communicative practice Comprehensive review tests including TOEFL Test-style questions From Grammar to Writing sections included in all levels New information gap activities throughout each book