Head First C#: A Learner's Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET 2010

You want to learn C# programming, but you’re not sure you want to suffer through another tedious technical book. You’re in luck: Head First C# introduces this language in a fun, visual way. You’ll quickly learn everything from creating your first program to learning sophisticated coding skills with C# 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, while avoiding common errors that frustrate many students.

The second edition offers several hands-on labs along the way to help you build and test programs using skills you’ve learned up to that point. In the final lab, you’ll put everything together. From objects to garbage collection and from exceptions to interactions, you’ll learn C# in a way that engages and entertains your brain. Here are a few of the topics you’ll learn:

* Start by building a useful application with pre-built components in Visual Studio 2010
* Discover how objects work, using real-world examples
* Store numbers, text, and other basic data types using primitives
* Save complex data in files and databases with great C# tools
* Build intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces by following simple rules
* Design your code to catch exceptions — things you don’t expect
* Develop good programming habits, such as refactoring code and applying unit tests
* Learn how web services put your programs in touch with the rest of the world
* Make it easy for other people to install your software

About the Author
Andrew Stellman, despite being raised a New Yorker, has lived in Pittsburgh twice. The first time was when he graduated from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, and then again when he and Jenny were starting their consulting business and writing their first project management book for O’Reilly. When he moved back to his hometown, his first job after college was as a programmer at EMI-Capitol Records–which actually made sense, since he went to LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts to study cello and jazz bass guitar. He and Jenny first worked together at that same financial software company, where he was managing a team of programmers. He’s since managed various teams of software engineers, requirements analysts, and led process improvement efforts. Andrew keeps himself busy eating an enormous amount of string cheese and Middle Eastern desserts, playing music (but video games even more), studying taiji and aikido, having a girlfriend named Lisa, and owning a pomeranian. For more information about Andrew, Jennifer Greene, and their books, visit http://www.stellman-greene.com.

Jennifer Greene has managed just about every aspect of software development during her career. She spent the past 15 years building software for many different kinds of companies, including small start-ups and huge companies. Jenny’s built software test teams and has helped many companies diagnose and deal with habitual process problems so they could build better software. Since her start in software test and process definition, she’s branched out into development management and project management. Jenny is currently managing a large development team for a global media company.

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Creating Web Pages For Dummies

Seriously, what do you find here? Easy ways to get published on the Web for any kind of Internet user we could think of. Ways to make your first Web page rich with carefully arranged text, graphics, and multimedia, plus the information you need to go beyond your first Web page and create a multipage personal or business Web site. And free online tools, which we describe in the book, to help you go as far as you want to go in creating a Web site.


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Joomla! For Dummies For Dummies

With its pre-coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.
Learn to link articles on your site with drop-down menus, invite visitors to rate content, enable a full-site search, let your guests sign up for e-mail lists, and much more. Joomla! For Dummies helps you to:
* Acquire the free Joomla! content management system, install it, and customize the home page
* See how menus control the elements in Joomla! and use menu items to create your page layout
* Use templates— powerful collections of PHP and CSS—to make your pages do what you want them to
* Create searches, polls, page menus, newsflashes, and banners using built-in Joomla! modules
* Build search engine-friendly sites and see how Joomla! can help boost site traffic...

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Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces That Work

Sexy Web Design is an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch. You'll be guided through the entire process of creating a gorgeous, usable web site by applying the timeless principles of user-centered design.
Even if you're short on design skills, with this book you'll be creating your own stunning web sites in no time at all.
Throughout, the focus is on simple and practical techniques that anyone can use - you don't need to have gone to art school or have artistic flair to create stunning designs using the methods outlined in this book.


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Learning to Think Strategically

In Learning to Think Strategically, author Julia Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved - taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is an original primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition, and identifies five key attributes for learning to think strategically. Learning to Think Strategically asserts that learning is the critical link to strategic thinking. Learning is a "conversion tool" that can transform thinking strategically into a sustainable competitive advantage.
* Part of the leading edge New Frontiers in Learning series
* Application of critical thinking, creativity, reflection, dialogue, testing and reaction to the process of strategic thinking.
* Incorporates activities & exercises that strengthen three levels of learning - instrumental, communicative & transfomative.

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Access 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Whoa! What happened to menu bars, toolbars, and all that other stuff I used to have? Well, in case you haven’t noticed yet, they’re all gone. Of course, if you never used Access before in your life, then you’re starting fresh, so never mind. Whether you never used any version of Microsoft Access, and aren’t even sure what a “version” is, you’ve come to the right book. The basic idea behind Microsoft Access is to allow individuals and small businesses to manage large amounts of information the way the big corporations do — with relational databases. The difference is that while the big boys spend millions on computer hardware, software, and staffs of nerdy database-administrator types, Access allows you to do it all yourself with a run-of-the-mill PC and a realistic software budget.

