Tom Hughes-Croucher

Mike Wilson

"Node: Up and Running" shows users how Node scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to create one-off applications with minimal infrastructure.

Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript

Node: Up and Running

Peter Lynch

Un paso por delante de Wall Street es un libro en el que un inversor profesional le promete al lector que en las trescientas páginas siguientes compartirá con él los secretos de su éxito. Pero, paradójicamente, la regla número uno del libro es: ¡No escuche a los profesionales! Treinta años en este negocio han convencido a Peter Lynch de que cualquier persona, usando el tres por ciento de su cerebro, puede tomar decisiones tan correctas como las de un experto de Wall Street. Nadie espera que un cirujano plástico le aconseje hacerse él mismo un lifting, o que su peluquero le recomiende recortarse él mismo el flequillo, pero no hablamos de cirugía o peluquería. Hablamos de invertir, donde el dinero inteligente no es realmente tan inteligente y el dinero tonto no es tan tonto como se cree. El dinero sólo es tonto cuando escucha al dinero inteligente. El asunto sigue siendo el de siempre. Las acciones no son billetes de lotería. Detrás de cada acción hay una empresa. Las empresas pueden ir mejor o peor. Si una empresa empeora sus resultados, sus acciones bajan. Si una empresa los mejora, sus acciones suben. Si tenemos en cartera buenas empresas que aumentan sus beneficios, nos irá bien. Parece sencillo y realmente lo es. Con los consejos de Lynch usted puede convertir su cartera de inversión en un éxito financiero.

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Un paso por delante de Wall Street

Build an application from backend to browser with Node.js, and kick open the doors to real-time event programming. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to create a social network application similar to LinkedIn and Facebook, but with a real-time twist. And you’ll build it with just one programming language: JavaScript. If you’re an experienced web developer unfamiliar with JavaScript, the book’s first section introduces you to the project’s core technologies: Node.js, Backbone.js, and the MongoDB data store. You’ll then launch into the project—a highly responsive, highly scalable application—guided by clear explanations and lots of code examples. Learn about key modules in Node.js for building real-time apps Use the Backbone.js framework to write clean browser code, and maintain better data integration with MongoDB Structure project files as a foundation for code that will arrive later Create user accounts and learn how to secure the data Use Backbone.js templates to build the application’s UIs, and integrate access control with Node.js Develop a contact list to help users link to and track other accounts Use Socket.io to create real-time chat functionality Extend your UIs to give users up-to-the-minute information

Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone

Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gates is the tech world's nerd king, Ellison is its Warren Beatty: racing yachts, buying jets, and romancing beautiful women. His rise to fame and fortune is a tale of entrepreneurial brilliance, ruthless tactics, and a constant stream of half-truths and outright fabrications for which the man and his company are notorious. Investigative reporter Mike Wilson, with access to Ellison himself and more than 125 of his friends, enemies, and former Oracle employees, has created an eye-opening, utterly fascinating portrayal of a Silicon Valley success story ... filled with the stuff that dreams and cultural icons are made of.

*God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison

The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison

'Desperanto' is the universal language of despair. It is spoken by the hopeless, learned by the luckless and sung by the broken armies of losers, lovers and lefties everywhere. Mike Wilson offers a beginner's guide to its emotional grammar, where defeat is a regular verb, hope declines and the future is always conditional.

Poems

Desperanto

Modern democracy grew from an eighteenth century experiment in the United States to the primary form of government in the world today. This debates the state of democracy, the role of religion in democracy, whether election reform is needed, and whether democracy is suitable for all nations.

Opposing Viewpoints

Democracy

Examines differing views on terrorism in a pro/con format that exposes readers to many sides of a debate, while promoting critical thinking.

Terrorism

A biography of a Maryknoll priest whose missionary service in Latin America led him to fight to close down The School of the Americas, a Georgia facility that provided combat training to foreign soldiers.

The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the School of the Americas

The Warrior Priest

"When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb in which he lives. His precocious teenage neighbor Suicide Girl begins spontaneously lactating, and her pet lizard goes missing. A disturbed neighbor begins to pace the block to quiet his unseemly thoughts. Meanwhile, the neighborhood dog, Bones, suddenly able to think human thoughts, begins to hatch a plan. With economic language and well-crafted timing, Rockabilly leads us on a hair-raising journey, artfully deconstructing archetypes of suburban America. Taking us past garish lights of strip malls and empty strips of desert, this dystopian novel presents a unique take on trash aesthetics, the philosophy of tattoo art, and American pop culture."--Provided by publisher.

Rockabilly

Steve Northover

The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1 (The Eclipse Series)

This collection of letters from Second Lieutenant Topham Becher Dabridgecourt Hough was discovered at Bridlington School ninety-six years after his death. They cover his entire army career, from enlistment in 1915, to the day of his death in 1916, aged 18 years. In 2012, local historian Mike Wilson, became aware of the find and offered to create a book of the letters, which are both fascinating and moving, and an important record of the hopes and fears of one young man and his family back home.

Nothing More To Say

How to achieve professional success and the perfect work-life balance, including sections on visualisation, organisation, running meetings, firing people, creating a company's culture and 'the hidden secret' of charitable giving, by the former CEO of Allied Dunbar and St James's Place Wealth Management.

How to Be Chief Executive of Your Own Life

For Scotland it was meant to be a formality against Peru; instead, after a missed penalty, everything fell apart. In this book Mike Wilson speaks to everyone who was involved, including all the players, and reveals how even after 20 years some have yet to get over the trauma.

