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View book details for Stop Fixing Women
Why Building Fairer Workplaces Is Everybody's Business
University of New South Wales Press
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between …
View book details for Charles Bean
Man, Myth, Legacy
University of New South Wales Press
Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticized for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean …
View book details for The Secret Life of Whales
A Marine Biologist Reveals All
University of New South Wales Press
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. …
View book details for Making Things Smart
Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects into Intelligent Machines
Maker Media, Inc
Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.Current ARM programming books take a bland, textbook approach focused on complex, beginner-unfriendly languages …
View book details for Powering Content
Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
O'Reilly Media
Your new product is ready to launch and youre itching to tell potential customers all about it. But how do you make your message stand out above all the noise and marketing clutter? Take the guesswork out of content management …
View book details for Agile Data Science 2.0
Building Full-Stack Data Analytics Applications with Spark
O'Reilly Media
Data science teams looking to turn research into useful analytics applications require not only the right tools, but also the right approach if theyre to succeed. With the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, up-and-coming data scientists will learn …
View book details for The Art of Capacity Planning
Scaling Web Resources in the Cloud
O'Reilly Media
In their early days, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in minutes. Today, determining how much capacity you need for handling traffic surges is still a common frustration …
View book details for Make: Tips and Tales from the Workshop
A Handy Reference for Makers
Maker Media, Inc
The hard-earned tips and tricks gained by experience are the hidden currency of makers -- passed along in workshops and makerspaces by example and by retelling -- shared wisdom that will help you work smarter, easier, and more efficiently. Who …
View book details for Spock: Up and Running
Writing Expressive Tests in Java and Groovy
O'Reilly Media
Most developers would agree that writing automated tests is a good idea, but writing good, well-structured tests is still an elusive skill for many. For Java and Groovy developers, however, theres good news. This practical guide shows you how to …
View book details for RESTful Web Clients
Enabling Reuse Through Hypermedia
O'Reilly Media
Powerful web-based REST and hypermedia-style APIs are becoming more common every day, but instead of applying the same techniques and patterns to hypermedia clients, many developers rely on custom client code. With this practical guide, youll learn how to move …
View book details for Getting Started with Kudu
Perform Fast Analytics on Fast Data
O'Reilly Media
Fast data ingestion, serving, and analytics in the Hadoop ecosystem have forced developers and architects to choose solutions using the least common denominatoreither fast analytics at the cost of slow data ingestion or fast data ingestion at the cost of …
View book details for Visualizing Streaming Data
Interactive Analysis Beyond Static Limits
O'Reilly Media
While tools for analyzing streaming and real-time data are gaining adoption, the ability to visualize these data types has yet to catch up. Dashboards are good at conveying daily or weekly data trends at a glance, though capturing snapshots when …
View book details for Zero to Maker
A Beginner's Guide to the Skills, Tools, and Ideas of the Maker Movement
Maker Media, Inc
Zero to Maker is part memoir and part how-to guidebook for anyone who is having thoughts like these:I feel like all I can do is write emails. I wish I had more hands-on skills even though I don't know what …
View book details for Programming with MicroPython
Embedded Programming with Microcontrollers and Python
O'Reilly Media
Its an exciting time to get involved with MicroPython, the re-implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers and embedded systems. This practical guide delivers the knowledge you need to roll up your sleeves and create exceptional embedded projects with this lean …
View book details for Org Design for Design Orgs
Building and Managing In-House Design Teams
O'Reilly Media
Design has become the key link between users and todays complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies …
View book details for Ransomware
Defending Against Digital Extortion
O'Reilly Media
The biggest online threat to businesses and consumers today is ransomware, a category of malware that can encrypt your computer files until you pay a ransom to unlock them. With this practical book, youll learn how easily ransomware infects your …
View book details for SVG Animations
From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation
O'Reilly Media
SVG is extremely powerful, with its reduced HTTP requests and crispness on any display. It becomes increasingly more interesting as you explore its capabilities for responsive animation and performance boons. When you animate SVG, you must be aware of normal …
View book details for DevOps with OpenShift
Cloud Deployments Made Easy
O'Reilly Media
For many organizations, a big part of DevOps appeal is software automation using infrastructure-as-code techniques. This book presents developers, architects, and infra-ops engineers with a more practical option. Youll learn how a container-centric approach from OpenShift, Red Hats cloud-based PaaS, …
View book details for Big Data for Chimps
A Guide to Massive-Scale Data Processing in Practice
O'Reilly Media
Finding patterns in massive event streams can be difficult, but learning how to find them doesnt have to be. This unique hands-on guide shows you how to solve this and many other problems in large-scale data processing with simple, fun, …
View book details for Abusing the Internet of Things
Blackouts, Freakouts, and Stakeouts
O'Reilly Media
This book is a marvellous thing: an important intervention in the policy debate about information security and a practical text for people trying to improve the situation. Cory Doctorowauthor, co-editor of Boing BoingA future with billions of connected "things" includes …
View book details for Learning MySQL and MariaDB
Heading in the Right Direction with MySQL and MariaDB
O'Reilly Media
If youre a programmer new to databasesor just new to MySQL and its community-driven variant, MariaDByouve found the perfect introduction. This hands-on guide provides an easy, step-by-step approach to installing, using, and maintaining these popular relational database engines.Author Russell Dyer, …
View book details for Learning Virtual Reality
Developing Immersive Experiences and Applications for Desktop, Web, and Mobile
O'Reilly Media
As virtual reality approaches mainstream consumer use, a vibrant development ecosystem has emerged in the past few years. This hands-on guide takes you through VR development essentials for desktop, mobile, and browser-based applications. Youll explore the three go-to platformsOculusVR, Gear …
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and were the largest ancestry group in the 2000 census. Author Kathleen Neils Conzen tells the story of German …
Rose & Mann
America once sold human beings like hogsheads and considered a lynching time for a picnic; but we recently sang Hail to the Chief to the first African-American President. The Declaration of Independence dealt the first race card when it declared …
View book details for Marriage - The Time of Your Life!
Building a Great Life Together
Thomas Interior Systems, Inc
As you may have noticed, marriage is in crisis! Experts tell us that 50% or more of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. Living together prior to getting married increases the likelihood of getting divorced by 40 percent. Forty-three …
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