New Releases by John Elder

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The TKinter Widget Quick Reference Guide is your one-stop resource to every single Tkinter and TTK widget. This book lists every attribute to every TKinter and TTK widget. No more hunting around the Internet for Tkinter Widget Attributes. Finally there''s a single reference for developers to use!

Als Ausdruck seiner ehrlichen Zuneigung tätschelt er andere Kinder mit Knüppeln, grinst erleichtert, wenn ein Unbekannter stirbt und hält Halloween mit kleinen Explosionen im Vorgarten kinderfrei: Verhaltensweisen, die immer ein strenges „Schau mich an!“ seiner Eltern zur Folge haben. John Elder Robison gilt in seiner Kindheit als „unnormal“ und wird häufig gemieden. Doch als er sein großes Talent für elektrische Geräte entdeckt, öffnet sich ihm eine neue Welt: Er konstruiert flammenwerfende Gitarren für KISS und entwickelt die ersten elektronischen Spielzeuge für MB. Doch was ihn als Kind zum Außenseiter macht, lässt ihm auch im Job keine Ruhe. Erst mit vierzig Jahren erfährt er die Ursache für sein Verhalten: Er leidet am Asperger-Syndrom – einer leichten Form von Autismus. In „Schau mich an!“ erzählt John Elder Robison aus seinem Leben, wie es wirklich war: manchmal traurig, manchmal komisch, aber immer ergreifend.

Learning Python has never been this fast and easy, or fun! Veteran Codemy.com programmer John Elder walks you step by step through the ins and outs of Python Programming. Written for the absolute beginner, you don''t need any programming experience to dive in and get started with this book. Follow along as John teaches you to set up a development environment and write your first program. You''ll learn about Variables, Math, IF/ELSE Statements, Lists, Dictionaries, Loops, Functions and much more. By the end, you''ll be well on your way to becoming a professional Python coder! Build on your skills with practice exercises at the end of each chapter and build a math flashcard game using all the skills you''ve learned throughout the book. It really is this easy to learn Python!

I wish I would have had a dedicated Journal to keep notes when I was learning how to code! Instead I jotted notes on scraps of paper, in notebooks, on napkins...basically whatever was handy.But I lost all those notes over time (of course I did!). It would have been so nice to have a Journal I could reference into the future, instead of needing to head over to Google and track down some code snippet, or syntax by hand. I''ve wasted hours of my life doing that!That''s why I decided to publish this Journal, so that you can keep track of your Python notes along the way and have them to look back on into the future.

Desde que tenía tres o cuatro años, John Elder Robison es consciente de que es diferente de los demás. Era incapaz de establecer contacto visual con otros niños y, cuando era adolescente, sus extrañas costumbres —una fuerte inclinación hacia los dispositivos electrónicos, desmontar radios o cavar profundos hoyos— le habían otorgado el sello de «socialmente desviado». Sus padres no solo no lograron entender sus problemas de socialización, sino que fueron prácticamente tan disfuncionales como él. Pero, alentado por algunos maestros a arreglar sus equipos audiovisuales averiados, el pequeño Robison descubrió un mundo más familiar y cómodo de máquinas y circuitos, luz suave y perfección mecánica. Esto recondujo más tarde su vida laboral hacia sectores donde la conducta extraña se considera normal, desarrollando las guitarras eléctricas de KISS o juguetes computerizados para la compañía de Milton Bradley. No fue hasta los cuarenta años que le diagnosticaron una forma de autismo llamada síndrome de Asperger. Entender lo que le ocurría transformó la forma en que se veía a sí mismo y al mundo. Mírame a los ojos es la historia de cómo creció con el síndrome de Asperger en un momento en que el diagnóstico simplemente no existía, con el objetivo de ayudar a quienes están hoy luchando para vivir con Asperger y mostrarles que no es una enfermedad, sino una forma de ser, que no necesita más cura que la comprensión y el aliento de los demás.

Little Bird West Texas adventure set in the mid to late 1880''s. A young girl is captured and saved by a band of Apaches and later recaptured at the last Apache battle in the state of Texas. This is Little Bird''s story of her life until her teen years.

