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Death from a top hat / by Rawson, Clayton,1906-1971,author.(CARDINAL)140149;
"Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing to have been murdered under similar circumstances. The list of suspects includes an escape artist, a professional medium, and a ventriloquist, so it's clear that the crimes took place in a realm that Merlini knows well. But in the end it will take his logical skills, and not his magical ones, to apprehend the killer." - provided by publisher
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Magicians; Occultists; Murder;
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Principles of programming & coding / by Franceschetti, Donald R.,1947-editor.(CARDINAL)651222;
Includes bibliographical references and index3D printing -- Algorithms -- American Standard Code for Information -- Interchange (ASCII) -- Android OS -- Application -- Autonomic computing -- Avatars and simulation -- Binary hexadecimal representations -- Boolean operators -- Branching logic -- Characters and strings -- Cloud computing -- Coding and encryption -- Color coding -- Combinatorics -- Comment programming -- Comparison operators -- Computer animation -- Computer memory -- Computer modeling -- Computer security -- Computer-aided design (CAD) -- Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing software (CAD/CAM) -- Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) -- Conditional operators -- Constraint programming -- Control systems -- Cowboy coding -- CPU design -- Crowdfunding -- Crowdsourcing -- Cryptography -- Data mining -- Data warehouse -- Database design -- Database structuring conventions -- Debugging -- Device drivers -- Diffusion of innovations -- Digital divide -- Digital forensics -- Digital libraries -- Digital native -- Digital photography -- Digital signal processors (DSP) -- Digital watermarking -- Disk operating system (DOS) -- Drone warfare -- Drones -- E-banking -- E-learning -- Electronic circuits -- Electronic communication software -- Encryption -- Error handling -- Event-driven marketing (EDM) -- Expectancy theory -- Experimenter's bias -- Extreme programming -- Firewalls -- Firmware -- Functional electrical stimulation (FES) -- Game programming -- Gamification -- Graphical user interface (GUI) -- Graphics formats -- Guard clause -- HTTP cookie -- Imagined communities -- Incremental development -- Informational technology (IT) -- Information visualization -- Internet Protocol (IP) -- Inversion of control (Hollywood Principle) -- iOS -- Iterative constructs -- Java programming language -- JavaScript -- Knowledge worker -- Levels of processing theory -- Logic synthesis -- Logistics -- Machine learning -- Malware -- Massive open online course (MOOC) -- Meta-analysis -- Metacomputing -- Metadata -- Microprocessors -- Mixed methods research (MMR) -- Mobile apps -- Mobile technology -- Motherboards -- Multiprocessing operating systems (OS) -- Multi-user operating system (OS) -- Naming conventions -- Net neutrality -- Network security -- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) -- Neuromarketing -- Neuromorphic chips -- Objectivity -- Object-oriented design (OOD) -- Object-oriented programming (OOP) -- Privacy rights -- Programming languages -- Prototyping -- Quantum computing -- Random access memory (RAM) -- Rapid application development (RAD) -- Rational choice theory -- Search engine optimization (SEO) -- Semantic memory -- Semantics -- Signal processing -- Source code comments -- Spiral development -- Standard deviation -- Standpoint theory -- Statistical inference -- String-oriented symbolic languages (SNOBOL) -- Structural equation modeling (SEM) -- Technology in education -- Test doubles -- Theory of multiple intelligences -- Theory X and Theory Y -- Transformation priority premise (TPP) -- Tree structures -- Turing test -- Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) -- Unicode -- UNIX -- Variables and values -- Waterfall development -- Web design -- Web graphic design -- Working memory -- Worse-is-better -- Time Line of Inventions and Advancements in Programming and CodingThis new volume makes sense of the jumble of techno-jargon and programming acronyms for high school and undergraduate students. More than 125 entries explain the fundamental concepts, popular languages, systems, and protocols that go into computer programming.
