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Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report

Humana Press, 2007

In their timely and important book, ELIMINATING HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES IN AMERICA: BEYOND THE IOM REPORT, Dr. Richard Allen Williams and colleagues provide a comprehensive analysis of the causes and potential solutions to eliminating health care disparities. Their work is timely, because little progress has been made in reducing...

Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy

Humana Press, 2007

Critical care medicine is a cutting-edge medical field that is highly evidence-based. Studies are continuously published that alter the approach to patient care. As a critical care clinician, I am aware of the tremendous commitment required to provide optimal evidence-based care. Pocket Guide to Critical Care...

Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Erlang solves one of the most pressing problems facing developers today: how to write reliable, concurrent, high-performance systems. It's used worldwide by companies who need to produce reliable, efficient, and scalable applications. Invest in learning Erlang now.

Moore's Law is the observation that the amount you can do on a single chip...

Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is write one or...

Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

It was a dark and stormy night...

Actually, It was a late summer afternoon a little over ten years ago when I first began to get accessibility. Back then, I was working as a student web developer and sysadmin and we needed a system for a blind user to work on a paper. Simple enough—we had some new systems. Just grab one, install...

Rails for PHP Developers (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

As a PHP developer, you have some great tools for developing web applications. Ruby on Rails is another key tool to add to your web development toolbox. Rails is a high-level web development framework that emphasizes high productivity and clean code. However, the Ruby language and Rails framework take a different approach from the way many PHP...

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head.

In this book by Andy...

Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Desktop GIS explores the world of Open Source GIS software and provides a guide to navigate the many options available. Discover what kind of GIS user you are and lay the foundation to evaluate the options and decide what software is best for you.

Desktop GIS examines the challenges associated with assembling and using an...

FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

FXRuby is a highly object-oriented toolkit for building lean, mean, cross-platform graphical user interfaces in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2001, FXRuby has become one of the most popular GUI choices for Ruby developers. This book is your best resource for rapidly learning how to develop powerful, sophisticated GUIs in your favorite...

Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

Ruby is a fully object-oriented language, much like the classic object-oriented language, Smalltalk. Like Smalltalk, it is dynamically typed (as opposed to Java or C++), but unlike Smalltalk, Ruby features the same conveniences found in modern scripting languages, making Ruby a favorite tool of intelligent, forward-thinking programmers and the...

Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

The strength of Java is no longer in the language itself; it's in the Java Platform (the JVM, JDK, and rich frameworks and libraries). But recently, the industry has turned to dynamic languages for increased productivity and speed to market.

Groovy is one of a new breed of dynamic languages that run on the Java platform. You can use these new...

Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces much easier. We'll explore this new technology by starting with the familiar concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits.

Then we'll see how they apply to the new frameworks and APIs. We'll...

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