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| "11+ Reference Mathematics Dictionary Plus" |
| "Replaces ISBN 9781908684493 The Mathematics Dictionary Plus is an outstanding companion publication to the First Past the Post Series published by ElevenPlusExams The book catalogues definitions of key mathematical concepts using accessible language accompanied by various styles of questions to ensure a thorough understanding of their practical applications Covering words used in topics set by all major examination boards and illustrated with clear diagrams this is a comprehensive reference volume that all students reaching 11 plus Common Entrance examinations Key Stage 2 and beyond will find invaluable Each definition is accompanied by an illustrative example to ensure understanding followed by sets of questions with two tiers of difficulty entitled Test yourself and Challenge yourself Includes answers to all questions"
Price: 11.99 |
| "11+ Puzzles Mathematics Crossword Puzzles Book 2" |
| "Fundamental mathematical skills are at the heart of 11 plus and Common Entrance exams such as those set by Durham University's Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) and Granada Learning (GL) also known as NFER The numerical section of these exams typically contains a combination of worded problems requiring comprehension and manipulation of data; quick-fi re questions which are designed to test a child's raw mathematical ability; and mental arithmetic Mathematics Crosswords Books 1 and 2 aim to develop these mathematical skills in a fun and engaging way This book contains 35 crosswords 27 of which cover core topics and eight of which cover a mixture Each crossword contains around 25 questions Extensively road-tested by Eleven Plus Exams all 11 Puzzles are perfect for use both in the classroom and at home"
Price: 8.49 |
| "11+ Essentials Verbal Reasoning: Cloze Tests Book 2" |
| "Replaces ISBN 9781908684356 Verbal reasoning skills are at the heart of 11 plus and Common Entrance exams such as those set by the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) compiled by Durham University The verbal reasoning section of these exams typically contains questions requiring a good understanding of synonyms antonyms homonyms and word definitions One common style of question is a cloze test which requires the candidate to correctly complete a passage from which some words have been wholly or partially removed Verbal Reasoning Cloze Tests aims to develop the skills required to answer cloze questions This book comprises word bank tests multiple choice tests and partial-word tests The online Peer-Compare system helps identify areas for improvement and gauge progress relative to other children taking the same tests Extensively road-tested by Eleven Plus Exams all 11 Essentials tests are best used as real exam practice to strengthen a child's performance They are perfect for use both in the classroom and at home"
Price: 8.49 |
| "11+ Essentials Verbal Reasoning: Vocabulary in Context Level 3" |
| "Replaces ISBN 9781908684882 A good vocabulary is at the heart of 11 plus and Common Entrance exams such as those set by the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) compiled by Durham University and Granada Learning (GL) also known as NFER Both the verbal reasoning and comprehension sections of these exams typically contain questions to test breadth of vocabulary and ability to infer meaning for previously unknown words This book contains intentionally difficult and unfamiliar vocabulary to encourage students to infer the meaning of new words from the context of the given classic or contemporary passage The Vocabulary in Context series of books increase in levels of difficulty so as to encourage consistent long-term development of reading and comprehension skills The purpose of this book is to develop the important skill of reading in context and not just for memorising new vocabulary This book targets the key skills involved in verbal reasoning and comprehension and is a unique and form of study for the 11 plus This book also includes an interesting word origin or idiom on each page"
Price: 8.49 |
| "11+ Puzzles Vocabulary Puzzles Book 2" |
| "A good vocabulary is at the heart of 11 plus and Common Entrance exams such as those set by Durham University's Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) and Granada Learning (GL) also known as NFER Both the verbal reasoning and comprehension sections of these exams typically contain questions requiring a good understanding of synonyms antonyms and homophones The Vocabulary Puzzle Book aims to test a child's knowledge of synonyms antonyms and homophones in a fun and engaging way with crosswords and word searches The book contains four sections Synonyms Antonyms Homophones and Mixed Puzzles Each of these sections is organised into three difficulty levels Easy Intermediate and Advanced There is a handy Word Jotter and definition section on every page which is there to ensure the child is actively looking up words they do not understand There is also a proverb at the end of each page to enhance their knowledge of the English language Extensively classroom tested by Eleven Plus Exams all 11 Puzzles are perfect for use both in the classroom and at home"
Price: 8.49 |
| "New Wave Mental Maths Book 3 : Workbook 3" |
