Ben Collins-Sussman

Brian Fitzpatrick

In the course of their 20+-year engineering careers, authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman have picked up a treasure trove of wisdom and anecdotes about how successful teams work together. Their conclusion? Even among people who have spent decades learning the technical side of their jobs, most haven’t really focused on the human component. Learning to collaborate is just as important to success. If you invest in the "soft skills" of your job, you can have a much greater impact for the same amount of effort. The authors share their insights on how to lead a team effectively, navigate an organization, and build a healthy relationship with the users of your software. This is valuable information from two respected software engineers whose popular series of talks—including "Working with Poisonous People"—has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers.

Better Productivity Through Collaboration

Debugging Teams

Describes the patterns and anti-patterns of the relationships of people, teams, and users in software development.

A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others

Team Geek

Los Angeles — Jake London’s ideal teenage life is thrown into chaos when he discovers the ability to control a swarm of shape-shifting nanotechnology that has, until recently, lain dormant in his DNA. Mechcraft is the skill of controlling the nanotech, summoning and creating tools, weapons, and even machines. Being the first person born with the nanotech, warring factions desire to use Jake for their own sinister ends. Now, with two Mechcraft agents at his side, and a horde of enemies chasing them down, Jake finds himself in a desperate race to safety.

Mechcraft

Bandits! Kidnapped children! Ancient Evil! As our heroes pass near the small village of Elhann, they are drawn into a battle with some bandits kidnapping children. But why? And what do these kidnappings have to do with a ritual that could lead to the end of the world? Will our heroes get to the bottom of this mystery before it's too late? About The Snake's Heart The Snake's Heart is an adventure designed for 4-6 Mazes & Perils characters of 1st or 2nd level, but it can easily be adjusted for use with any edition of your favorite fantasy role-playing game. The World of the Snake's Heart is one of muscles, magic, and mad gods. This is a world where might makes right in all the worst ways. This is the Lost Age. Your heroes are the adventurous souls of this day and find themselves traveling near the village of Elhann on the Great Plain -- home to shepherds, gardeners, horsemen, and a few aged warriors. As they get closer, they find the village attacked by a group of bandits. At the edge of the village, they see four aggressors guarding a cage filled with children and the others nearby seem intent on adding to their catch. But a few have spotted your party and are coming to investigate! This adventure has a little bit of everything, from saving the village of Elhann to rescuing its kidnapped kids and everything in-between. This is not for the faint of heart, as the Cult of the Serpent Queen has foul intentions for those innocent souls.

A Lost Age Adventure

The Snake's Heart

The Leamey’s is an epic story of hardship, devotion and love of an Irish family living in Doonas Ireland in the 1840s, where they are taken to the depths of despair, separated by hardship and starvation during the potato famine and overcoming immense tragedy which split the family to three Continents on a journey so incredible it test the souls to breaking point, where hope and determination creates great triumphs of the human spirit. Brian Leamey is very angry but worried for his family when he’s convicted of assaulting a Police Officer. His beloved wife and family are devastated when he is sentenced to ten years on a wretched penal colony on the infamous Van Diemans land. He is transported almost immediately. His wife Kate is now left to bring up their children alone, Patrick, Katherine and Tomas. Lonely and desperate Kate struggles to survive, and when the devastation of the potato famine hits Ireland starvation and disease follows. Meanwhile, on Van Deamans Land Brian is forced to hard labour where his tormentors inform him of the tragedy currently sweeping Ireland, Brian is horror-stricken, but can do nothing. His young family are suffering at the mercy of the famine he is just devastated and doesn’t know what to do. Seeing her family suffering Kate confides in the oldest boy Patrick that he must fend for himself now and find a new life, he must get out of Ireland, and he must find his own path of survival. Kate arranges Patrick’s transportation to America with his Uncle and Aunty along with thousands more Irish people. It is hard for her but she does it out of love. Patrick is taken on a sweeping journey across America, all the while having one focus, to have his family reunited. He must make it to Van Diemans land to find his father. He must. So begins Patrick’s amazing heartfelt journey across America in a land that tests his conviction, a tumultuous land of violence, poverty and fortune, where bare-knuckle fighting can lead to regaled opportunities, a time of the gold rush, and the mania of staking a claim among ruthless and desperate criminals. The Leamey’s adventure is a breathless tale of one man’s brutal survival, and another man who never loses hope that his dreams just may come true.

Far Cries

Habib Ammari

Hyeonbae Kang

Matias Ruiz

Sanghyeon Yu

Hai Zhang

The fields of photonics and phononics encompass the fundamental science of light and sound propagation and interactions in complex structures, as well as its technological applications. This book reviews new and fundamental mathematical tools, computational approaches, and inversion and optimal design methods to address challenging problems in photonics and phononics. An emphasis is placed on analyzing sub-wavelength resonators, super-focusing and super-resolution of electromagnetic and acoustic waves, photonic and phononic crystals, electromagnetic cloaking, and electromagnetic and elastic metamaterials and metasurfaces. Throughout this book, the authors demonstrate the power of layer potential techniques for solving challenging problems in photonics and phononics when they are combined with asymptotic analysis. This book might be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in the fields of applied and computational mathematics, partial differential equations, electromagnetic theory, elasticity, integral equations, and inverse and optimal design problems in photonics and phononics.

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