
1. | Overview: Achieve Your Goals
Transform your life and achieve your goals with strategies to ensure success
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2. | ![]() Apprenticeship Patterns, 1st EditionApprenticeship Patterns By: Dave Hoover; Adewale Oshineye Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 02-OCT-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Apprenticeship Patterns, 1st EditionApprenticeship Patterns
Are you doing all you can to further your career as a software
developer? With today's rapidly changing and ever-expanding
technologies, being successful requires more than technical
expertise. To grow professionally, you also need soft skills and
effective learning techniques. Honing those skills is what this
book is all about. Authors Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye have
cataloged dozens of behavior patterns to help you perfect essential
aspects of your craft.
Compiled from years of research, many interviews, and feedback from
O'Reilly's online forum, these patterns address...
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3. | ![]() By: Robert Bruce Thompson; Barbara Fritchman Thompson Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-JUN-2005 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Astronomy Hacks
Why use the traditional approach to study the stars when you can
turn computers, handheld devices, and telescopes into
out-of-this-world stargazing tools? Whether you're a first timer or
an advanced hobbyist, you'll find Astronomy Hacks both useful and
fun. From upgrading your optical finder to photographing stars,
this book is the perfect cosmic companion. This handy field guide
covers the basics of observing, and what you need to know about
tweaking, tuning, adjusting, and tricking out a 'scope. Expect
priceless tips and tools for using a Dobsonian Telescope, the
large-aperture telescope...
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4. | This is the Rough Cuts version.
10 World-Changing Revolutions in
Medicine...
and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That
Made Them Possible
· The unforgettable
life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays,
and more
· What happened, how
it happened, and what it means to you today
· For
everyone interested in science or medicine
Why are you alive right now?
Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical
discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or
X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like...
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5. | ![]() Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st Edition By: Scott Berkun Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 10-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 03-NOV-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st Edition
" at 7:48 a.m. on a Tuesday, I am showered, cleaned, shaved,
pruned, fed, and deodorized, wearing a pressed shirt and shiny
shoes, in a cab on my way to the San Francisco waterfront I'm far
from home, going to an unfamiliar place, and performing for
strangers, three stressful facts that mean anything can happen
"
In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and
professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind
what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use
them well. For managers and teachers-and anyone else who talks and
expects...
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6. | Inquiring minds want to know. What’s
the big deal about low-carb diets? What causes muscle aches when
you get the flu? How did the ancient Egyptians build the Giza
Pyramids? These are some of the 162 questions compiled in this
science Q&A anthology. The questions come from real people who
range in age from high schoolers to octogenarians (and probably
even younger and older folks too). Some of them are scientists, and
others tell me, “I’m not a science person, but
I’ve always wanted to know...” What they share is a
deep curiosity about the world around them. The questions and
answers in...
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7. | Overview: Develop Confidence
A pocket-sized guide to building confidence - take it wherever life takes you!
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8. | ![]() Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time By: Brian Tracy Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and
translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective
methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This
new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand
new information on how to keep technology from dominating our time....
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9. | Overview: Effective Communications
Develop your skills, realise your full potential and make your life work
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10. | This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
The subprime crisis and the global financial panic it triggered
will impact every one of us profoundly, for years, and perhaps even
decades. What happened? And how can we prevent it from happening
again? In Financial Shock, Revised and Expanded Edition, Dr.
Mark Zandi answers these questions: thoroughly, carefully, and in
plain English. This new edition has been systematically updated for
the latest events, with insights into the dynamics of the worldwide
Fall 2008 financial collapse, the freezing of credit markets, the
extraordinary...
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