Computing & Information Technology books

Brush up on your soft skills and see the working relationships with your IT Audit clients flourish.

Shows you how to manage the risks of adopting cutting edge technology for your business in the context of COBIT 5 and related standards.

How to revolutionize your business with the ITIL framework, and manage the change effectively.

As its title suggests, this book is a selection of papers that use English corpora to study language variation along three dimensions - time, place and genre. In broad terms, the book aims to bridge the gap between corpus...

A structured and flexible method for achieving IT Service Management success in the real world.

The use of Agile methods to implement SAP is a relatively new approach and one that has proven to be very successful. Agile techniques can greatly improve your SAP implementations, reduce risks, and help you bring your projects in...

In Resilient Thinking, Phillip Wood discusses the importance of thinking laterally about potential impacts on your organisation and examines a 'thinking' approach to resilience management. Resilient Thinking will revolutionise...

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are widely popular in Artificial Intelligence for modeling sequential decision-making scenarios with probabilistic dynamics. They are the framework of choice when designing an intelligent agent...

Compiling for parallelism is a longstanding topic of compiler research. This book describes the fundamental principles of compiling regular numerical programs for parallelism. We begin with an explanation of analyses that allow...

Deals with gender, religion and the new urban economy

This book showcases sixteen papers from the landmark 30th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) held at Lancaster University in May 2009. The theme of the book 'looking back,...

A must have book for anyone who is looking to develop awareness and deeper insight into IT controls, strategies and techniques to solve compliance challenges!

An informative guide that describes the ISO/IEC 19770 Standard and its applicability to the entire software lifecycle.

Cyber Risks for Business Professionals: A Management Guide is a general guide to the origins of cyber risks and to developing suitable strategies for their management. It provides a breakdown of the main risks involved and shows...

Agile Principles Unleashed introduces you to the Agile practices and techniques that have dramatically improved the information technology and manufacturing sectors over the past two decades - and demonstrates how Agile approaches...

Learn the fundamentals of the Windows PowerShell 3.0 command line interface and scripting language - and begin writing your first scripts to automate Windows administration tasks.

Ready to take your ebooks to the next level with EPUB 3? This concise guide includes best practices and advice to help you navigate the format's wide range of technologies and functionality.

Cinder is a peer-reviewed, free, open source C++ library for creative coding - a toolbox that enables artists, designers, and makers to program graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing, and computational geometry.

Computer Graphics: Theory and Practice provides a complete and integrated introduction to this area. The book only requires basic knowledge of calculus and linear algebra, making it an accessible introductory text for students. It...

Get the high-quality reference documentation you need to create effective database-driven websites with the popular Rails framework. This handy book provides a concise yet thorough introduction to the framework, an overview of...

The Windows Phone 8 platform, new for 2012, provides a remarkable opportunity for Windows developers to create state-of-the-art mobile applications using their existing skills and a familiar toolset. Pro Windows Phone App...

Offering advanced techniques for customizing a Joomla! CMS, including creating templates, administration, and building extensions, this text picks right up from where Beginning Joomla! leaves off and provides the technical...

Java EE 7 Recipes takes an example-based approach in showing how to program Enterprise Java applications for many different scenarios. Be it a small-business web application, or an enterprise database application, Java EE 7...

JavaScript Programmer's Reference is an invaluable resource that won't stray far from your desktop (or your tablet!). It contains detailed information on every JavaScript object and command, and combines that reference with...

Targeted at Java and Java EE developers both with and without prior EJBs experience, Beginning EJB 3, Second Edition is your learning guide to the latest EJB 3 APIs. Learn how to use EJBs to develop powerful, standards-based...