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Summary: Shares the true story of how an unknown visitor came to the author's hotel room in 1998 and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal development that challenged his views on the meaning of life and the human tendency toward violence.
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Summary: A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear...
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(639)
Summary: Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Android Bootcamp course, this guide will lead you through the wilderness using hands-on example apps combined with clear explanations of key concepts and APIs. This...
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(81)
Summary: Inside, you will find the summary of advice, tactics, and tricks learned the hard way through many years of working on mission-critical components, complex system designs supporting billions of...
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(8)
Summary: Windows and Office work together to turn your PC into a productivity tool. This guide offers quick answers for when you get stuck. Start with a tour of the Windows 8 "start" screen, and go from there!
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(14)
Summary: Provides a firm foundation for coders new to ASP.NET and key insights for those not yet familiar with the updates in the 4.5.1 release. Guides you through the process of creating a fully functional,...
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Steve Suehring
(43)
Summary: In charge of a website? Here's what you need to know about key web technologies! Learn how the four essential web technologies work together to create web services, validate web forms, and set up a...
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David Thomas
(1,968)
Summary: Ruby 1.9 was a major release of the language: it introduced multinationalization, new block syntax and scoping rules, a new, faster, virtual machine, and hundreds of new methods in dozens of new...
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Oliver Theobald
(678)
Summary: The manner in which computers are now able to mimic human thinking to process information is rapidly exceeding human capabilities in everything from chess to picking the winner of a song contest. In...
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Jake Ward
(267)
Summary: Artificial intelligence is going to change the world as we know it. But the real danger isn't some robot that's going to enslave us: It's our own brain. Our brains are constantly making decisions...
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Tee Morris
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Summary: More people than ever are turning to podcasts for on-demand, mobile entertainment and information. Podcasting This book offers a fast and easy way to get the know-how you need to produce and...
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Brian Wood
(813)
Summary: Contains 16 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Following hands-on step-by-step projects, users...
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Summary: Updated for 2017! Learn WordPress and build a professional website you're proud of! This book comes with: 29 WordPress training videos that go along with the chapters of the book; Unlimited 1-on-1...
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Beth Ziesenis
(43)
Summary: A mere decade after the debut of the very first iPhone, modern professionals have more than five million apps to choose from. How can you figure out which apps you need for work and home? Just ask...
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(276)
Summary: "Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public...
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Summary: If you love to read, and presumably you do since you've picked up this book, you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on...
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Summary: Long recognized as North America's most-beloved and best-selling annual, this handy yellow book fulfills every need and expectation as a calendar of the heavens, a time capsule of the year, an...
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Summary: Tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. Reporting on some of the news-impoverished areas in the U.S. and around the world, America's premier...
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Summary: It might seem unnecessary to define what a person is, but the issue of personhood has been a longstanding source of debate. The scope of personhood has been questioned in many applications, including...
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Edward O. Wilson
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Summary: In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species...
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Oprah Winfrey
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Summary: Offers a guide for identifying one's purpose and creating a framework for a life that is both successful and meaningful, sharing inspirational quotes by some of today's most influential cultural figures.
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Summary: More than 600 concise entries detail cases of apparitions, hauntings, and poltergeists; the biographies of prominent researchers, psychics, and spirtualists; types of ghosts; explanations of...
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Summary: The spooky and entertaining follow-up to the "New York Times" bestseller "Ghost Hunting" features stories from the Sci Fi Channel's hit show, "Ghost Hunters."
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Kate Summerscale
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Summary: London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen...
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