PHP Advanced Ajax Architecture and Best Practices pdf download

PHP Advanced Ajax Architecture and Best Practices 

“I very much enjoyed how this book covers the full Ajax application lifecycle and not only coding techniques. Anyone who is looking to become a professional front-end developer will appreciate the architectural insight and best practices delivered by this book.” — Andi Gutmans, Co-Founder & Co-Chief Technology Officer of Zend Technologies

Mission-Critical Ajax: Maximizing Scalability, Performance, Security, Reliability, and Maintainability

Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices is the definitive guide to building business-critical, production-quality Web applications with Ajax. Shawn M. Lauriat systematically addresses the design, architecture, and development issues associated with Ajax, offering proven patterns and robust code examples available in no other book. You’ll find best practices for addressing the full spectrum of issues enterprise Ajax developers face: scalability, performance, security, reliability, flexibility, maintainability, and reusability.

Writing for experienced Web developers, Lauriat delivers fresh ideas and elegant solutions: meaty technical content, presented with exceptional clarity. Among the many topics he covers in unprecedented depth: cleanly implementing JavaScript custom events to reduce coupling and to enhance flexibility; overcoming Ajax’s traditional accessibility limitations; reducing network latency through compression and other techniques; and much more. Coverage includes

• Planning Ajax interfaces for simplicity, clarity, and intuitiveness 
• Creating scalable, maintainable architectures for client-side JavaScript 
• Using the latest tools to profile, validate, and debug client-side code
•  Architecting the server side for security and functionality, while restricting loaded data, objects, and actions to current requests 
• Protecting against the most widespread and significant Ajax security risks 
• Optimizing every component of an Ajax application, from server-side scripts to database interactions 
• Introducing cutting-edge Ajax: game development, Ajax with canvas, and Ajax for enterprise applications

About the Web Site

This book’s companion Web site (http://advancedajax.frozen-o.com) doesn’t just provide all the code: It shows code examples in action, as building blocks of a real Web application interface.

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にほんごチャレンジ かんじ N4-N5 - Nihongo Challenge N4 N5 Kanji Pdf Download

にほんごチャレンジ かんじ N4-N5 - Nihongo Challenge N4 N5 Kanji

1. 好評の「にほんごチャレンジ3級〔ことばと漢字〕」の改訂版。 
2. 英語訳・ポルトガル語訳・韓国語訳が付いているので、 　 英語圏や中南米の学習者に大変喜ばれています。 
3. 非漢字圏の学習者向けに漢字の成り立ちを図や 　 わかりやすいことばで説明しています。
4. よく目にする熟語をたくさん掲載し、実際の生活でも 　 役立つ内容になっています。

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HTML5 Hacks pdf download

HTML5 Hacks Tips & Tools for Creating Interactive Web Applications

With 90 detailed hacks, expert web developers Jesse Cravens and Jeff Burtoft demonstrate intriguing uses of HTML5-related technologies. Each recipe provides a clear explanation, screenshots, and complete code examples for specifications that include Canvas, SVG, CSS3, multimedia, data storage, web workers, WebSockets, and geolocation.

You'll also find hacks for HTML5 markup elements and attributes that will give you a solid foundation for creative recipes that follow. The last chapter walks you through everything you need to know to get your HTML5 app off the ground, from Node.js to deploying your server to the cloud.

Here are just a few of the hacks you’ll find in this book:

• Make iOS-style card flips with CSS transforms and transitions 
• Replace the background of your video with the Canvas tag 
• Use Canvas to create high-res 
• Retina Display-ready media 
• Make elements on your page user-customizable with editable content 
• Cache media resources locally with the filesystem 
• API Reverse-geocode the location of your web app user 
• Process image data with pixel manipulation in a dedicated web worker 
• Push notifications to the browser with Server-Sent Events

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Twitter Bootstrap Web Development How-To pdf download

Twitter Bootstrap Web Development How-To

A hands-on introduction to building websites with Twitter Bootstrap's powerful front-end development framework

Twitter Bootstrap is by far the most popular of all front-end frameworks. It has earned its position by providing expertly-crafted, community-tested solutions for some of the thorniest problems of contemporary web design, equipping developers to accomplish difficult tasks with ease and normal tasks with greater speed.

