Human Physiology by Stuart Fox
English | Mar 16, 2015 | ISBN: 0077836375 | 832 Pages | AZW4/PDF (True) | 105.23 MB/98.06 MB
#1 selling text with great explanations and just enough anatomy! Clear explanations and a solid learning framework have been market tested and refined. Fox helps students master the fundamentals by providing appropriate anatomical detail.
The Modern Flower Painter: A Guide to Creating Vibrant Botanical Portraits in Watercolour by Anna Mason
English | Sep 9, 2014 | ISBN: 1844488632 | 128 Pages | AZW4/PDF (True) | 167.48 MB/165.36 MB
Anna Mason’s exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine and seen her elected to the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists. In this book, she shares her innovative watercolour technique so that you can paint flowers in her clean, crisp style.
Delicious Mornings: Comforting Breakfasts Baked from Scratch by Dina Foglio Crowell
2014 | ISBN: 1462114601 | English | 144 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Make the most important meal of the day the BEST meal of your day! Delicious Mornings is a delectable collection of from-scratch breakfast recipes, including everyone’s classic favorites as well as scrumptious new twists like French Toast Casserole, Red Velvet Pancakes, and Easy Apple Fritter Monkey Bread. Holidays, birthdays, or even weekdays whatever the occasion, you’ll be jumping out of bed to try these amazing recipes!
Damon Fowler, “Essentials of Southern Cooking: Techniques And Flavors Of A Classic American Cuisine”
ISBN: 0762792221 | 2013 | PDF | 432 pages | 59 MB
An authentic collection of recipes celebrating Southern traditions.
Southern cooking as most people think of it doesn’t exist. After all, there are as many ways to make real corn bread, gumbo or fried chicken as there are cooks. Instead of dwelling on conventional notions of authenticity, Essentials of Southern Cooking honors the spirit, the history, the people, and the taste of the classic Southern table by focusing on the essence of great Southern food and combining traditional ingredients in fresh ways. In this tempting collection of over 200 recipes, author Damon Lee Fowler balances the enduring appeal of rural Southern flavors with the modern sensibilities of today’s cook. It’s an engaging and informative look at the heritage of Southern cuisine.
Gunter Pfeifer, Per Brauneck, “Residential Buildings: A Typology”
ISBN: 3035603286 | 2015 | PDF | 432 pages | 23 MB
To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of most innovative types.
Graphing Data with R: An Introduction (Early Release) by John Jay Hilfiger
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491922613, 1491922540 | 125 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 15.22 MB
Complex relationships are often more easily grasped by looking at a picture, or a graph, than they might be if one tried to absorb the nuances in a verbal description or discern the relationships in columns of numbers. This book is about using graphical methods to understand complex data by highlighting important relationships and trends, reducing the data to simpler forms, and making it possible to take in a lot of numbers at a glance.
Hack and HHVM: Programming Productivity Without Breaking Things (Early Release) by Owen Yamauchi
English | 28 Sept. 2015 | ISBN: 1491920874, 1491921773 | 260 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 9.74 MB
A couple of years ago, Facebook switched its production servers from a PHP-to-C++ compiler to their own HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and then launched a new version of PHP to run on HHVM called Hack. This comprehensive guide-written by a member of the core HHVM and Hack teams at Facebook-shows you how to get up and running with both HHVM and Hack.
Ellen Lupton, "Beautiful Users: Designing for People"
English | ISBN: 1616892919 | 2014 | PDF | 142 pages | 71 MB
In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss-widely considered the father of industrial design-pioneered a user-centered approach to design that focuses on studying people’s behaviors and attitudes as a key first step in developing successful products. In the intervening years, user-centered design has expanded to undertake the needs of differently abled users and global populations as well as the design of complex systems and services. Beautiful Users explores the changing relationship between designers and users and considers a range of design methodologies and practices, from user research to hacking, open source, and the maker culture.
Head First Ruby (Early Release) by Jay McGavren
English | 25 Nov. 2015 | ISBN: 1449372651, 0596559615 | 286 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 101 MB
Head First Ruby uses an engaging, active approach to learning that goes beyond dry, abstract explanations and reference manuals. This Head First guide teaches you the Ruby language in a concrete way that gets your neurons zapping and helps you become a Ruby rock star. You’ll enter at Ruby’s language basics and work through progressively advanced Ruby features such as blocks, objects, methods, classes, and regular expressions. As your Ruby skills grow, you’ll tackle deep topics such as exception handling, modules, mixins, and metaprogramming.
