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Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL. If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of ... Read more
My friend, I believe that God wants us to reign in life every single day! Reigning in life should be a continuous thing, and it comes by receiving a fresh revelation of God's love and grace every single day. Therefore, with this desire to help precious believers who have been impacted by God's grace to continue to walk in His undeserved favor in a practical way, I have put together this series of daily devotionals. In this fast-paced age of computers, cell phones, PDAs, the Internet ... Read more
It costs us not to look our best! Dressing poorly costs us interviews, first impressions, money . . . and a whole lot more. But you can look good all the time, asserts Amy E. Goodman, the magazine maven and style expert who’s a regular on NBC’s Today show. Her one-stop fashion and beauty book cuts through the information overload to teach you how to dress to impress whatever your age, lifestyle, or size—while staying true to yourself and your budget. Who can afford clothes and makeup that don’t ... Read more
You know that Ubuntu software costs nothing. Now you want the PC system that costs as little as possible and runs Ubuntu and OS applications without complaints and calls to tech support. So you spend your hard–earned dollars on the hardware only and have your own optimized Ubuntu PC. This is the book that will show you how to get what you need without wreaking havoc on your finances. Put together the parts to make a great work computer for little cost. Packed with the practical, ... Read more
With over 100,000 iPhone applications and 125,000 registered iPhone developers, is it still possible to create a top-selling app that stands apart from the six-figure crowd? Of course, but you’ll need more than a great idea and flawless code—an eye-catching and functional user interface design is essential. With this book, you’ll get practical advice on user interface design from 10 innovative developers who, like you, have sat wondering how to best utilize the iPhone’s minimal screen real ... Read more
With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescence While she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds." Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and embarrassment comes flooding back. Though she is determined to gain the weight for the health of her babies--even if it means ... Read more
Guest Review: Steve Berry on Altar of Eden by James Rollins I first started to hate James Rollins in 1999. That was when I picked up a paperback original called Subterranean, Rollins' first book. While I was struggling even to write a manuscript, this veterinarian out in California had actually done it and sold the thing. I hated him. Over the next few years, I would wander into a bookstore and discover that the 'vet from Sacramento' had written more stories. I read ... Read more
Terry Brooks Reviews The Red Wolf Conspiracy Terry Brooks is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the Genesis of Shannara novel Armageddon’s Children; The Sword of Shannara; the High Druid of Shannara trilogy: Jarka Ruus, Tanequil, and Straken; and the nonfiction book Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life. His novels Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word were selected by the Rocky Mountain News as two of ... Read more
Amazon.com Exclusive: Joe Laitin and Warren Beatty Excerpted InterviewExcerpt and photographs courtesy of the author, Suzanne Finstad, by permission of Peter Laitin.Beatty with Joe LaitinJL: There apparently aren't that many people who really know you anyway. I don't know whether you deliberately keep people at arm's length. I suppose you do...WB: I am finding more and more that it's really very hard to please a lot of people. And I would say it's impossible. And so I ... Read more
Amazon Exclusive: Jennifer Mascia on Never Tell Our Business to Strangers Connie Corleone I’m not. That’s what I have to remind people whenever I tell them that my father worked for the Mafia and their eyes light up. Because, while my father may have been a freelancer of sorts for the Gambino clan, he was more of a brokester than a mobster. What is a brokester, you ask? According to William K. Rashbaum of the New York Times, "The impoverished gangster barely eking ... Read more
Rachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, childless?a train wreck. After an ex-boyfriend breaks into her home and vandalizes it, Resnick takes the time to look back over her romantic and sexual history to ask the question: What is wrong with me? Her addiction to sex and love has cost her in damaging ways throughout the course of her life. At the root of her issues: a Dickensian childhood and a haunting experience she must finally confront. Written with raw humor and unflinching ... Read more
"The Japanese samurai Musashi wrote: 'One can win with the long sword, and one can win with the short sword. Whatever the weapon, there is a time and situation in which it is appropriate.'"Similarly, we have the long RUP and the short RUP, and all sizes in between. RUP is not a rigid, static recipe, and it evolves with the field and the practitioners, as demonstrated in this new book full of wisdom to illustrate further the liveliness of a process adopted by so many organizations ... Read more
“T’is the gift to be simple, t’is the gift to be free…” 19th century Shaker song Money has great power in our lives. Used wisely, it is one key to accomplishing our goals, providing for our needs, and fulfilling our life purpose. In recent years, many of us ignored the wisdom of the past when it came to managing and spending our money. Credit card debt soared, savings rates plummeted, and our home equity became something to be tapped into and spent rather than a source of security in ... Read more
Amazon Best of the Month, February 2009: Buell, Pennsylvania lies in ruins, a dying--if not already dead--steel town, where even the lush surrounding country seethes with concealed industrial toxins. When Isaac English and Billy Poe--a pair of high-school friends straight out of Steinbeck--embark on a starry-eyed cross-country escape to California, a violent encounter with a trio of transients leaves one dead, prying the lid off a rusted can of failed hope and small-town secrets. American Rust ... Read more
Addison Schacht Answers the Proust Questionnaire Addison Schacht is a lot of things: high-school student, drug dealer, aspiring classicist, amateur private eye, as well as being the narrator of The November Criminals. He's got a lot to say on every subject. Below, he takes on the Proust Questionnaire. What is your idea of perfect happiness? No such thing. What is your greatest fear? That no-one will listen to me, even though I know I'm right. And death. I'm terrified ... Read more
A woman's faith in God is challenged by the first question Satan asks Eve in the Bible: "Did God really say you canâ??t eat from any tree in the garden?" That seed of doubt and the story it begins to unfold breed a concept of fear still haunting each of us on some level every day-the idea that our actions could ruin something beautiful, and God might not have control of things.A In What Women Fear, acclaimed writer and speaker Angie Smith admits, "fear is a major part of my testimony" and ... Read more
Leading black financial experts tell you how the money machine works—and how you can use it to increase your personal wealth. "Investment books tend to be as dry as the Sahara at high noon, but Money Talks is a stellar exception. Juliette Fairley has compiled a book full of practical tips, but she has done much more. She has provided a guided tour through the labyrinth of finance with some of the most savvy money people in America. The chance to take that journey is well worth the price of ... Read more
For alien commander Arid Ricimer there was no going home. His species was winning the war with Earth, but the civilization he had fought for was gone, destroyed from within by ideologues and bureaucrats. So he does the only thing that makes sense to a person of integrity—he attempts to defect to Earth with his officers and an entire spaceship, a vessel that mounts a superweapon of almost unimaginable power. Hot on his heels is his former fleet, a force that has already devastated Earth once, ... Read more
"A Christian patriot’s common sense review of D.C.’s political madness and nonsense, the abuse of our sacred Constitution, the degradation of our moral values and our road to recovery. The words presented in this book are an accumulation of my opinions and philosophies based on my experiences and instincts.I will warn you in advance, some opinions on both major and minor issues are going to upset many readers. I urge you to be objective, take off your blinders, form your own opinions and for ... Read more
After 30 years of teaching in the public schools, it seems to me that more and more of our students have empty souls. Taking God and prayer out of the classroom has made our students vulnerable to the negative, changing morals of our time. We are battling an enemy who encourages our youth to do your own thing, make your own rules, and look out for #1. We teachers can bring prayer back into our schools, even if we can t pray out loud. We can cover our students with prayer and change our mental ... Read more
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