Twitter Bootstrap Web Development How-To walks you step-by-step from Bootstrap basics to the creation of a fully-responsive, JavaScript-enhanced, multi-page website. After this quick and dirty Bootstrap bootcamp, you'll not only be building serious sites, but you'll be equipped to dive into the rest of what Twitter Bootstrap has to offer.

Bringing you from zero to pro in record time, this book will start you off with Twitter Bootstrap's excellent responsive grid system. From the basics, you'll move on to more complex layouts with media grids and tables. You'll learn to control Bootstrap's navbar, adding drop-down menu items and configuring it to adapt beautifully to small screens. You'll utilize Bootstrap's jQuery plugins to add dynamic tabs and a beautiful homepage slideshow. You'll also walk through the steps of uploading your files, testing your site across desktop and mobile browsers, and optimizing your site files for improved performance before final launch.

What you will learn from this book

• Conquer responsive website layout with Bootstrap’s flexible grid system 
• Create a complex media grid of images and captions 
• Leverage carefully built CSS styles for typography, buttons, tables, forms, and more 
• Exert control over Bootstrap's dynamic and responsive navbar 
• Learn the ways of Bootstrap's excellent jQuery plugins 
• Create drop-down items and dynamic switchable tabs 
• Create a beautiful image carousel slideshow with captions 
• Test your results across browsers and devices

Approach

An easy-to-follow step-by-step presentation which will get you started with Twitter Bootstrap. Practical examples will help you to get set up quickly and easily.

Who this book is written for

This guide is for new, novice, and intermediate developers alike. Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required although this book will help beginners find their feet with both more easily. Those experienced with HTML and CSS will quickly learn the beautiful and efficient ways of Bootstrap..

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HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development pdf download

HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development

Master HTML5 Boilerplate web development with a robust set of templates to get your web projects done quickly and effectively

Master Web Development with a robust set of templates to get your projects done quickly and effectively

Overview

Master HTML5 Boilerplate as starting templates for future projects Learn how to optimize your workflow with HTML5 Boilerplate templates and set up servers optimized for performance Learn to feature-detect and serve appropriate styles and scripts across browser types

In Detail

HTML5 Boilerplate is the number one choice for many web developers to get their projects going. It provides a comprehensive set of starting templates to get your developments going, ensuring you don't forget any important elements of a typical web project while also ensuring you are writing quality code and mark up. Learning how to use this framework of page and code templates will allow you to kick-start your projects quickly without losing out on quality.

"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" will enable you to build new projects effectively with minimal effort. HTML5 Boilerplate allows you to deploy quality websites successfully and quickly while also ensuring robust cross-browser performance. It takes you through the step-by-step process of creating a website and teaches you to take full advantage of the html layouts provided within HTML5 Boilerplate; be it styles, mark up, or code so you can accomplish your goals.

This book will guide you through the process of building a music festival website, as an applicable example, using HTML5 Boilerplate. You will install, set up HTML5 Boilerplate and deploy production sites.

First, we will look at how to install HTML5 Boilerplate so you can use it repeatedly to jumpstart your projects, then we will look at structuring your website using the base files. We will use Modernizr and feature detection to dynamically serve different styles and scripts based on support of certain features. We will discover how to best configure our server to provide high performance and security for our website. Finally, we employ the Build Tool to combine files, remove comments and make the site ready for production use.

"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" offers a well-rounded tutorial in expert web development; not just a starting place for web projects. It develops code snippets, links to further resources for and in addition to makes you understand the nuances of HTML5 Boilerplate.

What you will learn from this book

Master the internals of HTML5 Boilerplate Write code using feature detection that will work in all browsers while providing alternate experiences where necessary Use a build tool to minimize the cost of deploying your project to production Maintain good page performance of web pages in your project by choosing the best server defaults Write end-to-end web projects that are robust and work across browsers by default Learn how to use HTML5 Boilerplate with CMSs and other language frameworks; such as Wordpress, Django, and more. Find ways to debug easily and methods of asking for help so you receive quick responses

Approach

"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" is a practical guide rich with information on getting the best out of the boilerplate. Readers follow the expert author through a project of building a music festival site; the tutorials and lessons learned are easily applicable to any website project.

