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Executing Your Business Transformation: How to Engage Sweeping Change Without Killing Yourself Or Your Business

Jossey-Bass, 2010

Practical, tested, implementable real-world advice for transforming any business and is written by people that have “been there and done that”.

Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket...

Lighting Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios: Strategies for Digital Photographers

Amherst Media, 2009

Ifirst met Billy Pegram when he was shooting fashion in Seattle and I was the new agent on the block. We developed a synergistic relationship. He introduced me to clients; I had him shoot the models I represented. I have now known him for nearly three decades. During this time, we have learned from each other and...

What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons

This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence, and even aliens....

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2007

If you are squeamish about choosing colors, feel uninspired by a blank browser window, or get lost trying to choose the right font, this book is for you. In it, I take a methodical approach to presenting traditional graphic design theory as it applies to today’s web site development industry. While the content is directed toward programmers...

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...

The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health

Plume, 2007

In a devastating exposé in the tradition of Silent Spring and Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the planet. A century ago in 1906, when Congress enacted the...

The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech

Apress, 2015

The New Shop Class connects the worlds of the maker and hacker with that of the scientist and engineer. If you are a parent or educator or a budding maker yourself, and you feel overwhelmed with all of the possible technologies, this book will get you started with clear discussions of what open source technologies like 3D printers,...

The Principles of Project Management (SitePoint: Project Management)

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2008

The Principles of Project Management lays out clear steps that anyone can follow to get projects done right, and delivered on time.

This full color book covers:

Why Project Management is important The 6 fundamental truths of project management Getting started: Discovering, Initiating, Planning...

Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)

New Riders Publishing, 2009

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of standards-based design.

Written in the same engaging...

A Carrot a Day: A Daily Dose of Recognition for Your Employees

Gibbs Smith, 2004

From the bestselling authors of The 24-Carrot Manager comes a manager's handbook on motivating employees through praise and recognition. Employees fed a steady diet of carrots focus better on company goals. They spot new opportunities faster. They have longer employment life spans (translation: lower turnover). And they can lift companies higher...

Design of Experiments in Chemical Engineering: A Practical Guide

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

While existing books related to DOE are focused either on process or mixture factors or analyze specific tools from DOE science, this text is structured both horizontally and vertically, covering the three most common objectives of any experimental research:

screening designs

mathematical modeling, and...

Web Development with JavaServer Pages

Manning Publications, 2001

Finally, you can harness the full power of Java within your web pages to create dynamic content. Unlike ASP or CGI scripts, JavaServer Pages (JSP) gives you full access to all the Java APIs. You get true platform-independence, the advantages of object-oriented design, and clean separation of the look of a web page from its underlying business...

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