Use Node.js to build websites and host them live on Heroku Webhosting About This Video Learn to create a simple Node web server Push your web server to a web host to make it go live In Detail In this course, you''ll learn how to create a Node server, run a basic HTML website from that server, and push your website to a web host to make it go live. This course is for absolute beginners, so you don''t need any experience with Node.js to understand the concepts covered. In fact, if you already have any knowledge of Node, this is not the course for you! Some JavaScript experience is an added advantage, but not necessary. This course will walk you through everything you need to get started. Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Node.js-Absolute-Beginners-Guide--Learn-Node-From-Scratch . If you require support please email: [email protected].

Hosting Django Apps in The Cloud About This Video Build Django apps with Python Learn to push Django Python apps to Heroku for web hosting In Detail If you know how to build Django apps with Python but aren't sure how to get your app on to the internet, this course will systematically guide you through the process. The course will help you understand how to easily host your Django Python apps on Heroku. You'll build an interesting address book app in Django 2 and Python 3. The course will assist you in installing Python, Django, Heroku Toolbelt, and Git Bash for Windows, in addition to helping you understand how to set up and use Virtualenv. You'll further build on your knowledge by learning how to tweak a Django app's setting so that it works with Heroku. Next, you'll discover the technique of pushing your code to GitHub and Heroku. The course will finally take you through setting up PostgreSQL databases in the cloud and building an exciting address book app. Although the instructor will be conducting the course through a Windows computer, you could even use a Mac or Linux. By the end of this course, you will have developed the skills you need to get your Django apps off your computer and hosted live. Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/How-To-Push-Django-Python-Apps-To-Heroku-for-Web-Hosting . If you require support please email: [email protected].

Create databases and write SQL queries using PostgreSQL and PgAdmin 4 About This Video Learn to install PostgreSQL and PgAdmin 4 Discover how to use PostgreSQL databases with PgAdmin 4 In Detail Although there are a variety of databases to choose from, PostgreSQL is constantly ranked as a top database for everything from data analytics to basic web development. With this interactive course, you'll learn how to set up and use PostgreSQL databases with the PgAdmin 4 interface. You'll start by learning how to install PgAdmin and PostgreSQL, along with understanding all about a database. Next, the course will help you develop the skills you need to create table columns. You'll then use a variety of SQL commands to easily add, sort, update, delete, and perform other data management tasks. Toward the end, the course will help you grasp the technique of relating data between tables with the help of inner join. In addition to this, you will be able to use the WHERE clause to filter results from statements such as INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, and SELECT. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to confidently manage data using PostgreSQL and PgAdmin.

Learn to create a user authentication system in Django to register users, login, log out, edit profiles, and more! About This Video Get up to speed with installing Django Create a user authorization system Understand how to register site users In Detail Django and Python can seem challenging to work with at first, but they don't have to be. With this course, you'll learn through a step-by-step approach, steadily building on your knowledge, and even go on to developing your first web app in minutes. You'll find this course to be a quick and easy way to create professional-style websites, even if you have no programming or web design experience. The course starts by guiding you on how to build a robust user authorization app in a step-by-step manner. You'll be able to follow along and build your own version of the app. This app will allow users to sign up (register) for your site, log in, log out, edit their profile, and even change their passwords. Since most websites today have log in and sign up features, this course will help you with the skills you need to incorporate these elements while building your own web apps. The course will also give you insights into styling your website using the popular Bootstrap CSS framework. By the end of this course, you'll have a strong understanding of Django and be equipped with the skills to build intuitive web apps using it. Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Build-a-User-Authentication-Web-App-With-Python-and-Django/ . If you require support please email: [email protected].

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ National Library of Scotland T170044 Belfast: printed by James Blow, and are to be sold at his shop, 1725. viii,108p.; 8°

This study examines price discovery among the two most prominent price benchmarks in the market for crude oil, WTI sweet crude and Brent sweet crude. Using data on the most active futures contracts measured at the one-second frequency, we find that WTI maintains a dominant role in price discovery relative to Brent, with an estimated information share in excess of 80%, over a sample from 2007 through 2012. Our analysis is robust to different decompositions of the sample, over pit-trading sessions and non-pit trading sessions, segmentation of days associated with major economic news releases, and data measured to the millisecond. We find no evidence that the dominant role of WTI in price discovery is diminished by the price spread between Brent that emerged in 2008.

