Books In Print: October 2016

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Ruby Camp

By :"Louise Crisp","Miriel Lenore"
Published on 1998 by Spinifex Press

Category :"Fiction"

'Travelling Alone Together': It is 1993 and a group of elderly women are travelling the same route as the explorer Edward John Eyre on his 1840-41 expedition from Adelaide to Albany. Miriel Lenore uses this as the framework for her own explanations of the effects of gender, race, and generation on the individual and society. 'Ruby Camp': Crisp creates a radically new way of 'knowing' the East Gippsland bush. Her poetry evokes the Snowy River and it's environs from a woman's perspective, as well as the memory the land holds of the massacres of the indigenous Krauatungalung, Ngarigo and Bidwell people.

Lenght : 185

Language : en

This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword alone together

Alone Together

By :"Elena Bonnėr"
Published on 1988 by Vintage

Category :"Dissenters"

The wife of the Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov tells the full, uncensored, harrowing story of their years in exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. \

Lenght : 272

Language : en

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword alone together

Three Alone, Together

By :"Daniel Blue"
Published on 2015-09-14 by Lulu Press, Inc

Category :"Fiction"

After Albie's wife walks out on him he decides to look for a housekeeper. Carol lives to write and she thinks being a housekeeper for a farmer will give her plenty of opportunity to work on her books. It isn't long before Albie falls in love with Carol but she has been badly hurt by her ex husband and is in no hurry to get into another relationship. One day she invites her first true love to come and visit. Cade is gay and although nothing physical has happened between them they share a deep and abiding love. Seeing them together makes Albie jealous. When Cade makes an outrageous suggestion Albie finds hat he is powerless to resist even though it goes against his nature. The next morning, seeing Cade and Carol huddled together and giggling like crazy, Albie thinks they are laughing at him and he confronts Cade. It turns out that Cade hadn't told Carol anything but now she knows. Will Albie be able to win Carol's heart or will the love triangle lead them all in a different direction? 6000 words

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword alone together

Together Alone

By :"Calvin Morrill","David A. Snow","Cindy H. White"
Published on 2005 by Univ of California Press

Category :"History"

Lenght : 305

Language : en

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword alone together

Alone, Together

By :"Linda A. Cooney"
Published on 1986-01 by

Category :"Education"

Lenght : 184

Language : en

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword alone together

The Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of Will

By :"Jonathan Edwards"
Published on 1877 by

Category :"Free will and determinism"

Lenght : 422

Language : en

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword freedom

Biko - Cry Freedom

By :"Donald Woods"
Published on 2011-04-01 by Macmillan

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution.

Lenght : 289

Language : en

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword freedom

Operator and Organizational Maintenance Manual

By :
Published on 1990 by

Category :"Diesel motor"

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword the master switch

The Master Switch of Life

By :"Per Fredrik Scholander"
Published on 1963 by

Category :"Blood"

Lenght : 10

Language : en

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword the master switch

PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies

By :"Steve Suehring","Janet Valade"
Published on 2013-03-15 by John Wiley & Sons

Category :"Computers"

Get the basics on four key web programming tools in one great book! PHP, JavaScript, and HTML5 are essential programming languages for creating dynamic websites that work with the MySQL database. PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating superb e-commerce sites and content management. JavaScript and HTML5 add support for the most current multimedia effects. This one-stop guide gives you what you need to know about all four! Seven self-contained minibooks cover web technologies, HTML5 and CSS3, PHP programming, MySQL databases, JavaScript, PHP with templates, and web applications. Addresses how PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and HTML5 are vital tools for creating dynamic, database-driven websites and are especially important for e-commerce sites Serves as essential reading for web designers who are new to these technologies, offering a crash course covering all of these powerful technologies in this handy volume of seven self-contained minibooks Covers how to program in PHP and how to create and administer a MySQL database as well as how to manipulate MySQL data via a web interface Shows how to create a secure website and how to code popular e-business applications such as login programs and shopping carts With seven books in one, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies will turn your website into the center of attention in no time at all.

Lenght : 720

Language : en

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword html5 for web designers

The Progress Principle

By :"Teresa Amabile","Steven Kramer"
Published on 2011 by Harvard Business Press

Category :"Business & Economics"

Explains how to foster progress, shows how to remove obstacles, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships that disrupt employees' work lives, and offers advice on enhancing employees' inner work life.

