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Get Long-Term Smart About Your Retirement
Author Gregory Salsbury - Ph.D.
This Element is an excerpt from Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy (9780132613859) by Gregory Salsbury, Ph.D.. Available in print and digital formats.Discover the top ten top-of-mind takeaways for effective retirement planning.When you’r....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Doing Things Right and Wrong What Matters: Excellence and Relevance
Author Inder Sidhu
This Element is an excerpt from Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth (9780137083640) by Inder Sidhu. Available in print and digital formats.Why successful innovation requires both excellence and relevance--and how to achieve t....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical, Real-World Approach, Second Edition
Author Christopher Hallinan
Up-to-the-Minute, Complete Guidance for Developing Embedded Solutions with LinuxLinux has emerged as today’s #1 operating system for embedded products. Christopher Hallinan’s Embedded Linux Primer has proven itself as the definitive real-world guide to building effi....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 24
Author Mark Frauenfelder
MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our Space Exploration issue. DIY satellites! Radio telescopy! Sub-orbital rocketry! Renegade NASA hackers! Bouncing signals off the moon! Of course, as usual, we've got a full payload of other cool DIY projects to keep you bu....
Release Date 2010/10 -
The Top 10 Things You Must Know About Saving for the Future
Author Gregory Karp
Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!Improve your finances forever, through 10 easy steps you can take right now!The wonderful se....
Release Date 2010/11 -
The Top 10 Things You Must Know About Negotiations
Author Leigh Thompson
Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!10 ways to make sure you’re ready for any negotiation–big or small, business or personal, an....
Release Date 2010/11 -
The Top 10 Things You Must Know to Gain (and Keep) Personal Credibility
Author Sandy Allgeier
Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now! Ten practical, realistic ways to build (or rebuild) your personal credibility.When others ....
Release Date 2010/11 -
The Top 10 Things You Must Know to Psych Yourself Rich
Author Farnoosh Torabi
Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!Ten quick, powerful ways to start psyching yourself rich--today!We’re a culture that desires....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Demystifying Embedded Systems Middleware
Author Tammy Noergaard
This practical technical guide to embedded middleware implementation offers a coherent framework that guides readers through all the key concepts necessary to gain an understanding of this broad topic. It integrates big picture theoretical discussion with dow....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems
Author Nemai Chandra Karmakar
The Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems is a single comprehensive reference on the smart antenna technologies applied to RFID. This book will provide a timely reference book for researchers and students in the areas of both smart antennas and RFID technologi....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author Matthew Crowley
This book is an in-depth guide to writing applications that embrace and extend the new features and capabilities of Windows Internet Explorer 8 and 9. With solid instruction, hands-on examples, and expert insight direct from the source into extending the browser, yo....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author David Erik Nelson
Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred is a geeky toy-making and craft book, stuffed with projects like sewing a stuffed sock squid, building a steam-powered milk-carton boat, soldering an oversized joy buzzer, and crafting working boomerangs. Readers create board games, musical....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C
Author Bruce Powel Douglass
A recent survey stated that 52% of embedded projects are late by 4-5 months. This book can help get those projects in on-time with design patterns. The author carefully takes into account the special concerns found in designing and developing embedded applicat....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
Author Dustyn Roberts
Get Your Move On!In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creat....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming: Applications and Technology
Author Chuka D. Okoye , N. Balakrishnan , Vir V. Phoha , Nandan Parameshwaran , S. Sitharam
This book provides the basics needed to develop sensor network software and supplements it with many case studies covering network applications. It also examines how to develop onboard applications on individual sensors, how to interconnect these sensors, and how to....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Winning Design!: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition
Author James J. Trobaugh
Winning Design! LEGO Mindstorms NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition is about design that works. It's about building with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT for fun, for education, but especially for competition. Author James Trobaugh is an experienced coach and leader in ....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Author Michael McRoberts
In Beginning Arduino you will learn all about the popular Arduino microcontroller by working your way through an amazing set of 50 cool projects. You'll progress from a complete beginner regarding Arduino programming and electronics knowledge to intermediate skills....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Beginning Google SketchUp for 3D Printing
Author Sandeep Singh
3D-printing and personal fabrication are upon us! You've heard of incredibly sophisticated, but cheap, 3D printers that supposedly produce almost anything we tell them to. But how do you become part of that revolution?Sandeep Singh takes you through the skills we n....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Author Pearson Certification
Learn about computers and networks from the ground up and take your first step toward certification and your successful computer career! No experience is necessary: Computer Structure and Logic explains every part of your computer, shows how the parts work together,....
Release Date 2011/01 -
Author David Lindsay , Gareth Heyes , Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava , Mario Heiderich
Web applications are used every day by millions of users, which is why they are one of the most popular vectors for attackers. Obfuscation of code has allowed hackers to take one attack and create hundreds-if not millions-of variants that can evade your security mea....
Release Date 2011/01 -
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 25
Author Mark Frauenfelder
MAKE Volume 25 is all about the Arduino Revolution!Give your gadgets a brain! Previously out of reach for the do-it-yourselfer, the tiny computers called microcontrollers are now so cheap and easy to use that anyone can make their stuff smart. With a microcontroll....
Release Date 2011/01 -
Fully Charged: How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization's Energy and Ignite High Performance
Author Bernd Vogel , Heike Bruch
As you're well aware, your individual energy ebbs and flows--leading to high and low productivity cycles. Fail to manage your energy correctly, and you risk falling into traps including inertia, complacency, and frenzied, unfocused activity that only erodes the qua....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets
Author Kimmo Karvinen , Tero Karvinen
Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, or make your own cell phone applications? It's a snap with this book and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform. Get started with six fun projects and ....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Author Michael Margolis
Create your own toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, robots, and many other projects with the Arduino device. This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with the physical world....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Robot Builder's Bonanza, 4th Edition, 4th Edition
Author Gordon McComb
The Bestselling Robotics Book--Now with New Projects and Online Tools! "Amazing...should be required reading for any budding robot builder!" -GeekDad, Wired.com Have fun while learning how to design, construct, and use small robots! This richly illustrated guide of....
Release Date 2011/04 -
The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M0
Author Joseph Yiu
The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M0 is a guide for users of ARM Cortex-M0 microcontrollers. It presents many examples to make it easy for novice embedded-software developers to use the full 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 processor. It provides an overview of ARM a....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Programmable Logic Controllers, 4th Edition
Author William Bolton
This is the introduction to PLCs for which baffled students, technicians and managers have been waiting. In this straightforward, easy-to-read guide, Bill Bolton has kept the jargon to a minimum, considered all the programming methods in the standard IEC 1131-....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Author Timothy Stapko
The great strides made over the past decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications. However, this exp....
Release Date 2011/04