Professional Android 2 Application Development - Reto Meier

Professional Android 2 Application Development

Author: Reto Meier

Product Description

A hands-on guide to building mobile applications, Professional Android Application Development features concise and compelling examples that show you how to quickly construct real-world mobile applications for Android phones. Fully up-to-date for version 1.0 of the Android software development kit, it covers all the essential features, and explores the advanced capabilities of Android to help you construct increasingly complex, useful, and innovative mobile applications for Android phones.

7 Secrets to Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness

7 Secrets to Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness


Author - Rob Poulos


Secret to losing weight and keeping it off.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Pocketbook - Management Pocketbooks

Author: Gillian Burn
Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
Keywords: pocketbook, nlp
Number of Pages: 128
ISBN-10: 1903776317
ISBN-13: 9781903776315

Book Description:

How people think and how they respond to challenges and to other people varies from one individual to another depending on their beliefs, values, memories and past experiences. Some people respond more effectively than others. Understanding how they do this - and how you can follow their example by changing your thinking and beliefs - lies at the heart of neurolinguistic programming (NLP). NLP will improve the way you interact and communicate with others; it will improve your self-esteem and raise your motivation. In fact, it will impact positively on all aspects of your business and private life. The NLP Pocketbook looks at the key principles of NLP and how it can make a difference to you. It describes how you are limited by your beliefs and thoughts and how you can change them for the better. There are sections on the brain, on language and on how to create your own personal resource bank.

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Motivation Pocketbook - Management Pocketbooks

Author: Max A. Eggert Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
Number of Pages: 104

Book Description:

This pocketbook examines different theories of motivation, drawing out key points and offering management tips for each one. It providers pointers on the best theories to use in particular situations and looks at what individual personalities are likely to find motivational.


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Strategy Pocketbook - Management Pocketbooks

Author: Neil Russell-Jones
Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
Keywords: pocketbooks, management, pocketbook, strategy
Number of Pages: 112
ISBN-10: 1903776139
ISBN-13: 9781903776131

A strategy defines which markets a business will operate in and sets out the organisational competencies that will be needed (and what actions need to be taken to develop them) to enable the business to gain and sustain its competitive edge. The Strategy Pocketbook introduces strategy in clear and concise terms. It sets out the basics, explaining the language of strategists, the factors that shape and drive strategy, the key steps that will lead to the setting and development of a strategy, and the strategic tools that will be needed along the way. Author Neil Russell-Jones MBA, chartered bank


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Apache - The Definitive Guide Third Edition

The freeware Apache web server runs on about half of the world's existing web sites, and it is rapidly increasing in popularity.Apache: The Definitive Guide, written and reviewed by key members of the Apache Group, is the only complete guide on the market today that describes how to obtain, set up, and secure the Apache software.

Apache was originally based on code and ideas found in the most popular HTTP server of the time: NCSA httpd 1.3 (early 1995). It has since evolved into a far superior system that can rival (and probably surpass) almost any other Unix-based HTTP server in terms of functionality, efficiency, and speed. The new version now includes support for Win32 systems. This new second edition ofApache: The Definitive Guide fully describes Windows support and all the other Apache 1.3 features. Contents include:

• The history of the Apache Group
• Obtaining and compiling the server
• Configuring and running Apache on Unix and Windows, including such topics as directory structures, virtual hosts, and CGI programming
• The Apache 1.3 Module API
• Apache security
• A complete list of configuration directives

With Apache: The Definitive Guide, web administrators new to Apache can get up to speed more quickly than ever before by working through the tutorial demo. Experienced administrators and CGI programmers, and web administrators moving from Unix to Windows, will find the reference sections indispensable. Apache: The Definitive Guide is the definitive documentation for the world's most popular web server. Includes CD-ROM with Apache manuals and demo sites discussed in the book.

