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Ben Milgate, “Recipes for a Good Time”
ISBN: 1743369700 | 2013 | EPUB | 288 pages | 98 MB

The kitchens of Argentina are the inspiration for the sensational food at Sydney restaurant Porteno. Voted Best New Restaurant by the Sydney Morning Herald, Time Out Sydney and Gourmet Traveller in 2011, chefs Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz continue to wow packed houses with super-slow-cooked meats and seafood, alongside fresh and inventive vegetable dishes. This relaxed and exuberant atmosphere translates perfectly to their new book – collecting 50 of their best known recipes from Slow-Cooked Lamb to Suckling Pig, mouth-watering crispy-fried brussel sprouts, accented by their luscious cocktails the beautiful photography will transport you to Buenos Aires by way of Sydney. Beautifully made, this is a book which captures the spirit of Argentina and the joy of good food, eaten well.

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Bree Hutchins, “Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka”
ISBN: 174336055X | 2014 | EPUB | 272 pages | 88 MB

An evocative journey into the heart and culture of the real Sri Lanka with beautifully photographed cooking and heartwarming stories

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The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change by Yoram Bauman, Grady Klein
2014 | ISBN: 1610914384 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 27 MB

Climate change is no laughing matter-but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change entertains as it educates, delivering a unique and enjoyable presentation of mind-blowing facts and critical concepts.

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Timothy J. Jensen, “Budget Astrophotography: Imaging with Your DSLR or Webcam”
English | ISBN: 1493917722 | 2014 | 264 pages | PDF | 17 MB

Here are clear explanations of how to make superb astronomical deep-sky images using only a DSLR or webcam and an astronomical telescope – no expensive dedicated CCD cameras needed!

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David Feinleib, “Big Data Bootcamp: What Managers Need to Know to Profit from the Big Data Revolution”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484200411 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Investors and technology gurus have called big data one of the most important trends to come along in decades. Big Data Bootcamp explains what big data is and how you can use it in your company to become one of tomorrow’s market leaders. Along the way, it explains the very latest technologies, companies, and advancements.

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Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps by Azat Mardan
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1430265957 | 300 pages | PDF | 7 MB

Practical Node.js is your step-by-step guide to learning how to build a wide range of scalable real-world web applications using a professional development toolkit. Node.js is an innovative and highly efficient platform for creating web services. But Node.js doesn’t live in a vacuum! In a modern web development, many different components need to be put together – routing, database driver, ORM, session management, OAuth, HTML template engine, CSS compiler and many more.

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Foundations of Python Network Programming, 3 edition by Brandon Rhodes and John Goerzen
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1430258543 | 388 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB

Foundations of Python Network Programming, Third Edition, covers all of the classic topics found in the second edition of this book, including network protocols, network data and errors, email, server architecture, and HTTP and web applications, plus updates for Python 3.

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Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning by Murali Vallath
2014 | ISBN: 1430267097 | English | 712 pages | PDF | 24 MB

Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles for testing and tuning RAC databases. The book takes a deep look at optimizing RAC databases by following a methodical approach based on scientific analysis rather than using a speculative approach, twisting and turning knobs and gambling on the system.

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Flash Cartoon Animation: Learn from the Pros by Glenn Kirkpatrick, Kevin Peaty, Glen Kirkpatrick
2003 | ISBN: 1590592077, 1903450985 | English | 270 pages | PDF | 30 MB

You want to make an animated film. You’ve got the idea. You’ve got Macromedia Flash. But where do you start?
What’s the best way to script your cartoon, how do you start animating with Flash, what do you really need to know in order to get your ideas out there, and make you famous?

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Arts-Based Research, Autoethnography, and Music Education: Singing Through a Culture of Marginalization by Miroslav Pavle Manovski
2014 | ISBN: 9462095132, 9462095140 | English | 350 pages | PDF | 27 MB

Arts-Based Research, Autoethnography, and Music Education: Singing Through a Culture of Marginalization invites readers into miroslav pavle manovski’s journey into quest of how he found his voice-literally and figuratively-by reflecting and storying from his fluid identity and roles as an artist, singer, learner, music teacher, researcher… while empowering others to find their own voice. This book is also an arts-based autoethnographic rendering of the author’s experience being tormented, harassed, and called “gay” as a means to negatively target and marginalize him.

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Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition by National Association of City Transportation Officials
2014 | ISBN: 1610915658 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 35 MB

The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition, is based on the experience of the best cycling cities in the world. Completely re-designed with an accessible, four-color layout, this second edition continues to build upon the fast-changing state of the practice at the local level. The designs in this book were developed by cities for cities, since unique urban streets require innovative solutions.

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Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans by Timothy Beatley
2014 | ISBN: 1610914058, 161091404X | English | 214 pages | PDF | 23 MB

What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern society is more dependent upon ocean resources than people are commonly aware of-from oil and gas extraction to wind energy, to the vast amounts of fish harvested globally, to medicinal compounds derived from sea creatures, and more. In Blue Urbanism, Beatley argues that, given all we’ve gained from the sea, city policies, plans, and daily urban life should acknowledge and support a healthy ocean environment.

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A Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Systems: Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas by Michael Kariwo, Tatiana Gounko, Musembi Nungu
2014 | ISBN: 9462095310, 9462095329 | English | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB

This is a well crafted, timely book that comes at a time when so much is happening in higher education contexts across the world. Clearly, it is in response to these global (and selectively local) trends that Kariwo, Gounko and Nungu bring together an impressive lineup of both established and emerging scholars who achieve a comprehensive and critically constructed perspective on tertiary education systems. Collectively, the chapters in this work shall expand the epistemic boundaries of the area and its affiliated disciplines, and the book as a whole will greatly benefit interested scholars, students, education policy makers and the public at large. – Ali A. Abdi, Professor, University of Alberta

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Nitya Lacroix, “Kama Sutra: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Sex”
English | 215 pages | True PDF | 41.00 Mb

Sex expert Nitya Lacroix brings an energetic new take to ancient sex techniques and positions in “Kama Sutra.” This lively and inspirational text offers new and exciting insights into the Kama Sutra’s teachings and explores every aspect of a sexual relationship, including sexual attraction, wooing and wowing, foreplay, and arousal. Supercharged erotic photography, supported by beautiful and explicit Indian artworks, illustrates the unique sequences for sensational sex. However, “Kama Sutra: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Sex” is not just another catalogue of positions: Nitya Lacroix describes seven incredible sexual sequences that demonstrate how the postures described in the Kama Sutra were intended to flow into each other easily and elegantly. This sumptuous yet highly practical guide reinterprets the sexual practices of ancient India for the enjoyment of modern Western lovers, and explains how each sexual position excites and delights men and women in very different ways.

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Darl Kuhn, “Oracle RMAN for Absolute Beginners”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484207645 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Oracle RMAN for Absolute Beginners is a gentle introduction to the use of Oracle’s Recovery Manager software to make backups of an Oracle database, and to restore all or part of a database in the event that data loss occurs. It is often said that a database administrator’s #1 job responsibility is to be able to recover from data loss. If you’re new to the Oracle platform, or you’re new to database administration in general, you can hardly go wrong by making it your first priority to learn to backup and recover the database that has been entrusted into your hands.

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The Business of iOS App Development: For iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, 3 edition by Dave Wooldridge and Taylor Pierce
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1430262389 | 440 pages | PDF | 15 MB

Updated and expanded for the new Apple iOS8, The Business of iOS App Development, Third Edition shows you how to incorporate marketing and business savvy into every aspect of the design and development process, giving your app the best possible chance of succeeding in the App Store.

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Peter Kenny, “Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success”
2014 | ISBN-10: 148420185X | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you’re a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success provides the answers to these questions and more. It will show you how to use statistical data to improve small, every-day management judgments as well as major business decisions with potentially serious consequences.

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Kellyn Pot’Vin, Seth Miller, “Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command-Line Interface”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484202392 | 188 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command-Line Interface shows how to use Enterprise Manager’s powerful scripting language to automate your database administration work and save time by scripting routine tasks, and then executing those scripts across collections of databases and instances in your environment. This book is chock full of ready-made scripting examples contributed by the authors and leading members of the community. For example, you’ll find scripts and examples of commands to:

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Michael Mayberry, Mark Collins, “Pro Office 365 Development (2nd edition)”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484202457 | 376 pages | PDF | 19 MB

Pro Office 365 Development, Second Edition, is a practical, hands-on guide to building applications for the cloud with Office 365. Combine Office 365 features out of the box with custom code to make the most of what this increasingly powerful and flexible platform has to offer.

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Sean Liao, “Migrating to Swift from Android”
2015 | ISBN-10: 1484204387 | 268 pages | PDF | 7 MB

In 250 pages, Migrating to Swift from Android gives you-as an experienced Android app developer-all you need to create native iOS apps using the latest Swift programming language. Starting with preparing your Xcode 6.1 IDE and introducing just enough iOS application framework fundamentals, you’ll understand how to create meaningful Swift applications for iOS 8 immediately.

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