Mark G. Sobell

good reading copy. light yellowing, all pages are present. Spine is not cracked. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

A Practical Guide

This revision offers the same balanced coverage and clear writing style that distinguished the bestselling original. Sobell now includes coverage of designing and using graphical user interfaces like X Windows and Motif. The traditionally strong coverage of networking and electronic mail has also been expanded as has the coverage of UNIX system administration.

UNIX System V

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David Mertz

Mike Mike Hendrickson

John John Fuller

Damage to back cover and last page (see photo) otherwise interior is pristine)

bull; Demonstrates how Python is the perfect language for text-processing functions. bull; Provides practical pointers and tips that emphasize efficient, flexible, and maintainable approaches to text-processing challenges. bull; Helps programmers develop solutions for dealing with the increasing amounts of data with which we are all inundated.

Text Processing in Python

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Joseph Albahari

Ben Albahari

bought it for work when I was a coder at BofA. 

The Definitive Reference

When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming--including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0's new asynchronous functions.

Shaped by more than 20 expert reviewers, including Microsoft's Eric Lippert, Stephen Toub, Chris Burrows, and Jon Skeet, this book has all you need to stay on track with C# 5.0. It's widely known as the definitive reference on the language.

 * Get up to speed on C# language basics, including syntax, types, and variables
 * Explore advanced topics such as unsafe code and type variance
 * Dig deep into LINQ via three chapters dedicated to the topic
 * Learn about code contracts, dynamic programming, and parallel programming
 * Work with .NET features, including reflection, assemblies, memory management, security, I/O, XML, collections, networking, and native interoperability

"C# 5.0 in a Nutshell is one of the few books I keep on my desk as a quick reference."



--Scott Guthrie, Microsoft

"Whether you're a novice programmer or an expert who wants to improve your knowledge of modern asynchronous programming techniques, this book has the information you need to get the job done in C#."



--Eric Lippert, Microsoft

C# 5. 0 in a Nutshell

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Paul Albitz

Cricket Liu

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

This text covers the 9.1.0 and 8.2.3 versions of BIND as well as the older 4.9 version. There's also more extensive coverage of NOTIFY, IPv6 forward and reverse mapping, transaction signatures, and the DNS Security Extensions.

DNS and BIND

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.

Day of the Dragon King

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

World's Worst Wedgie #3

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A champion manager of people, Jack Welch shares the hard-earned wisdom of a storied career in what will become the ultimate business bible

With Winning, Jack Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don'ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the four most important principles that form the foundation of his success.

Chapters include: How to Get Promoted, How to Think about Strategy, How to Write a Budget that Works, How to Work for a Jerk, How Find Work-Life Balance and How Start Something New. Enlivened by quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, it's a tour de force that reflects Welch's mastery of execution, excellence and leadership.

Winning

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About 75 assorted poems about life, love, loss, inspiration, and encouragement.Three very short stories.A lot of these come from poems written in private conversations on twitter DM, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger.They are longer versions of the type of poetry I write on twitter at @chris_mahan.

Private Poems Mostly

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Stories of Startups' Early Days

Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. As human-interest stories they will interest the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine. These stories are exceptionally interesting, because they're about the early stages, when the founders were younger and inexperienced. Most readers know startup founders only as confident millionaires. As novices trying to find their way by trial and error, they're more human, and easier for the reader to identify with.

Founders at Work

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Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization

Arms you with powerful tools for overcoming resistance to change and creating a culture of collaboration, engagement, and employee empowerment

Your people are your most valuable asset, and if you want them to excel (and your profits to soar), you′ll need to abandon your traditional command-and-control management style and adopt a collaborative, open leadership approach one that engages and empowers your people. While this isn′t a particularly new idea, many leaders, while they may pay lip service to it, don′t really understand what it means. And most of those who do get it lack the skills for putting it into practice. In Flat Army you′ll find powerful leadership models and tools that help you challenge yourself and overcome your personal obstacles to change, while pushing the boundaries of organizational change to create a culture of collaboration.

 * Develops an integrated framework incorporating collaboration, open leadership, technologies, and connected learning
 * Shows you how to flatten the organizational pyramid and engage with your peoples in more collaborative and productive ways without undermining your authority
 * Explains how to deploy a Connected Leader mindset, a Participative Leader Framework, and a Collaborative Leader Action Model
 * Arms you with powerful tools for becoming a more visible leader who demonstrates the qualities and capabilities needed to become an agent of positive change

Flat Army

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How to Turn Creativity into a Powerful Business Advantage

Drawing from 25 years of successful marketing and acclaimed, award-winning work, the authors show that bankable, creative ideas come from zeroing in on the one key business problem that must be solved and then rigorously unearthing insights that will lead to a spectacular solution.

