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Mastering Scrivener Themes

Creating your personal digital writing environment

by Antoni Dol ...

Series Book 2 - Mastering Scrivener
This book presents all the secrets of creating Themes going far beyond changing colors and settings in the Appearance Options dialog or even the QSS Stylesheet.The book digs deeper into creating Themes than any other tutorial or video. It tells you what you need, how to start, and what to change to create your Themes.Dig deep into the QT 6 platform, the developers used to write the software, and ... Read more

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This book presents all the secrets of creating Themes going far beyond changing colors and settings in the Appearance Options dialog or even the QSS Stylesheet.The book digs deeper into creating Themes than any other tutorial or video. It tells you what you need, how to start, and what to change to create your Themes.Dig deep into the QT 6 platform, the developers used to write the software, and
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Programming Languages and Systems

34th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2025, Held as Part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, Hamilton, ON, Canada, May 3–8, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Viktor Vafeiadis ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The open access book set LNCS 15694 + LNCS 15695 constitutes the proceedings of the 34th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2025, which was held as part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, in Hamilton, Canada, during May 3-8, 2025.The 30 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 ... Read more

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The open access book set LNCS 15694 + LNCS 15695 constitutes the proceedings of the 34th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2025, which was held as part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, in Hamilton, Canada, during May 3-8, 2025.The 30 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88
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Information Architecture

For the Web and Beyond

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango ...

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this ... Read more

$36.79 USD

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this
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Introductory R: A Beginner's Guide to Data Visualisation, Statistical Analysis and Programming in R

by Robert Knell ...

R is now the most widely used statistical software in academic science and it is rapidly expanding into other fields such as finance. R is almost limitlessly flexible and powerful, hence its appeal, but can be very difficult for the novice user. There are no easy pull-down menus, error messages are often cryptic and simple tasks like importing your data or exporting a graph can be difficult and ... Read more

$8.02 USD

R is now the most widely used statistical software in academic science and it is rapidly expanding into other fields such as finance. R is almost limitlessly flexible and powerful, hence its appeal, but can be very difficult for the novice user. There are no easy pull-down menus, error messages are often cryptic and simple tasks like importing your data or exporting a graph can be difficult and
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The Product-Minded Engineer

Building Impactful Software for Your Users

by Drew Hoskins ...

In the fast-paced world of software engineering, developing technical skills often takes precedence. However, if you're seeking career advancement, enhancing your technical skills alone is not enough; you also need to deepen your empathy for users—a skill frequently overlooked in traditional engineering roles. Understanding user needs and the broader impact of your work will not only lead to ... Read more

$43.19 USD

In the fast-paced world of software engineering, developing technical skills often takes precedence. However, if you're seeking career advancement, enhancing your technical skills alone is not enough; you also need to deepen your empathy for users—a skill frequently overlooked in traditional engineering roles. Understanding user needs and the broader impact of your work will not only lead to
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UX for Lean Startups

Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design

by Laura Klein ...

p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product ... Read more

$22.39 USD

p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product
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Mobile Design and Development

Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps

by Brian Fling ...

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles ... Read more

$20.19 USD

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles
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TinyML

Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers

by Pete Warden, Daniel Situnayake ...

Deep learning networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The Google Assistant team can detect words with a model just 14 kilobytes in size—small enough to run on a microcontroller. With this practical book you’ll enter the field of TinyML, where deep learning and embedded systems combine to make astounding things possible with tiny devices.Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake explain how you can ... Read more

$30.99 USD

Deep learning networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The Google Assistant team can detect words with a model just 14 kilobytes in size—small enough to run on a microcontroller. With this practical book you’ll enter the field of TinyML, where deep learning and embedded systems combine to make astounding things possible with tiny devices.Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake explain how you can
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Data Parallel C++

Mastering DPC++ for Programming of Heterogeneous Systems using C++ and SYCL

by James Reinders, Ben Ashbaugh, James Brodman, Michael Kinsner, John Pennycook, Xinmin Tian ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important new development that is helping to push computing to new levels. It is full of practical advice, detailed explanations, and code examples to illustrate key topics.Data parallelism in C++ enables access to parallel resources in a modern ... Read more

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Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important new development that is helping to push computing to new levels. It is full of practical advice, detailed explanations, and code examples to illustrate key topics.Data parallelism in C++ enables access to parallel resources in a modern
... Read more
The Jobs To Be Done Playbook

Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

by Jim Kalbach ...

"Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a step–by–step guide on how to put it into practice."—Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build TrapThese days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap. Focusing on customer needs isn't a nice–to–have, it's a strategic imperative.The ... Read more

$30.59 USD

"Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a step–by–step guide on how to put it into practice."—Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build TrapThese days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap. Focusing on customer needs isn't a nice–to–have, it's a strategic imperative.The
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Applied Text Analysis with Python

Enabling Language-Aware Data Products with Machine Learning

by Benjamin Bengfort, Rebecca Bilbro, Tony Ojeda ...

From news and speeches to informal chatter on social media, natural language is one of the richest and most underutilized sources of data. Not only does it come in a constant stream, always changing and adapting in context; it also contains information that is not conveyed by traditional data sources. The key to unlocking natural language is through the creative application of text analytics. This ... Read more

$41.09 USD

From news and speeches to informal chatter on social media, natural language is one of the richest and most underutilized sources of data. Not only does it come in a constant stream, always changing and adapting in context; it also contains information that is not conveyed by traditional data sources. The key to unlocking natural language is through the creative application of text analytics. This
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Semantic Modeling for Data

by Panos Alexopoulos ...

