Agile Values and Principles for a New Generation “In the journey to all things Agile, Uncle Bob has been there, done that, and has the both the t-shirt and the scars to show for it. This delightful book is part history, part personal stories, and all wisdom. If you want to understand what Agile is and how it came to be, this is the book for you.” –Grady Booch “Bob’s frustration colors every sentence of Clean Agile, but it’s a justified frustration. What is in the world of Agile development...

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the ...

In Attention to Virtues, Robert C. Roberts offers a view of moral philosophical inquiry reminiscent of the ancient Greek concern that philosophy improve a practitioner's life by improving her character. The book divides human virtues into three groups: virtues of caring (generosity and truthfulness, for example, are direct, while justice and the sense of duty are indirect), enkratic virtues (courage, self-control), and humility, which is in a class by itself. The virtues are individuated b...

Discipleship guidance from the writings of KierkegaardGenuine Christian character often runs counter to prevailing notions of Christianity—as much in today's era of nationalistic religiosity as in the staid Christendom of Søren Kierkegaard's time. Kierkegaard responded to the hypocrisy around him by becoming a missionary of sorts in the Western world. Through his writing he exposed the illusions of conventional wisdom while advancing a compelling vision of the true Christi...

By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reveals those rules and helps you apply them. Martin’s Clean Architecture doesn’t merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience in software environments of every imaginable...

"The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack" presents a terrific mix of science fiction stories, new and old, including a Hugo Award-winning story by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a Hugo Award nominee from Mike Resnick, and classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Almost 700 pages of great reading!Included are:ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, by Mike ResnickA BRIEF DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, by Michael KurlandGRANDPA?, by Edward M. LernerTO E...

Follow the Dr Atkins' Diet and forget counting calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as well as freedom from a range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease. Essentially a low carbohydrate plan, the Atkins' Diet boosts your metabolic rate and once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. Dieting can work, and with this medically proven regime you can lose weight without reducing - or counting - calor...

Body language is thе prime focus of mоѕt rеlаtiоnѕhiрѕ fоr good rеаѕоn.Bоdу language iѕ likе a secret соdе. Onсе you knоw hоw tо rеаd thе code, уоu can lеаrn things аbоut mеn (оr other wоmеn, fоr that matter) thаt they mау nоt еvеn knоw about thеmѕеlvеѕ. Whilе ѕоmе mеn аrе рrеttу good аt соnѕсiоuѕlу using it, thеу аrе uѕuаllу оbviоuѕ about it. Mаnу оf uѕ simply don't realize thе unintended mеѕѕаgеѕ wе'rе ѕеnding out. Whether with family, friеndѕ, opponents, соllеаguеѕ, рubliс ѕреаk...

Transform Your Relationship with OCD Through Internal Family SystemsWhat if the exhausting battle against your OCD symptoms could become a collaborative conversation with parts of yourself that are actually trying to help? In this groundbreaking book, Robert C. Owens reveals why traditional treatments that position symptoms as enemies to defeat often fail—and offers a revolutionary approach based on Internal Family Systems therapy that works with your protective pa...

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - th...

How do you prove you're telling the truth when you can no longer trust your own memories?Twenty-nine-year-old Farrah Glickman insists she's the victim. Her parents insist she's dangerously ill.After a brief psychiatric hospitalization, Farrah is stripped of her independence and placed under the legal guardianship of the very people she believes destroyed her life. With her freedom hanging in the balance, she begins digging into her past and the sec...

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