Far and away the best-selling book on introductory psychology, Myer’s text has found a place in the education of millions of students.
]]>Gross Anatomy: The Big Picture is the perfect bridge between review and textbooks. With an emphasis on what you truly need to know versus “what’s nice to know,” it features 450 full-color illustrations that give you a complete, yet concise, overview of essential anatomy.
The book’s user-friendly presentation consists of text on the left-hand page and beautiful full-color illustrations on the right-hand page. In this way, you get a “big picture” of anatomy principles, delivered one concept at a time -– making them easier to understand and retain.
Striking the perfect balance between illustrations and text, Gross Anatomy: The Big Picture features:
Gross Anatomy is a concise and clear book and is a great study companion for those in Year One anatomy class of Medical School.
]]>Conrad Barski tackles the subject of Common Lisp with his brilliantly quirky comics and out-of-this-world games to help get you into this fantastic language. Starting from the very basics and to more complex topics such as macros and domain-specific languages.
You’ll learn to:
If you spend any time within the programming community you’ll hear endless comments of how Lisp is a language everyone should learn, so click the link to get your EPUB copy from No Starch Press.
]]>Daniael is currently developing a new version, CurveExpert Professional, and hopefully he will also iron out those rough edges on the manual.
CurveExpert is a curve fitting software tool which employs a large number of both linear and nonlinear regression models, various interpolation schemes and splines to represent XY data in a very precise manner.
CurveExpert has over 30 built-in regression models while also allowing for the design of custom models. Full-featured graphing capabilities allow a thorough examination of the curve fit and CurveExpert can automatically find the best fit; comparing your data to each model to choose the best curve.
Along with having access to great software, every developer also needs great documentation and the manual for Workbench from Sun Microsystems has certainly provided this.
The core contents of the manual covers;
The usual HTML and PDF version are available, but now you can download the MySQL Workbench documentation in EPUB, which can be found at; http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-gui.html
MySQL Workbench is available in two editions. The Community Edition and the Standard Edition. The Community Edition is available free of charge. The Standard Edition provides additional Enterprise features, such as database documentation generation, at low cost.
]]>Like many great Open Source projects, openSUSE is proud of the community they’ve built with all kinds of people of differing expertise, language and cultural backgrounds. Their project relies on the contributions from worldwide who work together in all aspects of the project from testing, translators, artists, documentation writers, etc.
The official documentation (provided by Novell) can be found at en.opensuse.org/SDB:Official_documentation where you will also find the link to all the EPUB files.
There are currently five books available covering different topics;
Each of these manuals is of a very high quality and of course very useful to anyone wishing to use the openSUSE Linux Operating System.
There are actually several more books in the openSUSE documentation suite so I fully expect this list of EPUB files to grow over time.
]]>The MySQL manual is a very large (over 1.6 Million words), complex piece of documentation, but the team has done a great job. Due to the sheer amount of information involved the file size comes in at a whopping 15MB. Because of this, and that some of the internal chapter sizes are larger than the recommended size (300KB) for EPUB, the navigation will definitely be a little sluggish on portable devices.
I tried the manual on several different eReaders with mixed results.
In DE the book opened fine and once I had resized the view port, the manual was very readable. The formatting (CSS) on some parts of the book was a little iffy, but then DE is known to be quite funny about how it displays certain things.
On trying out the MySQL 5.1 manual on the Sony Reader I found that it would just not open, throwing a “Page Error!” I haven’t looked in to the details as to why, but I’ll bet that the large internal files (the appendix is over 2 MB) has something to do with it.
When I first saw the announcement over at the mysqlf Blog [http://blogs.sun.com/mysqlf/entry/farewell_chm_hello_epub] I was at my local coffee shop so first opened the manual directly on my iPad.
The first app I tried was the Stanza Reader; it took a few moments to download but then opened quite quickly. I noticed that page turning between chapters was a little slow (again because of the file size) but after this, things were pretty normal. To get all the tables and code blocks to show I had reduced the font size a few notches, and also turn to landscape view, but every page I then looked at was perfect.
After Stanza I then tried out the iBooks app. Again, after reducing the font size the pages viewed perfectly. The only problem I found with with iBooks is that it was very sluggish on every page turn. This would probably become quite annoying after a while so I’d recommend sticking with Stanza—don’t worry, it’s a free app.
It’s still early days for the EPUB format and eReaders, especially when it comes to technical documents, but the MySQL Documentation Team has done a great job and I’m sure over time their EPUB documentation will get even better.
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