Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings—a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-size mosquito—along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers. First published in Russia in 1965, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions—here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing,...","2022-01-20T17:52:52-07:00","epub","","","eng","2017-01-14T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","6564346","","Monday Starts on Saturday","1413","9529a0bf-ef59-4f57-9703-66a7e64d6bb9" +"wikibooks","","2022-01-20T19:22:28-07:00","pdf","","","","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1832191","","C Programming","1414","7881c95c-764c-4f9a-a1dd-f90f9ec17a21" +"Santos, Marisa De Los","
From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.
Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets a fire in the school's auditorium. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze.
While many in the town believe a notoriously troubled local teen set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-04-15T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2159489","","I'd Give Anything","1415","c07063d9-7879-4d79-8317-ad625abd917d" +"Quinn, Kate","
""The reigning queen of historical fiction"" — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-01-15T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","5187007","","Rose Code, The","1416","9d2c6fe3-f615-44b3-a9e6-3333258434bc"
+"Stewart, Matthew","A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.
In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What's left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.
They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-10-11T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2468359","","9.9 Percent, The","1417","57ffbaa7-e348-46d5-b08e-995ee858e2e9"
+"STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR","
The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, ""Powers of Darkness""), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson's story.
In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a...","2022-01-23T19:49:05-07:00","epub","9781468313376","isbn:9781468313376","eng","2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3856757","FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics","Powers of Darkness","1418","47c83930-d9fd-4d00-adbc-a87099d80bd1"
+"Chabon, Michael","WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World
Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality,...","2022-01-26T18:02:05-07:00","epub","978-0-8129-9367-7","isbn:978-0-8129-9367-7","eng","2012-06-12T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3282504","","Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content), The","1419","e8855a93-288a-4655-b1af-14f6c3175403"
+"Cole, Adrian & McLain, Bob","## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE
+## IN THE TRADITION OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND LEIGH BRACKETT
+The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. **
+","2022-01-31T14:03:58-07:00","epub","9781683902966","isbn:9781683902966,mobi-asin:B09764F6Y8,google:LqUczgEACAAJ,amazon:1683902963","eng","2021-06-11T16:00:00-06:00","The Dream Lords","1.0","490327","Speculative","Dream Lords : Rebellion, The","1420","9db7bb8c-5184-4027-a0ee-59a9ce5e73d1"
+"Kent, William","","2022-02-08T11:37:01-07:00","pdf","","","","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1035898","","Data and Reality","1422","21b2d47d-a554-4c3d-ab63-d6b22320565f"
+"HYDEN, STEVEN","THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future. For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A. Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it...","2022-02-13T20:27:54-07:00","epub","","","eng","2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1212412","","This Isn't Happening","1423","84889468-6ddf-4782-a567-2a292eae8f8b"
+"Beyer, Doug","As a planeswalker investigates an alarming mystery built into the very foundations of Ravnica, he realizes some secrets are better left hidden
Jace Beleren has the power to travel between planes of the Multiverse, but with this gift comes isolation. He is one in a million. He is a planeswalker. And he is on the edge of a mystery that could alter the face of his adopted home—a vast, world-wide city known as Ravnica—forever.
Faced with a magical code that is built into the very foundations of the city-world itself, Jace marches into the numinous depths of Ravnica’s underbelly in search of the promise of powerful magic. What he finds is perhaps more burden than boon. Once buried in past, the code resurfaces as Ravnica’s power-hungry mage guilds—unbound by the Guildpact that had once maintained order—struggle for control of the plane. But in the drive for primacy, there is no neutral ground.
Jace knows that he...","2022-02-13T21:42:49-07:00","epub","978-0-7869-6455-0","isbn:978-0-7869-6455-0","eng","2012-11-27T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","2135369","","Return to Ravnica","1424","07c0acd0-3968-44e4-9fe6-450969b94429"
diff --git a/books.rec b/books.rec
index ae20ec4..4c0a48a 100644
--- a/books.rec
+++ b/books.rec
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ 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
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ comments: Beginning with a short story appearing in *The Magazine of Fantasy and
+ **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
@@ -52,11 +54,17 @@ 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
@@ -73,6 +81,8 @@ 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
@@ -89,6 +99,7 @@ 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
@@ -105,6 +116,7 @@ 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
@@ -170,6 +182,7 @@ 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:
@@ -186,6 +199,7 @@ 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:
@@ -202,6 +216,7 @@ 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
@@ -270,6 +285,7 @@ comments: When Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Re
+ *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:
@@ -288,6 +304,7 @@ 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:
@@ -307,6 +324,7 @@ comments: Something strange happens to Joe and Marge on the way to El Paso. They
+ 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:
@@ -371,7 +389,9 @@ 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
+ * * *
@@ -391,6 +411,7 @@ comments: The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. In
+ * *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
@@ -414,6 +435,7 @@ comments: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
+ ***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
@@ -452,6 +474,7 @@ comments: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath'
+ 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
@@ -525,6 +548,7 @@ comments: Success Can Be Yours With *The One Minute Manager*
+ 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
@@ -621,15 +645,20 @@ 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
isbn: 9781585671823
@@ -1008,9 +1037,12 @@ comments: If you've done some Arduino tinkering and wondered how you could incor
+ * 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
@@ -1067,11 +1099,14 @@ comments: Want to create devices that interact with the physical world? This coo
+ * 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
@@ -1172,6 +1207,7 @@ comments: *Beginning Arduino Programming* allows you to quickly and intuitively
+ **
+ ### About the Author
+ A bio is not available for this author.
++
timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:33:53-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781430237778
@@ -1209,6 +1245,7 @@ comments: Blender, the most popular and powerful open source 3D and animation to
+ **
+ ### About the Author
+ Lance Flavell is a 3D modeling and animation teacher with an animation diploma from Auckland's Media Design School in New Zealand. He has a strong interest in teaching students how to use open source software, especially Blender, to create and explore 3D computer graphics.
++
timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:34:29-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781430262237
@@ -1501,6 +1538,7 @@ comments: Presenting a holistic and thoroughly practical investigation of the tr
+ • 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
@@ -1714,6 +1752,7 @@ comments: Although the number of commercial Java games is still small compared t
+ "Packed with Java content, with hundreds of links to even more information. The last word in Java game programming." - Paul Hudson, Linux Format, October (Top Stuff Award)
+ ### About the Author
+ Andrew Davison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London in 1989. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne for six years before moving to Prince of Songkla University in Thailand in 1996. He has also taught in Bangkok, Khon Kaen, and Hanoi. His research interests include scripting languages, logic programming, visualization, and teaching methodologies. This latter topic led to an interest in teaching games programming in 1999. His O'Reilly book, "Killer Game Programming in Java", was published in 2005.
++
timestamp: 2014-01-09T19:39:42-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 0596007302
@@ -1883,6 +1922,8 @@ comments: There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more fanatical
+ * 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.
@@ -1899,6 +1940,7 @@ comments: There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more fanatical
+ 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:
@@ -2015,6 +2057,7 @@ comments: Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fe
+ 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
@@ -2127,29 +2170,40 @@ 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
@@ -2278,6 +2332,7 @@ 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:
@@ -2363,6 +2418,7 @@ comments: What finer way for Alexander the Great to honor his old tutor Aristotl
+ “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:
@@ -2610,10 +2666,13 @@ comments: Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land
+ * 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
@@ -2637,11 +2696,14 @@ comments: Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the *Asagake T
+ * 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
@@ -2789,6 +2851,7 @@ comments: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,
+ 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
@@ -2967,6 +3030,7 @@ 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:
@@ -3412,6 +3476,7 @@ comments: “If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll lo
+ Endnotes 317
+ Index 347
+ **
++
timestamp: 2015-09-18T18:00:00-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780137135592
@@ -3429,6 +3494,7 @@ 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
@@ -3492,12 +3558,15 @@ comments: This book is for students and professionals who are intrigued by the p
+ * 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
@@ -3530,6 +3599,7 @@ uuid: 5e22292e-6a4e-497b-9b00-1b1337971711
author_sort: Fleming, Ian
comments: Soviet spy Le Chiffre loses a large part of the capital as a result of failed investments. To get the money back he organizes the tournament baccarat in a casino in Royal-les-Eaux. In order to destroy Le Chiffre, the British secret service sends his agent James Bond. At Royal-les-Eaux Bond meets his Rene Mathis, who introduces him to Vesper Lynd – the representative of the MI6 Treasury. During the game, Bond loses all his money, but with help of the CIA agent Felix Leiter, who borrowed him a large sum, he continues to play. At the end of the tournament Bond wins all the money of Le Chiffre. Together with Vesper he marks the victory of the restaurant. Suddenly Vesper is kidnapped and Bond is rushed to the chase.
++
timestamp: 2015-09-21T16:06:55-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -3791,6 +3861,7 @@ comments: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family;
+ At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment.
+ "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2015-10-05T12:13:24-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780195019193
@@ -3840,6 +3911,7 @@ uuid: d3c1aa51-15aa-432b-88d5-ca0271650553
author_sort: Wendig, Chuck
comments: Five hackers--an Anonymous-style rabble-rouser, an Arab Spring hacktivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll--are detained by the U.S. government, forced to work as white-hat hackers for Uncle Sam in order to avoid federal prison. At a secret complex known only as "the Lodge," where they will spend the next year working as an elite cyber-espionage team, these misfits dub themselves "the Zeroes."
+ But once the Zeroes begin to work, they uncover secrets that would make even the most dedicated conspiracy theorist's head spin. And soon they're not just trying to serve their time, they're also trying to perform the ultimate hack: burrowing deep into the U.S. government from the inside, and hoping they'll get out alive. Packed with electric wit and breakneck plot twists, Zer0es is an unforgettable thrill ride through the seedy underbelly of "progress."
++
timestamp: 2015-10-09T20:50:29-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -3872,6 +3944,7 @@ uuid: ad776767-596e-46b1-a28c-346e21c32ba5
author_sort: Doctorow, Cory
comments: In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier.Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do.Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2015-10-13T21:49:30-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781466805873
@@ -4010,6 +4083,7 @@ comments: **Discover #1 *New York Times* -bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic f
+ ### From Publishers Weekly
+ *Starred Review.* The originality of Rothfuss's outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution. Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe' "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who's presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story. From his upbringing as an actor in his family's traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperatives—his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star. *(Apr.)*
+ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
++
timestamp: 2015-10-29T07:39:47-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9781473211896
@@ -4155,6 +4229,7 @@ uuid: c035b960-cbbe-4f85-8e09-ec8e396cd7aa
author_sort: Smith, Alan G
comments: This book is different than many Arduino books in that it expects no previous knowledge in electronics or programming. Instead of going into depth teaching those topics, it teaches only enough so that you can make things. In this book, you will: * Use lights to quickly learn basic programming concepts * Make noise and music on a speaker * Make a digital thermometer * Add graphics to your thermometer to show a graph of recorded temperature * Play with sensors to detect light, magnets, and knocking * Make a rubber band gun that uses a joystick for panning, tilting, and firing * Be encouraged to go create your own projects! There are exercises after each chapter (with sample solutions) to help you make sure you understand the concepts.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2015-10-31T19:00:48-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781463698348
@@ -4171,6 +4246,7 @@ uuid: a7f05ec8-5bbd-424d-8110-8cc6aaa7bc51
author_sort: Baumann, Ken
comments: The first edition from Boss Fight, a series of books about classic video games, EarthBound provides a history of the titular game from a personal perspective.
