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The Cult of LEGO

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:51 AM PST

The Cult of LEGO

Product Description

No, this isn’t a book about joining some fringe cult. It’s a book by ® fans, for fans, and you and your kids will love it.

In The Cult of , Wired‘s GeekDad blogger John Baichtal and BrickJournal founder Joe Meno take you on a magnificent, illustrated tour of the LEGO community, its people, and their creations.

The Cult of LEGO introduces us to fans and builders from all walks of life. People like professional LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya; enigmatic Dutch painter Ego Leonard (who maintains that he is, in fact, a LEGO minifig); Angus MacLane, a Pixar animator who builds CubeDudes, instantly recognizable likenesses of fictional characters; Brick Testament creator Brendan Powell Smith, who uses LEGO to illustrate biblical stories; and Henry Lim, whose work includes a series of models recreating M.. Escher lithographs and a full-scale, functioning LEGO harpsichord.

Marvel at spectacular LEGO creations like:

  • A life-sized Stegosaurus and an 80,000-brick T. Rex skeleton
  • Detailed microscale versions of landmarks like the Acropolis and Yankee Stadium
  • A 22-foot long, 350-pound re-creation of the World War II battleship Yamato
  • A robotic, giant chess set that can replay historical matches or take on an opponent
  • A three-level, remote-controlled Jawa Sandcrawler, complete with moving conveyor belt

Whether you’re a card-carrying LEGO fanatic or just thinking fondly about that dusty box of LEGO in storage, The Cult of LEGO will inspire you to take out your bricks and build something amazing.

Praise for The Cult of LEGO
“I defy you to read and admire this book and not want to doodle with some bricks by the time you’re done.”
—Gareth Branwyn, online editor-in-chief, MAKE Magazine

“This fascinating look at the world of devoted LEGO fans deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who’s ever played with LEGO bricks.”
—Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired

“A crazy fun read, from cover to cover, this book deserves a special spot on the bookshelf of any self-respecting nerd.”
—Jake McKee, former global community manager, the LEGO Group

“An excellent book and a must have for any LEGO enthusiast out there. The pictures are awesome!”
—Ulrik Pilegaard, author of Forbidden LEGO

“We’re all members of the Cult of LEGO—the only membership requirement is clicking two pieces of plastic together and wanting to click more. Now we have a book that justifies our obsession.”
—James Floyd Kelly, blogger for GeekDad.com and TheNXTStep.com

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The History of LEGO
Chapter 2. Building Again
Chapter 3. Minifig Mania
Chapter 4. (Re)creating Icons
Chapter 5. Building from Imagination
Chapter 6. LEGO Art
Chapter 7. Telling Stories
Chapter 8. Micro/Macro
Chapter 9. Digital Brickage
Chapter 10. LEGO Robotics: Building Smart Models
Chapter 11. Gatherings
Chapter 12. Serious LEGO
Index

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593273916
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593273910
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The Manga Guide to Biochemistry

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:51 AM PST

The Manga Guide to Biochemistry

Product Description

Kumi loves to eat, but she’s worried that her passion for junk food is affecting her health. Determined to unlock the secrets of dieting, she enlists the help of her brainy friend Nemoto and his beautiful biochemistry professor, Dr. Kurosaka. And so it begins…

Follow along in The Guide to Biochemistry as Kumi explores the mysteries of her body’s inner workings. With the help of RoboCat, the professor’s friendly endoscopic , you’ll soar through the incredible chemical machinery that keeps us alive and get an up-close look at biopolymers like DNA and proteins, the metabolic processes that turn our food into energy, and the enzymes that fuel our bodies’ chemical reactions.

As you dive into the depths of plant and animal cells, you’ll learn about:

  • The metabolism of substances like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and alcohol
  • How the energy powerhouses known as mitochondria produce ATP
  • DNA transcription and the different types of RNA that work together to translate the genetic code into proteins
  • Enzyme kinetics, how they’re measured, and how enzyme inhibition works

Whether you’re a medical student, an amateur scientist, or just curious about how your body turns cupcakes into energy, The Guide to Biochemistry is your key to understanding the science of life.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What Happens Inside Your Body?
Chapter 2. Photosynthesis and Respiration
Chapter 3. Biochemistry in Our Everyday Lives
Chapter 4. Enzymes are the Key to Chemical Reactions
Chapter 5. Molecular and the Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids

Book Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593272766
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593272760
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The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:51 AM PST

The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Book Description

With , you can add interactivity, , and other tricks to your pages quickly. But this isn’t just a book of scripts for you to cut and paste into your , only to find out later that nothing works as you’d expected. Using real-world examples as the starting point, author thau! walks you through various scripts and explains how they produce the effects you want.

