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Financial and Management Accounting: An Introduction, 4th Edition

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This revised and fully updated edition continues to provide students with a clear and well-structured introduction to financial and management accounting. This edition retains all of the classic features that have contributed to the book’s success particularly its clarity of expression within a sound conceptual framework. There is a strong emphasis on the ‘why’ rather than simply the ‘what’ and ‘how’. Download ebook: Financial and Management Accounting: An Introduction, 4th Edition If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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Management: A Focus on Leaders

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Directly addressing the challenges and opportunities in our changing world, Management: A Focus on Leaders shows future managers how to lead in today’s complex, yet exciting, global environment. Download ebook: Management: A Focus on Leaders If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design

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Agile has become today’s dominant software development paradigm, but agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer fills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team agile practices. Written by four principals of Net Objectives—one of the world’s leading agile training and consulting firms—this book reflects their unsurpassed experience helping organizations transition to agile. It focuses on the specific actions and insights that can deliver the greatest design and programming improvements with economical investment. The authors reveal key factors associated with successful agile projects and offer practical ways to measure them. Through actual examples, they address principles, attitudes, habits, technical practices, and design considerations—and above all, show how to bring all these together to deliver higher-value software. Using the authors’ techniques, managers and teams can optimize the whole organization and the whole product across its entire lifecycle. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer shows how to Perform programming by intention Separate use from construction Consider testability before writing code Avoid over- and under-design Succeed with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Minimize complexity and rework Use encapsulation more effectively and systematically Know when and how to use inheritance Prepare for change more successfully Perform continuous integration more successfully Master powerful best practices for design and refactoring Download ebook: Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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Social Media Marketing For Dummies

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Learn how easy it is for your market to get your message Nowadays, if you’re not tweeting, Facebooking, or blogging, what are you doing? Everyone has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, or a blog—even celebrities! With the popularity of social networking comes the need to learn about social media marketing. Social media marketing is a cheaper and highly effective way to spread up-to-the-minute news; an easy, inexpensive way to enlarge your audience, customers, and business. Social Media Marketing For Dummies provides an indispensable resource for small businesses and start-ups looking for low-cost online marketing strategies, as well as for marketers in larger companies who want to be more involved with social media. Learn which social media site best fits you and your business and how to: Use Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and other social media outlets to full advantage Create your own online spokesperson for your brand Identify social media sites that appeal to your target audience Tell which social platform works for which objectives Develop a unique, Google-able voice in social media Optimize your page to attract clicks and customers Set up a program to assess your success and measure your results Social Media Marketing helps you learn the art of social media marketing to build your business to its full potential. Includes contributions by Michael Becker, Jeannette Kocsis and Ryan Williams Download ebook: Social Media Marketing For Dummies If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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Gluten-Free on a Shoestring: 125 Easy Recipes for Eating Well on the Cheap

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Gluten-Free on a Shoestring: 125 Easy Recipes for Eating Well on the Cheap by Nicole Hunn Da Capo Lifelong Books | 2011 | ISBN: 073821423X | English | 280 pages | MOBI | 1 MB

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Jacob Aagaard, "Dutch Stonewall"(repost)

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Jacob Aagaard, “Dutch Stonewall” Publisher: Everyman Chess | ISBN: 1857442520 | edition 2001 | PDF | 155 pages | 14,5 mb This book avoids both of these shortcomings. It gives a reasonably large number of variations – anything worthwhile/likely to be played by white, AND detailed explanations regarding the strategies behind the moves. The variations are all supported by games of leading players. The book is well written and easy to read.

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Last Witness by Jilliane Hoffman

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Last Witness by Jilliane Hoffman Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (August 2, 2005) | ISBN: 0786277106 | Pages: 525 | PDF | 1.89 MB Nothing makes cops madder than the death of one of their own. When a spate of excessively violent cop killings befalls the Miami area, Special Agent Dominick Falconetti (himself a former cop), and his fiancee, C. J. Townsend, an assistant DA, team up to try to find the killer. Dominick’s specialty is getting different factions to cooperate on a special task force, but in this case, all the participants–from federal, county, and city jurisdictions–are too busy marking their territories to do much crime fighting.

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Leslie West Big Phat Ass Guitar

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Leslie West Big Phat Ass Guitar | 3.45 GB NTSC DVDR | ~1hour | 720×480 (4:3) 29fps | Audio: AC3 48000Hz Stereo 192 kb/s Genre: eLearning | Language: English Take a private guitar lesson from Leslie West, the master guitar player from Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing. Get all the tips you need from the guy who knows how to play them. For almost 40 years Leslie West has been one of rock’s greatest guitar players recording massively successful albums and playing to literally millions of people at concerts all over the world. In this DVD Leslie West shows the viewer his innovative approach to playing rock guitar, techniques on capturing that special tone, recording and playing tips and hints on performing live.

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Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History

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Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History By Gary Graff, Daniel Durchholz Publisher: Voy…ageur Pr..ess 2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0760336474 | EPUB + PDF | 92 MB + 135 MB

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Securing Emerging Wireless Systems: Lower-layer Approaches (repost)

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Yingying Chen, Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, YanYong Zhang, “Securing Emerging Wireless Systems: Lower-layer Approaches” Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 0387884904 | edition 2008 | PDF | 362 pages | 10.2 mb Securing Emerging Wireless Systems: Lower-layer Approaches aims to fill a growing need in the research community for a reference that describes the lower-layer approaches as a foundation towards secure and reliable wireless systems.

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