author_sort: King, Stephen comments: timestamp: 2012-11-21T06:06:34-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2004-11-20T12:00:00-07:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 7.0 size: 4416700 tags: title_sort: Dark Tower, The id: 2 uuid: e1fc28a8-85b3-4dee-a5da-26f3ac213e52 author_sort: King, Stephen comments: After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of **The Gunslinger** , Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Sea—each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must "draw" three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the ka-tet of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely? + timestamp: 2012-11-18T03:00:36-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780451210852 identifiers: isbn:9780451210852,goodreads:5094 languages: eng pubdate: 1987-03-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 2.0 size: 867788 tags: title_sort: Drawing of the Three, The id: 3 uuid: 1783b427-f5d0-4d16-befa-677cd8596a85 author_sort: King, Stephen comments: Beginning with a short story appearing in *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction* in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy -- what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus -- has spanned a quarter of a century. + Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, *The Dark Tower* series is King's most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement. + **Book I** + In *The Gunslinger* (originally published in 1982), King introduces his most enigmatic hero, Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake. + This new edition of *The Gunslinger* has been revised and expanded throughout by King, with new story material, in addition to a new introduction and foreword. It also includes four full-color illustrations in the hardcover and trade paperback formats. + timestamp: 2012-11-18T03:00:38-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780670032549 identifiers: isbn:9780670032549,goodreads:22550 languages: eng pubdate: 1982-05-31T18:00:00-06:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 1.0 size: 575319 tags: title_sort: Gunslinger, The id: 4 uuid: 800bbb29-beb0-43b0-a6ea-1dd090dbb129 author_sort: King, Stephen comments: With 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson + + The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, *Song of Susannah* is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. + + To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind. + + Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- *with* each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term. + + Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called *'Salem's Lot,* a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. + + These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya). + timestamp: 2012-11-18T03:00:32-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781880418598 identifiers: isbn:9781880418598,goodreads:644171 languages: eng pubdate: 2004-06-07T18:00:00-06:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 6.0 size: 980436 tags: title_sort: Song of Susannah id: 5 uuid: 6c41617b-e560-4659-bfda-a2e161f4d0b7 author_sort: King, Stephen comments: Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own... + + timestamp: 2012-11-18T03:00:08-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780451210869 identifiers: isbn:9780451210869,goodreads:94767 languages: eng pubdate: 1990-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 3.0 size: 2258861 tags: title_sort: Waste Lands, The id: 6 uuid: 6b22d70a-494c-4b73-a86e-66573736a514 author_sort: King, Stephen comments: *Wizard and Glass* picks up where the last book left off, with our hero, Roland, and his unlikely band of followers escaping from one world and slipping into the next. And it is there that Roland tells them a story, one that details his discovery of something even more elusive than the Dark Tower: love. But his romance with the beautiful and quixotic Susan Delgado also has its dangers, as her world is tom apart by war. Here is Roland's journey to his own past, to a time when valuable lessons awaited him, lessons of loyalty and betrayal, love and loss. + timestamp: 2012-11-21T06:02:09-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780340829783 identifiers: isbn:9780340829783,goodreads:5096 languages: eng pubdate: 1996-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 4.0 size: 1915992 tags: title_sort: Wizard and Glass id: 7 uuid: f6833370-2f8d-478d-b194-17e98f352b8b author_sort: King, Stephen comments: The fifth installment of King's #1 "New York Times" masterpiece. Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland’s aid, Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New Yorks so that they can save our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation. + timestamp: 2012-11-18T03:00:41-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781416516934 identifiers: isbn:9781416516934,goodreads:4978 languages: eng pubdate: 2003-11-03T17:00:00-07:00 series: The Dark Tower series_index: 5.0 size: 1284140 tags: title_sort: Wolves of the Calla id: 8 uuid: ffbe2791-6d92-4850-9065-0689d09b0982 author_sort: Harris, Charlaine comments:



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When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed.Easier said than done. timestamp: 2013-07-08T16:10:37-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2010-03-01T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 367074 tags: title_sort: Living Dead in Dallas id: 9 uuid: cda9e7d3-4e6d-4e09-8460-1b0e4ba2d964 author_sort: Pratchett, Terry comments:

It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England's best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.

Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett's intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."

His latest satiric triumph, Carpe Jugulum, involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the... timestamp: 2013-07-16T22:39:15-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 9780061807862 identifiers: isbn:9780061807862 languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 405529 tags: Fantasy title_sort: Carpe Jugulum id: 15 uuid: c53b474c-f535-4740-8895-673814875d3a author_sort: Smith, Alexander McCall comments:

Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due--a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.

In Unusual Uses for Olive Oil, von Igelfeld experiences a series of new adventures. First, he finds that his academic rival Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer has been winning undeserved recognition, a situation that must be addressed. Then von Igelfeld stumbles toward a romance with Frau Benz, a charming widow who owns her very own Schloss and a fleet of handsome cars--that is, until a faux pas lands him on the curb. Later, while on the annual student study retreat in the Alps, von Igelfeld fearlessly plunges 3000 feet into mountaineering history, and turns his survival into the subject of inspirational lectures. Finally, at a dinner party, he is the only kind soul who can aid an unfortunate... timestamp: 2013-07-16T22:39:17-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-307-94866-3 identifiers: isbn:978-0-307-94866-3 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 3756509 tags: title_sort: Unusual Uses for Olive Oil id: 16 uuid: 04cd3349-48ff-42d5-a4f7-f56bd8e2ab67 author_sort: Moran, Caitlin comments: Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? + Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother. With rapier wit, Moran slices right to the truth--whether it's about the workplace, strip clubs, love, fat, abortion, popular entertainment, or children--to jump-start a new conversation about feminism. With humor, insight, and verve, *How To Be a Woman* lays bare the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues not only for women today but also for society itself. + timestamp: 2013-07-17T18:19:49-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2012-05-01T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1108326 tags: title_sort: How to Be a Woman id: 17 uuid: 0e5aeb96-76c2-4fdf-b6f9-b1bf9802f95d author_sort: Barski M.D., Conrad comments: Lisp is a uniquely powerful programming language that, despite its academic reputation, is actually very practical. *Land of Lisp* brings the language into the real world, teaching readers Lisp by showing them how to write several complete Lisp-based games, including a text adventure, an evolution simulation, and a robot battle. While building these games, readers learn the core concepts of Lisp programming, such as recursion, input/output, object-oriented programming, and macros. And thanks to Lisp's powerful syntax, the example code is short and easy to understand. The book is filled with the author's brilliant Lisp cartoons, which are sure to appeal to many Lisp fans and, in the tradition of all No Starch Press titles, make learning more fun. + timestamp: 2013-07-22T13:10:16-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: mobi-asin:RPY6CZWVMYC35GHNENYH5DGOBVL4JCX7 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-02-28T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 12468519 tags: title_sort: Land of Lisp id: 20 uuid: 27f3b318-aa5e-478b-b81b-6b39d137ec56 author_sort: Sweigart, Al comments: Making Games with Python & Pygame is a programming book that covers the Pygame game library for the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game and teaches the programming concepts from these examples. The book is available under a Creative Commons license and can be downloaded in full for free from http: //inventwithpython.com/pygame This book was written to be understandable by kids as young as 10 to 12 years old, although it is great for anyone of any age who has some familiarity with Python. + timestamp: 2013-07-26T20:31:13-06:00 formats: mobi isbn: 9781469901732 identifiers: google:BF53twAACAAJ,isbn:9781469901732 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-09-15T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 3493977 tags: computers, Programming Languages, Python, Programming title_sort: Making Games With Python and Pygame id: 21 uuid: 194f88e5-4c09-4af3-acab-bf7ec80ab65e author_sort: Why comments: timestamp: 2013-08-02T18:37:13-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 51542463 tags: why title_sort: CLOSURE id: 22 uuid: c9248ae7-310a-4142-9ced-6811f4486e54 author_sort: Clarke, Susanna comments:

Susanna Clarke's brilliant novel is an utterly compelling, epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the way two very different magicians, who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history. In the year 1806, in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, most people believe magic to be dead in England--until the reclusive Mr. Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey reveals his powers and becomes a celebrity overnight. Soon, another magician emerges; the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and the two join forces in the war against France. But as Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, he risks sacrificing not only his friendship with Norrell, but everything else that he holds dear. An international bestseller published in 31 countries,Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a tour de force that has captured the imagination of readers worldwide. timestamp: 2013-08-05T16:24:37-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2005-08-05T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 6164448 tags: title_sort: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell id: 23 uuid: f75e9c25-f6b3-403b-a0aa-7a0350776e86 author_sort: Griffiths, David comments: timestamp: 2013-08-13T19:10:26-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 56918194 tags: title_sort: Head First Programming id: 24 uuid: 6bf02042-4736-49de-9c8d-30fab195a61f author_sort: Gaiman, Neil comments: When Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves teamed up, they created the bestselling YA novel *InterWorld*. + + *InterWorld* tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a trillion alternate earths. Some of these earths are ruled by magic. Some are ruled by science. All are at war. + + Joey teams up with alternate versions of himself from an array of these worlds. Together, the army of Joeys must battle evil magicians Lord Dogknife and Lady Indigo to keep the balance of power between all the earths stable. Teens--and tweens and adults--who obsessively read the His Dark Materials and Harry Potter series will be riveted by *InterWorld* and its sequel, *The Silver Dream*. + timestamp: 2013-08-25T12:53:29-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1162445 tags: title_sort: InterWorld id: 25 uuid: a8e50f7e-192a-41ae-a368-081897f9fed8 author_sort: Shapiro, B. A. comments: On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. + Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas painting—the one that had been hanging for one hundred years at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire's studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. + Claire's search for the truth about the painting's origins leads her into a labyrinth of... + timestamp: 2013-08-25T12:53:31-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2012-10-09T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 876157 tags: Fiction title_sort: Art Forger, The id: 26 uuid: cc86ab2f-0db0-49b2-9996-9855309db819 author_sort: Chalker, Jack L. comments: Something strange happens to Joe and Marge on the way to El Paso. They run into Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, a strange wizard who informs them that they are going to die in nineteen minutes and eighteen seconds. + But they also have a choice. They can abandon the current world by taking a ferryboat across the Sea of Dreams to a new life in a new world, full of magic, fairies and wonder. + But along with all its wonders, the new world is also the site of an ancient battle still being fought between the forces of Evil and Good, and the forces of Hell threaten to unleash perpetual darkness. + Joe and Marge not only need their wits to survive in this unpredictable and dangerous world, but must somehow help prevent the oncoming Armageddon. + timestamp: 2013-09-02T10:04:15-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2012-10-06T22:00:00-06:00 series: Dancing Gods series_index: 1.0 size: 679119 tags: title_sort: River of Dancing Gods (Dancing Gods: Book One), The id: 27 uuid: 13af7e20-a42d-46fb-9b5c-48d9f4c119ea author_sort: Gaiman, Neil comments:

New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves deliver a thrilling sequel to the science fiction novel InterWorld, full of riveting interdimensional battles and alternate realities.

After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, Joey Harker and his fellow InterWorld freedom fighters are now on a mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who seek to control all worlds.

When a stranger named Acacia somehow follows Joey back to InterWorld's base, things get complicated. No one knows who she is or where she's from--or how she knows so much about InterWorld.

Dangerous times lie ahead for Joey and the mission. There's a traitor hidden among them, and if Joey has any hope of saving InterWorld, the multiverse, and the mission, he's going to have to rely on his wits--and, just possibly, on the mysterious Acacia Jones.

With a story conceived by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves and written by... timestamp: 2013-10-04T07:32:35-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2013-10-04T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 819258 tags: title_sort: Silver Dream, The id: 30 uuid: 0c145655-5aa5-4b2e-ad80-32b0685d9015 author_sort: Cook, Paul comments: timestamp: 2013-10-04T07:32:45-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2011-07-28T22:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 339495 tags: title_sort: Halo id: 31 uuid: 7a3f5097-d89a-4717-91a4-e84a2c7f2d91 author_sort: Guillebeau, Chris comments: timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:28:13-07:00 formats: mobi isbn: 9780307951540 identifiers: isbn:9780307951540,mobi-asin:ffce9581-db50-4baf-817e-3ad401b80ac2 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-05-08T01:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1382006 tags: business, non-fiction, startup title_sort: $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future, The id: 34 uuid: 1920c000-538a-454f-8b3e-559d69e05b6a author_sort: Altucher, James & Costolo, Dick comments: The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It’s all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It’s on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself. + + New tools and economic forces have emerged to make it possible for individuals to create art, make millions of dollars and change the world without “help.” More and more opportunities are rising out of the ashes of the broken system to generate real inward success (personal happiness and health) and outward success (fulfilling work and wealth). + + This book will teach you to do just that. With dozens of case studies, interviews and examples–including the author, investor and entrepreneur James Altucher’s own heartbreaking and inspiring story–Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old. + ### Review + * * * + *FROM THE FOREWORD: ** ***** + * * * + * *What I like about James and his book is you can tell he came from a roller coaster. He chose his own path to success without knowing the outcome. And what happens to him later - well... - (Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter)** + * * ******REVIEWS:**** + * * * + * *Altucher has turned his misfortune into a source of wisdom and comfort for the despondent. - (Business Week)** + * *James Altucher is scary smart - (Stephen Dubner, author of Freakonomics)** + * *James Altucher is the best blogger of our generation. - (Timothy Sykes, The Rebel Millionaire)** + * *We are beginning to build a massive amount of respect for James Altucher due to his willingness to say things that will get him absolutely pilloried by the masses. - (Business Insider)** + * *James is one of the most successful and content people I know. - (Machael Lazerow, founder of Buddy Media and Golf.com)** + * *If you need to see an example of vulnerability done well, just read the work of James Altucher. - (Search Engine Journal)** + ### * *About the Author** + * *James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer.** + * *He has started and run more than 20 companies, and sold several of those businesses for large exits. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, angel funds, and currently sits on the boards of several companies.** + * *His writing has appeared in most major national media outlets (Wall Street Journal, ABC, Financial Times, Tech Crunch, Forbes, CNBC, etc). His blog has attracted more than 10 million readers since its launch in 2010.** + * *This is his 11th book.** + timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:47:26-07:00 formats: mobi isbn: 1490313370 identifiers: isbn:1490313370,mobi-asin:707a0119-c5f6-40ee-9b3d-13eadbcb8803 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-06-02T15:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 509934 tags: non-fiction title_sort: Choose Yourself! id: 35 uuid: 933bc776-0a12-46ef-b76a-1eaf27647f12 author_sort: Pink, Daniel H. comments: EDITORIAL REVIEW: + Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. + Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today's challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: + ***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives + ***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters + ***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves + Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. + *Drive* is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live. + timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:47:40-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781594488849 identifiers: isbn:9781594488849 languages: pubdate: 2010-01-14T22:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 578399 tags: title_sort: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us id: 36 uuid: b19c1071-0a53-4f3b-bdb4-20f9bda9ba3e author_sort: HSIEH, TONY comments: timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:47:51-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780446576314 identifiers: isbn:9780446576314 languages: eng pubdate: 2010-06-07T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 745139 tags: title_sort: Delivering Happiness id: 37 uuid: f109eac9-48ed-45e1-b224-05be49cfb6b4 author_sort: Heath, Chip comments: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath's *Switch*. + + Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others-- struggle to make their ideas "stick." + + Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In *Made to Stick* , accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the "human scale principle," using the "Velcro Theory of Memory," and creating "curiosity gaps." + + In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky... + timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:49:42-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-1-58836-596-5 identifiers: isbn:978-1-58836-596-5 languages: eng pubdate: 2008-11-06T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2230033 tags: title_sort: Made to Stick id: 38 uuid: dda08499-d780-4054-aeb2-ae1ec4396f0c author_sort: Nouyrigat, Franck comments: timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:50:02-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2011-10-06T22:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1526373 tags: title_sort: Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours id: 39 uuid: ff1c9b9e-be6b-42dc-9d62-d3885935949b author_sort: Johnson, Spencer comments: timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:50:13-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: guid:{EB5F6417-10A4-4ABC-AFD6-6EE0C7C5DB77} languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 98970 tags: title_sort: Who Moved My Cheese id: 40 uuid: 69b488a0-b163-4eca-8141-c8967dd3cf42 author_sort: Peale, Norman Vincent comments: timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:52:35-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 1952-10-28T11:30:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1957283 tags: title_sort: Power of Positive Thinking, The id: 42 uuid: cb36e135-72f4-4025-99d4-11ed7b65871c author_sort: Blanchard, Kenneth Ph.d. & D., Spencer Johnson M. comments: Success Can Be Yours With *The One Minute Manager* + The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs offers you the most important minute of your career. + With more than two million hardcover copies in print, *The One Minute Manager* ranks as one of the most successful management books ever published. Now, you can listen and learn the strategies of one-minute management to save time and increase your productivity whether it be in your business, your home or even managing your children. + You will learn to use three easy-to-master management techniques that have already changed the lives of millions: + **One Minute Goal Setting + One Minute Praising + and + One Minute Reprimands ** + Deceptively simple, and measurably effective, the secrets of one-minute management will help you boost profits, productivity and purpose immediately. + ** + timestamp: 2013-11-06T18:54:14-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9780743509176 identifiers: amazon:074350917X,isbn:9780743509176 languages: eng pubdate: 2001-09-02T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 318801 tags: title_sort: One Minute Manager, The id: 43 uuid: 5c248a1a-59b2-4176-b995-90753a79badd author_sort: Flynn, Gillian comments: timestamp: 2013-11-06T19:31:30-07:00 formats: mobi isbn: 9780297859406 identifiers: mobi-asin:9dc51268-20ae-46c6-8556-e507c83ac1a9,isbn:9780297859406 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-05-24T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 647608 tags: title_sort: Gone Girl id: 44 uuid: 0470147b-b2e9-463e-95e9-2ecb316d6e39 author_sort: Heller, Peter comments:

"Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to perform some small kindness. The Dog Stars is a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut." --Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss--and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.

Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and... timestamp: 2013-11-24T18:27:52-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-307-96093-1 identifiers: isbn:978-0-307-96093-1 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-08-06T23:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1964974 tags: title_sort: Dog Stars, The id: 45 uuid: 649c0f1f-ee32-480a-92e9-57c4c713221f author_sort: Isaacson, Walter comments: timestamp: 2013-12-12T20:42:25-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2011-10-23T15:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4732702 tags: title_sort: Steve Jobs id: 46 uuid: 915735a3-60bc-4e8a-921e-3e611fbe52a0 author_sort: King, Stephen comments:

Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.

A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them--and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. timestamp: 2013-12-27T08:08:59-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-385-52885-6 identifiers: isbn:978-0-385-52885-6 languages: eng pubdate: 1990-12-26T23:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5421501 tags: title_sort: Stand, The id: 47 uuid: 6a27889a-f941-42f1-aef3-8f1abb91fd32 author_sort: King, Stephen comments:

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'SALEM'S LOT, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King's classic thriller'SALEM'S LOT hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'SALEM'S LOT reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'SALEM'S LOT will forever be a premier horror classic, 'SALEM'S LOT: ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with the inclusion of material from King's... timestamp: 2013-12-27T08:12:39-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 9780385528221 identifiers: isbn:9780385528221 languages: eng pubdate: 2008-05-05T23:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1900542 tags: title_sort: Salem's Lot id: 48 uuid: 9c569709-a2a7-4239-a058-7a2f9b5585e5 author_sort: Adams, Richard comments: " *Shardik* is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms-allegory, epic, myth-resonating in the caverns of the readers' unconscious . . . It is an exciting story, the adventures compelling." ( *Los Angeles Times* ) + + "Grips with suspense, haunts with mystery . . . a memorable work, not to be read once only but to be reread as loved books are . . . a human saga." ( *The Wall Street Journal* ) + + Richard Adams's *Watership Down* was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. In *Shardik* Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. + + *Shardik* is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik-Messenger of God-only to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear's divinity. + + A gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance, *Shardik* , on a deeper level, is a remarkable exploration of mankind's universal desire for divine incarnation. + ### From Library Journal + Shardik was Adams's 1974 follow-up to his phenomenally popular debut, Watership Down. The title character is a gigantic bear who is the god of the primitive Ortelgan people. The hunter Kelderek becomes Shardik's greatest disciple and, eventually, ruler when the bear finally does make its return. On the surface, the book works as a fantasy adventure; on a deeper level, it explores our relationship with the divine. No matter what you want to see in it, Shardik is a good read. + Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. + ### About the Author + Richard Adams was born in Berkshire, England, in 1920, and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling and award-winning *Watership Down* , his first book. + timestamp: 2013-12-27T09:44:08-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781585671823 identifiers: amazon:1585671827,goodreads:1133508,ff:a/richard-adams/shardik,isbn:9781585671823 languages: eng pubdate: 1973-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: Beklan Empire series_index: 1.0 size: 867127 tags: title_sort: Shardik id: 49 uuid: 7835cdec-b870-4bad-ac19-db2d1c337c45 author_sort: Pessl, Marisha comments:

Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the "blockbuster debut" (People) Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive, cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova--a man who hasn't been seen in public for more than thirty years.

For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.

Driven by... timestamp: 2014-01-02T19:38:26-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-679-64391-3 identifiers: isbn:978-0-679-64391-3 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-08-20T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 28675538 tags: title_sort: Night Film id: 50 uuid: 9a90e5f5-c315-43b4-9269-b6e0a31a55d4 author_sort: ateraan.com comments: timestamp: 2014-01-04T18:32:31-07:00 formats: isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-01-04T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 147337 tags: title_sort: Light Of The Path id: 52 uuid: e936c475-695f-49c3-8fe0-ecf266a067ed author_sort: Chen Eewei comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:30:17-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 20931827 tags: design title_sort: 101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems id: 53 uuid: 18f0acdc-18bc-4047-8ddf-8de8234f66a1 author_sort: Neil, Drew comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:30:20-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 8325040 tags: vim title_sort: Practical Vim id: 54 uuid: 89f59748-0860-4c21-9f52-4460f1334a61 author_sort: Programmers, Pragmatic comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:30:20-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5995425 tags: title_sort: peek into computers electronics, A id: 55 uuid: b5eff77a-5d80-4840-85bc-6c34ee286881 author_sort: Trevennor, Alan comments:

In Practical AVR Microcontrollers, you’ll learn how to use the AVR microcontroller to make your own nifty projects and gadgets. You’ll start off with the basics in part one: setting up your development environment and learning how the "naked" AVR differs from the Arduino. Then you’ll gain experience by building a few simple gizmos and learning how everything can be interconnected.

In part two, we really get into the goodies: projects! Each project will show you exactly what software and hardware you need, and will provide enough detail that you can adapt it to your own needs and parts availability. Some of the projects you’ll make:

In addition, you'll design and implement some home automation projects, including working with wired and wireless setups. Along the way, you'll design a useable home automation protocol and look at a variety of hardware setups. 

Whether you’re new to electronics, or you just want to see what you can do with an AVR outside of an Arduino, Practical AVR Microcontrollers is the book for you.

**

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There's a change in the air. High-profile projects such as the Linux Kernel, Mozilla, Gnome, and Ruby on Rails are now using Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) instead of the old stand-bys of CVS or Subversion.

Git is a modern, fast, DVCS. But understanding how it fits into your development can be a daunting task without an introduction to the new concepts. Whether you're just starting out as a professional programmer or are an old hand, this book will get you started using Git in this new distributed world.

Whether you're making the switch from a traditional centralized version control system or are a new programmer just getting started, this book prepares you to start using Git in your everyday programming.

Pragmatic Version Control Using Git starts with an overview of version control systems, and shows how being distributed enables you to work more efficiently in our increasingly mobile society. It then progresses through the basics necessary to get started using Git.

You'll get a thorough overview of how to take advantage of Git. By the time you finish this book you'll have a firm grounding in how to use Git, both by yourself and as part of a team.

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Review

"As I expected, this book upholds the high standards set by the CVS and Subversion editions of this book, and is a great introductory read to get anyone up and running with Git!"

- Tony Cappellini, Reviewer, Bay Area Python Interest Group

"I give this book a thumbs-up, because even though there is the free Git Community Book, Wiki, and other free documentation, Pragmatic Version Control Using Git is the best-organized and most thorough."

About the Author

Travis Swicegood is an open-source developer. Literally, he's paid to work on and help maintain open-source software at the Texas Tribune in Austin, Texas. Two-time Pragmatic Bookshelf author, Travis constantly has his ear to the ground listening for new technologies. A programming polyglot, he's active in several open-source communities across various languages.

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A cookbook with a broad sweep of the topic, through lots of practical and useful recipes that are fun to read and do. This book targets creative professionals, visual artists, designers, and students who have a starting knowledge of the Processing Development environment and who want to discover the next level of Processing. Anyone with a creative practice who wants to use computation in their design process. A basic understanding of programming is assumed. However, this book is also recommended to the non-artistic, looking to expand their graphics and artistic skills.

**

About the Author

Jan Vantomme

Jan Vantomme is a computational designer and artist based in Ghent, Belgium. He runs Cloudswimmers, a small studio with a focus on computational and interaction design. Jan has been using Processing since the early beta versions. He taught the subject at a university college both as faculty staff and as a guest professor. He wrote some Processing libraries to work with colors and shapes in an easy way. Jan also co-founded Processing Ghent, a community for creative coders in Belgium. They organize free lectures and workshops on Processing.

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Take control of your home! Automate home appliances and lighting, and learn about Arduinos and Android smartphones. Create applications that leverage ideas from this and other exciting new platforms.

In Programming Your Home, technology enthusiast Mike Riley walks you through a variety of custom home automation projects, ranging from a phone application that alerts you to package deliveries at your front door to an electronic guard dog that will prevent unwanted visitors.

Open locked doors using your smartphone. Assemble a bird feeder that posts Twitter tweets to tell you when the birds are feeding or when bird seed runs low. Have your home speak to you when you receive email or tell you about important events such as the arrival of visitors, and much more!

You'll learn how to use Android smartphones, Arduinos, X10 controllers and a wide array of sensors, servos, programming languages, web frameworks and mobile SDKs. Programming Your Home is written for smartphone programmers, web developers, technology tinkerers, and anyone who enjoys building cutting-edge, Do-It-Yourself electronic projects.

This book will give you the inspiration and understanding to construct amazing automation capabilities that will transform your residence into the smartest home in your neighborhood!

What You Need:

To get the most out of Programming Your Home, you should have some familiarity with the Arduino hardware platform along with a passion for tinkering. You should enjoy innovative thinking and learning exercises as well as have some practical application development experience. The projects use a variety of hardware components including sensors and actuators, mobile devices, and wireless radios, and we'll even tell you where you can get them.

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Amazon.com Review

Top Five Home Automation Tips

  1. Start Small. While it would be cool for your home to behave like a scene out of a science fiction movie, building such an elaborate configuration will take a lot of time, effort and money. Try a couple small, easy projects first to get an idea of what to expect, how it behaves, and what needs to be modified to work optimally for your needs.

  2. Search YouTube. Creating a nifty home automation project is a badge of honor, worthy of showing off to the world. And what better place to show off these accomplishments in action. Searching combined keywords like "Arduino," "Home," and "Automation" will return a number of short videos demonstrating a variety of inspiring ideas.

  3. Ask an Engineer. DIY electronics vendor Adafruit, along with a number of other DIY sites like Sparkfun and Element14, have experienced electronics engineers on staff and/or in the product forums ready to help. In the case of Adafruit, they even have a weekly live broadcast that gives customers a chance to freely ask Adafruit founder Limor 'LadyAda' Fried for her expert technical advice.

  4. Be Safe. While most home automation projects don't call upon radical amounts of electrical current to operate, electricity can still be very dangerous if not handled with respect and understanding the risks. When in doubt, call upon the expertise of an experienced electrician before manipulating anything having to do with home electrical wiring.

  5. Have Fun! In addition to capturing the obvious benefits of home automation aspects that will make your life easier, the other, larger reward is the actual building of the project itself. This is especially meaningful if you build it with your family, so that each time your project activates, you have the satisfaction of recalling the joy and wonder on the faces of your loved ones witnessing the working assembly for the first time.

Review

I found the book fun and at times a powerful nerd-stim agent, in the same way that Heathkit projects were to the generation before me--something useful you could assemble, build, and run in a day and impress your friends and family--with a dash of programming thrown in. Happily recommended! -- A. Binstock, Dr Dobbs

"Mike has a broad technology experience base that puts all the pieces of some remarkable projects together. It’s amazing that he makes it all so easy and affordable. Don’t miss all that can be learned from this gem."

—Michael Bengtson, Consultant

"With this book, Mike Riley celebrates the Arduino microcontroller in a way that both beginning and advanced home automation hobbyists will enjoy."

—Sven Davies, Vice President of Applications

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Get started with Arch Linux as a blank canvas and build the simple and elegant environment you want

Overview

In Detail

Over the years there have been many Linux distributions out there, some are trying to do everything for you, others don't. Arch Linux tries to be easy and user-friendly for developers and enthusiasts who are willing to customize their system to the maximum.

"Arch Linux Environment Setup How-to" will give you the step-up into the Arch Linux world. It will guide you through the different ways of installation and how to use the Arch Linux specific software. This book only aims to get you on your way; the true experience is completely up to you.

You will be guided through the installation process so that basic configuration of an Arch Linux system will become second nature. Installing and removing packages from the system will become clear as water and even shiny new technology, like system, is made simple to understand. When you have a DIY mentality and like to customize your system, this book is the perfect launch towards a great Arch Linux experience.

This book encourages you to dig deeper into the fascinating world of Linux.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

Each task expresses a specific task for setting up an Arch Linux environment. The recipe as a solution is a carefully organized set of instructions to perform the task as efficiently as possible and a discussion on how to apply the solution in different situations.

Who this book is written for

"Arch Linux Environment Setup" How to is for people wanting to dig deep into a Linux system. By the end of the book you will have basic knowledge how a Linux system is built up, how it boots and a general idea of how it is working. The book also assumes you already know what partitioning is and if you need dual booting you already have some experience with that. For people only trying out Arch Linux the author would suggest following this guide inside a virtual machine.

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About the Author

Ike Devolder

Ike Devolder started playing around with Linux in 1999 and became a full-time Linux user in 2002. At that time his preferred distribution was Slackware, which he used for many years without complaints. In 2005 he rediscovered Arch Linux (he had already played around with it in the past) and started considering switching all his desktops from Slackware to Arch Linux. In 2006 it was done, with his laptop and desktop both running smoothly on Arch Linux, and since then he has gradually stopped being a distrohopper.