| "New Wave Mental Maths workbooks will sit comfortably with your mathematics programme It offers day-to-day activities that cover all mathematic strands and are developmental throughout each book and the series It is written to provide comprehensive coverage of mental maths concepts in the Irish mathematics curriculum It provides opportunities for consolidation of mathematical concepts to develop and maintain speed of recall It includes opportunities for reinforcement of ongoing mathematical concepts You can introduce practice and understand a range of mathematical vocabulary It also offers sequential development of mathematical concepts and vocabulary You can develop and reinforce problem-solving strategies It also provides a structured daily mental maths programme for the whole academic year It also contains pictorial graphic and written representation of problems It features simple weekly pupil and teacher assessment (1st and 2nd Class books); and an inbuilt review and assessment programme (3rd - 6th Class books) It offers wide curriculum coverage that aids identification of 'problem' areas of maths to help planning and assessment It also features clear two-colour presentation throughout It provides record pages It covers all mathematics strands and strand units applicable to mental activities It also includes pages of useful 'maths facts' It also provides weekly testingreview for books 3-6 Developmental books provide ideal opportunity for differentiation with pupils working on a level appropriate to their ability rather than age Comprehensive teachers guide is available"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Great British Birding Experiences" |
| "Until now there has not been a book available which explores the best birding experiences that the UK has to offer Expert birder Dan Brown knows exactly what makes other people with an interest in birds tick - whether it is watching a single charismatic bird in flight finding something out of the ordinary or witnessing a true avian spectacle In Great British Birding Experiences Dan has compiled a 'Top 40' list of the very best that the country has to offer These experiences vary from watching huge congregations of geese or waders spending a night in a petrel or shearwater colony to getting up early to listen to the dawn chorus and watching skydancing Hen Harriers The month-by-month calendar approach makes it easy for the reader to dip into the book and find out what the key spectacles they should be looking for are at any time of year Locator maps and a gazetteer make it easy to locate sites The United Kingdom is incredibly fortunate to be home to an amazing network of conservation bodies protected areas and a plethora of birds in a compact and highly varied country Every year birds descend from all parts of the world Brent Geese and Turnstones from Canada Swallows and Sandwich Terns from South Africa Sooty Shearwaters from the South Atlantic Lesser Whitethroats from India and Rednecked Phalaropes from the coast of South America The UK really is an international hub of bird activity and never have birds and wildlife in general been so accessible to the masses With this unique book as your guide it is possible for readers to experience the incredible sights and wonders as well"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Tales of a Ludicrous Bird Gardener" |
| "In a sense this book is a garden-based autobiography of Britain's most famous birdwatcher The main narrative covers Bill's personal relationship not only with his present garden which was described by the Daily Mail as Probably the most bizarre back garden in Britain but also with the gardens he has known throughout his life The first was what he has called a sink full of mud in industrial Rochdale in the 1940s Next came a larger garden on the edge of Birmingham which he used as a bird ringing station sometimes helped or hindered by his granny who often trimmed the lawn with a pair of scissors!In Tales of Ludicrous Bird Gardens there are plenty of eccentric stories about garden characters such as the 'feng shui fox' who constantly rearranged the ornaments 'Limpy' the one-legged single-parent Great Tit and one memorable nightmarish occasion when over 50 rats came to visit! This book is NOT an instructional guide on 'How to be a ludicrous gardener' although it may well prove inspirational to others to have a go or to warn them on what to avoid Bill abhors decking large concrete patios and above all leaf-blowersAs well as neighbours who whinge about the parakeets!What is certain about Tales of Ludicrous Bird Gardens is that Bill's entertaining take on gardening for birds makes compelling reading"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Surfer Boy Bo" |
| "Bo discovers a magical place beneath the waves During his adventures he sees wonderfully strange creatures and their beautiful homes But he also learns that parts of our underwater world are disappearing and that it is up to all of us to look after our oceans"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Brainstorm : the power and purpose of the teenage brain" |
| "In this groundbreaking book the bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding Between the ages of 12 and 24 the brain changes in important and often maddening ways It's no wonder that many parents approach their child's adolescence with fear and trepidation According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel however if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another In Brainstorm Siegel illuminates how brain development affects teenagers' behaviour and relationships Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth change and experimentation in their children's lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide"
Price: 11.99 |
| "An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments" |
| "Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school a la Aristotle) Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy the slippery slope argument the ad hominem attack and other common attempts at reasoning that fall short - plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance) And Lion doesn't believe that gas emissions harm the planet because if that were true he wouldn't like the result (the argument from consequences) Once you learn to recognise these abuses of reason they start to crop up everywhere from parliamentary debate to YouTube comments - which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions It's the antidote to fuzzy thinking with furry animals!"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Teens : what we're really thinking (when we're not saying anything)" |
| "A Top Five bestseller in Germany Teenagers are people too! But what kind? Slaves to consumerism ruined by porn and always willing to trade in Granny's Christmas present for a bag of weed or a vodka and Red Bull? Until now we've always seen the lives of adolescents through the eyes of worried parents overworked and overstressed teachers or even family therapists Now for the first time a 15-year-old lifts the lid on what makes teenagers tick Here is an insider's report on the adolescent world of social media computer games fashion love in the age of the internet and those moments when everything just seems to get on top of you And on parents who only want the best for their offspring but always seem to end up achieving just the opposite"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade" |
| "The day before the underwater fancy-dress parade Alfie got that feeling Sometimes it's hard to be brave Sometimes you get that feeling Sometimes you're just not ready until one day you are From a dynamic new picture-book partnership comes the story of Alfie and a big octopus wearing a tiny hat and the things you can only whisper to the cowboys on your wallpaper"
Price: 5.49 |
| "My Promised Land : the triumph and tragedy of Israel" |
| "A groundbreaking and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before and asks difficult but important questions Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? And can Israel survive? Through revealing stories of significant events and lives of ordinary individuals - the youth group leader who recognised the potential of Masada as a powerful symbol for Zionism; the young farmer who bought an orange grove from his Arab neighbour in the 1920s and helped to create a booming economy in Palestine; the engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel's nuclear program; the religious Zionists who started the settler movement - Israeli journalist Ari Shavit illuminates the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing and uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present The result is a landmark portrait of a small vibrant country living on the edge whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today's global political landscape"
Price: 8.99 |
| "I am Here : Stories from a Cancer Ward" |
| "What comfort can an agnostic give people who are suffering or dying? Looking for more meaning in his work Johannes Klabbers gave up a tenured academic position to spend his days caring for the sick and dying He trained as a secular pastoral carer in a cancer hospital and from the patients there he learned how simply talking and listening can provide comfort from chatting about the football to discussing life's meaning and how one prepares for death I Am Here is a frank moving and sometimes funny record of his encounters It gives an unforgettable insight into the variety of ways people cope with suffering and suggests how we can support them - through caring through conversation and by acknowledging that although we may not be able to answer all of life's questions we can face them together From one of the saddest places comes this powerful affirmation of our capacity for humane care"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Bowie A-Z: The Life of an Icon: From Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust" |
| "An illustrated alphabetical tribute that celebrates the many faces and facets of cultural icon David Bowie From Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust Bowie A-Z is densely packed with everything you need to know about the rock legend - from the greatest hits of trivia to the most obscure B-side facts"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Roast : The New Classics Hardcover" |
| "Get more from your oven - and update your roasting techniques - with this classic and contemporary collection of delicious recipesAlongside the classic roasted meats - beef pot roast lamb shanks pork ribs and the most delicious roast turkey - you&39;ll also find more adventurous recipes including roasted duck with orange and cherries slow-roasted rabbit roasted quail with baked figs and spiced poussin with herbed yogurt With step-by-step carving instructions a section of roasted vegetarian mains as well as baked desserts this is the ultimate roasting book to add to your collection"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Edible Forest Gardens Vol. 2 : Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate-Climate Permaculture" |