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PC Magazine - November 2010

PC Magazine - November 2010 Issue


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Photoshop CS5: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks (2010) - Lynette Kent

Photoshop CS5: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks (2010)Lynette Kent
ISBN: 978-0-470-61265-1
Paperback
288 pages
June 2010

Intermediate-level users learn to coax much more from Photoshop
Photoshop is the preferred image-editing software, with more than four million users worldwide. Professional photographers, Web designers, graphic designers, and serious photo hobbyists who already know earlier versions of Photoshop will expand their skills by mastering these techniques. Fully revised for the newest Photoshop release, this guide uses step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots to make comprehension quick and easy for the visual learner.

Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; new functionality and enhanced tools in the latest version enable new shortcuts and techniques
This full-color guide shows intermediate-level users how to coax more from Photoshop with professional tips and tricks
Packed with cool and valuable advice to help you take advantage of Photoshop's newest bells and whistles and take your skills to new heights


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Web Design: A Beginner's Guide Second Edition, 2010

Web Design: A Beginner's Guide Second Edition, 2010

By Wendy Willard
Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Create professional-quality web sites in no time with help from hands-on tutorials. Fully updated to cover the latest technologies and techniques, Web Design: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, explains how to analyze site requirements and create a web-development proposal to plan and document your project. You'll learn how to design an attractive, easy-to-use web site, focusing on key issues such as color, layout, navigation, typography, and images. Discover how to incorporate Javascript, cascading style sheets (CSS), HTML/XHTML, Flash, and more to take your design from mockup to code. Boosting web site traffic through search engine optimization, e-mail design, and online advertising is also covered in this fast-paced guide. 


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The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich

The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

Doubleday | 2009-07-14 | ISBN: 0385529376 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard.

What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another. Ben Mezrich, a Harvard graduate, has published ten books, including the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House. He is a columnist for Boston Common and a contributor for Flush magazine. Ben lives in Boston with his wife, Tonya.

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The Reversal - Michael Connelly

Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.

Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.

With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again


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Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert has written a very entertaining and enlightening book about her travels to Italy, India, and Indonesia. Following her divorce, Elizabeth experienced a crushing depression resulting in panic, confusion, and weight loss. This is the story of her travels and explorations of three different cultures, in an effort to find balance in her life.


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Obama's Wars - Bob Woodward

The essential outline of the story journalist and political historian Bob Woodward sets out to tell in " Obama's Wars" actually is fairly well known. President Obama's agonized march to a decision on how to move forward in what he has called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan has been widely reported and analyzed.

It's well known, for example, that the lack of good options bitterly divided the president's advisors and that the chief executive immersed himself in the details of the decision that ultimately produced a modified version of the "surge" strategy that the Bush administration used to stabilize — temporarily, at least — Iraq. The Joint Chiefs were similarly split over what to do in Afghanistan, as were the commanders on the ground. What Woodward's signature brand of exhaustive reporting and access to sources — including Obama — and timely documents provide are the voices and detailed anecdotes that put flesh on the people in the White House — right down to the name-calling and back-biting.

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Crave - J.R Ward

The battle between good and evil has left the future of humanity in the hands of a reluctant savior and his band of fallen angels. Seven deadly sins that must be righted. Seven souls that must be saved.

While his first task was success, Jim Heron is battling a demon that can take any form for the soul of someone he must identify on his own. If that weren't enough, his old boss Matthias wants Jim to assassinate an AWOL member of The Firm - Isaac, the man Jim is pretty sure he is supposed to save. Jim knows first hand that once you're in The Firm, there's no getting out. But when Jim finds Isaac to warn him, he has been picked up by the police for illegal street fighting, and it is clear that Isaac is falling for his gorgeous public defender. Is their love the redemption that will save Isaac's soul? Or has the demon Devina set an elaborate trap?


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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson

Two seriously injured people arrive at the emergency ward of the Sahlgrensa hospital in Gothenburg. One is the wanted murderer Lisbeth Salander who has taken a bullet to the head and needs immediate surgery, the other is Alexander Zalachenko, an older man who Lisbeth has attacked with an axe.

