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Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick
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Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick
Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick
This book presents an interesting challenge. It talks about algorithms yet it does not present algorithms, nor does it define algorithm as anything more than a "problem-solving method suitable for implementation as computer programs[p.4]." Instead, it exhibits programs which are the implementations of algorithms and discusses them as if the algorithm is apparent. The reader is left with the challenge of learning to discriminate between what is essential about an algorithm, and how to preserve that in an implementation, versus what is inessential to the algorithm and introduced on account of the implementation and the use of particular programming tools.

 
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Icon Steve Jobs
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Icon Steve JobsIcon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is an unauthorised biography by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon about the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Inc in 1996.
The book was published in 2005 by John Wiley & Sons.

 
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Developments: Child, Image, Nation
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Developments: Child, Image, Nation

How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world? What do cultural representations tell us about the contemporary politics of childhood? What is the political economy of childhood?

This companion volume to Burman's Deconstructing Developmental Psychology helps us to explain why questions around children and childhood - their safety, their sexuality, their interests and abilities, their violence - have so preoccupied the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this increasingly post-industrial, post-colonial and multicultural world, this book identifies analytical and practical strategies for improving how we think about and work with children. Drawing in particular on feminist and postdevelopment literatures, the book illustrates how and why reconceptualising our notions of individual and human development, including those informing models of children's rights and interests, will foster more just and equitable forms of professional practice with children and their families.


 
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Scientific American - April 2008
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Scientific American - April 2008
Scientific American Magazine , the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 150 years.
 
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The Economist - 1st March 2008
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The Economist - 1st March 2008The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.
 
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