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Doing Data Science
Straight Talk from the Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that’s so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University’s...
Programming Visual Basic 2008
Build .NET 3.5 Applications with Microsoft's RAD Tool for Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Ever since Visual Basic was merged into .NET, it's become the core language for creating business applications with Windows. The latest version, VB 2008, is even more useful -- and provides even more incentive for migrating from VB 6. All it lacks is a good book on how to harness its power. Programming...
Head First C#
A Learner's Guide to Real-World Programming with C#, XAML, and .NET
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Head First C# is a complete learning experience for learning how to program with C#, XAML, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. Fun and highly visual, this introduction to C# is designed to keep you engaged and entertained from first page to last.
You’ll build a fully functional video game...
by Cathy O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
"Data is here, it's growing, and it's powerful." Author Cathy O'Neil argues that the right approach to data is skeptical, not cynical––it understands that, while powerful, data science tools often fail. Data is nuanced, and "a really excellent skeptic puts the term 'science' into 'data science.'"...
Network Warrior
Everything You Need to Know That Wasn't on the CCNA Exam
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Pick up where certification exams leave off. With this practical, in-depth guide to the entire network infrastructure, you’ll learn how to deal with real Cisco networks, rather than the hypothetical situations presented on exams like the CCNA. Network Warrior takes you step by step through the world...
Head First HTML and CSS
A Learner's Guide to Creating Standards-Based Web Pages
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family,...
Hunting Fish
A Cross-Country Search for America's Worst Poker Players
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
If you want to prove you're a good poker player, you don't have to battle against the best. Nobody really cares if you ever bluffed Phil Ivey or got Daniel Negreanu to make a bad call. You're at the table for the money, not stories of conquest. A disciplined player, one who's playing for the right...
We're Just Like You, Only Prettier
Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"On the short drive to the preschool,
I dutifully unwrap a NutriGrain bar and
toss it into the back seat to my four-year-old.
Sometimes I'll even unwrap one for myself.
Studies have shown that it's very important
for familes to eat together. . . . "
Why couldn't the Sopranos survive...
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl
Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere
In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark...
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world.
Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker,...
Robert Mitchum
"Baby I Don't Care"
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape...
My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space
The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Critics and readers loved Lisa Scottoline's first collection of true-life stories, which only encouraged her—now she's back with these all-new, exciting adventures. She's farther down the road now, and the scenery has changed—ex-husbands Thing One and Thing Two are in her rear-view mirror, daughter...
All My Patients Have Tales
Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
All My Patients Have Tales is a heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many other domestic, and not so "domestic" animals....
by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth...