Nancy Vienneau “The Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook: Recipes and Stories to Celebrate the Bounty of the Moment”
ISBN: 1401605176 | 2014 | PDF | 336 pages | 216 MB
Every Third Thursday. Life is Delicious
Grab a plate. Pull up a chair. Good company. Great food. No rules. It’s potluck.
Joe Carroll, Nick Fauchald, “Feeding the Fire: Recipes and Strategies for Better Barbecue and Grilling”
English | ISBN: 1579655572 | 2015 | PDF | 264 pages | 532 MB
Joe Carroll makes stellar barbecue and grilled meats in Brooklyn, New York, at his acclaimed restaurants Fette Sau and St. Anselm. In Feeding the Fire, Carroll gives us his top 20 lessons and more than 75 recipes to make incredible fire-cooked foods at home, proving that you don’t need to have fancy equipment or long-held regional traditions to make succulent barbecue and grilled meats.
A Rock Is Lively By Dianna Hutts Aston
2012 | 40 Pages | ISBN: 1452120072 , 1452145555 | PDF | 47 MB
From the creators of the award-winning An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient and A Nest Is Noisy comes this gorgeous and informative introduction to the fascinating world of rocks. From dazzling blue Lapis Lazuli to volcanic Snowflake Obsidian, an incredible variety of rocks are showcased in all their splendor. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, this book introduces an array of facts, making it equally perfect for classroom sharing and family reading.
The Software Paradox: The Rise and Fall of the Commercial Software Market by Stephen O’Grady
English | 30 July 2015 | ISBN: 1491900938 | 62 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 6.26 MB
Software is more important than ever today and yet its commercial value is steadily declining. Microsoft, for instance, has seen its gross margins decrease for a decade, while startups and corporations alike are distributing free software that would have been worth millions a few years ago.
Teach Your Kids to Code: A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming by Bryson Payne
English | 1 May 2015 | ISBN: 1593276141 | 336 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 48.49 MB
Teach Your Kids to Code is a parent’s and teacher’s guide to teaching kids basic programming and problem solving using Python, the powerful language used in college courses and by tech companies like Google and IBM.
Thinking in Promises by Mark Burgess
English | 6 July 2015 | ISBN: 1491917873 | 194 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 29.71 MB
Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn’t matter whether we’re talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a datacenter, or cogs in a Swiss watch. A theory of cooperation ought to be pretty universal, so we should be able to apply it both to technology and to the workplace.
Transforms in CSS: Revamp the Way You Design by Eric A. Meyer
English | 14 Jun. 2015 | ISBN: 1491928158 | 52 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 19.99 MB
Present information in stunning new ways by transforming CSS elements in two- and three-dimensional space. Whether you’re rotating a photo, doing some interesting perspective tricks, or creating an interface that lets you reveal information on an element’s backside, this practical guide shows you how to use them to great effect.
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want by Jaime Levy
English | 1 Jun. 2015 | ISBN: 1449372864 | 312 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 64.93 MB
User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn’t been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team craft innovative multi-device products that people want to use.
Web Content Management: Systems, Features, and Best Practices (Early Release) by Deane Barker
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491908122, 1491928727 | 107 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.7 MB
This book provides a clear, unbiased overview of the entire web content management ecosystem, from platforms to implementations, without needing deeply technical knowledge. The information in Web Content Management will give you a foundation of understanding necessary to make better decisions about platforms, features, architectures, and implementation methods to ensure your project solves the right problems and positions your organizations for future success.
YouTube Channels For Dummies by Rob Ciampa
English | 15 May 2015 | ISBN: 1118958179 | 408 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 79.52 MB
Create content and build a YouTube channel like a pro. Written by a successful YouTube channel producer, YouTube Channels For Dummies shows you how to create content, establish a channel, build an audience, and successfully monetize video content online. Beginning with the basics, it shows you how to establish a channel, join a partner program, and develop a content plan. Next, you′ll gain insight into how to create content that builds a channel, enhance the viral nature of a video, encourage subscriptions, and earn repeat views. If that weren′t enough, you′ll go on even further to learn how to get the word out about your channel and discover ways to enhance your potential profits. That′s a lot of info but it′s easily digestible and simple to put into practice when it′s provided in the accessible and trusted For Dummies format.
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Early Release) by Tom Greever
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491921560, 1491921498 | 287 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 67.24 MB
Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain themselves in a way that is compelling and fosters agreement. The ability to effectively articulate design decisions is critical to the success of a project, because the most articulate person often wins. This practical book provides principles, tactics, and actionable methods for talking about designs with executives, managers, developers, marketers, and other stakeholders who have influence over the project with the goal of winning them over and creating the best user experience.
Docker Cookbook (Early Release) by Sébastien Goasguen
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 149191971X, 149191968X | 284 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 23 MB
Whether you’re deploying applications on-premise or in the cloud, this cookbook is for developers, operators, and IT professionals who need practical solutions for using Docker.
Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale (Early Release) by Jennifer Davis
English | 25 Feb. 2016 | ISBN: 1491926309 | 155 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 23.94 MB
This practical guide addresses technical, cultural, and managerial challenges of implementing and maintaining a DevOps culture by describing failures and successes. Authors Katherine Daniels and Jennifer Davis provide with actionable strategies you can use to engineer sustainable changes in your environment regardless of your level within your organization.
Basic Visual Formatting in CSS: Layout Fundamentals in CSS by Eric A. Meyer
English | 28 Aug. 2015 | ISBN: 1491929960 | 72 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 17.93 MB
Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to the specifics of managing tricky layouts for block-level and inline elements.
UX for Beginners: 100 Short Lessons to Get You Started (Early Release) by Joel Marsh
English | 25 Dec. 2015 | ISBN: 1491912685, 1491912774 | 78 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 2.45 MB
In today’s digital world, any product, app, or website requires a professional User Experience (UX) designer to ensure success. With this book, new UX designers will learn the practical skills they need to get started in the field, skills that can be immediately applied to real-world UX projects. UX for Beginners is broken into one hundred short, illustrated lessons, a user-friendly approach that makes learning fun and gives you the foundation you need to succeed as a UX designer. This book is based on the popular UX Crash Course blog at The Hipper Element, which has more than 400,000 readers.
ASP.NET MVC 5 with Bootstrap and Knockout.js: Building Dynamic, Responsive Web Applications by Jamie Munro
English | June 6, 2015 | ISBN: 1491914394 | 278 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 16.5 MB
Bring dynamic server-side web content and responsive web design together to build websites that work and display well on any resolution, desktop or mobile. With this practical book, you’ll learn how by combining the ASP.NET MVC server-side language, the Bootstrap front-end framework, and Knockout.js-the JavaScript implementation of the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
AutoCAD Platform Customization: User Interface, AutoLISP, VBA, and Beyond by Lee Ambrosius
English | May 4, 2015 | ISBN: 1118798902 | 1152 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 58.6 MB
Take control of AutoCAD for a more efficient, streamlined workflow. AutoCAD Platform Customization is the most comprehensive guide to streamlining and personalizing the AutoCAD platform. The AutoLISP and VBA programming languages open up a myriad of customization options, and this book provides expert guidance toward applying them to AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Plant 3D, and other programs based on the Autodesk AutoCAD platform. Detailed discussions backed by real-world examples and step-by-step tutorials provide user-friendly instruction, and downloadable datasets allow for hands-on learning. Through customization you can increase screen real estate, streamline workflows, and create more accurate drawings by unleashing powerful programming languages that allow the user to command the software how to work, instead of the other way around.
Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools by Vince Buffalo
English | 27 July 2015 | ISBN: 1449367372 | 538 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 34.5 MB
Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from large complex biological data sets.
Elementary Statistics Using SAS by Sandra Schlotzhauer
English | Dec 23, 2009 | ISBN: 1607643790 | 560 Pages | EPUB/MOBI (True) | 95.8 MB
Bridging the gap between statistics texts and SAS documentation, Elementary Statistics Using SAS is written for those who want to perform analyses to solve problems. The first section of the book explains the basics of SAS data sets and shows how to use SAS for descriptive statistics and graphs.
Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket: 15 Projects with the Low-Cost AVR ATtiny85 Board by Mike Barela
English | October 17, 2014 | ISBN: 1457185946 | 258 pages | PDF/EPUB/MOBI (True) | 35.21 MB/140.91 MB/350.73 MB
Arduino’s ubiquity and simplicity has led to a gigantic surge in the use of microcontrollers to build programmable electronics project. Despite the low cost of Arduino, you’re still committing about $30 worth of hardware every time you build a project that has an Arduino inside. This is where Adafruit’s Trinket comes in. Arduino-compatible, one-third the price, and low-power, the Trinket lets you make inexpensive and powerful programmable electronic projects. Written by one of the authors of Adafruit’s Trinket documentation, Getting Started with Trinket gets you up and running quickly with this board, and gives you some great projects to inspire your own creations.