This book is a historical reference for the Presbyterianmission to Iran. It demonstrates God''s power to transformthe lives of many, and indeed a nation, through a handfulof faithful servants who were willing to pay the ultimateprice, in order that His kingdom be established among thepeople they held so dear. Our hope is that all who read thiswill be encouraged to continue pressing on in the face ofdifficulty and suffering, as the fruit of a life well lived maynot be seen this side of eternity.

Bizarre, différent, dérangeant... Aux yeux des autres, John est un enfant étrange et il est exclu des jeux et des activités de ses camarades. Personne ne l’a compris, mais il est atteint d’une forme d’autisme qui l''empêche notamment de mener une conversation simple et de regarder les autres dans les yeux. Mais s''il a des difficultés sociales, John a aussi des capacités hors du commun. C’est un génie des machines et de la technologie. C''est ainsi qu''il invente certains des tout premiers jeux vidéos. À 40 ans, quand il est enfin diagnostiqué Asperger, sa vie en est bouleversée. John comprend pourquoi il est différent et décide d’écrire pour témoigner de son histoire. Dans ce récit plein d’humour et d’espoir, John montre que l’on peut réussir à sortir de la prison de l’autisme, surtout si le regard des autres change... Ma vie avec le syndrome d''Asperger : l''émouvante histoire d''un garçon « différent ».

Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor''s musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland''s Connemara coast, travel through John Elder''s exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology. John Elder''s memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute. Elder revisits his time teaching at Middlebury College and explores the next phase of retirement, utilizing texts and memories from his past, whose meanings echo with a new sound now. Picking Up the Flute is an interactive, multimedia memoir that immerses the reader in Elder''s provocative prose, while offering the ability to listen to his spirited playing on his website.

In 2007 John Elder Robison wrote the international bestseller Look Me in the Eye, a memoir about growing up with Asperger''s. Amid the blaze of publicity that followed, he received a unique invitation. Would John like to take part in a study led by one of the world''s foremost neuroscientists, who would use an experimental new brain therapy in a major effort to understand and then address the issues at the heart of autism and Asperger''s? This is the extraordinary story of what happened next. Having spent forty years as a social outcast, misreading other''s emotions or missing them completely, John is suddenly able to sense a powerful range of feelings in other people. However, this newfound insight brings new problems and serious questions. As the emotional ground shifts beneath his feet, John struggles with the very real possibility that choosing to diminish his disability might also mean sacrificing his unique gifts and even some of his closest relationships.

"When John Elder Robison published Look Me in the Eye, his ... memoir about growing up with Asperger's syndrome, he was launched into international prominence as an autism expert. But in spite of his success, he still struggled to decode the secret language of social interactions, and often felt like a misfit who understood car engines better than people. So when a group of Harvard neuroscientists told John about TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), an experimental brain therapy that promised to remediate the disabilities of autism and unlock his emotional intelligence, he jumped at the chance to join their study. [This book] recounts the adventure that followed, as John became a guinea pig to the world's top brain researchers in an effort to understand the social and emotional deficits that lie at the heart of autism"--

More people are starting tech companies today than ever before. Tech Incubators are popping up all across the country, and shared office space is available everywhere. When people think about building a startup, they immediately jump on the seemingly tried and true path...find a co-founder, get into an incubator, start pitching venture capitalists on your business plan, then crush it! But there''s another way...a better way...a smarter way....the Smart Startup way. In the Smart Startup, veteran serial entrepreneur John Elder describes his tried and true method for building startups without the need of a co-founder, an incubator, or venture capital money. John first started building Smart Startups in the mid 90''s when he created one of the Internets earliest advertising exchanges and sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the first dot-com boom. After that he built a b2b biotech company and sold it to a group of investment bankers before developing one of the earliest desktop SEO software titles used by over three million people. If you''ve ever dreamed of starting your own online business, this is the book for you.