Subjects: Computer programming.; Coding theory.;
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Make : electronics / by Platt, Charles,author.(CARDINAL)711121;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-243) and index.What's new in the Second Edition -- Preface: How to have fun with this book -- Basics: -- Necessary Items For Chapter One: -- Experiment 1: Taste the power! -- Experiment 2: Let's abuse a battery! -- Experiment 3: Your first circuit -- Experiment 4: Variable resistance -- Experiment 5: Let's make a battery -- Switching: -- Necessary Items For Chapter Two: -- Experiment 6: Very simple switching -- Experiment 7: Investigating a relay -- Experiment 8: Relay oscillator -- Experiment 9: Time and capacitors -- Experiment 10: Transistor switching -- Experiment 11: Light and sound -- Getting Somewhat More Serious: -- Necessary Items For Chapter Three: -- Experiment 12: Joining two wires together -- Experiment 13: Roasting an LED -- Experiment 14: Wearable pulsing glow -- Experiment 15: Intrusion alarm, part one -- Chips, Ahoy!: -- Necessary Items For Chapter Four: -- Experiment 16: Emitting a pulse -- Experiment 17: Set your tone -- Experiment 18: Intrusion alarm (almost) completed -- Experiment 19: Reflex tester -- Experiment 20: Learning logic -- Experiment 21: Powerful combination -- Experiment 22: Race to place -- Experiment 23: Flipping and bouncing -- Experiment 24: Nice dice -- What Next?: -- Tools, equipment, components, and supplies -- Customizing your work area -- Labeling -- On the bench -- Reference sources online -- Books -- Experiment 25: Magnetism -- Experiment 26: Tabletop power generation -- Experiment 27: Loudspeaker destruction -- Experiment 28: Making a coil react -- Experiment 29: Filtering frequencies -- Experiment 30: Make it fuzzy -- Experiment 31: One radio, no solder, no power -- Experiment 32: Hardware meets software -- Experiment 33: Checking the real world -- Experiment 34: Nicer dice -- Tools, Equipment, Components, And Supplies: -- Kits -- Searching and shopping online -- Checklists of supplies and components -- Buying tools and equipment -- Suppliers -- Index.Overview: The first edition of Make: Electronics established a new benchmark for introductory texts. This second edition enhances that learning experience. Here you will find unique, photographically precise diagrams of bread boarded components, to help you build circuits with speed and precision. A new shopping guide and a simplified range of components, will minimize your investment in parts for the projects. A completely new section on the Arduino shows you how to write properly structured programs instead of just downloading other people's code. Projects have been reworked to provide additional features, and the book has been restructured to offer a step-by-step learning process that is as clear and visually pleasing on handheld devices as it is on paper. Full color is used throughout. As before, Make: Electronics begins with the basics. You'll see for yourself how components work-and what happens when they don't. You'll short out a battery and overheat an LED. You'll also open up a potentiometer and a relay to see what's inside. No other book gives you such an opportunity to learn from real-life experiences. Ultimately, you will build gadgets that have lasting value, and you'll have a complete understanding of how they work. From capacitors to transistors to microcontrollers-it's all here.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Electronic apparatus and appliances; Electronics;
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Q & A : voices from queer Asian North America / by Manalansan, Martin F.,1960-editor.(CARDINAL)859611; Hom, Alice Y.,1967-editor.(CARDINAL)859581; Fajardo, Kale Bantigue,editor.(CARDINAL)859772; Eng, David L.,1967-writer of preface.