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7 Books of Linux

A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux. ISBN 013236039X
Hacking Ubuntu: Serious Hacks Mods and Customizations. ISBN 047010872X
Ubuntu Unleashed 2008 Edition: Covering 8.04 and 8.10. ISBN 067232993X
Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions. ISBN 0470230193
Ubuntu Linux Secrets. ISBN 0470395087
Beginning Ubuntu Linux. ISBN 1590598202
Ubuntu for Non-Geeks. ISBN 1593271522

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed

This book is the most comprehensive and independent resource for experienced web developers who want to plan, architect, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art websites, applications, and services.
Expert web developer and trainer Zak Ruvalcaba brings together real-world insights and advanced techniques for every facet of contemporary web development, from site management to data-driven applications and multimedia content to security. Ruvalcaba systematically illuminates the major improvements Adobe has brought to Dreamweaver CS3, including its powerful new Spry framework for Ajax development, its innovative CSS browser compatibility checking, and more. You’ll learn how to smoothly integrate Dreamweaver CS3 with other key web design and development tools, ranging from Photoshop to Flash to databases. You’ll also discover how to use Dreamweaver CS3 to improve team collaboration, automate workflow, streamline content management, and reuse assets more efficiently.

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CNET Do-It-Yourself PC Upgrade Projects

Now you can get the most out of your PC with the fun and practical projects packed inside this easy-to-follow guide. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics, this book shows you how to exploit the media, communications, networking, and security features of your PC. You'll also find out how to add powerful hardware and software, improve performance, and expand your computer's capabilities.
Inside, you'll find 24 self-contained projects, clear step-by-step instructions, a list of tools needed at the beginning of each project, and hundreds of helpful photos and screenshots. With CNET Do-It-Yourself PC Upgrade Projects, you'll be able to take your PC to peak performance--and beyond.

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High Performance JavaScript

If you’re like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development. You’ll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more.
Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript experts — Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Steven Levithan, Stoyan Stefanov, and Matt Sweeney — demonstrate optimal ways to load code onto a page, and offer programming tips to help your JavaScript run as efficiently and quickly as possible. You’ll learn the best practices to build and deploy your files to a production environment, and tools that can help you find problems once your site goes live.

• Identify problem code and use faster alternatives to accomplish the same task
• Improve scripts by learning how JavaScript stores and accesses data
• Implement JavaScript code so that it doesn’t slow down interaction with the DOM
• Use optimization techniques to improve runtime performance
• Learn ways to ensure the UI is responsive at all times
• Achieve faster client-server communication
• Use a build system to minify files, and HTTP compression to deliver them to the browser

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Physiology and Medicine of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Written by internationally recognized leaders in hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) research and practice, this exciting new book provides evidence-based, practical, useful information for anyone involved in HBOT. It outlines the physiologic principles that constitute the basis for understanding the clinical implications for treatment and describes recent advances and current research, along with new approaches to therapy. This book is an essential tool for anyone who cares for patients with difficult-to-heal wounds, wounds from radiation therapy, carbon monoxide poisoning, and more.

* Provides comprehensive coverage of pathophysiology and clinically relevant information so you can master the specialty.
* Covers the relevance of HBOT in caring for diverse populations including critical care patients, infants and pediatric patients, and divers.
* Features a section on the technical aspects of HBOT to provide insight into the technology and physics regarding HBO chambers.
* Presents evidence to support the effectiveness of HBOT as well as the possible side effects.
* Describes situations where HBOT would be effective through indication-specific chapters on chronic wounds, radiation and crush injuries, decompression sickness, and more.


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Secrets to Creating Wealth

BLAM! The Shot Rang-Out I Fell
To The Ground…Laying There Bleeding, I Knew It Was Time For A Change… Five
Years Later, I Was Running A
Multi-Million-Dollar Business Making Six Figures A Month Having Fun Working From Home.
Secrets Of Creating Wealth

My methodology is so simple, it’s embarrassing.” And I’ve already taught hundreds of others in my sold-out $1,000.00 a month coaching club to follow my path to wealth and fulfillment.

Now I BOLDLY ASSERT I can quickly teach my simple secrets to YOU… instantly programming your life for success, converting your dreams to reality, eliminating the factors holding you back from a lifetime of accomplishment, and launching a bullet proof path for accumulating wealth! And best of all, you can be on your way to unstoppable confidence and achievement in under an hour for a fraction of what anyone has had to pay for access to these secrets.
Secrets Of Creating Wealth

If you’ve been reading self-help books, going to seminars, and doing all the “right things” but success has still eluded you, it’s probably not your fault. It’s simply because you never learned “The Seven Secrets of Wealth” or discovered the amazing “Power of the Third Influence.”

From the desk of Stephen A. Pierce

I still remember being young and dumb and getting evicted from my apartment and cast out on the mean streets of D.C…Using up all my chances in school until I was booted out the door during the tenth grade…Hooked up with the wrong crowd and ended up on the business end of a Saturday Night Special…And to this day, carry the bullet in my leg as reminder.