| "Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work In Volume II Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practicalconsiderations concrete ways to design establish and maintain your own forest garden Along the way they present case studies and examples as well as tables illustrations and a uniquely valuable iplant matrixi that lists hundreds of the best edible and useful species Taken together the two volumes of Edible Forest Gardens offer an advanced course in ecological gardeningoone that will forever change the way you look at plants and your environment"
Price: 34.99 |
| "Cooperative Learning : Structures" |
| "The Big Picture in a MiniBook! Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures have revolutionized the way tens of thousands of teachers teach Students achieve remarkable academic gains and acquire a range of social skills Discipline problems disappear And teaching and learning are fun! Too good to be true? No The data is in! Th is MiniBook reveals the secret to success With no change in your curriculum and with no special materials you will transform your class and your career It's easy! Read this MiniBook and join the instructional revolution"
Price: 14.49 |
| "59 Kagan Structures : Proven Engagement Strategies" |
| "Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs small teams and with classmates Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride Structures create equal participation which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time In this must-have Kagan reference guide you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again More structures means more tools in your teaching toolbox to create more student engagement more student learning and more success!"
Price: 38.49 |
| "Lean from the Trenches : Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban" |
| "From start to finish you'll see what it takes to develop a successful agile project Find out how the Swedish police combined XP Scrum and Kanban to modernize their department--and learn how you can apply those same principles to your own workplace We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty all working in sync to develop a scalable complex system You'll walk through the project step by step from customer engagement to the daily cocktail party version control bug tracking and release In this honest look at what works--and what doesn't--you'll find out how to Make quality everyone's business not just the testers Keep everyone moving in the same direction without micromanagement Use simple and powerful metrics to aid in planning and process improvement Balance between low-level feature focus and high-level system focus You'll be ready to jump into the trenches yourself as you apply those same techniques to your own software development projects"
Price: 15.49 |
| "Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference" |
| "Programmers run into parsing problems all the time Whether it's a data format like JSON a network protocol like SMTP a server configuration file for Apache a PostScriptPDF file or a simple spreadsheet macro language--ANTLR v4 and this book will demystify the process ANTLR v4 has been rewritten from scratch to make it easier than ever to build parsers and the language applications built on top This completely rewritten new edition of the bestselling Definitive ANTLR Reference shows you how to take advantage of these new features Build your own languages with ANTLR v4 using ANTLR's new advanced parsing technology In this book you'll learn how ANTLR automatically builds a data structure representing the input (parse tree) and generates code that can walk the tree (visitor) You can use that combination to implement data readers language interpreters and translators You'll start by learning how to identify grammar patterns in language reference manuals and then slowly start building increasingly complex grammars Next you'll build applications based upon those grammars by walking the automatically generated parse trees Then you'll tackle some nasty language problems by parsing files containing more than one language (such as XML Java and Javadoc) You'll also see how to take absolute control over parsing by embedding Java actions into the grammar You'll learn directly from well-known parsing expert Terence Parr the ANTLR creator and project lead You'll master ANTLR grammar construction and learn how to build language tools using the built-in parse tree visitor mechanism The book teaches using real-world examples and shows you how to use ANTLR to build such things as a data file reader a JSON to XML translator an R parser and a Java class-interface extractor This book is your ticket to becoming a parsing guru! What You Need ANTLR 40 and above Java development tools Ant build system optional (needed for building ANTLR from source)"
Price: 18.99 |
| "Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador : Passage to Mogador : 24" |
| "The most moving beautiful and eloquent expression of wonder in literature If there has been anything new in recent literature of any type it is this undefinable book poetry short tales and intelligence in each paragraph A delight--Jeanne Teixidor Alberto Ruy-Sanchez is an award-winning Mexican writer and editor"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Children of Cyclops : The Influences of Television Viewing on the Developing Human Brain" |
| "Does the experience of watching a lot of television negatively affect a child's brain development? Dr Buzzell draws on his years of experience as a physician working with children to characterise and identify the effects of television Sobering and instructive it is compelling reading for parents and educators who want to make an informed decision about their children's screen time and best educational practices"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Toy Making : Simple Playthings to Make for Children" |
| "'All adults can make toys the simpler the better and less perfect is even better! It is the love and attention that goes into the making of the toy that really stand the test of time By paying attention to the color texture smell and shape of something one enables the young child to create an inner picture and imaginative play will flow forth'-- from the Foreword by Leslie Burchell-FoxThis simple book of projects encourages adults to take up the joyful task of making toys for the children in their lives Using a few basic techniques and classic archetypal shapes Gun Lee Blue demonstrates how to work with colour and form to craft beautiful dolls knitted animals and other playthings that foster creativity and imagination This is a fully illustrated guide to making beautiful toys and playthings for children Includes colour photographs and black and white patterns"
Price: 12.99 |
| "Explore It! : Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing" |
| "Uncover surprises risks and potentially serious bugs with exploratory testing Rather than designing all tests in advance explorers design and execute small rapid experiments using what they learned from the last little experiment to inform the next Learn essential skills of a master explorer including how to analyze software to discover key points of vulnerability how to design experiments on the fly how to hone your observation skills and how to focus your efforts Software is full of surprises No matter how careful or skilled you are when you create software it can behave differently than you intended Exploratory testing mitigates those risks Part 1 introduces the core essential skills of a master explorer You'll learn to craft charters to guide your exploration to observe what's really happening (hint it's harder than it sounds) to identify interesting variations and to determine what expected behavior should be when exercising software in unexpected ways Part 2 builds on that foundation You'll learn how to explore by varying interactions sequences data timing and configurations Along the way you'll see how to incorporate analysis techniques like state modeling data modeling and defining context diagrams into your explorer's arsenal Part 3 brings the techniques back into the context of a software project You'll apply the skills and techniques in a variety of contexts and integrate exploration into the development cycle from the very beginning You can apply the techniques in this book to any kind of software Whether you work on embedded systems Web applications desktop applications APIs or something else you'll find this book contains a wealth of concrete and practical advice about exploring your software to discover its capabilities limitations and risks"
Price: 14.99 |
| "Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development : Code Better, Sleep Better" |
| "f you program in C you've been neglected Test-driven development (TDD) is a modern software development practice that can dramatically reduce the number of defects in systems produce more maintainable code and give you the confidence to change your software to meet changing needs But C programmers have been ignored by those promoting TDD--until now In this book Jeff Langr gives you hands-on lessons in the challenges and rewards of doing TDD in C Modern C Programming With Test-Driven Development the only comprehensive treatment on TDD in C provides you with everything you need to know about TDD and the challenges and benefits of implementing it in your C systems Its many detailed code examples take you step-by-step from TDD basics to advanced concepts As a veteran C programmer you're already writing high-quality code and you work hard to maintain code quality It doesn't have to be that hard In this book you'll learn how to use TDD to improve legacy C systems how to identify and deal with troublesome system dependencies how to do dependency injection which is particularly tricky in C how to use testing tools for C that aid TDD new C11 features that facilitate TDD As you grow in TDD mastery you'll discover how to keep a massive C system from becoming a design mess over time as well as particular C trouble spots to avoid You'll find out how to prevent your tests from being a maintenance burden and how to think in TDD without giving up your hard-won C skills Finally you'll see how to grow and sustain TDD in your team Whether you're a complete unit-testing novice or an experienced tester this book will lead you to mastery of test-driven development in C What You Need A C compiler running under Windows or Linux preferably one that supports C11 Examples presented in the book were built under gcc 472 Google Mock 16 (downloadable for free; it contains Google Test as well) or an alternate C unit testing tool Most examples in the book are written for Google Mock but it isn't difficult to translate them to your tool of choice A good programmer's editor or IDE cmake preferably Of course you can use your own preferred make too CMakeListstxt files are provided for each project Examples provided were built using cmake version 289 Various freely-available third-party libraries are used as the basis for examples in the book These include - cURL - JsonCpp - Boost (filesystem datetimegregorian algorithm assign) Several examples use the boost headerslibraries Only one example uses cURL and JsonCpp"
