With the help of such international stars as Freddie Prinze, Jr. (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Matthew Lillard (Scream), and Saffron Burrows (Circle of Friends), the hit film Wing Commander has brought the five-million copy bestselling series of games to big-screen life. 
Now the official authorized Confederation Handbook adds stunning background and authentic detail to the most powerful and popular CD-ROM game series of all time.
Lavishly illustrated with drawings, diagrams, and full color photographs, the Wing Commander Confederation Handbook gives you the ultimate insider's understanding of the technical expertise, military precision, and awesome courage demanded of the thin red line of heroes that stands between Earth and annihilation.

The Wing Commander Confederation Handbook

Literature & Fiction

McCubbin, Chris

Contemporary

Harper Paperbacks

"Anarchy Online" is a sci-fi game in the increasingly popular "massively multiplayer RPG" genre. It is set in a beautiful, futuristic Mad Max/Matrix-style universe. This strategy guide includes: complete maps of the entire Anarchy universe; in-depth guidance for creating and developing your character; hardcore strategies for succeeding in every quest; and statistics for everything from monsters to equipment to abilities, skills and professions. The text features an online companion site with at least two updates after the game's release to support Anarchy gamers and keep the book's content up-to-date.

Anarchy Online: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets

Computers & Technology

McCubbin, Chris W.

Games & Strategy Guides

Sybex, Inc.

In the Chest You Find . . . Enchanted swords . . . marvelous rings . . . animated armor . . . wands and staffs of devastating power. Here is a catalog of hundreds of original and imaginative enchanted items for use in any campaign, from exotic trinkets to mighty artifacts. Categories include swords and weapons, armor, wizardly tools, thief's supplies, clothing, jewelry, healing tools, necromantic items and curses, tricks, and traps. GURPS Magic Items 1 also describes the eldritch shops that sell these wonders, with a complete and realistic guide to the economics of enchantment in a medieval fantasy world, including profiles of the typical enchanter, enchanter's patron, and magical merchant.

GURPS Magic Items 1 *OP

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gaming

Steve Jackson Games

Watch the Skies!
Alien invaders! Giant lizards from another age! Flesh-eating zombies! Colossal insects! Mad scientists! Blobs! Only you can defend humanity, civilization, and the American Way from these terrible horrors.
GURPS Atomic Horror contains everything you need to roleplay the science-fiction and horror movies of the 1950s. The campaign can be as scary as The Thing, as dramatic as The Day the Earth Stood Still, as strange as Little Shop of Horrors, or as goofy as Plan 9 From Outer Space – the choice is yours. Characters can be square-jawed scientists and military men, heroic explorers, misunderstood teenagers, cold-war spies, G-men, gangsters . . . or just ordinary folks caught up in unearthly weirdness.
GURPS Atomic Horror contains:
<ul>
<li>A comprehensive guide to '50s politics, society, and attitudes suitable for any campaign – not just science fiction/horror.</li>
<li>Five new alien races, completely described and ready to invade the Earth. In fact, some of them are already here!</li>
<li>Guidelines for creating more than a dozen different kinds of movie monsters, from gill-men to carnivorous plants to living human brains in jars.</li>
<li>Alternate world campaign ideas, like a '50s where the Nazis won World War II, or a futuristic '50s where our own flying saucers conquer space.</li>
<li>A detailed filmography listing dozens of '50s science horror films, from the classics to the turkeys.</li>
</ul>

GURPS Atomic Horror

Elliott, Paul

Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated

Big data processing and analytics at speed and scale using command line tools. Key Features <ul>
<li>Perform string processing, numerical computations, and more using CLI tools </li> <li>Understand the essential components of data science development workflow </li> <li>Automate data pipeline scripts and visualization with the command line</li>
</ul> Book Description The Command Line has been in existence on UNIX-based OSes in the form of Bash shell for over 3 decades. However, very little is known to developers as to how command-line tools can be OSEMN (pronounced as awesome and standing for Obtaining, Scrubbing, Exploring, Modeling, and iNterpreting data) for carrying out simple-to-advanced data science tasks at speed. This book will start with the requisite concepts and installation steps for carrying out data science tasks using the command line. You will learn to create a data pipeline to solve the problem of working with small-to medium-sized files on a single machine. You will understand the power of the command line, learn how to edit files using a text-based and an. You will not only learn how to automate jobs and scripts, but also learn how to visualize data using the command line. By the end of this book, you will learn how to speed up the process and perform automated tasks using command-line tools. What you will learn <ul>
<li>Understand how to set up the command line for data science </li> <li>Use AWK programming language commands to search quickly in large datasets. </li> <li>Work with files and APIs using the command line </li> <li>Share and collect data with CLI tools </li> <li>Perform visualization with commands and functions </li> <li>Uncover machine-level programming practices with a modern approach to data science</li>
</ul> Who this book is for This book is for data scientists and data analysts with little to no knowledge of the command line but has an understanding of data science. Perform everyday data science tasks using the power of command line tools.Table of Contents <ol>
<li>Data Science at the Command line and Setting it up</li> <li>Essential Commands</li> <li>Obtaining and Working with Data,Detached Processing and Terminal Multiplexers</li> <li>Bash Functions and Data Visualization</li> <li>Loops, Functions and String Processing</li> <li>The Command Line as a Database, Math in Bash, and Bringing It All Together</li>
</ol>

Hands-On Data Science with the Command Line

Morris, Jason

Page, Raymond

Databases & Big Data

Packt Publishing

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