Today, my family runs an endless empire of online businesses, offline businesses, and a variety of different coaching clubs. I am known as one of the powerhouses of the Internet and teach others to replicate our success.
I’m Not Trying to Impress You…I Just Want
You to See YOU Can Have This Same
Kind of Life Yourself!

You are engineered for success. You can’t help it. It’s in your genes. It’s just that no one ever gave you a roadmap. Imagine how successful your life could be one year from today if you had a plan of action.

All you need are the keys to success. They aren’t a secret. And they’re so simple it will blow your mind. But I’ll bet nobody ever told them to you. (I know nobody told them to me).

But I want you to avoid the struggles I faced to get where I am today. No, I INSIST on helping you. What would you do if you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that you COULD BE SUCCESSFUL?

If you could get you to live the life that you want, would you give what I have to say a chance? Because I’m being straight with you. Just a few years ago, I couldn’t imagine living the life I live today. Let me assure – all of it is possible.

You simply need someone to tell you what to do.

Some people say I’ve been blessed with the Midas touch.
But it wasn’t always this way. As you can imagine, doors don’t automatically open for drop-outs. But there’s no doubt I were missing…
The Keys To Success

I drifted from failure to failure, always looking for the easy way out. I used to buy all those $20 books on how to make money with get rich quick schemes. Some of those ideas were just dumb.

There was the arbitration business, vinyl repair service, and vending machine route, but nothing worked. But the reason they didn’t work was because I didn’t put in any effort. I didn’t even bother to read the manuals.

I expected fame and fortune were going to drop down out of the sky. It didn’t.

I expected checks were going to magically appear without any effort. They didn’t.

When I realized it would take more than being positive, saying my affirmations and being hopeful, I did indeed put forth what I thought was some sincerely serious effort…yet things still didn’t turn around.

Now please realize, just like you I did not have an overwhelming desire to be a failure, to file bankruptcy, to be evicted, to take all I own to pawnshops and live shamefully broke. There was something missing…
The Simple Path From Failure To Success

The path to the top started with baby steps. I read Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, W. Clement Stone’s Greatest Success Secret, and Norman Vincent Peale’s Power of Positive Thinking. Actually, I didn’t just read them; I devoured them.

No starving man ever appreciated a meal more than I valued these books. All of a sudden, things didn’t seem so bad. After years of stumbling blindly in the dark, I found the path leading to success. Today, as the coach to hundreds in my high priced programs, I shortcut their learning curve.

I began to look at my fumbles and bumbles in a new light — as part of a learning curve which was now accelerating rapidly. I even discovered my impressive strength amidst the failures, which I now aimed squarely at the top. I sharpened my focus and blasted off.
Uncovering Hidden Talents

I took a brutally honest inventory of my skills and started my first moves online. I hit a number of singles waiting for the right pitch to blast it out of the park and when I discovered the futures market, I found my niche.

When I got started online, there were very few trading sites. There were some forums and newsgroups but that was it. Nothing really solid. I began studying the market and following the trends. Soon, I caught the rhythm of the futures market and understood the direction of the market.

So many people clamored for my scoop on the futures market, I was forced to throw up my first sites. Then I began emailing my suggested trades and began to build a following. My daily trades were outperforming expensive high paid services when out of the blue, fortune smiled on me. A subscriber wanted to pay me five thousand dollars to teach him my trading methodology. Instead, I started a paid subscription service and charged $350 a month. Within days, I had over one hundred paid subscribers and I making great profits.


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Coach Yourself to a New Career: 7 Steps to Reinventing Your Professional Life

Bestselling author offers a step-by-step program to making the right choices about a new career move

Don't fear taking the leap into a new career with this seven step program from bestselling author and life coach Talane Miedaner. Whatever the situation or economic environment, Coach Yourself to a New Career gives you the tools to take matters into your own hands by assessing your needs and strengths, finding the right work fit, weighing options and possible sacrifices, and preparing your family for transitions.

Packed with expert advice and helpful examples from her many statistical clients—as well as her own career change process—Miedaner shows how anyone can reinvent their professional life.

Coach Yourself to a New Career:
Offers a seven-step approach to career reinvention and practical advice for a smooth transition
Profiles everyday people who achieved career reinvention on their own terms - and what their stories can teach you
Shows you how to assess your needs and strengths
Helps you decide what tough decisions or sacrifices you may have to make
Prepares your spouse or family for transition

Edition 2010

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Present Your Way to the Top

David J. Dempsey, JD, is the President & CEO of Neon Zebra, LLC, an executive presentation skills coaching and consulting company that works with senior leaders at global and Fortune 500 businesses. David is a veteran of the courtroom, a business executive, a university professor, an acclaimed author, an award-winning speaker, and a sought-after presentation skills consultant to C-Level executives worldwide. He has written two critically acclaimed executive presentation skills books, Better to BEST: How to Speak for Extraordinary Results . . . Every Time! ) and Legally Speaking: 40 Powerful Presentation Principles Lawyers Need to Know Many prominent CEOs have endorsed Better to BEST as the go-to resource for business executives. His straightforward blend of expert advice and hands-on teaching techniques will help you wow your audience every time!.