++
timestamp: 2015-10-30T19:09:14-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -4203,6 +4279,7 @@ uuid: ea0be437-7ad0-4b0b-af6d-e6a97eac290e
author_sort: Anthropy, Anna
comments: In 1991, long before Epic Games was putting out blockbusters like Unreal, Infinity Blade, and Gears of War, Tim Sweeney released a strange little MS-DOS shareware game called ZZT. The simplicity of its text graphics masked the complexity of its World Editor: players could use ZZT to design their own games. This feature was a revelation to thousands of gamers, including Anna Anthropy, author of Rise of the Videogame Zinesters. ZZT is an exploration of a submerged continent, a personal history of the shareware movement, ascii art, messy teen identity struggle, cybersex, transition, outsider art, the thousand deaths of Barney the Dinosaur, and what happens when a ten-year-old gets her hands on a programming language she can understand. It’s been said that the first Velvet Underground album sold only a few thousand copies, but that everyone who heard it formed a band. Well not everyone has played ZZT, but everyone who played it became a game designer.
++
timestamp: 2015-10-31T19:16:41-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -4220,6 +4297,7 @@ uuid: 88022e71-738d-45b4-9623-9d5db0cdb442
author_sort: Bartlett, Jonathan
comments: Programming from the Ground Up uses Linux assembly language to teach new programmers the most important concepts in programming. It takes you a step at a time through these concepts: * How the processor views memory * How the processor operates * How programs interact with the operating system * How computers represent data internally * How to do low-level and high-level optimization Most beginning-level programming books attempt to shield the reader from how their computer really works. Programming from the Ground Up starts by teaching how the computer works under the hood, so that the programmer will have a sufficient background to be successful in all areas of programming. This book is being used by Princeton University in their COS 217 "Introduction to Programming Systems" course.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2015-10-31T19:22:27-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781616100643
@@ -4236,11 +4314,17 @@ uuid: 7200fe12-a8a4-40f5-844e-7079b05d1f24
author_sort: Ingram, Daniel M.
comments: * Author posits that enlightenment is an attainable goal
++
+ * Argues that meditation is a method for examining reality
++
++
++
+ The very idea that the teachings of meditation can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in “self-absorbed mindnoise”.
++
+ Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. It’s easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram’s assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide—to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.
+ ### About the Author
+ Daniel M. Ingram began entering into classical meditation territory as a teenager quite by accident and without knowing it crossed into territory that he would later call various names, including The Dark Night and the Knowledges of Suffering. He had no idea what had happened, but somehow knew that he had to find something. After being inspired by a good friend who got to the first stage of enlightenment after a retreat in centers in the Buddhist tradition, he began going on intensive insight meditation retreats in the US, India and Malaysia. By simply following the instructions he achieved the expected results, and has since become part of the global movement of meditation reform, a movement that seeks to preserve core meditation technology and supports, integrate helpful aspects from across traditions, refine the techniques and maps through exploration and verification, and spread the message that it can be done. It is also a movement to strip away the aspects of dogma, ritual,rigid hierarchy, myth and falsehood that hinder high-level practice and keep the culture of meditation mired in unhelpful taboos and misplaced effort. Dr. Ingram also has an MD, a Master's degree in Public Health, and a bachelor's degree in English literature. He practices in the U.S. as a board-certified emergency medicine physician. He hopes that those on the path will practice well, aim high and become accomplished practitioners who will help to train others to do the same.
++
timestamp: 2015-11-01T21:52:40-07:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9781904658405
@@ -4820,6 +4904,7 @@ comments: Welcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race know
+ Nathan Brazil is a starship captain carrying passengers and cargo from planet to planet. Answering a distress call, he (with others) is suddenly transported to the Well World by a hidden gate.
+ There Nathan Brazil must stop mysterious forces from taking control of the Well World, and through the Well World, the universe. But to do so, he must deal with bizarre transformations which have changed people into centaurs, mermaids and giant insects. In this strange land, inhabited by these strange transformed creatures, who are his friends, and who are his enemies? And what of his own memories, which seem to have been deeply suppressed?
+ Midnight at the Well of Souls is the first book set in the Well World universe.
++
timestamp: 2016-01-02T08:32:34-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -5243,12 +5328,15 @@ comments: Docker is quickly changing the way that organizations are deploying so
+ * Debug containers by understanding their composition and internal processes
+ * Deploy production containers at scale inside your data center or cloud environment
+ * Explore advanced Docker topics, including deployment tools, networking, orchestration, security, and configuration
++
++
+ **
+ ### Book Description
+ Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
+ ### About the Author
+ Karl Matthias has worked as a developer, systems administrator, and network engineer for everything from startups to Fortune 500 companies. After working for startups overseas for a few years in Germany and the UK, he has recently returned with his family to Portland, Oregon to work as Lead Site Reliability Engineer at New Relic. When not devoting his time to things digital, he can be found herding his two daughters, shooting film with vintage cameras, or riding one of his bicycles.
+ Sean Kane is currently a Lead Site Reliability Engineer for the Shared Infrastructure Team at New Relic. He has had a long career in production operations, with many diverse roles, in a broad range of industries. He has spoken about subjects like alerting fatigue and hardware automation at various meet-ups and technical conferences, including Velocity.Sean spent most of his youth living overseas, and exploring what life has to offer, including graduating from the Ringling Brother & Barnum & Bailey Clown College, completing 2 summer internships with the US Central Intelligence Agency, and building the very first web site in the state of Alaska. He gratefully lives in the US Pacific Northwest with his wife and children and still loves traveling and still photography.
++
timestamp: 2016-01-29T09:20:29-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781491918517
@@ -5432,11 +5520,14 @@ comments: If you’re a programmer new to databases—or just new to MySQL and i
+ * Learn functions for mathematical or statistical calculations, and for formatting date and time values
+ * Perform administrative duties such as managing user accounts, backing up databases, and importing large amounts of data
+ * Use APIs to connect and query MySQL and MariaDB with PHP and other languages
++
++
+ **
+ ### Book Description
+ Heading in the Right Direction with MySQL and MariaDB
+ ### About the Author
+ Russell Dyer is a freelance writer specializing in MySQL database software and is the editor of the MySQL Knowledge Base (http://www.mysql.com/network/knowledgebase.html). He is the author of MySQL in a Nutshell (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlian/) and has writen articles for several magazines: Dev Zone (a MySQL publication), Linux Journal, ONlamp.com, The Perl Journal, Red Hat Magazine, SysAdmin Magazine, Tech Republic, Unix Review, and XML.com. He has also finished his first novel, "In Search of Kafka". More information on Russell, along with a list of his published articles with links to them, can be found on his web site at http://russell.dyerhouse.com
++
timestamp: 2016-02-08T13:46:44-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449362850
@@ -5602,6 +5693,7 @@ comments: Exploit the power of data-centric and data-driven Android applications
+ We live in an increasingly data-centric and data-driven world. On top of that we live in a very mobile-centric world with the rise of Android smart phones and tablet devices and the surge in demand for the Android platform. Along with the demand for more data, there is a demand for efficient, "snappy" applications, and so developers need to have a strong understanding of when different data storage methods are appropriate and when they are not. Mastering how to use these two fields to successfully create a powerful application will help you boost your knowledge and skills in this area. "Android Database Programming" is designed to help developers create and design data-centric mobile applications on Google’s Android platform. As the world goes increasingly mobile and as consumers’ demand for data-centric applications rises, knowing how to combine the two effectively will become an increasingly important asset to have as a developer. The book starts by looking at the various local data storage methods on Android, and finishes off by examining external databases and ways you can utilize them from wjavascript:var%20ret=submitFormOfID('pageform-edit')ithin an Android application. This book starts by looking at local data storage methods, focusing on writing SQLite databases for your application and also looking at ways to bind these databases to the user interface. The book, through its practical approach, strives to teach you by examples. Each chapter focuses on flushing out high level design concepts, before drilling down into different code examples. As you continue you will look at external databases, primarily Google’s App Engine platform, and pull things together by helping you understand how you can request, cache, and display this data. The book then teaches the ways and techniques to utilize such external databases from within your application.
+ ### About the Author
+ Jason Wei graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a B.S. in Mathematical Computational Science, a minor in Statistics, and an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering with a concentration in Machine Learning. He spent his first two years in college with startups in Silicon Valley, and it was at his second startup (BillShrink, Inc) that he was introduced to Android. Since then he has developed a handful of applications ranging from silly screen prank applications to serious financial pricing and modeling tools. He also enjoys working with APIs and competing in application development contests - winning a number of contests hosted by companies like Google, MyGengo, IndexTank, amongst others. In addition to developing applications, Jason enjoys writing Android tutorials and sharing his own development experiences on his blog (thinkandroid.wordpress.com), and it was through his blog that he was first invited to be a technical reviewer for the book Learning Android Game Programming. Jason is currently working as a quantitative trader in New York.
++
timestamp: 2016-03-29T07:37:49-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781849518123
@@ -5813,6 +5905,7 @@ comments: An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine r
+ "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."
+ With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. *The Perennial Philosophy* includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2016-05-02T21:11:28-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780061893315
@@ -5894,6 +5987,7 @@ uuid: 77ea11d6-422f-4d74-9760-74bbbd00cfad
author_sort: Forrest, Ana T.
comments: In Fierce Medicine, Ana Forrest, charismatic teacher and founder of Forrest Yoga, combines physical practice, eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony to help heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury.
+ Fierce Medicine is also part memoir, detailing Ana Forrest's journey to move beyond her past as she helps others to do the same. Filled with helpful yoga exercises, Fierce Medicine teaches us to reconnect with our bodies, cultivate balance, and start living in harmony with our Spirits.
++
timestamp: 2016-05-15T19:48:00-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -6072,6 +6166,7 @@ author_sort: Liu, Cixin
comments: *The Three-Body Problem* is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
+ Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2016-07-26T16:03:43-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9781466853447
@@ -6216,6 +6311,7 @@ uuid: d0d43ae1-e809-496c-ae93-ca849dd977cc
author_sort: Wagar, Drew
comments: A short story based on the space trading game Oolite and the final part of the Oolite Saga
++
timestamp: 2016-08-29T21:38:30-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -6249,7 +6345,9 @@ uuid: c3030976-8f6d-440d-abbd-451532eb9db8
author_sort: Wagar, Drew
comments: Finis, Part 4 and the conclusion of the Oolite Saga.
+
++
+ www.wagar.org.uk
++
timestamp: 2016-08-29T21:38:30-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -6385,6 +6483,7 @@ comments: This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital forma
+ ### From School Library Journal
+ Grade 7 Up-With a cast of characters that covers the whole spectrum of London life, Dickens weaves a tapestry of tales that are by turn funny, moving and tragic.
+ Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
++
timestamp: 2016-10-16T20:07:27-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781616400309
@@ -6437,6 +6536,7 @@ comments: From the author of *Ender’s Game* , the soon-to-be major motion pict
+ Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from *him* \--secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.
+ Rigg’s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent…or forfeit control of his destiny.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2016-11-01T14:49:16-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781416991793
@@ -6469,6 +6569,7 @@ uuid: 103303f6-602e-449d-af7f-53f86f72b171
author_sort: Hill, Joe
comments: Joe Hill's critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored with a Bram Stoker Award--and whose emotionally powerful and macabre work has been praised by the New York Times as, "wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty...a Valentine from hell."
