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Hello World! Second Edition: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
Author Warren Sande and Carter Sande
SummaryA gentle but thorough introduction to the world of computer programming. It's written in language a 12-year-old can follow, but anyone who wants to learn how to program a computer can use it. Even adults. Written by Warren Sande and his son, Carter, and revi....
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Author Tom Callaway , Ruth Suehle
With more than 60 practical and creative hacks, this book helps you turn Raspberry Pi into the centerpiece of some cool electronics projects. Want to create a controller for a camera or a robot? Set up Linux distributions for media centers or PBX phone systems? That....
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Objective-C Quick Syntax Reference
Author Matthew Campbell
The Objective-C Quick Syntax Reference is a condensed code and syntax reference to the popular Objective-C programming language, which is the core language behind the APIs found in the Apple iOS and Mac OS SDKs. It presents the essential Objective-C syntax in a wel....
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Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way
Author Michael Useem , Dennis Carey , Ram Charan
Is your firm’s board creating value—or destroying it?Change is coming. Leadership at the top is being redefined as boards take a more active role in decisions that once belonged solely to the CEO. But for all the advantages of increased board engagement, it can crea....
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The iPad Air and iPad mini Pocket Guide, Fifth Edition
Author Jeff Carlson
The category-defining iPad has reinvented the way we interact with digital content and the web. Versatile, portable, powerful, and elegantly designed, the iPad is the perfect companion for digital media. With Photos, music, movies, email, and hundreds of thousands o....
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Responsive Design with WordPress: How to make great responsive themes and plugins
Author Joe Casabona
With the ever-increasing need to view websites on mobile devices, websites have to be adaptable to thousands of different screen resolutions. In Responsive Design with WordPress, expert web developer Joe Casabona teaches you how to leverage WordPress to get the most....
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Adventures in Experience Design
Author Anna van Slee , Carolyn Chandler
Whether teaching or learning UX Design, activities often sink in deeper than lectures. And game-like activities with a lesson included both engage and instruct. This book contains fun and challenging activities to help participants learn core concepts in user experi....
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Author Fritjof Capra
Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, writer, and even musician—the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical ....
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Decision Analytics: Microsoft® Excel®
Author Conrad Carlberg
Crunch Big Data to optimize marketing and more! Overwhelmed by all the Big Data now available to you? Not sure what questions to ask or how to ask them? Using Microsoft Excel and proven decision analytics techniques, you can distill all that data into manageable set....
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QuickBooks 2014 The Guide, 2nd Edition
Author Leslie Capachietti
Maximize the power of QuickBooks 2014Create a comprehensive, streamlined small business financial management system with help from an expert! Written by an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, QuickBooks 2014: The Guide shows you, step by step, how to customize....
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The Strategy of Execution: A Five Step Guide for Turning Vision into Action
Author Simon Carter , Liz Mellon
YOU HAVE A BRILLIANT NEW STRATEGY. NOW IT'S TIME TO EXECUTE.Businesses spend a combined total of $47 billion annually on strategy consulting. Approximately 90 percent of strategic change initiatives fail to deliver the intended results.Something isn't adding up.A....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author Rod Canion
The story of Compaq is well-known: Three ex-Texas Instruments managers founded Compaq with modest venture funding. Just four years later, Compaq was on the Fortune 500 list, and, two years after that, they had exceeded $1 billion in annual revenue. No company had ev....
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Pro Tools HD: Advanced Techniques and Workflows
Author Edouard Camou
Using Pro Tools HD is not always easy, but with this book you’ll be on the fast track to achieving optimum quality audio. Learn to use Pro Tools at the highest professional level.Create optimum quality audio using powerful tools of Pro Tools HD Learn how to enhance ....
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ISO27001/ISO27002 A Pocket Guide, 2nd edition
Author Alan Calder
Information is one of your organisation’s most important resources and keeping that information secure is vital to your business. An information security management system (ISMS) based on ISO27001/ISO27002 offers a host of benefits: Improved efficiency by hav....
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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Author María Carina Roldán
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is the essence of data integration and this book shows you how to achieve it quickly and efficiently using Pentaho Data. A hands-on guide that you’ll find an indispensable time-saver.Manipulate your data by exploring, transforming,....
