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?

The Solution of a Remarkable Case

Nick Carter

Carter is probably the most famous private detective after Sherlock Holmes. It has been a character of pulp fiction since 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. Considered the King of Detectives, he was based out of an apartment on Madison Avenue in New York City and later out of Manchester. The Nick Carter name was treated as a pseudonym, and many of the volumes were written in first person. Nick Carter would go on to become one of the most popular heroes of the 19th and 20th centuries. In The Solution of a Remarkable Case, Nick investigates the mysterious death of popular dancer Eugenie La Verde, who has been brutally strangled in her bed.

The Son of Julius Caesar

Henry Bedford-Jones

These Sphinx Emerald stories are a veritable Outline of History. The Son of Julius Caesar is the fifth one from the master story tell H. Bedford-Jones! Many of his works were historical fiction/adventures, about knights, pirates, buccaneers, vikings, musketeers, revolutionaries, legionnaires, soldiers, sailors, and assorted adventurers. Here the tragic young Caesarion dominates the scene.

The Son of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The Son of Tarzan“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.   This is the fourth novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.  

The Son of the Wolf

Jack London

“The Son of the Wolf” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   The Son of the Wolf is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of nine moving and thrilling stories such as: The Son of the Wolf, In a Far Country, The Wisdom of the Trail or The Wife of a King.  

The Song of the Lark

Willa Cather

Young and ambitious Thea Kronborg leaves Moonstone, a fictional city in Colorado, for Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a pianist. The music teacher hears her voice and realizes that the girl has a gift for singing. He encourages her to continue studying vocals instead of piano.

The Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Shakespeares sonnets cannot be overestimated; this is the best sort of poetry. How clean, voiced imagery. In general, in what language you do not read the pleasure is provided. Idealization of the beloved, ode to his beauty, magnification by his Perfection. But what is interesting the author sees the imperfections of a loved one, but literally forgives them. And nothing can darken the object of affection for him.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tragic story of a young burgher, who could not find an answer to his feelings and rejected by society, was instantly translated into other languages and gave rise to a series of sequels and imitations the so-called Verterian. Over time, Werther, the rebellious martyr became one of the eternal images of world literature and introduced the sociopsychological phenomenon of verterism into European culture, associated with the melancholic mentality and the problem of suicide as the highest manifestation of free will.

The Soul of a Bishop

Herbert George Wells

H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he is also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, but in this 1917 novel, H. G. Wells weaves a more intuitive tale, about a bishop haunted by strange dreams and visions that challenge his faith. Lyrical, poetic, and verging on stream-of-consciousness in places, this little-read work of one of the most enduringly popular writers of modern literature is like found treasure, offering a captivating and unexpected insight into Wells psyche. The Soul of a Bishop tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, to give up his diocese in Englands industrial heartland and leave the Anglican Church.

The Sowers of the Thunder

Robert E. Howard

The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the Generals friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh ODonnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.