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No Excuse Leadership: Lessons from the U.S. Army's Elite Rangers

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Every organization needs good leadership in order to win against the competition. Through his own personal story and those of nine other Rangers, Barber illuminates fundamental lessons about what it really takes to win. These first-person accounts of trial and triumph highlight the importance and the inherent truth of the Army's most...

Inspired by Art: Fighting Goliath (The David Chronicles)

Independent Publishers Group, 2021

How did the masters of art imagine the epic battle of David and Goliath?

This collection depicts every move leading up to the moment of victory.

These amazing sculptures, paintings, etchings, and manuscripts inspired the author to write The David Chronicles, an epic historical fiction trilogy with a...

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

Crown, 2007

Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions, the more spectacularly we seem to fail.

Big software projects regularly crash and burn--just ask the FBI and the IRS, the Pentagon and the FAA, or any decent-size corporation. The...

Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2014

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a...

Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development

Apress, 2017

Learn to build hybrid mobile apps using Ionic and Firebase. You'll build a Hacker News client app, which can view top stories in Hacker News, view comments of a story, add stories to favorites, etc.

This introductory guide covers the whole cycle of hybrid mobile apps development. It's organized around implementing...

End-to-End Game Development: Creating Independent Serious Games and Simulations from Start to Finish

Focal Press, 2009

In the award-winning AMC television series Mad Men, set in the early 1960s, a mysterious and massive machine shows up one day in the offices of the advertising agency Stirling Cooper. The machine is a Xerox photocopier, and the workplace is about to change forever. Previously, document duplication was done with a mimeograph, a hand-cranked...

How To Write A Page-Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down

Writer's Showcase Press, 2019

Infuse Your Fiction with the Powerful Tug of Tension!

Tension is the heart of conflict, the backbone of uncertainty, the hallmark of danger. It keeps readers guessing and characters on their toes. When you've got tension in place, stories leave readers breathless and wanting more. When it's missing, scenes...

Creating a Data-Driven Organization

O'Reilly, 2015

What do you need to become a data-driven organization? Far more than having big data or a crack team of unicorn data scientists, it requires establishing an effective, deeply-ingrained data culture. This practical book shows you how true data-drivenness involves processes that require genuine buy-in across your company, from analysts...

Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research

Carl Mautz Publishing, 2000

Completely revised edition, featuring Richard Rudisill's Directories of Photographers, an annotated international bibliography, and six new essays on photography research. Included are David Haynes' "how to" essay expanded to include new resources provided by the advent of the computer and the World Wide Web); Linda Ries' sequel to her...

Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

Domain-driven design (DDD) focuses on what matters in enterprise applications: the core business domain. Using object-oriented principles, you can develop a domain model that all team members-including business experts and technical specialists-can understand. Even better, this model is directly related to the underlying...

Start: How to get your business underway

Capstone, 2008

Thanks for picking up this book. You are obviously in the mood for change, and you have already admitted to yourself that you might need a bit of help. That’s two massive steps already. People set up businesses when they get fed up with the way other companies do things, or if they have a brilliant idea, or if they...

Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams

Jossey-Bass, 2012

How any manager can turn a struggling team into business champs

In today’s uncertain economic environment, teams are asked to do more with less. With resources stretched thin, turning around a struggling team has never been harder, and managers must work to identify and maximize whatever potential strengths a team...

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