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  Agile Project Management with...

  Chuck Sherman

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  In today's fast-paced business world, the ability to adapt quickly to change and deliver high-quality products or services in a timely manner is crucial. Agile project management with Scrum is a methodology that offers a collaborative, iterative, and incremental approach to managing projects. It is designed to help teams deliver value to their customers early and often while providing continuous feedback and transparency. 
  Agile Project Management with Scrum is the ultimate guide to understanding the Scrum framework and implementing it successfully in your projects. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Agile Project Management and Scrum, explaining their principles, values, and practices. You will learn how to create a product backlog, plan sprints, conduct daily scrums, monitor sprint progress, and deliver a working product increment in each sprint. 
  The book also covers the best practices for Agile Project Management with Scrum, including collaboration and communication, time management, sprint goals, and continuous improvement. You will learn how to scale Scrum for large projects and how to combine it with other Agile methodologies to improve your project outcomes. 
  Whether you are a project manager, team leader, or member of a development team, this book is a valuable resource for understanding Agile Project Management with Scrum. It is packed with real-world examples, case studies, and practical advice that you can apply to your projects right away. 
  By reading Agile Project Management with Scrum, you will be able to streamline your projects, boost productivity, and deliver high-quality products or services to your customers faster and more efficiently. 
    
   

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  Animal Crossing

  Kelsey Lewin

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  Before the world of Animal Crossing became a pandemic lifeline for millions, the "social sim" communication game Dо̄butsu no Mori, or "Animal Forest," debuted in 2001 on Nintendo 64 in Japan, then once again in 2002 on GameCube to critical and commercial success all over the world. 
   
   
    
  An open-ended casual game ahead of its time, Animal Crossing set the stage for the series's many incarnations to come with its focus on building community and friendship, its in-game currency of Bells, and its village of Animalese-speaking friends like Tom Nook, K. K. Slider, and the mean Mr. Resetti. You could visit the villages of your friends and give them gifts—all without being connected to the internet. 
   
   
    
  Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons eclipsing Super Mario Bros. for all-time sales in Japan, unlocking gaming's massive potential to tap into our desire to plant trees, find friends, and make the world a better place.

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  Elemental - How Five Elements...

  Stephen Porder

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  This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland reveals how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share
  
  It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.
  
  Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life's essential elements—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilization, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future.
  
  Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life's essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.

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  Secure Software Design

  Saimon Carrie

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  "Secure Software Design: Advanced Strategies for Building Resilient and Secure Applications" delves into the intricacies of creating robust and secure software systems in an increasingly complex digital landscape. In this comprehensive guide, readers will explore advanced strategies and best practices for fortifying their applications against evolving cyber threats. 
  From understanding the principles of secure software design to implementing advanced security measures, this book equips developers, architects, and security professionals with the knowledge and techniques needed to protect their applications and data from malicious actors. Through practical examples, case studies, and expert insights, readers will learn how to:Apply secure coding principles and best practices to minimize vulnerabilities and exploits.Implement advanced authentication and authorization mechanisms, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access control (RBAC).Utilize encryption and secure communication protocols to safeguard data at rest and in transit.Incorporate security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) through threat modeling, secure coding standards, and security testing.Leverage emerging technologies, such as AI and machine learning, to enhance threat detection and incident response capabilities.Navigate compliance requirements and regulatory frameworks, including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. 
  This book provides invaluable insights and actionable strategies for building resilient and secure applications in today's cyber-threat landscape. 
   

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  Nancy - A Portrait of My Years...

  Michael Deaver

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  Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever published 
  Nancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life; it has also been an extraordinarily private one. Now Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know. 
  The woman portrayed in Nancy is far more complicated than the stereotype. No cardboard cutout, she is pure flesh and blood, a woman of immense will and fortitude. And in the Reagans' fifty-year marriage, Ron always received top billing. She is convinced that her husband was one of the great men of the twentieth century -- a rare world leader who changed the tide of history. Nancy has been no bit player in the story. Deaver believes that Reagan would not have risen to such distinction without Nancy at his side. 
  Reluctantly drawn into politics, Nancy gradually embraced her role. To the president, Nancy Reagan would bring discipline. She would ask the tough questions. When his image might be tainted, she would fervently guard it, even at the expense of her own. 
  To Ronald Reagan the man, who always had trouble expressing intimacy, Nancy gave the gift of her unrestricted love. Now to a man no longer capable of looking after himself, Nancy is everything there is left to be: caretaker, guardian, nurturer of the Reagan legacy.

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  The Book of Flaco - The World’s...

  David Gessner

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  The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world. 
   
   
   
  Nature writer David Gessner chronicles the year-long odyssey of Flaco and the human drama that followed the owl who captured the imaginations of New Yorkers and people around the world. Though he'd spent his life in a cage, Flaco learned to survive in New York City by eating rats, squirrels, and birds. He was an immigrant coming from elsewhere to make it in the big city. Central Park, the island of green in an urban sea, was his new home territory. 
   
   
   
  Flaco's urban adventure brought controversy, pitting those who felt he should be returned to the safety of the zoo against those who created the "Free Flaco" movement. The birding world was fractured over the ethics of the online sharing of his location that brought scores of enthusiasts to view him each day. And his end—with a grim necropsy revealing Flaco had suffered a viral infection from eating pigeons and had multiple rodenticides in his system—serves as a Rachel Carson-esque warning about the harm we've done to our urban environments, inspiring the passage of long-sought legislation protecting urban birds and regulations meant to reduce the use of rodenticides in New York City.

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