These days Ike is a Web Developer for Studio Emma in Belgium. He uses Arch Linux in his day job too.

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If you have the will this book will show you the way to combine the Raspberry Pi with an Arduino board to automate your entire home. With practical projects and insightful chapters, it's a hobbyist's dream.

Overview

In Detail

Low-cost and high-performing, with a massively diverse range of uses and applications, the Raspberry Pi is set to revolutionize the way we think about computing and programming. By combining the Raspberry Pi with an Arduino board you'll be able to revolutionize the way you interact with your home and become part of a rapidly growing group of hobbyists and enthusiasts.

This essential reference will guide you through a series of exciting projects that will allow you to automate your very own home. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step examples, diagrams, and explanations you will not only find it incredibly productive but also highly engaging and informative.

Assuming no prior knowledge, our detailed practical examples will guide you through building hardware and software solutions using the Raspberry Pi and Arduino. You will learn how you can use thermistors and relays to keep cool and stay in the shade whilst also utilizing electrical motors and photoresistors. These meticulously designed tutorials will form the basis of automating your entire home and getting you started with dozens of potential projects.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

"Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino" is an easy-to-follow yet comprehensive guide for automating your home using the revolutionary ARM GNU/Linux board.

Who this book is written for

Even if you have no prior experience with the Raspberry Pi or home automation you can pick up this book and develop these amazing projects. Full of detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and images this essential guide allows you to revolutionize the way you interact with your home. If you don't know where to start, then this is the perfect book for you.

**

About the Author

Andrew K. Dennis

Andrew K. Dennis is an R&D software developer at Prometheus Research. Prometheus Research is a leading provider of integrated data management for research and is the home of HTSQL, an open source navigational query language for RDMS.

Andrew has a Diploma in Computing, a BS in Software Engineering, and is currently studying for a second BS in Creative Computing in his spare time.

He has over 10 years experience working in the software industry in the UK, Canada, and the USA. This experience includes e-learning courseware development, custom CMS and LMS development, SCORM consultancy, web development in a variety of languages, open source application development, blogging about the integration of web technologies with electronics for home automation, and punching lots of Cat5 cables.

His interests include web development, e-learning, 3D printing, Linux, the Raspberry Pi and Arduino, open source projects, home automation and the use of web technology in this sphere, amateur electronics, home networking, and software engineering.

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Starting with the Arduino and Kinect equivalent of "Hello, World," the authors will take you through a diverse range of projects that showcase the huge range of possibilities that open up when Kinect and Arduino are combined. + * Gesture-based Remote Control. Control devices and home appliances with hand gestures. + * Kinect-networked Puppet. Play with a physical puppet remotely using your whole body. + * Mood Lamps. Build your own set of responsive, gesture controllable LED lamps. + * Drawing Robot. Control a drawing robot using a Kinect-based tangible table. + * Remote-controlled Vehicle. Use your body gestures to control a smart vehicle. + * Biometric Station. Use the Kinect for biometric recognition and checking Body Mass Indexes. + * 3D Modeling Interface. Learn how to use the Arduino LilyPad to build a wearable 3D modelling interface. + * 360º Scanner. Build a turntable scanner and scan any object 360º using only one Kinect. + * Delta Robot. Build and control your own fast and accurate parallel robot. + + + ** + ### About the Author + A bio is not available for this author. + timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:32:33-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781430241676 identifiers: isbn:9781430241676,amazon:1430241675 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-03-19T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 82901890 tags: arduino title_sort: Arduino and Kinect Projects: Design, Build, Blow Their Minds (Technology in Action) id: 73 uuid: 1f36c4f3-58ed-42df-b40d-a70ba1d156a9 author_sort: Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:32:40-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4762085 tags: title_sort: Refactoring: Ruby Edition id: 74 uuid: 374fd523-c020-47a4-88eb-6100f9575184 author_sort: Brown, Gregory comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:32:45-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2088507 tags: title_sort: Ruby Best Practices id: 75 uuid: c638d83c-745c-4dd1-ba50-581f1ca24de8 author_sort: Margolis, Michael comments: Want to create devices that interact with the physical world? This cookbook is perfect for anyone who wants to experiment with the popular Arduino microcontroller and programming environment. You’ll find more than 200 tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes such as toys, detectors, robots, and interactive clothing that can sense and respond to touch, sound, position, heat, and light. + You don’t need to have mastered Arduino or programming to get started. Updated for the Arduino 1.0 release, the recipes in this second edition include practical examples and guidance to help you begin, expand, and enhance your projects right away—whether you’re an artist, designer, hobbyist, student, or engineer. + * Get up to speed on the Arduino board and essential software concepts quickly + * Learn basic techniques for reading digital and analog signals + * Use Arduino with a variety of popular input devices and sensors + * Drive visual displays, generate sound, and control several types of motors + * Interact with devices that use remote controls, including TVs and appliances + * Learn techniques for handling time delays and time measurement + * Apply advanced coding and memory handling techniques + + + ** + ### Book Description + Recipes to Begin, Expand, and Enhance Your Projects + ### About the Author + Michael Margolis is a technologist in the field of real time computing with expertise in developing and delivering hardware and software for interacting with the environment. He has more than 30 years of experience at senior levels with Sony, Microsoft, and Lucent/Bell Labs. He has written libraries and core software that are part of the official Arduino 1.0 distribution. + timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:32:47-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781449313876 identifiers: amazon:1449313876,isbn:9781449313876 languages: eng pubdate: 2011-12-14T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 11818821 tags: arduino title_sort: Arduino Cookbook, 2nd Edition id: 76 uuid: fd28148a-da80-41f0-8e72-bfb5deb226ce author_sort: John-David Warren, Josh Adams, Harald Molle comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:32:57-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 21649865 tags: arduino title_sort: Arduino Robotics id: 78 uuid: 2b482a83-ad93-4ef2-a414-882ad3522e4c author_sort: Harris, Alan & Haase, Konstantin comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:32:59-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 6984583 tags: title_sort: Sinatra: Up and Running id: 79 uuid: 7da8f29e-4e5b-4d40-92d8-f7a19e77d53d author_sort: Olsson, Tony comments:

You've probably seen LED-decorated t-shirts and hats, and maybe even other electronic gadgets embedded in clothing, but with Arduino Wearables you can learn to make your own wearable electronic creations.

This book is an introduction to wearable computing, prototyping, and smart materials using the Arduino platform. Every chapter takes you all the way from idea to finished project. Even if you have no experience with Arduino, this book will get you set up with all the materials, software, and hardware you need; you'll complete simple projects first, and then build on your growing expertise to make more complex projects. By the end of the book, you'll have learned:

Along the way you'll create fun and inspiring wearables, such as: 

Arduino Wearables is the complete guide to getting started with Arduino and wearable computing. The 10 inspiring projects to make, learn from, and build upon will equip you for creating your own projects; the only limit is your imagination.

**

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Scratch is the wildly popular educational programming language used by millions of first-time learners in classrooms and homes worldwide. By dragging together colorful blocks of code, kids can learn computer programming concepts and make cool games and animations. The latest version, Scratch 2, brings the language right into your web browser, with no need to download software.

In Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, kids learn programming fundamentals as they make their very own playable video games. They'll create projects inspired by classic arcade games that can be programmed (and played!) in an afternoon. Patient, step-by-step explanations of the code and fun programming challenges will have kids creating their own games in no time.

This full-color comic book makes programming concepts like variables, flow control, and subroutines effortless to absorb. Packed with ideas for games that kids will be proud to show off, Super Scratch Programming Adventure! is the perfect first step for the budding programmer.

For Ages 8 and Up

Now Updated for Scratch 2

**

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Building your own electronic devices is fascinating fun and this book helps you enter the world of autonomous but connected devices. After an introduction to the Arduino board, you'll end up learning some skills to surprise yourself.

Overview

In Detail

Physical computing allows us to build interactive physical systems by using software & hardware in order to sense and respond to the real world. C Programming for Arduino will show you how to harness powerful capabilities like sensing, feedbacks, programming and even wiring and developing your own autonomous systems.

C Programming for Arduino contains everything you need to directly start wiring and coding your own electronic project. You’ll learn C and how to code several types of firmware for your Arduino, and then move on to design small typical systems to understand how handling buttons, leds, LCD, network modules and much more.

After running through C/C++ for the Arduino, you'll learn how to control your software by using real buttons and distance sensors and even discover how you can use your Arduino with the Processing framework so that they work in unison. Advanced coverage includes using Wi-Fi networks and batteries to make your Arduino-based hardware more mobile and flexible without wires. If you want to learn how to build your own electronic devices with powerful open-source technology, then this book is for you.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

Written as a practical Packt book brimming with engaging examples, C Programming for Arduino will help those new to the amazing open source electronic platform so that they can start developing some great projects from the very start.

Who this book is written for

This book is great for people who want to learn how to design & build their own electronic devices. From interaction design art school students to the do-it-yourself hobbyist, or even simply people who want to learn electronics, this book will help by adding a new way to design autonomous but connected devices.

**

About the Author

Julien Bayle

Julien Bayle owns his Master Degree of biology & computer sciences in 2000. After several years in pure IT System Design, he founded Design the Media early 2010 in order to provide his own courses, training & tools for art fields. As a digital artist, he designed some huge new media art installations, like the permanent exhibition of La Maison des Cinématographies de la Méditerranée (Château de la Buzine) in Marseille, France, in 2011. He also works as a new media technology consultant for some private & public entities. As an A/V live performer, he plays his cold electronic music from New York to Marseille, where he actually lives. Arduino framework is one of his first electronic hardware studies early 2005 and he designed the famous protodeck controller with some opensource framework too. As an art & technology teacher, also certified by Ableton in 2010, he teaches a lot of courses about the digital audio workstation named Ableton Live, about the real-time graphical programming framework Max6 and also about Processing and Arduino.

As a minimalist digital artist, he works at the crossroads of sound, visual and data. He explores relationships between sounds and visuals through his immersive A/V installations, his live performances and his released music. His work, often described as "complex, intrigating and relevant", tries to break classical codes to bring audience a new vision of our world through his pure digital and real-time generated stimuli.

He's deeply involved in the open source community and loves to share and provide workshops and masterclasses online and on-site too. His personal website is http://julienbayle.net.

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Get more fun and productivity out of your web development by learning CoffeeScript. This book is the perfect primer that takes you from language basics to creating responsive applications. Enjoy.

Overview

In Detail

CoffeeScript is a young but popular language that makes web programming fun and more productive. It compiles to JavaScript and unleashes its powerful features while not straying too far from the language. It's become one of the most popular languages on Github and is being used for both browser and server side programming.

"CoffeeScript programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js" will not only teach you the CoffeeScript language but also show you how it's being used by professional programmers with the latest web technologies.

This book will teach you the basics of the language, focusing particularly on how it improves on JavaScript. It then focuses on building real life projects in CoffeeScript using jQuery, Rails, and Node.js.

We look at CoffeeScript as a language that takes the power of JavaScript and presents it in an elegant and concise syntax. We will then see how we can use its power to write beautiful and short programs for various environments and how it complements the latest and greatest web frameworks.

CoffeeScript programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js is all you need to become well versed with this great language and set you on your way to using it to write web applications

What you will learn from this book

Approach

It's a quick guide for programming CoffeeScript and then diving into programming with Rails, jQuery, and Node.js.

Who this book is written for

This book is for web developers who would like to learn programming with CoffeScript. It is also for developers who have some experience in JavaScript and are curious to learn CoffeScript and build applications with it.

**

About the Author

Michael Erasmus

Michael Erasmus has been developing software for over 10 years. He has been a C# programmer for quite a few of them, but has luckily been enlightened enough to become an open source zealot during the last few years. The most loved tools in his utility belt are Ruby and Rails, Linux, MongoDB, Vim, jQuery, and CoffeeScript.

He's interested in all manner of science and technology, but tends to dwell on things such as elegant and eccentric programming languages, machine learning and statistics, web development, Internet startups, and civic hacking.

He is currently working at 22seven.com, building a service that will help change people's behavior and do more with the money they have.

When he's not sitting in front of the computer, he likes pulling faces to amuse his baby son, apologizing to his wonderful wife for sitting in front of a computer all day, or arguing endlessly with friends, family, colleagues, and random strangers. He lives near the beach in Muizenberg, Cape Town and loves it.

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If you want to learn how to use Linux, but don't know where to start read on.

Knowing where to start when learning a new skill can be a challenge, especially when the topic seems so vast. There can be so much information available that you can't even decide where to start. Or worse, you start down the path of learning and quickly discover too many concepts, commands, and nuances that aren't explained. This kind of experience is frustrating and leaves you with more questions than answers.

Here is what you will learn by reading Linux for Beginners:
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*What you learn in "Linux for Beginners" applies to any Linux environment including Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, RedHat, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, and more.

Scroll up, click the Buy Now With 1 Click button and get started learning Linux today!

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Get started with programming in Excel using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Overview

In Detail

Do you have repetitive tasks that you would like to get rid of for good? Would you like to integrate Office Applications in order to streamline some of your tasks? Then look no further. This compact book will provide you with the knowledge to get your VBA programming off the ground and up to a comfortable cruising speed.

"Excel Programming with VBA Starter" was born out of the need to have a short, but yet all-encompassing book that would give you a solid foundation in programming with Visual Basic for Applications. This book will enable you to harness the power of VBA in Excel and put it to good use throughout the course of your working day.

Can't find properties and methods of an object? Don't know what a property, method or object is? Covering simple and advanced topics, create powerful, reusable examples such as IO, picking files from within Excel and automatically attaching them to e-mails. Learn and use the concept of encapsulation to condense code into bite-size methods to be easily accessed from within your projects, plus much more.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

JS#12 This is a starter guide, covering the basics you need to get up and running as quickly as possible.

Who this book is written for

This book is written for users of Excel who want to speed up and streamline normally arduous tasks for maximum productivity.

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About the Author

Robert Martin

Robert Martin is an Excel MVP and Microsoft Certified Professional. With a background in finance, his career has ranged from being an IT Director of an investment bank in London to doing charity work in Africa, before moving to Brazil in 2007 and setting up an IT consultancy firm and then authoring training (audiovisual and written) material on Microsoft technologies.

Currently he works in Brazil as an IT Consultant.