High Performance Android Apps: Improve Ratings with Speed, Optimizations, and Testing (Early Release) by Doug Sillars
English | 25 Sept. 2015 | ISBN: 1491912510, 1491912480, 1491912499 | 250 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 45.58 MB
In a virtual sea of Android apps, the key to survival in the form of user engagement, referrals, and purchases is simple: performance and perceived speed. But building a high performance app isn’t easy in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment where new devices, platforms, and development tools are announced almost daily. This practical guide provides tools and tips that will help you take app performance to a new level.
Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond (Early Release) by Louis Rosenfeld
English | 26 Sept. 2015 | ISBN: 1491911689, 1491911670, 1491913533 | 457 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 93.06 MB
Scheduled for release in mid-2015, the fourth edition of this bestselling guide focuses on information architecture as a set of tools and techniques for dealing with today’s tough information organization problems. It’s ideal for anyone involved in any aspect of design.
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Early Release) by Kief Morris
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491924357, 1491924314 | 156 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 10.62 MB
This book explains how to take advantage of technologies like cloud, virtualization, and configuration automation to manage IT infrastructure using tools and practices from software development. These technologies have decoupled infrastructure from the underlying hardware, turning it into data and code. "Infrastructure as Code" has emerged alongside the DevOps movement as a label for approaches that merge concepts like source control systems, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) with infrastructure management.
Mapping Experiences: Aligning for Business Value (Early Release) by James Kalbach
English | 25 Nov. 2015 | ISBN: 1491923539, 1491923466 | 46 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 14.19 MB
If you want to create products and services that provide real value, you should first identify touchpoints-areas where business and customer needs intersect. This practical book shows you how. Using various mapping techniques from UX design, you’ll learn how to turn customer observations into actionable insight for product design.
Monitoring with Graphite (Early Release) by Jason Dixon
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491916435, 1491916397 | 188 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 45.27 MB
Why is Graphite one of the most popular tools for monitoring and graphing the performance of computer systems? This practical book helps you use this open source tool to track the operational data you need to monitor your systems and track application-level metrics for profiling your services. You’ll learn how to correlate all of that data with business intelligence to help you make informed decisions about your IT strategies.
Puppet Best Practices (Early Release) by Chris Barbour
English | 25 Nov. 2015 | ISBN: 1491923008, 1491922966 | 132 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 6.59 MB
If you’re already up to speed on Puppet and know how to write a basic module, this practical book takes you a critical step further with best practices for building out your Puppet infrastructure. You’ll learn how to avoid pitfalls that often leave many teams struggling to maintain what they already have.
SVG Colors, Patterns & Gradients: Painting Vector Graphics (Early Release) by Amelia Bellamy-Royds
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491933747, 1491933674 | 265 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 30.88 MB
As a vector graphics format, SVG uses precisely-defined geometric shapes to build an image. But that doesn’t mean that SVG graphics have to look like technical drawings. SVG graphics can be shaded, textured, built from partially-transparent overlapping layers, or even filled with photographic images.
Elizabeth Gordon, “Simply Allergy-Free: Quick And Tasty Recipes For Every Night Of The Week”
English | ISBN: 0762786183 | 2013 | PDF | 208 pages | 1.49 GB
Multiple food allergies are on the rise, and Elizabeth Gordon knows how tough it can be to find meals that your whole family can enjoy safely. She also knows that busy moms don’t have lots of time, and that the more economically you can cook, the better. Enter Simply Allergy-Free-a lifesaving cookbook, chock full of easy, reliable recipes that you can make any night of the week.
Swift Development for the Apple Watch (Early Release) by Jon Manning
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491925205, 1491925248 | 48 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 9.54 MB
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to write for a brand new platform and get your apps noticed. This book is a short guide that introduces developers to building apps for the Apple Watch.
Understanding Industrial Design: Principles for UX and Interaction Design (Early Release) by Simon King
English | 25 Nov. 2015 | ISBN: 1491920394, 1491920327 | 129 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 7.52 MB
Divisions between design disciplines are breaking down as technology extends beyond the screen and into our products and environments. Designers can’t afford to focus solely on digital or physical, as great experiences require a blending of the two. This book examines seven long-standing principles of Industrial Design to inspire and equip Interaction Designers as they address new challenges, including connected products and the Internet of Things.
Ellen Brown, “Gluten-Free Christmas Baking: Over 275 Holiday Treats Made with Flavor, Not Flour”
English | ISBN: 1604334975 | 2014 | EPUB | 224 pages | 147 MB
The ultimate holiday cookbook that accomodates the millions of people living with gluten allergies and intolerance.