++
timestamp: 2016-11-15T07:42:14-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -6662,6 +6763,7 @@ uuid: b6a768af-9a40-4ee7-8c16-59e69d85fa5d
author_sort: Saraswati, Swami Satyananda
comments: This book is the most comprehensive text ever published on yoga. It contains a complete course of 36 structured lessons on all the practices of integral yoga. The lessons were compiled from the teachings given by Swami Satyananda Saraswati and are useful as a practical and theoratical guide for all levels of yoga teachers and aspirants. This book presents a synthesis of yoga in a scientific and systematic manner. The different branches of hatha yoga, raja yoga, mantra yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jnana yoga and kriya yoga ar progressively introduced with special emphasis on practice, theory and application in daily life. About the Author(s) Swami Satyananda was born at Almora, Uttar Pradesh, in 1923. In 1923 he met Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh and adopted the Dashnami sannyasa way of life. In 1955 he left his guru's ashram to life as a wandering mendicant and later founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1956 and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1963. Over the next 20 years Swami Satyananda toured internationally and authored over 80 books.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2016-11-26T15:38:17-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9788185787084
@@ -6694,6 +6796,7 @@ uuid: 0edc99a0-be9f-4d05-8f7e-0136f31434bc
author_sort: Robbins, Arnold & Beebe, Nelson H. F.
comments: An essential skill for Unix users and system administrators, shell scripts let you easily crunch data and automate repetitive tasks, offering a way to quickly harness the full power of any Unix system. This book provides the tips, tricks, and organized knowledge you need to create excellent scripts, as well as warnings of the traps that can turn your best efforts into bad shell scripts.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:56-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596159498
@@ -6710,6 +6813,7 @@ uuid: 2de75ca2-6aed-4cfa-b56a-09a44c0f3b55
author_sort: Carl Albing, JP Vossen, and Cameron Newham
comments: *bash Cookbook* teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell -- the *bash* shell -- and *cygwin* or other popular Unix emulation packages. Packed full of useful scripts, along with examples that explain how to create better scripts, this new Cookbook gives professionals and power users everything they need to automate routine tasks and enable them to truly manage their systems -- rather than have their systems manage them.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:56-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596158477
@@ -6726,6 +6830,7 @@ uuid: 19cd7ee6-17c8-4e08-99d9-19d3a744b46a
author_sort: Jerry Peek, Shelley Powers, Tim O’Reilly, and Mike Loukides
comments: The latest edition of this best-selling favorite is loaded with vital information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD. *Unix Power Tools* 3rd Edition now offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications. Several sections focus on security and Internet access. There is a new chapter on access to Unix from Windows, and expanded coverage of software installation and packaging, as well as basic information on Perl and Python.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:57-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596103699
@@ -6742,6 +6847,7 @@ uuid: 381d72dd-2a72-48fc-99ab-b4a17655c38c
author_sort: Robbins, Arnold
comments: This quick reference has been reworked to present you with the current state of Unix. Featuring chapter overviews, in-depth command coverage, and specific examples, it’s the perfect supplement for Unix users and programmers. New topics include package management programs, source code management systems, and the Solaris 10, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X systems.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:57-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596159153
@@ -6758,6 +6864,7 @@ uuid: 34dfafda-2f13-499d-bb23-d650b66efadb
author_sort: Dougherty, Dale & Robbins, Arnold
comments: *sed & awk* describes two text manipulation programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer’s toolbox. This edition covers the *sed* and *awk* programs as they are mandated by the POSIX standard and includes discussion of the GNU versions of these programs.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:57-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449387006
@@ -6774,6 +6881,7 @@ uuid: c3466c66-c602-4702-b791-0eed619fac0b
author_sort: Craig Hunt
comments: This complete hands-on guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network starts with the fundamentals: what protocols do and how they work, how addresses and routing are used, and how to set up your network connection. The book also covers advanced routing protocols and provides tutorials on configuring important network services. The expanded third edition includes sections on Samba, Apache web server, network security, and much more.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:57-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449387143
@@ -6790,6 +6898,7 @@ uuid: 2ee052ad-d6c5-44f9-a3ce-180235134c5c
author_sort: Joseph D Sloan
comments: *Network Troubleshooting Tools* helps you sort through the thousands of tools that have been developed for debugging TCP/IP networks and choose the ones that are best for your needs. It also shows you how to approach network troubleshooting using these tools, how to document your network so you know how it behaves under normal conditions, and how to think about problems when they arise so you can solve them more effectively.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:58-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596103460
@@ -6806,6 +6915,7 @@ uuid: 1569c95d-4563-418b-8699-82d14150f2ee
author_sort: Doug Brown, John Levine, and Tony Mason
comments: Shows programmers how to use two Unix utilities, *lex* and *yacc,* in program development. You’ll find tutorial sections for novice users, reference sections for advanced users, and a detailed index. Major MS-DOS and Unix versions of *lex* and *yacc* are explored in depth. Also covers Bison and Flex.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:58-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449385606
@@ -6838,6 +6948,7 @@ uuid: 5d8f88c5-8f3b-4a36-815f-87910c1481f8
author_sort: Cameron Newham
comments: This refreshed edition serves as the most valuable guide yet to the bash shell. It’s full of practical examples of shell commands and programs guaranteed to make everyday use of Linux that much easier. Includes information on key bindings, command line editing and processing, integrated programming features, signal handling, and much more!
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:58-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596158965
@@ -6870,6 +6981,7 @@ uuid: 3bc0def3-cc1e-4abc-9423-e47585e84749
author_sort: Liu, Cricket & Albitz, Paul
comments: The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9 series, as well as BIND 8.4.7. BIND 9.3.2 contains further improvements in security and IPv6 support, and important new features such as internationalized domain names, ENUM (electronic numbering), and SPF (the Sender Policy Framework). Whether you’re an administrator involved with DNS on a daily basis or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you’ll find that this book is essential reading.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:59-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596105723
@@ -6886,6 +6998,7 @@ uuid: aac44c3d-7481-4fa2-b98d-ea03d0f96206
author_sort: Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric S. Raymond, and Bill Rosenblatt
comments: The third edition of *Learning GNU Emacs* describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:59-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596104184
@@ -6902,6 +7015,7 @@ uuid: 03c27b4c-d24e-4b4d-bc10-d58ee10f3203
author_sort: Æleen Frisch
comments: Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, *Essential System Administration* is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author’s years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.
++
timestamp: 2016-11-27T10:38:59-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596103286
@@ -7169,6 +7283,8 @@ comments: **Summary**
+ * Effective coaching
+ * Influencing team members and managers
+ * Advice from industry leaders
++
++
+ **About the Reader**
+ This book is for anyone with a year or more of experience working on a team as a lead or team member.
+ **About the Author**
@@ -7178,16 +7294,24 @@ comments: **Summary**
+ 1. Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto
+ 2. Matching leadership styles to team phases
+ 3. Dealing with bus factors
++
++
+ #### PART 2 - SURVIVAL MODE
+ 1. Dealing with survival mode
++
++
+ #### PART 3 - LEARNING MODE
+ 1. Learning to learn
+ 2. Commitment language
+ 3. Growing people
++
++
+ #### PART 4 - SELF-ORGANIZATION MODE
+ 1. Using clearing meetings to advance self-organization
+ 2. Influence patterns
+ 3. The Line Manager Manifesto
++
++
+ #### PART 5 - NOTES TO A SOFTWARE TEAM LEADER
+ 1. Feeding back
+ 2. Channel conflict into learning
@@ -7211,7 +7335,10 @@ comments: **Summary**
+ 20. Babel Fish
+ 21. You're the lead, not the know-it-all
+ 22. Actions speak louder than words
++
++
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-02-03T14:49:38-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781617293085
@@ -7228,6 +7355,7 @@ uuid: a5cf1b02-73a7-4557-addb-3129a3fa774f
author_sort: Tzu, Lao
comments: The Tao Te Ching (or Daodejing, in pinyin) is a classic Chinese Taoist text dating from at least the fourth century BC. According to tradition it has its origins even earlier, around the sixth century BC. The title may be translated as Instruction regarding the Way of Virtue. Consisting of eighty-one short sections in a poetic style, the text ranges widely in content, from practical advice to universal wisdom, embracing politics, society and the personal. The emphasis is on the right view and understanding of existence, the Way of the cosmos, and the text sets out to transmit an informed awareness of being that leads to personal harmony. The Taoist inclination to refer to the natural background to human existence when considering the human is widely in evidence. The literary style is terse and often cryptic, so that multiple interpretations of the individual sections are often possible, but the essence of the work is clear, in communicating an approach to life which is in accord with the natural, and so conducive to spiritual tranquillity and resilience.
++
timestamp: 2017-02-04T09:26:56-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -7344,6 +7472,7 @@ comments: **Introducing an instant classic—master storyteller Neil Gaiman pres
+ In *Norse Mythology* , Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, son of a giant, blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.
+ Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor’s hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman, difficult with his beard and huge appetite, to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir, the most sagacious of gods, is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.
+ Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerge these gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.
++
timestamp: 2017-02-10T08:23:09-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780393609097
@@ -7408,6 +7537,7 @@ uuid: 193bc9bd-2f90-42ee-8c6f-ffde14d09ba3
author_sort: Al Sweigart
comments: *Automate the Boring Stuff with Python* teaches simple programming skills to automate everyday computer tasks.
++
timestamp: 2017-02-20T21:08:20-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781593276850
@@ -7443,6 +7573,7 @@ comments: What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci serie
+ The best authors are those who obsess about language—and the same goes for JavaScript developers. To master either craft, you must experiment with language to develop your own style, your own idioms, and your own expressions. To that end, *If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript* playfully bridges the worlds of programming and literature for the literary geek in all of us.
+ Featuring original artwork by Miran Lipovaca.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-02-20T21:08:23-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781593275853
@@ -7479,6 +7610,7 @@ comments: "Give a man an exploit and you make him a hacker for a day; teach a ma
+ **- Felix 'FX' Lindner**
+ \n
+ *A Bug Hunter's Diary* follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tracks down and exploits bugs in some of the world's most popular software.
++
timestamp: 2017-02-20T21:08:41-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781593274153
@@ -7495,6 +7627,7 @@ uuid: 4c15817f-5dca-4c26-88ac-8cde78c11b1d
author_sort: Miran Lipovaca
comments: *Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!* is a fun, illustrated guide to learning Haskell, a functional programming language that’s growing in popularity.
++
timestamp: 2017-02-20T21:08:42-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781593272951
@@ -7563,6 +7696,7 @@ comments: **T. H. White’s masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a
+ “ *The Once and Future King* is full of insights, scenes and flourishes that are really quite astonishing.”— *The Guardian* (U.K.)
+ ### About the Author
+ **T. H. White** is the author of the classic Arthurian fantasy *The Once and Future King* , among other works.
++
timestamp: 2017-02-26T15:13:31-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780007375561
@@ -7691,6 +7825,7 @@ uuid: d166c1da-b71d-4bb4-ab9d-d705af7ce66e
author_sort: King Wen
comments: The I-Ching translated by Gregory Richter.
++
timestamp: 2017-03-11T07:48:38-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn:
@@ -7855,6 +7990,7 @@ comments: The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Al
+ *The Timeless Way of Building* is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series, Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.
+ Alexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are."
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-03-20T11:39:47-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780195024029
@@ -7919,6 +8055,7 @@ uuid: a4ddcc01-0857-416d-b821-ebe4190d3bdf
author_sort: Addy Osmani
comments: With *Learning JavaScript Design Patterns* , you'll learn how to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language. If you want to keep your code efficient, more manageable, and up-to-date with the latest best practices, this book is for you.
