Python is a remarkably powerful, yet a simple programming language that has become a highly valuable software development tool for many computing professionals. With the recent release of version 2, Python is becoming more robust and developers are begging for their favorite resource to be updated. Python developers talk about nothing else when it comes to Python documentation-...(展开全部)

Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive reference to the Python programming language. The focus of this latest edition is to add coverage of significant new features and new library modules added to the language over the past five years. Clearly written with concise organization, the new features covered include new style classe...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Review Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, "Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?" David M. Beazley's Python: Essential Reference is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of...(展开全部)

蒂莫西•萨马拉（Timothy Samara）是一名来自纽约的平面设计师。他在纽约从事教学、写作工作，同时也是STIM视觉传播公司的顾问。在他二十年的品牌和信息设计生涯中，他从事的工作包括印刷、包装、环境、用户界面设计和动画制作。 萨马拉先生目前是视觉艺术学院（School of Visual Arts）、纽约州立大学帕切斯学院（New York University, Purchase College）和帕森设计学院（ Parsons）的教师。至今，他共出版了六本书，都是由洛克波特出版社（Rockport Publisher）出版的。萨马拉和他的合伙人居住在布鲁克林威廉斯堡街区。

In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the disc...(展开全部)

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . . Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely pri...(展开全部)

This brief text consistently relates core course material to students' lives, clarifies the process of science and demonstrates how the theme of evolution integrates all of biology. Hailed for its clear writing, scientific accuracy, and real-world examples, Essential Biology is a brief non-majors biology text that focuses on the core concepts students need to make scientificall...(展开全部)

Essential Cell Biology provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental concepts of cell biology. Its lively writing and exceptional illustrations make it the ideal textbook for a first course in cell and molecular biology. The text and figures are easy-to-follow, accurate, clear, and engaging for the introductory student. Molecular detail has been kept to a minimum in or...(展开全部)

本书为那些没有太多时间学习的程序员提供了一条在工作中学习C++的捷径。它把重点放在那些C++编程中重要的要素上，并覆盖能够帮助解决实际编程问题的特性和技术。 本书将C++的基本内容按照过程风格、泛型风格、基于对象风格，以及面向对象风格进行组织。本书采用复杂度渐进的风格展开，并在讨论解决方案的过程中引入语言特性，便于学习C++的功能和结构，同时理解其目的和基本理念。 书中完整深入探讨了以下主要内容： 泛型编程和标准模板库（STL） 基于对象的编程和类的设计 面向对象的编程和类层次体系的设计 函数和类模板的设计和使用 异常处理和运行时类型信息（RTTI） 此外，附录A里还为每一章最后的习题给出了完整的答案和详细解释。附录B则是一本泛型算法的快速参考手册，解释了每个算法的使用方法并给出了示例。 这本精炼的教程提供了C++实战所必需的知识点，为你进一步的学习...(展开全部)