Performing your first Web site analysis just got a whole lot easier. Web Analytics For Dummies offers everything you need to know to nail down and pump up the ROI on your Web presence. It explains how to get the stats you need, then helps you analyze and apply that information to improve traffic and click-through rate on your Web site. (more…)

Visio® 2007 Bible is as comprehensive a guide to the popular Microsoft diagramming software as a book of less than 1000 pages can be. Covering both Visio Standard and Visio Professional, this book explains Visio fundamentals as well as more advanced techniques that help you master any type of diagram. It also describes in detail how to use each of the specialized templates that Visio Standard and Visio Professional offer. Although the book provides an introduction to ShapeSheets and automation tools, one thing it doesn’t do is delve deeply into the development tools that Visio offers.

Visio 2007 includes some significant changes and enhancements as well as a few new templates, such as PivotDiagrams and ITIL. Visio 2007 offers new tools to help you visualize information— from Themes, which apply professional-looking formatting with a few clicks, to Data Graphics, which transform textual data into eye-catching graphics. Speaking of data, the new Data Link feature greatly simplifies integrating diagrams with external data sources. As always, a few features have been discontinued, including the Novel Directory Services template, and a few have earned new names, such as custom properties changing to shape data. Visio 2007 Bible identifies these new features, enhancements, and changes and differentiates the capabilities available in both the Standard and Professional versions versus those available only in Visio Professional.

Visio 2007 is a powerful combination of simple concepts and straightforward tools with far-reaching application. Whether you want to communicate basic business processes or highly specialized technical topics, Visio offers tools to simplify your work. This book strives to follow the same model. It explains Visio’s concepts and basic tools in a way that helps beginners get started and more advanced users get better. In addition, the book includes dozens of chapters on specialized templates that describe how the template, tools, and shapes support the work required and simplify typical tasks.

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Andre Lewis, Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, "Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional"

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing you how you can integrate mapping features into your Rails-driven web applications.

Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, you'll learn how to draw from a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data and Google's own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the world.

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Derived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, each title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in a specific discipline.
All include:

* Pronunciation guide for every term
* Acronyms, cross-references, and abbreviations
* Appendices with conversion tables; listings of scientific, technical, and mathematical notation; tables of relevant data; and more
* A convenient, quick-find format

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In Visual Training Company's tutorial Microsoft Visual Basic for Excel, Pravah Pugh helps you get started by going over macros, the VBA programming language, and the VBA development environment. He then teaches you about the use and creation of functions for Visual Basic for Excel and how to access and save code. You will also learn about cell referencing, labels, names and much more. To get started, simply click one of the topics below. (more…)

The popularity of dinosaurs seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries (Walking with Dinosaurs). But how much do these popular programmes really tell us about the recent scientific discoveries and the latest research into the world of the dinosaur? This is the first book to tell the general reader about what's really happening now in dinosaur research. It tells the story behind the exciting scientific discoveries that have built up a picture of how dinosaurs looked, what they ate, how they moved and interacted with each other. This new approach to this subject involves the combination of many areas of science (eg. anatomy, cosmology, physics, mechanics and engineering design) to piece together the evidence of how animal/plant life evolved on earth, and why it did in the way that it did. David Norman also talks about the part that informed speculation and luck play in major discoveries. Starting with ancient myths of dinosaur-like monsters (dragons) and the history of the discovery of dinosaurs, he goes on to discuss the evolution of Dinosaurs and the many different techniques used to understand them, including the latest virtual reality animation sequences and engineering design analysis.

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When Microsoft made Visual Basic into an object-oriented programming language, millions of VB developers resisted the change to the .NET platform. Now, after integrating feedback from their customers and creating Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft finally has the right carrot. Visual Basic 2005 offers the power of the .NET platform, yet restores the speed and convenience of Visual Basic. Accordingly, we've revised the classic in a Nutshell guide to the Visual Basic language to cover the Visual Basic 2005 version and all of its new features.

Unlike other books on the subject, Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition doesn't assume you're a novice. It's a detailed, professional reference to the Visual Basic language-a reference that you can use to jog your memory about a particular language element or parameter. It'll also come in handy when you want to make sure that there isn't some "gotcha" you've overlooked with a particular language feature.

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An ideal program for struggling students

Geometry: Concepts and Applications covers all geometry concepts using an informal approach.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Reasoning in Geometry
Chapter 2 Segment Measure and Coordinate Graphing
Chapter 3 Angles
Chapter 4 Parallels
Chapter 5 Triangles and Congruence
Chapter 6 More About Triangles
Chapter 7 Triangle Inequalities
Chapter 8 Quadrilaterals
Chapter 9 Proportions and Similarity
Chapter 10 Polygons and Areas
Chapter 11 Circles
Chapter 12 Surface Area and Volume
Chapter 13 Right Triangles and Trigonometry
Chapter 14 Circle Relationships
Chapter 15 Formalizing Proof
Chapter 16 More Coordinate Graphing and Transformations

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