Robert Martin has also authored the following books:

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Anton comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:35:50-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 9677822 tags: title_sort: Think Like A Programmer id: 101 uuid: 683260a8-f667-45fc-9a16-16f59e077fb7 author_sort: Chang, Sau Sheong comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:35:50-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 14711166 tags: title_sort: Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby id: 102 uuid: 0cfabdd8-2785-4785-a7f5-3b3cef8258b1 author_sort: Fencott, Clive & Clay, Jo & Lockyer, Mike & Massey, Paul comments: Presenting a holistic and thoroughly practical investigation of the true nature of computer **games** that arms readers with a small yet powerful set of theories for developing unique approaches to understanding **games**. **Game** **Invaders** fully integrates genre theory, new media aesthetics, perceptual opportunities, and semiotics into a practical DIY toolkit for **games** analysis—offering detailed guidance for how to conduct in-depth critiques of **game** content and gameplay. + Featuring an informal and witty writing style, the book devotes a number of chapters to specific **games** from all eras, clearly demonstrating the practical application of the theories to modern, large-scale computer **games**. Readers will find: + • Suggestions on how to apply the DIY package to major issues central to understanding computer **games** and their design • Coverage of the semiotics of video **games** , laying the foundation for such topics as the role of agency and virtual storytelling • Tasks and solutions for readers wishing to practice techniques introduced in the book • A companion website featuring access to an app that enables the reader to conduct their own activity profiling of **games** + An important resource for those wishing to dig deeper into the **games** they design, **Game** **Invaders** gives **game** designers the skills they need to stand out from the crowd. It is also a valuable guide for anyone wishing to learn more about computer **games** , virtual reality, and new media. + ** + timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:35:55-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781118347577 identifiers: isbn:9781118347577,amazon:0470597186,google:Sf_YiX9EtO4C languages: eng pubdate: 2012-05-18T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 3650683 tags: computers, Programming, Games title_sort: Game Invaders: The Theory and Understanding of Computer Games id: 103 uuid: 24ec79b2-c76c-42f8-acfa-cd68b18e28fa author_sort: Trobaugh, James J. comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:36:17-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 14294206 tags: title_sort: Winning LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming id: 104 uuid: 8a72675b-0e8c-4d7c-b735-ddf17a247bec author_sort: Richardson, Matt comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:36:30-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 42779330 tags: title_sort: Getting Started With BeagleBone id: 105 uuid: 7cdb9563-8abf-40b6-8650-bdc8c9ca62fc author_sort: Hyde, Randall comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:36:31-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5872999 tags: title_sort: Write Great Code - Understanding The Machine id: 106 uuid: 05c6c0ac-b463-498d-b03b-79b564261f89 author_sort: Hyde, Randall comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:36:37-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5258718 tags: title_sort: Write Great Code - Volume 2 : Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level id: 107 uuid: 201f87c3-1dd1-4e51-8761-e9d61d126183 author_sort: Richardson, Matt & Wallace, Shawn comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:36:39-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 14922588 tags: title_sort: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi id: 108 uuid: 78555601-8c88-4af4-95ed-f16c0b2a802e author_sort: Igoe, Tom comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:36:39-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2713633 tags: title_sort: Getting Started with RFID id: 109 uuid: b06b1d90-b510-4671-99a0-52d876291522 author_sort: Amreen, Fazreil comments:

Learn the basics of GIMP through practical examples

Overview

In Detail

Image manipulation is being used by professionals all over the world. Beautiful pictures can be achieved by combining technology with art. GIMP. the GNU Image Manipulation Program, makes them accessible to everyone. GIMP is. With it, anyone can express their emotional and intellectual capability in a new dimension.

"Instant GIMP Starter" is a book that provides a new generation of artists with new techniques and tools in a comprehensive format. A range of task from drawing simple images to composing multiple pictures in an image are covered in this book.

This book walks you through the journey of learning various tools and gets the reader to create exciting artworks, one after another.

Although the book focuses on each step of producing wonderful effects with GIMP to anyone with basic computer skills, it also delivers information that can be used for school projects or corporate presentations. You will have a set of great photos when you learn how to apply special effects.

You will have amazing tools to work with to satisfy your creativity and an endless chain of beautiful images you never knew you could come up with.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A Starter guide which helps you practically start with GIMP through plenty of examples and screenshots.

Who this book is written for

This is an excellent handbook for anyone who would like to start drawing using their computers. The approach used within this book is objective so that readers from any age will be able to learn the process. The setup is so basic that you will need only a computer and a very minimal amount of computer literacy to start using this book.

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About the Author

Fazreil Amreen

Fazreil Amreen is a kind of person who would say hi to you when you walk past him. He lives in the beautiful country of Malaysia.

Fazreil Amreen loves to exhibit art through his works. According to him, he is going to "make it big" wherever he goes. Being a video game player since the 8-bit era, Fazreil enjoys challenging games and his motto is that "nothing can stop him" in his virtual life.

Currently Fazreil is working at MIMOS Berhad, the national R&D organization. He got exposed to multiple disciplines of technology there and is proud to be a Software Configuration Management Engineer there. He chose open source to fill in the gaps of automation in his work. Apart from his daily development job, he also works to produce papers for conferences and new innovations.

At home, Fazreil lives with his parents Abdul Jalil and Farida Hanim together with his sister Fazreen Dharleila. He is thankful to have such a supporting family. He can't help but mention his cats who cause chaos and sniff his food.

Fazreil is active on Twitter and Facebook, where he checks out new stuff about his friends and new trends. You can reach him at @fab52 or facebook.com/fazreil.

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Web designers and programmers, add JavaScript to your HTML5 development toolkit without fear

Modern websites are complex, and some of the most exciting features - things like geolocation, canvas, portability to mobile and more - require JavaScript to leverage what HTML5 can create. Don't know JavaScript? That's where HTML5 Programming with JavaScript For Dummies comes in. Rather than walking you through JavaScript as a programming language, it approaches JavaScript as a tool to help you enhance web pages.

Discover basic to complex ways to use JavaScript programming syntax to harness the full power of HTML5 and CSS3.

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From the Back Cover

Learn to:

Learn to use today's top tools

and create cross-platform

applications for all devices!

Get the inside track on creating cool applications that work on almost any browser and device! Here's how to use HTML5 and JavaScript to bring your ideas to life, with all examples tested on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Learn to "speak" JavaScript, use libraries and templates, and take advantage of every trick that smart developers use to make life easier.

Open the book and find:

About the Author

John Paul Mueller has written both certification and programming books covering C#, Java, Windows programming, and VBA. He is also a skilled technical editor and has contributed articles to periodicals including Visual Basic Developer and SQL Server Professional. You can reach him at John@JohnMuellerBooks.com.

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Your knowledge of JavaScript and jQuery is just about all you need to start creating some stunning browser-based games. This guide shows you how, from the basics to advanced techniques. Whatever the genre, this is the book for you.

Overview

In Detail

jQuery is a leading multi-browser JavaScript library that developers across the world utilize on a daily basis to help simplify client-side scripting. Using the friendly and powerful jQuery to create games based on DOM manipulations and CSS transforms allows you to target a vast array of browsers and devices without having to worry about individual peculiarities.

"jQuery Game Development Essentials" will teach you how to use the environment, language, and framework that you’re familiar with in an entirely new way so that you can create beautiful and addictive games. With concrete examples and detailed technical explanations you will learn how to apply game development techniques in a highly practical context.

This essential reference explains classic game development techniques like sprite animations, tile-maps, collision detection, and parallax scrolling in a context specific to jQuery. In addition, there is coverage of advanced topics specific to creating games with the popular JavaScript library, such as integration with social networks alongside multiplayer and mobile support. jQuery Game Development Essentials will take you on a journey that will utilize your existing skills as a web developer so that you can create fantastic, addictive games that run right in the browser.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

Written as a concise yet practical guide with an explicit focus on utilizing jQuery for game development, you'll learn how to create stunning games that look great - without the hassle of learning about a complex game engine in the process.

Who this book is written for

Knowledge of JavaScript and jQuery as well as basic experience with frontend development is all you need to start making games in a matter of hours with this essential guide. Whilst also suitable for those who simply want to start making games with jQuery, it's specifically targeted at web developers that want to experiment with and utilize their existing skills.

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About the Author

Selim Arsever

Selim Arsever is a Senior Software Engineer working as a consultant in Switzerland. Over the last 4 years, he has been developing gameQuery (http://gamequeryjs.com), an open source game engine based on jQuery, as well as other JavaScript games and demos. He has been giving several talks on the subject and thinks that there is nothing more interesting than using tools beyond what they were initially intended for. You can follow him on twitter at @SelimArsever.

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In Detail

HTML is fast, secure, responsive, interactive, and stunningly beautiful. It lets you target the largest number of devices and browsers with the least amount of effort. Working with the latest technologies is always fun and with a rapidly growing mobile market, it is a new and exciting place to be.

"Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes you through the journey of learning HTML5 right from setting up the environment to creating fully-functional games. It will help you explore the basics while you work through the whole book with the completion of each game.

"Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes a very friendly approach to teaching fun, silly games for the purpose of giving you a thorough grounding in HTML5. The book has only as much theory as it has to, often in tip boxes, with most of the information explaining how to create HTML5 canvas games. You will be assisted with lots of simple steps with screenshots building towards silly but addictive games.

The book introduces you to HTML5 by helping you understand the setup and the underlying environment. As you start building your first game that is a typography game, you understand the significance of elements used in game development such as input types, web forms, and so on.We will see how to write a modern browser-compatible code while creating a basic Jelly Wobbling Game. Each game introduces you to an advanced topic such as vector graphics, native audio manipulation, and dragging-and-dropping. In the later section of the book, you will see yourself developing the famous snake game using requestAnimationFrame along with the canvas API, and enhancing it further with web messaging, web storage, and local storage. The last game of this book, a 2D Space shooter game, will then help you understand mobile design considerations.

Approach

By teaching HTML5 by developing exciting games, the reader will see concrete applications for each of the concepts, and will also have a powerful deliverable at the end of each chapter – a fully functional game. We learn the various concepts using very abstract examples – how to model animals, foods, or fictitious machines. This makes learning and understanding a lot easier, and much more enjoyable.

Who this book is for

If you are are looking to get a good grounding in how to use the new awesome technology that is HTML5, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of HTML and/or HTML5 is welcome, but optional. The book is a friendly and exciting reference for beginners.

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About the Author

Rodrigo Silveira

Rodrigo Silveira is a web engineer at Deseret Digital Media. His responsibilities include back-end system development, tools, and maintenance, front-end application development and design, and more recently, he's been involved in mobile development of various products on the Android platform.

He received his Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, Idaho, as well as an Associate's Degree in Business Management from LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

His fascination for web development began in his early teenage years, and his skills grew as he discovered the power of a library subscription, a curious and willing mind, and supportive parents and friends. Today Rodrigo balances his time between the three great passions of his life—his family, software development, and video games (with the last two usually being mingled together).

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Learn Mobile Game Development in One Day Using Gamesalad is for anyone who wants to learn how to create their own video games for desktop and mobile devices. While this is an introductory book that assumes you have no previous game development experience, you’ll find that once you have completed all of the chapters and exercises, you’ll be able to create your own amazing video games from scratch.

The book is meant to be used as a learning tool, it’s filled with over 35 hands-on exercises and four chapters dedicated to learning how to make four different game types. Once you have completed the book you will already have four mobile ready games created and ready to be customized and published to the Apple App Store!

In This Book You Will Learn:

Gamesalad Creator is a modern 2D game development kit (GDK). Over 750,000 developers in 189 countries around the world use it and it has been used to make 70 of the top 100 games in the U.S. Apple App Store.

One of the highlights of Gamesalad is that you DO NOT need to learn how to write traditional computer programming code to make your games. Gamesalad offers a simple, yet full-featured, drag and drop interface that lets you build commercial-quality games much quicker than learning traditional programming. Once you are familiar with Gamesalad, you will be able to prototype a game in a few days and complete the entire project in as little as a few weeks instead of the typical months or years it could take to develop a game with another GDK.

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Add to your current website development skills with this brilliant guide to JQuery. This step by step course needs little prior JavaScript knowledge so is suitable for beginners and more seasoned developers alike.

Overview

In Detail

To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency.

LearningjQuery - Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.

Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. The book will take you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

We will step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques.

Who this book is written for

This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. Basic JavaScript programming and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries.

Jonathan Chaffer

Jonathan Chaffer is a member of Rapid Development Group, a web development firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work there includes overseeing and implementing projects in a wide variety of technologies, with an emphasis in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. He also leads on-site training seminars on the jQuery framework for web developers.

In the open source community, he has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is also responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference.

He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

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About the Author

Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Fusionary Media in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time making cool things happen with JavaScript. As a member of the jQuery team, he is responsible for maintaining the jQuery API site at api.jquery.com. He is also a member of jQuery's Board of Advisors and a presenter at workshops and conferences. When he isn't coding, he likes to hang out with his family, roast coffee in his garage, and exercise at the local CrossFit gym.

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Build the Next Great Android Game!

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* Learning Android Game Programming * is your hands-on, start-to-finish guide to creating winning games for today’s rapidly growing Android mobile device marketplace. If you have even basic Android development experience, Rick Rogers will help you build on your knowledge to quickly create low-budget 2D mobile games that sell.

The book starts with an up-to-the-minute overview of today’s Android mobile games marketplace, reviews each leading genre, and teaches you the foundational concepts of game development. You’ll design a simple game, then master every step of game development with AndEngine—the powerful, open source, free game-development engine. Every chapter teaches with sample code you can actually use, including many examples drawn from the published game, Virgins Versus Vampires (V3).

With this book you’ll learn how to 

Download the free version of Virgins Versus Vampires (V3) from Android Market today, as you learn how to build the game in this book

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About the Author

Rick Rogers has been developing software for more than thirty years and has been focused on software for mobile devices for the last twelve years. He is the author of numerous technical magazine articles and a previous book on introductory Android application development. He has developed mobile device software for large and small companies, and participated in international consortia that have shaped the evolution of mobile devices. 

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Editors are the subject of adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule, depending upon whether the topic of discussion is your editor or someone else's. + *vi* has been the standard editor for close to 30 years. Popular on Unix and Linux, it has a growing following on Windows systems, too. Most experienced system administrators cite *vi* as their tool of choice. And since 1986, this book has been *the* guide for *vi*. + However, Unix systems are not what they were 30 years ago, and neither is this book. While retaining all the valuable features of previous editions, the 7th edition of *Learning the vi and vim Editors* has been expanded to include detailed information on *vim* , the leading *vi* clone. *vim* is the default version of *vi* on most Linux systems and on Mac OS X, and is available for many other operating systems too. + With this guide, you learn text editing basics and advanced tools for both editors, such as multi-window editing, how to write both interactive macros and scripts to extend the editor, and power tools for programmers -- all in the easy-to-follow style that has made this book a classic. + *Learning the vi and vim Editors* includes: + **A complete introduction to text editing with vi:** + * How to move around *vi* in a hurry + * Beyond the basics, such as using buffers + * *vi's* global search and replacement + * Advanced editing, including customizing *vi* and executing Unix commands + + + **How to make full use of vim:** *Extended text objects and more powerful regular expressions* Multi-window editing and powerful *vim* scripts *How to make full use of the GUI version of* vim *, called* gvim ** *vim's* enhancements for programmers, such as syntax highlighting, folding and extended tags + Coverage of three other popular *vi* clones -- *nvi* , *elvis* , and *vile* \-- is also included. You'll find several valuable appendixes, including an alphabetical quick reference to both *vi* and *ex* mode commands for regular *vi* and for *vim* , plus an updated appendix on *vi* and the Internet. + Learning either *vi* or *vim* is required knowledge if you use Linux or Unix, and in either case, reading this book is essential. After reading this book, the choice of editor will be obvious for you too. + ** + ### Book Description + Text processing at maximum speed and power + ### About the Author + Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has been working with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. His experience also includes multiple commercial Unix systems, from Sun, IBM, HP and DEC. He has been working with GNU/Linux systems since 1996. He likes his Macintosh laptop, but it has been commandeered by one of his daughters. + Arnold has also been a heavy awk user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of awk. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for awk. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. + O'Reilly has been keeping him busy: He is author and/or coauthor of the bestselling titles: Unix In A Nutshell, Effective awk Programming, sed & awk, Classic Shell Scripting, and several pocket references. + Elbert is a professional software engineer and software architect recently finishing a 21-year career in the telcom industry. He wrote a full screen editor in assembler in 1983 as his first professional assignment, and has had special interest in editors since. He loves connecting Unix to anything and once wrote a stream editor program to automate JCL edits for mainframe monthly configurations by streaming mainframeJCL to a stream editor on an RJE connected Unix box. + He loves tinkering with everything Unix and considers any environment incomplete without his suite of Unix work-alike tools and the latest version of vim. He is a Unix Shell specialist, writing entire applications with only the shell. + His telcom honored him with their highest award for money-saving applications that he authored using a set of mainframe screen-scraping tools he wrote himself. They continue to use those applications today. He was also one of three founding team members that brought web 1.0 to the corporate consciousness in his telco position, and his team featured on the cover of CIO Magazine for their innovative and pioneering works. + He also served a brief stint on the original Microsoft NT beta support team in 1992. + He loves bicycling, music, and reading. Today he lives in the Chicago area where he occasionally takes on short term projects and works on personal software products. + Linda Lamb is a former employee of O'Reilly Media, where she worked in various capacities, including technical writer, editor of technical books, and marketing manager. She also worked on O'Reilly's series of consumer health books, Patient Centered Guides. + timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:41:30-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: amazon:B005EI85BE languages: eng pubdate: 2008-07-14T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 7633568 tags: design, computers, vim title_sort: Learning the Vi and Vim Editors id: 127 uuid: 68e38423-1543-4330-ada0-80714b1985d2 author_sort: Montoro, Arturo Fernandez comments:

In Detail

System administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.

"Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide" is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.

You’ll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, we’ll find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.

Data and information are very important so you’ll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security.

Thanks to "Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide", you’ll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.

Approach

A concise Packt Beginner’s Guide to get you started with administering a Linux Mint system.

Who this book is for

This book is for those users who want to become Linux Mint system administrators and need to start learning quickly. It’s assumed that you have a basic knowledge of GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as being familiar with concepts, such as kernel, filesystems, users, accounts, groups, and disk partitions.

**

About the Author

Arturo Fernandez Montoro

Arturo Fernandez Montoro is a software architect specializing in design, development, testing, and deployment of high-traffic web applications. Since 2002, he often writes for different Linux and Open Source printed and online magazines, such as Todo Linux, Linux+, Linux Magazine, and Free Software Magazine. Also, he has written the iPhone JavaScript Cookbook for Packt Publishing. His professional experience includes technologies such as Django, Ruby on Rails, J2EE, PHP, web application servers, relational and NoSQL databases, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. He spent the last three years working as a software architect and a Python/Django lead developer. Currently, Arturo lives in Madrid working as a software architect for QDQ Media, the biggest online marketing agency in Spain. He can be reached at arturo@bsnux.com.

timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:41:33-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: amazon:B00ATYE3XM languages: eng pubdate: 2012-12-25T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5857250 tags: computers, Linux title_sort: Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide id: 128 uuid: 4a5f6a2a-2b88-4c81-bcbe-1135476e13cd author_sort: Love, Robert comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:41:40-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 10042415 tags: title_sort: Linux System Programming id: 129 uuid: bbf321e6-1063-49b7-939e-2cf75298611f author_sort: Borenstein, Greg comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:41:47-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 21230684 tags: title_sort: Making Things See id: 130 uuid: fd4d5a41-db67-4842-8e4b-dc7b91552107 author_sort: Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries, Jason Montojo, Greg Wilson comments: timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:41:56-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 8128424 tags: title_sort: Practical Programming id: 131 uuid: 3d028fca-312c-4b1f-bbba-0fdca6b4da84 author_sort: Eagleman, David comments:

If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?

In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didn't think you were listening to? What do Ulysses and the credit crunch have in common? Why did Thomas Edison electrocute an elephant in 1916? Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourself--who, exactly, is mad at whom?

Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions,... timestamp: 2014-01-21T18:45:04-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-307-37978-8 identifiers: isbn:978-0-307-37978-8 languages: eng pubdate: 2011-05-31T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 3739396 tags: title_sort: Incognito id: 132 uuid: bb5b23b1-2af9-458d-a408-88b2738ae682 author_sort: Kidd, Sue Monk comments:

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women


Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.


Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Kidd's sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as... timestamp: 2014-01-26T13:32:59-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-01-07T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 893413 tags: title_sort: Invention of Wings, The id: 133 uuid: b6d684fa-cafa-4065-97e5-33b0e554eead author_sort: SEMPLE, MARIA comments: Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. + + Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. + + To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world. + timestamp: 2014-01-26T13:33:00-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780316204286 identifiers: isbn:9780316204286 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-08-14T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 845543 tags: title_sort: Where'd You Go, Bernadette id: 134 uuid: cad32830-3c1b-4847-8727-d46eeacf4362 author_sort: Roth, Veronica comments:

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing... timestamp: 2014-02-23T07:23:12-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2011-02-23T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1000133 tags: title_sort: Divergent id: 135 uuid: 20be0cd0-da72-42a0-b998-58d183e12025 author_sort: Michaelson, Jay comments:

Evolving Dharma is the definitive guide to the meditation revolution. Fearless, unorthodox, and irreverent scholar and activist Jay Michaelson shows how meditation and mindfulness have moved from ashrams and self-help groups to classrooms and hospitals, and offers unusually straight talk about the "Big E"-- enlightenment. Michaelson introduces us to maverick brainhackers, postmodern Buddhist monks, and cutting-edge neuroscientists and shares his own stories of months-long silent retreats, powerful mystical experiences, and many pitfalls along the way. Evolving Dharma is a must-read for the next-generation meditator, the spiritually cynical, and the curious adventurer in all of us.

From the Trade Paperback edition. timestamp: 2014-04-04T20:40:45-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-1-58394-715-9 identifiers: isbn:978-1-58394-715-9 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-10-15T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2412991 tags: buddhism title_sort: Evolving Dharma id: 137 uuid: 57abc679-882d-47d1-9a80-0aab12239d19 author_sort: King, Stephen comments:

Nightmares come to life for Ralph Roberts. Up all night, he's seeing some pretty strange things. No wonder he can't get back to sleep. Readers won't be able to either. timestamp: 2014-04-11T08:26:41-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2011-05-20T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1719738 tags: title_sort: Insomnia id: 138 uuid: 60f25a57-20d4-4e64-817c-60f5181d71fb author_sort: swaroopch comments: timestamp: 2014-04-15T21:56:14-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1473738 tags: vim title_sort: Byte of Vim, A id: 139 uuid: d1b2977a-b4a1-4155-9043-4f81eea84357 author_sort: Gough, Julian comments: timestamp: 2014-04-16T20:23:55-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-04-16T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 22470 tags: title_sort: iHole, The id: 141 uuid: 929adb95-cc5e-4ac8-98e1-224e65c9c1fb author_sort: Glass, Julia comments:

In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod.

Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father—a mystery that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the bittersweet decade when their families were joined. Reluctantly breaking a long-ago promise, Jasper connects Kit with Lucinda and Zeke Burns, who know the answer he’s looking for. Readers of Glass’s first novel, Three Junes, will recognize Lucinda as the mother of Malachy, the music critic who died of AIDS. In fact, to fully understand the secrets surrounding his paternity, Kit will travel farther still, meeting Fenno McLeod, now in his late fifties, and Fenno’s longtime companion, the gregarious Walter Kinderman.

And the Dark Sacred Night is an exquisitely memorable tale about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the risks we take when we face down the shadows from our past.

This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.  

**

From Booklist

Starred Review Stuck in a nightmare of unpaid bills, dwindling bank accounts, and leaky roofs, unemployed art-history professor Kit Noonan needs a jolt. Convinced that deep-seated identity issues are fueling Kit’s inertia-inducing depression, his wife urges him to find the identity of his biological father, a fact his otherwise loving mother refuses to divulge. To solve the mystery, Kit embarks on a journey that takes him across the northeastern U.S., starting with a visit to his gruff and outdoorsy stepfather’s home, and ending with a revelation that transforms his life in ways he could never imagine. Woven throughout the narrative are flashbacks to key events in Kit’s history, including the tender and beautifully told story of the relationship between Kit’s mother and father. Divided into sections written from the perspective of key characters, Glass explores the pain of family secrets, the importance of identity, and the ultimate meaning of family. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Although Glass borrows characters from her National Book Award–winning Three Junes, it is not necessary to have read that previous book to enjoy this lovely, highly readable, and thought-provoking novel. --Kerri Price

Review

“Winner of the National Book Award for her 2002 debut, Three Junes, Julia Glass takes another sympathetic look at the complexities of contemporary life in this novel about family secrets. . . Examining complicated family relationships among several families whose lives intertwine in unexpected ways, this warm and engaging story about what it means to be a father will appeal to most readers.” —Library Journal

“Glass explores the pain of family secrets, the importance of identity, and the ultimate meaning of family . . . HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Although Glass borrows characters from her National Book Award–winning Three Junes, it is not necessary to have read that previous book to enjoy this lovely, highly readable, and thought-provoking novel.” —Booklist, starred review 

The Widower’s Tale
“Beautifully sensitive . . . The Widower’s Tale is about the rub between old values and new times . . . In the tradition of Jane Eyre, it builds to a conflagration, a crisis that shakes everyone out of their complacency. But Glass quickly smothers the flames of catastrophe, for her vision is essentially more hopeful than tragic.” —Los Angeles Times

“A satisfyingly clear-eyed and compassionate view of American entitlement and its fallout . . . [Glass] approaches the ties of kinship with the same joyfully disruptive spirit that animated her previous books.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A masterful exploration of the secret places of the human heart.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

I See You Everywhere
“Glass is the Edith Wharton for the twenty-first century.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Rich, intricate, and alive with emotion . . . An honest portrait of sister-love . . . Brave and forgiving.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Whole World Over
“Beautiful and satisfying, chock-full of the gorgeous, heartbreaking stuff that makes life worth living.” —The Rocky Mountain News

“A voluptuous treat.” —Entertainment Weekly

Three Junes
“Enormously accomplished . . . Rich, absorbing, and full of life.”—The New Yorker

“Radiant . . . An intimate literary triptych of lives pulled together and torn apart.” —Chicago Tribune

“Almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains. Glass’s ability to illuminate and deepen the mysteries of her characters’ lives is extraordinary.” —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

timestamp: 2014-04-20T20:56:59-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780307908636 identifiers: isbn:9780307908636,amazon:B00FO5YG5G,google:cWLCAQAAQBAJ languages: eng pubdate: 2014-04-01T11:34:22-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2020118 tags: Fiction title_sort: And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel id: 142 uuid: 21d4bfab-aba3-4cdb-be1f-79c6697a73fc author_sort: Tropper, Jonathan comments: **The bestselling author of *This Is Where I Leave You* returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one family's struggle to reconnect.** + + You don’t have to look very hard at Drew Silver to see that mistakes have been made. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. He lives in the Versailles, an apartment building filled almost exclusively with divorced men like him, and makes a living playing in wedding bands. His ex-wife, Denise, is about to marry a guy Silver can’t quite bring himself to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down. + So when he learns that his heart requires emergency, lifesaving surgery, Silver makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to use what little time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment, even if that moment isn't destined to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether or not his own life is worth saving. + With the wedding looming and both Silver and Casey in crisis, this broken family struggles to come together, only to risk damaging each other even more. *One Last Thing Before I Go* is Jonathan Tropper at his funny, insightful, heartbreaking best. + ### Review + "Tropper’s characters are likably zany and fallible, and perhaps more important, funny. *One Last Thing Before I Go* is a poignant story about facing death and celebrating life, even when things seem well beyond repair." --Newsweek/The Daily Beast + + "The richly talented Tropper ( *This Is Where I Leave You* ) has created an acerbic, middle-aged lost soul who will ultimately illuminate the reasons we stick around on this lopsided planet despite significant temptation to let it go. Readers will love Silver and want to throttle him in equal measure. Eminently quotable, hilariously funny, and emotionally draining, this arresting tour de force will entertain well after the book is done." - *Library Journal* (starred review) + + “…a bristling, witty tale of woe that'll make you appreciate whatever good things, no matter how few, have come your way.” – *Entertainment Weekly* on *One Last Thing Before I Go* + + "Tropper entertainingly examines the angst of middle-age masculinity." - *Kirkus* + "Tropper is a master of the mid-life male coming-of-age story, and his latest is full of the charm and wit his readers cherish." - *Booklist* + “It’s amazing what can happen in the hands of the casually brilliant author. . . . Read and weep with laughter.” + — *Entertainment Weekly* + + “Tropper gets men. He's a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche.” + — *USA* *Today* on *This is Where I Leave You* + + “A tender and unexpectedly hilarious take on the messiness of family life.” + — *People StyleWatch* + + “Artful and brilliant, filled with colorful narratives and witty dialogue.” + — Associated Press on *This is Where I Leave You* + + “This is a beautiful novel about men -- their lust and rage and sweetness.” + — *The Washington Post* , on *This is Where I Leave You* + + “Tropper… [proves] his ability to create touchingly human characters and a deliciously page turning story.” + — *Publishers Weekly* on *This is Where I Leave You* + + ### About the Author + **Jonathan Tropper** is the *New York Times* bestselling author of five previous novels; *Plan B* , *The Book of Joe* , *Everything Changes* , *How To Talk to a Widower* , and *This Is Where I Leave You*. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. He is also a screenwriter, and the co-creator and executive producer of the HBO/Cinemax television show *Banshee* , premiering in 2013. **** + timestamp: 2014-04-20T21:09:40-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780525952367 identifiers: amazon:0525952365,google:WhvEFkP-T3YC,isbn:9780525952367 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-08-21T01:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 497110 tags: title_sort: One Last Thing Before I Go id: 143 uuid: 927c9bf2-b2e4-429e-9daa-1a6e9eadc306 author_sort: Hanagarne, Josh comments:

An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting

Josh Hanagarne couldn't be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn't officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old and onstage in a school Thanksgiving play when he first began exhibiting symptoms. By the time he was twenty, the young Mormon had reached his towering adult height of 6'7" when—while serving on a mission for the Church of Latter Day Saints—his Tourette's tics escalated to nightmarish levels.

Determined to conquer his affliction, Josh underwent everything from quack remedies to lethargy-inducing drug regimes to Botox injections that paralyzed his vocal cords and left him voiceless for three years. Undeterred, Josh persevered to marry and earn a degree in Library Science. At last, an eccentric, autistic strongman—and former Air Force Tech Sergeant and guard at an... timestamp: 2014-06-24T07:27:25-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781101621776 identifiers: isbn:9781101621776 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-05-02T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1074960 tags: title_sort: World's Strongest Librarian, The id: 144 uuid: 240a125e-990f-487c-bfed-0f57ac1561a8 author_sort: Miéville, China comments:

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Miéville's Embassytown.

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this--or any other--year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about--or prevent--the End of All Things.

In the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre's prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux--better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy's tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.

As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose... timestamp: 2014-08-26T18:18:23-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-345-52185-9 identifiers: isbn:978-0-345-52185-9 languages: eng pubdate: 2010-06-29T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2248977 tags: title_sort: Kraken id: 146 uuid: 82496574-2253-4905-8cbc-f3ebbfcdd70a author_sort: Kress, Nancy comments: timestamp: 2014-09-02T08:47:58-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2012-02-16T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 281753 tags: title_sort: Future Perfect id: 147 uuid: 6a4503d8-7a3c-4cde-9cea-27e105326d38 author_sort: Raymond, Eric S. comments:

The Art of UNIX Programming poses the belief that understanding the unwritten UNIX engineering tradition and mastering its design patterns will help programmers of all stripes to become better programmers. This book attempts to capture the engineering wisdom and design philosophy of the UNIX, Linux, and Open Source software development community as it has evolved over the past three decades, and as it is applied today by the most experienced programmers. Eric Raymond offers the next generation of "hackers" the unique opportunity to learn the connection between UNIX philosophy and practice through careful case studies of the very best UNIX/Linux programs.