++
timestamp: 2017-03-20T11:46:06-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449334864
@@ -7944,6 +8081,8 @@ comments: Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective
+ * Designing software for greater testability
+ * Using test "smells" (including code smells, behavior smells, and project smells) to spot problems and know when and how to eliminate them
+ * Refactoring tests for greater simplicity, robustness, and execution speed
++
++
+ This book will benefit developers, managers, and testers working with any agile or conventional development process, whether doing test-driven development or writing the tests last. While the patterns and smells are especially applicable to all members of the xUnit family, they also apply to next-generation behavior-driven development frameworks such as RSpec and JBehave and to other kinds of test automation tools, including recorded test tools and data-driven test tools such as Fit and FitNesse.
+ *Visual Summary of the Pattern Language* *
+ Foreword * *
@@ -7993,6 +8132,7 @@ comments: Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective
+ References **
+ Index *
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-03-20T11:46:44-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780131495050
@@ -8041,6 +8181,7 @@ uuid: 4f18ebad-a5f0-49b1-aa90-60247f1709c4
author_sort: Bryan O’Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Donald Bruce Stewart
comments: This easy-to-use, fast-moving tutorial introduces you to functional programming with Haskell. You’ll learn how to use Haskell in a variety of practical ways, from short scripts to large and demanding applications. *Real World Haskell* takes you through the basics of functional programming at a brisk pace, and then helps you increase your understanding of Haskell in real-world issues like I/O, performance, dealing with data, concurrency, and more as you move through each chapter.
++
timestamp: 2017-03-20T11:47:46-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780596156923
@@ -8106,13 +8247,18 @@ uuid: 09f5a90d-5c1f-4a04-9295-1b1e990d8db9
author_sort: Krug, Steve
comments: **Uploaded by [StormRG]**
+ Since *Don’t Make Me Think* was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.
++
+ Now Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made *Don’t Make Me Think* a classic–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usability. And it’s still short, profusely illustrated…and best of all–fun to read.
++
+ If you’ve read it before, you’ll rediscover what made *Don’t Make Me Think* so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. If you’ve never read it, you’ll see why so many people have said it should be required reading for anyone working on Web sites.
++
+ “After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.”
+ –Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards
+ ### About the Author
+ Steve Krug (pronounced "kroog") is best known as the author of *Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability* , now in its second edition with over 350,000 copies in print. Ten years later, he finally gathered enough energy to write another one: the usability testing handbook *Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems*. The books were based on the 20+ years he's spent as a usability consultant for a wide variety of clients like Apple, Bloomberg.com, Lexus.com, NPR, the International Monetary Fund, and many others.
++
+ His consulting firm, Advanced Common Sense ("just me and a few well-placed mirrors") is based in Chestnut Hill, MA. Steve currently spends most of his time teaching usability workshops, consulting, and watching old episodes of Law and Order.
++
timestamp: 2017-03-20T13:00:59-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780321965516
@@ -8137,6 +8283,7 @@ comments: Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly u
+ Even with that in mind, the central questions Cooper asks are too important to ignore: Are we making users happier? Are we improving the process by which they get work done? Are we making their work hours more effective? Cooper looks to programmers, business managers, and what he calls "interaction designers" to question current assumptions and mindsets. Plainly, he asserts that the goal of computer usage should be "not to make anyone feel stupid." Our distance from that goal reinforces the need to rethink entrenched priorities in software planning. *\--Jennifer Buckendorff*
+ ### From the Back Cover
+ The Inmates are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customer loyalty, and erode competitive advantage. They have let the inmates run the asylum. Alan Cooper offers a provocative, insightful and entertaining explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products. More importantly, he uses his own work with companies big and small to show how to harness those talents to create products that will both thrill their users and grow the bottom line.
++
timestamp: 2017-03-20T13:01:02-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -8314,6 +8461,7 @@ uuid: ba02753b-cf2a-418a-b1ee-7f79c53081b8
author_sort: Thompson, Silvanus Phillips
comments: Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. The original text continues to be available as of 2008 from Macmillan and Co., but a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and notes for modern readers. Gardner changes "fifth form boys" to the more American sounding (and gender neutral) "high school students," updates many now obsolescent mathematical notations or terms, and uses American decimal dollars and cents in currency examples.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-04-22T12:40:33-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781539091660
@@ -8340,6 +8488,7 @@ comments: Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now.
+ Divine obfuscation has a purpose. This is the classic that ushered in so many imitators, imitators who did not get "it." "It" is slack, the desiderata that cannot be desired and is only attainable through "Bob," the evil god/male model who founded the Church of the SubGenius without bothering to "exist." If you read this holy book properly, you will learn to "pull the wool over your own eyes." While this volume may seem hilarious, it's also an incredibly adept deconstruction of religion in general and the human impulse to believe in and follow anyone who promises to give their lives meaning and structure. Plus, it's the only place to find the information you need to survive when the bad alien gods come out of the sky to kill, enslave, and entertain us. If you don't already have a copy, then hand in your hipness ID card and hang your head in shame.
+ ### From the Publisher
+ Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now. First, there was *The Gilgamesh*. Then... the *Bhagavad-Gita* Then... *the Torah, the New Testament, the Koran* Then... *the Book of Mormon, Dianetics, I'm OK You're OK.* And now... *The Book of the Subgenius (How to Prosper in the Coming Weird Times)* END
++
timestamp: 2017-04-29T07:52:21-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn:
@@ -8556,11 +8705,14 @@ comments: When it comes to creating powerful and effective hacking tools, Python
+ * Extend the popular Burp Suite web-hacking tool
+ * Abuse Windows COM automation to perform a man-in-the-browser attack
+ * Exfiltrate data from a network most sneakily
++
++
+ Insider techniques and creative challenges throughout show you how to extend the hacks and how to write your own exploits.
+ When it comes to offensive security, your ability to create powerful tools on the fly is indispensable. Learn how in *Black Hat Python*.
+ **
+ ### About the Author
+ Justin Seitz is a Senior Security Researcher for Immunity, Inc., where he spends his time bug hunting, reverse engineering, writing exploits, and coding Python. He is the author of *Gray Hat Python* , the first book to cover the use of Python for security analysis.
++
timestamp: 2017-06-01T12:48:16-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781593275907
@@ -8578,6 +8730,8 @@ uuid: 912b6561-43e3-41c0-8964-ae74787831ad
author_sort: Blood-in-My-Eye
comments: George Jackson Blood In My Eye
+ PDF Scan of the original Book by Black Panther Party Member and BGF cofounder George Jackson.
++
++
timestamp: 2017-06-01T20:56:28-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -8595,6 +8749,7 @@ uuid: e6b27b7e-23cd-4d47-9031-60685e2bd40e
author_sort: Vivekananda, Swami
comments: All the orthodox systems of Indian philosophy have one goal, the liberation of the soul through perfection. The method is by Yoga. The subject of the present book is that form of Yoga known as Raja-Yoga. The aphorisms of Patanjali are the highest authority on Raja-Yoga, and form its textbook. The other philosophers, though occasionally differing from Patanjali in some philosophical points, have, as a rule, acceded to his method of practice a decided consent. This book comprises several lectures to classes delivered by the present writer in New York. Simple and specific directions are given for the student who wants to practice, but all such are especially and earnestly reminded that, with few exceptions, Yoga can only be safely learnt by direct contact with a teacher. If these conversations succeed in awakening a desire for further information on the subject, the teacher will not be wanting
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-06-01T20:56:45-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781497322486
@@ -8852,6 +9007,7 @@ uuid: d46665c2-0811-43cf-a4de-d6fa1d150137
author_sort: Brodie, Leo
comments: Thinking Forth applies a philosophy of problem solving and programming style to the unique programming language Forth. Published first in 1984, it could be among the timeless classics of computer books, such as Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month and Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Many software engineering principles discussed here have been rediscovered in eXtreme Programming, including (re)factoring, modularity, bottom-up and incremental design. Here you'll find all of those and more, such as the value of analysis and design, described in Leo Brodie's down-to-earth, humorous style, with illustrations, code examples, practical real life applications, illustrative cartoons, and interviews with Forth's inventor, Charles H. Moore as well as other Forth thinkers.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-07-28T14:04:59-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780976458708
@@ -8868,6 +9024,7 @@ uuid: b59f75b8-58d9-409e-94d4-5423e0a1247b
author_sort: Graham, Paul
comments: Starting in the 1980s, Lisp began to be used in several large systems, including Emacs, Autocad, and Interleaf. On Lisp explains the reasons behind Lisp's growing popularity as a mainstream programming language. On Lisp is a comprehensive study of advanced Lisp techniques, with bottom-up programming as the unifying theme. It gives the first complete description of macros and macro applications. The book also covers important subjects related to bottom-up programming, including functional programming, rapid prototyping, interactive development, and embedded languages. The final chapter takes a deeper look at object-oriented programming than previous Lisp books, showing the step-by-step construction of a working model of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). As well as an indispensable reference, On Lisp is a source of software. Its examples form a library of functions and macros that readers will be able to use in their own Lisp programs.
++
timestamp: 2017-07-28T14:18:43-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780130305527
@@ -8884,6 +9041,7 @@ uuid: a9226747-5338-4ae4-ab8f-f8bad3d8fb20
author_sort: Fowler, Martin & Beck, Kent & Brant, John & Opdyke, William & Roberts, Don
comments: As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software system professionals are discovering just how difficult it is to work with these inherited, "non-optimal" applications. For several years, expert-level object programmers have employed a growing collection of techniques to improve the structural integrity and performance of such existing software programs. Referred to as "refactoring," these practices have remained in the domain of experts because no attempt has been made to transcribe the lore into a form that all developers could use. . .until now. In Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, renowned object technology mentor Martin Fowler breaks new ground, demystifying these master practices and demonstrating how software practitioners can realize the significant benefits of this new process. With proper training a skilled system designer can take a bad design and rework it into well-designed, robust code. In this book, Martin Fowler shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one. Each refactoring step is simple--seemingly too simple to be worth doing. Refactoring may involve moving a field from one class to another, or pulling some code out of a method to turn it into its own method, or even pushing some code up or down a hierarchy. While these individual steps may seem elementary, the cumulative effect of such small changes can radically improve the design. Refactoring is a proven way to prevent software decay. In addition to discussing the various techniques of refactoring, the author provides a detailed catalog of more than seventy proven refactorings with helpful pointers that teach you when to apply them; step-by-step instructions for applying each refactoring; and an example illustrating how the refactoring works. The illustrative examples are written in Java, but the ideas are applicable to any object-oriented programming language.
++
timestamp: 2017-07-28T14:31:48-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780133065268
@@ -8900,6 +9058,7 @@ uuid: c9804072-44dc-49ad-b536-00577f9d2ae7
author_sort: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
comments: 'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: the nature of human thought processes. 'Every few decades an unknown author brings outa book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event. This is such a work' - Martin Gardner
++
timestamp: 2017-07-28T15:07:35-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780465026562
@@ -8965,6 +9124,7 @@ uuid: fff92577-79d8-4d2a-9091-3d7febbcd3f8
author_sort: Pratchett, Terry
comments: Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
+ In *The Light Fantastic* , only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.
++
timestamp: 2017-08-12T11:46:18-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -9045,6 +9205,7 @@ uuid: 064d9920-8430-4e55-a3af-2b0f6ced94cb
author_sort: Kluźniak, Feliks & Szpakowicz, Stanisław & Bień, Janusz St
comments: An introduction to PROLOG; PROLOG and logic; Metamorphosis grammars: a powerful extension; Simple programming techniques; Summary of syntax and built-in procedures; Principles of PROLOG implementation; TOY: an exercice in implementation; Two case studies; Prolog dialects.