Edition 2010

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The Student's Guide to Financial Literacy

The recent global financial crisis was caused, at least in part, by the financial ignorance of many consumers. Many students and young adults in particular have never been taught the basics of financial planning. Yet, the earlier people move from financial illiteracy to literacy, the greater the benefits that will accumulate over time.

As The Student's Guide to Financial Literacy makes clear, practices adopted in the early years of adulthood can have the most dramatic effect on a personÕs ultimate quality of life, level of success, and age of retirement. This book is designed to convey financial wisdom in terms that are easy to understand with suggestions that are easy to apply. Readers will learn about the importance of budgeting and saving, the compounding of money, and how to create a diversified portfolio of investments. Included is advice on buying a first home, the characteristics of good debt versus bad debt, insurance and tax planning, even choosing the right career.

Edition 2010

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The 80/20 Individual: The Nine Essentials of 80/20 Success at Work

In this powerful sequel to his classic bestseller The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch uniquely makes the connection between the rise of the individual and the 80/20 principle - achieving more with less to create great new wealth. From big business to small, from Hollywood to sport, Richard Koch demonstrates how the innovative individual now has the competitive advantage. The 80/20 Principle showed how individuals could improve their personal lives - but not their professional lives. The 80/20 Individual is different. Koch reveals how innovative individuals are taking over the world and how you can join in the revolution - creating new wealth and wellbeing in a twenty-first century individualism The 80/20 principle enables anyone who is determined, bright or shrewd to stamp their footprint on the world, to become an 80/20 person. 80/20 people cut across all established fields and all walks of life: politics, business, social work and not-for-profits, sports, entertainment and the media.

Richard Koch is the author of eleven acclaimed books including the bestselling The 80/20 Principle. A 'serial entrepreneur', he has made large returns from a diverse range of businesses. He was a partner with Bain & Co and a co-founder of The LEK Partnership. He is now a non-executive director of four quoted companies and advises venture capital groups in the UK and South Africa.

Edition 2009

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The Secret to Attracting Wealth

Master the Secret to Attracting Wealth

Everyone lives in the world of their own beliefs and those beliefs have energy. Your thoughts emit vibrations that literally act as magnets drawing to you people and circumstances that resonate with what you re thinking and feeling.

This two-part meditation takes you into a super-deep trance state called Deep Mind, where hypnotic metaphors help you breakthrough limitation. You are guided to The Causal Plane, a very high plane of consciousness where what you visualize has incredible power to manifest.

At this level of mind, you become what you think you are, for truly your thoughts are creative. In the days and weeks to come, you ll start attracting, ideas, opportunities and people to make your prosperity goals a reality. The results are profound.


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English Pronunciation in Use Advanced Book with Answers

The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs. The CD-ROM provides a wide variety of additional interactive activities to reinforce the pronunciation covered in the book, as well as tests, progress checks, games and animated diagrams of the mouth showing learners how to produce individual sounds. Students can also record themselves and compare their pronunciation with one of the many models provided.


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How to Manage Multiple Projects, Meet Deadlines & Achieve Objectives

 Gain more control over your time, tasks, and priorities than you ever thought possible!

If you need to get more done in less time, recognize your real priorities, keep track of several projects, or establish and meet deadlines, this program is for you. Learn how you can easily handle the most impossible priorities and demands without long work days, stress-filled schedules, chaos, and panic.

Program Highlights:
* Maintain your confidence and make sound decisions under stress.
* Stop the deadly habit of procrastinating -- 10 can't-miss techniques.
* Adapt to ever-changing deadlines smoothly and easily.
* Handle projects despite having multiple supervisors.
* Understand the importance of being firm with others to control your time.
* Keep stress and pressure from shattering your concentration and creativity.
* Respond the right way to interruptions.

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Fight For Your Money

In an audiobook that will forever change how you spend your hard-earned money, America’s favorite financial coach, David Bach, shows you how to save thousands of dollars every year by taking on the “corporate machines.” In these times when every dollar counts, big businesses are using clever tricks to rip you off, making themselves billions while they keep you living paycheck to paycheck. In Fight for Your Money, Bach gives you the tools to FIGHT BACK and WIN.

Fight for Your Money shows how you are being taken on your cell phone contract, cable bill, car purchase, credit card, life insurance, healthcare, 401(k) plan, airfare, hotel bills, and much more. When you know how the system is rigged–the extra points, the hidden fees, the late charges, the unused tax breaks, the escalating rates–you can fight back against the pickpockets and save literally thousands every year.

David Bach knows that when you are being taken financially, you work harder than you have to, for longer than you need to. This audiobook helps you fight for your money so you can live your life doing what you really want to do.

