New Releases by James Elliott

Swing is a fully-featured user interface development kit for Java applications. Building on the foundations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing enables cross-platform applications to use any of several pluggable look-and-feels. Swing developers can take advantage of its rich, flexible features and modular components, building elegant user interfaces with very little code.This second edition of Java Swing thoroughly covers all the features available in Java 2 SDK 1.3 and 1.4. More than simply a reference, this new edition takes a practical approach. It is a book by developers for developers, with hundreds of useful examples, from beginning level to advanced, covering every component available in Swing.All these features mean that there''s a lot to learn. Even setting aside its platform flexibility, Swing compares favorably with any widely available user interface toolkit--it has great depth. Swing makes it easy to do simple things but is powerful enough to create complex, intricate interfaces.Java Swing, 2nd edition includes : A new chapter on Drag and Drop Accessibility features for creating a user interface meeting the needs of all users Coverage of the improved key binding infrastructure introduced in SDK 1.3 A new chapter on JFormattedTextField and input validation Mac OS X coverage and examples Coverage of the improved focus system introduced in SDK 1.4 Pluggable Look-and-Feel coverage Coverage of the new layout manager, SpringLayout, from SDK 1.4 Properties tables that summarize important features of each component Coverage of the 1.4 Spinner component Details about using HTML in components A new appendix listing bound actions for each component A supporting web site with utilities, examples, and supplemental materials Whether you''re a seasoned Java developer or just trying to find out what Java can do, you''ll find Java Swing, 2nd edition an indispensable guide.

When Nicole Bass, a brilliant, Ivy League-educated former model turned call-girl, witnesses a murder and narrowly escapes being the next victim, New York City detective Jack Kirby is saddled with baby-sitting a witness who is running from the Mob. But with plans - as well as secrets of her own - Nicole isn''t about to sit tight, leaving Jack with a walking target to protect.

Even very good students think that doing a research project is an excruciating task. They might know their subject well, but they find it easier to go out and dig ditches than to gather facts and organize them into a research paper or project. Rebecca Elliott, the author of Barron''s just published Painless Grammar, and her husband James have written a new book to help middle school students turn research into a painless--even enjoyable--process. Their formula is pure common sense. They begin with advice on choosing a topic, then guide students through the thickets of library research, interviewing experts for information, using the Internet, making notes, writing a rough draft, and producing a finished research report. They take students step-by-step through a sample research paper and end with tips on compiling a bibliography. Also featured is an Internet address book with 56 informative websites. Their delightful, user-friendly approach demonstrates that doing a research project really isn''t such a burdensome task after all!

Tourism looks set to replace oil as the most important global industry. James Elliot explores the ways in which governments of both developed and developing countries manage this increasingly diverse and volatile industry, providing a historic and economic overview as well as the reasons why and how governments are involved in tourism management. Using case studies from the UK, Australia and the Third World this wide ranging book covers: policy-making and planning; local governments; airlines and airports; and environmental control and sustainable development. Detailed information boxes and excerpts of official documents illustrate government management of the tourism system and provide critieria for evaluation

Auf einem kleinen Campus in Virginia werden in kurzer Zeit vier grässlich verstümmelte Frauenleichen gefunden. Die Polizei und das FBI arbeiten auf Hochtouren, eine gnadenlose Jagd nach dem Psychopathen beginnt.

Former CIA agent Mike Culley, in jail for lying to Congress about his role in the BCCI scandal, is given his freedom to capture John Malik, a former KGB colonel with whose ways he is acquainted. The Russian has skipped the CIA''s witness protection program to devote himself to murdering women.

The Diocese originally included all of the state of New York. It now includes eastern and central New York as well as metropolitan New York City.

In the manner described in the introduction we show the existence of value for all two person, zero-sum differential games of prescribed duration. Using the concept of relaxed controls from control theory we relate the approaches to differential games of A. Friedman and W. Fleming. We show that if the ''Isaacs'' condition'' is satisfied then the game has a value in the sense of Friedman. Over the relaxed controls Isaacs'' condition is always satisfied and so the game always has a value in this setting. We do not need Friedman''s hypothesis that the two sets of control variables appear separated in the dynamical equations and payoff. The introduction of probabilistic ideas into differential games by relaxed controls thus gives a value, as the introduction of mixed strategies by von Neumann does for two person zero-sum matrix games.