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I want a ARRL Ham Radio License Manual Spiral 5th Edition but do not have the money to get one. Does anyone have one they can lend me in someway? Maybe a PDF?

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some new books about HW architectures (cpu, gpu, mobo stuff, memory (although it hasn't changed much), etc.), I know some old-ish ones but my understanding is that no books cover the latest tech (2014+), or are there new releases? Thanks in advance! P.S. Also any books covering modern APIs? Something not too hardcore tho, don't know much about them.

What are great books to read for, as the title explains, gamers and techies (fiction or non-fiction). I'd like ideas but I think it would be a great discussion topic to advise and recommend books to others. Things to make and do in the 4th dimension by Matt Parker is a great informal book about simple math tricks to play on friends or how to win bar bets, patterns that appear in maths and as it explains what you could do in the 4th dimension. Thanks -Scrub

Hey all, Networking student here and I was wondering if there are some suggestions of some good books out there. Obviously there is a tons of books out there but I was more curious on personal experience and personal suggestions of maybe something you always keep in your office either as a reference or a reminder.

Hello, I work on a helpdesk with a fair bit of downtime - but limited internet access. While we are not busy, I’d like to be learning the SQL solution the company uses - SQL Server 2012 Management Studio . Can anyone recommend an introductory book on SQL ideally with a focus on Server 2012 Management Studio to study? Many thanks,

Hi, I'm just bought a new android tablet for my parents, and wanting to know how to transfer there audio books for ios to android. The File format is m4b. Is there a way to be able to upload them to Google play books? Cheers.

Humble are currently doing a Pay what you Want on a selection of No Starch Press' programming guides https://www.humblebundle.com/books/learn-you-some-code-books?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_4 Grab it while you can! (I just go mine)

Hello, I am a normal Electronics and Communication engineering student. I am very interested to learn about Microprocessors, GPU's,from basics, architecture and fundamentals. I am willing to start from basic and slowly develop my understanding over time. Problem is I have no knowledge about this(I just started my engineering course but am sure they won't teach about these things.) Can someone recommend really good books which teach about the architecture, fabrication, and all the things that form a processor or a GPU in an interactive manner, this is apart from my studies for personal knowledge development. Several books I have checked start from the old 8086 Intel processors, even thought that's fine, I believe modern processor knowledge is important unless the traditional ones influence the modern design drastically. The book I am trying to look for is like "Ignition! is a history of liquid rocket propellants" which several of you might have heard of. It is written in an interactive manner with plenty of jokes. It is the kind of book I am looking for but whatever the best is, I will take it. Give me suggestions gentlemen. and for the record I did google search books for all these things, what I did find was Quora posts with people badly advertising different books that are totally worse.

List your favorite books here! Simple as that. You’ll liked the last two topics about favorite things so here’s another! Please be respectful of others choices. You can suggest books to other people based on their choices if you want. Some of my favorites: 1. Ready Player One 2. Armada 3. The Martian 4. The Radioactive Boy Scout 5. The Boy Who Played with Fusion

To all of those who have or haven't read the Hunger Games, there's a character named Peeta Mellark. There's also a type of bread called pita, which I think is pronounced the same way. This Peeta character's parents are bakers. IRONIC? Yes. Hotel? Trivago.

I'm a Computer Science major and in my Junior year, I feel that I haven't learned all that I wanted to. I met someone in the computer labs who seemed to have an extensive knowledge on software engineering, I asked him where he gained all of this knowledge and he said he bought 6 textbooks that he learned from. Unfortunately, he had to head to class before he could give me the name of the books he bought. I just wanted to ask what programming and software engineering books do you guys recommend for someone who wants to be a full stack engineer?

Original Source: Barnacules Twitter: The title says it all to be honest. Microsoft's Director of Sales - Eric Ligman, has just green-lit (not Steam) the permission to make over 240 e-books available for Free, and for anyone to download. Some of them might not be an enjoyable read, but there is some interesting books in here for IT professionals such as a book on: "A Deployment guide for Power BI in CSP" (CSP being "Cloud Service Provider") Personal thought - I wouldn't have thought books like this would be available to the average person. Either way, if they may not be useful to you, they are completely free and to quote the person who posted the links; "Knowledge is Power". I'm currently in the process of going through them myself to see what is on offer. All the links are listed in the Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/uePSydH2 Anyway, My thoughts are, this is awesome. Some of them maybe pointless to me, but you can't really argue with free stuff. Your Thoughts? please leave them down below! EDIT: As @Julian5 Just mentioned, you can't see what books they are, with is a downside. If you want them, time to fish through over 480 links - some of which are just online versions. EDIT No 2: Just found an official Microsoft Website offing downloads with titles, but I'm not sure if all the books in the Pastebin are there. Feel free to check them out! https://mva.microsoft.com/ebooks EDIT: UPDATE 3: I can confirm that the books in the link in Edit #2, are available in the Pastebin, for example, "The fundamentals of Azure" is available through the pastebin and the Microsoft eBooks site

I'm looking for a good book for a beginner C++ student. Can't be too expensive, like 0-30$

So I recently realized that I had signed up for a free subscription of Audible a while back and totally forgot I had done so. Well I now have six credits to go towards any books of my choosing. I am looking for any suggestion people would recommend. If you are going to recommend me story based books I tend to lean towards Science fiction and dark fantasy as genres. With some of my favorite/ cherished authors being Garth Nix, Brent weeks, Neil Gaiman, Glen Cook, Frank Herbert, and HP Lovecraft.