Edition 2009

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Highly Recommended: English for the Hotel and Catering Industry

Young trainees in the hospitality and catering industry who need English to deal with customers.Topics reflect the real contexts trainees will encounter in their working lives.
Emphasis on understanding and speaking English in practical situations.Two listening sections with accompanying tasks in every unit.

Clear focus on key functional expressions and topic-related vocabulary.
Activity section in each unit involving real-world communicative tasks.

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Market Leader New Edition Elementary

Market Leader brings today's business issues straight into your classroom. Created with the Financial Times newspaper, Market Leader has Case Studies that really work,authentic articles from the FT and lots of additional components. Now with new editions and a new Advanced level, Market Leader is more in tune with today's business world than ever.

What's special about Market Leader?
* Market Leader gives you the authority of the Financial Times
* It will engage your students because it uses current business topics, issues and themes
* Build your students' confidence when using new language in business situations with regular vocabulary sections and lots of opportunities to practise
* Give the course as much grammar focus as you need - the grammar syllabus is easily extended using the Grammar Reference Section at the back of the book
* Motivate your students to practise the language of the unit using the carefully structured Case Studies - that really work
* Students get practice of real business skills using the Skills section in every unit
* It's easy to tailor the course to your students' individual needs using the large selection of components

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Windows 7 Bible

The much-anticipated release of Windows 7 will have numerous changes, and you'll need a complete guide to take full advantage of all it has to offer. Windows 7 Bible covers navigation changes such as pinning to the task bar, full screen preview with invisible windows, Jump Lists, Home Group, Sticky Notes, and many others. It shows you how to use Internet Explorer 8, including features like Web Slices and Network view changes, and guides you through all the new desktop features.

 

Edition 2009

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Windows 7 Plain & Simple

Get the fast facts that make learning Windows 7 plain and simple! This no-nonsense guide uses easy, numbered steps and concise, straightforward language to show the most expedient way to perform tasks and solve problems in Windows 7.




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Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

Monitor, diagnose, and maximize the system performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions

Manage your Oracle Fusion Middleware and non-Oracle middleware applications effectively and efficiently using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Conrol
Implement proactive monitoring to maximize application performance
Best practices and troubleshooting tips to manage your middleware and SOA applications for optimal service levels and reduced down time from Oracle Product Managers
A Hands-on tutorial detailing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control's management of Middleware
In Detail

Today's IT environment is very complex, encompassing a myriad of technologies and middleware platforms. Many organizations have large and heterogeneous middleware platforms that power their enterprise applications and it is often a real challenge for administrators to meet agreed service levels and minimize downtime. Oracle Enterprise Manager allows administrators to manage the complete lifecycle of an entire application infrastructure for middleware and SOA applications.

This book will help you kick-start the setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and master all aspects of middleware management supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager.

This book, written by senior members of the Oracle team serves as the only hands on guide to provisioning middleware and implementing proactive monitoring to maximize application performance and compliance using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

The book starts with an introduction to the challenges faced by middleware administrators in their everyday life, and how Oracle Enterprise Manager helps solve those challenges. This book will help you manage your middleware infrastructure and applications effectively and efficiently using Oracle Enterprise Manager. By following the practical examples in this book you will learn to proactively monitor your production middleware applications running on Oracle Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA suite (such as Oracle BPEL Process manager), Oracle Server Bus, and Oracle Coherence. You will also learn different aspects to proactive monitoring and alert notifications, service level and incident management, diagnostics for production applications, lifecycle automation using out-of-the-box deployment procedures, and patching mechanisms. This book also helps you to master best practices for managing your middleware and SOA applications for optimal service performance and reduced down time.
What you will learn from this book?

You will:

Gain a deep understanding of the challenges in managing middleware platforms and applications
Understand the architecture of Enterprise Manager, and how best to set it up
Discover middleware platforms (WebLogic, OC4J, BPEL, OSB, Coherence, Oracle Forms and Reports, etc. and non-Oracle middleware) from Oracle Enterprise Manager
Monitor event notifications and diagnostics for middleware platforms and Java EE/Composite applications
Create and export application service levels
Manage middleware and application configurations
Provision your middleware platform
Build plug-ins for new target types
Approach

This book is a hands-on tutorial detailing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control's management of Middleware. It is a 'how-to', and provides best practices, tips, and troubleshooting guidelines for managing middleware with Oracle Enterprise Manager.


Edition 2010

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90 Days to Success as a Project Manager

"90 Days to Success as a Project Manager" will help first-time project managers hit the ground running with any project during the critical first 90 days on the job. The book introduces readers to, and is organized around, the five keys to successful project management: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing the project. It covers all nine knowledge areas of project management: integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, communication management, risk management, and procurement management. All this information could be very overwhelming for a beginner.

Edition 2009

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The Audit Committee Handbook

The classic handbook to audit committee responsibilities—completely updated to cover the latest guidance with practical insights on the new functions of the audit committee.