**

Amazon.com Review

Unix ranks among the great engineering accomplishments of the last half of the twentieth century, and its heir--Linux--seems already imposing and still on its way to achieving its full potential. Eric S. Raymond argues in The Art of UNIX Programming that the excellence of Unix derives as much from the fact that it was (and continues to be) a community effort as from the fact that a lot of smart people have worked to design and build it. Raymond, best known as the author of the open-source manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar, says in his preface that this is a "why-to" book, rather than a "how-to" book. It aims to show new Unix programmers why they should work under the old "hacker ethic"--embracing the principles of good software design for its own sake and of code-sharing.

That said, a great deal of valuable practical information appears in this book. Very little of it is in the form of code; most of the practical material takes the form of case studies and discussions of aspects of Unix, all aimed at determining why particular design characteristics are good. In many cases, the people who did the work in the first place make guest appearances and explain their thinking--an invaluable resource. This book is for the deep-thinking software developer in Unix (and perhaps Linux in particular). It shows how to fit into the long and noble tradition, and how to make the software work right. --David Wall

Topics covered: Why Unix (the term being defined to include Linux) is the way it is, and the people who made it that way. Commentary from Ken Thompson, Steve Johnson, Brian Kernighan, and David Korn enables readers to understand the thought processes of the creators of Unix.

From the Back Cover

"Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense."
--Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, Test Driven Development, and Contributing to Eclipse

"A delightful, fascinating read, and the lessons in problem-solvng are essential to every programmer, on any OS."
--Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++

Writing better software: 30 years of UNIX development wisdom

In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that make UNIX home to the world's best and most innovative software, and shows how these are carried forward in Linux and today's open-source movement. Using examples from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and Linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that's more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and longer-lived.

Raymond incorporates commentary from thirteen UNIX pioneers:

timestamp: 2014-09-15T10:11:01-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9780131429017 identifiers: amazon:0131429019,isbn:9780131429017 languages: eng pubdate: 2003-10-02T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2248426 tags: UNIX title_sort: Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series), The id: 149 uuid: a915d006-8f53-4fc4-abef-6cd2dc073ee1 author_sort: King, Stephen comments:

With an excerpt from the sequel, Doctor Sleep.

Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to hold his own against the forces of evil that are driving his father insane. timestamp: 2014-09-28T14:43:46-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-385-52886-3 identifiers: isbn:978-0-385-52886-3 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-08-27T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2302396 tags: title_sort: Shining, The id: 150 uuid: 0aa121cb-b474-4dcc-b26f-6ec94b82a1a2 author_sort: Hunt, S. A. comments: Book 1 & 2 timestamp: 2014-10-08T18:59:57-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-10-08T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2376092 tags: title_sort: Outlaw King: Vol 1 & 2, The id: 151 uuid: 19ad0ed7-d00c-4d47-81d6-a529e57e2e8d author_sort: Boylan, Jennifer Finney comments:

The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, She's Not There provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves.

"Probably no book I've read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I've never known and have never faced . . . The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that's the trick of She's Not There. And with laughs, too. What a good book." --Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the... timestamp: 2014-10-21T07:04:46-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-385-34698-6 identifiers: isbn:978-0-385-34698-6 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-04-30T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2930267 tags: title_sort: She's Not There id: 152 uuid: 113f2833-43da-4118-a3a8-c19c495188e8 author_sort: Portes, Andrea comments: In this *Mean Girls* meets *The Perks of Being a Wallflower* tale, narrator Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl at Pound High School. But inside, she knows she's a freak; she can't stop thinking about former loner Logan McDonough, who showed up on the first day of tenth grade hotter, bolder, and more mysterious than ever. Logan is fascinating, troubled and off-limits. The Pound High queen bee will make Anika's life hell if she's seen with him. So Anika must choose--ignore her feelings and keep her social status? Or follow her heart and risk becoming a pariah. Which will she pick? And what will she think of her choice when an unimaginable tragedy strikes, changing her forever? An absolutely original new voice in YA in a story that will start important conversations--and tear at your heart. + timestamp: 2014-10-21T07:04:49-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-07-02T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 446045 tags: title_sort: Anatomy of a Misfit id: 153 uuid: 930f59a4-8e8e-4a4a-ab81-43d6d618c924 author_sort: Morgenstern, Erin comments:

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway--a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love--a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus... timestamp: 2014-12-02T09:37:02-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-385-53464-2 identifiers: isbn:978-0-385-53464-2 languages: eng pubdate: 2011-09-13T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2763828 tags: title_sort: Night Circus, The id: 154 uuid: 6e1b08b4-7c7a-4deb-b2db-7f5658ab1ab8 author_sort: King, Stephen comments:

Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a... timestamp: 2014-12-02T09:37:03-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4103565 tags: title_sort: Doctor Sleep id: 155 uuid: 10d56fba-b878-4180-bf34-d4b144060e68 author_sort: Green, John comments:

From the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
New York Times bestseller
USA Today bestseller
Publishers Weekly bestseller
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they're for Q.

Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers. timestamp: 2014-12-02T09:37:04-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2010-03-01T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 605815 tags: title_sort: Paper Towns id: 156 uuid: 595e5576-d714-4450-a682-5e55d9b393e8 author_sort: Gleason, Colleen comments: Bonus content! Purchase The Clockwork Scarab ebook and enjoy a free excerpt from The Spritiglass Charade, the second book in the Stoker & Holmes series. The free excerpt is automatically included and found at the end of the ebook.
Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there's no one more qualified to investigate. Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate the advances of not just one but three mysterious gentlemen, and solve murder with only one clue: a strange Egyptian scarab. The stakes are high. If Stoker and Holmes don't unravel why the belles of London society are in such danger, they'll become the next victims. timestamp: 2014-12-12T20:42:23-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2013-12-12T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 956516 tags: Fiction title_sort: Clockwork Scarab, The id: 157 uuid: d18fa0be-5dfd-455b-997b-74b45958e106 author_sort: Camp, L. Sprague de comments: What finer way for Alexander the Great to honor his old tutor Aristotle than to send him an actual Indian elephant. + After capturing a magnificent specimen from an Indian ruler, Alexander tasks Leon of Atrax, a cavalry commander, to deliver the animal to Aristotle in Athens. + Leon leads a motley crew of companions (and the elephant) from India to Greece, and in the process encounter all sorts of dangers and adventures while completing the long and arduous journey. + “An amazing narrative vehicle for the display of ... a fairly complete composite of the life and times of which the author writes.”—The Chicago Daily Tribune + "By hybridizing a Middle-Eastern travelogue with an Alexandrine comedy of manners, the author has produced a specimen only slightly less rare then elephants in Westchester–to wit, a historical novel with a sense of humor.”—The New York Times + “Engaging new novel.”—The Washington Post + timestamp: 2015-01-06T07:57:45-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2013-03-24T22:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 548871 tags: title_sort: Elephant for Aristotle, An id: 158 uuid: 58c138d3-2fb6-4e49-b002-5321a1d7824f author_sort: WALTON, LESLYE comments:

Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summer solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava's quest and her family's saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically,... timestamp: 2015-01-06T08:10:19-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-7636-7034-4 identifiers: isbn:978-0-7636-7034-4 languages: eng pubdate: 2014-01-06T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1649470 tags: title_sort: Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, The id: 159 uuid: 65731bb7-e2a6-4f4d-b7c9-369e77f76ef2 author_sort: Weir, Andy comments:

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills--and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit--he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him? timestamp: 2015-01-11T13:00:47-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-10-28T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5912650 tags: title_sort: Martian, The id: 160 uuid: a492c768-9e4d-4ddb-803d-90e5b05824a8 author_sort: Smith, Andrew comments:

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.

This is the truth. This is history.
It's the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.
You know what I mean.

Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

"Original, weird, sexy, thought-provoking and guaranteed to stir controversy. One hell of a book." – Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series

"Andrew Smith is the bravest storyteller I know. Grasshopper Jungle is the most intelligent and gripping book I've read in over a decade. I didn't move for... timestamp: 2015-01-24T22:59:47-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-02-11T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 699815 tags: title_sort: Grasshopper Jungle id: 161 uuid: c8adef40-c1eb-42f9-a681-63d2ffab2bc8 author_sort: Martin, George R. R. comments:

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO

In this thrilling sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced.

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the... timestamp: 2015-01-30T20:15:43-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 9780553897852 identifiers: isbn:9780553897852 languages: eng pubdate: 2003-01-01T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4304918 tags: Fiction, Fantasy title_sort: Clash of Kings, A id: 162 uuid: 2ac1b6e9-38a8-41e2-b5ea-9ffcf6c53230 author_sort: Martin, George R. R. comments:

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin's monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.

A FEAST FOR CROWS

It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King's Landing. Robb Stark's demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once... timestamp: 2015-01-30T20:15:56-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-553-90032-3 identifiers: isbn:978-0-553-90032-3 languages: eng pubdate: 2005-11-08T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4101157 tags: title_sort: Feast for Crows, A id: 163 uuid: 71412661-3424-4aa9-aeb8-96cee2622f26 author_sort: Martin, George R. R. comments:

A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, COMING SOON FROM HBO.

Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.

A Game of Thrones

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At... timestamp: 2015-01-30T20:16:05-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 978-0-553-89784-5 identifiers: isbn:978-0-553-89784-5 languages: eng pubdate: 1997-08-04T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4375659 tags: title_sort: Game of Thrones, A id: 164 uuid: 4fc12eed-2719-44fd-a2a7-6edbfa55329e author_sort: Offerman, Nick comments: When it comes to growing a robust mustache, masticating red meat, building a chair, or wooing a woman, who better to educate you than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in carpentry, Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood (born, literally, in the middle of an Illinois cornfield) to his theater days in Chicago to the, frankly, magnificent seduction of his wife, Megan Mullally. Offerman also shares his hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, styles, and religion, and invaluable advice on getting the utmost pleasure out of woodworking, assorted meats, outdoor recreations, and other palatable entrees. timestamp: 2015-01-30T20:16:20-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2013-09-04T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 6796154 tags: title_sort: Paddle Your Own Canoe id: 165 uuid: d6fbfc8c-a61b-4336-804b-62ae9d29847a author_sort: jan Maraskuu comments: timestamp: 2015-02-01T21:15:03-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 2015-02-01T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 61750 tags: toki pona title_sort: Toki Pona id: 167 uuid: ece0a96d-6565-4fc8-8cf2-35082ecf1dee author_sort: Martin, George R. R. comments:

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.

Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.

A STORM OF SWORDS

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of... timestamp: 2015-02-02T15:02:44-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-553-89787-6 identifiers: isbn:978-0-553-89787-6 languages: eng pubdate: 2000-02-02T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 4355289 tags: title_sort: Storm of Swords, A id: 168 uuid: 4f7d794b-6a73-4c36-baa2-c3378e650e7a author_sort: Cook, Paul comments: timestamp: 2015-02-03T09:00:19-07:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2010-12-08T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 302952 tags: title_sort: Karma Kommandos id: 169 uuid: 904a5f1e-bdd1-462b-acf5-d11cd202a2b1 author_sort: Martin, George R. R. comments:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

  • NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES

    Don't miss the thrilling sneak peek of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Six, The Winds of Winter

    Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.

    A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
    A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK FIVE

    In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands... timestamp: 2015-02-03T09:55:15-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 978-0-553-90565-6 identifiers: isbn:978-0-553-90565-6 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-10-29T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5285197 tags: title_sort: Dance with Dragons, A id: 171 uuid: fe92e802-8e71-4249-b20f-8a24f3faf92b author_sort: Gilbert, Elizabeth comments:

    A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed

    In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids an... timestamp: 2015-02-14T16:39:25-07:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-06-20T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 3228296 tags: title_sort: Signature of All Things, The id: 172 uuid: 24321f4b-7b51-408c-aa3c-98caf23b0aa5 author_sort: Hall, Erika comments: timestamp: 2015-03-03T20:52:58-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 9781937557119 identifiers: isbn:9781937557119 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-08-03T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 3787668 tags: title_sort: Just Enough Research id: 173 uuid: 077c83f7-0ea8-4d3c-849b-09d044409c1d author_sort: Monteiro, Mike comments: timestamp: 2015-03-03T20:53:07-07:00 formats: epub isbn: 9781937557058 identifiers: isbn:9781937557058 languages: eng pubdate: 2012-03-03T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1454564 tags: design title_sort: Design Is a Job id: 174 uuid: 195dce5d-63c6-4d21-bbda-697987cd0489 author_sort: Fujitaki, Kazuhiro comments: Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time, she has to pass + Luckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is there to help. Join them in the pages of *The Manga Guide to Electricity* as Rereko examines everyday electrical devices like flashlights, heaters, and circuit breakers, and learns the meaning of abstract concepts like voltage, potential, current, resistance, conductivity, and electrostatic force. + The real-world examples that you'll find in *The Manga Guide to Electricity* will teach you: + * What electricity is, how it works, how it's created, and how it can be used + * The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance (Ohm's law) + * Key electrical concepts like inductance and capacitance + * How complicated components like transformers, semiconductors, diodes, and transistors work + * How electricity produces heat and the relationship between current and magnetic fields + + + If thinking about how electricity works really fries your brain, let *The Manga Guide to Electricity* teach you all things electrical in a shockingly fun way. + ** + ### About the Author + Kazuhiro Fujitaki is a lecturer at the Tokyo Metropolitan Vocational Skills Development Center. He has written a number of books on electrical engineering and runs a website offering useful information about Japan's qualifying examinations for electrical technicians. + timestamp: 2015-03-03T20:56:06-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781593271978 identifiers: isbn:9781593271978,amazon:1593271972 languages: eng pubdate: 2009-03-20T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 14417650 tags: title_sort: Manga Guide to Electricity, The id: 178 uuid: 91805a86-b31a-42c1-8b34-11c6b262d2eb author_sort: Kojima, Hiroyuki comments: Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the *Asagake Times*. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye. + In *The Manga Guide to Calculus* , you'll follow along with Noriko as she learns that calculus is more than just a class designed to weed out would-be science majors. You'll see that calculus is a useful way to understand the patterns in physics, economics, and the world around us, with help from real-world examples like probability, supply and demand curves, the economics of pollution, and the density of Shochu (a Japanese liquor). + Mr. Seki teaches Noriko how to: + * Use differentiation to understand a function's rate of change + * Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus, and grasp the relationship between a function's derivative and its integral + * Integrate and differentiate trigonometric and other complicated functions + * Use multivariate calculus and partial differentiation to deal with tricky functions + * Use Taylor Expansions to accurately imitate difficult functions with polynomials + + + Whether you're struggling through a calculus course for the first time or you just need a painless refresher, you'll find what you're looking for in *The Manga Guide to Calculus*. + This EduManga book is a translation from a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan. + ** + ### About the Author + Hiroyuki Kojima received his PhD in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, at the University of Tokyo. He has worked as a lecturer and is now an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics at Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan. While well-regarded as an economist, he is also active as an essayist and has published a wide range of books on mathematics and economics at the fundamental, practical, and academic levels. + timestamp: 2015-03-03T21:15:13-07:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781593271947 identifiers: amazon:1593271948,isbn:9781593271947 languages: eng pubdate: 2009-08-28T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 30468501 tags: title_sort: Manga Guide to Calculus, The id: 179 uuid: 5f9187f2-f192-4e81-a49b-66fa0bac05d2 author_sort: Jordan, Robert comments: <p>The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.</p><p>
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    </p> timestamp: 2015-03-30T13:47:03-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: Wheel of Time series_index: 1.0 size: 2422226 tags: title_sort: Eye of the World, The id: 180 uuid: 551fc5ec-ef4d-43bd-b48c-32ac409b6ebf author_sort: Jordan, Robert comments: <p>The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth returns again. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.</p><p>
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    Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), D... timestamp: 2015-04-19T11:22:56-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2009-02-09T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2181308 tags: title_sort: Drood id: 182 uuid: 665fbb3b-6120-4107-accb-ccc3d1599468 author_sort: Partch, Harry comments: timestamp: 2015-05-01T19:10:22-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: amazon:B001KPWS86 languages: eng pubdate: 1979-01-15T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 83359643 tags: title_sort: Genesis of a Music id: 183 uuid: aa69d92d-65f2-44bc-ac40-4c50cb6e99d1 author_sort: Eggers, Dave comments:

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    For many, Kim Gordon, vocalist, bassist and founding member of Sonic Youth, has always been the epitome of cool.

