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Build the Strength Within: Create the Blueprint for Your Best Life Yet
by Deborah CarlinWhen you get lost, you feel awful. And finding your way through life's morass can be difficult-even impossible. Do you feel weak, tired, and powerless? Dr. Deb Carlin is here to guide you. We all possess strength, inner fortitude, and confidence, but often lack the capacity to truly utilize them. Build the Strength Within can help you make the most of your abilities, find joy, and reap the rewards of your success. Renowned psychologist, business consultant, and author Dr. Deb Carlin is known for guiding clients-both organizations and individuals-to achieve the critical integration of their personal and professional lives. By blending her personal experiences with clients and scientific data and theories that underscore the importance of a clear and intentional life plan, Carlin provides the necessary tools and exercises to turn your life around. Through a series of eleven self-assessments, readers formulate their own individual plans of action and create a unique, customizable Blueprint for a Successfully Intentional & Integrated Life. This step-by-step process enables the reader to map, build, and realize an ideal existence. Learn to build the strength within, and create your blueprint for your best life yet.
Build This Bong: Instructions and Diagrams for 40 Bongs, Pipes, and Hookahs
by Randy StrattonConstruct your own smoking devices—from simple to elaborate—with easily obtained materials. Includes bonus instructions for making your own vaporizer! The first book ever to feature detailed directions for bongs, pipes, hookahs, and more, Build This Bong brings both the classics and entirely original showstoppers to the home workshop. Projects of all sorts—from a standard gravity bong to a rubber ducky hookah and a state-of-the art vaporizer—come to life with Popular Mechanics-inspired illustrations and simple instructions. No fancy materials necessary: handyman Randy Stratton shows how to construct everything from common household goods. Build This Bong’s forty inventive projects—made from melons, coconuts, snow-globes, teapots, and more—are sure to be a big, mind-blowing hit.
Build The Ultimate Watch Collection
by Jason HeatonIf you've been bitten by the watch-collecting bug, Jason Heaton's book is here to help you identify what you're looking for and strategize your collection. In seven chapters, Heaton introduces the key watch categories and reveals the most perfect example of each type. Your watch collection begins here.
The Build Up: The Build Up
by Martin W. BowmanFor the Allies as well as Germany, it will be the longest day'. So said Field Marshall Erwin Rommel of the operations on D-Day; and he was correct. This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and comprehensive five-part work that includes a multitude of personal military and civilian accounts of the aerial operations which were carried out on D-Day. At fifteen minutes after midnight on 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Hitlers Festung Europe, became reality. The logistics of landing almost 250,000 men by amphibious craft seems almost unimaginable, yet a massive aerial umbrella of 3,000 RAF and USAAF fighters, fighter-bombers and heavy bombers, headed for France and more than 1,000 transport aircraft dropped more than 17.000 paratroopers to secure the flanks and beach exits of the assault area. Air superiority in the invasion areas was total. It was a day that changed the whole course of the war and resulted in the first steps to final victory in Europe. Copious quotes from American and British and Dominion forces, fighting men, sailors, airmen from the occupied countries and their German opponents, tell of incredible, illuminating and often under-stated actions of extraordinary courage, companionship and a common fear of death or serious injury which offer a more personalized view of D-Day. This first volume sets an impressive precedent for the rest of the series.
The Build Up to the Beginning: Volume 1 (Air War Market Garden Ser. #1)
by Martin W. BowmanThis is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and accurate four part work that uniquely presents a complete account of the air operations throughout Market-Garden in September 1944 when British, US and Polish airborne troops made a gallant attempt to seize and hold bridges across the Lower Rhine in Holland as a springboard for crossing into Germany. Market, the aerial side of the proceedings, was at the time the largest airborne operation in history. In this unprecedented and insightful account, the exploits of the First Allied Airborne Army are relayed in full detail; supplemented with historical notes regarding the ground operations, this is sure to offer an unparalleled account of the events as they unfolded in the skies above Holland.If successful, the war could be over by Christmas. What could go wrong? That it did and on such a massive scale is the underlying theme throughout this series. The action was at times very confused, so a narrative of events contained in sixteen timelines at intervals throughout this series cuts through the fog of battle to explain the situation from its over-optimistic beginning to the tragic conclusion.
