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The 4-Hour Workweek

Sat, 8 May 2010 15:29:23 PST

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More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and ...

IPhone Programming

Sat, 8 May 2010 15:27:45 PST

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Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular iPhone Bootcamp class, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential tools and techniques for developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In each chapter, you will learn programming concepts and apply them immediately as you build an application or enhance one from a previous chapter. These applications have been c ...

Your Business Brickyard

Sat, 8 May 2010 15:23:38 PST

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The basics. That is what you lost when you went from feeling like, I am going to make my mark, to It is too hard to keep up so let us just try to survive. It is time to admit you re not having fun anymore. Only then can you find your way back to the beginning when your business was all promise and no misery. Only then can you build (and keep building on) the basics that will never let you down. T ...

The Business of iPhone App Development

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:47:45 PST

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The phenomenal success of the iPhone and the iPod touch has ushered in a “gold rush” for developers, but with well over 100,000 apps in the highly competitive App Store, it has become increasingly difficult for new apps to stand out in the crowd. Achieving consumer awareness and sales longevity for your iPhone app requires a lot of organization and some strategic planning. This book will show you ...

Starting an Iphone Application Business for Dummies

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:00:03 PST

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This friendly guide helps you learn what goes into a successful app, how to price and market it, what the App Store expects from you, and even how to build a ...

Getting Real

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 2:07:27 PST

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Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers — ...

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:39:30 PST

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It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own ...

Ignore Everybody

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:46:07 PST

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The Manga Guide to Electricity

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 1:44:56 PST

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Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time, she has to pass Luckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is there to help. Join them in the pages of The Manga Guide to Electricity as Rereko examines everyday electrical devices like flashlights, heate ...

MAKE

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 5:16:20 PST

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Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you'll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them! Build working devices, from simple to complex You'll start ...

Le madri non sbagliano mai

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:14:54 PST

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Dedicato a tutti quei genitori che si sentono confusi e disarmati di fronte ai figli, questo libro fa leva sul buon senso. L'intenzione, dichiarata, è restituire serenità e insegnare a non deformare, complicandoli inutilmente, i messaggi, spesso semplici e diretti, che i bambini ci lanciano. Il libro è suddiviso in brevi capitoletti: la madre, il padre, i figli, i fratelli, i nonni, la scuola, la ...

The Manga Guide to Databases

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:03:53 PST

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Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequentlyused SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain...

La solitudine dei numeri primi

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:01:02 PST

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Alice è una bambina obbligata dal padre a frequentare la scuola di sci. È una mattina di nebbia fitta, lei non ha voglia, il latte della colazione le pesa sullo stomaco. Persa nella nebbia, staccata dai compagni, se la fa addosso. Umiliata, cerca di scendere, ma finisce fuori pista spezzandosi una gamba. Resta sola, incapace di muoversi, al fondo di un canale innevato, a domandarsi se i lupi ci s ...

Se il sole muore

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:00:45 PST

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"E' il resoconto, minuzioso e crudele, d'un viaggio, d'un periodo trascorsofra gli astronauti americani, assistendo al loro lavoro, ai loro esperimenti,all'insorgere delle speranze, al cadere delle illusioni. Un libro che narrafatti realmente accaduti, ma che appaiono incredibili." (Il Mondo)Un libro coraggiosamente autobiografico: il diario di una donna modernalanciata alla scoperta de ...

IPhone Development

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:40:16 PST

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If so, then Beginning iPhone Development is just the book for you.

The iPhone Developer's Cookbook

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:39:17 PST

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"This book would be a bargain at ten times its price! If you are writing iPhone software, it will save you weeks of development time. Erica has included dozens of crisp and clear examples illustrating essential iPhone development techniques and many others that show special effects going way beyond Apple's official documentation." --Tim Burks, iPhone Software Developer, TootSweet Software "Erica ...

Founders at Work

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:37:43 PST

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Now available in paperback--with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve ...

Quasi quasi mi sbattezzo

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:52:17 PST

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Dalla coppia Lise & Talami, il diario dell'odissea (vera) di Beto, giovane operaio-disegnatore, che un giorno decide di uscire per sempre dalla Chiesa Cattolica. Dalla prefazione di Sergio Staino: Quanta semplicità, quanto vissuto quotidiano, quanta ironia e rispetto per i tanti che non la pensano come gli autori, che riescono a scansare i trabocchetti del didascalismo, a fluidificare le part ...

Piazza Fontana

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:52:03 PST

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Milano, 12 dicembre 1969. A metà pomeriggio la Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana è ancora affollata per le contrattazioni del mercato agricolo e del bestiame, che per tradizione si tengono di venerdì. Alle 16 e 37, nel salone principale dell'edificio, esplode una bomba collocata per provocare il più alto numero di vittime: al piano terra, sotto il tavolo che si trova al centro de ...

The Surrogates

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:44:58 PST

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The year is 2054, and life has been reduced to a data feed. The fusing of virtual reality and cybernetics has ushered in the era of the surrogate, a new technology that lets users interact with the world without ever leaving their homes. It's a perfect world, and it's up to Detectives Harvey Greer and Pete Ford of the Metro Police Department to keep it that way. But to do so they'll need to st ...

Margherita dolce vita

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:45:16 PST

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Mastering the Chess Openings

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:28:48 PST

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A major new title from Gambit Publications Ltd. For most chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is hard to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player wont know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which ...

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:15 PST

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The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers. "Aaron's book is the gold standard for Mac OS X programming books--beautifully written, and thoughtfully sculpted. The best book on Leopard development." --Scott Stevenson,

Outliers

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:14 PST

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This is a brilliant new book from the bestselling author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink". Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay fa ...

Coders at Work

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:14 PST

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Peter Seibel interviews 16 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work.

Logicomix

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:13 PST

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This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. Driven by a desire for knowledge of his own history, he attempted to force the world to yield to his yearnings: for truth, clarity and resolve. As he grew older, and increasingly sophi ...