++
timestamp: 2017-08-16T17:25:08-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780124165205
@@ -9089,6 +9250,7 @@ comments: Luke Sanderson, inheritor of the mysterious Hill House, invites a supe
+ **Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:**
+ “The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
+ "Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography." – Dan Solomon, Fast Company
++
timestamp: 2017-08-21T17:18:38-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -9425,6 +9587,7 @@ uuid: 79483c40-0ab5-4a7b-b9c2-0dc361db9800
author_sort: FOSTER WALLACE, DAVID
comments: **A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.**
++
timestamp: 2017-09-02T15:15:34-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -9505,6 +9668,7 @@ uuid: 3dc52315-3515-4c0f-8423-36119e80496e
author_sort: Lins, Ulrich
comments: This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as an answer to a widespread democratic desire for direct person-to-person international communication regardless of political boundaries. Its early success was limited, mostly because of the Czarist regime's suspicion of direct communication with foreigners, and, later, similar suspicion by dictatorial regimes generally. As speakers of a "dangerous language," its adepts were harassed and persecuted, especially in Germany and the Soviet Union. This book argues that the fate of Esperanto over the 130 years of its existence serves as a barometer to measure the degree to which regimes tolerate spontaneous personal contact with other countries and allow the pursuit of self-education outside prescribed national or ideological constraints. This book will appeal to a wide readership, including linguists, historians, political scientists and others interested in the history of the twentieth century from the unusual perspective of language. This volume is complemented by the sister volume Dangerous Language - Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism which offers a concentration on the Cold War history of Esperanto in Eastern Europe.
++
timestamp: 2017-09-18T11:32:32-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781137549174
@@ -9529,8 +9693,11 @@ comments: **An Easy, Accessible Yoga Program for Health & Wellness
+ * Strengthened immune system
+ * Enriched brain health
+ * And much more!
++
++
+ Complete with illustrations, dozens of yoga breathing and meditation techniques, adaptable sequences, and principles of yoga safety, *The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga* will guide you to health and wellness.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2017-09-18T11:32:33-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780738219363
@@ -9547,6 +9714,7 @@ uuid: 7549adf9-e6d6-40c1-a349-37b83bf7e6c4
author_sort: various
comments: Various articles and required readings from YTT 2016. Covers chakras, yamas and niyamas, pranayama, and koshas.
++
timestamp: 2017-09-18T12:53:48-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -9563,6 +9731,7 @@ uuid: 3fb4c814-cf3a-4f7b-a745-7f2fa8acebc5
author_sort: Saraswati, Swami Satyananda
comments: Yoga Nidra, which is derived from the tantras, is a powerful technique in which you learn to relax consciously. In yoga nidra, sleep is not regarded as relaxation. People feel that they are relaxing when they collapse in an easy chair with a cup of coffee, a drink or a cigarette, and read a newspaper or switch on the television. But this will never suffice as a scientific definition of relaxation. These are only sensory diversions. True relaxation is actually an experience far beyond all this. For absolute relaxation you must remain aware. This is yoga nidra, the state of dynamic sleep. Yoga nidra is a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. The term yoga nidra is derived from two Sanskrit words, yoga meaning union or one-pointed awareness, and nidra which means sleep. During the practice of yoga nidra, one appears to be asleep, but the consciousness is functioning at a deeper level of awareness.
++
timestamp: 2017-09-15T18:59:11-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9788185787121
@@ -9675,6 +9844,7 @@ uuid: c67b2691-dc61-4c15-901e-93b4092f6676
author_sort: Iyengar, B. K. S.
comments: The definitive guide to yogic breathing from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world’s most respected yoga teacher B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar’s unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of ‘yoga for all’, which has made it into a worldwide phenomenon. His seminal book, ‘Light on Yoga’, is widely called ‘the bible of yoga’ and has served as the source book for generations of yoga students around they world. In ‘Light on Pranayama’, he establishes the same definitive level of authority on the art of breathing. For the serious yoga practitioner, the study of Pranayama is an essential. This work, from the most respected yoga teacher in the world, B.K.S. Iyengar, offers the most comprehensive and instructive work available in the world. With 190 photos of B.K.S. Iyengar himself, the book highlights a progressive 200-week practice, highlighting the best techniques and the common errors in them.
++
timestamp: 2017-10-18T10:03:09-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780007493272
@@ -10092,6 +10262,7 @@ uuid: 4abc1066-e26a-43ba-a84c-b729ba1811f8
author_sort: Brown, Christina
comments: Featuring over 150 yogic postures from the main schools of yoga, including lyengar and Astanga Vinyasa, this book is a comprehensive illustrated step-by-step guide to achieving each posture. It offers advice on altering postures where necessary, enabling beginners to try more difficult positions. Experienced yoga practitioners will also find a number of challenging, advanced positions--perfect inspiration for developing their practice.
+ In addition to postures, the book includes notes on various types of yoga practices as well as a summary of well-known traditional schools of yoga and how they vary. Readers will also find advice from the author on breathing techniques and the benefits of yoga in healing, pregnancy, de-stressing and meditation.
++
timestamp: 2017-12-31T16:07:09-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -10716,6 +10887,7 @@ uuid: 0640a3a8-9d6a-4edd-9a46-74256c59395a
author_sort: Unknown
comments: revuo januara reta
++
timestamp: 2018-02-14T10:18:03-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn:
@@ -10766,6 +10938,7 @@ author_sort: Rand, Ayn
comments: **The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.**
+ This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand's provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction--that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress...
+ **"A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall." -- *The New York Times***
++
timestamp: 2018-02-20T08:14:27-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -10798,6 +10971,7 @@ uuid: c23720ef-ace7-4bfd-8a6d-00d75ec3c7fd
author_sort: VanderHart, Luke & Neufeld, Ryan
comments: With more than 150 detailed recipes, this cookbook shows experienced Clojure developers how to solve a variety of programming tasks with this JVM language. The solutions cover everything from building dynamic websites and working with databases to network communication, cloud computing, and advanced testing strategies. And more than 60 of the world's best Clojurians contributed recipes.
++
timestamp: 2018-02-21T09:13:53-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449366162
@@ -10814,6 +10988,7 @@ uuid: bd5b8fa5-828b-4695-a1b7-197030af7876
author_sort: Hinojosa, Daniel
comments: If you build your Scala application through Test-Driven Development, you'll quickly see the advantages of testing before you write production code. This hands-on book shows you how to create tests with ScalaTest and the Specs2--two of the best testing frameworks available--and how to run your tests in the Simple Build Tool (SBT) designed specifically for Scala projects.
++
timestamp: 2018-02-21T09:13:54-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449315108
@@ -10830,6 +11005,7 @@ uuid: a9ceb753-f09d-45f3-a6ae-e047d516456d
author_sort: Alvin Alexander
comments: Save time and trouble when using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you'll encounter when using the Scala language, libraries, and tools.
++
timestamp: 2018-02-21T09:13:54-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449340315
@@ -10846,6 +11022,7 @@ uuid: b68fe21c-4fc4-456b-b1ae-d47e562726e3
author_sort: Marlow, Simon
comments: This book covers the breadth of Haskell’s diverse selection of programming APIs for concurrent and parallel programming. It is split into two parts. The first part, on parallel programming, covers the techniques for using multiple processors to speed up CPU-intensive computations, including methods for using parallelism in both idiomatic Haskell and numerical array-based algorithms, and for running computations on a GPU. The second part, on concurrent programming, covers techniques for using multiple threads, including overlapping multiple I/O operations, building concurrent network servers, and distributed programming across multiple machines.
++
timestamp: 2018-02-21T09:13:55-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449335892
@@ -10910,6 +11087,7 @@ uuid: 20e8284f-16f8-4540-8108-ad7fd11a9276
author_sort: Swartz, Jason
comments: *Learning Scala* is an introduction and a guide to getting started with functional programming (FP) development. Written for programmers who are already familiar with object-oriented (OO) development, the book introduces you to the core Scala syntax and its OO models with examples and solutions that build familiarity, experience, and confidence with the language. It also includes more challenging topics of Scala development, such as immutable data, anonymous functions, strong typing, flexible syntax.
++
timestamp: 2018-02-21T09:13:57-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449367923
@@ -11150,6 +11328,7 @@ uuid: 0af45b56-f78f-4e38-b23e-a7d160ec05e8
author_sort: Secter, Mondo
comments: To those who are familiar with it, the I Ching (Book of Changes) offers a fascinating method for working toward and achieving a rewarding state of being. I Ching Clarified provides for the first time a user-friendly approach to this ancient Chinese divination system, dramatically changing the way the I Ching is understood and appreciated. The author presents the essential introductory information and history in a way that demystifies the I Ching oracle. He provides clear explanations of each of the 64 hexagrams along with concise commentaries, written in a language that is simple and straightforward not unlike the original Chinese.
++
timestamp: 2018-03-20T14:47:42-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9780804818025
@@ -11295,6 +11474,7 @@ uuid: 9c831755-24a0-4d99-afba-e0eda682cd51
author_sort: Muktibodhananda, Swami
comments: Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Light on Hatha Yoga) includes the original Sanskrit text compiled by Maharshi Swatmarama with a translation and thorough commentary in english by Swami Satyananda and Swami Muktibodhananda. This text elucidates the entire science of hatha yoga(asana,pranayama,shatkarma,mudra and bandha) as it was conceived and practised not only for healthand fitness but for awakening the vital energies:pranas,chakras and kundalini shakti.It points out that hatha yoga is not just a physical practice but a process of cellular transmutation from gross to subtle to divine.Thus hatha yoga was considered to be the foundation of all higher yogas. Line drawings and diagrams illustrate the text.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2018-04-15T13:32:24-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9788185787381
@@ -11392,7 +11572,9 @@ uuid: 2becc7e1-a002-43d9-99e4-d38d58d068f9
author_sort: Jordan, Robert
comments: In the fabled city of Shadizar, sultry Princess Tamaris hires Conan to recover the magical gem known as the Heart of Ahriman. Accompanied by the beautiful maiden Jehnna, Conan must vanquish scheming, murderous Bombatta, the princess' henchman, and face the sinister Guardians of the Horn, only to confrotnt the foul and ancient, many-fanged demon-god Dagoth. With Jehna's life and Conan's very soul at stake, Conan must truly be *Conan the Destroyer*.
+
++
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-09T14:51:16-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -11410,7 +11592,9 @@ uuid: 8933e865-8277-4048-8ed5-5476cb6be2b0
author_sort: Jordan, Robert
comments: Amid the savage crags of the Kezankian Mountains, Conan is stalked by the sultry huntress Jondra, sought by the lovely thief Tamira, and caught between the Army of Zamora and Brythunian warriors seeking revenge. The mighty Cimmerian must battle hordes of Kezankian hillmen, face the sorcerous evil of Basrakan Imalla, and finally, slay that which cannot be slain: the beast of fire. To conquer, to survive, he must be...Conan the Magnificent
+
++
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-09T14:51:16-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -11427,6 +11611,7 @@ uuid: f9023914-7760-470a-b299-aeafdfc2e34b
author_sort: Jordan, Robert
comments: Conan is ensnared by the charms of the wily and beautiful Karela, who is secretly the Red Hawk, fearless leader of a crew of brigands. She leads Conan to face the awesome challenge of the serpentinely evil necromancer Amanar.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-09T14:51:17-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -11460,7 +11645,9 @@ uuid: af875b6c-95fe-4142-a958-966c024527b9
author_sort: Jordan, Robert
comments: As revolution brews in the shadowy streets of Belverus, Conan braves the traps and treacheries of the Royal Palace of the Dragon. Pursued by the luscious and shameless Sularia, the mighty warrior challenges a magic-spawned menace that cannot die: the invincible Simulacrum of Albanus.
