No Starch Press: 203 books
by Etsuro Tanaka, Keiko Koyama, Becom Co. Ltd.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology lectures.
Join Kumiko in The Manga Guide to Physiology as she examines the inner workings of...
The Art of the Brick
A Life in LEGO
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Nathan Sawaya is renowned for his incredible, sometimes surreal, sculptures and portraits—all made from LEGO bricks.
The Art of the Brick is a stunning, full-color showcase of the work that has made Sawaya the world’s most famous LEGO artist. Featuring hundreds of photos of his impressive...
by Tom Alphin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!
by Mike Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? Beautiful LEGO, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas of everyday objects and famous monuments to imaginative renderings of spaceships, mansions,...
by Mike Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Beautiful LEGO 2: Dark showcases dark LEGO masterpieces from artists around the world. From realistic sculptures of creepy crawlers to impressionist works of shadowy nightmares, this collection will leave you marveling at every turn. But dark has its lighter side, too—with sculptures of dark chocolate...
by Guy Himber
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Filled with dirigibles and floating cities, penny-farthings and pirate ships, curiosities and robots galore, Steampunk LEGO is an illustrated collection of Victorian-era sci-fi treasures, all built from LEGO.
Curated by award-winning LEGO builder and special effects master Guy Himber, this...
The Guild Leader's Handbook
Strategies and Guidance from a Battle-Scarred MMO Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Who said dragon slaying was easy? Leading a guild in massively multiplayer online (MMO) games like World of Warcraft is more difficult than most players think. Your members look to you to solve problems, plan raids and battles, and lead them to riches and renown.
In The Guild Leader's Handbook,...
Practical Forensic Imaging
Securing Digital Evidence with Linux Tools
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Forensic image acquisition is an important part of postmortem incident response and evidence collection. Digital forensic investigators acquire, preserve, and manage digital evidence to support civil and criminal cases; examine organizational policy violations; resolve disputes; and analyze cyber...
Statistics Done Wrong
The Woefully Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Scientific progress depends on good research, and good research needs good statistics. But statistical analysis is tricky to get right, even for the best and brightest of us. You'd be surprised how many scientists are doing it wrong.
Statistics Done Wrong is a pithy, essential guide to statistical...
Teach Your Kids to Code
A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Teach Your Kids to Code is a parent's and teacher's guide to teaching kids basic programming and problem solving using Python, the powerful language used in college courses and by tech companies like Google and IBM.
Step-by-step explanations will have kids learning computational thinking right...
The Google Way
How One Company Is Revolutionizing Management As We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is reinventing business yet again—the way...
A Bug Hunter's Diary
A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Seemingly simple bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compromise systems, escalate local privileges, and otherwise wreak havoc on a system.
A Bug Hunter's Diary follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tracks down and exploits bugs in some of the world's most popular...
The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book
181 Simple Machines and Clever Contraptions
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book explores dozens of creative ways to build amazing mechanisms with the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set. Each model includes a list of the required parts, minimal text, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without the need for step-by-step...
Growing Software
Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
As the technology leader at a small software company, you need to focus on people, products, processes, and technology as you bring your software to market, while doing your best to put out fires and minimize headaches.
Growing Software is your guide to juggling the day-to-day challenges of...