The Silver Thorn. A Book of Stories

Hugh Walpole

This is an exciting collection of 15 stories. Indeed, there are some who are very good there is a sad and exciting Silly old fool about a canon who believes that a woman cares for him, and Engraving sees how an obsessed husband goes against his wifes desires, collecting engravings. Other great stories are Little Donkeys with Raspberry Saddles, gentle Chinese Horses about two women and a man, and Major Wilbraham sees a World War I major go crazy. This is a wide genre collection, including sad and tender to the point of horror.

The Singing Bone

R. Austin Freeman

In this collection of short stories, the reader learns the killers identity long before the brilliant medical detective takes the stage. These are brilliant early examples of open secrets where the question is not who, but how will they be caught?

The Sinister Man

Edgar Wallace

A mystery novel classic by Edgar Wallace with so many twists and turns it becomes utterly baffling by the end. Superintendent Wills investigates the murder of a man found floating in the River Thames, it appears the victim was a archeology Oxford professor, murdered over three small fragments of an ancient text, working on the deciphering of some very rare tablets which if they fall into the wrong hands could cause major problems for one Asian country. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the Kytang Wafers, and this is now missing. Highly recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle!

The SketchUp Handbook for Interior Design. A step-by-step visual approach to planning, designing, and presenting interior spaces

Rebecca Terpstra, Dana Hoffman

Design professionals often find it hard to help their clients visualize their unique concepts and visions. Luckily, SketchUp bridges this communication gap with a powerful set of tools for visualizing and presenting your design ideas. This book teaches the approach perfected by two successful interior designers who have mastered SketchUp Pro/Studio to generate a workflow that produces fascinating designs and enables you to communicate them through vivid illustrations.Starting with a review of the basics of creating 3D models, this book introduces Becca’s Hierarchy of Modeling—a ten-step process that establishes a rhythmic pattern in your workflow. As you progress, you’ll build on your SketchUp Pro knowledge by constructing architectural elements of a commercial building and furnishing a residential room with your own furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FFE) from scratch. From infusing photorealism into models to crafting appealing client presentations using SketchUp LayOut, this book has you covered. Each chapter provides step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples to reinforce learning.By the end of this book, you’ll have an advanced understanding of SketchUp Pro’s capabilities, ensuring you enjoy working on conceptual or full design projects from start to finish and showing off your design prowess.

The Sky Pirate

Garrett P. Serviss

For some time, sky pirates took public attention, because everyone was shocked by their brave actions. The handsome and sophisticated captain Alfonso Payton was one of the most daring. They decided to steal the billionaires daughter, Helen Grayman, and her servant. Their goal is to squeeze money out of the most wealthy person in the USA. Do these pirates again get what they want?

The Slave of Silence

Fred M. White

It is difficult to make a choice and make the right choice. Our hero was in such a situation. Helpless businessman forced to sell his daughter to marry. Though his daughter is against this idea, because she does not like her husband at all. But she must for the sake of her father and his money. Will she be in such slavery all her life?

The Slayer of Souls

Robert W. Chambers

This is a story of political intrigue in which brave US government agents team up with a squad of young ladies with psychic powers to fight the Bolsheviks. This conspiracy was set up to overthrow the Western world.

The Sleeper Awakes

Herbert George Wells

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and The Sleeper finds himself in a remarkable predicament he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary social upheavals and a struggle for the ultimate power. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.

The Small Business' Guide to Social CRM. Build customer relationships that will accelerate your business

Craig M Jamieson

The Smashing Book #1. Edycja polska

Vitaly Friedman (Author), Sven Lennartz (Editor)

Smashing Magazine to marka znana w branży webowej na całym świecie. Profesjonalny blog o technologiach i projektowaniu stron, oferujący setki merytorycznych i aktualnych artykułów opartych na realnych przykładach, podbił serca milionów użytkowników. Ta książka to zbiór najlepszych artykułów i porad dla projektantów stron internetowych. Znajdziesz w niej fachowe i sprawdzone informacje na temat tworzenia interfejsu użytkownika oraz typografii w sieci. Autorzy bardzo dużo uwagi poświęcają użyteczności nowoczesnych stron internetowych. W dzisiejszych czasach nawet najdoskonalszy pomysł się nie sprzeda, jeżeli nie będzie opakowany w intuicyjny i przyjazny interfejs użytkownika. Co jeszcze znajdziesz w tej biblii twórców stron WWW? Optymalizacja wydajności witryn, tworzenie projektów zwiększających sprzedaż, teoria kolorów to tylko część zagadnień, które muszą zwrócić Twoją uwagę. Sięgnij po tę książkę, naprawdę warto! Smashing Book. Edycja polska. Kultowy podręcznik dla projektantów i twórców stron internetowych!

