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Единственное официальное руководстро по практическому программированию в среде Qt 4.1.

Применяя средства разработки Qt компании «Trolltech», вы сможете создавать на С++ промышленные приложения, которые естественно работают в средах Windows, Linux/UNIX, Linux для встроенных систем без изменения программного кода и Mac Os X. Книга написана сотрудниками компании «Trolltech». Она представляет собой практическое руководство по успешному применению самой мощной из всех созданных до сих пор версий Qt — Qt 4.1.

Из книги «Qt 4: программирование GUI на С++» вы узнаете о наиболее эффективных приемах и методах программирования с применением Qt 4 и овладеете ключевыми технологиями в самых различных областях — от архитектуры Qt модель/представление до мощного графического процессора 2D. Авторы вооружают читателей беспрецедентно глубокими знаниями модели событий и системы компоновки Qt.

На реалистических примерах они описывают высокоэффективные методы во всех областях — от разработки основных элементов графического пользовательского интерфейса до передовых методов интеграции с базой данных и XML. Каждая глава содержит полностью обновленный материал.

Данное издание:

• Включает новые главы по архитектуре Qt 4 модель/представление и поддержке подключаемых модулей Qt, а также краткое введение в программирование встроенных систем на платформе Qtopia.

• Раскрывает все основные принципы программирования в среде Qt — от создания диалоговых и других окон до реализации функциональности приложений.

• Знакомит с передовыми методами управления компоновкой виджетов и обработкой событий.

• Показывает, как можно с наибольшей эффективностью использовать новые программные интерфейсы Qt 4, в частности мощный графический процессор 2D и новые простые в применении классы—контейнеры.

• Представляет передовые методы Qt 4, которых нет ни в одной книге: от создания подключаемых модулей, расширяющих возможности Qt, и приложений, до применения «родных» для конкретной платформы программных интерфейсов.

• Содержит приложение с подробным введением в программирование на С++ в среде Qt для опытных Java—разработчиков.

Жасмин Бланшет (Jasmine Blanchette) — менеджер по документированию и старший разработчик компании «Trolltech» с 2001 года. Он является редактором «Qt Quarterly», информационного бюллетеня компании «Trolltech», и соавтором книги «Qt 3: программирование GUI на С++».

Марк Саммерфилд (Mark Summerfield) — независимый преподаватель и консультант по С++, Qt и Python. Он работал менеджером по документированию в компании «Trolltech» на протяжении трех лет. Марк является соавтором книги «Qt 3: программирование GUI на С++».

Es una verdad universa reconocida que si se tiene un trabajo de riesgo, lo mejor que se puede hacer es mantenerlo al margen de la vida privada.

Sin embargo, ésta es una regla que la incombustible Stephanie Plum, la caza recompensas más patosa de la Costa este, parece incapaz de cumplir

En esta nueva entrega de sus descacharrantes aventuras, cuando Stephanie emprenda la búsqueda de una madre y una hija desaparecidas, no sólo la perseguirán malos malísimos como el mafioso Eddie Abruzzi, sino que además tendrá que soportar los bienintencionados consejos de la abuela Mazur, arreglarle la vida a su hermana Valerie, aceptar con buena cara la ayuda entusiasta aunque poco eficaz de su amiga Lula, los hirientes comentarios de los policías de su pueblo, siempre dispuestos a pasar un buen rato con sus meteduras de pata… Y por si todo esto fuera poco aún tendrá que decidir entre abandonarse a la lujuria en brazos del apuesto y misterioso Ranger o reconciliarse con Joe Morelli su novio de toda la vida

— Trois morts, c’est exact, dit Danglard. Mais cela regarde les médecins, les épidémiologistes, les zoologues. Nous, en aucun cas. Ce n’est pas de notre compétence.

— Ce qu’il serait bon de vérifier, dit Adamsberg. J’ai donc rendez-vous demain au Muséum d’Histoire naturelle.

— Je ne veux pas y croire, je ne veux pas y croire. Revenez-nous, commissaire. Bon sang mais dans quelles brumes avez-vous perdu la vue ?

— Je vois très bien dans les brumes, dit Adamsberg un peu sèchement, en posant ses deux mains à plat sur la table. Je vais donc être net. Je crois que ces trois hommes ont été assassinés.