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Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 pdf download

Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: The Web Evolved

Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 is your introduction to the new features and elements of HTML5—as a web developer you'll learn about all the leaner, cleaner, and more efficient code available now with HTML5, along with some new tools that will allow you to create more meaningful and richer content. For everyone involved in web design, this book also introduces the new structural integrity and styling flexibility of CSS 3—which means better-looking pages and smarter content in your website projects.

For all forward-looking web professionals who want to start enjoying and deploying the new HTML5 and CSS3 features right away, this book provides you with an in-depth look at the new capabilities—including audio and video—that are new to web standards. You’ll learn about the new HTML5 structural sections, plus HTML5 and CSS3 layouts. You’ll also discover why some people think HTML5 is going to be a Flash killer, when you see how to create transitions and animations with these new technologies. So get ahead in your web development through the practical, step-by-step approaches offered to you in Beginning HTML5 and CSS3.

What you’ll learn

• Cutting-edge web development techniques with HTML5 and CSS3 
• The new features of HTML5 and how to work with HTML5 and CSS3 
• The new web standards being implemented by all the major web browsers 
• How to work with the new HTML5 structural sections 
• How to create HTML5 and CSS3 layouts 
• How to create transitions and animations without using Flash 
• New web typography solutions 
• A new vision of web development with HTML5 and CSS3

Who this book is for

This book is for web developers and anyone involved in web design who wants to embrace the new web standards and cutting-edge features of HTML5 and CSS3. With a practical, accessible approach, this book is for anyone who wants to push their websites forwards with the latest technologies.

Table of Contents

1. HTML5: Now, Not 2022 
2. Your First Plunge 
3. Into HTML5 
4. New Structural Elements 
5. A Richer Approach to Content Markup 
6. Rich Media 
7. Paving the Way for Web Applications 
8. CSS3—Here and Now 
9. Keeping Your Markup Slim Using CSS3 Selectors 
10. A Layout for Every Occasion 
11. Improving Web Typography 
12.  Putting CSS3 
13. Properties to Work Transforms, Transitions, and Animation 
14. The Future of CSS

Reviews of Beginning HTML5 and CSS3

I should state first that I was the tech reviewer for this book, so this review carries the risk of being biased, but I wanted to post a review to help spread the word. This book was a long time coming, but that time was well spent - the information contained in here represents some of the most thorough, well-researched writing on modern web technologies I have seen. The layout and animation chapters for example encompass over 160 pages between the two of them, with Oli Studholme covering every available property and function, along with lots of useful real world examples, and useful tricks and tactics you can use to solve various coding problems, some of them quite tricky.

I am very experienced with CSS3 and HTML5, but I still learned a lot, and I would advise that anyone wanting a detailed guide that they can refer to again and again should consider picking this up.

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新完全マスタ 語彙 N2 - New Kanzen Master JLPT N2 Vocabulary

新完全マスタ 語彙 N2 - New Kanzen Master JLPT N2 Vocabulary

The book is aimed at those planning to take the N2 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), though it is an excellent tool for any learner to improve their Japanese vocabulary.

The vocabulary presented has been carefully chosen from references and past tests, ensuring the book concentrates on words that have a high chance of appearing in the examination. It provides the learner with many practice sections based on the JLPT vocabulary section and will give them the confidence and knowledge required to perform their best on test day.

New Kanzen Master JLPT N2 Vocabulary  is divided into the following two parts:

1. Jitsuryoku Yoseihen – An introduction of new vocabulary 
2. Mogi Shiken – A mock test that enables the learner to identify their strengths and weaknesses

In the 'Jitsuryoku Yoseihen' section, vocabulary is introduced in two ways. In Part 1, the vocabulary is grouped based on themes and situations; in Part 2, it is grouped in terms of parts of speech and usage. Each new chapter of vocabulary has a basic exercise and a practical exercise section. The basic exercise section helps the learner confirm the meaning and usage of the vocabulary. The second practical exercise section is a 20 point quiz with questions shown in the same format as the exam.

This book strengthens not only the learner’s vocabulary, but also their overall ability at the intermediate level.

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新完全マスタ文法 N2 - New Kanzen Master JLPT Level 2 Grammar

 新完全マスタ文法 N2 - New Kanzen Master JLPT Level 2 Grammar

The book is aimed at those planning to take the N2 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), though it can also be used by any learner to improve their Japanese grammar. It provides specific practice for the JLPT grammar questions and gives the language student the confidence and knowledge required to perform their best on test day.