What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let’s say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold—but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics.In this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied ... Read more

$55.49 USD

What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let’s say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold—but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics.In this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied
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Programming Hive

Data Warehouse and Query Language for Hadoop

by Edward Capriolo, Dean Wampler, Jason Rutherglen ...

Need to move a relational database application to Hadoop? This comprehensive guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure. You’ll quickly learn how to use Hive’s SQL dialect—HiveQL—to summarize, query, and analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop’s distributed filesystem.This example-driven guide shows you how to set up and configure Hive in your environment, provides ... Read more

$24.49 USD

Need to move a relational database application to Hadoop? This comprehensive guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure. You’ll quickly learn how to use Hive’s SQL dialect—HiveQL—to summarize, query, and analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop’s distributed filesystem.This example-driven guide shows you how to set up and configure Hive in your environment, provides
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SQL for Data Analysis

Advanced Techniques for Transforming Data into Insights

by Cathy Tanimura ...

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions, ... Read more

$41.09 USD

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions,
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Python Data Science Handbook

Essential Tools for Working with Data

by Jake VanderPlas ...

Python is a first-class tool for many researchers, primarily because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data. Several resources exist for individual pieces of this data science stack, but only with the new edition of Python Data Science Handbook do you get them all--IPython, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, and other related tools.Working scientists and ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Python is a first-class tool for many researchers, primarily because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data. Several resources exist for individual pieces of this data science stack, but only with the new edition of Python Data Science Handbook do you get them all--IPython, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, and other related tools.Working scientists and
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Search Patterns

Design for Discovery

by Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender ...

What people are saying about Search Patterns"Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen." --Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google"I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways ... Read more

$23.09 USD

What people are saying about Search Patterns"Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen." --Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google"I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways
... Read more
Bottlenecks

Aligning UX Design with User Psychology

by David C. Evans ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The
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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites

by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane ...

There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the ... Read more

$28.79 USD

There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the
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Deep Learning from Scratch

Building with Python from First Principles

by Seth Weidman ...

With the resurgence of neural networks in the 2010s, deep learning has become essential for machine learning practitioners and even many software engineers. This book provides a comprehensive introduction for data scientists and software engineers with machine learning experience. You’ll start with deep learning basics and move quickly to the details of important advanced architectures, ... Read more

$41.09 USD

With the resurgence of neural networks in the 2010s, deep learning has become essential for machine learning practitioners and even many software engineers. This book provides a comprehensive introduction for data scientists and software engineers with machine learning experience. You’ll start with deep learning basics and move quickly to the details of important advanced architectures,
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SwiftUI for Masterminds 4th Edition

How to take advantage of Swift and SwiftUI to create insanely great apps for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

by J.D Gauchat ...

Learn how to create apps for iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma with Swift 5.9 and the SwiftUI framework.SwiftUI for Masterminds is a complete course on creating professional applications for iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. After reading this book, you will know how to program in Swift, how to design user interfaces, and how to combine traditional frameworks with SwiftUI's advanced features to create ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Learn how to create apps for iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma with Swift 5.9 and the SwiftUI framework.SwiftUI for Masterminds is a complete course on creating professional applications for iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. After reading this book, you will know how to program in Swift, how to design user interfaces, and how to combine traditional frameworks with SwiftUI's advanced features to create
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Data Science Essentials For Dummies

by Lillian Pierson ...

Feel confident navigating the fundamentals of data scienceData Science Essentials For Dummies is a quick reference on the core concepts of the exploding and in-demand data science field, which involves data collection and working on dataset cleaning, processing, and visualization. This direct and accessible resource helps you brush up on key topics and is right to the point—eliminating review ... Read more

$10.00 USD

Feel confident navigating the fundamentals of data scienceData Science Essentials For Dummies is a quick reference on the core concepts of the exploding and in-demand data science field, which involves data collection and working on dataset cleaning, processing, and visualization. This direct and accessible resource helps you brush up on key topics and is right to the point—eliminating review
... Read more
Generative Artificial Intelligence

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Jerry Kaplan ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman ... Read more

$10.49 USD

"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman
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GUI Design for Android Apps

by Ryan Cohen, Tao Wang ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices.This book is jointly developed for individual learning by ... Read more

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GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface design for Android apps running on the Intel platform, including smartphones, tablets and embedded devices.This book is jointly developed for individual learning by
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Learnability Isn’t Enough: How to Design Apps That Are Easy to Use in the Long Run, Not Just the First Run

by Hans van de Bruggen ...

Some UX problems are temporary**. Others are** permanent**.**This book provides a unique framework to proactively find and fix permanent sources of UI effort. This helps you create apps that are both easy to learn and efficient in long-term use.Whether you're a seasoned product & UX professional or just starting out, this book is your guide to elevating the everyday user experience, with practical ... Read more

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Some UX problems are temporary**. Others are** permanent**.**This book provides a unique framework to proactively find and fix permanent sources of UI effort. This helps you create apps that are both easy to learn and efficient in long-term use.Whether you're a seasoned product & UX professional or just starting out, this book is your guide to elevating the everyday user experience, with practical
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