Scotland's 1978 World Cup Adventure

Don't Cry for Me Argentina

Based on the author’s wide-ranging experience as a robot user, supplier and consultant, Implementation of Robot Systems will enable you to approach the use of robots in your plant or facility armed with the right knowledge base and awareness of critical factors to take into account. This book starts with the basics of typical applications and robot capabilities before covering all stages of successful robot integration. Potential problems and pitfalls are flagged and worked through so that you can learn from others’ mistakes and plan proactively with possible issues in mind. Taking in content from the author’s graduate level teaching of automation and robotics for engineering in business and his consultancy as part of a UK Government program to help companies advance their technologies and practices in the area, Implementation of Robot Systems blends technical information with critical financial and business considerations to help you stay ahead of the competition. Includes case studies of typical robot capabilities and use across a range of industries, with real-world installation examples and problems encountered Provides step-by-step coverage of the various stages required to achieve successful implementation, including system design, financial justification, working with suppliers and project management Offers no-nonsense advice on the pitfalls and issues to anticipate, along with guidance on how to avoid or resolve them for cost and time-effective solutions

An introduction to robotics, automation, and successful systems integration in manufacturing

Implementation of Robot Systems

Positive psychologists have proven that positivity leads to success, but most Christians in America have chosen to believe a single eschatological theory that leads to pessimism and cynicism. Pessimistic Christians put themselves in Christian bubbles and focus on self-preservation, and when a mind is clouded by negativity, interpretations of biblical prophecy lean toward the pessimistic possibilities. The fantastic writing of the Left Behind books has popularized premillennial dispensationalism with good intentions, but that interpretation of biblical prophecy teaches that sinfulness will continually increase until Jesus throws up his hands in disgust and secretly raptures worthy Christians, leaving behind unworthy sinners to suffer the wrath of the antichrist. Teaching that questionable theory produces negativity that hinders the Christian mission. When Christians believe that they cannot succeed in leading most of the world to Jesus, they will fail to put in the effort that success would require. Jesus, on the other hand, taught his followers that nothing will prevail over his church, and that teaching inspired them to sacrifice everything for the Christian mission. This is not a promise of prosperity without effort or of inevitable success, but biblical positivity is an energizing force that will help Christians flourish.

How Positivity Will Help Christians Flourish

Leaving Left Behind

Rapid Prototyping and Scalable Deployment

Leñador es un libro monumental, único e irrepetible. En palabras de Roberto Calasso, fundador de la mítica Adelphi, "libro único es aquel en el que rápidamente se reconoce que al autor le ha pasado algo y ese algo ha terminado por depositarse en un escrito". Y a Mike Wilson, autor de esta prodigiosa novela, sin duda le ha pasado algo que ha decantado en uno de los textos más singulares de la literatura latinoamericana actual. Leñador parte de la decisión de su protagonista, un excombatiente y boxeador, de abandonar todo e irse al noroeste de Canadá, al legendario bosque del Yukón, para vivir entre leñadores y estudiar su oficio. Una vez ahí, la experiencia será total. Como lectores asistimos al alucinante aprendizaje del protagonista de cada uno de los aspectos que conforman la vida de los leñadores en el bosque, desde las herramientas que usan, los alimentos que ingieren, los medicamentos caseros que fabrican, la ropa que utilizan, cómo trepan un árbol o lo talan, hasta las técnicas de supervivencia, rastreo, caza y convivencia que se ponen a prueba cada día para sostener un sistema delicado y complejo aislado del mundo. Enciclopedia, manual, recetario, novela de aventuras, tratado de filosofía, crónica de viaje, y hasta indagación sobre la naturaleza de la literatura, Leñador concibe un universo en el que es fácil entrar, pero del que es difícil salir. Publicada originalmente en Chile por Orjikh en 2013, Leñador fue distinguida con el Premio de la Crítica 2014 y el Premio del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes. Esta es su primera edición para toda Latinoamérica y España.

Leñador

Cuatro personajes rodean un cuerpo muerto tendido sobre una alfombra. Hay un cadáver, ha habido un crimen, queda una incógnita. Las claves que podrían despejarla son la materia de Ciencias ocultas: una novela policial, una historia de terror, una naturaleza muerta, una habitación cerrada. Como un artefacto calibrado para inducir la lectura hipnotizada, esta nueva novela de Mike Wilson hace de la descripción una forma de la acción, y en el camino demuestra el poder de las palabras para alterar toda certeza. Exhaustiva, delirante, metafísica, Ciencias ocultas juega con el tiempo de la lectura y de los acontecimientos, acelera y desacelera, completa incesantemente una idea y la trastoca, nos cautiva y, finalmente, nos recompensa. En la senda de su monumental Leñador, y con más de un guiño a grandes obras y géneros de la literatura universal, en esta novela Mike Wilson se afirma como un autor genuinamente singular de la actual narrativa latinoamericana, y nos regala su enorme talento.

Ciencias ocultas

Starten Sie mit Node.js durch – der beliebtesten Entwicklungsumgebung für serverseitiges JavaScript. Mit dieser Einführung lernen Sie, wie Sie mit Node hoch skalierbare Server bauen und erfahren, wie dessen Eventschleifen-Architektur die Komplexität verringert und die Serverprogrammierung sicher und einfach gestaltet. Einführung in Node.js wurde von einem der wichtigsten Mitwirkenden an diesem Open-Source-Framework geschrieben. Das Buch zeigt, wie das Single-Threaded-Design von Node dafür sorgt, dass große Mengen gleichzeitig zugreifender Verbindungen auf mehreren Servern verarbeitet werden können, und wie einfach es ist, den gleichen Code im Browser und auf dem Server einzusetzen. »Dieses Buch macht Sie auf angenehme Weise mit dem Geist von Node und dem Wissen zum Bauen interaktiver Web-Apps und Websites vertraut. Node ist eine Supersache und Einführung in Node.js ist genau die richtige Anleitung dazu. Genießen Sie es!« – Brendan Eich, Vater von JavaScript

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