Juicing the Orange

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Bought for my son. He never read it. #boys #fiction #hardcover 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. The completely revised American Edition includes: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History * For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see "Treehouses You Can Actually Build" by David Stiles

Dangerous Book for Boys

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Never read. No interior markings, no damage inside or out #Business #paperback 

Liberating the Postmodern Consumer

We change our identities faster than a chameleon changes color. On Monday, you may be a Hugo Boss suit-wearing salaryman who listens to Adele, reads The Wall Street Journal, quaffs a greasy burger for lunch, and tunes in to Fox News. Come Saturday, out come the tats from underneath the starched collar, you ditch the suit for a Kid Dangerous tee and Vans kicks, you down a tuna poké with a craft beer, and listen to Imagine Dragons while you check out the latest issue of High Times . Just what lifestyle category do you belong to? Good luck to the marketer who tries to describe you. Today's postmodern consumer defies categorization--sometimes deliberately. S/he yearns to be liberated from cubicles, labels, "market segments," and especially those confining walls that restrict him or her from expressing the unique self that's constructed out of all the lifestyle "raw materials" that marketers of many stripes have to offer. The postmodern revolution requires marketers to revisit the walls they've erected over many years. That's not an easy thing to do. Conventional marketing strategies are built upon predictability, stability and the comfort in knowing that we can "understand" our customer yesterday, today and tomorrow. We love to put people into categories, and often into super-neat dichotomies--and call it a day. Those walls used to be solid, and marketers relied upon them to build a structure that formed the basis of their traditional strategic worldview. But now many of these walls are crumbling--and fast. They are like safety hazards that threaten successful brands from thriving in the postmodern revolution. And, they obstruct our view of the marketing possibilities that lie beyond them. In this book, I'll describe many familiar walls that form the bedrock of marketing strategy and thought today. Then I'll demolish them. Here are the walls that no longer exist, in convenient alphabetical order: Arts vs. Crafts Black vs. White Body vs. Belongings Editorial vs. Commercial Elite vs. the masses Fake vs. Authentic Friend vs. Stranger High art vs. Low art Home vs. Office Humans vs. Computers In here vs. Out there Kids vs. Teens Male vs. Female Me vs. Them Me vs. We Offline vs. Online Old vs. Mature Owning vs. Leasing Parent vs. Friend Producer vs. Consumer Reality vs. Fantasy Reality vs. Mythology Retailers vs. Customers Sacred vs. Profane Service providers vs. Consumers Then vs. Now Us vs. Them Work vs. Play Young vs. Old

Marketers, Tear down These Walls!

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Excellent guide on shifting one's mindset to really help customers use your products effectively. #marketing #customerService

Note for ebook customers: The design and layout of this book play a key role in conveying the author's message. When creating the ebooks, we've tried to keep the look and feel of the print edition, but this means that not all e-reading devices will support the files. The EPUB format is optimized for iPad. The Mobi files are optimized for Kindle Fire tablets and phones and for Kindle reading apps.

Imagine you're in a game with one objective: a bestselling product or service. The rules? No marketing budget, no PR stunts, and it must be sustainably successful. No short-term fads.

This is not a game of chance. It is a game of skill and strategy.

And it begins with a single question: given competing products of equal pricing, promotion, and perceived quality, why does one outsell the others?

The answer doesn't live in the sustainably successful products or services. The answer lives in those who use them.

Our goal is to craft a strategy for creating successful users. And that strategy is full of surprising, counter-intuitive, and astonishingly simple techniques that don't depend on a massive marketing or development budget. Techniques typically overlooked by even the most well-funded, well-staffed product teams.

Every role is a key player in this game. Product development, engineering, marketing, user experience, support--everyone on the team. Even if that team is a start-up of one. Armed with a surprisingly overlooked science and a unique POV, we can can reduce the role of luck. We can build sustainably successful products and services that rely not on unethical persuasive marketing tricks but on helping our users have deeper, richer experiences. Not just in the moments while they're using our product but, more importantly, in the moments when they aren't.

Badass: Making Users Awesome

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Bought for my son. He never read it and has no interest, so I must make room on the shelf. #hardcover #Suspense #Thriller

A Thriller

From the best-selling author of The Director and Body of Lies comes a thrilling tale of global espionage, state-of-the-art technology, and unthinkable betrayal.


A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption and break any code in existence. The winner of the race to build the world's first quantum machine will attain global dominance for generations to come. The question is, who will cross the finish line first: the U.S. or China?