— Assassinés, répéta le commandant Danglard. Par l’araignée recluse ?

Dans ce septième et dernier volume des Rois maudits, c’est le règne de Jean II qui est retracé. L’Histoire a surnommé ce roi Jean le Bon, mais ce monarque fut, en fait, aussi vaniteux et cruel qu’indécis et incapable. La France est, à l’époque, en crise: les clans et les factions se disputent le pays, l’Angleterre revendique le royaume, les impôts sont écrasants, la peste fait des ravages et le roi accumule les erreurs. On suit, à travers le récit d’un haut personnage de l’époque, l’évolution du règne. Une épopée malheureuse et sanglante qui va mener le roi au désastre de la bataille de Poitiers où il sera fait prisonnier des Anglais.

Peter Lime, danese, professione fotografo, è felicemente sposato e dirige una fiorente agenzia. Durante un appostamento per un servizio scandalistico, scatta di nascosto una serie di foto compromettenti a un ministro del governo spagnolo impegnato in calde effusioni con una giovane starlette televisiva. E’ l’inizio di un’allucinante spirale di misteri e violenza che lo risucchia senza possibilità di scampo. La chiave è forse nascosta in un’altra immagine, scattata vent’anni prima e nell’identità misteriosa della donna che vi è ritratta.

“Universo incostante”, il romanzo di Vernor Vinge vincitore del Premio Hugo 1993, ha elevato l’autore nell’élite dei grandi scrittori della fantascienza. Ora Vinge ritorna a quel mondo di infinita varietà con un affascinante racconto ricco di suspense e originalità; un’epica immaginifica ebbra della complessità e dell’ampio respiro di quell’universo, di gioia e di umano dolore.

Trentamila anni prima degli eventi di “Universo Incostante”, Pham Nuwen opera anonimamente nell’ambito della flotta interstellare commerciale Qeng Ho che in orbita sopra il pianeta Arachna attende il risveglio della sua popolazione dormiente, i Ragni, che si sono rintanati in profondità nel pianeta, in attesa che la sua stella intermittente torni a illuminare le orbite del pianeta. Perché quando la luce ritornerà, Arachna entrerà finalmente nella sua Età dell’Oro, immergendosi in un vertiginoso sviluppo tecnologico e commerciale. Ma la vulnerabilità dei Ragni ha attirato un’altra presenza nascosta; gli Emergenti, una banda di trafficanti i cui piani per Arachna sono più sinistri di qualunque cosa i Qeng Ho arrivino ad immaginare. Riluttanti a dividere il bottino con i Qeng Ho, gli Emergenti scatenano un attacco mai visto nella millenaria storia delle esplorazioni, riducendo la flotta nemica in schiavitù... e poi a qualcosa di molto peggiore. Pham raduna i “sopravvissuti” per effettuare un ultimo tentativo di guadagnarsi un posto d’onore nell’antica storia dei Qeng Ho. Ma il tempo scarseggia, perché ben presto l’assalto degli Emergenti spoglierà del tutto il pianeta. Mentre la cellula di resistenza segreta di Pham lotta contro i suoi aguzzini dello spazio, sul pianeta sottostante un gruppo di Ragni sorprendentemente dotati combatte un’altra battaglia: portare la propria tecnologia a uno stadio sufficientemente avanzato da sconfiggere i propri nemici.

Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously—a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.

Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible—change human nature—before the entire world descends into darkness. 

It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because of the impenetrable gray shield that slid into place around the solar system on the night of November 15, 2034.

Some see the bubble as the revenge of an insane God. Some see it as justice. Some even see it as protection. But one thing is for certain — now there is the universe, and the earth. And never the twain shall meet.

Or so it seems. Until a bio-enhanced PI named Nick Stavrianos takes on a job for an anonymous client: find a girl named Laura who disappeared from a mental institution by the most direct possible method — walking through the walls.

