The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework

Over 200 Tying Techniques with Step-by-Step Photographs



Southwater | English | 2010 | ISBN-10: 1844768910 | 256 pages | PDF | 79.4 MB
I tie knots for about 25% of my job, so it has been an interest to learn different techniques and history. To my suprise when I read this, I found what USA knows as a square knot the rest of the world calls a reef knot. European square knot is a different knot. Same with many more knots. Anyway great read and shows uses for rope I never thought of. Easy to follow and has info for natural/synthetic cordage of all types. Neat. Book is large, contains more photos then text, and includes some but not much history of each knot. This is a good book whether you are trying to keep your shoes tied(square(reef)),making a coveted Diamond hitch, or the feared but utilitarian hangmans noose.

-- Step-by-step instructions for over 200 different knots, bends, hitches, loops, plaits and whippings
-- Clear photographs show in detail each stage of tying every knot
-- Fascinating facts about the history and origins of knots, from the Neolithic age when the reef knot, clove hitch and running noose were used, through to the most up-to-date knots and knotting techniques
-- A clear and indispensable guide to the variety of cords and ropes to use, their breaking strengths, construction and application
-- Each knot is clearly identified by category from angling to boating, caving to climbing, general purpose and outdoor pursuits
-- Over 1,200 colour photographs

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The HR Toolkit : An Indispensible Resource for Being a Credible Activist

M- Gr.w.H.ll (March 19, 2010) | English | ISBN: 0071700811 | 353 pages | PDF
Resolve any HR issue in a snap!

Solving office problems before they escalate marks the difference between success and failure for any HR professional. The HR Toolkit provides what you need to resolve every imaginable challenge— saving your company time and money.

With a handy indexed listing of the most common workplace conflicts and solutions, The HR Toolkit offers simple, actionable techniques you can start using right away. In no time, you’ll be an expert on every issue and situation you face, including:

• Conflict resolution
• Performance management
• Job design
• Employee selection
• Workplace culture
• Codes of ethics
• Medical leave
• Fair labor standards
• Workplace Violence and Bullying
• Competitive Corporate Governance

The HR Toolkit packs everything you need into one handy volume to help you increase both productivity and your company’s bottom line by solving problems with diplomacy and skill.

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The Home Security Handbook

241 pages | How To Books Ltd (November 25, 2007) | English | ISBN-10: 1845280245 | PDF | 9,8 MB
Surveys have revealed that when asked what people worry most about for themselves and their family 45 per cent of them said 'CRIME'. Crime statistics certainly indicate that people have good reason to worry: A burglary takes place on average every 30 seconds in the UK. Alarming though this and other statistics may be, this book will show you how you can use them to reduce the risk of becoming a crime statistic yourself. It will teach you how to audit and review your home and lifestyle, to identify a range of vulnerabilities, threats and risks and then show you how to provide effective countermeasures to avoid the threat and reduce the risk. The countermeasures suggested are designed to be realistic, achievable at minimal cost and effort and simple enough to be introduced or implemented by the average person.

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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better



240 pages | Random House Trade (September 9, 2008) | English | ISBN-10: 0812975278 | PDF
Your body has a mind of its own. You know it’s true. You can sense it, even though it may be hard to articulate. You know that your body is more than a vehicle for your brain to cruise around in, but how deeply are mind and body truly interwoven?

Answers can be found in the emerging science of body maps. Just as road maps represent interconnections across the landscape, your many body maps represent all aspects of your bodily self. Your self doesn’t begin and end with your physical body but extends into the space around you. When you drive a car, your personal body space grows to envelop it. When you play a video game, your body maps automatically track and emulate the actions of your character onscreen. If your body maps fall out of sync, you may have an out-of-body experience or see auras around other people.

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own explains how you can tap into the power of body maps to do almost anything better: play tennis, strum a guitar, ride a horse, dance a waltz, empathize with a friend, raise children, cope with stress. Filled with illustrations, wonderful anecdotes, and even parlor tricks that you can use to reconfigure your body sense, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own will change the way you think about what it takes to have a conscious mind inside a feeling body.

Praise for The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

“You’ll never think about your body–or your mind–in the same way again.”
–Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence

“A fascinating exploration of senses we didn’t even know we had.”
–Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses

“A delightfully original, understandable, and mind-stretching work.”
–William Safire, columnist, The New York Times Magazine

“A marvelous book.”
–V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego

“[An] accessible, practical overview of an important scientific story.”
–Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes

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Shove It, FizzBuzz: How to Find and Land a .NET Development Job

Publisher: shoveitfizzbuzz.com | ISBN: n/a | edition 2010 | PDF | 236 pages
This book teaches you the five traits every successful developer should possess, gives tips on how to improve your overall marketability, teaches you how to write an effective resume, and prepares you for a technical interview. It will tell you the tidbits of information that developers usually don't discover until many years into their careers.

This 200+ page eBook (PDF) that teaches you how to find and land the software development (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET) job you want (and will make you a better developer in the process).

The book also contains tips on improving your overall developer marketability, 110+ technical questions (with answers), plus general interview questions, puzzle questions, and lots more. You will feel like a senior developer after reading this book.


What will I learn?

* The five traits that every successful developer should possess.
* The best places to find .NET development jobs.
* How to dramatically increase your chances by doing one thing that HR does not want you to do.
* How to write a professional resume that will knock 'em dead.
* Secret techniques for getting more interviews.
* The one word that can boost your chances of success by up to 94%.
* The questions to ask them to determine if the job would be a good fit for you.

And lots more, including tons of technical information regarding programming and .NET!

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Mining the Social Web (2011)

Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites



360 pages | O'Reilly Media (February 1, 2011) | English | ISBN-10: 1449388345 | PDF | 4,9 MB
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they’re talking about, or where they’re located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you find what you've been looking for in the social haystack, as well as useful information you didn't know existed.

Each standalone chapter introduces techniques for mining data in different areas of the social Web, including blogs and email. All you need to get started is a programming background and a willingness to learn basic Python tools.

* Get a straightforward synopsis of the social web landscape
* Use adaptable scripts on GitHub to harvest data from social network APIs such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
* Learn how to employ easy-to-use Python tools to slice and dice the data you collect
* Explore social connections in microformats with the XHTML Friends Network
* Apply advanced mining techniques such as TF-IDF, cosine similarity, collocation analysis, document summarization, and clique detection
* Build interactive visualizations with web technologies based upon HTML5 and JavaScript toolkits

"Let Matthew Russell serve as your guide to working with social data sets old (email, blogs) and new (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook). Mining the Social Web is a natural successor to Programming Collective Intelligence: a practical, hands-on approach to hacking on data from the social Web with Python."
--Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist, Cloudera

"A rich, compact, useful, practical introduction to a galaxy of tools, techniques, and theories for exploring structured and unstructured data."
--Alex Martelli, Senior Staff Engineer, Google

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Switch : How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Random House Audio (16 Feb 2010) | English | ISBN-10: 0739376969 | Audio MP3 | 424 MB
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict thats built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems, the rational mind and the emotional mind, that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.

In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
* The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
* The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
* The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
* In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.

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