New Kanzen Master JLPT Level 2 Grammar is divided into the following three parts:

1. Mondai Shokai – An introduction to the JLPT grammar question format and answer strategies
2. Jitsuryoku Yoseihen – An examination of the three types of grammar test questions with test-taking strategies 
3. Mogi Shiken – A mock test that enables the learner to identify their strengths and weaknesses In part 2, the exercises in ‘Bun no Bunpo 1’ and ‘Bun no Bunpo 2’ are arranged so the learner studies the grammar form and the meaning and function separately. This section also has detailed explanations and many practice exercises.

This book strengthens not only the learner’s grammar ability, but also their overall ability at the intermediate level.

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新完全マスター 読解 N2 - New Kanzen Master JLPT Level 2 Reading Comprehension

新完全マスター 読解 N2 - New Kanzen Master JLPT Level 2 Reading Comprehension

The book is aimed at those planning to take the N2 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), though it can also be used by any learner to improve their reading ability at the intermediate/advanced level. Its provides specific practice for the JLPT reading section through many examples that will give you the confidence and knowledge required to perform your best on test day.

New Kanzen Master JLPT Level 2 Reading Comprehension helps you learn to tackle specific areas such as comparison, rephrasing, metaphors, and interrogative sentences. The learner also gets plenty of practice in the 'Bunsho Zentai o Tsukamu (Grasping the Whole Text)' section.

Because passages have been selected from varied material such as advertisements, pamphlets, informational publications, and business documents, it is possible to practice understanding all types of reading material with this one book. There are 33 example exercises, 70 practice exercises and a practice test.

An explanation of the example exercises and practice exercises in terms of how to read and identify important points in the text and how to select answers in multiple choice questions is provided. An answer booklet for the practice questions is also included.

This book strengthens not only the learner’s reading comprehension ability, but also their overall ability at the intermediate level.

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Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js pdf download

Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js New Open Source Tools for Location Data

Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates - but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.

Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you store location data and perform complex queries on it quickly. You'll learn how to get started with these tools, and then use them together to build an example project called MapChat, using HTML and JavaScript code samples.

• Learn how to serve dynamic content with Node.js, and use its asynchronous IO to handle several requests at once
•  Become familiar with GeoJSON, Geohash, and the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) for working with spatial data 
•  Build geospatial indexes using the GeoCouch branch of CouchDB 
•  Combine these tools to build a project that lets users post real-time chat messages tagged with their current map location

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CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js pdf download

CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js Learn CoffeeScript programming with the three most popular web technologies around

CoffeeScript is a young but popular language that makes web programming fun and more productive. It compiles to JavaScript and unleashes its powerful features while not straying too far from the language. It's become one of the most popular languages on Github and is being used for both browser and server side programming.

CoffeeScript programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js will not only teach you the CoffeeScript language but also show you how it's being used by professional programmers with the latest web technologies.

What you will learn from this book

• The basics of the language and how it compares to JavaScript CoffeeScript's powerful class syntax 
• Installing CoffeeScript on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux using Node.js 
• Configuring CoffeeScript for browser applications 
• The basics of jQuery and using it with CoffeeScript 
• Using localStorage in browser-based applications
•  Two approaches to write CoffeeScript in Rails applications 
• Creating responsive web applications using WebSocket

Reviews of CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

I had heard of CoffeeScript and I had been meaning to learn more about it. My previous exposure to JavaScript has taught me that JavaScript is an easy language to learn but a hard language to master. Not so with CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript borrows some great ideas from both Ruby and Python to give a cleaner, more programmer friendly alternative to JavaScript - and as the authors say, CoffeeScript is just Javascript.

Overall is an excellent introduction to CoffeeScript - it provides some background detail and advocacy on the language (always useful when learning a new language, as in why one should bother). The authors make an excellent case for using CoffeeScript and then proceed to a quick introduction to the language.

The rest of the book is broken down into separate sections covering everything from setting up your CoffeeScript environment to using CoffeeScript with Rails and Node.js. This is not a long book, but the authors have managed to pack in enough information to get you up and running with plenty of clear code examples.

