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Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders

Addison Wesley, 2011

I hate management books. I do. People give them to me all the time saying: “You should read this one, it changed my life!” These books are all about 150 pages. They have 14 point type, double-spaced. They have lots of pictures. They have titles like: Open Locker Management, Management by not Managing, First Clean All The...

COMPTON STREET LEGEND: Notorious Keffe D’s Street-Level Accounts of Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops

KingDoMedia, 2019

The infamous Suge Knight, former Death Row Records CEO, and I are the only living eyewitnesses to the deadly confrontation on the Las Vegas strip between the occupants of our two vehicles. A violent confrontation that led to the deaths of two of Hip-Hop’s biggest stars (Tupac Shakur & Christopher ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace)...

Who Moved My Cheese?

Vermilion, 1999

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a 'Maze' and look for 'Cheese' to nourish them and make them happy.

Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are little people' - beings the size of mice who look and act a lot...

Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation

FT Press, 2010

There has been immense worldwide excitement about the potential of Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) businesses to help impoverished societies escape poverty. Unfortunately, many BoP firms are locked in a "survival trap" that keeps them small, inefficient, and unprofitable. Now, Eric Kacou identifies breakthrough...

Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End Gang

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Their names resonate with organized crime in Montreal: the Matticks, MacAllisters, Johnstons and Griffins, and Peter Dunie Ryan. They are the Irish equivalent of the infamous Rizzuto and Cotroni families, and the "Mom" Bouchers and Walter Stadnicks of the Hells Angels. Award-winning producer, journalist and author D’Arcy...

The Story of the Solar System

Cambridge University Press, 2002

The Sun, its nine planets and their satellites, the asteroids and the comets – together, these are the elements that comprise the Solar System. In this book we shall meet them in detail. We shall come to know their properties, their place in the Solar System, what they look like and how they compare with one another. We will learn what they...

The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire From the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate the whole of the Mediterranean basin, most of modern Europe and the lands of Asia Minor and the Middle East, has often been told. It has provided the model for European empires from Charlemagne to Queen...

A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible (Practical Guide Series)

Five Simple Steps LLP, 2012

I’m fascinated by how much we are influenced by the media and indeed how much they make us think we are in control of our own decisions. Are we really in control though? I’m not so sure because despite being a media savvy species, there are subliminal forces at work affecting our moods, buying habits and emotions....

Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

No Starch Press, 2018

Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as...

Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

The UK Climate Change Act was the first case of a country implementing blanket legally binding long-term emissions reduction targets in order to combat climate change. This book provides the first accessible and in-depth analysis of the UK’s complex Climate Change Act framework, presenting the discussion in a...

Linux Security Cookbook

O'Reilly, 2003

f you run a Linux machine, you must think about security. Consider this story told by Scott, a system administrator we know:

In early 2001, I was asked to build two Linux servers for a client. They just wanted the machines installed and put online. I asked my boss if I should secure them, and he said no, the...

The UNIX Hater's Handbook

John Wiley & Sons, 1994

In the tradition of 12-step programs that help people overcome their addictions by sharing stories, The UNIX-Haters Handbook is the self-help guide for people affected by the world's most esoteric and most widely used operating system.

Turn here for answers to all-important questions, such as...

Why does the...

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