Blind Lake ist eine weitläufige Forschungseinrichtung im Norden Minnesotas, streng abgeschottet von der Öffentlichkeit. Denn hier arbeiten Wissenschaftler mit einer Technologie, die sie selbst kaum verstehen: Sie beobachten intelligentes Leben auf einem Millionen von Lichtjahre entfernten Planeten. Sie können dabei keinen Kontakt mit den Außerirdischen aufnehmen oder sonstwie Einfluss nehmen — sie können nur beobachten. Doch dann wird Blind Lake vom Militär plötzlich unter Quarantäne gestellt, niemand darf das Gelände betreten oder verlassen. Haben die Aliens herausgefunden, dass sie beobachtet werden? Und fühlen sie sich dadurch so gestört, dass sie Gegenmaßnahmen ergreifen? für die Wissenschaftler beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit …

Nach seinem preisgekrönten Bestseller »Spin« stellt Robert Charles Wilson auch mit »Quarantäne« unter Beweis, dass er einer der aufregendsten Science-fiction-Autoren unserer Zeit ist.

When his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system-and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope…to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael, who only rarely visited the Neris Orbital, and has never been off-planet alone before, finds himself part of an eclectic crew sailing a deep space leviathan between the stars.

Join the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, a Manchester built clipper as she sets solar sails in search of profit for her company and a crew each entitled to a share equal to their rating.

Initialement prévu pour une trilogie qui aurait compris, outre L'homme qui rit, roman consacré à l'aristocratie, un volume sur la monarchie, Quatrevingt-Treize, écrit à Guernesey de décembre 1872 à juin 1873, après l'échec de Hugo aux élections de janvier 1872, achève la réflexion de l'écrivain sur la Révolution à la lumière de la Commune et tente de répondre à ces questions: à quelles conditions une révolution peut-elle créer un nouvel ordre des choses? 1793 était-il, est-il toujours nécessaire? Le roman valut à son auteur la haine des conservateurs.

En mai 1793, le marquis de Lantenac, âme de l'insurrection vendéenne, arrive en Bretagne sur la Claymore, une corvette anglaise. À bord, il n'a pas hésité à décorer puis à faire exécuter un matelot qui n'avait pas arrimé assez solidement un canon. La consigne du marquis est claire: il faut tout mettre à feu et à sang. D'horribles combats s'ensuivent. Lantenac massacre des Bleus et capture trois enfants…

Esta novela ha obtenido el Premio Planeta 1989.

Unas fotos sacadas alrededor de una piscina de un hotel de Delhi, los viajes con gente desconocida, los amigos de toda la vida, los aficionados a la ópera, los teléfonos que no funcionan, el calor en medio de la noche, la necesidad de beber whisky, las aventuras con hombres casados, el afecto de los padres, los hijos desvalidos, las damas filantrópicas, las mujeres recluidas, las responsabilidades familiares, el deseo de tirarlo todo por la borda… Con estos elementos y algunos más se va configurando la trama que envuelve a Aurora, una mujer de treinta años que poco a poco empieza a pensar que su vida está siendo organizada desde fuera. Demasiadas coincidencias y repeticiones. Una cadena de casualidades empieza a dar vueltas. El azar se impone. Las interpretaciones se suceden y aún podrían seguir dando más vueltas, infinitas vueltas. El juego ha sido decidido en otra parte, y cuando termina los jugadores no desaparecen de escena, no se cierra el telón. La protagonista sabe que volvería a jugar y a seguir esperando porque siempre queda un resto de todo, de los errores, de los fracasos, de los falsos o verdaderos amores. Queda el refugio, el retiro, la brecha, el ofrecimiento de la noche.

In a society enjoying peace, prosperity and technologically engineered mental health, Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, commits gruesome murder. Three people investigate the crime--one a therapist who will enter Goldsmith's mind to search for answers. A mesmerizing work set in a tomorrow that is less than a century away. Reissue.

Big mouth. Big heart. Big wedding. Big problems.

It's the wedding of the century!

Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings-although, oddly, not necessarily her own-as Lizzie prepares (sort of) for her dream wedding at her fiancé's chateau in the south of France.

But the dream soon becomes a nightmare as the best man-with whom Lizzie might once accidentally have slept… no, really, just slept-announces his total lack of support for the couple, a sentiment the maid of honor happens to second; Lizzie's Midwestern family can't understand why she doesn't want to have her wedding in the family backyard; her future, oh-so-proper French in-laws seem to be slowly trying to lure the groom away from medical school and back into investment banking-in France; and Lizzie finds herself wondering if her Prince Charming really is as charming as she once believed.

