Author: Nicholas C. Zakas
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: professional, guides, wrox, web, javascript, developers
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0764579088
ISBN-13: 9780764579080

* Dispels the myth that JavaScript is a "baby" language and demonstrates why it is the scripting language of choice used in the design of millions of Web pages and server-side applications * Quickly covers JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming, XML, Web services, and remote scripting * Addresses the many issues that Web application developers face, including internationalization, security, privacy, optimization, intellectual property issues, and obfuscation * Builds on the reader’s basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and th

Author: Nicholas C. Zakas
Publisher: Yahoo Press
Keywords: application, interfaces, web, faster, javascript, build, performance
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 059680279X
ISBN-13: 9780596802790

If you’re like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development. You’ll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more. Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript experts -- Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Steven Levithan, Stoyan Stefanov, and Matt Sweeney --

Authors:Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett,
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: programmer, ajax, professional
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2007-03-12
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0470109491
ISBN-13: 9780470109496

Professional Ajax 2nd Edition provides a developer-level tutorial of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases. The book begins by exploring the roots of Ajax, covering how the evolution of the web and new technologies directly led to the development of Ajax techniques. A detailed discussion of how frames, JavaScript, cookies, XML, and XMLHttp requests (XHR) related to Ajax is included. After this introduction, the book moves on to cover the implementation of specific Ajax techniques. Request brokers such as hidden frames, dynamic iframes, and XHR are compared and contrasted, explaining when on

Authors:Basil Tatakis, Nicholas Moutafakis,  Nicholas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: philosophy, byzantine
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-03-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0872205630
ISBN-13: 9780872205635

Since its publication in French in 1949 by the Presses Universitaires de France, Basil Tatakis’ Byzantine Philosophy remains the sole work of its kind, an analysis of the rise of Christianity in the East and the civilization that grew out of it at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Authors:Nicholas Serota, Richard Shiff, Nicholas Cullinan, Ta
Publisher: Tate/D.A.P.
Keywords: seasons, cycles, twombly
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1933045884
ISBN-13: 9781933045887

A serious comprehensive overview of Cy Twombly’s art has been much in demand for many years, and in this publication we at last have one. Accompanying a major touring retrospective to mark Twombly’s eightieth year, it surveys a vast output of paintings, drawings and sculpture by an artist whose indifference to supposed distinctions between Pop and abstraction, between writing, drawing and painting, and between literature and art had, for many years, brought his work severe neglect. Twombly’s art upsets the prudish purist with its hybridism; as he declares, "I’m not a pu

Authors:Nicholas Awde, Nineb Limassu, Nicholas Al-Jeloo,
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Keywords: english, swadaya, turoy, dicitonary, phrasebook, turyo, aramaic, syriac, modern, assyrinan
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0781810876
ISBN-13: 9780781810876

The enormous success of Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ, has reignited interest in the Aramaic language, gaining it worldwide recognition as the language spoken by Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Today, the language is very much alive, and has over four hundred thousand speakers. Also called Assyrian or Syriac, it is primarily spoken by the Assyrian peoples in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, and can also be heard in Assyrian emigre communities such as those in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Of the dialects that comprise Modern Aramaic, Swadaya (Eastern) and Turoyo (Wes

Authors:C. Quadir, M. Orwin, Nicholas Ande, Nicholas Awde,
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Keywords: phrasebook, somali, dictionary, english, amp, hippocrene
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1999-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0781806216
ISBN-13: 9780781806213

This book is very helpful for travellers to Somalia. Included in the book are vocabulary sections, a phrasebook, pronunciation, and a brief outline of the language’s grammar rules and information on local culture.