Research, References and Encyclopedias Books

An English Grammar For Classical Schools is a comprehensive guide to the English language written by Robert Gordon Latham and originally published in 1861. The book is designed to be used as a textbook for students in classical schools, with a focus on...

""An English Code, Its Difficulties And The Modes Of Overcoming Them: A Practical Application Of The Science Of Jurisprudence"" is a book written by Sheldon Amos in 1873. The book is a comprehensive guide to the English legal system and its underlying...

An Elizabethan Garland: Being A Descriptive Catalogue Of Seventy Black-Letter Ballads is a book written by George Daniel and published in 1856. The book is a comprehensive catalogue of seventy black-letter ballads from the Elizabethan era, providing a...

An Epitome of the Criminal Law is a legal reference book written by James Carter Harrison and originally published in 1885. The book is a comprehensive overview of criminal law in England during the late 19th century, covering topics such as the elements...

The An English-Welsh Dictionary V2 (1828) is a comprehensive reference book that provides a complete guide to the Welsh language, with translations and definitions of English words. The book is written by John Walters, a renowned Welsh lexicographer, and...

""A Selection From The Prolegomena Of Ibn Khaldun"" is a book written by Duncan B. MacDonald and published in 1905. The book features an English translation of selected passages from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun, a 14th-century Arab historian and...

A Selected Bibliography Of The Religious Denominations Of The United States is a book written by George Franklin Bowerman and first published in 1896. The book is a comprehensive bibliography of various religious denominations in the United States. It...

A Script Primer On Form And Elementary Science is a book written by Frances E. Oliver and originally published in 1894. The book is a guide to learning script writing, and it also includes lessons on elementary science. The book covers the basics of...

A Second Catalogue of Manuscripts, in Different Languages on Theology is a book written by John Cochran and published in 1837. The book is a comprehensive compilation of various manuscripts in different languages related to the field of theology. It is a...

A Satchel Guide For The Vacation Tourist In Europe is a travel guidebook written by William James Rolfe and first published in 1879. The book is designed to assist American tourists in planning and navigating their travels throughout Europe during the...

""A Rudimentary Treatise On Coal And Coal Mining"" is a comprehensive book written by Warington Wilkinson Smyth in 1880. The book provides detailed information on the various aspects of coal mining, including the geological formation of coal, the methods...

A Rose of Plymouth-Town is a romantic comedy play written by Beulah Marie Dix and published in 1903. The story is set in the 17th century in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and revolves around the love story of Priscilla Mullins and John Alden. The play is...

CSS for Windows 8 App Development is your learning guide for CSS – the language of great Windows 8-style apps. Learn the built-in styles that make the built-in controls shine, how to define them, and how to use CSS to give your custom app assets...

From the leading publisher of Android books, Apress' Expert Android gives you advanced techniques for customizing views, controls, and layouts. You'll learn to develop apps in record time using JSON, Advanced Form Processing, and the BaaS (Backend As A...

It's certainly fun to build games that run on your iPhone and iPad. But, wouldn't it be more fun to create games that allow you to play with other gamers in your social network? There's a whole lot more things you can do. Most of the top best selling...

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 provides a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision–making processes. In order to get the most out of...

In the last few years, Android has progressed with the debut of better fonts, new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs, tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, improved battery management techniques, and...

Deepen your app development skills with Pro iOS Geo. This book shows you how to use geolocation-based tools to enhance the iOS apps you develop. Author Giacomo Andreucci describes different ways to integrate geo services, depending on the kind of app...

This book is the perfect introduction for anyone wanting to create sophisticated Windows 8 apps for the first time.Assuming only a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS we'll walk you through the development process using C# and VB. The book will familiarize...

Pro Android 5 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the Android 5 SDK. This book updates the best-selling Pro Android and covers everything from the fundamentals of building apps for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices to...

So you have a great game idea for iPhone or iPad, but Objective-C just seems a bit daunting. What are your alternatives? The App Store is very picky about languages, but there is hope: Lua is a versatile, lightweight, fast, and easy to learn language...

Microsoft Office for iPad is here! So learn the tips, tricks, and get around the gotchas in Microsoft Office for iPad with Pro Office for iPad. This book shows you how you can become productive quickly by avoiding those annoyances and confusions and...