Build Websites with Hugo: Fast Web Development With Markdown
by Brian P. HoganDatabase-driven sites bring complexity you might not need, but building a site by hand is too much work. Hugo is a static site generator and web development framework that creates content sites quickly without the overhead or dependencies of a dyanmic web framework. With Hugo, you use HTML templates and Markdown to build static sites you can host anywhere, letting you use the skills you already have. Develop your own theme using standard HTML and CSS, using Hugo’s powerful templating features to organize your site’s components. Create your site’s content with HTML or Markdown and use Hugo’s content templating features to build new content quickly. Build a fully-featured blog with archive pages, tagging, and pagination, and integrate an external commenting system to provide interactivity. Use data from front-matter, site-wide configuration, and external JSON sources to add content, and generate JSON others can use. Integrate JavaScript with your site to create a search engine. Get Hugo working with Webpack so you can leverage the wider web development ecosystem, and explore ways to publish your site to various services. Finally, learn how you can move your existing content site to Hugo. Dive in and build your next site with Hugo!
Build Windows® 8 Apps with Microsoft® Visual C#® and Visual Basic® Step by Step
by Paolo Pialorsi Roberto Brunetti Luca Regnicoli<div><p>NOTE: This book is based on Windows 8 Release Preview; its content and publication date will be updated for final Windows 8 software.\n</p><p>Teach yourself how to build Windows 8 applications using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.5 with Microsoft Visual C# 2012 or Visual Basic 2012—one step at a time. Ideal for those with intermediate to advanced .NET development skills, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating apps that easily adapt to different screen sizes—including desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and slates.</p></div>
Build Windows® 8 Apps with Microsoft® Visual C++® Step by Step
by Paolo Pialorsi Roberto Brunetti Luca RegnicoliYour hands-on, step-by-step guide to building Windows 8 apps with Microsoft® Visual C++® Teach yourself how to build Windows 8 applications using the Visual C++ language--one step at a time. Ideal for those with intermediate to advanced C++ development skills, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating apps that can adapt to different screen sizes--including desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and slates. Discover how to: Build apps using Windows 8 design guidelines Explore the Windows 8 application architecture Apply tools and libraries from Microsoft® Visual Studio® and the Windows 8 SDK Use XAML to create touch-optimized user interfaces Create apps that make use of device sensors Manage the Windows 8 application lifecycle Prepare your app for the Windows Store
Build Your Argument (Super Quick Skills)
by David RushTrying to make sense of making an argument? This straightforward book breaks down how to build a convincing argument for any type of assessment. Find out what an academic argument is – and what it is not Develop a toolkit for structuring an argument effectively Learn how to use evidence and counterarguments to back up your position. Super Quick Skills provide the essential building blocks you need to succeed at university - fast. Packed with practical, positive advice on core academic and life skills, you&’ll discover focused tips and strategies to use straight away. Whether it&’s writing great essays, understanding referencing or managing your wellbeing, find out how to build good habits and progress your skills throughout your studies. Learn core skills quickly Apply right away and see results Succeed in your studies and life. Super Quick Skills give you the foundations you need to confidently navigate the ups and downs of university life.
Build Your Argument (Super Quick Skills)
by David RushTrying to make sense of making an argument? This straightforward book breaks down how to build a convincing argument for any type of assessment. Find out what an academic argument is – and what it is not Develop a toolkit for structuring an argument effectively Learn how to use evidence and counterarguments to back up your position. Super Quick Skills provide the essential building blocks you need to succeed at university - fast. Packed with practical, positive advice on core academic and life skills, you&’ll discover focused tips and strategies to use straight away. Whether it&’s writing great essays, understanding referencing or managing your wellbeing, find out how to build good habits and progress your skills throughout your studies. Learn core skills quickly Apply right away and see results Succeed in your studies and life. Super Quick Skills give you the foundations you need to confidently navigate the ups and downs of university life.
Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules: A Literary Agent's Guide to Growing Your Audience in 14 Steps
by Michael Mccallister Carole JelenA great book is no longer enough. An author platform is the most powerful key to success in today's saturated market, and increasingly, publishers are demanding that new authors come to them with an existing audience of interested followers. Authors who are self-publishing have an even bigger need to build an engaged audience.Social media makes building the author platform easier than ever, but, unfortunately, most authors struggle to get it right. How can authors create their unique platform, connect with followers, write a manuscript, and grow their business?In Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules, top literary agent Carole Jelen and tech expert Michael McCallister apply their combined 35 years of expertise to outline 14 practical, hands-on steps to create a presence that will produce high book sales and expanded audience.From pre-publication through book launch and beyond, authors will learn how to:* Define goals and a unique brand* Employ successful website strategies, content, social presence, media authority, and training* Secure positive reviews* Attract viewers efficiently without costFilled with detailed lessons, examples, success stories, and techniques used by marketing departments at major publishers, Build Your Author Platform is an indispensable guide for anyone looking for insight into publishing, promoting, and marketing books.
Build Your Brain Power: The Art of Smart Thinking
by Simon Wootton Terry HorneThis new edition of a popular guide to improving your mental agility will help you improve your performance at work and sharpen your thinking skills in all areas. Based on the latest scientific findings and including up-to-date coverage of how meditative skills such as mindfulness can enhance your brain power, this book gives you everything you need to get a mental edge. It challenges you to think on your feet with hundreds of puzzles, quizzes and problem-solving games, while giving you lifestyle advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle choices. Showing you how to put your new, more powerful brain to the test at work, home and play, this is a smart guide for any smart professional who wants to be brighter, quicker and in the lead at all times.
Build Your Brain Power: The Art of Smart Thinking
by Simon Wootton Terry HorneThis new edition of a popular guide to improving your mental agility will help you improve your performance at work and sharpen your thinking skills in all areas.Based on the latest scientific findings and including up-to-date coverage of how meditative skills such as mindfulness can enhance your brain power, this book gives you everything you need to get a mental edge.It challenges you to think on your feet with hundreds of puzzles, quizzes and problem-solving games, while giving you lifestyle advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle choices. Showing you how to put your new, more powerful brain to the test at work, home and play, this is a smart guide for any smart professional who wants to be brighter, quicker and in the lead at all times.
Build Your Business In 90 Minutes A Day
by Nigel Botterill Martin GladdishA super practical guide to building a successful business by spending ninety minutes a day on the stuff that really matters. Have you got a brilliant business idea, but are not sure how to find the time to start making it a reality? Or perhaps you have your dream up and running but you need help to grow? Join best-selling author and multi-award winning entrepreneur, Nigel Botterill, and his co-author Martin Gladdish, as they explore the history, wisdom and uncanny natural phenomena that surrounds each 90 minute chunk of time that we live in and equip you with the tools to think big, grow fast and build your successful business in those 90-minute chunks! Build Your Business in 90 Minutes A Day reveals lessons from the true stories of everyday entrepreneurs who dedicate 90 minutes a day to building their success. Woven amongst these inspirational tales are the remarkable accounts of world-changing events from English history, space and popular culture, that were determined in just 90 minutes. Amidst pages of startling science fact surrounding this magical number, you will learn just how powerful it can be when applied to your life. An hour and a half will never seem quite the same again. Nigel has built eight separate million pound+ businesses from scratch and won a shed full of awards in the process. No one knows better than him what it takes to build big businesses fast! Designed to be read in just 90 minutes (plus a few extra bits) Packed with tools to help you think big, grow fast and build a successful business A mixture of wisdom, teaching and success stories from Nigel Botterill and the entrepreneurs he has helped
Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals
by Paula CaligiuriThe investment in global collaboration technology now exceeds US$45 billion. Professionals who work across cultures face some of the most cognitively, psychologically and emotionally difficult challenges, regardless of whether they work virtually or in person. And they often face these challenges without the help of a corporate guide. Build Your Cultural Agility is that guide. This book offers strategies to help you develop into a successful global professional, one who can comfortably and effectively work in and with people from different cultures. This book helps you leverage your natural strengths while providing suggestions for developing cultural agility competencies. Build Your Cultural Agility focuses on nine specific competencies that comprise cultural agility: three self-management competencies (tolerance of ambiguity, curiosity and resilience), three relationship-management competencies (humility, relationship-building and perspective-taking) and three task-management competencies (cultural minimization, cultural adaptation and cultural integration). Within each chapter, the author provides a case example of that competency in action, explains why the competency is critical for success, offers a self-awareness exercise to help you determine your level of proficiency and concludes with suggestions for self-development.