The Smashing Book #2

Matt Ward

Smashing Magazine to marka znana w branży webowej na całym świecie. Profesjonalny blog o technologiach i projektowaniu stron, oferujący setki merytorycznych i aktualnych artykułów opartych na realnych przykładach, podbił serca milionów użytkowników. Pierwsza część "Smashing Book" zdobyła wyjątkowe uznanie i popularność, a druga na 100% pobije tamten rekord! Ta książka to zbiór praktycznych projektów, prześwietlonych pod względem użyteczności, designu i programowania. Dziewięć genialnych rozdziałów zawiera wiedzę ważną dla każdego projektanta stron internetowych i aplikacji na urządzenia mobilne. Poznasz zasady, jakich powinni przestrzegać graficy, najlepsze sposoby na przygotowanie prototypów stron WWW oraz możliwości CSS3 w zakresie typografii. Dowiesz się, jak powinien wyglądać porządny sklep internetowy, aby osiągnąć murowany sukces w sieci, oraz jak zachęcić użytkowników do klikania we właściwych (z Twojego punktu widzenia!) miejscach. Zrozumiesz swoich użytkowników, a wygodne rozwiązania, o których wcześniej nawet nie pomyślałeś, nagle staną się dla Ciebie oczywiste! Sięgnij po niekwestionowany autorytet w dziedzinie praktycznego i nowoczesnego podejścia do web designu. Smashing Book #2. Kultowy podręcznik dla projektantów i twórców stron internetowych! Patroni medialni:

The Smiling Desperado

Max Brand

An exciting saga of danger, adventure, and romance on the Western frontier. Bill Lancaster was a dangerous man that no one dared mess with. He was fast with a gun, deadly with his fists, and a bully who never let you forget who was tougher. Young Dan Cadigan however refused to be pushed. Mistaken for a quiet weakling, no one expected him to stand up to Bill Lancaster. Fighting him with his fists he made Lancaster realize that someone was tougher than he was. Desperate he used his gun on Cadigan while they were fighting. Now Cadigan wants to teach Lancaster a lesson and he intended to use what he had just discovered, that he did not know fear. Danger made a smile touch his lips. Danger made Cadigan smile and Cadigans smile made other men tremble.

The Snow-Image and Other Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A warm fairy tale for any age. One winter evening, parents saw that an unfamiliar girl was playing with their children in the yard. Rejoicing, they decided to invite the girl to tea despite the assurances of the children that she was afraid of heat more than anything...

The Social Gangster

Arthur B. Reeve

The fifth volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar and successful formula for a new round of adventures. Craig Kennedy continues to amaze with his usual sorts of crimes jewel theft, missing persons, wrongly accused suspects, fixed horse races, arson, murder, and blackmail but he uses scientific procedures to analyze the evidence, sometimes involving fantastical devices. The Social Gangster is the story focused on a mysterious robbery, which gives a glimpse of a greater threat hanging over social life of big city youngsters. But no one seems to be concerned enough with it, until it is too late. It is up to Kennedy and his science to resolve the case and reduce the impact falling on the society.

The Software Developer's Guide to Linux. A practical, no-nonsense guide to using the Linux command line and utilities as a software developer

David Cohen, Christian Sturm

Developers are always looking to raise their game to the next level, yet most are completely lost when it comes to the Linux command line.This book is the bridge that will take you to the next level in your software development career. Most of the skills in the book can be immediately put to work to make you a more efficient developer. It’s written specifically for software engineers, not Linux system administrators, so each chapter will equip you with just enough theory to understand what you’re doing before diving into practical commands that you can use in your day-to-day work as a software developer.As you work through the book, you’ll quickly absorb the basics of how Linux works while you get comfortable moving around the command line. Once you’ve got the core skills, you’ll see how to apply them in different contexts that you’ll come across as a software developer: building and working with Docker images, automating boring build tasks with shell scripts, and troubleshooting issues in production environments.By the end of the book, you’ll be able to use Linux and the command line comfortably and apply your newfound skills in your day-to-day work to save time, troubleshoot issues, and be the command-line wizard that your team turns to.

The Solution of a Mystery

J.S. Fletcher

One of the main characters, Richard Redford, is charged with murder. His life was threatened with death if he did not confess. But he chose such a point of view that he would have nothing to say to anyone. His indecision to speak causes bewilderment to others. Should a hero accept death with honor or not broken promises?