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  Scratch teaching and learning made easy thanks to up-to-date, classroom-tested methodologies. Draws on the expertise of Code-IT and HIAS.

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  Careers of Danger and Daring

  Cleveland Moffett

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  In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of the steeple climber, the diver, the balloonist,the pilot, the bridge builder, the fireman, the aerial acrobat, the wild animal trainer, the dynamite worker and lastly the locomotive driver. (Summary by annise)And it has great pictures - ever wondered what the top of a steeple really looked like? Some listeners may find the "Wild Animal Tamer" stories distressing - I did. I would suggest you just don't download that section - the rest is well worth listening to.

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  Lead with Clarity in Chaos - The...

  Alfonso Aramburo

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  Stop being the most expensive firefighter on your payroll. Start being the architect of your own engine. 
  If you are an industrial leader, you know the "invisible weight" of carrying the machine on your back. You wake up thinking about the company while on vacation, working 14-hour days just to stop the business from sliding backward. You have been praised for how quickly you are scaling, but behind the curtain, you are fighting a daily battle with inefficiency, misalignment, and burnout.  
  Lead with Clarity in Chaos is not a book of leadership clichés or high-level academic theory. It is a collection of real, raw experiences and hard-won truths forged in the trenches of global turnarounds. Alfonso Arámburo, a "been there, done that" operator with 17 years in $150M+, provides a mirror and a map for the leader trapped in the "Heroic Management" cycle. 
  Through the lens of real-world "Trench Files," you will walk through the trenches of leadership and recognize yourself in stories such as 
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  It’s time to start building a system-dependent engine that produces predictable excellence without your constant intervention

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  Basic Python in Finance - How to...

  Bob Mather

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  Are you looking to automate your trading strategy? Are you looking for a more efficient way of completing your financial analysis? 
  Python is the answer. 
  While looking to gain summarize our knowledge on the subject, we realized that there was a lot of information available in books and the internet. However, there seemed to be too much information. There were 500-page textbooks on the subject that had very little practical use. They were pretty useless for beginners just like a dictionary is useless for anyone trying to learn a language. All these books had tons of theory with no step-by-step guide. 
  There were a whole bunch of other blogs that had basic programming information with no relation to financial strategies. 
  With this in mind, this book starts you off with a step-by-step guide to install Python on your computer; and plot/visualize relevant financial data. Later in the book, you can build on your basic knowledge to learn more about advanced financial analysis and trading strategies to move forward. This book is what you’ve been looking for.Here’s What’s Included In this Book:5 Reasons why Python is the best programming language for implementing financial trading strategies4 Basic Trading Strategies for Success that most people have forgottenThe Importance of Time Series Data in Trading AnalysisStep-by-Step Guide to Setting up your Python workspaceHow to Import Time Series Data from Global Databases into Python4 Different Methods and Examples to Analyze Data with Python PandasThe Best Python Methods to Visualize Data to make Effective Decisions4 Common Python Financial Analysis tools to decide which securities to invest in5 Trading Strategies to forecast market trends 
  Even if you have never touched a computer in your life so far, you will gain a lot from this book.

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  Saving Social Care - How to find...

  Neil Eastwood

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  Recruiting and retaining a caring workforce to keep pace with the needs of an ageing society is one of the greatest challenges we face. At the same time, traditional methods of finding suitable care staff are delivering diminishing returns. We urgently need new ways of finding and keeping the compassionate and loyal care workers of tomorrow.  The future of every care provider depends on solving this problem fast. Start now by listening to this audiobook.  When you've read Saving Social Care, you will be able to:   - Know exactly who your perfect care worker candidate is   - Tap in to secret sources of new staff in your community   - Optimise your recruitment process to reduce wastage  - Spot 'high potential' applicants – and avoid troublemakers – much faster  - Discover 20 proven retention techniques to minimise care staff loss

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  The Code of Honor - Embracing...

  Paul J. Maurer, Ed Skoudis

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  While some professions—including medicine, law, and engineering—have wholeheartedly embraced wide-ranging codes of ethics and conduct, the field of cybersecurity continues to lack an overarching ethical standard. This vacuum constitutes a significant threat to the safety of consumers and businesses around the world, slows commerce, and delays innovation. 
   
   
   
  The Code of Honor: Embracing Ethics in Cybersecurity delivers a first of its kind comprehensive discussion of the ethical challenges that face contemporary information security workers, managers, and executives. Authors Ed Skoudis, president of the SANS Technology Institute College and founder of the Counter Hack team, and Dr. Paul Maurer, president of Montreat College, explain how timeless ethical wisdom gives birth to the Cybersecurity Code which is currently being adopted by security practitioners and leaders around the world. 
   
   
   
  This practical book tells numerous engaging stories that highlight ethically complex situations many cybersecurity and tech professionals commonly encounter. It also contains compelling real-world case studies—called Critical Applications—at the end of each chapter that help the listener determine how to apply the hands-on skills described in the book.

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