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    In Girl in a Band, the famously reserved superstar speaks candidly about her past and the future. From her childhood in the sunbaked suburbs of Southern California, growing up with a mentally ill sibling... timestamp: 2015-05-17T09:51:10-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2015-01-20T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 5284022 tags: title_sort: Girl in a Band id: 187 uuid: 334fb8ba-a002-43e9-b882-54419b996534 author_sort: Jordan, Robert comments:

    The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him—is on the run from his destiny.



    Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how—for no man has done it in three thousand years—Rand al'Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?



    Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?



    Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem—how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.



    Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed—if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news—that... timestamp: 2015-05-27T22:19:13-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 1991-05-27T00:00:00-06:00 series: Wheel of Time series_index: 3.0 size: 2336666 tags: title_sort: Dragon Reborn, The id: 189 uuid: e7bd47d5-c871-4510-b82b-484e005897a6 author_sort: Aristotle comments: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. + This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. + As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. + ** + timestamp: 2015-05-31T08:51:45-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 9781357814915 identifiers: uri:http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8438,amazon:1357814917,isbn:9781357814915 languages: eng pubdate: 2016-05-20T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 251701 tags: title_sort: Ethics of Aristotle, The id: 190 uuid: 77ca8c64-1beb-41dd-bb44-70bc56231ca5 author_sort: White, Kate comments:

    From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a riveting psychological suspense in which a media star must battle a malevolent enemy who may be disturbingly close to her.

    After losing her on-air job two years ago, television host Robin Trainer has fought her way back and now she's hotter than ever. With her new show climbing in the ratings and her first book a bestseller, she's being dubbed a media double threat.

    But suddenly, things begin to go wrong. Small incidents at first: a nasty note left in her purse; her photo shredded. But the obnoxious quickly becomes threatening when the foundation the makeup artist uses burns Robin's face. It wasn't an accident--someone had deliberately doctored with the product.

    An adversary with a dark agenda wants to hurt Robin, and the clues point to someone she works with every day. While she frantically tries to put the pieces together and unmask this hidden foe, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the... timestamp: 2015-06-14T16:08:26-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2015-04-10T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 791091 tags: title_sort: Eyes on You id: 192 uuid: f03fef78-8a2c-4c00-a75f-3440b9f5253d author_sort: OMRANI comments: timestamp: 2015-06-14T16:09:02-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 721922 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Microsoft Word - Gerda-eo id: 193 uuid: 9f5fd039-7de9-4599-ba3a-e712b6059a93 author_sort: Orwell, George comments: timestamp: 2015-06-14T16:09:03-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2429051 tags: Esperanto title_sort: mil nauxcent okdek kvar id: 194 uuid: 244344ea-d77b-450a-9758-563fb53dab93 author_sort: Matthias, Ulrich comments: timestamp: 2015-06-16T09:55:57-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 316815 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Fajron sentas mi interne id: 195 uuid: 5caa3ebf-4100-4102-beb7-6e01ec797777 author_sort: Sloan, Robin comments:

    A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore



    The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay... timestamp: 2015-06-18T20:51:32-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 574405 tags: title_sort: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore id: 204 uuid: def255ce-f01d-4f38-91db-40f3b9570055 author_sort: de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine comments: timestamp: 2015-06-21T11:26:12-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2015-06-21T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 54769 tags: toki pona title_sort: jan lawa lili id: 205 uuid: 6474c297-27a2-4578-ba3c-f303aa12d722 author_sort: Cardenas, Eliazar Parra comments: timestamp: 2015-06-21T11:27:41-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2275155 tags: toki pona title_sort: Toki Pona in 76 Illustrated Lessons id: 206 uuid: 933a6977-4eec-426b-896d-6bbcf1fdae4a author_sort: Testa, Dom comments:

    When the tail of the comet Bhaktul flicks through the Earth's atmosphere, deadly particles are left in its wake. Suddenly, mankind is confronted with a virus that devastates the adult population. Only those under the age of eighteen seem to be immune. Desperate to save humanity, a renowned scientist proposes a bold plan: to create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system. Two years later, the Galahad and its crew—none over the age of sixteen—is launched.



    Two years of training have prepared the crew for the challenges of space travel. But soon after departing Earth, they discover that a saboteur is hiding on the Galahad! Faced with escalating acts of vandalism and terrorized by threatening messages, sixteen-year-old Triana Martell and her council soon realize that the stowaway will do anything to ensure that the Galahad never reaches its destination. The teens must find a way to... timestamp: 2015-06-22T10:22:36-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2005-06-22T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 340392 tags: title_sort: Comet's Curse, The id: 207 uuid: 6cb48e89-6e7e-4154-ba91-863bf8ed7512 author_sort: Korczak, Janusz comments: timestamp: 2015-06-23T07:43:02-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 196953 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Bonhumoraj rakontoj id: 208 uuid: a22b17d5-4cab-4c5f-a41b-1052a02700cd author_sort: various comments: timestamp: 2015-06-23T07:58:22-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 37327653 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Libera Esperanto-Libro id: 209 uuid: 99710bcd-71c4-44ee-a7a2-e3b6c3a38561 author_sort: Zaft, Sylvan comments: An introduction to the purely international language, Esperanto, a fully expressive language which can be learned in a fraction of the time it takes to learn other languages because of its regularity–learn a rule, use the rule, no exceptions! + Many stories of how easily the language is learned and how it has been used for a century to communicate across linguistic barriers. + ** + timestamp: 2015-07-01T18:58:35-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: amazon:B0051ZG58A languages: eng pubdate: 2011-05-20T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 174214 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village id: 210 uuid: bf1325e9-e699-4974-8439-ddebdd0e4dca author_sort: Butcher, Jim comments:

    For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. timestamp: 2015-07-01T18:59:37-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-08-04T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 506056 tags: title_sort: Storm Front id: 211 uuid: ffa843df-59eb-495a-b0db-e3e5491f3adc author_sort: Smith, L. Neil comments: timestamp: 2015-07-02T19:56:54-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2011-02-06T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 452315 tags: title_sort: Pallas id: 212 uuid: 8d211942-cb5e-41e4-8b55-d75b87971c2c author_sort: Green, Roedy comments: timestamp: 2015-07-06T13:12:54-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 2015-07-06T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 12989 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Kiel Paroli Maldece en Esperanto id: 213 uuid: 9cd0df62-712e-4123-bd31-ec9db59c088c author_sort: Corsetti comments: timestamp: 2015-07-07T20:32:11-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: epo pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 135490 tags: Esperanto title_sort: Regularizing the regular id: 214 uuid: af656742-a52b-4668-ab6a-cf0c6e5a3443 author_sort: Cline, Ernest comments: Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.

    But hey, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don't get chosen to save the universe.

    And then he sees the flying saucer.

    Even stranger, the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.

    No, Zack hasn't lost his mind. As impossible as it seems,... timestamp: 2015-07-14T09:32:51-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780804137263 identifiers: isbn:9780804137263 languages: eng pubdate: 2015-07-14T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 6867883 tags: Fiction, sci-fi title_sort: Armada id: 216 uuid: 39b5e249-dd3d-4c8a-87fe-5b6ab06d33a6 author_sort: Manning, Jonathon comments:

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    Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.

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    The ultimate conspiracy book ... the biggest Sci-Fi cult novel to come along since Dune. Village Voice An epic fantasy ... a devilishly funny work, loaded with humour, puns, up-level ironies that make you burst out laughing. New Age Journal

    From the Publisher

    Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.

    timestamp: 2015-08-04T21:44:57-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780440539810 identifiers: isbn:9780440539810,amazon:0440539811 languages: eng pubdate: 1983-12-14T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1397491 tags: Discordianism title_sort: Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden Apple, Leviathan, The id: 223 uuid: eda540db-c9a1-4bd6-8d58-93ea9e853a36 author_sort: Keyes, Marian comments: From bestselling author Marian Keyes, a hilarious new novel about an Irish beautician and her unorthodox path to love and fame
    In her own words, Stella Sweeney is just "an ordinary woman living an ordinary life with her husband and two teenage kids," working for her sister in their neighborhood beauty salon. Until one day she is struck by a serious illness, landing her in the hospital for months.
    After recovering, Stella finds out that her neurologist, Dr. Mannix Taylor, has compiled and self-published a memoir about her illness. Her discovery comes when she spots a photo of the finished copy in an American tabloid—and it's in the hands of the vice president's wife! As her relationship with Dr. Taylor gets more complicated, Stella struggles to figure out who she was before her illness, who she is now, and who she wants to be while relocating to New York City to pursue a career as a newly minted self-help memoirist.
    Funny, fast-paced, and honest, Keyes's... timestamp: 2015-08-25T15:13:35-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2015-06-03T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1179943 tags: title_sort: Woman Who Stole My Life, The id: 225 uuid: 51753b87-15b3-4f1e-b5ee-e70023530897 author_sort: Way, Gerard comments: timestamp: 2015-08-25T15:36:17-06:00 formats: azw3 isbn: 9781593079789 identifiers: mobi-asin:B00A82U8WA,isbn:9781593079789 languages: eng pubdate: 2008-06-17T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 108296068 tags: title_sort: Umbrella Academy Volume 1: Apocalypse Suite id: 229 uuid: 73628bf9-ce35-4742-978f-79a9735e2f19 author_sort: Haviv, Amos Q. comments: timestamp: 2015-09-01T09:00:36-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 2014-09-23T05:41:01-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 23431200 tags: title_sort: MEAN Web Development id: 230 uuid: efa5a65b-be22-492a-8111-0403ce721205 author_sort: Fellesine, Matthias comments: timestamp: 2015-09-01T09:02:02-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 2013-06-03T11:34:21-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 18314108 tags: lisp title_sort: Realm of Racket id: 231 uuid: e7ba1fb6-4d46-46a7-94d2-ca0349d31028 author_sort: W. Frank Ableson, Robi Sen, Chris King comments: Android is a free, open source, Java-based mobile platform developed by Google. Unlocking Android, Second Edition prepares the reader to embrace the Android mobile platform in easy-to-understand language and builds on this foundation with reusable Java code examples. It's ideal for corporate developers and hobbyists who have an interest, or a mandate, to deliver mobile software. Unlocking Android, Second Edition familiarizes the reader with the Android approach to mobile applications. The Android application framework is thoroughly explained and discussed within the current competitive landscape. Following the release of Android 2.0, this edition has been updated to cover hot topics such as Bluetooth integration, web development strategies, AppWidget framework, sensor management, the Android Native Development Kit, and localization. timestamp: 2015-09-14T09:46:30-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 22316133 tags: android title_sort: Android in Action, Second Edition id: 232 uuid: dc4f11bd-7bdd-492d-8b6f-52154ed2889a author_sort: Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, Robi Sen comments: Android is a free, open source, Java-based mobile platform developed by Google. Unlocking Android prepares the reader to embrace the Android mobile platform in easy-to-understand language and builds on this foundation with reusable Java code examples. It's ideal for corporate developers and hobbyists who have an interest, or a mandate, to deliver mobile software. timestamp: 2015-09-14T09:46:53-06:00 formats: epub isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 13971518 tags: title_sort: Unlocking Android: A Developer’s Guide id: 234 uuid: cfebf9cf-5085-4bb0-8c04-fe38f9936799 author_sort: Bookshelf, The Pragmatic comments: timestamp: 2015-09-14T09:48:05-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 2203395 tags: title_sort: Groovy Recipes id: 235 uuid: 2f4d2526-5c11-47ff-8139-3e234ddd1c74 author_sort: Rocher, Graeme & Brown, Jeff Scott comments:

    The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails.

    Grails is not just a Rails clone. It aims to provide a Rails–like environment that is more familiar to Java developers and employs idioms that Java developers are comfortable using, making the adjustment in mentality to a dynamic framework less of a jump. The concepts within Grails, like interceptors, tag libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP), make those in the Java community feel right at home.

    Grails’ foundation is on solid open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh, which gives it even more potential in the Java space: Spring provides powerful inversion of control and MVC, Hibernate brings a stable, mature object relational mapping technology with the ability to integrate with legacy systems, and SiteMesh handles flexible layout control and page decoration.

    Grails complements these with additional features that take advantage of the coding–by–convention paradigm such as dynamic tag libraries, Grails object relational mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding.

    Graeme Rocher, Grails lead and founder, and Jeff Brown bring you completely up–to–date with their authoritative and fully comprehensive guide to the Grails framework. You’ll get to know all the core features, services, and Grails extensions via plug–ins, and understand the roles that Groovy and Grails are playing in the changing Web.

    What you’ll learn

    Who this book is for

    This book is for everyone who is looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic scripting language such as Groovy. This includes a large number of Java developers who have been enticed by the productivity gains seen with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails, etc. The Web and its environment is a perfect fit for easily adaptable and concise languages such as Groovy and Ruby, and there is huge interest from the developer community in general to embrace these languages.

    **

    About the Author

    Graeme Rocher is an experienced software engineer, consultant and dynamic language expert. Graeme is project lead of the open source Grails web application framework (Grails.org) and author of The Definitive Guide to Grails. In Graeme's role as head of Grails development at SpringSource, the professional open source services company behind the Spring framework, Graeme leads the development of the Grails web framework and provides consulting, training and support to SpringSource's clients. Graeme is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on subjects related to Groovy, Grails and dynamic languages in Java. Prior to joining SpringSource Graeme co-founded G2One the Groovy/Grails Company which was later acquired by SpringSource.

