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Newton's Gravity: An Introductory Guide to the Mechanics of the Universe (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)

Springer, 2012

“Newton’s Gravity” conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people, for example, know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a lesser extent the Sun. But very few can explain exactly how and why that happens. Fewer still can calculate the actual pulls of the...

La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World

Crown, 2019

A jubilant celebration of Italy’s outsize impact on culture, from literature to art, music to movies, that “masterfully examines the multitude of reasons why so many people fall in love with Italy and the Italian lifestyle” (Forbes)

Can you imagine painting without Leonardo, opera...

The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order

Yale University Press, 2019

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard?wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a...

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Random House, 2020

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and...

Laravel: Up & Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. Fully updated to cover Laravel 5.8, the second edition of this practical guide...

Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Foreword by Janet Yellen

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.

Shan, a former hard laborer...

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Da Capo Press, 2017

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary...

Mastering Laravel

Packt Publishing, 2015

Develop robust modern web-based software applications and RESTful APIs with Laravel, one of the hottest PHP frameworks

About This Book

Master the flashiest functionalities Laravel has to offer

Use PHPSpec to design testable software by specification to ensure quality code

High Performance Browser Networking: What every web developer should know about networking and web performance

O'Reilly, 2013

How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications--including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events...

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisions

This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business, government agency or other...

Advanced Cosmetic Otoplasty: Art, Science, and New Clinical Techniques

Springer, 2013

There are only a few books on rhinoplasty and most are limited to the editor’s techniques or those of a few contributors. These give restricted information on the variety of procedures that are available and are mainly for teaching the inexperienced and somewhat experienced surgeons how to do rhinoplasty and possibly stay...

Getting Started with Laravel 4

Packt Publishing, 2014

Ideal for web developers who want a crash course in Laravel, this tutorial covers all the fundamentals to help you build robust applications with less code. The approach is practical with masses of real-world examples.

Overview

Provides a concise introduction to all the concepts needed to get started with...

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