Apress, the leading Android books publisher, continues to provide you with very hands-on, practical books for teaching and showing app developers how to build and design apps, including game apps, that can be built and deployed in the various Android app...

Eclipse is the most adopted integrated development environment (IDE) for Java programmers. And, now, Eclipse seems to be the preferred IDE for Android apps developers. Android Apps with Eclipse provides a detailed overview of Eclipse, including steps...

Game apps on iPhone and now The New iPad remain one of the most popular type of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store. Does Angry Birds ring a bell? Now, you can learn to build game apps for the iPhone 5 and The New iPad using the new iOS 6 SDK. ...

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases introduces you to the world of building data-driven Web sites using ASP.NET, ADO.NET and the Entity Framework using C#. Since ASP.NET developers need to access databases quickly and efficiently, this book teaches the best...

Taking a hands-on learning approach, Foundation iPhone App Development: Build An iPhone App in 5 Days with iOS 6 SDK quickly enables existing programmers to become familiar and comfortable coding Objective-C using Xcode 4.5, Storyboarding and the iOS 6...

So you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad game, but you've never programmed before. Where to start? Here! With GameSalad, you can design, build, and publish a 2D game in the App Store using an easy-to-use, no-programming-required game creation tool...

Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android teaches the essential HTML5 and JavaScript skills you need to make great apps for the Android platform and browser. This book guides you through the creation of a mobile web app. You'll put the HTML5, CSS3 and...

Now available in paperback- Relational databases hold data, right? They do indeed, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology. A far more powerful way of...

For the beginner who has never programmed, Beginning iOS Storyboarding shows how to extract those cool and innovative app ideas you have in your head into a working app ready for sale on the iTunes store by using Apple's new Storyboarding technology...

Assuming only basic knowledge of C#, Beginning C# 5.0 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers.A comprehensive...

iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your code reference and guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS 6 SDK devices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face...

You've probably seen LED-decorated t-shirts and hats, and maybe even other electronic gadgets embedded in clothing, but with Arduino Wearables you can learn to make your own wearable electronic creations. This book is an introduction to wearable...

Think you have the next great Windows Phone app idea? The Windows Phone Application Sketch Book is an essential tool for any aspiring Windows Phone developer. This sketch book makes it easy to centralize and organize your ideas, featuring enlarged...

Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named Mango) marks a significant upgrade to Microsoft’s smartphone products. Packed with sophisticated new features and functionality, the device is a .NET developer’s dream, easily programmable using Silverlight, XNA...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community. Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App...

Beginning iOS Cloud and Database Development gets you started with building apps that use Apple's iCloud. You'll learn the techniques which will enable you to devise and create iOS apps that can interact with iCloud servers. From the basics up, you'll...

"Wolfenstein 3D"-like and "Doom"-like game apps are some of the classic Android games presented in the original edition of this book. Since their release, Android has progressed with the debut of Android 4.0, adding better fonts, new User Interface and...

You have a great idea for a simple mobile web app. Or, you have a great idea for a complicated mobile web app. Either way, Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS will help you build, fine-tune, and publish your app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Scott...

The Unreal UDK features Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine 3, used to create bestselling games such as Infinity Blade for iOS, and popular console games like Borderlands and Bioshock. Now, you can build your own Unreal game for the iOS platform...

Practical Android 4 Games Development continues your journey to becoming a hands-on Android game apps developer. This title guides you through the process of designing and developing game apps that work on both smartphones and tablets, thanks to the new...

iOS 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS 5 devices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face every day. You'll find...

Today's Android apps developers are often running into the need to refine, improve and optimize their apps performances. As more complex apps can be created, it is even more important for developers to deal with this critical issue. Android allows...

Beginning Android 4 Games Development offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and...

You need to build an app, and you need it to run everywhere. And you need it now! jQuery Mobile gives you the ability to write once and run everywhere using jQuery and jQuery UI. Pro jQuery Mobile will teach you how to create themable, responsive,...

Augmented reality (AR) offers a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment, where the elements and surroundings are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as graphics and GPS data. It makes a game more real. Your...

The growing but still evolving success of the Android platform has ushered in a second mobile technology "gold rush" for apps developers, but with well over 100,000 apps and counting in the Google Android Market and now the Amazon Android Appstore, it...