Utilities category: 98 books

Why do people fight about water rights? Who decides how much water can be used by a city or irrigator? Does the federal government get involved in state water issues? Why is water in Colorado so controversial? These questions, and others like them, are addressed in Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers....

All Make Jumpstart books provide a quick way for makers to "jumpstart" their knowledge of a certain topic.Jumpstarting C takes the reader on a 50-page journey, from installing C on a Raspberry Pi, to creating their first "Hello World" program in C, to building and programming a handheld 4-color memory game using C, pushbuttons and LEDs.

An easy-to-use book, containing 10 engaging projects that will help you learn how to build video games with the easy to use Scratch 2.0 environment. If you are a new, or current Scratch user and would like to improve your understanding of the new Scratch 2.0 interface, and learn how to make video games,...

To determine whether the industrial base for the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry can maintain the capability to design, construct, operate, and maintain coal-fired electricity generating units within reasonable cost, schedule, performance, environmental, and quality expectations,...

According to what people say, Kindle Fire HD is one of the best tablets you can own. This great piece of hardware is ideal to enjoy a movie with family and friends and you can also take it along to your business meetings. Kindle Fire HD can be used for everything – entertainment, reading, business,...

Providing an efficient overview of the Clean Air Act and its implementing regulations, this handy guide covers all essential areas of the statute as well as important recent developments such as the Massachusetts v. EPA decision. Topics include: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards; processes...

With the introduction of e-books in our daily lives, reading books has become a digitized trend and with the advent of the Kindle and other similar devices, users can now find many more services that are available for them through their e-book devices. With e-books being a widely purchased form of...

Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using biomass to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity plants. This report focuses on two aspects of biomass use: plant-site modifications, changes in operations,...

Graphics Gems V is the newest volume in The Graphics Gems Series. It is intended to provide the graphics community with a set of practical tools for implementing new ideas and techniques, and to offer working solutions to real programming problems. These tools are written by a wide variety of graphics...

Want to learn even more about XSLT ? * A Step-by-Step Guide to XSLT # Introducing XSLT # Contents: EXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation commonly known as XSLT is a way to transform the XML document into other formats such as XHTML. This tutorial explains the basics...

Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to manage your projects with Project 2013. With Step By Step, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! + Topics include building a project plan and fine-tuning the details; + Scheduling tasks,...

SAP Business Workflows are predefined in SAP R/3 system. It is a key component of SAP system wherein they help design the business processes - it can be a simple release or a complex repeated business process, such as creating a material master, etc. This is a brief tutorial that introduces the readers...

Microsoft Access is a Database Management System (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and softwaredevelopment tools. It is a part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the professional and higher editions....

Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 Tutorial Microsoft PowerPoint is a commercial presentation application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The current versions at the time of writing this tutorial are 2010 for Microsoft Windows and 2011 for Mac OS X. Microsoft...