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This text addresses key issues in education, the drive towards developing critical thinking and analytical skills, and the belief that within education lies a solution to effect change locally and globally

Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation--one step at a time. With this practical tutorial, you get hands-on guidance for creating the Web services you need to implement robust business applications for Windows. Discover how to: Build and host a Web service Design service contracts and data contracts Maintain state information and support transactions Programmatically configure bindings and endpoints Use load-balancing and perform content-based message routing Implement message encryption, authentication, authorization Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming Implement asynchronous operations, oneway methods, and events Create services that interoperate with ASP.NET and COM+ CD features: Files for practice exercises Code samples Fully searchable eBook For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

Every person has a story, a personal narrative that informs their life, their decisions, and their way of thinking. But did you know that your story also affects the wiring of your brain? John Sharp MD, renowned psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School, offers an eight-step process for discovering your unconscious narrative and using your new insight to eradicate the 'false truth' that has been at the core of your self-sabotage. His unique approach integrates four core domains of applied psychology-control mastery theory, attachment theory, narrative therapy and positive psychology. Throughout his step-by-step process, Dr Sharp provides: - The 'Sharp Focus' to distil and emphasize important concepts - Quizzes to help you analyze your internal and external tendencies - 'First Impressions' case studies from his professional practice - Awareness, insight, change and narrative tools to start your journey - 'Gut Checks' to help you figure out if you are ready to move on to the next step in the process Dr Sharp's approach is simple and accessible, using exercises, quizzes, thorough exploration of case studies, and clear guidance to help you find your false truth, rewrite your story and transform your life.

Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques. Discover how to: Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013 Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods Create interfaces and define abstract classes Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures Handle events arising from multiple sources Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps

Covers the fundamentals of Visual C# and how to use it to build .NET-connected applications, covering topics including syntax, Web services, and operators.

She remembers everything. She knows nothing. Only a handful of people in the world have a truly perfect memory. Nicola is one of them. With her condition proving to be more of a curse than a blessing, she has spent years trying to live a quiet life. But a body has been found, a discovery that threatens to tear the community apart. Nicola remembers the night with perfect clarity, but she never discovered the truth of what happened. Now she must use her ability to solve the murder from decades ago... And save the man she loved from being wrongly convicted of the crime

"Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games, Duchamp's obsession with Chess, and Fluxus event scores and boxes--to name just a few examples. Over the past fifteen years, the synthesis of art and games has clouded for both artists and gamemakers. Contemporary art has drawn on the tool set of videogames, but has not considered them a cultural form with its own conceptual, formal, and experiential affordances. For their part, game developers and players focus on the innate properties of games and the experiences they provide, giving little attention to what it means to create and evaluate fine art. In Works of Game, John Sharp bridges this gap, offering a formal aesthetics of games that encompasses the commonalities and the differences between games and art. Sharp describes three communities of practice and offers case studies for each. 'Game Art, ' which includes such artists as Julian Oliver, Cory Arcangel, and JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) treats videogames as a form of popular culture from which can be borrowed subject matter, tools, and processes. 'Artgames, ' created by gamemakers including Jason Rohrer, Brenda Romero, and Jonathan Blow, explore territory usually occupied by poetry, painting, literature, or film. Finally, 'Artists' Games'--with artists including Blast Theory, Mary Flanagan, and the collaboration of Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman--represents a more synthetic conception of games as an artistic medium. The work of these gamemakers, Sharp suggests, shows that it is possible to create game-based artworks that satisfy the aesthetic and critical values of both the contemporary art and game communities."--Publisher description

"Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C♯ with Visual Studio 2015. If you are an experienced software developer, you'll get all the guidance, excercises, and code you need to start building responsive, scalable Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform applications with Visual C♯."--Back cover.

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.