This book teaches the basics of the Pilates method of fitness, a whole body workout that strengthens the abs and back and straightens the posture. Practiced worldwide by dance companies, physical therapists, and health clubs, the method is especially good for pregnant women, for people who have special fitness needs because of chronic back pain,

Your fantasy diet-chocolate, bread, and caffeine-is here! For those accustomed to thinking of diets as deprivation, former gymnast and doctor Melissa Hershberg has developed a food plan that breaks all the cardinal rules of dieting. Offering medical insight on why common diet myths (like eating five times a day) don’t work, she presents dozens of

If you don’t hack your systems, who will? One of the reasons I put this book project together is that I believe security professionals should be hackers. In this case, by hackers, I mean people who are capable of defeating security measures. This book purports to teach people how to be hackers. In reality, most

There is an outdoor recreation boom sweeping the entire western world and this continent in particular. There has been nothing like it in the past. Yes, the out-of-doors has always had an appeal for some, but they have been a small minority. Two decades ago you could go on a canoe trip in the summer

Praised by experts for its clarity and topical breadth, this visually appealing, one-stop source on PCs uses an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach to teaching the fundamentals of 80×86 assembly language programming and PC architecture. Offering users a fun, hands-on learning experience, it uses the Debug utility to show what action the instruction performs, then pres a

There is probably no need to explain the fun you can have playing games with computers. More specious though perhaps, is the enjoyment experienced by the person who programs the computer. Most games played with card, dice, and the like are challenging and mentally stimulating. So too, is the process of compter programming – perhaps

With more than 4 million active installations, MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database. Known for its speed, high reliability, and ease of use, MySQL is rapidly becoming a low-cost alternative to database systems from Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. MySQL AB intends to agressively improve the feature set and performance of MySQL, making it

With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP’s success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code to solve

This book covers middle-tier programming with PHP. PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. It is an open source technology, rapidly gaining popularity as a scripting language for people running dynamic websites. One of its major attractions over Perl, JavaScript and other scripting languages is that PHP has a built-in database integration layer and seamless

How Not to Program in C++ is a puzzle book with over 100 challenges. Readers must find errors in up to 40 lines of code. By learning to detect the errors, readers become more efficient programmers. Based on real-world programs, readers solve puzzles ranging from easy (one wrong character) to difficult (errors with multiple threads).