+
++
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-09T14:51:17-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -11494,7 +11681,9 @@ uuid: f0db7bf9-7d88-4c50-93cf-33c68de6e424
author_sort: Jordan, Robert
comments: Leading his Free-Company of mercenaries, the mighty Cimmerian is embroiled in many-sided anarchy following the death of Ophir's king. He enters the service of the voluptuous Lady Synelle, unaware that she is secretly High Priestess of the vile demon-god Al'Kiir, intent upon the bestial sacrifice of lovely maidens and perfect warriors . . .
+
++
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-09T14:51:17-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -11559,6 +11748,7 @@ uuid: a2e2a09a-17d9-45aa-a759-6dbb1a489e79
author_sort: Kenson, Stephen
comments: Shadowrunner Kellan Colt stumbles upon the job of a lifetime, a cache of secret weapons abandoned by the U.S. military that could make her very rich, but when she descends into the heart of the Awakened wilderness to extract the weapons, she is faced with a rival faction and supernaturnal forces. Original.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-29T14:32:06-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9780451460639
@@ -11591,6 +11781,7 @@ uuid: 923513c9-5cd1-462f-9c27-f62e5cbcee6f
author_sort: Kenson, Stephen
comments: The explosive new saga continues The year is 2063. Earth has been reborn, unleashing long-dormant magical forces across the globe. Megacorporations rule from on high, while organized crime syndicates rule the underworld. Sliding through the cracks are the shadowrunners-professionals who will do anything for a profit, and anything it takes to get the job done . . . Kellan Colt has come far in her magical training. But all her accomplishments haven't satisfied her desire to know the truth about her shadowrunner mother, and to learn the secrets of the amulet she found among her mother's possessions. Kellan is determined to find answers-and to earn the respect of her fellow runners in the process. Lately, Kellan has been troubled by disturbing dreams. Something seems to be calling her, but before she can figure out who-or what-she joins a run into the paranoiac elven homeland of Tir Tairngire.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-29T14:32:06-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9780451460769
@@ -11639,6 +11830,7 @@ uuid: 97148ff1-7e77-4ba6-8605-4f0006cfe292
author_sort: Smith, Nyx
comments: (v1.5)
++
timestamp: 2018-05-29T14:32:22-06:00
formats: mobi
isbn:
@@ -11815,6 +12007,7 @@ uuid: 764cac44-9ad3-4d9d-a8a7-4a1f09ffaa05
author_sort: Kenson, Stephen
comments: Low-level programmer Roy Kilaro wants desperately to become an elite operative and experience some real action in the battles between the megacorporations. He gets more than he ever wanted when a routine business trip to Boston lands him at ground zero of a running battle for survival.
++
timestamp: 2018-05-29T14:32:23-06:00
formats: mobi
isbn: 9780451458391
@@ -11911,6 +12104,7 @@ uuid: 70decb2a-5f37-4faf-9648-be262ccdd658
author_sort: Kubasik, Chris
comments: (v1.1)
++
timestamp: 2018-05-29T14:32:24-06:00
formats: mobi
isbn:
@@ -12091,6 +12285,7 @@ comments: This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's
+ "At the Mountains of Madness," by H. P. Lovecraft
+ "The Events at Poroth Farm," by T.E.D. Klein
+ "The Return of the Sorcerer, by Clark Ashton...
++
timestamp: 2018-05-31T16:16:47-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781434448903
@@ -12235,6 +12430,7 @@ uuid: c34d8535-0de5-437e-8de9-8ec1a651c3c2
author_sort: Vance, Jack
comments: Esperanta traduko de Kugel la Ruza, verkita de usona majstro Jack Vance. Traduka rajto por senpaga eldonado en Esperanto akirita laŭ privata aranĝo kun la aŭtoro la 31-an de majo 1997. Tiu rajto kontinuita poste de 2013 laŭ privata aranĝo kun John Vance de Spatterlight Press. Ĉiuj verkoj de Jack Vance haveblas surrete de Spatterlight Press ĉe jackvance.com
++
timestamp: 2018-07-10T12:30:03-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -12397,6 +12593,7 @@ author_sort: Simmons, Sylvie
comments: Singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential musical artists of the past fifty years--and one of the most elusive. In I'm Your Man, journalist Sylvie Simmons, one of the foremost chroniclers of the world of rock 'n' roll and popular music, explores the extraordinary life and creative genius of Leonard Cohen.
+ I'm Your Man is an intimate and insightful appreciation of the man responsible for "Suzanne," "Bird on a Wire," "Hallelujah," and so many other unforgettable, oft-covered ballads and songs. Based on Simmons's unparalleled access to Cohen--and written with her hallmark blend of intelligence, integrity, and style--I'm Your Man is the definitive biography of a major musical artist widely considered in a league with the great Bob Dylan.
+ Readers of Life by Rolling Stone Keith Richards and Patti Smith's phenomenal Just Kids will be riveted by this fascinating portrait of a singular musical icon.
++
timestamp: 2018-08-12T08:07:13-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -12734,6 +12931,7 @@ uuid: 10f1cfe3-3495-4db7-9833-205c98b36277
author_sort: Percival, Harry
comments: **With Early Release ebooks,** you get books in their earliest form--the author’s raw and unedited content as he or she writes--so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, new chapters as they’re written, and the final ebook bundle.
+ This book uses a concrete example--the development of a web site, from scratch--to teach the TDD metholology, and how it applies to web programming: from the basics of database integration and JavaScript, going via browser-automation tools like Selenium, to advanced (and trendy) topics like NoSQL, websockets and Async programming.
++
timestamp: 2018-09-30T15:06:46-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449367794
@@ -12926,6 +13124,7 @@ uuid: 3b8ba7da-fd76-462f-b869-60380f8ef1aa
author_sort: Collette, Andrew
comments: Gain hands-on experience with HDF5 for storing scientific data in Python. This practical guide quickly gets you up to speed on the details, best practices, and pitfalls of using HDF5 to archive and share numerical datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to terabytes. Through real-world examples and practical exercises, you'll explore topics such as scientific datasets, hierarchically organized groups, user-defined metadata, and interoperable files.
++
timestamp: 2018-09-30T15:06:49-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781449367824
@@ -12990,6 +13189,7 @@ uuid: 53938474-d26b-45da-b36c-ea5dc4fcdf44
author_sort: Hilpisch, Yves
comments: The financial industry has adopted Python at a tremendous rate recently, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. This hands-on guide helps both developers and quantitative analysts get started with Python, and guides you through the most important aspects of using Python for quantitative finance.
++
timestamp: 2018-09-30T15:06:50-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781491945278
@@ -13150,6 +13350,7 @@ uuid: 73929406-5f7e-46e9-99a7-9aac2e1adb6f
author_sort: Grus, Joel
comments: Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they're also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. In this book, you'll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch. If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to get started as a data scientist. Today's messy glut of data holds answers to questions no one's even thought to ask. This book provides you with the know-how to dig those answers out.
++
timestamp: 2018-09-30T15:06:54-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -13571,6 +13772,7 @@ comments: **When anything can be owned, how can we be free**
+ Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack's drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand.
+ And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2018-10-21T12:01:00-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -13670,6 +13872,7 @@ comments: Designed for the introductory computer science subject at MIT, this bo
+ *Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs* covers a wide range of material, from simple numerical programs, through symbol manipulation, logic programming, interpretation, and compilation. Main sections of the book are: Building Abstractions with Procedures; Building Abstractions with Data; Modularity, Objects, and State, Meta-Linguistic Abstraction; and Computing with Register Machines. Each chapter includes numerous exercises and programming projects. As a programming language, the book uses Scheme, a modern dialect of LISP, which incorporates block structure and lexical scoping.
+ This book inaugurates the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science series, copublished with McGraw Hill.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2018-11-11T15:19:37-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780262010771
@@ -13847,6 +14050,7 @@ uuid: c089663f-9c51-4c39-b6aa-a5f22255d166
author_sort: Bardugo, Leigh
comments: ***Crooked Kingdom* : the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugo's thrilling #1 *New York Times-* bestselling *Six of Crows.***
+ Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as *jurda parem* , old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets--a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.
++
timestamp: 2018-12-18T21:06:09-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781627797917
@@ -13880,9 +14084,13 @@ uuid: edbaae7f-5b7c-4e59-bfc4-e1a77ab3cf9d
author_sort: Vance, Jack
comments: ### Product Description
+ Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, *The Dying Earth* , and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.
++
+ This omnibus volume comprised all four books in the series, *The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga* and *Rialto the Magnificent*. It is a must-read for every sf fan.
++
+ ### About the Author
+ **Jack Vance** is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Lyonnesse series, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning *The Last Castle*. He lives in Oakland, California.
++
++
timestamp: 2018-12-27T22:03:51-07:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9781857989946
@@ -14252,6 +14460,7 @@ uuid: ce34e5b1-4120-4b8f-93fd-f6a7add4fbdb
author_sort: Guin, Ursula K. Le
comments: Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in *Worlds of Exile and Illusion*. These novels, Rocannon's world, *Planet of Exile* , and *City of Illusions* , are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, *The Left Hand of Darkness.*
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2019-02-12T08:48:44-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -14286,6 +14495,7 @@ author_sort: Vonnegut, Kurt
comments: **"Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable." -- *The New York Times***
+ In *Breakfast of Champions,* one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
+ **"Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut." -- *Publishers Weekly***
++
timestamp: 2019-02-17T17:48:15-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 978-0-307-56723-9
@@ -14945,6 +15155,7 @@ comments: Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this
+ In this new edition, Garr gives his readers new, fresh examples to draw inspiration from, with a whole new chapter for those who present on more technical and educational topics based on techniques used by many presenters who give high-level talks at TED and other powerhouse events. Whether the reader is in research, technology, business, or education–this book will show them how to take what could look like a really dry presenation and reinvigorate the material in totally fresh (and sometimes interactive!) ways that will make it memorable and resonate with the audience.
+ Staying true to the mission of the first), Garr combines solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity to help readers along the path to simpler, more effective presentations that will be appreciated, remembered, and best of all, acted upon.
+ **
++
timestamp: 2019-03-22T09:33:51-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780321811981
@@ -14962,6 +15173,7 @@ uuid: 4c976726-c00b-4744-8ce2-80591f64193c
author_sort: Richard A. Bartle
comments: *Designing Virtual Worlds* is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual world design to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It's a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary, economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethical underpinnings of design, while providing the reader with a deep, well-grounded understanding of VW design principles. It covers everything from MUDs to MOOs to MMORPGs, from text-based to graphical VWs.
+ *Designing Virtual Worlds* brings a rich, well-developed approach to the design concepts behind virtual worlds. It is grounded in the earliest approaches to such designs, but the examples discussed in the book run the gamut from the earliest MUDs to the present-day MMORPG games mentioned above. It teaches the reader the actual, underlying design principles that many designers do not understand when they borrow or build from previous games. There is no other design book on the market in the area of online games and virtual worlds that provides the rich detail, historical context, and conceptual depth of Designing Virtual Worlds.
++
timestamp: 2019-03-22T13:50:27-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -15107,10 +15319,12 @@ uuid: 8e70419e-16c4-45ef-8746-e3f969f5ee30
author_sort: Owens, Delia
comments: ***How long can you protect your heart?***
+
++
+ For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens.
+ *
+ *
+ Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
++
timestamp: 2019-03-30T19:29:13-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9780735219090
@@ -15149,6 +15363,7 @@ comments: ###
+ A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.
+ Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, *So You've Been Publicly Shamed* is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.
+ Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of two bestsellers, *Them: Adventures with Extremists* and *The Men Who Stare at Goats* , and two collections, *Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness* and *What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness*. He lives in London.