All in all, this is an excellent introduction to a very useful alternative to bare JavaScript. You will not only learn about CoffeeScript but get a great overview of some of the more interesting web development technologies available at the moment (Rails, JQuery, Node.js). This is by no means an exhaustive reference book. But it is a book that you could read over a weekend and implement some of the code over a few evenings - it will get you up and running. Definitely worth the price.

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Node.js for PHP Developers pdf download

Node.js for PHP Developers Porting PHP to Node.js

If you're an experienced PHP developer, you already have a head start on learning how to write Node.js code. In this book, author Daniel Howard demonstrates the remarkable similarities between the two languages, and shows you how to port your entire PHP web application to Node.js. By comparing specific PHP features with their Node counterparts, you'll also discover how to refactor and improve existing PHP 4 or PHP 5 source code.

At the end, you'll have two fully functional codebases to provide to your users. You can update both of them simultaneously, using this book as a reference to important aspects of PHP and Node.js.

• Use a simple Node.js framework to convert individual PHP pages to Node.js files 
• Refactor blocking PHP source code to non-blocking Node.js source code that uses callbacks 
• Convert PHP syntax, variables, and types to Node.js 
• Use a step-by-step technique for implementing PHP classes and class inheritance in Node.js 
• Convert PHP file handling APIs into their Node.js equivalents 
• Compare approaches for using a MySQL database in Node.js and PHP 
• Convert PHP code for JSON or XML APIs into Node.js code for npm packages

Reviews of Node.js for PHP developer 

If you just want to convert your existing php-code to javascript and run it via node.js, this is book for you.
But if you want to learn how to take advantage of node.js and it's modules, etc, you should definitely read something else.

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Professional Node.js Building Javascript Based Scalable Software pdf download

Professional Node.js Building Javascript Based Scalable Software 

Node.js is a powerful and popular new framework for writing scalable network programs using JavaScript. This no nonsense book begins with an overview of Node.js and then quickly dives into the code, core concepts, and APIs. In-depth coverage pares down the essentials to cover debugging, unit testing, and flow control so that you can start building and testing your own modules right away.

• Covers node and asynchronous programming main concepts 
• Addresses the basics: modules, buffers, events, and timers 
• Explores streams, file systems, networking, and automated unit testing 
• Goes beyond the basics, and shares techniques and tools for debugging, unit testing, and flow control

If you already know JavaScript and are curious about the power of Node.js, then this is the ideal book for you.

Reviews of  Professional Node.js

This book introduces Node.js and various related technologies. It starts off with how to install Node.js and covers the Core API, how to fo File Processing, Streams and Networking, how to build Web Applications and connect to databases like MongoDB, MySQL, CouchDB etc.

It specifically covers about event driven programming on the Server Side, using buffers to encode/decode binary data, how to do event binding, creating and controlling external processes, building TCP Servers, HTTP Servers, HTTP Client, securing using HTTPS, using Express.JS, SOCKET.IO etc.

The book is easy to read and very understandable.

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Kanji look and learn pdf download

KANJI LOOK AND LEARN - 512 Kanji with Illustrations and Mnemonic Hints

- Kanji can be easily learned through fun illustrations and mnemonic hints.

- Users can readily look up the meaning, readings, stroke count, and stroke order of kanji.

- The various indexes at the end of the book allow learners to easily look up a particular kanji or kanji vocabulary.

- The book contains 512 kanji, as well as 3,500 essential vocabulary(using those kanj) for beginner and intermediate learners.

- The book includes all kanji in levels 3 and 4 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Text.

- The book includes all 317 kanji in the “Genki” textbook

- The book contains a chart which allows users to compare kanji learned in “Genki”, “Minna no Nihongo”, “Nakama”, and “Yokoso”.

- The companion workbook helps users to learn kanji not only at the level of characters and words, but also in the context of sentences and longer text.

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Face2Face Pre-intermediate pdf & audio cds

Face2Face Pre-intermediate Student’s Book | Workbook | Audio | CD-ROM

 Face2Face is a general English course for students who want to learn how to communicate quickly and effectively in an English speaking environment. It combines the best in current EFL methodology with innovative new features designed to make learning and teaching easier.

