Advanced OS/2 Programming

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Blake Watson

If you're a programmer, don't limit yourself to Windows, Mac OS, and UNIX. On thousands of PCs -- especially those in large corporations -- IBM's OS/2 Warp is running happily. Now, in OS/2 Warp Programming For Dummies, you can discover how to create applications to run on all those OS/2 Warp platforms -- and how to port existing applications to OS/2 Warp. With programmer and best-selling author Blake Watson to guide you, you'll quickly get up to speed on everything from OS/2 Warp's object-oriented graphical user interface to preemptive multitasking. Plus, you'll find how-to information on the WorkPlace Shell (WPS), as well as multithreading, windows, messages, and controls.

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Walter J. Gehring

In this book, one of the world's most eminent developmental biologists discusses some of the exciting new insights into how genes control development. Walter Gehring describes in vivid detail his essential contributions to the landmark discovery of the homeobox, a characteristic DNA segment found in the genes of all higher organisms from the fruitfly to humans, and he explains how this has provided the key to our modern understanding of development and evolution. The book thus becomes not only a lucid discussion of genetics but also an engaging description of the art of scientific investigation.

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H. Frederik Nijhout

Although insect endocrinology is one of the oldest and most active branches of insect physiology, its classic general texts are long out of date, while its abundant primary literature provides little biological context in which to make sense of the discipline as a whole. In this book, H. Frederik Nijhout's goal is to provide a complete, concise, and up-to-date source for students and nonspecialists seeking an overview of the dynamic and wide-ranging science that insect endocrinology has become since its beginnings nearly eighty years ago in the study of insect metamorphosis. The author offers a comprehensive survey of the many roles that hormones play in the biology of insects. Among the topics discussed are the control of molting, metamorphosis, reproduction, caste determination in social insects, diapause, migration, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, diuresis, and behavior. The account features a summary of the most current and accurate thinking on the complex roles of ecdysone and juvenile hormone in the control of metamorphosis, a process still misunderstood and misrepresented in biological textbooks and many professional reviews. Throughout, the book's emphasis is on the biology of the organism and the ways in which physiological and developmental regulatory mechanisms are integrated into the insect's life cycle.

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Stephen Krashen

"This book documents the latest research findings about the success of free voluntary reading in developing high levels of literacy"--