++
timestamp: 2019-03-30T19:33:07-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -15277,6 +15492,7 @@ uuid: 79e8536c-6886-40ca-bcc0-524a270c61fd
author_sort: McConnell, Steve
comments: A practical guide for software developers and development teams, this book features effective and understandable formulas, procedures, and heuristics to help organizations improve their project cost estimates.
++
timestamp: 2019-04-10T10:05:03-06:00
formats: azw3, epub
isbn: 9780735637030
@@ -15362,6 +15578,7 @@ comments: Thirty years after its publication, ***The Death and Life of Great Ame
+ "The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense."—Harrison Salisbury, *The New York Times* "One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city... a *primary* work. The research apparatus is not pretentious—it is the eye and the heart—but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city."—William H. Whyte, author of *The Organization Man*
+ ### From the Inside Flap
+ A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.
++
timestamp: 2019-04-24T13:06:13-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780525432852
@@ -15715,6 +15932,7 @@ uuid: 4d7bc91a-e3b8-4652-b9f4-e1927d6abaea
author_sort: Seidman, Dov
comments: The flood of information and unprecedented transparency reshaping today's business world has dramatically changed the rules of the game. It's no longer *what* you do that sets you apart from others, but *how* you do what you do. *Whats* are commodities, easily duplicated or reverse-engineered. Sustainable advantage and enduring success--for both companies and the people who work for them--now lie in the realm of *how* , the new frontier of conduct. For more than a decade, Dov Seidman's pioneering organization, LRN, has helped some of the world's most respected companies build "do it right," winning cultures. Seidman's distinct vision of the world, business, and human endeavor has enabled more than ten million people doing business in over 100 countries to outbehave the competition. In *HOW: Why How We* *Do Anything Means Everything . . . in Business...
+ *The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.*
++
timestamp: 2019-07-23T16:12:32-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -15945,6 +16163,7 @@ comments: **NATIONAL BESTSELLER**
+ Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men--the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams. *But what are they trying to tell us?* For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero.
+
+ ****Now with a new Afterword.****
++
timestamp: 2019-09-25T19:39:37-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 978-0-679-60346-7
@@ -16145,6 +16364,7 @@ comments: *Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it.*
+ When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister --without losing herself.
+ "Sarah Gailey is a writer to watch." --Chuck Wendig, *New York Times* bestselling author
+ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
++
timestamp: 2019-10-16T13:29:16-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -17667,6 +17887,7 @@ author_sort: Erdrich, Louise
comments: The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.
+ One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.
+ Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich's The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction--at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.
++
timestamp: 2020-04-08T18:24:09-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -18142,10 +18363,13 @@ comments: The humor and insights in the 2nd Edition of *Managing Humans* are dra
+ * How to improve your social IQ
+ * How to run a meeting well
+ * And much more
++
++
+ ### Who this book is for
+ This book is designed for managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bytes for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture.
+ ### Table of Contents
+ Section 1: The Management Quiver 1. Don't Be a Prick 2. Managers Are Not Evil 3. The Rands Test 4. How to Run a Meeting 5. The Twinge 6. The Update, The Vent, and the Disaster 7. The Monday Freakout 8. Lost in Translation 9. Agenda Detection 10. Mandate Dissection 11. Information Starvation 12. Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence 13. Managementese 14. Fred Hates It 15. DNA 16. An Engineering Mindset 17. Three Superpowers 18. Saying No Part 2: The Process is the Product 19. 1.0 20. How to Start 21. Taking Time to Think 22. The Soak 23. Managing Malcolm Events 24. Capturing Context 25. Trickle Theory 26. When the Sky Falls 27. Hacking is Important Part 3: Versions of You 28. Bored People Quit 29. Bellwethers 30. The Ninety Day Interview 31. Managing Nerds 32. NADD 33. A Nerd in a Cave 34. Meeting Creatures 35. Incrementalists and Completionists 36. Organics and Mechanics 37. Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics 38. Free Electrons 39. Rules for the Reorg 40. An Unexpected Connection 41. Avoiding the Fez 42. A Glimpse and a Hook 43. Nailing the Phone Screen 44. Your Resignation Checklist Glossary **
++
timestamp: 2020-07-08T18:52:11-06:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9781430243144
@@ -18194,6 +18418,7 @@ uuid: b954df7b-b7af-47ae-91b2-052680b8f00a
author_sort: Trump, Mary L.
comments: In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald. A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.
++
timestamp: 2020-07-16T21:45:44-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9781982141486
@@ -18278,6 +18503,7 @@ comments: **With half a million copies in print, *How to Read a Book* is the bes
+ Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a *living* classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text.
+ Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works.
+ Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed. **
++
timestamp: 2020-07-30T12:50:45-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780671212094
@@ -18460,6 +18686,7 @@ comments: In the years following her role as the lead author of the internationa
+ "Dana Meadows was one of the smartest people I ever knew, able to figure out the sensible answer to almost any problem. This book explains how she thought, and hence is of immense value to those of us who often wonder what she'd make of some new problem. A classic." **\--Bill McKibben, author of *Deep Economy** *
+ "An inspiring sequel to Dana Meadows' lifetime of seminal contributions to systems thinking, this highly accessible book should be read by everyone concerned with the world's future and how we can make it as good as it possibly can be." **\--Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden**
+ "Few matched Dana Meadows remarkable blend of eloquence and clarity in making systems thinking understandable. When Dana began her career, the field was esoteric and academic. Today it is the sine quo non for intelligent action in business and society. The publication of Meadows' previously unfinished manuscript is a gift for leaders of all sorts and at all levels." **\--Peter M. Senge, author of *The Fifth Discipline* and *The Necessary Revolution***
++
timestamp: 2020-08-27T15:33:41-06:00
formats: mobi
isbn: 9781603580557
@@ -18494,6 +18721,7 @@ author_sort: Guran, Paula
comments: Flashing swords and fearsome magicks . . . high adventure and wondrous wizardry . . . dread monsters and vast rewards . . .
+ Tales of swashbuckling sword and sorcery at their best offer keen wit, ingenious perception, freewheeling imagination, and canny invention. From its swashbuckling beginnings of good versus evil battles to clashes of more nuanced principles set in complex settings to havoc shaped by grittier perspectives, ambiguous morality, deep history and expansive worldbuilding―readers continue to be thrilled by the exploits of great warriors and mighty mages.
+ **Swords Against Darkness:** an epic anthology of short stories and novellas from classic to modern, each tale a memorable vision from masters and mistresses of heroic fantasy past and present!
++
timestamp: 2020-09-04T10:35:00-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781607014867
@@ -18624,6 +18852,7 @@ author_sort: Hilderbrand, Elin
comments: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades - but will it last one more summer?
+ For the last twenty-eight summers, Alice and Tom have met to rekindle the passionate love affair they began all those years ago. Each married to someone else, with busy lives and happy families, they've managed to keep their secret, and to keep their love alive.
+ But nothing is forever. Tom's wife is in the national spotlight for her controversial and increasingly popular campaign for political office, and Alice has received a diagnosis that puts her future in doubt. Could their twenty-eighth summer together also be their last?
++
timestamp: 2020-10-04T13:58:07-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -18837,6 +19066,7 @@ comments: **“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal
+ Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the *Springfield Republican* when it was published in 1935, *It Can’t Happen Here* is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news.
+ **With an Introduction by Michael Meyer**
+ **and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst** **
++
timestamp: 2020-11-02T19:24:30-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780451465641
@@ -18860,6 +19090,7 @@ comments: This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle creat
+ **THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH** \--The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle.
+
+ **AND TWENTY MORE TALES OF SURREAL TERROR**
++
timestamp: 2020-11-02T19:29:57-07:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -18876,6 +19107,7 @@ uuid: 2abd3225-599d-4ac9-9078-16f6b3380f1b
author_sort: Black, Nick
comments: Nick Black, prolific Free Software developer and designer of Notcurses, introduces character graphics and Text User Interface design. The examples use the modern Notcurses library, but many of the lessons are applicable to TUI programming using NCURSES or Newt. Topics include the history of and current practice of terminals, Unicode (through 2020's Unicode 13.0), handling input from keyboards and mice, effective use of RGB DirectColor, palette-indexed pseudocolor, and alpha blending, loading images and video, construction of reusable TUI widgets, and more. These concepts are developed using rich examples. Nick graduated with a handful of degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and has hacked away in the code mines of NVIDIA, Google, and several successful startups. He is a Senior Member of the ACM, and a consulting scientist at Dirty South Supercomputing and Waffles.
++
timestamp: 2020-11-04T18:20:55-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn: 9798620069491
@@ -18962,6 +19194,7 @@ comments: ### From Publishers Weekly
+ Englishman Barker's latest novel, the first part of a trilogy, is an ambitious fantasy/horror fusion of dazzling scope which stands alone as a complete story. Nebraska postal clerk Randolph Jaffe works in the Dead Letter Room, opening and inspecting loads of undeliverable U.S. mail. Soon, through a series of cryptic dead letters, he taps into an ethereal network of mysterious revelations which provides access to enormous power channels. The customary battle of light forces versus dark forces commences, with greedy Jaffe heading the latter, and mad yet philanthropic scientist Richard Fletcher representing the former. Despite occasional and convenient lapses into nonsensical elements of fantasy which characterize too much of the genre, this original, intelligent treatment of a complex idea by the author of The Damnation Game ( LJ 5/15/87) and Weaveworld ( LJ 10/15/87) is amazingly believable and compulsively readable. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/89.
+ *\- Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal"*
+ Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
++
timestamp: 2020-11-09T14:25:32-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780060933166
@@ -19074,6 +19307,7 @@ uuid: 94a26c40-ba2f-4c67-9c62-5ea9ab04f30c
author_sort: Obama, Barack
comments: **A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy** In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating *Deepwater Horizon* blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. *A Promised Land* is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible. This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.
++
timestamp: 2020-11-16T21:00:29-07:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn: 9781524763169
@@ -19509,6 +19743,8 @@ comments: **The bestseller that challenges conventional thinking about morality,
+ Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns.
+ In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you're ready to trade in anger for understanding, read *The Righteous Mind*.
+
++
++
timestamp: 2021-01-15T18:18:19-07:00
formats: epub
isbn: 978-0-307-90703-5
@@ -19547,6 +19783,8 @@ comments: **Book Source:** [Digital Library of India Item 2015.215284](http://ww
+ dc.source.library: Osmania University
+ dc.subject.classification: The Arts
+ dc.title: Theory Of Games And Economic Behavior
++
++
timestamp: 2021-01-16T15:31:24-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -19628,6 +19866,7 @@ uuid: 56502370-7bc6-42a4-9c06-fa173a825fa1
author_sort: Huxley, Aldous
comments: Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychadelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books--The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," which is now included for the first time.
+ "A genuine spiritual quest. ... Extraordinary." -- New York Times
++
timestamp: 2021-01-30T10:28:29-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -19677,6 +19916,7 @@ uuid: 3e109559-b629-436a-832b-8fa3a91c32ed
author_sort: Huxley, Aldous
comments: In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.
+ Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and--to his amazement--give him hope.
++
timestamp: 2021-02-02T18:11:27-07:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -19694,6 +19934,7 @@ uuid: edf29cfb-d5e4-42bf-85d6-c777cf6317f5
author_sort: Lummis, Charles Fletcher
comments: Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.