There is a strong emphasis on speaking and listening throughout the course, and the practice activities in each lesson provide frequent opportunities for realistic, natural interaction. The course seeks to fully engage the students at every stage of the lesson, and its approach to new language draws on what students have already learned and encourages them to work out rules of grammar and usage themselves. We believe that face2face provides the right balance of topics, language and activities that students and teachers want from a course in today’s world.

Why students like face2face?

•  Innovative Help with Listening sections teach students how to understand spoken English 
•  CD ROM/Audio CD provides extra practice of grammar, vocabulary, listening and pronunciation lessons 
• Original, fresh angles on universal topics that students want to talk about

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Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever epub, mobi download

Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil

In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry Grossman, MD, present a cutting edge, accessible program based on the vanguard in nutrition and science. They’ve distilled thousands of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life expectancies and slow the aging process.
Transcend gives you the practical tools you need to live long enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will continue to occur at an accelerating pace during the years ahead. To help you remember the nine key components of the program, Ray and Terry have arranged them into a mnemonic: Talk with your doctor, Relaxation, Assessment, Nutrition, Supplements, Calorie reduction, Exercise, New technologies, Detoxification. This easy-to-follow program will help you transcend the boundaries of your genetic legacy and live long enough to live forever.
"Ray Kurzweil knows more about the future of technology than anyone on the planet. If you want to have the greatest chance of seeing the next century, read TRANSCEND today." —Dean Ornish, MD, founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; clinical professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco; author, The Spectrum and Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease
"Kurzweil and Grossman have created another breathtaking book—a concise yet comprehensive guide to staying healthy and living life to the fullest. This visionary and must-read book also provides a brilliant and entertaining view of our transcendent future if we follow the TRANSCEND program."—Dean Kamen, physicist and inventor of the first wearable insulin pump, HomeChoice portable dialysis machine, IBOT Mobility System, and Segway Human Transporter, and recipient of the National Medal of Technology.

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The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau epub, mobi download

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau

 In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.

Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back.

There are many others like Chris – those who’ve found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. Sometimes, achieving that perfect blend of passion and income doesn’t depend on shelving what you currently do. You can start small with your venture, committing little time or money, and wait to take the real plunge when you're sure it's successful.

In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and from that group he’s chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment.

Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your “expertise” – even if you don’t consider it such -- and what other people will pay for.
 You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid.

Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris’s key principles: if you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish – sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins.

In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs. This remarkable book will start you on your way.

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A History of the Jews - Paul Johnson pdf download

A History of the Jews - Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson says that writing A History of the Jews was like writing a history of the world "seen from the viewpoint of a learned and intelligent victim." Johnson's history begins with the Bible and ends with the establishment of the State of Israel. Throughout, Johnson's history is driven by a philosophical interest: "The Jews," he writes, "stand right at the centre of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose. Does their own history suggest that such attempts are worth making? Or does it reveal their essential futility?" Johnson's history is lucid, thorough, and--as one would expect of almost any project with such a broad scope--a little wrong-headed. By the end of the book, readers will be grateful for Johnson's questioning of the Jews' confidence in their cosmic significance. However, readers may also be a little annoyed by his energetic inquiries as to whether this significance was man-made or providentially provided. Either way, it's a given: for a historian of Israel, this should adequately settle the question. Johnson's 600-page history is probably the best we've got by a living gentile--which is no small accomplishment at all. ~ Michael Joseph Gross
Less a seminal contribution than a distillation of a wide range of sources, this history of the Jews focuses on their four-millennia interplay with, and adaption to, other, often hostile, civilizationsa "world history seen from the viewpoint of a learned and intelligent victim." Weaving biblical and archeological data, Johnson (Modern Times and A History of Christianity is particularly deft at placing the patriarchs and early Israelites (the Bronze Age through the destruction of the First Temple) in their historical context. His dense, somewhat arbitrary, capsule extols Judaic rational scholarshipwhich contributed to ethical monotheism and the 18th-century economic system, in turnand denigrates mystic kabbalah"heresy of the most pernicious kind." Although Johnson, who seeks to acknowledge "the magnitude of the debt Christianity owes to Judaism," traces "an inherent conflict" between the religion and the state of Israel through the various ages, the work is incontrovertibly sympathetic to Zionism. BOMC and QPBC featured alternates; author tour.

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