Unicode Explained

Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without [...]

Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux

The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TUX Magazine confirmed this by voting Ubuntu as the best Linux distribution in each publication’s 2005 Readers Choice [...]

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began. The book was re-released in 2004 following Obama’s keynote [...]

Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters

Tricks of the Microsoft Windows Vista Masters | 384 pages | PDF | 8.91 MB
Publisher: Que | ISBN: 9780789736895 | J. Peter Bruzzese (Author)
Tricks of the Microsoft Windows Vista Masters! Bruzzese has interviewed top Windows professionals, instructors, and power users; scoured the Web (so you wont have to); and rigorously tested every single tip. Only [...]

Hacking Gmail

The first book to unlock the true power behind Gmail, Hacking Gmail will immediately appeal to Google and Gmail fans This is serious, down-and-dirty, under-the-hood, code-level hacking that will have readers eliminating the default settings, customizing appearance, disabling advertising, and taking control over their Gmail accounts Covers turning Gmail into an online hard drive for [...]

The Ultimate HTML Reference

Sitting at the foundation of every site is HTML, the only language that is essential to a web site is existence. On the surface HTML may seem simple but there is much more to it than meets the eye. With different versions, many infrequently used elements and attributes, and varying ways that browsers interpret the [...]

Financial Risk Manager Handbook

Publisher: Wiley | Pages: 713 | 2007-06-15 | ISBN 0470126302 | PDF | 6 MB

The Financial Risk Management Exam (FRM Exam) is given by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) annually in November for risk professionals who want to earn FRM(r) certification. The Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Fourth Edition is the definitive guide for [...]

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (September 18, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385516401
ISBN-13: 978-0385516402

From Publishers Weekly
It’s not laws or constitutional theory that rule the High Court, argues this absorbing group profile, but quirky men and women guided by political intuition. New Yorker legal writer Toobin (The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson) surveys the [...]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Islam

Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: Alpha; 1st edition (October 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0028642333
ISBN-13: 978-0028642338

Product Description
Islam may be the most misunderstood faith in history. Most of us learn little or nothing about Islam in school; in fact, our knowledge of Muslims may be restricted to news reports on the Middle East and Louis Farrakhan. Surprise–the vast majority of Muslims [...]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Yoga

Title: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Yoga (2nd Edition)
Author: Joan Budilovsky, Eve Adamson
ISBN: 0028639707
ISBN 13: 9780028639703
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Alpha
Publication Date: 11/15/2000