Lenght : 260

Language : en

This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword where good ideas come from

The Circle of Innovation

By :"Tom Peters"
Published on 2010-09-08 by Vintage

Category :"Business & Economics"

Tom Peters--brilliant, original, and perhaps the most inspiring and listened-to business thinker of our time--has a lot on his mind these days. And he wants to share it in The Circle of Innovation. The world of business is in a permanent state of flux, he argues, a state of chaos in which constant innovation is the only survival strategy--for the individual and for the organization. And he presents here a lifesaving handbook--both provocative and practical--designed to turn any organization into a perpetual innovation machine. In 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries in the last five years, Peters has reexamined, refined, and reinvented his views on innovation. Now he brings those seminars--and his passion--to the reader in a landmark book. It is meant, he writes, to both \

Lenght : 544

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword where good ideas come from

Time's Visible Surface

By :"Mike Gubser"
Published on 2006-01-01 by Wayne State University Press

Category :"Art"

Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-si?cle Vienna.

Lenght : 300

Language : en

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword surface detail

Head First Servlets and JSP

By :"Bryan Basham","Kathy Sierra","Bert Bates"
Published on 2008-03-25 by \

Category :"Computers"

Looking to study up for the new J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the brand new J2EE 1.5 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use servlets and JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine. You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only AFTER you're an expert (or worse, one that puts you to sleep). Learn how to write servlets and JSPs, what makes a web container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use JSP's Expression Language (EL for short), and how to write deployment descriptors for your web applications. Master the c:out tag, and get a handle on exactly what's changed since the older J2EE 1.4 exam. You don't just pass the new J2EE 1.5 SCWCD exam, you'll understand this stuff and put it to work immediately. Head First Servlets and JSP doesn't just give you a bunch of facts to memorize; it drives knowledge straight into your brain. You'll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. And when you're through with the book, you can take a brand-new mock exam, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience.

Lenght : 911

Language : en

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword the lifecycle of software objects

Speak

By :"Louisa Hall"
Published on 2015-07-07 by HarperCollins

Category :"Fiction"

A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence—illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding. In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the seventeenth century, to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human, and what it means to be less than fully alive. A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend’s mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal lifelike dolls. Each of these characters is attempting to communicate across gaps—to estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them. In dazzling and electrifying prose, Louisa Hall explores how the chasm between computer and human—shrinking rapidly with today’s technological advances—echoes the gaps that exist between ordinary people. Though each speaks from a distinct place and moment in time, all five characters share the need to express themselves while simultaneously wondering if they will ever be heard, or understood.

Lenght : 336

Language : en

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword the lifecycle of software objects

Born in Africa

By :"Martin Meredith"
Published on 2011-08-18 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"History"

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind and the dawn of civilisation. Through a century of archaeological investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding of the beginnings of human life, although vital clues still remain hidden. In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about our human origins made by scientists over the last hundred years, as well as describing the history of scholarship in this incredibly exciting field. He relates the intense rivalries, personal feuds and fierce controversies that shaped the study and perception of Africa, and recounts the feats of skill and endurance that have illuminated thousands of years of human evolution. The results have been momentous. Scientists have identified more than twenty species of extinct humans and firmly established Africa as the birthplace not only of humankind, but also of our own species: homo sapiens, the modern human. Scientific study has revealed how early technology, language ability and artistic endeavour all originated in Africa, and scientists have shown how, in an exodus sixty thousand years ago, small groups of Africans left their birthplace to populate the rest of the world. We all have an African legacy, and in this fascinating and informative book Martin Meredith leads us back to the place where we have rediscovered our common human heritage.

Lenght : 288

Language : en

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword in the plex

Nature's Ghosts

By :"Mark V. Barrow"
Published on 2009-10-15 by University of Chicago Press

Category :"History"

Explores the early history of wildlife conservation in the United States, including early naturalists like John James Audubon and John Muir, and public reactions to such extinctions as the passenger pigeon.

