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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Simon & Schuster, 2019

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the...

The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz

Visible Ink Press, 2014

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used...

Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games

No Starch Press, 2016

You don't need to be a wizard to transform a game you like into a game you love. Imagine if you could give your favorite PC game a more informative heads-up display or instantly collect all that loot from your latest epic battle.

Bring your knowledge of Windows-based development and memory management, and Game...

Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook: Arcane, Divine, and Martial Heroes (Roleplaying Game Core Rules)

Wizards of the Coast, 2008

The first of three core rulebooks for the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons® Roleplaying Game.

The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game has defined the medieval fantasy genre and the tabletop RPG industry for more than 30 years. In the D&D game, players create...

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography

Doubleday, 1999

Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history...

The Best of Verity Stob: Highlights of Verity Stob's Famous Columns from .EXE, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and The Register

Apress, 2005

Verity Stob is the comedienne of the programming world. She has been writing satirical chronicles of techie life since 1988. Her column first appeared in the legendary .EXE Magazine, then Dr. Dobbs' Journal, and it now graces The Register.

For the first time, the very best of Stob's...

Success in Programming: How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding

Apress, 2014

Why should you, a competent software developer or programmer, care about your own brand? After all, it’s not like you're an actor or musician.

In fact, as Success in Programming: How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding demonstrates in...

Source SDK Game Development Essentials

Packt Publishing, 2014

Develop engaging and immersive mods with Source SDK

Overview

Create maps and mods using the tools provided with Source SDK

Learn how to use Hammer to create your own game worlds

Create goal-driven A.I. sequences and scripts

Master Source SDK tools with ease...

The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

Cambridge University Press, 2013

It is widely accepted by New Testament scholars that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles probably originated as two parts of one work by a single author. In spite of this, the books have been assigned to very different genres: Luke is traditionally viewed as a biography of Jesus, and Acts as a history of the early church....

Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium

Packt Publishing, 2013

Develop fully-featured mobile applications using a hands-on approach, and get inspired to develop more

Overview

Walk through the development of ten different mobile applications by leveraging your existing knowledge of JavaScript

Allows anyone familiar with some Object-oriented Programming...

Investing in Shares For Dummies

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Houses, gold, tulips . . . our idea of what constitutes a good ‘investment’ has changed dramatically over time but one precious, valuable idea still holds true: that shares over the long term have been a great investment and have without doubt made their intrepid ‘holders’ returns of between 5 and 7 per...

Traders at Work: How the World's Most Successful Traders Make Their Living in the Markets

Apress, 2013

Shortly after most novice traders discover how trading works and begin to realize that they have the potential to make unlimited amounts of money in the financial markets, they start dreaming the near-impossible dream. They fantasize about buying that condo in Boca Raton for their parents or surprising their son with a brand-new car on his...

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