L L Martin: 326 books
The Art of Scalability
Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability–Updated with New Strategies, Technologies, and Case Studies In The Art of Scalability, Second Edition, leading scalability consultants Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything you need to know to smoothly scale products and...
Global Carbon Pricing
The Path to Climate Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything),...
Scalability Rules
50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
50 Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hypergrowth in Any Environment Scalability Rules is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher have helped scale more than 200 hypergrowth...
Scalability Rules
Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Fully updated! Fifty Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hyper Growth
“Whether you’re taking on a role as a technology leader in a new company or you simply want to make great technology decisions, Scalability Rules will be the go-to resource on your bookshelf.”
–Chad...
Inside the Yield Book
The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A completely updated edition of the guide to modern bond analysis
First published in 1972, Inside the Yield Book revolutionized the fixed-income industry and forever altered the way investors looked at bonds. Over forty years later, it remains a standard primer and reference among market professionals....
by Martin L. Shoemaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
There are many kinds of mystery, especially on the Moon!In "Sense of Wonder" (4,000 words, approximately 36 pages in print), you can sit down and have a drink with a Lunar rockhound as he tells you his tale: the trials and tribulations and even humiliations he endured just so that he could...
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
Help Yourself!
... a Story of Fbi Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Born 1935 in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania I lived with my two brothers, Al and Ron, and parents in one half of a duplex house on Horton Street. It was a basic house consisting of living/dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms and one bath. The kitchen stove and furnace were both coal fired. Dad was a plumber...
Digital Kids
How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
For many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to understand and prevent excessive Internet use that negatively impacts behaviour, education, family life, and...
Corporate Affairs
Mixing business with pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Discover what happens when lovers mix business with pleasure - working nine to five has never been such a thrill!
Taking passion out of the bedroom and into the boardroom, this collection of twenty erotic stories explores sex in the workplace. In a world of mergers and acquisitions, hostile...
by Neil Clarke, Martin L. Shoemaker, Han Song
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our August 2015 issue (#107) contains:
Original Fiction by Martin L. Shoemaker ("Today I am Paul"),...
by Villipede Publications, Alex J. Kane, Martin L. Shoemaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This science fiction anthology features eleven original short stories from nine established and emerging authors. Each story is accompanied by a black-and-white illustration created by one of four artists. (See the complete list of authors and artists below.) The stories span the breadth of the science-fiction...
With God in Russia
The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of an American-born Jesuit priest imprisoned for fifteen years in a Soviet gulag during the height of the Cold War—a poignant and spiritually uplifting story of extraordinary faith and fortitude...
by James Reasoner, Martin L. Shoemaker, Nathan E. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
From distant galaxies to the mean streets of Hollywood . . . from the war-torn skies of France in 1918 to the far side of the moon . . . The stories in Rocket's Red Glare exemplify the adventure, courage, and sense of discovery so vital to the American spirit. Whether daring to cross interstellar...