Learn IT - Books tags humor

Windows XP Annoyances

O'Reilly, 2002

Microsoft Windows XP may be the latest in a popular family of operating systems, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. However, the designers of Windows XP have built enough flexibility into their product and provided users with a sufficiently large toolkit to overcome most shortcomings. In Windows XP Annoyances David Karp reveals his ideas...

Jakarta Struts for Dummies

For Dummies, 2004

Reduce development time, increase maintainability, and take charge of your code

Find out how Jakarta Struts can support your pages and keep the Java hot!

You’ll know more than beans about Jakarta Struts after you’ve spent a little time with this book! It’ll get you up and running with the popular open source...

Tork & Grunt's Guide to Effective Negotiations

Marshall Cavendish Limited, 2008

If you thought negotiating deals and agreements is tough in today's business environment, then you should try doing so in prehistoric times! This book follows our two cavemen characters, Tork and Grunt, in their quest to ensure the survival of their tribe. Through the experiences of our two cavemen, you will learn everything you need to...

The Laughing Guide to a Better Life: Using Humor and Science to Improve Yourself, Your Relationships, and Your Surroundings

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

The motto of this book is smarter through laughter. If you can laugh about it, you can probably change it. The authors use a heavy dose of humor (the laughing side), and a healthy measure of science (the learning side) to help you improve yourself, your relationships, and your surroundings. The book introduces the “I CAN...

An Encyclopedia of Humor

Hendrickson, 1998

Lowell Streiker's Encyclopedia of Humor provides abundant "good clean fun" whenever you need inspirational slices of life, bracing quips, quotable wisdom, or a refreshing dose of nonsense to enrich your sermons or talks.

Noted evangelist J o h n Franklin was speaking at two V*9 different churches in a large city in...

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 8th International Conference, CICLing 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18-24, 2007

Springer, 2007

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2007, held in Mexico City, Mexico in February 2007.

The 53 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The papers...

Game Day: A Rollicking Journey to the Heart of College Football

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season

If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor and Texas charm-are as addictive as the games...

Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom : Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Chicago's public school system in the 1980sand '90s was a stark symbol of the nation's educational crisis. Grim reflections of their poverty-stricken neighborhoods, the city's schools were saddled with severe drug problems and the inevitable violence that results. Veteran Chicago Sun-Times journalist Leslie Baldacci was an expert on the...

Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School

Reaktion Books, 2019

The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the...

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...

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals(R): A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2007

Unless you are working at a very advanced level, this is the only SQL book you will ever need. The authors have taken the mystery out of complex queries and explained principles and techniques with such clarity that a "Mere Mortal" will indeed be empowered to perform the superhuman. Do not walk past this book!

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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Portfolio Hardcover, 2009

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gapingvoid.com-and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures. MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the...

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