    Jeff Brown is a software engineer at SpringSource and a member of the Groovy and Grails development teams. Jeff has been involved with software engineering since the early 1990s and has designed and built systems for industries including financial, biomedical, aerospace, and others. Jeff worked for G2One Inc. (the Groovy/Grails Company), where he would help drive the professional services side of the business. In late 2008, Jeff joined SpringSource when G2One and SpringSource came together to leverage synergies between the technologies created and supported by each company. Through his entire career, Jeff has been a hands-on technologist actively involved in software development, training, and mentoring. He is also an international public speaker.

    timestamp: 2015-09-14T09:49:41-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781590599952 identifiers: isbn:9781590599952,amazon:1430243775 languages: eng pubdate: 2009-05-13T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 9459369 tags: title_sort: Definitive Guide to Grails (Expert's Voice in Web Development), The id: 236 uuid: b14fc7bb-3b67-452a-857c-054e3e46e42c author_sort: Igor comments: timestamp: 2015-09-14T09:51:51-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 2006-12-14T02:00:47-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 14795057 tags: title_sort: Groovy in Action id: 238 uuid: 2746fb5c-9f8d-400d-9c79-9d8cba0f4aa9 author_sort: Smith, Glen & Ledbrook, Peter comments: timestamp: 2015-09-14T09:52:07-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 2009-05-22T05:31:50-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 12236293 tags: title_sort: Grails in Action id: 239 uuid: 66244168-73e5-40c8-90d6-5675148645fa author_sort: Doerr, Anthony comments: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
    From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
    Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

    In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister,... timestamp: 2015-09-18T17:45:04-06:00 formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 6255224 tags: Fiction title_sort: All the Light We Cannot See id: 240 uuid: f1a41239-23a2-4072-a445-598dbe882d32 author_sort: Clinton, Hillary Rodham comments: timestamp: 2015-09-18T17:55:23-06:00 formats: epub isbn: 9781471131530 identifiers: isbn:9781471131530,mobi-asin:B00FHZKSWS languages: eng pubdate: 2014-06-09T15:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 11697163 tags: title_sort: Hard Choices: A Memoir id: 241 uuid: 068e5c0a-ad2b-402a-9682-eee3671b6eeb author_sort: Alexander, Christopher comments: "These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional unselfconscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities. In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct. The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village. timestamp: 2015-09-18T17:58:38-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9780674627512 identifiers: isbn:9780674627512,google:Kh3T3XFUfPQC languages: eng pubdate: 1964-03-15T10:42:21-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 26812812 tags: design, Architecture title_sort: Notes on the Synthesis of Form id: 242 uuid: f9bb47d5-a60c-4e49-b50a-88dec631cac8 author_sort: Abelson, Hal & Ledeen, Ken comments: “If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll love this book. If you want to change the future before it happens to you, this book is required reading.” + – **Reed Hundt** , former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission + “There is no simpler or clearer statement of the radical change that digital technologies will bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking about the next steps.” + – **Lawrence** **Lessig** , Stanford Law School and Author of *Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace* + “ *Blown to Bits* will blow you away. In highly accessible and always fun prose, it explores all the nooks and crannies of the digital universe, exploring not only how this exploding space works but also what it means.” + – **Debora Spar** , President of Barnard College, Author of *Ruling the Waves* and *The Baby Business* + “This is a wonderful book–probably the best since Hal Varian and Carl Schultz wrote *Digital Rules*. The authors are engineers, not economists. The result is a long, friendly talk with the genie, out of the lamp, and willing to help you avoid making the traditional mistake with that all-important third wish.” + – **David Warsh** , Author of *Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations* + “ *Blown to Bits* is one of the clearest expositions I’ve seen of the social and political issues arising from the Internet. Its remarkably clear explanations of how the Net actually works lets the hot air out of some seemingly endless debates. You’ve made explaining this stuff look easy. Congratulations!” + – **David Weinberger** , Coauthor of *The Cluetrain Manifesto* and Author of *Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder*. + “ *Blown to Bits* is a timely, important, and very readable take on how information is produced and consumed today, and more important, on the approaching sea change in the way that we as a society deal with the consequences.” + – **Craig Silverstein** , Director of Technology, Google, Inc. + “This book gives an overview of the kinds of issues confronting society as we become increasingly dependent on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Every informed citizen should read this book and then form their own opinion on these and related issues. And after reading this book you will rethink how (and even whether) you use the Web to form your opinions…” + – **James S. Miller** , Senior Director for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation + “Most writing about the digital world comes from techies writing about technical matter for other techies or from pundits whose turn of phrase greatly exceeds their technical knowledge. In *Blown to Bits* , experts in computer science address authoritatively the practical issues in which we all have keen interest.” + – **Howard Gardner** , Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Author of *Multiple Intelligences* and *Changing Minds* + ** + “Regardless of your experience with computers, *Blown to Bits* provides a uniquely entertaining and informative perspective from the computing industry’s greatest minds. + A fascinating, insightful and entertaining book that helps you understand computers and their impact on the world in a whole new way. + This is a rare book that explains the impact of the digital explosion in a way that everyone can understand and, at the same time, challenges experts to think in new ways.” + – **Anne Margulies** , Assistant Secretary for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts + “ *Blown to Bits* is fun and fundamental. What a pleasure to see real teachers offering such excellent framework for students in a digital age to explore and understand their digital environment, code and law, starting with the insight of Claude Shannon. I look forward to you teaching in an open online school.” + – **Professor Charles Nesson** , Harvard Law School, Founder, Berkman Center for Internet and Society + “To many of us, computers and the Internet are magic. We make stuff, send stuff, receive stuff, and buy stuff. It’s all pointing, clicking, copying, and pasting. But it’s all mysterious. This book explains in clear and comprehensive terms how all this gear on my desk works and why we should pay close attention to these revolutionary changes in our lives. It’s a brilliant and necessary work for consumers, citizens, and students of all ages.” + – **Siva Vaidhyanathan,** cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia and author of *Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity* + ** + “The world has turned into the proverbial elephant and we the blind men. The old and the young among us risk being controlled by, rather than in control of, events and technologies. *Blown to Bits* is a remarkable and essential Rosetta Stone for beginning to figure out how all of the pieces of the new world we have just begun to enter–law, technology, culture, information–are going to fit together. Will life explode with new possibilities, or contract under pressure of new horrors? The precipice is both exhilarating and frightening. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, together, have ably managed to describe the elephant. Readers of this compact book describing the beginning stages of a vast human adventure will be one jump ahead, for they will have a framework on which to hang new pieces that will continue to appear with remarkable speed. To say that this is a ‘must read’ sounds trite, but, this time, it’s absolutely true.” + – **Harvey Silverglate** , criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and writer + Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can’t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to–the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation. + But the same engineering marvels are shattering centuries-old assumptions about privacy, identity, free expression, and personal control as more and more details of our lives are captured as digital data. + Can you control who sees all that personal information about you? Can email be truly confidential, when nothing seems to be private? Shouldn’t the Internet be censored the way radio and TV are? Is it really a federal crime to download music? When you use Google or Yahoo! to search for something, how do they decide which sites to show you? Do you still have free speech in the digital world? Do you have a voice in shaping government or corporate policies about any of this? + *Blown to Bits* offers provocative answers to these questions and tells intriguing real-life stories. This book is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion. + Preface xiii + Chapter 1: Digital Explosion: Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? 1 + Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned 19 + Chapter 3: Ghosts in the Machine: Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents 73 + Chapter 4: Needles in the Haystack: Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar 109 + Chapter 5: Secret Bits: How Codes Became Unbreakable 161 + Chapter 6: Balance Toppled: Who Owns the Bits? 195 + Chapter 7: You Can’t Say That on the Internet: Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression 229 + Chapter 8: Bits in the Air: Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech 259 + Conclusion: After the Explosion 295 + Appendix: The Internet as System and Spirit 301 + Endnotes 317 + Index 347 + ** + timestamp: 2015-09-18T18:00:00-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9780137135592 identifiers: isbn:9780137135592,amazon:0137135599 languages: eng pubdate: 2008-06-16T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 23096274 tags: technical title_sort: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion id: 244 uuid: 31ca6310-b6de-49ec-8cda-45aab6e43cba author_sort: Iyengar, B. K. S. comments: The Illustrated Light on Yoga is a comprehensive and invaluable guide to practicing yoga for the beginners. The book is written in an easy-to-understand and step-by-step format for the readers to be able to practice what is explained in the book. The book is packed with several colorful photographs carefully placed in the relevant part of the text for easy reference. In addition, the book also consists of detailed descriptions of over 57 yoga postures. This book will make for an ideal read for anyone interested in yoga and pranayama. + ** + timestamp: 2015-09-18T18:00:17-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9788172236069 identifiers: isbn:9788172236069,amazon:8172236069,google:pbx5AAAACAAJ languages: eng pubdate: 2004-01-02T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 20281809 tags: Yoga title_sort: Illustrated Light on Yoga id: 245 uuid: 378163be-0d97-4401-87b4-0ac096e36559 author_sort: Williams, Daniel comments:

    If you have ambitions to build apps that work on both iOS and Android, then this guide to Corona SDK will help you realize them quickly and painlessly. From developing to marketing - it's all here.

    Overview

    In Detail

    Corona SDK is a software development kit, which allows programmers to build mobile applications on iOS and Android devices. It is used by developers to build, both business and gaming apps at record speeds.

    "Corona SDK Application Design" will show you the power behind Corona SDK and how to make best use of its features to create your own apps. Learn to create apps using your unique ideas quickly and easily.'

    You will start with a quick introduction to Corona SDK and the Lua programming language. Follow examples for creating a business as well as a gaming app to help you learn how to utilize Corona’s built-in features effectively to develop professional-looking apps with excellent functionality. Soon you will be confident enough to create your own apps and publish them on popular app stores. Towards the end of the book the author shares some of his own tried and tested marketing techniques to help you get your app seen and downloaded by as many people as possible.

    What you will learn from this book

    Approach

    A step by step tutorial that focuses on everything from setup to deployment of basic apps.

    Who this book is written for

    Have you ever wanted to create your own app? Then this book is for you. You will learn how to create apps using Corona SDK and how to publish your app so others can get a glimpse of your creation. This book is aimed at both Android and iOS app developers. The reader must have basic knowledge of app development.

    **

    About the Author

    Daniel Williams

    Daniel Williams is a web developer, mobile game developer, online specialist, and founder of That’s So Panda (http://www.thatssopanda.com). Since starting his own mobile adventure with Corona SDK a couple of years ago, Daniel has released several app titles and has written several tutorials on http://www.thatssopanda.com for individuals just starting with Corona SDK. When he’s not busy reading about the latest technology news or working on his latest app title, he can be found watching the latest movies, discovering new local restaurants, or playing video games.

    timestamp: 2015-09-18T18:00:25-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9781849697361 identifiers: isbn:9781849697361,amazon:1849697361 languages: eng pubdate: 2013-06-12T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 1966838 tags: corona title_sort: Corona SDK Application Design id: 246 uuid: 4d9fa1f8-7452-49ca-9fa7-1831d823b84f author_sort: Chas Emerick, Brian Carper & Grand, Christophe comments: timestamp: 2015-09-18T18:00:58-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: identifiers: languages: pubdate: 2012-03-28T12:23:13-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 11436074 tags: Programming, clojure title_sort: Clojure Programming id: 247 uuid: 588c0c3e-f707-4ff5-9d68-6895812a9fa1 author_sort: Jung, Kurt comments: This book is for students and professionals who are intrigued by the prospect of learning and using a powerful language that provides a rich infrastructure for creating programs. No programming knowledge is necessary to benefit from this book except for the section on Lua bindings, which requires some familiarity with the C programming language. A certain comfort level with command-line operations, text editing, and directory structures is assumed. + You need surprisingly little in the way of computer resources to learn and use Lua. This book focuses on Windows and Unix-like (including Linux) systems, but any operating system that supports a command shell should be suitable. You'll need a text editor to prepare and save Lua scripts. + If you choose to extend Lua with libraries written in a programming language like C, you'll need a suitable software development kit. Many of these kits are freely available on the Internet but, unlike Lua, they can consume prodigious amounts of disk space and memory. + ** + ### From the Back Cover + Lua offers a wide range of features that you can utilize to support and enhance your applications. With this book as your guide, you'll gain a thorough understanding of all aspects of programming with this powerful language. It will walk you through the basics, covering everything from installing Lua on your system to developing games and web sites. + Experts Jung and Brown first present the fundamentals of programming and explain standard Lua functions. They then show you how to take advantage of all of the free Lua community resources that are available. Complete code samples are integrated throughout the chapters to clearly demonstrate how to apply the information. Diagrams are also included to highlight important Lua features such as stacks, hash tables, garbage collection, and function closures. All of this will help you to quickly write your own effective programs. + **What you will learn from this book** + * Ways to extend Lua's operators with metamethods + * Methods on how to use tables, strings, and modules + * How to handle events naturally with coroutines + * Techniques for managing information with databases + * Tips for handling and avoiding programming errors + * Ways to create your own innovative games + * How to enhance application development using packages contributed by the Lua community + * Steps for presenting dynamic information on your web site + + + **Who this book is for** + This book is for beginning programmers, game developers, and web site developers who are interested in a simple yet powerful introduction to programming. + **Wrox Beginning guides** are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. + ### About the Author + Between his first programs submitted to a Burroughs 5500 on Hollerith punch cards and his latest programs tapped into a Palm Pilot, **Kurt Jung** has been the principal programmer on various projects ranging from airline yield management to state machine–driven workflow. + **Aaron Brown** began programming in elementary school on a Commodore 64. He plays various musical instruments and speaks Esperanto. + timestamp: 2015-09-18T18:01:05-06:00 formats: pdf isbn: 9780470069172 identifiers: amazon:0470069171,isbn:9780470069172 languages: epo pubdate: 2007-02-12T00:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 size: 9440870 tags: lua title_sort: Beginning Lua Programming id: 248 uuid: 91993577-055f-435d-a742-96e81a87d47f author_sort: Flanagan, Nevin comments:

    A detailed guide with 10 projects specifically designed to expand the fundamentals of this exciting mobile development platform!

    Overview

    In Detail

    If you've used the Corona Software Development Kit to build your very first new mobile app, you already know how easy it makes developing across all the pieces of this fragmented market. This book upgrades your knowledge of Lua and the Corona API with designs, habits and advanced concepts to speed your development and create more exciting apps.

    Corona SDK Hotshot will show you how to combine advanced Lua features such as coroutines and metatables with Corona's sophisticated tools, including physics and networking, to develop exactly the game or app you or your customers need, quickly and with an eye towards updating your app with improvements in the future.

    Corona SDK Hotshot will expand your basic knowledge of Corona with an insight into making the most of its event platform, using physics wisely and easily, and moving on to advanced programming tasks like path-finding.

    You will focus heavily on how to keep your programs understandable as they become more complicated, by using modules and events to divide it up. You'll practice ways to make AI scripts and map files easily understandable to designers and other collaborators, and use networks like GameCenter to publish progress.

    The last projects will combine the full range of covered material to illustrate how you can produce sophisticated and exciting apps as a Corona Hotshot!

    What you will learn from this book

    Approach

    Using a project based approach you will learn the coolest aspects of Corona SDK development. Each project contains step- by-step explanations, diagrams, screenshots, and downloadable materials.

    Who this book is written for

    This book is for users who already have completed at least one simple app using Corona, or are familiar with mobile development using another platform and have done Lua programming in another context.

    **

    About the Author

    Nevin Flanagan

    Nevin Flanagan has had an extremely varied career covering several fields, but the threads of computers, teaching, and games have trailed through it all for years. He has programmed on different levels ranging from assembly language to high-level scripting in game engines, and is credited as a contributor to the World of Warcraft user interface. He is currently fascinated by the interface possibilities offered by mobile touchscreen devices and is completing a Master's degree in Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.

    He lives with his wife Jenna in Leominster, Massachusetts, in the U.S.A.

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