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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) (Repost)

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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) Publisher: Springer | 2005 | ISBN: 0387245448 | Pages: 712 | PDF | 13,6 MB This book was written for statisticians, computer scientists, geographers, researchers, and others interested in visualizing data. It presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systems.

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The Witch of Portobello

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The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho & Rita Wolf (Reader) Publisher: HarperAudio (May 15, 2007) | ISBN: 0061349100 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3/128 kbps | 471 MB Multimillion-seller Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym, etc.) returns with another uncanny fusion of philosophy, religious miracle and moral parable. The Portobello of the title is London’s Portobello Road, where Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, finds the worship meeting she’s leading—where she becomes an omniscient goddess named Hagia Sophia—disrupted by a Protestant protest…

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Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart

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Stephen Levine, “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart” Rodale Books | 2005-01-13 | ISBN: 1594860653 | 256 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB

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Транспортный флот в Ледовом походе 1918 года

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The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products

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The iPod is a harbinger of a revolution in product design: innovation that targets customer emotion, self-image, and fantasy, not just product function. Read the hidden stories behind BodyMedia’s SenseWear body monitor, Herman Miller’s Mirra Chair, Swiffer’s mops, OXO’s potato peelers, Adidas’ intelligent shoes, the new Ford F-150 pickup truck, and many other winning innovations. Meet the innovators, learning how they inspire and motivate their people, as they shepherd their visions through corporate bureaucracy to profitable reality. The authors deconstruct the entire process of design innovation, showing how it really works, and how today’s smartest companies are innovating more effectively than ever before. Download ebook: The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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Financial Markets and Institutions, 7th Edition

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A practical and current look into today’s financial markets and institutions. In Financial Markets and Institutions , bestselling authors Mishkin and Eakins provide a practical introduction to help you prepare for today’s changing landscape of financial markets and institutions. A unifying framework uses a few core principles to organize learning then examines the models as real-world scenarios from a practitioner’s perspective. This seventh edition focuses on the cause and effect of today’s global financial crisis. Download ebook: Financial Markets and Institutions, 7th Edition If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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iOS 5 Programming Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Apps

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This popular cookbook, thoroughly updated in response to reader requests and new developments in iOS 5, helps you solve the vexing, real-life issues you’re likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. This edition contains more than 100 new recipes, each providing a clear solution and sample code that you can use right away. The focus of this book is to teach you how to write iOS apps, whether they’re as simple as a music player or as complex as an app that mixes animations, graphics, multimedia, database, and cloud storage. You’ll learn about iCloud, Automatic Reference Counting, storyboarding, Interface Builder, creating ad-hoc and simulator builds, provision profiles, graphics, animations, Grand Central Dispatch, Operations and Operation Queues, threads, timers, audio and video and many other iOS 5 tools and techniques. Topics include: Automatic Reference Counting to drastically cut down the time required to write your iOS apps iCloud to synchronize users’ data to the cloud Storyboarding to simplify creating your User Interface UI components, including picker views, data pickers, web views, popovers, activity indicators, progress views, sliders, alerts, switches, and many more Grand Central Dispatch to write blazingly fast iOS apps without having to worry about creating threads The all-new asynchronous and synchronous network APIs Using block-based animations and integrating graphical assets into your apps Download ebook: iOS 5 Programming Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Apps If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)

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Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB, 4th Edition

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Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB is aimed at beginner ASP.NET developers wanting to develop their skills, web designers wanting to move into server-side programming, and experienced developers making the leap from ASP to .NET. Readers will learn: language and programming basics how to construct ASP.Net Web Pages how to build web applications to use validation controls database design and development how to use ADO.NET how to manage data and content how to integrate Ajax and jQuery the role of MVC … all in the process of successfully developing and deploying a working intranet site for a fictional company. Download ebook: Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB, 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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William G. Hawkeswood, "One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem"

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William G. Hawkeswood, “One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem” Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520202120 | edition 1997 | PDF | 269 pages | 1 mb Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as “street corner men”–unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they are an invisible minority.

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