Because no discussion of today is complete without coverage of , this thoroughly updated second edition includes new chapters on , so you can get up to speed with this valuable method for creating truly dynamic pages. This second edition of the best-selling The Book of JavaScript also features revised appendices and new examples throughout to reflect today’s web environment. Inside, you’ll learn to:

  • Work with frames, forms, cookies, and alarms
  • Use events to react to a user’s actions
  • Perform image swaps and rollovers
  • Program your own functions to produce customized solutions
  • Store user preferences and build a shopping cart
  • Use Dynamic to turn web pages into applications

If you need to spruce up tired-looking pages, The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition will help take your site from bland to brilliant.

BONUS: Includes a complete reference to all JavaScript objects and functions, including examples, properties, methods, handlers, and browser compatibility!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Welcome to JavaScript!
Chapter 2. Using Variables and Built-in Functions to Update Your Web Pages Automatically
Chapter 3. Giving the Browsers What They Want
Chapter 4. Working with Rollovers
Chapter 5. Opening and Manipulating
Chapter 6. Writing Your Own JavaScript Functions
Chapter 7. Providing and Receiving Information with Forms
Chapter 8. Keeping Track of Information with Arrays and Loops
Chapter 9. Timing Events
Chapter 10. Using Frames and Image Maps
Chapter 11. Validating Forms, Massaging Strings, and Working with Server-Side Programs
Chapter 12. Saving Visitor Information with Cookies
Chapter 13. Dynamic HTML
Chapter 14. Basics
Chapter 15. in JavaScript and Ajax
Chapter 16. Server-Side Ajax
Chapter 17. Putting It All Together
Chapter 18. Debugging JavaScript and Ajax

Appendix A. Answers to Assignments
Appendix B. Resources
Appendix . Reference to JavaScript Objects and Functions
Appendix D. Chapter 15′s Italian Translation Script and Chapter 17′s To Do List Application

Book Details

  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press; 2nd Edition (December 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593271069
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593271060
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The Book of Qt 4

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:50 AM PST

The Book of Qt 4

Book Description

Cross-platform is a kind of holy grail, and Trolltech’s toolkit may well be the most promising solution yet to this challenge. is widely used for the of GUI applications as well as console tools and servers, and it’s especially appealing to programmers who need to write cross-platform applications to run on /, Mac, and machines without having to rewrite for each platform.

The Book of Qt 4 offers an in-depth explanation of Qt 4 that goes beyond the common focus on ++ . Author Daniel Molkentin uses practical examples to explain features like the signal/slot concept and the event system, as he guides you through developing applications with and without Qt’s graphical GUI builder, Qt Designer. And as a core KDE developer, Molkentin’s head is full of real-world problems and solutions that he peppers liberally throughout The Book of Qt 4, making it a resource that you’ll consult time and again. You’ll find coverage of:

  • Tools for creating dialogs
  • GUI design with the Qt Designer
  • Widget layout and dialog construction
  • Data visualization using Qt’s model/view concept
  • The QtSql module and the graphics library Arthur
  • File handling, , processes, and network connections
  • Databases and threading
  • Event handling and using drag and drop
  • Internationalization and debugging

As well as lots of useful hints on how to use Qt’s datatypes, containers, and algorithms and how to develop user-friendly applications.

Whether you’re already a Qt developer or you’re just considering Qt for cross-platform , you’ll find The Book of Qt 4 to be indispensable.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Basics, Tools, and First Code
Chapter 2. The Tools Needed to Create Dialogs
Chapter 3. GUI Design Using the Qt Designer
Chapter 4. Developing a GUI Application Based on a Main Window
Chapter 5. Laying Out Widgets
Chapter 6. Dialogs
Chapter 7. Events, Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard
Chapter 8. Displaying Data Using “Interview”
Chapter 9. The QtSql Module
Chapter 10. The Graphics Library “Arthur”
Chapter 11. Input/Output Interfaces
Chapter 12. Threading with QThread
Chapter 13. Handling with QtXml
Chapter 14. Internationalization
Appendix A. Debugging Help
Appendix B. Tulip: Containers and Algorithms

Book Details

  • Paperback: 440 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (July 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593271476
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593271473
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The Book of Postfix

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:50 AM PST

The Book of Postfix

Book Description

Best practices for –the popular alternative to .

