Vikram: 84 books

Essential Skills--Made Easy! Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP. Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features...

This new release in the popular How to Do Everything series explains how to build open source web applications with MySQL and PHP 5. Using these two tools, you’ll be able to create highly functional, interactive web sites easily. Follow along with a step-by-step sample application and, as a bonus, download three full-length case studies complete with code trees.

A practical guide to the Zend Framework Perfect for real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to work smarter by taking full advantage of Zend Framework's extensibility, scalability, and flexibility. Learn how to use the Zend...

Get comprehensive coverage of all the powerful new features of MySQL, one of the fastest--and free--relational databases in use today. Written in conjunction with the MySQL development team, this expert resource covers transactional integrity, disaster recovery, scalability, support for mobile users, Web-based and client/server programming, and much more.

A community publication about all things mobile.This project was initiated in 2009 with the aim to spread knowledge about mobile technologies and to encourage people to enter our community or deepen their existing knowledge. For this 17th edition the whole content has been reviewed, updated and extended...

The Ancient Indian astrological system of prediction, namely the Naadi system, is unique in its accuracy in predicting the events in one's life. However, the rules are rather complex and have been closely guarded secrets, through the ages. There are several Naadi systems and each one has its own method,...

Increasing life expectancy in South Asia is resulting in a demographic transition that can under the right circumstances yield dividends through more favorable dependency ratios for a time. With aging the disease burden shifts toward noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) which can threaten healthy aging. However...

Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This paper documents sector-level productivity patterns across advanced economies prior to the crisis and examines the role of product and labor market rigidities as well as innovation and investments...

As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today’s advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic...

Naturally: Tread Softly on the Planet is a survival guide for life on Earth. It is about what we are and how we got here, about what we have been doing and where do we go from here. Naturally articulates a living scheme based on the way nature works without any waste. It sets the direction by placing...

Learn about the state of the art in building artificial membranes and synthetic biological devices, and in constructing mathematical models for their dynamics at multiple time and spatial scales with this comprehensive book. Drawing on recent advances in bioengineering and biochemistry, it describes...

Five authors and one story is what make this novel unique. This is a story of four strangers who are brought together by life… or at least that is what some of them think.Based in the beautiful North-East India, this is the story about the quest of four individuals who are all running from something...

This handbook is a practical reference for the full range of common and complex ultrasound-guided procedures frequently performed in clinical practice. Divided into four sections, this book provides in-depth guidelines from renowned specialists for how to perform ultrasound-guided biopsies, how to...

“A society is judged by how they treat their women and, a country is judged by how they treat their brave.”An ego tussle between a politician and a bureaucrat perils Deep Assets inside the enemy territory.A holocaust survivor borrows knowhow from slayers of his family for profit.An honourable leader...