Is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as Bride? Or is she destined to fall into another man's arms… and into the trap of becoming a Bad Girl instead?

One thing's for sure: this is a wedding no one is likely to forget-if it ever even happens at all.

Big mouth.

Big heart.

Big city.

Big problems.

Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement, looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order).

When summer fling Luke uses the L-Word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to give up her plan of being post-grad roomies with best friend Shari in a one-room walk-up in exchange for co-habitation with the love her life in his mother's Fifth Avenue pied-a-terre, complete with doorman and resident Renoir.

But Lizzie's not so lucky in her employment search. As Shari finds the perfect job, Lizzie struggles through one humiliating interview after another, being judged overqualified for the jobs in her chosen field?vintage gown rehab—and underqualified for everything else. It's Shari's boyfriend Chaz to the rescue when he recommends Lizzie for a receptionist's position at his father's posh law firm. The non-paying gig at a local wedding gown shop Lizzie manages to land all on her own.

But Lizzie's notoriously big mouth begins to get her in trouble at work and at home almost at once—first at the law firm, where she becomes too chummy with Jill Higgins, a New York society bride with a troublesome future mother-in-law, and then back on Fifth Avenue, when she makes the mistake of bringing up the M-Word (Marriage) with commitment-shy Luke.

Soon Lizzie finds herself jobless as well as homeless all over again. Can Lizzie save herself - and the hapless Jill - and find career security (not to mention a mutually satisfying committed relationship) at last?

It was known as the House of Blood. It sat at the entrance to a netherworld of unimaginable torture and terror. Very few who entered its front door lived to ever again see the outside world. But a few did survive. They thought they had found a way to destroy the house of horrors…but they were wrong. A new house has arisen. A new mistress now wields its unholy power-and she wants revenge. She will not rest until those who dared to challenge her and her former master are made to pay with their very souls!

Venera Fanning was last seen falling into nothingness at the end of Sun of Suns. Now, in Queen of Candesce, Venera finds herself plunging through the air among the artificial worlds of Virga, far from home and her husband, who may or may not be alive. Landing in the ancient nation of Spyre, Venera encounters new enemies and new friends (or at least convenient allies). She must quickly learn who she can trust, and who she can manipulate in order to survive. Survival isn't her only goal; with the powerful Key of Candesce in her hands, she can control the fate of the entire world of Virga, yet something even more pressing is driving her—the all consuming need for revenge.

Hidden among the remote hills of eighteenth-century England lives a powerful clan of shape-shifters who've become the stuff of myths and legends. They are the drákon—supersensual creatures with the ability to Turn from human to smoke to dragon. Now a treacherous new enemy threatens to destroy their world of magic and glittering power.

For centuries, they thought themselves alone at Darkfrith, but the arrival of a stunning letter from the Princess Maricara sent from the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania suggests the existence of a lost tribe of drákon. It is a possibility that the Alpha lord, Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen, cannot ignore. For whoever this unknown princess may be, she's dangerous enough to know about the drákon's existence—and where to find them. That, as Kimber can't help but concede, gives her a decidedly deadly advantage. And, indeed, it wouldn't be long before Maricara breached the defenses of Darkfrith and the walls around Kimber's heart. But the mystery of the princess's real identity and the warning she has come to deliver, of a brutal serial killer targeting the drákon themselves, seem all but impossible to believe. Until the shadowed threat that stalks her arrives at Darkfrith, and Kimber and Maricara must stand together against the greatest enemy the drákon have ever faced—an enemy who may or may not be one of their own. They have no choice but to yield to their passionate attraction for each other. But for two such very different drákon leaders, will an alliance of body and soul mean their salvation, their extinction… or both?

Queen Lyrna has survived the bloody siege of Alltor. Now she must rally her troops and take back the capital from the Volarian invaders. But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisfy her lust for vengeance — she wants to pursue them across the ocean and burn their empire to ashes. To do so, she must place her faith in the Seventh Order: men and women who wield terrible powers, born of the Dark itself.