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Author G. Ann Campbell and Patroklos P. Papapetrou
SummarySonarQube in Action shows developers how to use the SonarQube platform to help them continuously improve their source code. The book presents SonarQube’s core Seven Axes of Quality: design /architecture, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potenti....
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Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition, 3rd Edition
Author Donald B. Rubin , Aki Vehtari , David B. Dunson , Hal S. Stern , John B. Carlin , And
Now in its third edition, this classic book is widely considered the leading text on Bayesian methods, lauded for its accessible, practical approach to analyzing data and solving research problems. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition continues to take an applied ....
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Social Collaboration For Dummies
Author David F. Carr
Realize the potential of social collaboration in business with this easy-to-understand guideSocial media have proven to be an engaging and addictive mode of communication and information gathering for users on a personal level. However, by applying that same philoso....
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Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis: Text and Cases, 11th Edition
Author Jack M. Cathey , Myrtle W. Clark , Richard G. Schroeder
Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis 11th Edition continues to focus on showing readers how accounting standards directly affect daily decision making on the job. Richard Schroeder, Myrtle Clark, and Jack Cathey have updated, refocused, and revised the 11th edi....
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Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, Third Edition
Author Lauren Darcey , Shane Conder , Carmen Delessio
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful apps for the world’s most popular mobile platform: Android 4.3. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll build complete Android 4.3 apps from the ground up as you master the....
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Practical Programming, 2nd Edition
Author Jason Montojo , Jennifer Campbell , Paul Gries
This book is for anyone who wants to understand computer programming. You'll learn to program in a language that' s used in millions of smartphones, tablets, and PCs. You'll code along with the book, writing programs to solve real-world problems as you learn th....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Teradata Database Administration – TASM and Viewpoint
Author Tom Coffing , Carling Nolan
This book will take you through Viewpoint, TASM, and actually setting up workloads. They are some of the most difficult to understand of the Teradata technologies but also the most important. It is a step by step guide that will make these very challenging subjects ....
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Author Peter Hilton , Erik Bakker , and Francisco Canedo
SummaryPlay for Scala shows you how to build Scala-based web applications using the Play 2 framework. This book starts by introducing Play through a comprehensive overview example. Then, you'll look at each facet of a typical Play application both by exploring simp....
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Practicing Positive Leadership
Author Kim Cameron
Over a decade ago, Kim Cameron and some colleagues decided that rather than analyze what went terribly wrong with organizations and how to prevent it, they would look at what went extraordinarily right and how to replicate it. This was the birth of positive organiza....
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Tax Insight: For Tax Year 2013 and Beyond, Second Edition
Author M. Casey Murdock
Tax Insight: For Tax Year 2013 and Beyond will teach you to take control of life's biggest expense—taxes. In your lifetime, you will spend more money on taxes than on anything else. Despite that fact, you likely know the current prices of movies and milk but don't....
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Beginning Rails 4, Third Edition
Author Cloves Carneiro Jr. , Rida Al Barazi , Adam Gamble
Beginning Rails 4 is a book that will guide you from never having programmed with Ruby, to having a Rails application built and deployed to the web. You'll learn how to combine all the components of Rails to develop your own web applications. You will use test driv....
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Measuring and Managing Liquidity Risk
Author Francesco Fede , Antonio Castagna
A fully up-to-date, cutting-edge guide to the measurement and management of liquidity riskWritten for front and middle office risk management and quantitative practitioners, this book provides the ground-level knowledge, tools, and techniques for effective liquidity....
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Author Natalie Canavor
How many pieces of paper land on your desk each day, or emails in your inbox? Your readers - the people you communicate with at work - are no different.So how can you make your communication stand out from the pile and get the job done? Whether you're crafting a sh....
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Author Steve Caplin
Have you ever struggled to make the vision in your mind come to life on your screen? Then this book can help you realise your goal. In this comprehensive revision of the best-selling How To Cheat in Photoshop, photomontage guru Steve Caplin shows you how to get opti....
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Author William Castellano
Strengthen workforce and employee engagement in today’s “new normal” organizational environment! Today’s workforces, today’s companies, and today’s business environments have all changed radically: even if the economy improves, companies will stay lean, and continue....
Release Date 2013/09