Build Your Dream Home for Less
by R. Dodge WoodsonReaders learn how to be their own general contractors and save money on every aspect of home-building, without compromising quality. Walk, with Woodson, step-by-step through the building process from site selection to finish trim. Includes an appendix of sample forms and contracts.
Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World
by Kelly HoeyCut through the networking noise and start building the powerful, real relationships needed to succeed in our digital world If you think of networking as schmoozing at boring cocktail parties or scrolling through LinkedIn for new contacts to add, think again. In the social media age, you need a modern roadmap for creating and cultivating meaningful connections to stand out from the crowd and achieve any of your goals, no matter how big or small. In Build Your Dream Network, acclaimed business columnist and networking expert J. Kelly Hoey offers a fresh new approach to mastering this timeworn skill in a world where everyone is posting, liking, and friending fast and furiously, but many are failing to leverage their connections successfully. Hoey presents innovative strategies for forming strong relationships—the genuine, mutually beneficial, long-lasting kind—using all of the social tools at your disposal. She also reveals creative and surprisingly simple ways to harness the power of your network to accomplish any ambition, from landing your dream job or a coveted account or client to successfully crowdfunding a new business venture. Build Your Dream Network will help you: • Determine the most effective ways to connect with others so you don’t clutter your calendar with dead-end coffee dates and informational interviews • Synchronize IRL networking efforts with your digital outreach • Turn “closed door” conversations into strong personal relationships and business opportunities • Eliminate FOMO by keeping your networking efforts focused Packed with infographics, flowcharts, and encouraging advice, Build Your Dream Network shows how small adjustments in your daily routine, generosity, and goal-focused efforts are all it takes to set you apart and ignite the powerful connections that will lead to major opportunities for success.
Build Your Dreams: How To Make a Living Doing What You Love
by Alexis Irvin Chip HidenFive-stage framework for 20-somethings seeking passionate work, to discover their dream jobs and make a living doing what they love.
Build Your Family Bank
by Emily Griffiths-HamiltonWhy do 70 percent of wealth transition plans fail? This is the question that Emily Griffiths-Hamilton sets out to answer in Build Your Family Bank, a book that looks closely at the core causes of wealth erosion and failed transition plans and offers a set of strategies for building successful wealth transition plans that will benefit many generations.
Build Your First Ethereum DApp
by Bruno SkvorcIn this book we'll walk through the creation of a complete distributed application (DApp) based on the Ethereum platform. We'll be building The Neverending Story, a crowdsourced choose-your-own-adventure story with crowd curation and community censorship. This book is for anyone interested in using the Ethereum platform for development. It's advised that you read The Developer's Guide to Ethereum before reading this book if you are not familiar with blockchain technology.
Build Your Music Career From Scratch
by Andrae Alexander Lisa D. KastnerA Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming a Successful Artist with tactical and strategic guidance. A how-to with personal anecdotes and experiences to reinforce the techniques and guidance.
Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games: Using HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL
by Jebediah Pavleas Kelvin Sung Fernando Arnez Jason PaceBuild Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games teaches you how to develop your own web-based game engine step-by-step, allowing you to create a wide variety of online videogames that can be played in common web browsers. Chapters include examples and projects that gradually increase in complexity while introducing a ground-up design framework, providing you with the foundational concepts needed to build fun and engaging 2D games. By the end of this book you will have created a complete prototype level for a side scrolling action platform game and will be prepared to begin designing additional levels and games of your own. This book isolates and presents relevant knowledge from software engineering, computer graphics, mathematics, physics, game development, game mechanics, and level design in the context of building a 2D game engine from scratch. The book then derives and analyzes the source code needed to implement these concepts based on HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL. After completing the projects you will understand the core-concepts and implementation details of a typical 2D game engine and you will be familiar with a design and prototyping methodology you can use to create game levels and mechanics that are fun and engaging for players. You will gain insights into the many ways software design and creative design must work together to deliver the best game experiences, and you will have access to a versatile 2D game engine that you can expand upon or utilize directly to build your own 2D games that can be played online from anywhere. What you'll learn * Understand essential concepts for building 2D games * Understand basic architecture of 2D game engines * Understand illumination models in 2D games * Understand basic physics in 2D games * Understand how these core concepts affect game design and game play * Be able to build simple 2D game engines * Be able to design and develop 2D interactive games that are fun to play Who this book is for Build your own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games is perfect for game enthusiasts, hobbyists, and anyone who is interested in building interactive games but is unsure of how to begin. Build your own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games can also serve as a textbook for a Junior- or Senior-level "Introduction to Game Engine" elective course in a Computer Science department. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introducing 2D Game Engine Development with JavaScript Chapter 2: Working with HTML5 and WebGL Chapter 3: Drawing Objects in the World Chapter 4: Implementing Common Components of Video Games Chapter 5: Working with Textures, Sprites, and Fonts Chapter 6: Defining Behaviors and Detecting Collisions Chapter 7: Manipulating the Camera Chapter 8: Implementing Illumination and Shadows Chapter 9: Building the Game Engine Architecture Chapter 10: Understanding and Supporting Game States Chapter 11: Building A Sample Game: from design to complete
Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games: Using HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL2
by Kelvin Sung Jebediah Pavleas Matthew Munson Jason PaceDevelop a 2D game engine that will give you the experience and core understanding of foundational concepts for building complex and fun 2D games that can be played across the Internet via popular web browsers. This book is organized so that the chapters follow logical steps of building a game engine and integrates concepts accordingly. Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games isolates and presents relevant concepts from software engineering, computer graphics, mathematics, physics, game development and game design in the context of building a 2D game engine from scratch. In this edition, all the code is based on updated versions of JavaScript with HTML5 and WebGL2: you will analyze the source code needed to create a game engine that is suitable for implementing typical casual 2D videogames. You will also learn about physics and particle system. The discussion of physics component includes rotations and popular physical materials such as wood, mud, and ice. The discussion of particle component has popular presets such as fire, smoke, and dust. By the end of the book, you will understand the core concepts and implementation details of a typical 2D game engine, learn insights into how these concepts affect game design and game play, and have access to a versatile 2D game engine that they can expand upon or utilize to build their own 2D games from scratch with HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL2. What You Will Learn Understand essential concepts for building 2D gamesGrasp the basic architecture of 2D game enginesUnderstand illumination models in 2D gamesLearn basic physics used in 2D gamesFind out how these core concepts affect game design and game playLearn to design and develop 2D interactive games Who Is This Book For Game enthusiasts, hobbyists, and anyone with little to no experience who are interested in building interactive games but are unsure of how to begin. This can also serve as a textbook for a junior- or senior-level "Introduction to Game Engine" course in a Computer Science department.
Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB, 4th Edition: Using C# & VB
by Timmothy Posey Wyatt Barnett Cristian DarieBuild Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB is aimed at beginner ASP.NET developers wanting to develop their skills, web designers wanting to move into server-side programming, and experienced developers making the leap from ASP to .NET.Readers will learn:language and programming basicshow to construct ASP.Net Web Pageshow to build web applicationsto use validation controlsdatabase design and developmenthow to use ADO.NEThow to manage data and contenthow to integrate Ajax and jQuerythe role of MVC... all in the process of successfully developing and deploying a working intranet site for a fictional company.
Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET
by Zak RuvalcabaA tutorial style book for absolute beginners that walks readers through an introduction to databases and programming concepts and then shows them how to build practical applications using Microsoft's technology. Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET guides readers through obtaining, installing and configuring all the necessary software to develop dynamic Websites. Then, it takes readers step-by-step through the process of creating full-blown, practical applications including an intranet, shopping cart with Paypal credit card processing and more. Throughout, the book focuses on best-practice code, ensuring application security and creating professional error handling routines. Unlike most beginner books, SitePoint allow readers to choose between two programming languages, VB.NET or c#, when creating any of the applications in the book.