Now containing the newest regulatory guidance impacting audit committees, including new chapters on audit oversight and updated discussions on fraud risk, the Fifth Edition helps your audit committee plan its agenda and achieve its mission in corporate governance.

The Audit Committee Handbook, Fifth Edition guides you to:

Understand the role and responsibilities of the audit committee with a general update and reality check on auditing cycle activities

Identify the developments that impact audit committee practices and the most current techniques and strategies for committee meetings

Develop a repertoire of effective strategies to help the board of directors discharge its fiduciary responsibility to shareholders

Prepare a periodic assessment of professional development activities and an informed review of both audit processes and financial reporting processes

A must-have for all audit committee members, board directors, corporate secretaries, CEOs, CFOs, and auditors involved in the accounting practices of their firms, The Audit Committee Handbook, Fifth Edition is the most authoritative work on audit committees in the marketplace.

Wiley | 2010

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Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change

Bringing together ideas of leading thinkers in business strategy, organization studies, and innovation, this book explores the dynamics of competitiveness and the origins of the firms' capabilities. Contributors to the volume include David Teece, Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson, Mark Granovetter, Gary Hamilton, Martin Fransman, Keith Pavitt, and William Lazonick.

Oxford University Press

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How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less

Succes in business depends on effectively communicating your ideas at least as much as on thinking them up, and Boothman tells how to do that, offereng tips on everything from what to wear in the office to how to create a mission statement that actually motivates.

Edition 2006

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Financial Accounting Theory

Appropriate for Financial Accounting Theory courses at both the senior undergraduate and professional master's levels.

This newly revised text provides a theoretical approach to financial accounting in Canada, without overlooking institutional structure and standard setting. Important research papers are selected for description and commentary, while extensive references to other research papers underlie the text discussion.

From the Publisher
Scott explains financial accounting theory drawn from recent research. He provides a clear, easy-to-use framework for students to (1) place this theory in a financial accounting context, (2) explain and analyze the theory intuitively and (3) reveal the theory's relevance in understanding the practice of accounting.

William Scott | 2009

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Encyclopedia Of Major Marketing Campaigns

Developed as a companion to the publisher's Major Marketing Campaigns Annual, this volume profiles 500 of the most notable marketing and advertising campaigns of the past 100 years. These campaigns cover the marketing of all types of products and services, each in two to five pages, with referral to other sources for further study. Riggs (who also edits the annual) has done a superb job of encapsulating the most important aspects of the campaigns, placing them in historical context, and identifying the target market, competitors, strategies employed, and outcome for each. The size of this collection allows for the coverage of a wide variety of campaigns and the comparison of campaigns and marketing strategies in similar product or service categories. Company studies are presented alphabetically, with campaigns ("You Deserve a Break Today," "Got Milk?") products, and individuals presented through the index. This compilation delivers admirably on the promises in its introduction and should be held by every public, special, or university library that serves marketing or advertising professionals or students

Publisher: Gale Cengage |  2006

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Linear Feedback Control: Analysis and Design with MATLAB

A discussion of analysis and design techniques for linear feedback control systems using MATLAB® software. By reducing the mathematics, increasing MATLAB working examples, and inserting short scripts and plots within the text, the authors have created a text suitable for almost any type of user. Suitable for beginners entering the field; for students who wish to bridge the gap between control theory and the use of MATLAB for control systems; and as a handy reference for practising engineers. The MATLAB companion package, CtrlLAB, allows readers to learn quickly while simply clicking through options with a mouse. Each chapter ends with a set of problems to help readers strengthen their understanding of the material. All example scripts within the book, as well as the CtrlLAB package, are freely downloadable from MATLAB Central, an open exchange for the MATLAB and Simulink® community (www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/index.shtml).

Society for Industrial Mathematics | 2008

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Audit Planning

More now than ever before, auditing is in the spotlight; legislators, regulators, and top executives in all types of businesses realize the importance of auditors in the governance and performance equation. Previously routine and formulaic, internal auditing is now high-profile and high-pressure! Being an auditor in today's complex, highly regulated business environment involves more than crunching the numbers and balancing the books; it requires ensuring that appropriate checks and balances are in place to manage risk throughout the organization.
Designed to help auditors in any type of business develop the essential understanding, capabilities, and tools needed to prepare credible, defensible audit plans, Audit Planning: A Risk-Based Approach helps auditors plan the audit process so that it makes a dynamic contribution to better governance, robust risk management, and more reliable controls.
Invaluable to internal auditors facing new demands in the workplace, this book is also a "hands-on" reference for external auditors, compliance teams, financial controllers, consultants, executives, small business owners, and others charged with reviewing and validating corporate governance, risk management, and controls.


Wiley | February 3, 2006


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Data Conversion

This book tackles the third major challenge and the second most difficult step in the ROI methodology: converting data to monetary values. When a particular project or program is connected to a business measure, the next logical question is: what is the monetary value of that impact? For ROI analysis, it is at this critical point where the monetary benefits are developed to compare to the costs of the program to calculate the ROI. Includes: the importance of converting data to monetary value; preliminary issues; standard values: the standard values: where to find them; using internal experts, using external databases; linking with other measures; using estimates; when to abandon conversion efforts and leave data as intangible, analyzing the intangibles; and reporting the intangibles.