Are you presenting a scientific research poster at an upcoming conference? Then this is the book for you! You''ll learn how to make a great research poster that gets noticed. It discusses technical aspects to making a poster, as well as marketing tactics to make your poster stand out! It covers: - What software to use to create your poster - What size should your poster be - What font sizes should you use - What color schemes should you use - Should you use a template or design your own? - What file formats should you use for charts, graphs, and images - What is whitespace and what''s it good for - Bold, Italics, Underlined text - what''s appropriate and where - What are aspect ratios and why are they important - What should you expect to pay for a poster at different places - How to make your posters title stand out - How to make them stop walking and pay attention to your poster - And much much more. If you need to make a scientific research poster but don''t know where to start, this is the book for you. It was written by John Elder and the good folks at MakeSigns.com and filled with tips, tricks, and online resources to help you make the best poster possible.

UPDATED FOR SEO 2013In SEO OPTIMIZATION you'll learn the basics of search engine optimization from one of the Internet's leading experts. This no-nonsense seo guide gives you the seo help you need to get your website ranked well at Google and the other major search engines. The book starts out by answering the question, "What is SEO?" and then gives you a solid seo checklist to make sure your websites are compliant in our post Panda/Penguin Google world. Aimed towards the absolute beginner, this book teaches you the basics of search engine optimization such as:- On-page optimization factors- Off-page optimization factors- The Terrible Truth About Keywords- Meta Description Tags and why they're important- Title Tags and how not to use them- How To Use Anchor Text correctly- What's a SERP and how to manipulate it- Everything you need to know about page rank- How to drive links to your site the right way - How to avoid Blackhat scams- How to structure the internal Linking of your site- How to do Keyword research the right way- What is Linkbait and how to leverage it effectively- Which Tools you should be using and whyAnd much much more."It's so hard to get real SEO advice! So much of what a lot of so-called 'gurus' are teaching turns out to be damaging to a website. I'm glad I found a book that teaches REAL SEO for 2013"."I was looking for a seo toolbook. I came across John Elder's book and am glad I did. He even talks about the history of the search engine industry which really put things in perspective for me. I'm really glad I found this book"ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Elder is a pioneer in Internet Marketing who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries.Today John runs ElderAcademy.com one of the web's premier Internet Marketing training websites. He also runs FlatplanetMedia.com to handle his various business projects. John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar. You can contact him at JohnElder.org

The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble . Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, “Where did I come from?” John said he’d bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores.” He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime. He told Cubby that wizards turned children into stone when they misbehaved. Still, John got the basics right. He made sure Cubby never drank diesel fuel at the automobile repair shop he owns. And he gave him a life of adventure: By the time Cubby was ten, he’d steered a Coast Guard cutter, driven a freight locomotive, and run an antique Rolls Royce into a fence. The one thing John couldn’t figure out was what to do when school authorities decided that Cubby was dumb and stubborn—the very same thing he had been told as a child. Did Cubby have Asperger’s too? The answer was unclear. One thing was clear, though: By the time he turned seventeen, Cubby had become a brilliant chemist—smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring state and federal agents calling. Afterward, with Cubby facing up to sixty years in prison, both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally coming to terms with being “on the spectrum” as both a challenge and a unique gift. By turns tender, suspenseful, and hilarious, this is more than just the story of raising Cubby. It’s the story of a father and son who grow up together.

They say it's easier to make money than it is to KEEP money. That may or may not be true. Either way, the "Golden Rules of Making Money" is filled with timeless advice for both making and keeping money. Written by famed showman P.T. Barnum and edited by renowned marketer John Elder (MarketingFool.com) this classic has been updated for present day. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Elder is a pioneer in Internet Marketing who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries. Today John writes a daily marketing blog at MarketingFool.com that focuses on Adsense and Affiliate marketing. He also runs FlatplanetMedia.com to handle his various business projects. John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar. You can contact him at JohnElder.org

