Recent Sample Chapters Online


Here's a list of our most recent sample chapters, with the most recently available chapters at the top. You can browse our Book List to find additional sample chapters.

Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference
• Chapter 4: Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference, 1E

Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People
• Chapter 48: Hand-Color a Picture

Hackerteen
• Chapter 1: Hackerteen Intro

Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs
• Chapter 4: Home Network Gateway

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
• Chapter 4: Chemicals for the Home Chemistry Lab

Google Apps Hacks
• Chapter 4: The Google Docs Family: Google presentations

Big Book of Apple Hacks
• Sample Excerpt: Command-Line Fun

JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Chapter 4: Functions

Painting the Web
• Chapter 4: The Web As Frame

Learning Flash Media Server 3
• Chapter 4: Nonpersistent Client-Side Remote Shared Objects

Take Control of iWeb: iLife '08
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of iWeb: iLife '08 Edition

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
• Chapter 4: Companies Capitalize Competences

Take Control of Switching to the Mac
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Switching to the Mac

Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook
• Sample Excerpt: Excerpt

Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 4: Styles, Page Layout, and Tables

iPhone Open Application Development
• Chapter 4: Event Handling and Graphics Services

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition
• Chapter 4: Documents, Programs, & Spaces

Head First Servlets and JSP
• Chapter 9: using JSTL

JUNOS Enterprise Routing
• Chapter 4: Interior Gateway Protocols and Migration Strategies

Making Things Happen
• Chapter 4: Writing the good vision

ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook
• Chapter 4: Searching and Analyzing Data

Programming Amazon Web Services
• Chapter 4: S3 Applications

Ferret
• Chapter 4: Search

Take Control of Permissions in Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Permissions in Leopard

The Digital Photography Companion
• Chapter 3: How to Shoot Like a Pro

Java Generics and Collections
• Chapter 5: Evolution, Not Revolution

Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers
• Chapter 4: ISO and noise

Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide
• Chapter 4: Domain Name System

Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One
• Chapter 9: Building Layered Compositions

Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music

Take Control of Your iPhone
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Your iPhone

Take Control of Your Domain Names
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Your Domain Names

Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network

Take Control of Users & Accounts in Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Users & Accounts in Leopard

Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard

Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac

Take Control of Syncing in Tiger
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Syncing in Tiger

Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail

Take Control of Sharing Files in Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Sharing Files in Leopard

Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac

Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X

Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X

Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac

Take Control of Mac OS X Backups
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Mac OS X Backups

Take Control of iWeb
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of iWeb

Take Control of Fonts in Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Fonts in Leopard

Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard

Take Control of Customizing Leopard
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Customizing Leopard

Take Control of Buying a Mac
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Buying a Mac

Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera

Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger

Take Control of .Mac
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control of .Mac

Take Control: The Mac OS X Lexicon
• Sample Excerpt: Take Control: The Mac OS X Lexicon

Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
• Chapter 4: Introducing Silverlight Tools

Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World
• Chapter 3: New Ways of Understanding People

Java Pocket Guide
• Chapter 4: Reference Types

ScreenOS Cookbook
• Chapter 4: Route Mode and Static Routing

Head First EJB
• Chapter 2: EJB Architecture

• Chapter 2: Architectural Overview

Facebook: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 4: Sending Messages to Friends

Dynamic Learning: Dreamweaver CS3
• Chapter 4: Styling Your Pages with CSS

iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 4: Camera Meets Mac

Photoshop CS3 RAW
• Chapter 4: Getting Started with Camera Raw

The Creative Digital Darkroom
• Chapter 4: File Preparation

Ajax: The Definitive Guide
• Chapter 4: Foundations: Scripting XML and JSON

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 4: Creating a New Article

The Ruby Programming Language
• Chapter 4: Expressions and Operators

Head First JavaScript
• Chapter 2: Storing Data

Head First Software Development
• Chapter 6: Version Control

Learning ActionScript 3.0
• Chapter 4: The Display List

Apache Cookbook
• Chapter 4: Virtual Hosts

C# 3.0 Design Patterns
• Chapter 1: C# Meets Design Patterns

X Power Tools
• Chapter 4: Advanced X.org Configuration

Visualizing Data
• Chapter 4: Time Series

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
• Chapter 4: Building the Data and Business Layers Using .NET 3.5

Advanced Rails
• Chapter 4: Database

Programming C# 3.0
• Chapter 13: Introducing LINQ13

C# 3.0 Cookbook
• Chapter 4: Generics

QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 2: Setting Up a Chart of Accounts

Windows Vista Annoyances
• Chapter 4: Working with Media

Linux Networking Cookbook
• Chapter 4: Building a Linux Wireless Access Point

Head First C#
• Chapter 5: Encapsulation

The Art of Agile Development
• Chapter 4: Adopting XP

Using Moodle
• Chapter 4: Managing Your Class

Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 3: Setting Up Accounts

Knoppix Hacks
• Chapter 4: Install Linux with Knoppix

Making Things Talk
• Chapter 1: The Tools

Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide
• Chapter 4: System Preferences

Oracle Essentials
• Chapter 4: Oracle Data Structures

Excel 2007 Pocket Guide
• Chapter 4: Excel Reference

Network Security Assessment
• Chapter 4: IP Network Scanning

Tomcat: The Definitive Guide
• Chapter 4: Tomcat Performance Tuning

sendmail
• Chapter 4: Maintain Security with sendmail

Windows PowerShell Cookbook
• Chapter 14: Environmental Awareness

Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices
• Chapter 4: What's Code Without Variables?

iPod: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 4: iTunes Basics

Learning Python
• Chapter 4: Introducing Python Object Types

Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual
• Chapter 4: The Quick Fix

Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX
• Chapter 4: Saving and Retrieving Data

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell
• Chapter 4: Advanced C#


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