Pfeiffer  February 8, 2008

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Circuit Analysis I: With Matlab Computing and Simulink/SimPowerSystems Modeling

Circuit Analysis I with MATLAB Computing and Simulink/SimPowerSystems Modeling /by Steven Karris (Author) .This text is an introduction to the basic principles of electrical engineering and covers DC and AC circuit analysis and Transients. It is intended for all engineering majors and presumes knowledge of first year differential and integral calculus and physics.
The last two chapters include step-by-step procedures for the solutions of simple differential equations used in the derivation of the natural and forces responses. Appendices A, B, and C are introductions to MATLAB, Simulink, and SimPowerSystems respectively. Appendix D is a review of Complex Numbers, and Appendix E is an introduction to matrices and determinants. For additional information. please visit the Orchard Publications site.

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Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics: Technologies and Deployment Strategies

With the growing demand for increased bandwidth, conventional broadband access solutions will quickly become a hindrance in terms of bandwidth provision for network access. "Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics: Technologies and Deployment Strategies" presents a comprehensive overview of emerging optical access network solutions to efficiently meet the anticipated growth in bandwidth demand. Covering topics such as next-generation networking, communication networks, and photonics, this book provides the latest technology trends in order to grasp the expected beneficial use of optical access infrastructures.

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You Can Choose to Be Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad Series

The Choose to Be Rich audio program is by far the best in the Rich Dad / Poor Dad series - because
it's the accumulation of most of the "Rich Dad" books and advisers on ONE audio program. 12 CD's packed FULL of information and education on changing your mindset (Think It), educating yourself about the habits & investments of the rich and why they choose them (Learn It), and then applying what you've learned to your own life and finances so you too can become rich (Do It).

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Superstar Sales Secrets

The world of sales is not what it used to be. Customers are more sophisticated-they demand not only quality products, but beyond-the-call-of-duty customer service and ongoing relationships as well. Today's sales professional must demonstrate honesty and integrity and reach a high level of competency in building rapport and understanding the customer's needs and wants. Superstar Sales Secrets is a comprehensive guidebook for beginners as well as a concise reference for the seasoned pro. It cuts away all the fluff and "theory" of selling and gets right down to the core skills that every salesperson needs to know. This revised edition covers every step in the sales cycle, from staying motivated to prospecting for new business, making powerful presentations to the follow-up after the sale, and taking advantage of today's technologies to building stronger relationships with customers.

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21 Great Ways to Become a Sales Superstar

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Your goal as a sales professional is to sell the very most and earn the very most that you possibly can. As it turns out, it takes just as long to become a sales superstar as to remain an average performer. The choice is up to you.

My amazing audio CD will put you on the path to becoming a sales superstar. You will be making more sales and earning more money than you ever have before. Imagine the feeling you get when you close deal after deal and become the top salesperson in your company.

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I will teach you 21 of the most powerful ideas ever discovered in sales effectiveness. When you start using them, you'll move to the top of your field.

In 21 great ways to become a sales superstar I teach you how to:

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First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy." "Great managers are revolutionaries," the authors write. "This book will take you inside the minds of these managers to explain why they have toppled conventional wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged in its place."

The authors have culled their observations from more than 80,000 interviews conducted by Gallup during the past 25 years. Quoting leaders such as basketball coach Phil Jackson, Buckingham and Coffman outline "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: Finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and selecting staff for talent--not just knowledge and skills. First, Break All the Rules offers specific techniques for helping people perform better on the job. For instance, the authors show ways to structure a trial period for a new worker and how to create a pay plan that rewards people for their expertise instead of how fast they climb the company ladder. "The point is to focus people toward performance," they write. "The manager is, and should be, totally responsible for this." Written in plain English and well organized, this book tells you exactly how to improve as a supervisor. --Dan Ring

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Excel 2010 Simplified

Get going with Excel 2010 quickly and easily with this Simplified guide

Excel can be a complex program, and Excel 2010 includes new features and functionalities that require users of older versions to re-learn the application. Whether you're switching from an earlier version or learning Excel for the first time, this easy-to-follow visual guide provides information you can use right away.

With an easy-to-read design, numbered steps illustrated with full-color screen shots, concise information, and helpful tips, Excel 2010 Simplified makes learning faster and easier than ever before.
Excel is the world's leading spreadsheet and data analysis tool; Excel 2010 includes numerous new features, a redesigned interface, a new focus on collaboration and application servers, and much more
Its complexity makes Excel a perfect subject for the step-by-step visual instruction in this guide
Numbered steps illustrated with full-color screen shots teach dozens of Excel 2010 tasks
Covers Excel basics, workbook fundamentals, formatting worksheets and enhancing them with graphics, analyzing data, communicating results with charts and PivotTables, and much more
A quick and easy way to get up to speed on Excel 2010 for both novice users and those upgrading from an earlier version

Excel 2010 Simplified tames this complicated application and gives you the skills to start using Excel with confidence.