Lenght : 497

Language : en

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword in the plex

The Circle

By :"Dave Eggers"
Published on 2013-10-08 by Vintage

Category :"Fiction"

The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Lenght : 504

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword in the plex

I'm Feeling Lucky

By :"Douglas Edwards"
Published on 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Category :"Business & Economics"

An early Google director of marketing and brand management discusses the pioneering work of partners Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the evolution of the company's non-hierarchical structure, and the competitive environment through which ideas are developed and implemented.

Lenght : 416

Language : en

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword in the plex

Twilight of the Elites

By :"Chris Hayes"
Published on 2012-06-12 by Crown

Category :"Political Science"

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters. How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it. Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Twilight of the Elites describes how the society we have come to inhabit – utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom – produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public's failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives. Upending well-worn ideological and partisan categories, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times. Twilight of the Elites is the defining work of social criticism for the post-bailout age.

Lenght : 320

Language : en

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword reality is broken

Smarter Than You Think

By :"Clive Thompson"
Published on 2013-09-12 by Penguin

Category :"Social Science"

It's undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding \

Lenght : 352

Language : en

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword reality is broken

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Breathless

By :"Sophie Jordan"
Published on 2012-12-04 by Harper Collins

Category :"Young Adult Fiction"

Sophie Jordan's breathtaking digital original novella set in the world of Firelight. For Az, it's supposed to be a fun summer vacation with her family. Nothing complicated. Just a quick trip to test the waters as she prepares for a year on her own. That all changes when she rescues a drowning girl and meets Tate—the most gorgeous human boy she's ever seen. Tate throws her heart, her plans, and her life into upheaval, but the closer she gets to him, the harder it is to hide the secret of what she is. With no hope for a future together, the last thing that can ever happen . . . is love. This stand-alone digital original is perfect for those new to the Firelight series as well as veteran fans. Epic Reads Impulse is a digital imprint with new releases each month.

Lenght : 352

Language : en

This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword breathless

El rey de Hierro (The iron king)

By :"Julie Kagawa y Sara Gundell"
Published on 2014-05-04 by Roberto. Ave Fenix Comics y Libros

Category :"Comics & Graphic Novels"

Shojo manga basado en la famosa novela de Julie kagawa: The iron king, el rey de hierro, disfruta del primer numero de esta miniserie de 4 numeros. Esta dibujado por Lidia Chan, autora de varios shojos y manga Yaoi que ha creado para la editorial española Ave Fenix.

Lenght : 25

Language : es

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword the iron king

The Iron King

By :"Maurice Druon"
Published on 1968 by

Category :

Lenght : 267

Language : en

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword the iron king

Reading People

By :"Jo-Ellan Dimitrius","Wendy Patrick Mazzarella"
Published on 2008-09-02 by Ballantine Books

Category :"Psychology"

Did you know that when you walk into a room, everything about you--from what you're wearing to the way you sit to the way you speak--says something about you? Do you realize that as you're taking stock of someone, he or she is also taking stock of you? For fifteen years, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, America's best-known jury consultant--made even more famous by her work on the O. J. Simpson trial--has predicted the behavior of thousands of jurors, witnesses, lawyers, and judges. In Reading People, she applies her amazing skills to everyday life, explaining which visual and oral clues can reliably predict behavior on the job, in relationships, and at home. In Reading People, you'll learn ¸ how to tell a person's sincerity by the tone of his or her voice ¸ how to know if your date is interested in a serious relationship without telegraphing the answer you want ¸ how to use your intuition to determine the right preschool for your child ¸ why people who volunteer information about themselves are less credible than those who wait for you to ask questions ¸ how to stay objective when evaluating a potential boss--even if you need the job desperately ¸ how to make snap decisions that make sense Reading People is a remarkable book that not only tells you which clues to look for but also teaches you how to be more effective in spotting them, how to keep your objectivity when evaluating them, and how to see the emerging pattern that tells you which of a person's sometimes inconsistent qualities will dictate his or her behavior. In Reading People, you'll learn how to sharpen your intuition and avoid the pitfalls that lead to bad decisions. Even more important, you can become a better parent, friend, employee, or spouse by recognizing the subtle messages of those around you and being more responsive to them. Reading People will teach you skills that last a lifetime. From the Hardcover edition.

Lenght : 384

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword something about you