In this third novel in the Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth is planning her revenge against the men who tried to kill her, and even more importantly, revenge against the government which nearly destroyed her life. But first she must escape from the intensive care unit and exculpate her name from the charges of murder that hangs over her head.

In order to succeed with the latter, Lisbeth will need the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist. He is writing an exposing article that will shake the Swedish government, the secret service and the whole country by its foundations. Finally there is a chance for Lisbeth Salander to put her past behind her and finally there is a chance for truth and justice to prevail.

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The Girl who played with Fire - Stieg Larsson

The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" –The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvist—crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium—has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvist—alone in his belief in her innocence—plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

This first novel of a trilogy more than satisfied all I
look for in a thriller/crime novel.The plot concerns itself
with a complicated international financial fraud, and the
buried evil past of a wealthy incestuous Swedish industrial
family.As the novel progresses a male journalist and young
female emotionally disturbed punk hacker join forces to
investigate both strands of the plot.In their different ways
both of these main characters are engaging ,and I am excited
to see how their relationship develops in the two further novels.
This is a totally engrossing novel ,full of suspense,characterisation,
and intelligent insights into contemporary culture and corruption

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Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.

It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution.

In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, FALL OF GIANTS moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.

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Vince Flynn - American Assassin (Mitch Rapp 11)
Thriller | English | October 2010 | 6.52 Mb
EPUB, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDF, RTF


Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.


Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America's shores. Stansfield directs his protegee, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command--men who do not exist.


What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.


Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy's doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesn't know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.


As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn's latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation's ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.

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Week Best - New York Bestsellers

Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. AMERICAN ASSASSIN, by Vince Flynn
2. FALL OF GIANTS, by Ken Follett
3. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
4. THE REVERSAL, by Michael Connelly
5. SAFE HAVEN, by Nicholas Sparks

Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. EARTH (THE BOOK), by Jon Stewart and others
2. TRICKLE UP POVERTY, by Michael Savage
3. OBAMA'S WARS, by Bob Woodward
4. THE LAST BOY, by Jane Leavy
5. AT HOME, by Bill Bryson

Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
3. UNLOCKED, by Karen Kingsbury
4. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave
5. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson
3. 61 HOURS, by Lee Child
4. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
5. PLAY DEAD, by Harlan Coben

Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
4. THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich
5. INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz

Hardcover Advice
Top 5 at a Glance
1. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2011, edited by Craig Glenday
2. DELIVERING HAPPINESS, by Tony Hsieh
3. THE POWER, by Rhonda Byrne
4. POWER THOUGHTS, by Joyce Meyer
5. YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO BE GREAT, by Alan Fine with Rebecca R. Merrill

Paperback Advice
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman
2. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
3. WAITING FOR ‘SUPERMAN’, edited by Karl Weber
4. EAT THIS, NOT THAT! 2011, by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding
5. RADICAL, by David Platt

Children's Books
Top 5 at a Glance
1. KNUFFLE BUNNY FREE, written and illustrated by Mo Willems
2. FABULOUS FASHION BOUTIQUE, by Jane O’Connor.
3. SCAREDY-CAT, SPLAT!, written and illustrated by Rob Scotton
4. ZEN GHOSTS, written and illustrated by Jon J Muth
5. ART AND MAX, written and illustrated by David Wiesner

Graphic Books
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE ADVENTURES OF OOK AND GLUK, by George Beard and Harold Hutchins
2. THE OUTFIT, by Darwyn Cooke
3. THE EXILE: AN OUTLANDER GRAPHIC NOVEL, by Diana Gabaldon and Hoang Nguyen
4. WITCH & WIZARD: BATTLE FOR SHADOWLAND, by Dara Naraghi and Victor Santos
5. STARMAN OMNIBUS, VOL. 5, by James Robinson and David S. Goyer

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