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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Shahriar Akramullah, “Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis”
2015 | ISBN-10: 1430267143 | 368 pages | PDF | 9 MB

Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis is a concise reference for professionals in a wide range of applications and vocations. It focuses on giving the reader mastery over the concepts, methods and metrics of digital video coding, so that readers have sufficient understanding to choose and tune coding parameters for optimum results that would suit their particular needs for quality, compression, speed and power.

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Steve Fenton, “Pro Typescript: Application-Scale JavaScript Development”
English | ISBN: 1430267917 | 2014 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB

JavaScript is everywhere, both as a pure language and in popular libraries like Angular, jQuery and Knockout, but users of modern object-oriented languages like Java and C# often find JavaScript frustrating to use and hard to extend to large-scale applications. TypeScript is an innovative open source language from Microsoft that combines powerful language features and enhanced tooling support with the key attractions of JavaScript as a flexible, dynamic language that can run in any browser and on any operating system. Pro TypeScript tells you everything you need to know about this exciting new language and how to use it in your applications.

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Pro JavaScript Development: Coding, Capabilities, and Tooling by Den Odell
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1430262680 | 472 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Pro JavaScript Development is a practical guide for front-end web developers who are experienced at building web pages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and now wish to advance their JavaScript skills to a higher level. You will learn how to build large, well-structured, high quality, mobile-optimized web sites and apps, using the latest supported browser APIs, language features, and tools. This book teaches and shows you in practical hands-on terms how you can:

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Tom Y. Sawyer, “Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484203712 | 348 pages | PDF | 22 MB

Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions may be one of the most important books any entrepreneur or manager in a small or medium-sized enterprise will read. It combines logical business principles and strategies with a step-by-step methodology for planning and modeling a company and solving specific business problems. You’ll learn to create operational and financial models in Excel that describe the workings of your company in quantitative terms and that make it far more likely you will avoid the traps and dead ends many businesses fall into.

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Arjan Egges, “Building JavaScript Games: for Phones, Tablets, and Desktop”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1430265388 | 444 pages | PDF | 7 MB

Building JavaScript Games teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills. JavaScript is in the top ten most-used programming languages world wide, and is the basis for applications that can run in any modern browser, on any device from smart phone to tablet to PC. Especial emphasis is given to touch-based interface, but all games also run using a regular mouse and keyboard setup.

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Managing Derivatives Contracts: A Guide to Derivatives Market Structure, Contract Life Cycle, Operations, and Systems by Khader Shaik
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1430262761 | 461 pages | PDF | 7 MB

Managing Derivatives Contracts is a comprehensive and practical treatment of the end-to-end management of the derivatives contract operations, systems, and platforms that support the trading and business of derivative products. This book focuses on the processes and systems in the derivatives contract life cycle that underlie and implement the activities of derivatives trading, pricing, and risk management.

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Johan Vos, Weiqi Gao, “Pro JavaFX 8: A Definitive Guide to Building Desktop, Mobile, and Embedded Java Clients”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1430265744 | 616 pages | PDF | 11 MB

In Pro JavaFX 8 expert authors show you how to use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications. You’ll discover how you can use this powerful Java-based UI platform, which is capable of handling large-scale data-driven business applications for PC as well as now mobile and embedded devices.

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Dan Clark, “Beginning Power Bi with Excel 2013: Self-Service Business Intelligence Using Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query, and Power Map”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1430264454 | 324 pages | PDF | 27 MB

Understanding your company s data has never been easier than with Microsoft s new Power BI package for Excel 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps Power BI makes self-service business intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging the traditional gap between Excel users, business analysts and IT experts and making it easier for everyone to work together to build the data models that can give you game-changing insights into your business.Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013 guides you step by step through the process of analyzing and visualizing your data.

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