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Product Description: All the programming know-how and software tools you need to create INTELLIGENT characters for your games and virtual environments Are you becoming bored with VR characters who always do the expected? Want to interact with interesting, intelligent virtual opponents (and allies) who think, learn, and always offer new challenges? Now this book/CD supplies you with everything you need to create these kinds of entities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This one-stop source aims to provide programmers with the expertise and ready-to-use programs they need to take full advantage of C++ in the implementation of object-oriented designs. For use in a variety of operating environments, this practical book focuses on three programming paradigms: constraint programming, genetic algorithms and neural networks. For each paradigm, the book offers real-world application examples that go beyond the syntax of the language. Each paradigm is also accompanied by a set of useful and reuseable C++ classes which can shorten the development time of non-trivial programs.

Career Assessment: Qualitative Approaches will assume a seminal place in the field of career development as the first book to focus solely on qualitative approaches to career assessment. This book represents a timely and important contribution to career development as it seeks to meet the needs of increasingly diverse client groups. Part 1, Foundations strongly positions qualitative career assessment in its historical, philosophical, theoretical and research contexts. The book is innovative by considering qualitative career assessment through the lens of learning. Part 2, Instruments, presents the first collation of chapters on a comprehensive range of qualitative career assessment instruments and processes written to a standard format to enable readers to compare, contrast and evaluate approaches. Part 3, Using quantitative career assessment qualitatively, mitigates against depicting an unnecessary divide in the field between quantitative and qualitative career assessment by considering their complementarities. Part 4, Diverse Contexts, considers qualitative approaches to career assessment in contexts other than able western, middle class settings. Part 5, Future Directions, reflects on the chapters and poses suggestions for the future. With high profile authors from nine different countries, the book represents a truly international contribution to the field of career development. In its focus on qualitative career assessment, this book holds a unique position as the only such text and will therefore assume an important place in the libraries of researchers, academics, and career practitioners.

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One moment - eleven lives - endless consequences. Xavier Ireland is a radio DJ who listens to the hopes, fears and regrets of sleepless Londoners. Then one day he is forced to confront his own biggest regret. This is a tale of love, loss, and Scrabble - asking questions about life and death, strangers and friends, heartache and comfort, and whether the choices we don't make affect us just as powerfully as those we do. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.

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Answers questions about cabooses, hair color, stuttering, headhunters, bumper stickers, sleepwalkers, chameleons, and church steeples

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Product Description: The Java programming language is widely used for deploying applications on most types of computer systems. Although many Java programs are written for portability, writing Windows-specific Java programs can enhance the performance of multimedia and Windows-specific APIs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A guide for intermediate to advanced users offers expert advice on maximizing the Linux programming environment (view table of contents)