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TouchDevelop : programming on the go
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are set to become the main computers that virtually all people will own and carry with them at all times. And yet,mobile devices are not yet used for all computing tasks. A project at Microsoft Research was created to answer a simple question: “It is possible to create interesting apps directly on a smartphone or tablet, without using a separate …
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- 9781430261377
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- xix, 270p. : ill.
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- 005.1 HOR t
Academic ebooks: publishers, librarians and users
Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The cas…
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- 9781612494296
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- iii, 370p.: ill.
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- 025.174 ACA a
Contemporary culture : new directions in arts and humanities research
Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically-grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practic…
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- 9789089644749
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- 250 p.
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- 701.03 ZIJ c
Fanfiction and the author: how fanfic changes popular cultural texts
Through a rigorous quantitative/qualitative discourse analysis - never before undertaken in relation to online fanfiction and its reception - Fanfiction and the Author demonstrates how fanfic relating to Sherlock, Game of Thrones and Supernatural works to change and consolidate the discourses of masculinity, authority, and authorship created through these TV texts. As a result, this book innova…
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- 9789089649959
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- 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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- 791 FAT f
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