(CARDINAL)859580;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface / David L. Eng -- Journeys, Itineraries, Horizons : an Introduction / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- Part I: Enduring Spaces and Bodies. "Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Fu Yung, Fortune Cookie Always Wrong" / Danni Lin ; All the Pinays are straight, all the queers are Pinoy, but some of us / Kimberly Alidio ; The Hybridity of Race : Science, Geopolitics, and the Queer Genealogy of the "Chinese Jew" / Jih-Fei Cheng ; "Sewing Patches through Performance" / D'Lo ; nine genealogies (of un/belonging) / Patti Duncan ; Lateral Diasporas and Queer Adaptations in Fresh Off the Boat and The Family Law / Douglas S. Ishii -- Part II: Queer Unsettlings : Geographies, Sovereignties. "Khmer Alphabet," "Galaxies Like Blood," "Teeth and Chairs (Phnom Penh)," "Pornography of Days," "LDR (Amsterdam--San Francisco) (for Wai)," "Samsara," "'Eighteen Levels of Hell' (Đại Nam Amusement Park, Sài Gòn)," "Impossible Poem" / Việt Lê ; You're Here, You're Queer, But You're Still a Tourist / Kim Compoc ; Filipinx and Latinx Queer Critique : Houseboys and Housemaids in the US-Mexican Borderlands / Sony Coráñez Bolton ; Queer South Asian Desire, Blackness, and the Apartheid State / Vanita Reddy ; Pinkwashing, Tourism, and the (In)visibility of Israeli State Violence / Jennifer Lynn Kelly ; Asian Settler Abstraction and Administrative Aloha / Reid Uratani --Part III: Building Justice : Queer Movements in Asian North America. In All Our Splendid Selves : a Roundtable Discussion on Queer API Activism in Three Political Moments / Eric Estuar Reyes and Eric C. Wat ; Manservants to Millenials : a Brief Queer APA History / Amy Sueyoshi ; From Potlucks to Protests : Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities / Sasha Wijeyeratne ; Sing Freedom, Sing / Kim Tran ; Building a Queer Asian Movement : Building Communities and Organizing for Change / Glenn D. Magpantay -- Part IV: Messing up the Archives and Circuits of Desire. inspector of journals makes introductions : Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum / Ching-In Chen ; On (En)countering the Archival Sidekick / Joyce Gabiola ; Camp Objects : Orientalist Kitsch and Trashy Re-Collections of the Japanese American Incarceration / Chris A. Eng ; Asian Men and the Construction of Racial Desire on Craigslist / C. Winter Han ; "I Think I'll Be More Slutty" : the Promise of Queer Pilipinx American Desire on Mobile Digital Apps in Los Angeles and Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza ; Re/Generations : a Queer Korean American Diasporic Response / Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee -- Part V: Burning Down the House-Institutional Queerings. Model/Minority Veteran : The Queer Asian American Challenge to Post-9/11 US Military Culture / Long T. Bui ; Disrupting normative choreographies : queer Asian Canadian interventions making a mess with/in a "Too Asian" university / John Paul Catungal ; Open in Emergency : on Queer(ing) Asian American Mental Health / Mimi Khúc ; Religion and Ritual in the Lives of Queer Filipinx in Canada / May Farrales ; Coming Back Around to a Place of Grace : a personal theological reflection and journey by a 1.5 generation Korean American transman / Sung Won Park ; "Save the Thai Temple" : Wat Mongkolratanaram, Thai America, and the Heteronormative Logics of South Berkeley / Pahole Sookkasikon -- Part VI: Mediating Queer. In which I watch Youtube to watch fan video edits of you : For Nico Minoru on Marvel's Runaways / Kay Ulanday Barrett ; PhilippinExcess : Queerness, Multiraciality, Midwesternness, and the Cultural Politics of Legibility / Thomas Xavier Sarmiento ; Balang's Dance : Puro Arte as Queer Affect / Casey Mecija ; "I Will Always Love You" : Queer Filipino Performances of Blackness, Death, and Return / Thea Quiray Tagle ; The Opposite of Performance : M. Butterfly in 2017 / Emily Raymundo ; The Craft : QTPOC Tarot in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's Skim / Christine "Xine" Yao -- Part VII: Finding One's Way : Routes of Lives and Bodies. Loving Our Children, Finding Our Way / Marsha Aizumi ; Needles + Cushions : a reflection on memory / Syd Yang ; Queercore Prepped Me For Cancer / Leslie Mah ; This One Body / Maiana Minahal ; Mamang Or Death in Vegas / Karen Tongson ; To Fukaya Michiyo / Traci Kato-Kiriyama."This book offers a vibrant array of contemporary Asian North American LGBT scholarship and cultural productions from essays, poetry, visual art, and memoirs of activists and scholars"--
Subjects: Asian American gay people; Asian American lesbians; Asian American bisexual people; Gay people; Lesbians; Transgender people; Bisexual people; Queer theory.; Homosexuels américains d'origine asiatique; Lesbiennes américaines d'origine asiatique; Homosexuels; Lesbiennes; Transgenres; Théorie queer.; Asian American lesbians.; Asian American bisexual people.; Homosexuals.; Lesbians.; Transgender people.; Bisexual people.; Queer theory.;
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