Jeff Atwood

YOUR MIND IS NOW THE ULTIMATE GAMING ENGINE.Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself, is a collection of visionary author J. Theophrastus Bartholomew's most cherished mind-games, edited and updated by filmmaker and storyteller Sam Gorski and author D.F. Lovett. No peripherals needed. No controllers. No pens. No dice or boards. Everything...

Learn how to fight to the death utilizing the 100 most lethal kicks, shutos and blows known to the world's greatest karate masters. More than 100 dramatic photos cover snap kicks, heel kicks, vital points of the head and chest, shutos, palm heels, ridge hands and streetfighting with karate....

A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and red...

The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the new kid at school, the Great Brain alway...

This hardcover storybook collection features three Grumpy Cat Little Golden Books.Grumpy Cat has over 8 million Facebook followers, her own TV movie, a mobile game, plus her very own collection of Little Golden Books! Join this famous feline in three cat-tastic tales: The Little Grumpy Cat That Wouldn't, A Is for Awful, and Yawn!: A Grumpy Cat Bedt...

Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell's original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leading-edge practices--and hundreds of new code samples--illustrating the art and science of software con...

Peopleware asserts that most software development projects fail because of failures within the team running them. This strikingly clear, direct book is written for software development-team leaders and managers, but it's filled with enough commonsense wisdom to appeal to anyone working in technology. Authors Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister include p...

Technology isn't only the way of the future, but also the way of today. With electronics, computer chips, transmitters, and so on finding their into the most common of household and office environments, most people find that they really don't know very much about the technological advances they use. They need their phones, cameras, computers, and c...

With a new afterword by the authorReturn once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy ...

Straight from the trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process: transforming a requirement into working, maintainable code that delights users. Extensively updated with ten new sections and major revisions through...

The three editions of "About Face" have shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design, bringing it from the research labs into every day lexicon and development. The fourth edition of this groundbreaking book will be no less game changing.The 4th edition of "About Face "is the most significant revision yet, with a new unique design and 4-c...