Stories have power. They move people in a way that facts and figures can't. Many leaders use stories as a tool, but leadership development expert Tim Tobin says most have no idea what tale their own leadership is telling. He shows how, by thinking of your career as a narrative—with a plot, characters, and an...

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 main purpose of the book is to provide insight into an area that humans often take for granted. There are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using chemical signals as a basis of a sophisticated communication system. In many instances, chemical signals can provide more detailed and accurate information than any other mode of...

• Craft game environments with extreme clarity by adding realism to characters, objects, and props
• Import and set up custom assets such as meshes, textures, and normal maps in Unity
• A step-by-step guide written in a...

• Detect and solve performance, indexing, and fuzzy matches problems and more in an effective way
• Tune PostgreSQL databases and remove bottlenecks...

Your Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D is capable of taking incredibly cool and truly frame-worthy photos, but unless you know how use it properly your pictures won't be worth a thousand words. Luckily, Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D For Dummies is packed with the...

This book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better. Agile software engineering has become the standard software development paradigm over the last decade, and the insights provided here are taken from a large-scale survey of...

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• Learn to utilize the features of SFML quickly to create interactive games
• Realize your game ideas by following practical tutorials based on the essential features of...

Access 2016 Bible is your, comprehensive reference to the world's most popular database management tool. With clear guidance toward everything from the basics to the advanced, this go-to reference helps you take advantage of everything Access 2016 has to offer. Whether...

• Process large and complex datasets using next generation Hadoop
• Install, configure, and administer MapReduce programs and learn what's new in MapReduce v2
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