Roland: 1394 books

Have you ever wondered how the lights in your alarm clock work? Or have you ever considered how that tiny red light in your TV remote control sends a signal that helps you find your favorite show? What these and countless other bright devices have in common is a light-emitting diode, or LED. But how...

Have you ever wondered how electricity powers your home or school? What about how that electricity travels? In any device that uses electricity, inside is a small path called a circuit through which electricity travels. Whether we see them in these devices or not, circuits are constantly at work....

Le fantôme de Voltaire se rend incognito à Berlin pour poursuivre une quête débutée trois siècles plus tôt ! Maxime va passer quelques jours à Berlin chez sa grande cousine Lena, étudiante, fan du jeu de cache-cache, et surtout détentrice d'un pouvoir : celui de voir à travers les...

Fourteen-year-old Cody Taylor is on the adventure of a lifetime: an archealogical dig with his dad in the ancient city of Ephesus. But when al-Qaeda operatives begin to show a special interest in the valuable silver statue recovered by Cody and his dad, the Taylors find themselves entrenched in more...

Quincy Underwood is a well known local celebrity in his hood. He's street smart, handsome, and the talented lead vocalist for Taboo, the hottest Neo Soul R&B band on the East Coast. Quincy's deepest desire is to live the lifestyle that he knows he deserves: a life of luxury far removed from the concrete...

SPRING TRAINING MURDERS: NOIR PRIVATE EYE JOHNNY DARK IS BACK, THIS TIME WITH MURDER AND MAYHEM ON HIS MIND. Spring Training Murders is a hard-hitting, fast-paced, murder and mayhem thriller, designed for sport’s enthusiasts and for all mystery buffs. Each base-clearing chapter leads off...

A man hits a deer while driving down a desolate stretch of country road. When he gets out to survey the damage he finds that the deer is still alive, but with the extent of its injuries, it will soon be dead. The man feels a connection to the dying animal and sits next to it along the side of the...

Written in cookbook style, this book offers many recipes to learn digital sculpting with Mudbox. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can...

Tutorial book which teaches Java programmers how to use the xBaseJ library to create and access files in XBASE/DBASE format.

Debian GNU/Linux, a very popular non-commercial Linux distribution, is known for its reliability and richness. Built and maintained by an impressive network of thousands of developers throughout the world, the Debian project is cemented by its social contract. This foundation text defines the project's...

This book covers using C#/Mono with the Qt framework in great detail. It will be of great use to C++ Qt users as well since Chapter 3 is currently the most complete set of instructions for creating and printing reports in TXT, HTML, and ODF with Qt4. Faithful readers of this series will also be pleased to learn this book continues the tradition of including a Ruminations chapter at the end.

This book shows the nitty-gritty of developing with Qt using PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SQLite databases. It also shows the developer how to create BOTH console and GUI Qt applications. Readers are shown how to do development with Qt Designer, Qt Creator, Qdevelop, Monkey Studio, and Eclipse under KUbuntu....

The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts written in a great variety of languages. A feasible and sound way of exploiting this data for linguistic research is to compile a static corpus for a given language. There are several adavantages of this approach: (i) Working with...

L’éducation positive propose aux parents, aux enseignants et aux éducateurs un ensemble d’outils et une méthode ni permissive ni punitive qui permet de développer chez l’enfant l’auto -discipline, le sens des responsabilités, l’autonomie, l’envie d’apprendre, le respect mutuel et  bien d’autres qualités essentielles dans la vie.