I want to know the basic idea of taxes and what I have to know to pay them. I'm 16 and I want to know this for when the time comes to actually start paying them. So much for school, right?

Hello everyone! First of all, I just wanted to preface this by saying that I just registered on this site seconds ago, so I am still not familiar with the overall structure of the forum so to speak. If this topic did not belong in the General Discussions Forum, please excuse me and know that I am really, really sorry! With that out of the way... Hi, I am a 22 year old student studying Information Technology at University, and I am going to graduate this December; unfortunately, I am not too happy about that. When I look at my peers, I notice that everyone else seems really happy about graduating and feels ready to go out into the world to become IT specialists and do IT-stuff. In fact, many of them were able to secure really good IT-related jobs throughout their studies and seem to have been very knowledgeable before even going into College, while I was just the average kid that just played Computer games, tinkered around with HTML at a young age and found it fun, and loved watching Windows History videos. So really, I was (and still am) average when it comes to Computer knowledge. Suffice to say, I don't feel that same confidence, and that's both due to my lack of real-world experience and especially because I just don't know enough to work in the field anyway. To be honest, I feel like I should have just now started studying Information Technology rather than already getting a Bachelor degree. I feel like all I have done is pre-requisites, but no, apparently I should already be a full-fletched IT-dude; a good one according to what my advisor said after looking at my GPA (which proves that GPA means absolutely nothing). Really, the problem with the plan of study for me was that we learned a bunch of disconnected things without a clear idea of what the big picture is; at least, that's how I feel. I have huuuuuge gaps in my studies to the point where I do not even have 'the basis for Computer Studies'. It feels awful graduating in a field that is definitely very interesting (though if I could go back in time, I would definitely have picked Software Engineering over IT) but that I am clueless about. I am too embarassed to admit how little I really know, but let's just say that I cannot even grasp all of what an average hardware-related LinusTechTips is about. I feel like a fraud, plain and simple. I am not pinning this all on the plan of study though, I completely admit that I am at fault here. So, after all this boring flavor text (and embarassing truth about me) out of the way, here's my question to you! Can you direct me to books, documentaries, movies, websites, Youtube Channels (obviously Linus' channels have already been in my subscription list) and every other form of media and general ressource that assumes that I am a complete idiot in all things Computers and that will teach me the basics about Hardware Components, Programming Languages (which ones are important, how do they differ, really basic stuff), Computer History and especially Networking (which is the core of IT apparently and yet my greatest weakness) and anything else that comprises the core of IT in your opinion. Of course I will know a bunch of things covered in basic overviews I am sure, but it's more about connecting the dots for me. Besides that, I would also appreciate any recommendations on post-University required reading for ITs, stuff that you think I should definitely read as someone who is going into the field. Really, just recommend ANYTHING that would further my knowledge in any way. Thank you so much for reading and for future suggestions, you are the best And again, sorry if I am on the wrong forum or if my post was too long-winded.

Hey guys, So i was talking to a couple people the other day. They seemed unimpressed that I have never read or watched the Harry Potter series. lol, is that bad? Should I probably do that?

Orson Scott Card is by far my favorite author with Tolkien coming in at second. My favorite book is a tie between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.

Hey Forum Does anyone know where I might find my lost text books? I don't know where they are! Thanks Kid who has lost textbook

Have been watching and undertaking online Java tutorials through various sites, yet still feel like I've only scuffed off the shell of a broader topic. Does anyone have any recommendations for good up to date books/eBooks based around the language? Thanks in advanced!

I'd really like some book recommendations. Ones i've read and liked are: "the inheritance cycle" "The Kingkiller Chronicles"(except book 3) "The rangers apprentice series" "Percy Jackson & the Olympians series" Books i've already had recommended to me and i'm going to read: "The Broken Empire Trilogy" "Ready Player One" PS: The hobbit/ lord of the rings/ a song of ice and fire series all have adequate tv/ movies that i've already watched, no need to recommend them.

I have been trying to learn how to animate properly for a while now and am looking for new books and tutorials to check out. So far I've been learning Adobe Flash (I know it isn't ideal for animation anymore) and reading "The Animators Survival Kit" by Richard Williams. Are there other books or tutorials that you guys suggest?

for my school we all have to read this book called unwind. can any of you tell me if it sucks amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Unwind-Dystology-Neal-Shusterman/dp/1416912053/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0FWYY71GDWKM5S7Y54AG

Sorry if there is another thread about books, I couldn't find it if there was so I am sorry. I am re-reading The Name of the Wind before the third book comes out. Such a fun read. Glad I forgot a lot of stuff so it is almost new to me. What is everyone's favorite genre?? I love Science Ficiton. My favorite science fiction would have to be the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. Check it out if you want your mind to explode.

Okay guys, i like reading stuff, be it comics/manga,books or even magazines, but these last 2 weeks i've been feeling like not reading anything... I know that i'm extremely picky when it comes to choosing books, but i can't ever properly force myself to read measly 1500~ pages of Count of Monte Cristo.... I like this book, a lot, but never got to read it because of school (needed to read stuff for it too...), and now i have the time, but i just can't make myself do it... I could make myself read an LN (with a rather bad english) for 15 hours straight, and can't even do this.... What do you think i should do How to make myself read more Do i take a nice, long nap or what? Thank's in advance for answering and happy New Years and upcoming holidays