Author: Peter Seibel
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: lisp, common, practical
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2005-04-11
ISBN-10: 1590592395
ISBN-13: 9781590592397

...it has a fresh view on the language and the examples in the later chapters are usable in your day-to-day work as a programmer. If you’re interested in Lisp as it relates to Python or Perl, and want to learn through doing rather than watching, Practical Common Lisp is an excellent entry point. — Chris McAvoy, Chicago Python Users Group Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world. Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with

Author: Randy Schutt
Publisher: Spring Forward Pr
Keywords: creating, society, proposal, practical, democracy, inciting
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN-10: 0970384114
ISBN-13: 9780970384119

Inciting Democracy offers a vision of what a good society might look like and explores how we can overcome five key obstacles to creating such a society. It offers a practical proposal to develop a large, decentralized education and support program that can increase the knowledge and strength of hundreds of thousands of goodhearted people so they can democratically and nonviolently transform society. It also provides a realistic, long-term vision of success -- a vision that can encourage people working for positive change, thus making success more likely.

Authors:Georges Vernez, Albert A. Robbert, Hugh G. Massey
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: practical, guide, processes, development, planning, workforce
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040065
ISBN-13: 9780833040060

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) develops, acquires, and maintains most Air Force systems and is tailoring its workforce to adapt to changes in technology, weapons, and battlefield requirements. This volume is a practical guide to the main steps in analytical workforce planning and development: determining workforce demand, describing workforce supply, comparing the demand with the supply, and implementing solutions. The authors outline the related policy decisions; describe necessary methods, data, and tools; and recommend divisions of responsibilities among headquarters, business units,

Authors:Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz
Publisher: College Publicatio
Keywords: prolog, learn
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2006-06-15
ISBN-10: 1904987176
ISBN-13: 9781904987178

Prolog is a programming language, but a rather unusual one. ``Prolog’’ is short for ``Programming with Logic’’, and the link with logic gives Prolog its special character. At the heart of Prolog lies a surprising idea: don’t tell the computer what to do. Instead, describe situations of interest, and compute by asking questions. Prolog will logically deduce new facts about the situations and give its deductions back to us as answers. Why learn Prolog? For a start, its ``say what the problem is, rather than how to solve it’’ stance, means that it is a ve

Author: Genick Bar–Meir, Ph. D.
Publisher: potto.org
Keywords: mechanics, fluid, basics
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB011023

This book started because I needed an introduction to the compressible flow book. After a while it seems that is easier to write a whole book than the two original planned chapters. In writing this book, it was assumed that introductory book on fluid me- chanics should not contained many new ideas but should be modern in the material presentation. There are numerous books on fluid mechanics but none of which is open content. The approach adapted in this book is practical, and more hands–on approach. This statement really meant that the book is intent to be used by students to solve thei

Author: Herman Menck
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: management, design, registries, cancer, central
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1994-05-01
ISBN-10: 3718605791
ISBN-13: 9783718605798

Practical issues, including the use of computers, selection and training of professional, administrative and technical staff are included, along with quality control procedures, essential to assure the integrity of information kept by the registry. Follow-up procedures, sources of population data, calculation and interpretation of incidence rates and survival rates, and the differences between case-control studies and cohort studies (based on registry data) are also described. Prevention and control applications, and legal issues relative to the confidentiality of information in the data files

Author: Victor Eijkhout
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
Keywords: reference, texnician’s, topic, tex
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1992-02-01
ISBN-10: 0201568829
ISBN-13: 9780201568820

For all TeX users who want to learn to program complicated macros themselves, TeX By Topic is an invaluable resource. The book is packed with highly original, practical, and useful ideas along with detailed explanations of the mechanisms underlying each TeX macro. Includes a thorough cross reference system.TeX by Topic is a systematic reference manual designed as a companion to tutorial guides on the system. Packed with original, practical ideas, this book provides an invaluable information source that will give the TeX user the essential insight needed to solve