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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action.Rod Colledge.Manning Publications.2009

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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005

Welcome to Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005, Special Edition. In this book, youll learn how ASP.NET 2.0 really works. You wont be bored with a rehash of the VB 2005 languageinstead, youll get the hard-won practical advice that you need to build sophisticated, scalable websites. New features are clearly identified, so if youve programmed with a previous version of ASP.NET youll sail through the basics and get right to the most important changes and enhancements.
Youll also dig into advanced topics that other ASP.NET books leave out, like custom control creation, image handling, and encryption. You'll spend two complete chapters learning to make highly responsive pages with Ajax techniques and exploring Microsofts next-generation Atlas platform. Theres no better way to prepare for the future of the Web.

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Microsoft Windows 7 Simplified: Simply the easiest way to learn

This full color book uses the Visual approach to cover the new features of Windows 7 and provide step-by-step instructions for readers who are entirely new to the subject. Inside readers will find tasks on topics such as: Windows 7 basics, creating movies, sharing their computer, working with and managing files, browsing the Web, and new ways to customize Windows to work for them.

This book covers the new features of Windows 7, including: the interface and the new and improved Internet Explorer. A more sophisticated interior appeals to a wide ranging audience who will appreciate the colorful images and easy to follow instructions.

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PHP-Nuke Garage

PHP-Nuke (www.phpnuke.org) is an open source web portal program that isvery powerful, but relatively easy to use once it is set up, and very flexible andcustomizable. It runs on Linux, UNIX, OS/2, Windows, MacOS andFreeBSD, and is supported in 20 languages. It gives administrators a powerfulassembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive website that usesdatabases. It runs on the popular programs MySQL (or any SQL database),Apache, and PHP, yet the administrator does not need to know any of theseprograms in order to use PHP-Nuke.PHP-Nuke has two main audiences: 1) companies who are in record numbersestablishing intranet Web portals to help organize information on theirnetworks and improve interoffice communications. More companies are usingpublic Web portals to engage, inform, and retain customers; 2) ISP customerswho are receiving PHP-Nuke as an easy-to-use value-add from their ISPs. TheISP push is leading MANY customers to be interested in PHP-Nuke (sincethey get it for free with their Web hosting), but at a loss for how to go aboutusing it.

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Microsoft Powershell Administrators Guide 2.0

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Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide

All You Need to Manage and Administer Windows Server 2008

 Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide is a complete soup-to-nuts reference and practical guide to everything in the latest release of Microsoft's widely used server operating system. With this book, you'll come away with a firm understanding of what's happening under the hood of the server, with a thorough discussion and treatment of each of its major components.

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PHP 6 and MySQL 6 Bible 2009

 

 

 

Harness PHP and MySQL for robust Web developmentStart quickly building dynamic Web applications with the leading open-source scripting tool, the leading open-source database, and this comprehensive guide that shows you exactly how to do it. You'll learn PHP6 and MySQL inside and out, explore the ups and downs of using open-source technologies, and discover pages of tips and techniques that help you get the most out of this powerful development duo. This book includes extensive code examples, full working applications, and much more.

• Install, develop, debug, and troubleshoot the newest versions of PHP and MySQL
• Get up to speed on PHP basics, including syntax, datatypes, functions, and pitfalls
• Review Structured Query Language (SQL) and data administration basics
• Master advanced PHP features, including object-oriented programming and session handling
• Examine PHP's interaction with other databases technologies, such as Oracle®
• Explore advanced topics, such as PHP with e-mail programs, and PHP and XML
• Learn how to create a game and much more in extended case studies

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The PHP and MySQL Bible is a comprehensive tutorial and reference that covers all the basics of the latest releases of PHP and MySQL. It covers why users need PHP and MySQL, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML web pages to MySQL. The book offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL. The authors bring extensive web experience to provide case studies, along with advanced topics such as exceptions and error handling, debugging, PEAR, security, HTTP, cookies, and OOP. Not only does this comprehensive book cover PHP and MySQL but offers in depth coverage of topics related to web development.

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The 8th Habit From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey

 In the more than fifteen years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with over fifteen million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most important, as individuals have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic book.

The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude.

Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option -- survival in today's world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it's for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution.

Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's new reality requires a sea change in thinking: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set -- in short, a whole new habit. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit.

So many people feel frustrated, discouraged, unappreciated, and undervalued -- with little or no sense of voice or unique contribution. The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul's yearning for greatness, the organization's imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity's search for its "voice." Profound, compelling, and stunningly timely, this groundbreaking new book of next-level thinking gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age.

Covey's new book will transform the way we think about ourselves and our purpose in life, about our organizations, and about humankind. Just as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness.

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