Vaelin Al Sorna would sacrifice his life for his queen — and may yet have to. Only by unmasking the Volarians’ mysterious Ally can the tide of war be turned. To this end, Vaelin must travel deep into the icebound north, in search of a man who cannot die — and he must do it without the aid of his blood song, which has fallen ominously silent…

Queen of Fire is the epic conclusion to the acclaimed Raven’s Shadow series, by New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan.

After being sent back from the light, Alona Dare — former homecoming queen, current Queen of the Dead — finds herself doing something she never expected: working. Instead of spending days perfecting her tan by the pool (her typical summer routine when she was, you know,alive), Alona must now cater to the needs of other lost spirits. By her side for all of this — ugh — “helping of others” is Will Killian: social outcast, seer of the dead, and someone Alona cares about more than she’d like.

Packed with romance, lovable characters, and a killer cliffhanger, Queen of the Dead is the out-of-this-world sequel to The Ghost and the Goth.

A mother-daughter story of reinvention — about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana.

Why exactly Charley Bordelon’s late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles.

They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that’s mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley must balance the overwhelming challenges of her farm with the demands of a homesick daughter, a bitter and troubled brother, and the startling desires of her own heart.

Penguin has a rich tradition of publishing strong Southern debut fiction — from Sue Monk Kidd to Kathryn Stockett to Beth Hoffman. In Queen Sugar, we now have a debut from the African American point of view. Stirring in its storytelling of one woman against the odds and initimate in its exploration of the complexities of contemporary southern life, Queen Sugar is an unforgettable tale of endurance and hope.

Однажды Фредди Меркьюри сказал: «Я не стремлюсь изменить мир с помощью нашей музыки Мне нравится сочинять песни для развлечения, для потребления в современном духе. Публика может выбрасывать их, как использованные салфетки. Прослушал — понравилось — выбросил, потом бери следующую Одноразовый поп? Да!»

Но тем не менее «Queen» все-таки изменили нашу жизнь, наполнив ее светом и энергией своей незабываемой музыки.

Группе удалось блистать в течение двух десятилетий, а это уже немало.

И все это время ее вел за собой один из ярчайших лидеров рока — искрометный и неистовый Фредди Меркьюри. Шоумен до мозга костей, помпезный и мишурный, по-царственному величественный и по-шекспировски трагичный, он повел свою команду на завоевание terra incognita в музыке и сделал ее одной из величайших групп всех времен.

Писать о нем и его товарищах непросто, слишком много накопилось слухов, грязных сплетен и временных наслоений досужих домыслов.

Но автору этой биографии группы — Лауре Джексон — удалось «рас чистить завалы» скандалов и поведать поклонникам «Queen» подлинную историю жизни The Champions'

Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons. But the city's latest case has disappeared without a trace. After a brutal attack on his young nephew, ex-mayor Bob Swatsky has gone missing with 13 million dollars of taxpayer's money. Is he on the run with the cash, or is it something more sinister? A zany cast of characters, including a love doll and a chain-smoking grandma with an oxygen tank, lead Detective Lane on a thrilling romp through the streets of Calgary. The chase is on, and alone, Lane must uncover the truth before someone ends up visiting Queen's Park cemetery… permanently.

Ai suoi colleghi che non hanno fatto carriera il poliziotto Quellen sembra un uomo molto fortunato. Non tanto per il prestigio del grado, o per lo stipendio più alto, quanto perchè dopo l’ultimo avanzamento Quellen ha diritto a una stanza tutta sua. Ma a lui questo lusso non basta ancora. Quellen trova che al mondo c’è troppa gente. E nel mondo dove vive Quellen sono in molti a pensarla come lui.

Qui n'a jamais eu envie de devenir « quelqu'un d'autre » ? Celui que l'on a toujours voulu être ? Celui qui n'aurait pas abandonné, en cours de route, ses rêves et ses désirs ? Un soir, dans un bar, deux inconnus se lancent un pari. Ils se donnent trois ans, pas un jour de plus, pour devenir cet « autre ».

Mais on ne devient pas quelqu'un d'autre impunément. On risque, pour le pire et le meilleur, de se trouver soi-même. Un chassé-croisé palpitant qui conjugue humour et suspense.

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