Developed with and speed in mind, has become a popular alternative to and comes preinstalled in many distributions as the default mailer. The Book of Postfix is a complete guide to Postfix whether used at home, as a mailrelay or virus-scanning gateway, or as a company mailserver. Practical examples show how to deal with daily challenges like protecting mail users from spam and viruses, managing multiple domains, and offering roaming access.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Preparing Your Host and Environment
Chapter 2. Mailserver for a Single
Chapter 3. Dial-up Solution
Chapter 4. Understanding Restrictions
Chapter 5. Restrictions
Chapter 6. Understanding Checks
Chapter 7. Checks
Chapter 8. Understanding Filters
Chapter 9. Filters
Chapter 10. Mailrelay
Chapter 11. A Smart Mailrelay
Chapter 12. Filters
Chapter 13. Mailserver for Many Domains
Chapter 14. Company Mailserver
Chapter 15. Scanning for Viruses
Chapter 16. Authentication of Users
Chapter 17. Understanding Transport Layer
Chapter 18. Transport Layer Security
Chapter 19. Tuning
Chapter 20. Installation
Chapter 21. Troubleshooting Postfix
Chapter 22. Postfix Anatomy
Chapter 23. Little Helpers
Chapter 24. RFCs
Chapter 25. Configuration Parameters
Glossary
Index

Book Details

  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (March 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593270011
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593270018
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iOS 5 Programming Cookbook

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

iOS 5 Programming Cookbook

Book Description

Now you can overcome the vexing, real-life issues you confront when creating apps for the , , or . By making use of more than 100 new recipes in this updated , you'll quickly learn the steps necessary for writing complete apps, whether they're as simple as a music player or feature a complex mix of animations, graphics, , a database, and storage.

If you're comfortable with SDK, this will teach you how to use hundreds of techniques. Each recipe provides a clear solution with sample code that you can use right away.

  • Use different approaches to construct a user interface
  • Develop location-aware apps
  • Get working examples for implementing gesture recognizers
  • Play and files and access the iPod library
  • Retrieve contacts and groups from the Address Book
  • Determine availability and access the Photo Library
  • Create multitasking-aware apps
  • Maintain persistent storage in your apps
  • Use Event Kit to manage calendars and events
  • Learn capabilities of the Core Graphics framework
  • Access the accelerometer and gyroscope
  • Take advantage of the service

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Basics
Chapter 2. Implementing Controllers and Views
Chapter 3. Constructing and Using Table Views
Chapter 4. Storyboards
Chapter 5. Concurrency
Chapter 6. Core Location and Maps
Chapter 7. Implementing Gesture Recognizers
Chapter 8. Networking, , , and
Chapter 9. and
Chapter 10. Address Book
Chapter 11. and the Photo Library
Chapter 12. Multitasking
Chapter 13. Core Data
Chapter 14. Dates, Calendars, and Events
Chapter 15. Graphics and Animations
Chapter 16. Core Motion
Chapter 17. iCloud

Book Details

  • Paperback: 874 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449311431
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449311438
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Android Forensics: Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Google Android

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

Android Forensics: Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Google Android

Book Description

The nature of the platform has not only established a new direction for the industry, but enables a developer or forensic analyst to understand the device at the most fundamental level. Forensics covers an device platform based on the 2.6 kernel and managed by the Open Handset Alliance. The platform is a major source of digital forensic investigation and analysis. This book provides a thorough review of the platform including supported hardware devices, the structure of the and implementation of core services ( communication, data storage and other low-level functions). Finally, it will focus on teaching readers how to apply actual forensic techniques to recover data.

  • Ability to forensically acquire Android devices using the techniques outlined in the book
  • Detailed information about Android applications needed for forensics investigations
  • Important information about , a file based structured data storage relevant for both Android and many other platforms.

“If you want to truly understand and perform forensics on Android this is the book. There is no other reference that goes to this level of detail on the Android operating systems idiosyncrasies and quirks.    Android Forensics is a must have for the device examiner’s bookshelf.”
–Jim Steele, Director of Digital Forensics , a Tier 1 Carrier

“Andrew Hoog in his latest book, Android Forensics, provides exceptionally well written coverage of Android for the Computer Forensics Investigator. No small task given the ever changing nature of ’s preeminent mobile operating system.”
–Matthew M. Shannon, Principal, F-Response

From the Back Cover
Android is now the world’s most popular mobile device platform and still growing at an astonishing rate. Android Forensics provides a thorough review of the Android platform, including the core hardware and software components, file systems and data structures, data considerations, a detailed review of forensic acquisition techniques and strategies for the subsequent analysis required. A heavy emphasis on open source tools and step-by-step examples are a primary focus on this book.

  • Learn techniques to forensically acquire Android devices
  • Includes information about Android applications needed for forensics investigations
  • Entire chapter focused on Android Device, Data and App , which can assist not only forensic investigators but also for app developers and IT managers

Book Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Syngress (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1597496510
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597496513
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