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Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsData is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers... -
![Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer]()
Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a NutshellYou wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself... -
![All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora]()
All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“[ All That the Rain Promises and More ] is certainly the best guide to fungi, and may in fact be a long lasting masterpiece in guide writing for all subjects... -
![The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley, National Audubon Society]()
The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley, National Audubon Society
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe entire birding world, from expert ornithologists to backyard enthusiasts, has been waiting for Sibley's work to be made available in a field-usable form. Containing the renowned artist's superbly lucid and comprehensive text, this guide features more than 6,500 of his detailed paintings. Full color... -
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![Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest & Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms by Erin Benzakein, Michele M. Waite]()
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest & Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms by Erin Benzakein, Michele M. Waite
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCelebrated flower farmer Erin Benzakein presents a beautiful gardening book and guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round. First volume in the beloved Floret Farm books and gifts series!"Among a sea of new florists and floral books, Floret Flowers stands out. Erin Benzakein's integrity, openness and passion for flowers is unmistakable... -
![Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger]()
Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMake your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer. Learn how to design beautiful user interfaces by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view... -
![The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America by David Allen Sibley]()
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America by David Allen Sibley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 650 bird species plus regional populations found east of the Rocky Mountains... -
![Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron]()
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA series of Deep Learning breakthroughs have boosted the whole field of machine learning over the last decade. Now that machine learning is thriving, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how... -
![Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming]()
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTake to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life! Now available in paperback.An Orbis Pictus Honor BookSelected for the Texas Bluebonnnet Master ListFinalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon BookA tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell... -
![Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson]()
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter... -
![C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie]()
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
![How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey]()
How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratings'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain’s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir... -
![The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals by Joel Sartore]()
The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals by Joel Sartore
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals--especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them... -
![The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley]()
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains... -
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![Le guide ornitho : Les 848 espèces d'Europe en 4000 dessins by Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson]()
Le guide ornitho : Les 848 espèces d'Europe en 4000 dessins by Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing on from its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide -- the ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts -- now enters its second edition. With expanded text and additional colour illustrations, the second edition of the hugely successful Collins Bird Guide is a must for every birdwatcher... -
![Mission Erde – Die Welt ist es wert, um sie zu kämpfen by Robert Marc Lehmann]()
Mission Erde – Die Welt ist es wert, um sie zu kämpfen by Robert Marc Lehmann
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRobert Marc Lehmann ist auf einer Mission: »Mission Erde« - gewidmet dem Erhalt unserer Erde mit ihrer einzigartigen Natur und Tierwelt. Der Meeresbiologe, Fotograf und Umweltschützer ist weltweit in Einsätzen zur Rettung von Wildtieren und im Kampf gegen Umweltkriminalität unterwegs... -
![Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby by Sandi Metz]()
Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby by Sandi Metz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRuby's widely admired simplicity has a downside: too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually impossible to change or extend... -
![Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon]()
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis easy-to-use field guide features 794 species of plants commonly found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens. PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST covers the coastal region from shoreline to alpine, including the western Cascades... -
![Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora]()
Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the be-all and end-all of mushroom books! Truly an encyclopedia of mushroom facts and lore, lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, literally everything you need to know about mushrooms, edible or not. Arora has taught mycology for close to twenty years and has hunted and photographed mushrooms across the North American continent... -
![Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori, Lucille Clerc]()
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori, Lucille Clerc
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrees are one of humanity's most constant yet most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration—not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin and silk to space shuttles and telephone lines... -
![Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho]()
Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPython's simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but this often means you aren't using everything it has to offer. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to write effective, idiomatic Python code by leveraging its best and possibly most neglected features... -
![The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen]()
The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband Clive and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire... -
![Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman]()
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text... -
![Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray, Nick Mann]()
Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray, Nick Mann
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWith more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table... -
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![Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway]()
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads_____________Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history... -
![Dive Into Design Patterns by Alexander Shvets]()
Dive Into Design Patterns by Alexander Shvets
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingshttps://refactoring.guru/design-patte...Design patterns are typical solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. You can’t just find a pattern and copy it into your program, the way you can with off-the-shelf functions or libraries. The pattern is not a specific piece of code, but a general concept for solving a particular problem... -
![Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold]()
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries... -
![Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls]()
Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of these new features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer a subject for advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book... -
![R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund]()
R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLearn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible... -
![Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet]()
Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep learning is applicable to a widening range of artificial intelligence problems, such as image classification, speech recognition, text classification, question answering, text-to-speech, and optical character recognition. It is the technology behind photo tagging systems at Facebook and Google, self-driving cars, speech recognition systems on your smartphone, and much more...
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