Titles starting with X from Gulls Nest Books

Auerbach Publications, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Executable Internet (X Internet) has the potential to produce highly interactive systems that are said to increase productivity while enhancing the user experience. Whether or not this innovation in human-computer interaction will actually work in delivering services and capabilities to users remains to be seen but consultant Keyes is certain the X Internet will provide developers and business with new opportunities and users with new features. S... more information

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Morgan Kaufmann Pub., Inc., 2000. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. CD-ROM included. An advanced tutorial on the building of XML applications for use on the Web enterprises. Early chapters cover DOM, XSL, Xlink, and Xpointer, while later chapters move on to the use of those technologies to the creation of applications. The core of the work consists of demonstration of the use of applications towards building an entire e-commerce site. Finally, future developments in XML technology are discussed. The work ass... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Designed for those ready to work with the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and seeking some direction, this focuses on solving business problems at the hands-on level with an integrated approach to projects and tools. The authors consider a range of professionals including documentation staff and management as they overview XML and enterprise, and then cover the elements of well-formed XML, creating and distributing a structure for shared informa... more information

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Sams, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Written for application developers and database administrators familiar with XML and design patterns, this guide overviews the architecture and implementation of the new XQuery language for binding streams of information into a cohesive structure and creating a readable form of presentation output. Examples are provided in both Java and Visual Basic .NET. (©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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U. of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Barajas (sociology, California State U.) presents an extended case study of the migration experiences of the Xaripu community originating from Michoacán, Mexico. He examines how forms of colonialism, institutional biases, and emergent forms of domination have shaped the community's labor migration, community formation, and family experiences across the Mexican/US border over the course of a century. The study is based on an "inte... more information

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Sams, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This tutorial guide for new and experienced Xcelsius users shows how to use Xcelsius to create interactive dashboards, gather data from spreadsheets or databases, and deliver information that can be immediately understood. Abdulezer, editor-in-chief of Xcelsius Journal and founder of the Xcelsius Best Practices web site, reviews the software's core concepts, demonstrates the wide range of dashboards it can create, and provides step-by-step instructions for th... more information

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Sams, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This tutorial guide for new and experienced Xcelsius users shows how to use Xcelsius to create interactive dashboards, gather data from spreadsheets or databases, and deliver information that can be immediately understood. Abdulezer, editor-in-chief of Xcelsius Journal and founder of the Xcelsius Best Practices web site, reviews the software's core concepts, demonstrates the wide range of dashboards it can create, and provides step-by-step instructions for th... more information

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Sams, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This tutorial guide for new and experienced Xcelsius users shows how to use Xcelsius to create interactive dashboards, gather data from spreadsheets or databases, and deliver information that can be immediately understood. Abdulezer, editor-in-chief of Xcelsius Journal and founder of the Xcelsius Best Practices web site, reviews the software's core concepts, demonstrates the wide range of dashboards it can create, and provides step-by-step instructions for th... more information

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PublicAffairs, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Miller, a staff writer at The Providence Journal, provides a you- are-there narrative of a scientist's attempts to make a breakthrough in the field of organ transplantation, centering on a genetically engineered pig named Goldie. Miller was granted full access to the lab and other facilities of Dr. David Sachs, whom he followed for two years. Miller's account of Sachs' work in xenotransplantation, or "xeno"--the use of animal parts ... more information

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Oxford U. Press, 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Cooper, an immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital's Transplantation Biology Research Center and Lanza, practicing tissue engineering and transplant medicine with a private company, look at the history, current status, and prospects for transplanting organs from other animals, primarily pigs, into humans. They describe the effort to solve the problem of rejection, and consider such ethical questions as who will get the organs first, will inf... more information

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Texas Tech U. Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Lynch (English, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln) examines the writings of such American writers of the Southwest as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Ray Gonzales, Charles Bowden, Susan Tweit, Gary Paul Nabhan, Pat Mora, Ann Zwinger, and Janice Emily Bowers through the theoretical frame of ecocriticism, which is "concerned with showing how literature is embedded within and mutually symbiotic with the encompassing more-than-h... more information

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Astronomical Soc./Pacific, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Proceedings of one of a series of conferences organized in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Piazzi's momentous discovery of the first of the asteroids. The fall 2000 X-ray astronomy conference, held in Palermo, Italy, was attended by about 200 international researchers; their papers cover a range of problems from stellar and solar coronae to open clusters, supernova remnants, compact objects, normal galaxies, clusters of g... more information

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