Price: 20.49 |
| "Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks : When Threads Unravel" |
| "Your software needs to leverage multiple cores handle thousands of users and terabytes of data and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure Concurrency and parallelism are the keys and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development Learn how to exploit the parallelism in your computer's GPU and leverage clusters of machines with MapReduce and Stream Processing And do it all with the confidence that comes from using tools that help you write crystal clear high-quality code This book will show you how to exploit different parallel architectures to improve your code's performance scalability and resilience Learn about the perils of traditional threads and locks programming and how to overcome them through careful design and by working with the standard library See how actors enable software running on geographically distributed computers to collaborate handle failure and create systems that stay up 247365 Understand why shared mutable state is the enemy of robust concurrent code and see how functional programming together with technologies such as Software Transactional Memory (STM) and automatic parallelism help you tame it You'll learn about the untapped potential within every GPU and how GPGPU software can unleash it You'll see how to use MapReduce to harness massive clusters to solve previously intractible problems and how in concert with Stream Processing big data can be tamed With an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the different models and hardware architectures you'll be empowered to tackle any problem with confidence What You Need The example code can be compiled and executed on nix OS X or Windows Instructions on how to download the supporting build systems are given in each chapter"
Price: 19.49 |
| "The Sherlock Holmes Collection Hardcover â 15 Nov 2017" |
| "The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series is The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprised of 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world&39;s most famous pipe-smoking detective Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the years 1867 and 1927 the legendary Sherlock Holmes employed his mastery of deductive reasoning and expert sleuthing to solve an arraying of complex and harrowing cases From his home - 221B Baker Street in London - the legendary Sherlock Holmes (accompanied by his loyal companion and chronicler Dr Watson) baffled policemen and became famous worldwide for his remarkable observations and even more eccentric habits For Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide this stunning gift edition has a full cloth binding foil blocking on the spine ribbon marker and is packaged neatly in an elegant slipcase Featuring a foreword from renowned Holmes scholar Daniel Stashower (author of A Teller of Tales The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes in America) The Complete Sherlock Holmes contains every known Sherlock Holmes tale ever written From Holmes&39; first appearance in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) through the collection of stories in the The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes this deluxe edition boasts the entire Holmes catalogue"
Price: 15.26 |
| "The Nature of Software Development" |
| "You need to get value from your software project You need it free now and perfect We can't get you there but we can help you get to cheaper sooner and better This book leads you from the desire for value down to the specific activities that help good Agile projects deliver better software sooner and at a lower cost Using simple sketches and a few words the author invites you to follow his path of learning and understanding from a half century of software development and from his engagement with Agile methods from their very beginning The book describes software development starting from our natural desire to get something of value Each topic is described with a picture and a few paragraphs You're invited to think about each topic; to take it in You'll think about how each step into the process leads to the next You'll begin to see why Agile methods ask for what they do and you'll learn why a shallow implementation of Agile can lead to only limited improvement This is not a detailed map nor a step-by-step set of instructions for building the perfect project There is no map or instructions that will do that for you You need to build your own project making it a bit more perfect every day To do that effectively you need to build up an understanding of the whole process This book points out the milestones on your journey of understanding the nature of software development done well It takes you to a location describes it briefly and leaves you to explore and fill in your own understanding What You Need You'll need your Standard Issue Brain a bit of curiosity and a desire to build your own understanding rather than have someone else's detailed ideas poured into your head"
Price: 12.49 |