+ http://www.archive.org/details/contitrampacross00lummrich
++
timestamp: 2021-02-03T14:54:10-07:00
formats: pdf
isbn:
@@ -20094,6 +20335,7 @@ uuid: 6f231253-2313-4154-87b4-14737a2a426e
author_sort: Moorcock, Michael
comments: Knitting together many of the major characters and stories in Michael Moorcock's unparalleled creation of the Eternal Champion, this new novel depicts Elric, the White Wolf, at the end of his thousand-year dream quest, where he will be caught in a breathtaking chase across eras, worlds, and realities...One summer day in Yorkshire, young Oonagh von Bek finds herself on an extraordinary and perilous adventure. The earth outside her family home breaks open, and she is chased into the subterranean realms of the Middle March by a pair of dangerous men.Her grandmother and grandfather - Oona, the Dreamthief's Daughter, and Elric, the last sorcerer of Melnibone - follow, encountering other important avatars of the Eternal Champion and seeking Elric's son. Fanning out across the infinite realms of existence and time, they hope to stop Oonagh's would-be kidnappers, Gaynor the Damned and his allies. All paths will converge in the dark empire of Granbretan, a land of cruel tyranny and wicked magic, where defilers and murderers plan the ultimate arrogance: to re-create the entire Multiverse - and replace the Cosmic Balance with themselves as eternal overlords.
++
timestamp: 2021-04-19T19:09:34-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780446617451
@@ -20287,6 +20529,7 @@ uuid: bf4cfd16-4fc0-429f-bc69-6fe2207c9d0c
author_sort: Goggins, David
comments: For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America.
+ In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.
++
timestamp: 2021-05-20T16:51:09-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -20415,6 +20658,7 @@ uuid: 3192ddfb-5a50-4b76-8add-e34ba5ad1f32
author_sort: Hedges, Chris
comments: Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. InAmerican Fascists,Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalistWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.American Fascists,which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it usephysical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.
++
timestamp: 2021-06-02T13:10:20-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9780099499220
@@ -20515,6 +20759,7 @@ comments: Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent nov
+ Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
+
+ *From the Trade Paperback edition.*
++
timestamp: 2021-06-13T22:18:19-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 978-0-307-76569-7
@@ -20810,6 +21055,8 @@ comments: Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for deli
+ * Understanding how TDD, Mock Objects, and Object-Oriented Design come together in the context of a real software development project
+ * Using Mock Objects to guide object-oriented designs
+ * Succeeding where TDD is difficult: managing complex test data, and testing persistence and concurrency
++
++
+ **
+ ### From the Back Cover
+ Foreword by Kent Beck ""The authors of this book have led a revolution in the craft of programming by controlling the environment in which software grows." "--Ward Cunningham " " ""At last, a book suffused with code that exposes the deep symbiosis between TDD and OOD. This one's a keeper." "--Robert C. Martin ""If you want to be an expert in the state of the art in TDD, you need to understand the ideas in this book."--"Michael Feathers Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for delivering better software faster. TDD is based on a simple idea: Write tests for your code before you write the code itself. However, this "simple" idea takes skill and judgment to do well. Now there's a practical guide to TDD that takes you beyond the basic concepts. Drawing on a decade of experience building real-world systems, two TDD pioneers show how to let tests guide your development and "grow" software that is coherent, reliable, and maintainable. Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce describe the processes they use, the design principles they strive to achieve, and some of the tools that help them get the job done. Through an extended worked example, you'll learn how TDD works at multiple levels, using tests to drive the features and the object-oriented structure of the code, and using Mock Objects to discover and then describe relationships between objects. Along the way, the book systematically addresses challenges that development teams encounter with TDD--from integrating TDD into your processes to testing your most difficult features. Coverage includes - Implementing TDD effectively: getting started, and maintaining your momentum throughout the project - Creating cleaner, more expressive, more sustainable code - Using tests to stay relentlessly focused on sustaining quality - Understanding how TDD, Mock Objects, and Object-Oriented Design come together in the context of a real software development project - Using Mock Objects to guide object-oriented designs - Succeeding where TDD is difficult: managing complex test data, and testing persistence and concurrency
@@ -20817,6 +21064,7 @@ comments: Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for deli
+ **Steve Freeman** is an independent consultant specializing in Agile software development. A founder member of the London Extreme Tuesday Club, he was chair of the first XPDay and is a frequent organizer and presenter at international conferences. Steve has worked in a variety of organizations, from writing shrink-wrap software for IBM, to prototyping for major research laboratories. Steve has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and degrees in statistics and music. Steve is based in London, UK.
+ **Nat Pryce** has worked as a programmer, architect, trainer, and consultant in a variety of industries, including sports reportage, marketing communications, retail, telecoms, and finance. With a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, he has also worked on research projects and does occasional university teaching. An early adopter of Extreme Programming, he has written or contributed to several open source libraries that support Test Driven Development. He was one of the founding organizers of the London XPDay and regularly presents at international conferences. Nat is based in London, UK.
+ Freeman and Pryce were joint winners of the 2006 Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award.
++
timestamp: 2021-08-09T19:57:19-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -20916,6 +21164,7 @@ comments: The much-loved classic, finally in ebook.
+ Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships.
+ It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling. From the moment Alison discovers the dinner service in the attic, with its curious pattern of floral owls, a chain of events is set in progress that is to effect everybody's lives.
+ Relentlessly, Alison, her step-brother Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn are drawn into the replay of a tragic Welsh legend -- a modern drama played out against a background of ancient jealousies. As the tension mounts, it becomes apparent that only by accepting and facing the situation can it be resolved.
++
timestamp: 2021-08-23T12:21:22-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -20935,6 +21184,7 @@ comments: New York Times Bestselling Author
+ Give the gift of STARDUST!
+ Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria--even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie--where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.
+ From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous--in pursuit of love and the utterly impossible.
++
timestamp: 2021-08-24T08:54:47-06:00
formats: epub, mobi
isbn:
@@ -20953,6 +21203,7 @@ author_sort: Weber, Max
comments: In *The Protestant Ethic* , Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. Based on the original 1905 edition, this volume includes, along with Weber's treatise, an illuminating introduction, a wealth of explanatory notes, and exemplary responses and remarks-both from Weber and his critics-sparked by publication of *The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism*.
+ This is the first English translation of the 1905 German text and the first volume to include Weber's unexpurgated responses to his critics, which reveal important developments in and clarifications of Weber's argument.
+ **Max Weber** (1864-1920), German sociologist, one of the founders of modern sociology. He emphasised cultural and political factors as key influences on economic development and individual behaviour. Weber argued for a scientific and value-free approach to research, yet highlighted the importance of meaning and consciousness in understanding social action. His ideas continue to stimulate thought on social stratification, power, organisations, law, and religion. Peter Baehr teaches in the department of politics and sociology at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
++
timestamp: 2021-08-27T12:21:50-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781101098479
@@ -21178,6 +21429,7 @@ uuid: c369954a-ac18-451f-924f-62a74a56860e
author_sort: Hopkins, Robert
comments: **Backgammon for Tigers** offers solid practical advice and demonstrates techniques that will develop an early awareness of the tactics and strategies used by strong players. The book covers all aspects of a solid game throughout the beginning, middle and end phases. There are over 50 game positions provided, accompanied by key tables with analyses, and explanations given of just what was going on in the minds of the players. The reader will end up with a set of straightforward tools and ideas to carry into every game with a growing sense of knowing what they were doing - more or less, or at least sometimes, perhaps... This book will be a valuable aid to any beginner wishing to explore online backgammon.
+ You will play better backgammon after reading this book
++
timestamp: 2021-10-10T21:48:28-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9783743872486
@@ -21210,6 +21462,7 @@ uuid: 481c97b6-01ac-4dcf-b42c-2b880fa64f81
author_sort: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
comments: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
++
timestamp: 2021-10-24T17:33:13-06:00
formats: epub
isbn: 9781681373881
@@ -21242,6 +21495,7 @@ uuid: 1f09d233-d4e3-44cb-b464-2fb5a9ed4ff8
author_sort: Vander, Vane
comments: On the other side of Mori's Mirror, the gate between the Inside and the Outside, stands a multitude of worlds. Infinite paths flow among them. Some of them, I stand on and am flooded with the knowledge that, despite never having been viewed with these eyes, I *have* walked them before. A past life? A soul that rhymes with my own? I know not. but I have chronicled them here nonetheless.
++
timestamp: 2021-10-30T22:38:37-06:00
formats: epub
isbn:
@@ -21370,6 +21624,7 @@ uuid: 1ddfc251-9830-4a81-a5ac-3399df9bc244
author_sort: Moriarty, Liane
comments:
++
+ *From #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest in Apples Never Fall.*
+ ** *The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .***
+ If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
@@ -21378,6 +21633,7 @@ comments:
+ One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy’s door, bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend. The Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted.
+ Later, when Joy goes missing, and Savannah is nowhere to be found, the police question the one person who remains: Stan. But for someone who claims to be innocent, he, like many spouses, seems to have a lot to hide.
+ Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure—but as the two sides square off against each other in perhaps their biggest match ever, all of the Delaneys will start to reexamine their shared family history in a very new light.
++
timestamp: 2021-12-18T17:20:57-07:00
formats: mobi
isbn: 9781760985707
@@ -21407,3 +21663,182 @@ tags:
title_sort: Braxon
id: 1412
uuid: 20f8ceca-e1e1-4ae2-b09c-a8b510973bf8
+
+author_sort: Strugatsky, Boris
+comments:
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings—a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-size mosquito—along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers. First published in Russia in 1965, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions—here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing,... +timestamp: 2022-01-20T17:52:52-07:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2017-01-14T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 6564346 +tags: +title_sort: Monday Starts on Saturday +id: 1413 +uuid: 9529a0bf-ef59-4f57-9703-66a7e64d6bb9 + +author_sort: wikibooks +comments: +timestamp: 2022-01-20T19:22:28-07:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 1832191 +tags: +title_sort: C Programming +id: 1414 +uuid: 7881c95c-764c-4f9a-a1dd-f90f9ec17a21 + +author_sort: Santos, Marisa De Los +comments:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.
Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets a fire in the school's auditorium. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze.
While many in the town believe a notoriously troubled local teen set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their... +timestamp: 2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00 +formats: epub, mobi +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2021-04-15T18:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2159489 +tags: +title_sort: I'd Give Anything +id: 1415 +uuid: c07063d9-7879-4d79-8317-ad625abd917d + +author_sort: Quinn, Kate +comments:
"The reigning queen of historical fiction" — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of...
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+author_sort: Stewart, Matthew
+comments: A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.
In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What's left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.
They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession...
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+author_sort: STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR
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The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, "Powers of Darkness"), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson's story.
In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a...
+timestamp: 2022-01-23T19:49:05-07:00
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+author_sort: Chabon, Michael
+comments: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World
Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality,...
+timestamp: 2022-01-26T18:02:05-07:00
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+author_sort: Cole, Adrian & McLain, Bob
+comments: ## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE
++ ## IN THE TRADITION OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND LEIGH BRACKETT
++ The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. **
++
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+comments: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future. For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A. Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it...
+timestamp: 2022-02-13T20:27:54-07:00
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+author_sort: Beyer, Doug
+comments: As a planeswalker investigates an alarming mystery built into the very foundations of Ravnica, he realizes some secrets are better left hidden
Jace Beleren has the power to travel between planes of the Multiverse, but with this gift comes isolation. He is one in a million. He is a planeswalker. And he is on the edge of a mystery that could alter the face of his adopted home—a vast, world-wide city known as Ravnica—forever.
Faced with a magical code that is built into the very foundations of the city-world itself, Jace marches into the numinous depths of Ravnica’s underbelly in search of the promise of powerful magic. What he finds is perhaps more burden than boon. Once buried in past, the code resurfaces as Ravnica’s power-hungry mage guilds—unbound by the Guildpact that had once maintained order—struggle for control of the plane. But in the drive for primacy, there is no neutral ground.
Jace knows that he...
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