A welcome addition to the bestselling Smart series, Word Smart, Genius Edition invites fans of Word Smart and Word Smart II to go beyond an educated vocabulary with this fascinating collection of more than 700 quirky, obscure, curious, and fun words. Includes entertaining linguistic facts, Elizabethan insults, and more.

The Print is the third and final book in The Ansel Adams Photography Series—the seminal guides fully revised by Ansel Adams shortly before his death in 1984. The Print, now available in paperback like the other volumes in the series, belongs on every photographer's shelf. It covers the entire printmaking process, from designing and furnishing a darkroom and experimenting with your first print, to mastering advanced techniques such as developer modifications, toning, and bleaching, and burning and dodging. This thorough guide is filled with indispensable darkroom techniques and tips, and amply illustrated with photographs and technical drawings. It is an indispensable tool for mastering the complex art of photographic printmaking.

Perl is a powerful interpreted programming language that has matured steadily since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed Bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this book. Programming Perl provides a unique introduction to the Perl language and its culture, as you might expect only from its authors. This third edition of the book has been expanded to cover version 5.6 of Perl. New topics include threading, the compiler, Unicode, and other features that have been added or improved since the previous edition.

The primary interface for database programming in Perl is DBI, a database-independent package that provides a consistent set of routines regardless of what database product you use—Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Informix, you name it.Programming the Perl DBI is coauthored by Alligator Descartes, one of the most active members of the DBI community, and by Tim Bunce, the inventor of DBI. For the uninitiated, the book explains the architecture of DBI and shows you how to write DBI-based programs. For the experienced DBI dabbler, this book explains DBI's nuances and the peculiarities of each individual DBD. This is the definitive book for database programming in Perl.

The "Master Guide" to the world of online public records. A powerful book for either the novice or business professional, this fully revised fourth edition contains "Public Record Primer" to educate the inexperienced and "Searching Hints" to help navigate through the maze of county, state and federal government agencies.

Softcover version of the authorship and style manual for researchers, practitioners, and students of psychology and other behavioral and social sciences. Includes new features on contemporary language issues and publishing standards.

In each column, Randal ... carefully discusses the problem, and then shows the Perl code needed to resolve it. Each column is written in a conversational style that is easy to read, yet doesn't talk down to you. Check out the table of contents and see why it made my mouth water. If you are a Perl fan, you will enjoy this. Highly recommended.

Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom is a collection of more than 70 columns from popular and prolific Perl columnist Randal Schwartz. These insightful pieces cover everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Schwartz's unique writing style and (sometimes) truly twisted use of Perl makes for exciting reading for those who want to enhance their Perl skills.

Exceptionally useful and varied collection of eye-catching silhouette art perfect for posters, menus, catalogs, newsletters—almost any graphic project. Seventy-one illustrations, each in three sizes, depict a variety of occupations: painter, carpenter, electrician, chauffeur, interior decorator, chimney sweep, many more. 213 black-and-white illustrations.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Red Hat Linux Secrets documents little-known features and offers expert solutions to specific problems — from setting up an Internet host to running a business to developing software. With complete coverage of the latest installation changes and hardware configurations, as well as the new graphical user interfaces, this technical guide gives you the tools you need to implement Red Hat Linux effectively. Includes CD-ROM with Red Hat Linux 6, including:Kernel 2.2.10Apache Web Server 1.3.6Netscape Communicator 4.61 and Samba 2.0.3 for file and print sharing with Microsoft Windows

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human nature—and the anarchy simmering just beneath society’s surface—as a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice….

Bestselling novelist Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children’s book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionately dubbed “Spooky,” and a non-collie named Lassie, who’s all but part of the family.

So Cubby knows he shouldn’t let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to him—even if it does appear in the nation’s premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic, Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it, even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she’d tell Cubby to ignore them, too.

Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a career—or a life.

But Shearman Waxx isn’t what Cubby expects; and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn’t take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life.

Fearless, funny, utterly compelling, Relentless is Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherish—and of those who would tear those bonds asunder.