Text spinning is an important part of building Adsense and affiliate websites. There are many tools and desktop software programs that will spin text for you, but what you really need is the ability to spin text on a web page in real time.With a little bit of php programming knowledge you can easily do just that, and now you can learn everything you need to get up and spinning in minutes. Aimed at the absolute beginner with no programming experience, John Elder doesn't just explain the concept of text spinning, he gives you actual code and template files that you can use on your own website.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Elder is a pioneer in Internet Marketing who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that's been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries. Today John writes a daily marketing blog at MarketingFool.com that focuses on Adsense and Affiliate marketing. He also runs FlatplanetMedia.com to handle his various business projects. John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar. You can contact him at JohnElder.org

Intro To Niche Adsense Websites is aimed at the absolute beginner looking to earn money by building websites that are monetized around Adsense and Affiliate offers. You''ll learn:1. The different types of Adsense sites (thin, thick,authority, price comparison, shopping engine etc).2. How to set up your initial adsense account3. How to get set up with proper webhosting4. How to build your first website (using wordpress andsome popular adsense themes).5. How to scale your empire from there.Written by veteran Internet Marketer (and Marketing Fool) John Elder, you''ll learn everything you need to start building Adsense sites that pay.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Elder is a pioneer in Internet Marketing who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that''s been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries. Today John writes a daily marketing blog at MarketingFool.com that focuses on Adsense and Affiliate marketing. He also runs FlatplanetMedia.com to handle his various business projects. John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar. You can contact him at JohnElder.org

"During the 100-day voyage John Elder kept a diary ... In addition to the account of the voyage, he wrote a more detailed description of the new city of Melbourne and the journey to Geelong and beyond, in which he reflected on the past, present and future of the colony."--page 6.

"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh’s Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both. John Elder’s poetic meditations on land and life demonstrate that only by searching beyond our familiar boundaries can we discover better ways of living back at home."—Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration "This collaboration—between George Perkins Marsh and John Elder, between Vermont and Italy, between maple and olive—is one of the smartest, soundest, deepest books about the relationship between people and nature that I’ve ever read. It will be a classic."—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Elder’s impassioned pilgrimage shows us how to delight in messy wilderness, to secure a curative habitation of the world, and, with Marsh, to lend ecological nous to our gravest task: knowing ourselves and respecting one another. Let the maple seeds and olive stones of Elder’s visionary harvest restore to us a reflective and redemptory future."—from the foreword by David Lowenthal The pivotal figure in Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America’s first environmentalist. Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy, where, witnessing the ecological devastation wrought upon the landscape by runaway deforestation and the plundering of other natural resources, he was moved to produce his famous manifesto, Man and Nature. Marsh drew parallels between the despoiled Italian environment and his home landscape of Vermont, warning that the latter was vulnerable to ecological woes of a similar magnitude if not carefully maintained and protected. In short, his was a prescient voice for stewardship. Elder follows in Marsh’s footsteps along a trajectory running from Vermont to Italy, and at length fetches up at the managed forest of Vallombrosa. Punctuated throughout with learned and genial considerations of the poetry of Wordsworth, Basho, Dante, and Frost, Elder’s narrative takes up issues of sustainability as practiced locally, reports on family doings, and returns finally—as did Marsh’s—to Vermont, where he measures traditional stewardship values against more aggressive conservation-oriented measures such as the expansion of wilderness areas. John Elder, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, is the author of Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism

Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications brings together all the information, tools and methods a professional will need to efficiently use text mining applications and statistical analysis. Winner of a 2012 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences from the Association of American Publishers, this book presents a comprehensive how-to reference that shows the user how to conduct text mining and statistically analyze results. In addition to providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection tools, methods and operations, the book examines advanced preprocessing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches. Finally, the book explores current real-world, mission-critical applications of text mining and link detection using real world example tutorials in such varied fields as corporate, finance, business intelligence, genomics research, and counterterrorism activities. The world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the textual data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account. As the Internet expands and our natural capacity to process the unstructured text that it contains diminishes, the value of text mining for information retrieval and search will increase dramatically. - Extensive case studies, most in a tutorial format, allow the reader to 'click through' the example using a software program, thus learning to conduct text mining analyses in the most rapid manner of learning possible - Numerous examples, tutorials, power points and datasets available via companion website on Elsevierdirect.com - Glossary of text mining terms provided in the appendix