CATBox


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Graph algorithms are easy to visualize and indeed there already exists a variety of packages to animate the dynamics when solving problems from graph theory. Still it can be difficult to understand the ideas behind the algorithm from the dynamic display alone. CATBox consists of a software system for animating graph algorithms and a course book which we developed simultaneously. The software system presents both the algorithm and the graph and puts the user always in control of the actual code that is executed. In the course book, intended for readers at advanced undergraduate or graduate level, computer exercises and examples replace the usual static pictures of algorithm dynamics. For this volume we have chosen solely algorithms for classical problems from combinatorial optimization, such as minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, maximum flows, minimum cost flows, weighted and unweighted matchings both for bipartite and non-bipartite graphs. Find more information at http://schliep.org/CATBox/.




House of the Cat Bundle


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Cats in outer space... Aliens kidnap troubled jockey. A plot to overthrow the royal family. Aliens visit Earth for Christmas. Read all about it! House of the Cat is a clan of feline shapeshifters from the planet Viros. This box set includes the first three paranormal romances in the series: Captured & Seduced, Claimed & Seduced and Merry & Seduced. In Captured & Seduced, Ry Coppersmith, a pirate shapeshifter with no knowledge of his heritage, struggles with his sudden ability to turn into a black leopard and his consuming attraction to the female jockey he and his crew have kidnapped from Earth. There is no time for missteps in this action-packed adventure as he and his crew run from the law and plot revenge on Ry’s stepbrother, a wizard who isn’t afraid to use his magic to win. In Claimed & Seduced, Prince Jarlath Leandros is heir to the House of the Cat and the king and queen are pushing him to choose a suitable mate. For once, Jarlath is digging in his heels and following his heart, which is leading him straight to Keira who is from the House of Cawdor—their enemy. Can enemies become lovers during war-time? We’re about to learn that the heart wants what it wants and new friends can become lovers. But consequences…oh, yes. There is always a cost for every action. In Merry & Seduced we’re back with the crew of the Indefatigable as Ry keeps his promise to Camryn and takes her home for Christmas. This time, the visit to Earth isn’t as clandestine and the entire crew make friends with Camryn’s family. A cyborg and an Earthman—an inter-species romance? Enjoy this holiday romance as the crew experience a New Zealand Christmas and a billionaire businessman learns that family is just as important as money.




hapi.js in Action


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Summary Hapi.js in Action teaches you how to build modern Node-driven applications using hapi.js. Packed with examples, this book takes you from your first simple server through the skills you'll need to build a complete application. Foreword by Eran Hammer. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology The hapi.js web framework for Node.js is built around three radical ideas. Developer productivity: hapi's intuitive setup gets you up and running in no time. Maintainability: hapi's modular design allows for easy scaling and improvement. Flexibility: hapi has a lightweight core that you can expand and customize with plugins. Are you ready to get hapi? About the Book Hapi.js in Action is an incredibly practical book that teaches you to build APIs, servers, and applications using Node.js and the hapi.js framework. You'll begin with an easy-to-follow mental model of a Node.js web application and see exactly where hapi fits into the picture. Then, you'll walk through building an API and composing it into a web application. Along the way, you'll explore key topics like validation, testing, authentication, and deployment. Throughout, you'll learn how to build rock-solid, secure, and fast applications. What's Inside Best practices for Node application design Building APIs with hapi Maintaining and scaling applications Extending hapi with plugins About the Reader This book assumes you have strong JavaScript skills. Experience with Node.js is helpful but not required. About the Author Matt Harrison is a core contributor to hapi.js and an active member of the Node community. Table of Contents PART 1 - FIRST STEPS Introducing hapi Building an API Building a website PART 2 - EXPANDING YOUR TOOLBOX Routes and handlers in-depth Understanding requests and responses Validation with Joi Building modular applications with plugins Cache me if you can PART 3 - CREATING ROCK-SOLID APPS Authentication and security Testing with Lab, Code, and server.inject() Production and beyond




Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics


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This book on multimedia tools for communicating mathematics arose from presentations at an international workshop organized by the Centro de Matemtica e Aplicacoes Fundamentais at the University of Lisbon, in November 2000, with the collaboration of the Sonderforschungsbereich 288 at the University of Technology in Berlin, and of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. The MTCM2000 meeting aimed at the scientific methods and algorithms at work inside multimedia tools, and it provided an overview of the range of present multimedia projects, of their limitations and the underlying mathematical problems. This book presents some of the tools and algorithms currently being used to create new ways of making enhanced interactive presentations and multimedia courses. It is an invaluable and up-to-date reference book on multimedia tools presently available for mathematics and related subjects.




Dark Mission


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The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition. Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.




Art of Modern Rock


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Authoritative, eye-popping, and massive, this is the first and last word on contemporary concert posters, with more than 1,600 exemplary rock posters and flyers from more than 200 international studios and artists.




Ancient Aliens on Mars


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New York Times best-selling author and Secret Space Program researcher Mike Bara brings us this lavishly illustrated volume on alien structures on Mars. Was there once a vast, technologically advanced civilization on Mars, and did it leave evidence of its existence behind for humans to find eons later? Did these advanced extraterrestrials vanish in a solar system-wide cataclysm of their own making, only to make their way to Earth and start anew? Was Mars once as lush and green as the Earth, and teeming with life? Did Mars once orbit a missing member of the solar system, a “Super Earth” that vanished in a disaster that devastated life on Earth and Venus and left us only the asteroid belt as evidence of its once grand existence? Did the survivors of this catastrophe leave monuments and temples behind, arranged in a mathematical precision designed to teach us the Secret of a new physics that could lift us back to the stars? Does the planet have an automated defense shield that swallows up robotic probes if they wander into the wrong areas? And are the lights still on down there, deep below the sands of Mars, just waiting for us to uncover them? Mike Bara examines all these questions and more in this astounding book, full of fascinating information on the following topics: Mars as the Abode of Life What Happened to Mars? The True Colors of Mars The Message of Cydonia The Politics of Mars The Pathfinder Sphinx Mars Global Surveyor Discoveries Face it, It’s a Face Tons More!




Leopardo da Gotcha


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I had been told that the Bengal still possesses the kind of intelligence originally native to cats but systematically bred out of most domestic breeds, so I shouldn ́t have been surprised that my Bengal cat Leopardo would be so smart. But I wasn ́t prepared for a cat that insisted in sitting in a chair at the dinner table like a person, turning lights and appliances on and off, opening and closing doors, raising and lowering ventian blinds, flushing the toilets, and even saying a few words. Because I scolded him so often, he now calls me "No." Like his ancestor, the wild Asian Leopard cat, Leopardo is still an arboreal, aquatic cat that can easily jump seven feet straight up and loves to play in the water. This book is filled with pictures and descriptions of Leopardo ́s clever antics. For a series of excerpts from the book and sample pictures, see www.LeopardoDaGotcha.com.




Beautiful Ghosts


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A Generation X transgender woman, Sherilyn Connelly came out of the closet in 1999. Her own identity still emerging, she had stumbled into a difficult, stifling relationship. Also, her employment at a tech company ceased when the dot-com bubble burst. It was a goth boy from Bolinas that first took her shopping for make-up, and the San Francisco goth scene became her respite. This wickedly eye-opening memoir reveals how Connelly dealt with a toxic partner and found her voice as a woman. A longtime cinephile, it tells how she became a writer, rekindled a love for cult films and horror conventions, and learned "the secret to becoming a star." Her remembrances are also a tale of a bygone era of sex, music and San Francisco and its darkened underworld of goth strays--her literate vampires and beautiful ghosts.




Biotelemetry XIV


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