Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you. Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting p...(展开全部)

Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye. In The Manga Guide to Calculus, you'll follow along with N...(展开全部)

Data is getting bigger and more complex by the day, and so are your choices in handling it. Explore some of the most cutting-edge databases available - from traditional relational databases to newer NoSQL approaches - and make informed decisions about challenging data storage problems. This is the only comprehensive guide to the world of NoSQL databases, with in-depth practical...(展开全部)

Data is getting bigger and more complex by the day, and so are your choices in handling it. Explore some of the most cutting-edge databases available - from traditional relational databases to newer NoSQL approaches - and make informed decisions about challenging data storage problems. This is the only comprehensive guide to the world of NoSQL databases, with in-depth practical...(展开全部)

David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations—more than 6,600 in all—and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience. The Sibley Guide 's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrat...(展开全部)

This book provides a practical foundation for those who want to apply graph databases to real-world business solutions. You'll learn why graph database are useful, where they're applicable, and how to design and implement solutions that use them. With an introduction to the graph database space in general, this book focuses on their practical application, using the Neo4j graph ...(展开全部)

Explore the fascinating world of anime through 30 classic films in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque The Ghibliotheque Guide to Anime gives an accessible beginner's tour to the wildly popular world of Japanese animated cinema, charting a path that takes in everything from titans of the industry like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Your Name, to deeper cuts, hidden g...(展开全部)

Taking a hands-on approach, The Musician s Guide to Fundamentals teaches the basics of music and creative music-making with repertoire from Bach to Broadway, Mozart to the Black Eyed Peas. Its unique listen-write-perform framework teaches students to read, write, and create music with the sounds of real music in their heads first.

From New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner comes this comprehensive and humorous cartoon guide to topics in biology Did you faint when your middle school science teacher asked you to dissect a frog? Do you think DNA stands for “Don’t Know the Answer”? Do you still cling to the belief that osmosis was the name of Ozzy...(展开全部)

Python is a wonderful programming language that is being used more and more in a lot of different industries. It is fast, flexible, and comes with batteries included. Most of the books you read about Python teach you the language basics. But once you've learnt them, you are on your own designing your application and discovering best practices. In this book, we'll see how to lev...(展开全部)