In this gripping cyber thriller, the United States' top-secret quantum research labs are compromised by a suspected Chinese informant, inciting a mole hunt of history-altering proportions. CIA officer Harris Chang leads the charge, pursuing his target from the towering cityscape of Singapore to the lush hills of the Pacific Northwest, the mountains of Mexico, and beyond. The investigation is obsessive, destructive, and--above all--uncertain. Do the leaks expose real secrets, or are they false trails meant to deceive the Chinese? The answer forces Chang to question everything he thought he knew about loyalty, morality, and the primacy of truth.

Grounded in the real-world technological arms race, The Quantum Spy presents a sophisticated game of cat and mouse cloaked in an exhilarating and visionary thriller.

The Quantum Spy

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An insightful look at American business in the 80s. #business #history

The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry

In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors.
Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.

Comeback

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A thorough study of the weird obsession with CEOs. slight corner damage to jacket. no interior markings. #Business  

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and disturbing. In recent years, he shows, corporations have increasingly sought CEOs who are above all else charismatic, whose fame and force of personality impress analysts and the business media, but whose experience and abilities are not necessarily right for companies' specific needs. The labor market for CEOs, Khurana concludes, is far less rational than we might think.


Khurana's findings are based on a study of the hiring and firing of CEOs at over 850 of America's largest companies and on extensive interviews with CEOs, corporate board members, and consultants at executive search firms. Written with exceptional clarity and verve, the book explains the basic mechanics of the selection process and how hiring priorities have changed with the rise of shareholder activism. Khurana argues that the market for CEOs, which we often assume runs on cool calculation and the impersonal forces of supply and demand, is culturally determined and too frequently inefficient. Its emphasis on charisma artificially limits the number of candidates considered, giving them extraordinary leverage to demand high salaries and power. It also raises expectations and increases the chance that a CEO will be fired for failing to meet shareholders' hopes. The result is corporate instability and too little attention to long-term strategy.


The book is a major contribution to our understanding of corporate culture and the nature of markets and leadership in general.

Searching for a Corporate Savior

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gems of wisdom to develop a thick skin and a gentle touch in marketing, whether for a large corporation or your solopreneurship! #marketing #selling #customerService

A Sales and Marketing Guide for Everyone

This sales and marketing resource offers a plan for connecting with customers, bosses, employees, children, and anyone with whom the reader has substantive and quality interactions.

Listen First - Sell Later

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Great book on surviving toxic coworkers and how to not become one yourself. No markings on interior. Pages only very slightly yellowed. #corporate #selfhelp #civilworkplace #nonfiction #hardcover 

Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller. It won a Quill Award for the top business book of 2007, and was recently chosen as one of audible.com's top picks as well.

The No Asshole Rule

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Some cover damage, one slight rip in cover on back (see photo), some sticker gunk on back. Pages are yellowed. All pages are there, good for reading, no highlights or notes. #crime #detective Also, Doctorow has great, sharp prose. A delight to read. 

E.L. Doctorow, one of America's preeminent authors, has received the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation For Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published a volume of selected essays Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution, and a play, Drinks Before Dinner, which was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival. He resides in New Rochelle, New York.

The Waterworks

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This book is new, bought directly from the author, with author bookmark, thank you note, autograph and rose drawing on title page (see photos). This book is a dark magical fantasy, suitable for young adults and adults. I've given another copy of this book to a friend's 17 year-old daughter and she later told me, rather thankfully: "It's my favorite book!"
Feel free to go see the reviews on Amazon. 
The author, Ksenia Anske, and I have been online-friends since 2014 and I was fortunate to get a few copies shipped to me when she moved last month! 

I personally really liked the story, and found it at times fanciful and others dark and borderline scary. Of all the books Ksenia has written, this is my second-favorite after Irkadura, which you should check out if you like really, really dark! #YoungAdult #MagicalFantasy


Misunderstood and overmedicated, twelve-year-old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull... That is, until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather's Berlin mansion is, well, completely and utterly carnivorous. Armed with Panther, her talking pet whippet, and the help of the mute boy next door, Lilith must unravel the secrets behind the mysterious estate, all while her family remains gloriously unaware that they are about to be devoured.

Rosehead

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Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Oedipus the King * Antigone * Electra * Ajax
Trachinian Women * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus

The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, "saw life steadily and saw it whole."

This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles' complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called "the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English."*
*Moses Hadas

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DNS and BIND

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Day of the Dragon King

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World's Worst Wedgie #3

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Winning

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Founders at Work

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Flat Army

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Juicing the Orange

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Dangerous Book for Boys

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Marketers, Tear down These Walls!

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Badass: Making Users Awesome

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The Quantum Spy

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Comeback

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Searching for a Corporate Savior

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Listen First - Sell Later

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The Waterworks

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The Complete Plays of Sophocles

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